Become a certified Flow Breathwork Facilitator.

Breathwork Facilitator Training for Healers breaking the mold.

Self Study Hybrid enrolling (begin anytime)

 

Magical and mystical healers, you have made it to the portal of FLOW BREATHWORK, a practice rooted in wisdom traditions, energy sciences, and elemental studies. I’m looking forward to supporting your practitioner’s journey through the breath (and booty shaking, of course).

If you’ve been feeling called to:

⭐️ Lead retreats

⭐️ Create women’s circles

⭐️ Lead healing workshops

⭐️ Blend science and spirituality

⭐️ Blend psychology (mindset and behavior) to the somatic body (emotions)

⭐️ Expand your toolkit as a spiritual entrepreneur

⭐️ Learn the art and science of breath

⭐️ Lead new/full moon workshops

⭐️ Facilitate deep healing

⭐️Teach in masterminds, festivals, and community gatherings

And you want to help others:

⭐️ Collapse timelines

⭐️ Release trauma

⭐️ Build confidence

⭐️ Connect mindset and emotions

⭐️ Quit substance use 

⭐️ Love themselves 

⭐️ Learn Boundaries

⭐️ Become emotionally intelligent 

⭐️ Connect to the wisdom of their bodies 

We’ve been manifesting you.

Breather to Facilitator: Is Breathwork Facilitator Certification Right for you?
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What’s Flow Breathwork?

Breathwork is an ancient practice utilized by many indigenous cultures and some form of breathwork has existed in every corner of the world for centuries. As many have adapted and built upon breathwork practices, we’ve lost much of the cultural and indigenous roots the practices from which the practices derive. You may hear of breathwork under many trademarked names that refer to this ancient practice.

We’ll train in a unique style of breathwork adapted by Shanila Sattar: FLOW Breathwork. It is a blend of ancient breathwork, movement, energy healing, the elements, and embodiment informed by studies in wisdom traditions. It’s truly the most potent form of somatic healing that lets you tap into both the masculine and feminine energies in the body.

This training heavily focuses on acknowledging and honoring the roots of the practice, learning about the physical science behind breathwork, touches upon the woo and spiritual aspects, provides a supportive container for deep healing, and prepares you to become a conscious, mindful, breathwork facilitator. This training is catered to those looking to learn applied breathwork techniques for practical and everyday use.

Flow Breathwork Facilitator training is highly decolonized with a BIPOC lens, empowers you to both become a facilitator within your community, and receive deep healing for yourself on your personal growth journey.

Flow Breathwork: A study through Movement, Energy, and Conscious Facilitation to expand healing into the world.

 

Phase 1 — The Practitioner

This phase is dedicated to awakening the inner healer. We’ll dive into the inner work for ourselves before learning tools for others.

Phase 2 — The Foundation

  • The History of Breathwork

  • The Science of Breathwork

  • Nervous system regulation

  • Emotional regulation

  • Energy Sciences

  • Chakras and Emotions

  • Masculine and Feminine Lens of Healing

  • Breathwork and the Elements

Phase 3 — The Mastery

  • The Flow State

  • Flow Breathwork Method

  • Trauma Lens

  • Somatic Experiencing

  • Facilitating Breathwork

  • Energy Healing + Art of Touch

  • Enhancing Breathwork

Phase 4 — The Practice

  • The Conscious Facilitator

  • The Embodied Healing Artist

  • Co-creating safety

  • Trauma guided lens

  • Applied Practice in Life Spaces

  • Certification Hours and Practice

  • Practice playlists, scripts, and practice pods

  • Intuitive Entrepreneur course access (value $2700)

  • Self-commitment to healing and integration

Students feel confident and EMBODIED

because we’re teaching you a refined and proven methodology to get results for not only your clients, but for YOURSELF.

Nnemoma shares about her experience gaining confidence in Flow Breathwork training

Marica shares what brought her to make the pivot from corporate to holistic wellness.

Niki reflects on the caliber of students Shanila calls in and her experience training and practicing with her classmates.

Rosie shares about building somatic awareness through Flow Breathwork and breaking generational patterns

Cait shares about her healing journey and connecting her own authenticity inside Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training

Karla reflects on the intuitive nudges that brought her into Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training.

Flow Breathwork Method

 

Breath

 

It all begins with the breath - the precious gift of life. We use the breath to guide our journey, connect with a three-part circular breath, and begin to create expansiveness within.

 

Movement

 

Calling in feminine energy to the practice, we move! The body transmutes the breath into a dance, awakening stagnant energies, releasing old patterning, and bringing a sense of freedom, confidence, and knowing. Somatic Experiencing, emotional releases, and intuition awaken.

 

Energy

 

As we activate, we hone in on tools in energy healing, art of touch, elements, and begin to access, harness, and flow with potent energetic bodies supported by the breath.

 

Embodiment

 

Walk the walk, talk the talk. Embody the practice for yourself through deep inner healing, conscious awareness, integration, and build your confidence as a Flow Breathwork Facilitator!

Self Study Hybrid Flow

Consider the self-study hybrid if you love self-directed study, while having the LIVE elements of practice pods, mentors, and integration calls. There are no LIVE cohorts currently running in 2025. You are welcome to get on the waitlist for LIVE COHORTS or in-person training.

Flow through the 4 phases of Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training with weekly modules and assignments. This program is set up for you to study self-paced, with components that requires LIVE practice (practice pods and integration calls, and optional mastery calls). Complete this study in 3 months and up to 6 months. This course is fully virtual.

Self-Study Tuition

Tuition: $2,500
3 month and 6 month payment plans available

Monthly Integration + Mastery Calls

 

Meet with Founder, Shanila Sattar, Mentors, or Special Guests for group integration on the first Thursday of the month (6-8pm CT). Integration Calls are great to build consistency, ask questions, and meet other practitioners. We typically cover a new topic each month ranging from: trauma informed practice, decolonizing wellness, generational healing, equity in wellness, intuitive entrepreneurship, and more. Past and current students attend these calls.

 

Practice Pods

 

Bi-Weekly scheduled practice during the duration of your studies with other students to practice with each other, connect, and build community.

Practice Pods return Feb 2025. The current schedule is:
Tuesdays 11am CT - 1pm CT.
This is where most of the juice is and where you get direct support and facilitation practice.

 

50 hour instruction & 50 hour practicum

 

Flow Breathwork Facilitator training requires 50 hours of practice hours to receive certification on completion. 50 hours practicum are class and online course hours.

  • 25 hours of facilitation and 25 hours of attending breathwork classes

  • Can be completed in-person, virtual with flow breathwork accountability groups, flow breathwork community, private clients, friends, family

  • Complete all recorded modules (online)

  • Pass self-paced evaluations with 80% or above

  • Attend 3 Integration calls

  • Attend 12 Breathwork Club Sessions (online)

  • Attend 12 Practice Pods

  • Submit evaluation and reflection

 

Conscious Practitioner

 

As part of the training of being a conscious practitioner, we learn from a decolonization lens. There are modules within the training that covers the flow of business, creating your aligned offers, and growing your breathwork community.

 

Flow Breathwork Mentors

 

Be supported by incredible Flow Breathwork Mentors on optional Monthly Integration Calls to connect deeper and integrate your studies.

Private Network & Opportunities

 

Connect with our wider Flow Breathwork Community inside our private platform and be connected to ongoing teaching and facilitating opportunities.

 

Bonuses

 

Flow Breathwork Practitioner’s Business Training

  1. Practitioner’s pricing and business support.

  2. Access to Intuitive Entrepreneur Course Creator, a 20+ hour training supporting practitioners to create aligned offers

    (value $2700 included in your training)

Pay in Full Bonuses:

(1) 45 mins 1:1 with Founder, Shanila Sattar

Receive a 1:1 session from Shanila, focused on your personal growth and goal as a practitioner.

(value $600)

Breathwork Techniques for Practitioners Mini Course

(value $1200)

This is a mini-course for practitioners like therapists, masseuses, nurses, doulas, healers, and teachers who want to use a variety of breathwork techniques for mood, energy, inner healing, grounding, and sleep for their communities.

This above mini-course is not a certification course and can be taken by folks without prior breathwork facilitation experience.

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Flow 21: Somatic Healing Through Movement

(value $333)

A 21 day self-paced journey in somatic healing through movement, elemental, and energy sciences. Do Flow Breathwork up to 10 mins a day with video guidance, and activate inner healing to help regulate and release emotions!

 

Answer to your questions

 
  • The October 2024 cohort is delivered fully online.

  • 25 hours of breathwork facilitation and 25 hours attending breathwork classes are required to receive certification in each level. Hours can be completed virtually or in-person.

    You have 6 months to complete your certification.

    25 hours of facilitation and 25 hours of attending breathwork classes

    Can be completed in-person, virtual with flow breathwork accountability groups, flow breathwork community, private clients, friends, family,

    • Complete all recorded modules (online)

    • Pass self-paced evaluations with 80% or above

    • Attend Integration calls (1 absence permitted)

    • Attend 12 Breathwork Club Sessions (online)

    • Attend Practice Pods (2 absence permitted)

    • Submit evaluation and reflection

    You will be connected to a form to log your hours.

  • Once enrolled, you’ll complete weekly modules through the 4 phases of study at your own pace and time, with the exception of real time practice hours.

    Attend practice pods for your practicum hours.

    Attend bi-weekly practice pods.

    Attend monthly integration + mastery call.

    All integration calls and mastery calls are recorded for later replay.

    Complete your certification requirements (completion of all modules + 25 hours facilitation, 25 hours breathing inside practice pods, and certification evaluation) in 3-6 months.

  • As part of decolonizing wellness, we thrive to give importance to each person’s individual healing and facilitation journey after the course has ended.

    To qualify for certification, you have 6 months to complete your hours once you have access to the program.

    It's recommended to go at a pace where you are able to honor, integrate, and reflect upon your experiences each time.

    Most facilitators take anywhere from 3-6 months to complete the required hours. It's recommended to practice 1 hour of facilitation and 1 hour of attendance each week as a general pace.

    We do not hold active practice pods year-long, so it’s best to pace yourself and your studies accordingly.

  • To complete your certification in 3 months, you’ll spend about 7 hours/week.

    To complete your certification in 6 months, you’ll spend about 3 hours/week.

  • We’ll train in a unique style of breathwork I’ve adapted and created, FLOW Breathwork. It is a blend of ancient breathwork, movement, energy healing, the elements, and dance. It’s truly the most potent form of somatic healing that lets you tap into both the masculine and feminine energies in the body.

    This focuses on a 3-part breath that is done through the mouth. This style of breathing is known under many different names, but is an ancient style of breathing that's been used for thousands of years. This two part inhale, and one part exhale, and a bit of somatic movement will be the main style of breathwork we will focus on practicing.

    We’ll briefly cover several styles of breathwork that are both for activating the body and calming the body.

  • After completing your required attending and facilitating hours, and submitting your evaluation, you can facilitate breathwork sessions for your community.

    We'll frequently brainstorm together what that means in your context.

    You’ll lead transformational Flow Breathwork sessions for your clients and support many on their healing journey.

  • We have taken great care in creating this course to be trauma informed and participate in continuous education for ourselves and revaluation of our materials that help keep this container safe, supportive, and with love.

    As the nature of trauma is complex and multi-directional, we remain continuous students to improve our lens.

  • Trauma is heavily processed through breathwork and Flow Breathwork Facilitator trainings. As breathwork is a complex somatic healing tool, it’s expected that somatic releases, such as trauma may arise.

    However, the beginner's level course is to give you the foundational skills you need to facilitate breathwork and deepen your own practice. It is highly recommended for you to keep up with trainings and teachings that help further develop you as a conscious breathwork facilitator, including but not limited to trauma informed trainings, conscious facilitation, decolonizing your wellness practice, and more, long after the certification is completed.

    It’s recommended to have a support system where you are able to further integrate the journey that takes place within the container.

  • Why we teach from a Black, Indigenous, People of Color lens:

    All healing spaces are not created equal and must consider the intersectional experiences of facilitators and participants.

    Underrepresented, marginalized, and underserved communities often lack resources and proper training for wellness practitioners.

    Bypassing lived and cultural experiences lead to unnecessary harm that’s often ignored or suppressed in many wellness spaces.

  • Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training is curated to help you become a breathwork facilitator after completing the course, fulfilling practicum hours, and evaluation. This is a comprehensive study in Flow Breathwork and preps you to begin practicing as a confident practitioner.

    Deepening the Practice: Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training (Level 2) is only offered privately and is for facilitators wanting to learn how to deepen their practices and expand the business elements. Level 2 is focused expanding upon the solid foundations set in Level 1, expand movement, and is intended to take practitioners to the next level, both internally and out.

    Pre-requisite to Level 2: Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training (Level 1) and completed hours are required to attend Level 2.

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    As part of our lens in decolonizing wellness, Level 1 gives you all the tools to be an incredible breathwork facilitator. There is no expectation for you to complete Level 2 in order to be an effective and conscious practitioner. Additional levels are not required but are recommended to further deepen your practice and studies as it aligns for your personal intentions.

  • Absolutely. This training is curated to be a healing container. You are more than welcomed to join even if you aren't looking to facilitate breathwork. People have joined to enhance their own knowledge of self-healing modalities, understanding of energy, build confidence as a practitioner, and elevate curiosity, without intention to become a facilitator for others. This training will enhance your own breathwork practice.

  • No. Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training is a unique method and methodology that was created with great intention and purpose. There is intentionality in the way the foundation is set and allows us to build upon concepts, techniques, materials, and confidence. It’s a huge distraction to our container to re-teach materials that were not covered in your former training.

    In order to come into Level 2, please complete requirements for Level 1 first.

  • As with any practice, being a student is important. Attending classes and integrating your own experiences are important. If you have no experience with breathwork and aren't sure about attending, please come to our classes on Sundays (inside The Breathwork Club where many of our breathwork facilitators teach) to dive in before joining the trainings or pick classes from our on-demand library of breathwork videos.

    However, prior experience is not required, but suggested in order to understand what you’re getting a certification in.

  • Yes. This 12 week immersion is a different curriculum, support, and community. You are welcome to join the immersion and continue your studies.

  • Although breathwork is safe for pregnancy and many doulas and nurses come through the training for this reason, this particular training is not for those who are pregnant due to the intensive and virtual nature of our practices.

    We recommend that you attend breathwork sessions and keep up with your own practice, and consider facilitator training at another time in the future.

  • Yes, select payment plan option when registering. Monthly payments start and are billed on the date of registration.

  • Yes, AlwaysPlay Studios has supported facilitators who are from or practice in underserved, underpresented, and marginalized communities with partial scholarships who demonstrate an active efforts and merit within their community. Applications are only processed on enrollment calls: https://flowbreathworktraining.com/discoverycall

  • You will be connected to our broader breathwork community who have become life-long friends!

    We have optional monthly check-in calls which is the best place to connect with other healers, receive support, and coming your breathwork journey. This work isn't one and done; we love to see what you're doing in the community, your projects, and send you tools to keep enhancing you on your journey.

    There is additional support within our private breathwork network where we share additional resources.

    Paid opportunities to teach breathwork inside The Breathwork Club are also available to certified facilitators.

  • No! We learn flow breathwork in 3 ways and you are welcomed to learn into the Flow that is most aligned for you.

    • Laying Flow

    • Seated Flow

    • Full Flow

  • Due to the nature of this training, registration is non-transferrable and non-refundable. Please meditate deeply on your intentions of joining this unique Breathwork Facilitator Certification and how you'd like to expand within this community.

  • Access over 30+ hours of business training and support to creating an aligning practice.

Have another question? Message: community@alwaysplay.org or get on a discovery call with a Flow Breathwork Mentor

What happens after Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training?

  • Deep Connection

    You unlock a new layer of your own embodiment, healing, and confidence. Let this translate into all your work in the healing arts as a coach, guide, practitioner, and healer as you fully love, trust, and believe in yourself.

  • Client Results

    Blending in somatic experiencing with Flow Breathwork moves your clients from the thinking mind into the feeling body. Deeper results are seen all around through connecting body, breath, movement, energy, and embodiment.

  • Community Building

    You grow and expand in a diverse community of people who are just as committed to the work as you are. You create a ripples effect into the communities in which you exist.

  • Host Retreats

    Facilitate Flow Breathwork in your retreats, masterminds, and mentorships all around the world for transformational experiences.

  • On-going community

    Learn how other practitioners utilize Flow Breathwork in the real world (classrooms, youth groups, therapy settings, doula-ing, coaching, mentorships, and more). Tap into a community sharing resources on writing grants for holistic wellness, collaborate with one another, and come teach inside The Breathwork Club as a paid facilitator.

  • Teach

    Teach breathing techniques in workshops, events, to corporate clients, and more. Spread the practical tools you receive in this training and expand its reach to others.

About your teacher

Hi, I’m Shanila.

I’m the Founder of Flow Breathwork Facilitator Training and The Healing Arts Academy,, best-selling author of Breathe, a 4th generation sound healer, women’s researcher, national speaker, and host of a Top 6 podcast, The Playground, a community for healers and healing.

I’m interested in decolonized wellness, supporting conscious facilitators to put in real applied work in the wellness industry, and have a real world approach to my life’s work. I created Flow Breathwork Facilitator training from a need for a BIPOC lens and appreciation for wisdom traditions where many of our practices derive from. I’ve created my trainings with the vision of honoring the lineages of where our practices come from, learn the science, and have the uncomfortable inequality conversations around health and wellness. My mission is that we are all able to have access and knowledge of the healing tools that help heal us from the inside out.

I’m committed to support healers, coaches, and wellness professionals putting in the applied healing work in communities and spaces where it can make an impact. I practice integrative wellness - considering a person's emotional, mental, physical, and spiritual wellbeing. I love to mix the science and the woo in my practice and hope that I’m able to reach people who may feel that wellness is inaccessible to them, especially in underrepresented, underserved, and marginalized communities.

My background is in tech, having co-founded an award winning web agency, and in women’s research, specifically in mindsets, implicit bias, perfectionism, women's health, and societal experiences supported through the National Science Foundation, National Institute of Health, and several universities. I’m one of the first practitioners to receive grants to support clinical population with sound baths, breathwork, and holistic modalities, and with that support, have been able to implement low cost wellness offerings, programs in women’s shelters, veteran’s legions, and community offerings to help close the wellness accessibility gap.

I’m looking forward to taking this journey with ya.

How practitioners are using Flow Breathwork

  • Therapists

    Therapists are beginning to incorporate somatic tools into sessions for an integrative and holistic lens.

  • Nurses/Doulas/Midwives

    Nurses/Doulas/Midwives are using breathwork techniques in birthing rooms, patient care, hospitals, and in client sessions.

  • Teachers

    Teachers are using breathwork techniques to give students tools for mood, energy, anxiety, grounding, and sleep.

  • Coaches

    Coaches are 10x-ing client results by moving away from mindset only work and into somatic experiencing.

  • Counselors and Social Workers

    Counselors and social workers are implementing programs into their communities (schools, universities, youth programs) to bring accessible wellness tools.

  • Healers + Holistic Wellness

    Healers and Holistic Wellness is using breathwork for spiritual and inner work.

Practitioner Spotlights


Love from our Students

 

10/10. I took a while to do this course and finish certification because I took time for my own healing. I watched this training get more and more supportive for healers with everything AlwaysPlay Studios has added to it over the years. I feel so much confidence in myself and I learned a lot about MYSELF on my path to being a good facilitator for others. I love the women I met from the training and some of them have become very good friends. That's my favorite part on top of everything else I loved!

— Janaae Rictor

My favorite part of training with Shanila is the ongoing support she provides. She really want to see us succeed. She speaks with enthusiasm and energy that's unmatched. If you ask for the help, you will get it. I feel so much more confident as a facilitator in all my work because of it, not just breathwork. She's provided service and support beyond what I expected. I'm so glad I jumped into this training!

— Sarah M.

Top to bottom amazing. When I tell you I went on a whole journey with this training. I came in wanting to better myself as a practitioner and take my clients to the next level with breathwork which I was already doing. What I got out of the training is that but also a really deep connection to myself as a practitioner. I faced a lot of deep wounds that helped me become even more aware of my gifts and prepared me to be a better practitioner in so many ways. I couldn't make it to the support calls but always watched on the replay. I know I'm supported.

— H

Shanila is a fantastic teacher, so knowledgable both scientifically and spiritually. She merges the two beautifully. I left the course feeling knowledgeable and empowered myself. I would recommend Shanila in an absolute heartbeat.

— Alice

Shanila is such a rock star in this space. As a 20 year veteran of the yoga and healing world, it is refreshing and restores my faith in this path after participating in her breathwork training. She has the wisdom and doesn't shy away from the important topics of cultural appropriation and spiritual bypassing in her trainings. She is BIPOC-friendly. A true healer and incredible teacher!

— Sheel

Shanila was an amazing facilitator for breath work training. I had been looking for someone I felt energetically pulled to- and I fell upon her and her healing community! I’m so glad I took this course- it was so interactive and I met so many amazing women. Transformational for sure. And I felt supported through the process. worth beyond the investment!!

— Erin


Find your breath. Find your flow. Change your life.