Transpersonal Breathwork Apprenticeship

Transpersonal Breathwork Professional Training

Level III: Apprenticeship
100 contact hours / 150 practicum hours

This individually based Apprenticeship includes a progressive series of weekend intensives, distance learning courses and a comprehensive at-home practicum. Weekend Intensives will include informal lectures, group mentoring sessions that feature diverse case studies and class discussions. These weekend intensives are primarily experiential, with a high degree of hands-on work to provide the opportunity for observation and feedback.  Each student will be assigned a mentor who will provide supervision and support during their practicum. Emphasis is on developing professional skills in facilitating individual and group Transpersonal Breathwork sessions.

Prerequisites:  Restorative Breathwork Facilitator Certificate, Transpersonal Breathwork Professional Training Levels I & II and Basic Bioenergy Training. All applicants must fill out an application form, submit references and participate in a one on one interview with Kathleen Barratt to apply for this program.


Program Topics to Include:

  • Keys to setting an "Intention" for Transpersonal Breathwork
  • Guidelines for facilitating pranic purification
  • Incorporating third eye techniques within a breathwork session
  • Facilitating "chakra breathing"
  • Interpreting and facilitating the more subtle impulses of the "innate breath"
  • Working with the mental sciences of affirmations and visualization  
  • The Tibetan Breath of Youth and its essential role in breathwork facilitation
  • Facilitating the intimate relationship between breath and energy flow
  • Timing, safeguards and integration techniques

Practicum Requirements:

  • Completion of this practicum requires a minimum of two years and a maximum of 3 years
  • Attendance at all assigned weekend intensives and classes
  • 100 documented Transpersonal Breathwork Sessions
  • Bioenergy practice: 50 documented practice hours with emphasis on refining skills in the Tibetan Breath of Youth Technique
  • 10 teleconference and/or in-person meetings with assigned mentor
  • 10 exchange sessions with peers
  • Receiving 10 professional Transpersonal Breathwork sessions
  • Completion of a project on an independent study. Topic to be approved by assigned mentor.
  • Video recorded breathwork sessions to be reviewed by assigned mentor

Note:  Upon successful completion of this program students will receive a "Certificate of Completion." This certificate is required for enrollment in the Transpersonal Breathwork Completion Course.