Brooke Elliston ยท Advanced Breath Instructor Training
You have been working with breath for years,
and something still sits just out of reach.
That feeling has a name, and closing it changes everything about how you teach, who trusts you professionally, and what becomes possible in the next chapter of your practice.
The Real Problem
The gap you feel is real,
and it goes deeper than physiology.
Most people who come to this training are yoga teachers. Some have been teaching for five years, many for ten or more. They have strong intuition, they can guide beautifully, and their students feel the difference in a room. Breath has always been part of what they do, first encountered in their YTT as pranayama, then woven into classes in the way they were taught to teach it. And yet something consistently sits just out of reach, a quality of certainty that the practice so far has not quite delivered.
"A student went dizzy during extended exhales. I guided her back to natural breath, but I had no idea what had actually happened in her body, and I was terrified someone would ask me to explain it."
"In my YTT we spent maybe two days on pranayama. I have been teaching breath in every class since, but I am still working from what I was shown rather than from real understanding of what is happening physiologically."
"I can feel that some of what gets taught as breathwork is incomplete, but I cannot yet articulate why, and that silence costs me in rooms where I want to be taken seriously."
"I want referrals from physios and GPs. I want to be the person allied health professionals actually call. But right now I do not speak their language clearly enough to earn that kind of trust, and I am not sure what it would take to get there."
"I know the gap is there, and what I have been missing is the structure to close it in a way that actually holds."
These are not beginner concerns. They are the concerns of experienced practitioners who have absorbed a great deal and are ready for something that goes considerably further. Some have done multiple dedicated breath trainings and still feel the gap. Many have only ever received breath education as a module within a yoga teacher training, enough to begin teaching it but not enough to understand what is actually happening when something unexpected occurs in a session. Either way, the issue is the same. Most breath education was never designed to build applied physiological reasoning over time.
What Actually Changes
This is a shift in professional identity
more than anything else.
The most consistent thing graduates describe is a change in how they hold uncertainty. Before the training, an unexpected client response generates a quiet internal scramble, a reaching back through memory for the right script or the closest technique that might apply. Afterwards there is a different quality of presence in those moments, because there is a framework to reason from rather than a library to search. That groundedness is visible to clients and legible to other professionals in ways that matter considerably for the kind of practice you are building.
The practical dimension of that shift is real and measurable. Graduates run workshops they had been sitting on for months or years because they finally feel ready to back the content with full physiological authority. They have conversations with allied health professionals that go somewhere, because they speak the language fluently enough to be taken seriously rather than just politely. They work with the clients they previously deferred or quietly referred on, because their scope of understanding has expanded to meet them.
What graduates do not tend to describe is a sudden transformation in how they feel about breath. Most of them already love this work with considerable depth. What shifts is the certainty beneath the love, the ability to say, in a session or a clinical conversation or a room full of practitioners, that they know what they are doing here and they know why it works. That shift is structural. It changes how you reason in real time, how you hold a room, and what you are able to offer the people who trust you with their health.
For practitioners building toward location independence or a more flexible working model, the framework travels fully. It applies in a class setting, in a one-to-one session, in a workshop held in a studio in another city, in an online format built around clients across time zones. The capability is what moves, not the context.
The Promise
The practitioner you are at the end of six months is not the same one who enrols, and the difference is not simply accumulated knowledge. The difference is in the structure beneath how you reason, how you teach, and how confidently you can stand behind the work.
What Graduates Say
From practitioners who were
exactly where you are.
"The first and probably the biggest shift for me personally and in my teaching is understanding the importance of breath retraining, as opposed to just teaching people breathwork and pranayama practices. In order to recalibrate the nervous system, we need to look at our habits and behaviours, what we're doing every day, as opposed to just layering in practices every so often. I feel the shift within my own nervous system."
Katie ยท Yoga teacher ยท Ireland
"I wasn't expecting this training to be transformational but it really was, not in the way that is instantaneous and unsustainable, but in a way that is steady, non linear and life changing. I know it's something we are taught almost from the first day of a YTT but this was the first time I have ever embodied my breath as Prana."
Elsie Jean-Thomas ยท ABIT graduate
"I couldn't understand the why behind everything, which I really needed to know. Brooke's training completely transformed the way I teach the breath and practice the breath. Personally, it's been a real game changer."
Jodie ยท Yoga teacher ยท Victoria, Australia
"She has a really rare ability to explain extremely complex concepts with a lot of clarity and precision, and you really feel supported and held by her expertise. I feel grounded and confident in the way I guide others."
Charlotte ยท Yoga instructor and museum guide
"I learnt so much and it has left such an awareness of my breath. I no longer cue certain things and I feel more confident in guiding breath while teaching."
Diana Lee ยท ABIT graduate
"I'm genuinely very passionate about this, and that's never happened before. I came home and my parents were like, I've never seen you like this about anything."
Sally ยท ABIT graduate
Why You Are Still Here
You have invested seriously in yourself,
and the structure has not matched that.
The starting point varies. For many yoga teachers, breath education began and effectively ended in their YTT, two days on pranayama that were thorough enough to feel significant and brief enough to leave the real questions unanswered. For others, there have been additional trainings since, weekend intensives, online certifications, books that brought the science into accessible language, and still the gap persists.
What almost all of these formats share is the same structural limitation. They were designed to deliver a defined body of material within a defined window and then conclude, leaving the practitioner to figure out the application themselves. That assumption works reasonably well for introductory material. It works very poorly for the kind of depth that actually changes how a practitioner operates under pressure, because understanding something in a course context and being able to reason from it when a real client needs something specific from you are distinct competencies. Building the second one takes more than content. It takes mentorship through the messy, uncertain process of real application.
The other thing that tends to be absent, whether someone comes from a YTT background or from multiple dedicated breath trainings, is the framework that holds everything together. Techniques accumulate. Case studies stack up. But without the physiological reasoning underneath, each new piece of knowledge sits alongside the others rather than deepening the whole. The framework is what makes knowledge usable under pressure, and it is what this training is specifically built to develop.
That is why practitioners at your level of experience keep arriving back at the same feeling even after significant and sincere investment in their education. The content was often good. What was missing was the structure to build applied reasoning from it, and the mentorship to develop it through real work with real people.
The Framework
The deeper you go into modern physiology,
the more clearly the yogic tradition speaks.
There is a moment in this training that graduates describe with a consistency that is worth noting. It is the moment when a mechanism they have been working with intuitively through pranayama or somatic practice suddenly acquires a precise physiological name, when something they have felt and observed and worked with for years finally has a mechanism that explains it fully. The practice itself did not change. The understanding underneath it deepened, and the quality of everything that follows from that deepening is categorically different.
The framework is built across four dimensions of respiratory science: the biochemistry of how CO2 tolerance shapes anxiety responses and recovery capacity; the biomechanics of how structural patterns in the body constrain and enable breath function; the psychophysiology of how the nervous system pathways your practices have always engaged actually operate at a physiological level; and the behavioural dimension of why dysfunctional patterns persist even in clients who intellectually understand that they should change. Each of these dimensions has a clear correspondence in the yogic literature, and understanding both traditions alongside each other makes each one more precise and more practically useful than either is on its own.
Your existing knowledge base is the foundation this training builds on, not a limitation to compensate for. What changes is the depth of reasoning available to you when you are standing in front of a client who needs more than technique.
How It Works
Three pillars. Six months.
A professional identity that lasts.
Science and Physiology
The four dimensions of respiratory science studied alongside the classical yogic texts, with the intention of full integration rather than comparison, each tradition illuminating the other and deepening your understanding of both. By the end of this pillar you are able to explain the physiological mechanism of every breath practice you teach, in language appropriate to your audience, whether that is a student in a yoga class, a workshop participant, or a clinician considering a referral relationship.
Integration Into Life and Practice
How to apply the framework with real clients across the contexts of their actual lives, covering sleep physiology, exercise, movement practice, and the stress patterns of daily function. Central to this pillar is the one-to-one client framework: an eight-session structure with objective tracking that Brooke uses in her own practice. Working deeply with one person builds a quality of expertise that translates directly into how you hold a group class or a workshop. Brooke actively encourages everyone in the training to start working with clients during this pillar so you are receiving live mentorship as real situations unfold, rather than waiting until the end to figure out how to apply what you have learned.
Leading With Confidence
How to cue breath in a yoga class or group setting in a way that is physiologically grounded and lands with students quickly and clearly. How to structure and deliver your first paid workshop, building it from a module in the training rather than starting from scratch. How to work with clients in one-to-one formats and communicate with allied health professionals in language that earns referrals. The professional capability and the professional language, developed together so each reinforces the other.
The training is delivered through short focused video tutorials you work through on your own schedule, and fortnightly live calls that alternate between Brooke and Katie. Brooke's calls focus on case studies from her own one-to-one practice, walking through how she programmed for real clients across eight sessions so you can see the framework applied when a real person sits in front of you with burnout, sleep issues, anxiety, or exercise-related breathing patterns. Katie is a yoga teacher from Ireland who did the training twice and joined as community lead because of the depth and obsession she brought to it. Her calls are not about introducing new content. They are about synthesis and practical application: how do we take this module and put it into a workshop, how do we cue this in a class, how do we embed what we are learning rather than just accumulating it. Beyond the calls there is a breath journal workbook that tracks your journey with objective measures, expert guest sessions woven throughout the program, and lifetime access to a community where real client questions receive real mentorship. You start when the timing is right and join practitioners at every stage of their own journey.
Why Now
The referral economy around breath is forming now.
Physiotherapy practices, GP clinics, and allied health services are beginning to refer patients to breath specialists, and they are looking for practitioners who can demonstrate physiological literacy, communicate within appropriate scope of practice, and operate with the kind of professional credibility that comes from serious training. Practitioners who are well positioned inside that referral economy over the next twelve to eighteen months will have a professional standing that compounds over time in ways that are very difficult to catch up to later.
And for those who have been meaning to do this for a year already, the cost of another year in the same place is worth taking seriously: the professional relationships that have stayed just out of reach, the version of your practice that has been waiting for this foundation, the students you have worked with since who deserved someone with more certainty than you could yet offer them.
Investment
Choose your path in.
- Nine modules across three pillars delivered through short focused video tutorials
- Fortnightly live calls alternating between Brooke and Katie across the full six months
- Breath journal workbook that tracks your journey with objective measures throughout
- Eight-session client framework applied to your own clients from the first module
- Expert guest sessions from practitioners across allied health and movement fields
- Six months access to Brooke's online yoga studio
- Lifetime community access where real client questions receive real mentorship, always
- Flexible start so you begin when the timing is right for you
Questions
Things people usually want to know.
When can I start, and does the six months begin the moment I pay?
This is a rolling enrolment, so you join when the timing feels right. If you pay now and have a particularly full month ahead, reach out and Brooke will work with you on the timing so that you get the full six months of active learning rather than a month of it sitting untouched. The community and live calls are there regardless, so even a quieter first few weeks still keeps you connected and moving. New people join all the time and the calls are always current, so there is no disadvantage to starting mid-stream.
I have a really hectic few months coming up. Is this going to add to the load or actually help with it?
This comes up on almost every enrolment conversation, and it is worth naming directly: the training is not intended to be one more thing on top of everything else. The whole premise is that understanding breath at this level changes how you move through difficult periods, not that you need to be through the difficult period before you can start. Brooke enrolled in her own mentoring two weeks after her second baby was born, specifically because she wanted support through the hard stretch rather than waiting until it was over. The people who join during full, demanding seasons consistently say they wish they had not waited.
What if I miss live calls or fall behind on the content?
Every live call is recorded, so if you miss one you can watch it in your own time. Nobody makes it to every session, and the training is designed knowing that real practitioners have real lives. What keeps people on track is the fortnightly rhythm rather than any expectation of perfection. If you find yourself in a month where nothing much is getting done, Katie's integration calls are specifically there to help you find your way back in without shame or pressure. The community has that tone throughout.
I have done trainings before and not finished them. What is different about sitting with something for six months?
The structure here is what makes the difference. A solo online course is easy to deprioritise because nothing external is waiting for you. The fortnightly live calls, the community, and the fact that application happens inside your existing work rather than alongside it all create a rhythm that holds people across the full six months. Graduates who were most worried about follow-through before they started are often the ones who are most surprised by how naturally the training fitted into their life once they were in it.
I have invested in breath trainings before and come away feeling like something was still missing. How is this different?
The distinction is in what the training is built to produce. Most breath education is designed to deliver content within a defined window and conclude, leaving the practitioner to figure out application on their own. This training is built around applied physiological reasoning, which means the goal is that you can think clearly about breath in any session with any client rather than simply recall what you were taught. The mentorship structure, the one-to-one client framework, and the lifetime community exist specifically because that kind of learning only happens through real application over real time.
Do I need a science background?
No formal qualifications are required. The training is built for practitioners coming from yoga, somatic movement, massage, nursing, or related bodywork backgrounds rather than clinical or academic ones. Many graduates say that having a yogic background is actually an advantage, because the framework illuminates practices they have been working with for years in a way that finally makes the mechanism behind them precise and articulable.
How much time does it take each week?
Around four hours per week including the live call is the ideal, with two hours as a workable minimum. The video tutorials are short and deliberately digestible, designed so that you can watch one while walking or during a quiet moment rather than needing to sit at a desk for hours. Because you are applying what you learn to your existing clients from the first module, the learning happens inside work you are already doing rather than on top of it.
I teach group yoga classes rather than working one-to-one in a clinical setting. Will this actually be useful day to day?
Most people in the training are yoga teachers working primarily in group settings, and the third pillar covers cueing breath in class formats specifically. That said, Brooke actively encourages everyone in the training to begin working with at least one client one-to-one during the program, not because one-to-one is the end goal for everyone, but because working deeply with one person builds a quality of precision and understanding that translates directly into how you hold a group. When you have sat with a client for eight sessions and tracked their progress objectively, your awareness of what is happening in a room full of people breathing changes considerably. The group teaching and the one-to-one work develop each other.
The investment feels significant given where I am right now financially.
The training is built around developing a level of capability that changes what you are able to offer and what you can reasonably charge for it. Part of that is structural: Brooke actively encourages everyone to begin working with clients during the training rather than after it, so the development of expertise and the development of a practice happen at the same time rather than in sequence. What most graduates find is that the investment starts returning well before the six months concludes, not because income is the primary focus, but because capability tends to create professional opportunity when it is genuine.
That is completely reasonable. If it helps, DM Brooke with any questions you want answered before that conversation or ones you want to be able to speak to clearly when you have it. The investment is $4,444 paid in full or five monthly payments of $1,111 if a payment plan works better for your situation right now.
I want to eventually build something I can run flexibly, including while travelling. Is that realistic from this foundation?
Several graduates have built exactly this. The framework applies across formats including workshops, online one-to-one work, retreat contexts, and community offerings, because the capability is yours to take wherever your work takes you. The community already includes practitioners building from Ireland, Melbourne, Newcastle, Sydney and beyond, so the model of working across locations and contexts is well represented inside the group.
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