Courses & Certifications

The academic year combines workshops and experiential experiences, together with comprehensive, practical, and fascinating professional training.

As part of the studies, you will receive all the tools and knowledge necessary to feel confident to set out on your path as independent therapists.

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Study program - Year 1

Introduction:

• Inhale, exhale, breathing transitions
• History of the world of breathing
• Foundations and principles - breath therapy
• Theoretical introduction to various breathing techniques: circular connected breathing, rebirthing, dynamic breathing, and more

Theoretical and practical study – breath therapy:

• Basic rules in therapy and holding breathing spaces
• The respiratory system, the nervous system, and the breathing process
• Anatomical overview of the respiratory system
• Body organs (chest, diaphragm, abdomen, limbs, head, and more) and their role in the breathing process
• Methodology - stages of a breathing session
• Practical experience in personal treatment using various breathing methods, touch, and movement
• Breathing techniques that combine additional therapeutic techniques

Additional topics:

• Foundations of touch
• Therapeutic tools and principles from the world of integrative psychotherapy
• Introduction to trauma
• Intake interview and therapeutic conversation
• Integration in treatment
• Movement, sensation, grounding, touch, and vocal exercises
• Characterization of body types and breathing patterns – as a therapeutic tool in the breathing process

Personal deep process:

• Trust and limiting beliefs
• Boundaries
• Regulation

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Study program - Year 2

Deepening research into breathing and breath therapy methods:

• CO2 tolerance training and breath-holding
• Coherence, HRV - Heart Rate Variability
• Methodology for breathwork and biofeedback
• Deepening touch techniques and trigger points
• Dynamic breathing techniques – dynamic session, pulsation session, yoga-birthing
• Students of the program receive HRV biofeedback devices on loan during the year, which will allow personal experimentation in the clinic and during internship treatments

Expanding therapeutic knowledge:

• Deepening the therapist-patient relationship
• Stages of the therapeutic process
• Principles for building and maintaining a process-oriented breath therapy
• Attachment patterns and breathing
• Polyvagal theory and breathing
• Observation work, focusing, and focus on breathing

Trauma and breathwork:

• Types of trauma (one-time, developmental, complex), components of a traumatic event
• Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD): symptoms and clinical characteristics, comorbidities, risk factors
• The connection between trauma and the body
• Emphases in breathwork and trauma
• Triggers in working with trauma and breathing
• Resources - working with coping resources and sources of strength

Primal work - birth and childhood:

• Fetal experience, early childhood, and birth
• Wrapping work with fabrics, binding, and holding
• Movement and pulsation in breath therapy

Supervision and case studies from the clinic:

• Peer learning
• Deep focus on various therapeutic issues arising in group supervision

Facilitating breathing workshops:

• Group breathing process – set & setting
• Building a breathing session - types of breathing sessions and adaptation to the group process
• Stages of entering the group space
• Working with resistance
• Managing the space and warning signs

Opening a clinic:

• Ethics in therapy
• Therapist-patient confidentiality

Internship:
The training program includes a practical internship during the second academic year – 10 sessions of individual treatments under close supervision of certified therapists, and submission of treatment reports.
As part of the internship, a shared experiential workshop will be held for the course students and their patients.

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A few more details:

• During approximately 2/3 of the training program, we will practice partner work simulating therapist-patient relationships
• The training program is accompanied by a professional and experienced therapist team
• The program includes close personal guidance, professional support, and an online consultation and discussion group
• Enrichment and guidance sessions for participants, during the academic year and also after its completion, as part of the Breath Therapy Institute's therapist community
• The training program includes an option for additional practical training in therapy, within the framework of deep workshops held for an external audience (workshops of several hours or days, depending on choice)
• Upon completion of the training program, a certified therapist certificate will be awarded to everyone who met the requirements by the BTI - Breath Therapy Institute

Training program price: Early bird registration until 20.6.2026: 30,800 NIS for two years (15,400 NIS per year)

Full price: 32,800 NIS for two years (16,400 NIS per year)

Registration can be canceled until the end of the third session, minus the down payment + the cost of the sessions. After the third session each year, no refund will be given.

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Upon completion of the training:

Graduates of the program will join the BTI - Breath Therapy Institute family, which continues to serve as a home and provide guidance along the way.

Graduates will be able to insure themselves with professional liability and third-party insurance with leading insurance companies at discounted prices.

Graduates will join the WhatsApp group of BTI graduates, as well as additional networking groups on social media. There they can consult, advertise treatments and workshops, and create collaborations.

Graduates will be able to join, integrate, and accompany the variety of courses and workshops of the Breath Therapy Institute.

The BTI team constantly refers patients to our training graduates, thereby assisting in growing the clinic and spreading the message of breathing in the country.

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For more details and to schedule a suitability talk and personal interview, contact:

Limor 054-4940794

Anna 054-4767689