ReWild’s Trauma-Aware Functional Breathwork Certification is a
first-of-its-kind accredited training that blends nervous system education, biochemistry, biomechanics, and a touch of the sacred.
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This comprehensive, self-paced qualification is designed to fit into your schedule and be completed in your own time, at your own pace.
Learn to guide functional breathwork with skill, confidence, and a trauma-aware approach that honors the whole person, all within a global community of facilitators dedicated to this work.
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You’ll discover how to use breath as a bridge to nervous system regulation, resilience, and embodied wellbeing, for yourself and your clients.
Whether you’re a coach, therapist, personal trainer, yoga teacher, Pilates instructor, or simply passionate about the power of breath, this training will equip you to seamlessly integrate functional breathwork into your existing offerings, or create powerful stand-alone sessions and programs dedicated entirely to functional breathwork.
What is Functional Breathwork?
Functional breathwork is the science-based side of breathwork. It’s about training the way you breathe every day (not just in a session) so your body, brain, and nervous system can function the way they’re designed to.
At its core, it’s about:
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Biochemistry: balancing oxygen and carbon dioxide in your blood so your cells, brain, and organs get what they need.
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Biomechanics: using the diaphragm and body properly so your breath is efficient, not shallow or stressed.
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Neurophysiology: how the nervous system and brain adapt to breath patterns.
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Nervous system regulation: breathing in ways that shift you out of stress and survival into calm, presence, and resilience.
Unlike conscious connected breathwork journeys, functional breathwork teaches you to re-train your everyday breathing patterns so you can:
Improve energy
and focus
Reduce anxiety
and stress
Sleep better
Support athletic performance and recovery
Build long-term nervous system resilience
In a world overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, and dysregulation, functional breathwork restores the natural rhythms your body craves. It lays a foundation for true health, vitality, and a life lived fully in your body, not just your mind.
Why Functional Breathwork?
Most people breathe in ways that keep them stuck in fatigue, anxiety, and survival states.
Functional Breathwork teaches you how to:
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Assess breathing patterns to identify dysfunction and guide meaningful change
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Support emotional balance and build nervous system flexibility
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Reduce stress, overwhelm, and chronic tension patterns
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Cultivate embodied safety, adaptability, and presence
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Improve sleep, flow state, digestion, and movement performance
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Restore your body’s natural breathing mechanics
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Increase COâ‚‚ tolerance for better oxygen delivery and sustained energy
Functional breathwork is safe, science-based, and accessible for every client and setting. It forms the foundation for all advanced breathwork modalities.
What you will learn?
Through 10 in-depth modules, with bonus videos, audios, print materials, and embodiment practices, you’ll learn:
Breath & The Nervous System
Learn nervous system anatomy, Polyvagal Theory, and the Window of Tolerance, and how breath patterns reflect and shift emotional and physiological states.
The Science & Biochemistry of Breath
Understand COâ‚‚ tolerance, oxygen delivery, the Bohr effect, and how nasal vs. mouth breathing impacts physiology and health.
Assessing Breath
Patterns
Develop the skills to observe and assess client breath patterns confidently, identifying functional and dysfunctional breathing, and using this insight to guide effective practice and integration.
Breath & Emotional
States
Understand how breath mirrors emotional states like anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, and anger, and how to use breathwork to restore balance and regulation.
Breath in Yoga, Pilates,
& Movement
Integrate functional breath into movement practices to enhance alignment, strength, coordination, and mindful flow.
Session Design, Voice,
& Cueing
Step by step of how to design 1:1 and group sessions with confident, trauma-aware cueing, music integration, and ethical leadership.
Downregulating & Sleep Practices
Teach breath techniques that calm the nervous system, improve sleep quality, and build long-term regulation.
Energizing & Balancing Breathwork
Support clients in building vitality, clarity, adaptability, and confidence with energizing and centering practices.
Breath & Flow States
Trauma-Aware Facilitation Skills
Ceremony, Integration, & Energetics
Safety, Ethics & Scope of Practice
Access creativity, intuitive action, and focused presence through breath practices that stabilize and harmonize brain-body rhythms.
Guide clients experiencing anxiety, overwhelm, shutdown, and anger with grounded, choice-based language and practices.
Weave intention and cultural humility into your sessions. Maintain energetic boundaries, hold grounded presence, and support client integration with reverence and respect.
Understand ethical considerations, scope of practice, and safety guidelines to facilitate functional breathwork sessions responsibly, professionally, and with integrity.
This certification is for:
Coaches, therapists, and wellness professionals
who want to integrate powerful, science-based breath tools into their work
Anyone who wants to transform
their own breath patterns for better health, vitality, and inner calm
Yoga, pilates, and movement teachers
who want to deepen their students’ embodied experiences
Practitioners
preparing for advanced emotional or somatic breathwork training in the future
By the end of this certification, you will:
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Facilitate functional breathwork sessions with clarity, safety, and confidence
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Guide clients into regulated, embodied, and empowered states
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Receive certification as a ReWild Trauma-Aware Functional Breathwork Facilitator
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Understand and retrain your own breath patterns for health and resilience
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Integrate functional breathwork into your coaching, therapy, yoga, pilates, or wellness practice
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Join a global community of trauma-aware, science-based breathwork leaders
Why This Training Is Different
“This training weaves together the science, somatics, and sacredness of breath, inviting you into a global community where learning becomes lived experience.”
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Science-based and trauma-aware, bridging modern physiology, somatics, and practical application
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Focused on functional breathing for resilience and optimal health in everyday life
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Practical and embodied, with every module designed to integrate knowledge into your life and practice right away
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Ethical, inclusive, and grounded in scope of practice, so you can facilitate with clarity and integrity
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Woven with intention and straightforward ceremony, making breath a meaningful practice beyond technique.
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Held within a global community, connecting you with leaders in this work
Meet the Founder
Jamie Janko is the founder and lead teacher of ReWild Breathwork, known for her unique blend of trauma-aware breathwork, somatics, and nervous system education.
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Drawing on years of study in neuroscience, polyvagal theory, functional breathing, and somatic trauma healing, Jamie teaches breath not just as a tool, but as a way to reconnect to the body, restore safety, and build lasting resilience. Her approach bridges modern physiology with intuitive, embodied practices, always grounded in ethics, scope, and a deep respect for the complexity of the human experience.
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​Through ReWild, Jamie has trained hundreds of students and practitioners in over 20 countries, guiding coaches, therapists, and wellness professionals to bring this work into their own communities. She believes true facilitation begins with nervous system literacy, embodied leadership, and the humility to keep learning.
Why Functional Breathwork, Why Now?
In a world where chronic stress, shallow breathing, and nervous system dysregulation are the norm, breathwork is no longer optional, it is essential. Your breath shapes your physiology, emotions, focus, and resilience. By learning to guide functional breathwork, you’re not just adding a tool to your practice, you’re reclaiming the most innate and powerful pathway to embodied health and wholeness, for yourself and every client you serve.