11/23/2025
Breathwork is blowing up right now — but the industry seriously needs higher standards. 🧠💨
Here’s the reality:
❌ Too many untrained facilitators rush into deep emotional work without proper preparation.
❌ Unsafe class sizes (50 clients, 1 breathworker? That’s a lawsuit waiting to happen.)
❌ No consistent or credible certification process.
❌ People confusing clients by blurring lines between healing work and sensuality — without clearly defining what space they’re actually holding.
There is a time and place for exploring issues around sexuality and embodiment.
But unless it’s explicitly framed and ethically held, mixing that into trauma work is confusing at best and predatory at worst.
And let’s be clear — I’m not writing this from a place of superiority.
I’ve made mistakes. I’ve course-corrected. I’ve learned the hard way.
This isn’t about tearing people down — it’s about building something better.
🛡 Thankfully, there are some breathwork schools raising the bar — including but not limited to The Path Of The Breath and others who are pushing for:
✅ Real training and mentorship
✅ Clear ethical frameworks
✅ Better facilitator-to-client safety ratios
✅ Honest conversations about what breathwork can (and can’t) do
If we want breathwork to be taken seriously as a powerful healing modality, we need to take ourselves seriously first.
Agree? Drop a 💨 in the comments and let’s raise the standards together.
📚 PS: Breathwork has massive potential for healing. But if we don’t protect the integrity of the work, we risk turning it into another wellness fad people stop trusting. Let's be better.
