The space where your power becomes embodied as a trailblazer in your industry
Created for established coaches, practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs ready to expand their offerings, lead retreats, and become the recognized authority in their field.
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Become a World-Class Certified Breathwork & Meditation Facilitator
The space where your power becomes embodied as a trailblazer in your industry
Created for established coaches, practitioners, and wellness entrepreneurs ready to expand their offerings, lead retreats, and become the recognized authority in their field.
Join the Waitlist
Become a World-Class Certified Breathwork & Meditation Facilitator
Two ways to get certified. One transformation.
One credential, recognized worldwide with two ways to claim it.
7-Day In-Person Certification
Oceanfront lodging, daily breathwork and somatic ceremonies, hands-on practicum, and an intimate, limited-capacity circle. For the woman ready to be fully initiated in the room.
12 Week Online Certification
The flexible path to full certification and the authority that comes with it in just 12-weeks beginning August 4th, 2026.
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Two ways to get certified. One transformation.
One credential, recognized worldwide with two ways to claim it.
7-Day In-Person Certification
Oceanfront lodging, daily breathwork and somatic ceremonies, hands-on practicum, and an intimate, limited-capacity circle.
12 Week Online Certification
The flexible path to full certification and the authority that comes with it in just 12-weeks beginning August 4th, 2026.
Join the Waitlist
You already know you’re here for more.
More than just coaching skills.
More than just healing others.
You’re here to become the woman who holds space with integrity, leads from deep embodiment, and gets paid to live her truth.
The Academy of Breath® certification is your initiation into that version of you.
The Academy of Breath® has set the standard in the breathwork space and coaching space. Our Level One training has certified over 800 teachers across the globe and was founded with the intention to bring more breathwork and body-based modalities into different industries and communities around the world.
Our core value is to create leaders that walk their walk, so embodiment of these practices and personal mastery is the foundation of this certification which will equip you with the tools to thrive in all areas of life - relationships, intuition, career, and Self.
This isn't another certification.
This is a reclamation of your calling.
You’ll arrive with a vision and leave as the woman who leads movements.
The Academy of Breath® Certification isn’t just about learning breathwork. It’s about becoming a world-class facilitator who leads with impact, authority, and soul.
Through your certification and mentorship with The Academy of Breath® you'll master:
Science-backed breathwork techniques for healing, regulating, and activating the nervous system
The SHIFT Breathwork Method taught only by The Academy of Breath® for 1:1, group, and workshop sessions that drive emotional transformation
Meditation methodologies including mindfulness, somatic, Vedic, and visualization practices
Trauma-informed NLP coaching tools to help clients break patterns and rewire belief systems
The neuroscience of breath, stress, and performance - so you can work with the mind-body system like a master
You’ll arrive with a vision and leave as the woman who leads movements.
The Academy of Breath® Certification isn’t just about learning breathwork. It’s about becoming a world-class facilitator who leads with impact, authority, and soul.
Through your certification and mentorship with The Academy of Breath® you'll master:
Science-backed breathwork techniques for healing, regulating, and activating the nervous system
The SHIFT Breathwork Method taught only by The Academy of Breath® for 1:1, group, and workshop sessions that drive emotional transformation
Meditation methodologies including mindfulness, somatic, Vedic, and visualization practices
Trauma-informed NLP coaching tools to help clients break patterns and rewire belief systems
The neuroscience of breath, stress, and performance - so you can work with the mind-body system like a master
The curriculum that has been developing the best of the best since 2020
- Become fully certified in The SHIFT Breathwork Method by The Academy of Breath®
- IBF + Yoga Alliance recognized certification (34 CE credits)
- Neuroscience, somatic, and trauma-aware facilitation
- NLP coaching practicum
- Live mentorship
- Ongoing global facilitator community
- Lifetime access to all training materials, scripts, and audio
The curriculum that has been developing the best of the best since 2020
- Become fully certified in The SHIFT Breathwork Method by The Academy of Breath®
- IBF + Yoga Alliance recognized certification (34 CE credits)
- Neuroscience, somatic, and trauma-aware facilitation
- NLP coaching practicum
- Live mentorship
- Ongoing global facilitator community
- Lifetime access to all training materials, scripts, and audio
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800+ certified women worldwide. Our most recent in-person certification cohort sold out.
800+ certified women worldwide.
Our most recent in-person certification cohort sold out.
Meet your Teachers
Ava Johanna &
Alexis Rodriguez Smith
CEO/Founder and Chief Program Director of The Academy of Breath®
This isn’t your average certification and these aren’t your average facilitators.
Ava Johanna, founder and CEO of the Academy of Breath®, is a globally recognized breathwork mentor, speaker, and best-selling author known for her no-fluff, all-fire approach to building a legacy brand. With over 800 graduates across the world, Ava brings over a decade of facilitation experience, deep embodiment practices, and signature edge to every space she leads - helping facilitators master both the energetics and strategy of running a wildly successful wellness business.
Alexis Rodriguez Smith, trauma-informed practitioner, somatic guide, and lead teacher for over 5 years inside the Academy, brings the depth and emotional intelligence that makes this work stick. Her mastery in subconscious reprogramming, somatics, and nervous system regulation makes her the secret weapon behind many of our students’ most profound inner breakthroughs. She holds space like a vault and teaches like a sage - blending science, soul, and safety in every session.
Together, Ava and Alexis HAVE BEEN creatING transformational RETREAT AND TEACHER TRAINING containerS where inner mastery meets OUTER EXPRESSION - where your voice gets louder, your mission gets clearer, and your future as a sought-after facilitator becomes inevitable.
Two paths. One calling.
Enrollment opens soon — join the waitlist for first access to limited in-person retreat spots and a 24-hour head start on early-bird pricing.
Plus, receive instant access to The SHIFT Method Breathwork Journey you can tune into right away. Delivered to your inbox immediately after registering.
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Two paths. One calling.
Enrollment opens soon — join the waitlist for first access to limited in-person retreat spots and a 24-hour head start on early-bird pricing.
Plus, receive instant access to The SHIFT Method Breathwork Journey you can tune into right away. Delivered to your inbox immediately after registering.
Join the Waitlist
Join now for instant access to a 20-minute guided SHIFT Method Breathwork journey. Plus! First access to limited in-person retreat spots and a 24-hour head start on early-bird pricing before the public.
Join now for instant access to a 20-minute guided SHIFT Method Breathwork Journey.
Plus! First access to limited in-person retreat spots and a 24-hour head start on early-bird pricing before the public.