Facilitating a Tetra Breath class is a powerful offering—one that invites practitioners into a space of deep presence, energetic movement, and emotional release. As a facilitator, your role is to create a safe, grounded container where participants can surrender to the wisdom of their breath and body.
This guide will walk you through how to prepare, structure, and hold space for a Tetra Breath session, from start to finish.
🌬️ Before Class: Create the Space
The quality of the breath journey begins long before the first inhale. As a facilitator, your presence and preparation set the tone for everything that follows.
✅ Pre-Class Checklist:
- Meditate beforehand with slow, deep belly breathing. This helps anchor your own nervous system and demonstrates the technique for your students.
- Create a playlist that matches the session structure. Start with larger rhythms (Earth/Fire) and transition to softer, flowing sounds (Water/Air).
- Prepare the space with yoga mats, pillows, blankets, eye covers, water bottles, and tissues.
- Arrive early to organize the layout and ensure the energy in the room is clear, calm, and welcoming.
🧘 Class Structure: The Three Stages
Each Tetra Breath class flows through three distinct stages: Introduction, Activation, and Integration.
1. Introduction (Circle & Explanation)
- Welcome your students and introduce yourself warmly.
- Invite everyone to sit in a circle in the center of the room.
- Ask: “Who here is new to Tetra Breath?” Offer more guidance to beginners.
- Explain what Tetra Breath is:
- A circular breathing pattern without pauses between inhale and exhale.
- Breath as a vehicle to access emotional and energetic blocks.
- Healing happens when we breathe into sensation, not away from it.
- A circular breathing pattern without pauses between inhale and exhale.
🙏 Important Guidelines:
- Nothing might happen, and that’s completely okay. Let go of expectations.
- Sometimes strong emotions or physical sensations arise. Invite them in.
- Ask: “Is there anyone who does not want to be touched during the session?”
- Normalize sensations: warmth, cold, energy in hands, mouth tingling—all normal.
- Encourage students to raise a hand if support is needed.
2. First Part (Breath Awareness & Activation)
- Begin with lower belly breathing. Demonstrate and explain clearly.
- Guide students through a practice round of belly awareness and breath control.
- Use gentle coaching: “Inhale into the belly… feel it rise… exhale and let go…”
3. Second Part (Full Practice & Integration)
- Guide students through a warm-up exercise on the floor (if applicable).
- Start the Tetra Breath practice, gradually activating breath from chakra 3 (solar plexus) to 7 (crown).
- Allow full expression—let sounds, movement, or stillness arise naturally.
- When the breathwork sequence ends, guide students into Savasana (relaxation) for about 10 minutes.
- 5 minutes before the end, invite them to roll to their right-hand side—a gesture of gentle transition back to grounded awareness.
- 5 minutes before the end, invite them to roll to their right-hand side—a gesture of gentle transition back to grounded awareness.
💫 Class Closure: Integration and Sharing
📿 End Circle and Closing Ritual:
- Invite everyone to return to the center, forming a circle holding hands, just like at the start.
- Offer space for sharing (limit to 5 minutes per person).
- This builds community, honors the process, and supports emotional grounding.
- This builds community, honors the process, and supports emotional grounding.
- Encourage students to leave in silence to maintain integration.
- Advise not to drive or ride a motorbike immediately after—give time to fully ground.
- Let students know they’re welcome to approach you with questions or reflections.
- Close the session with gratitude: “Thank you for your breath, your presence, and your courage. Namaste.”
🌟 Final Tips for Facilitators
- Always remain present, observant, and non-intrusive.
- Check in with new students before and after the class.
- Keep tissues, water, and gentle words close at hand.
- Maintain the balance between structure and flow—let the breath lead.
Tetra Breath is not about fixing—it’s about feeling.
Not about doing—it’s about allowing.
And as a facilitator, your greatest power lies in presence.
Let the breath be your guide. Let the space be your offering. Let the transformation unfold.