Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA)

The Global Professional Breathwork Alliance is the international organization for professionalism, ethics and training standards in breathwork, founded to unite the field's many lineages around shared standards. Where breathwork has hundreds of independent schools and styles, the GPBA is the body that asks what professional practice should mean across all of them.

Its machinery is institutional. The alliance maintains training standards that schools and programs can meet and be listed against, a member directory of practitioners, a published code of ethics with dedicated ethics training courses, and a formal process for addressing ethical concerns and alleged misconduct, including a request-for-support route for people raising concerns. Membership applications are open to breathworkers and to schools and programs.

The alliance runs on an annual rhythm of newsletters and news updates, with monthly communications through 2026, and its board-organized structure carries the standards work forward. For practitioners it is the professional home that says their training meets an international bar; for schools it is the accreditation conversation; for clients it is the place to find a breathwork practitioner who has agreed to published ethics. The institution's stated mission: The international organization for professionalism, ethics and training standards in breathwork.