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Breathing is at the heart of yoga—but few teachers ever learn how it truly works. This CPD gives you the scientific tools to teach breath with clarity, confidence, and depth.
✅ No card required ✅ Instant access.
With this ONLINE CPD, discover how breathing in the correct way steadies the brain and nervous system. Supports healing and recovery, and most importantly, transforms the way you teach. Led by Zahir -
Om Yoga Magazine teacher of the Year 2024.
Proud to make complex science feel simple.
Sample learning from your Tutor Zahir Akram
Master all things Yoga and deepen your own practice with our
Online CPD courses designed to unlock anatomy, philosophy, sequencing, and self-discovory.
C.P.D course with ZAHIR AKRAM
OM YOGA Magazine Yoga Teacher of the Year 2024 🏆
& author of 'Yoga - Madness or Meditation?'
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What You Will Learn
Science made Simplistic
Breathing Techniques
You’ll explore a wide range of breathing techniques — from optimal nasal breathing and alternate nostril, to box breathing, ujjayi, lion’s breath, and even the forgotten power of the pause between breaths.
Breathing Myths
Learn the truth behind common breathing myths and why carbon dioxide is more important than we’ve been told. Understand the dangers of mouth breathing and how breath affects the brain, body, and nervous system.
Stress & Healing
Explore how correct breathing helps restore balance through the lens of basic neuroscience and stress research — from homeostasis and the vagus nerve to Why Zebras Don’t Get Ulcers.
Yoga Tradition
Learn how the first yogi, Shiva, shared the wisdom of breath with yoga’s first student — his wife, Parvati — over 15,000 years ago. Is this ancient practise still relevant today??
The Mechanics
Learn in simple language — so you can explain it to your students just as clearly — the mechanics of breathing. You’ll be able to answer common questions like “What is belly breathing?” and “Why is mouth breathing problematic?”
How to Breathe
Ultimately, this course will teach you not just how to breathe better in life, but how to breathe better in yoga — and how to adapt breathing techniques to suit different styles of yoga. You'll even explore how breathing changes between standing and seated poses.
Student Testimonials
What our students say about us
"This isn’t your average CPD. It’s warm, it’s clear, and it’s surprisingly funny — Zahir’s humour made learning actually enjoyable. You can feel how passionate he is about breath, and that passion is contagious".
Priya
"The videos are filmed in the actual yoga studio, which makes it feel personal and grounded. Zahir explains things visually — which helped me connect the science to my body."
Ruben
"This course made me realise that nothing else we teach in yoga matters without breath. It changed how I teach and how I live."
Lana
Example Learning
Watch a sample from a lesson where I talk about the biggest Myth in all of Yoga. We think we stretch just because we create a pose. But it'a a little more complicated than that.
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Who is this CPD for?
This training is for anyone who wants to understand breathing on a deeper level — beyond the generic yoga cues we’ve all heard.
You don’t need to be a scientist. Just curious.
Maybe you’re a yoga teacher who’s tired of saying “inhale up, exhale down” without really knowing why…
Maybe you’ve sensed that your students aren’t breathing well — or that you aren’t either — but haven’t known how to change it…
Or maybe you’ve personally felt the power of breath and want to teach it with more clarity, more confidence, and more care.
You might be:
- A yoga teacher ready to deepen your anatomical understanding of breath
- A PT, therapist, or movement coach wanting to integrate breath into your sessions
- A teacher rebuilding confidence after burnout or disconnection
- Or simply someone who wants to make breath more intentional — in practice, and in life
Wherever you are in your teaching or personal journey, this CPD meets you with depth, not dogma.
About Me
👤 Meet your teacher - Zahir Akram
Hi, I’m Zahir - owner of Akram Yoga Studio and a real teacher at heart. I love sharing science in a way that is really simplistic and accessible to all.
Over the years, I’ve taught in gyms, retreats, and packed studios. But what I really teach — is how to think. How to ask better questions. How to become a teacher that’s both curious and authentic.
In 2024, I was honoured to be named Favourite Yoga Teacher by Om Yoga Magazine. Our studio — Akram Yoga — was also voted Yoga Studio of the Year.
If you’re looking for someone who’ll teach you with humour, honesty, and real depth — not dogma — I think we’ll get on.
I absolutely LOVE what I do. That will be evident more and more as you make your way around the website, my BLOG page, our Youtube Channel and even my BOOK, 'Yoga, Madness or Medittaion?' - available on Amazon.
You really couldn't be in safer hands 🙏🏽
"These courses are truly a lifetime’s work, and I'm so grateful to have a platform to share everything I've learned over the years with you. My goal is for you to walk away feeling more confident in your understanding—not only so you can teach with assurance but also to empower you to be yourself and to question conventional yoga wisdom. Too often, this wisdom, even with the best intentions, causes more harm than good. I hope you can use what I teach to continue sharing the magic, helping others evolve and heal, just as yoga has done for me—and for you."
ZAHIR AKRAM
Here’s exactly what’s included when you enroll:
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A Self-Paced Course That Feels Like a Personal Mentorship
✅ 48 structured LESSONS with 20+ video lessons
✅ 30+ CPD hours — accredited by Yoga Alliance Professionals (UK)
✅ ♾️ Lifetime access — learn in your own time, revisit whenever you need
✅ 🔁Free future updates — stay current as the science of breath evolves
Teaching Yoga should be more than just Inhale - Exhale.
Learn the science and then share the magic.
Recent BLOG Posts
Still not sure? Read one of my blog posts and get a feel for how I teach
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