breath.fyi Compass

• Health

  Body-centred, nervous-system and trauma-informed work: regulation, recovery and therapeutic breathwork.

  125 schools lean this way

• Performance

  Functional breathing, CO2 tolerance and breath mechanics for athletes, focus and resilience.

  15 schools lean this way

• Spiritual

  Altered states, transpersonal and ceremonial work: consciousness, depth and transformation.

  103 schools lean this way

On a card

Health focus

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Cards name only the school's focus. When one orientation has 45 or more of 100, it is the focus, for example Health focus. When none does, the school is a Balanced mix.

On a school's page

The ring shows all three weights. They are whole numbers that add up to 100, each arc is as long as its weight, and the number in the middle is the leading one.

On the orientation pages

Each orientation page lists every school with at least 34 there, strongest first, so a balanced school can appear on more than one.

Source

What each school publishes about itself in the member directories of the International Breathwork Foundation (IBF) and the Global Professional Breathwork Alliance (GPBA): its description, methods, formats, audiences and the trainings it offers, plus the short summary breath.fyi writes from that listing. Compass does not read the school's own website.

Reading

An AI language model reads that information against a fixed rubric: the three definitions above, and rules such as 70 or more for a clearly single-orientation school and no orientation above 45 for a broad one. When a listing says too little, it falls back to an even split.

Checks

The breath.fyi team spot-checks the results. Every school is read with the same rubric, and a school's weights change only when its listing changes or we revise the rubric.

Today

73 schools have a health focus, 55 a spiritual focus and 3 a performance focus; 28 are a balanced mix.

A rating

It does not rank schools. A health focus is not better than a spiritual one, and a high number is not a high score.

The school's statement

Schools do not supply or approve their weights, even though the reading starts from their own words.

A health judgement

"Health" describes what a school's teaching emphasises. It says nothing about whether breathwork helps with any condition.

A measurement

It is a direction read from a short text, not an observation of the training itself.

If a reading looks wrong for your school, or for one you know, email us the school's name and what seems off, and we will look at it again.