Oxygen Advantage®

Advanced Instructor Training

Become certified to teach functional breathing and high-altitude simulation, leveling up your skills and enhancing the lives of your clients.

In-person training with OA® Master Instructor, Tiger Bye


Hilton Head Island, SC
September, 7, 14, & 21
9:30am-5pm

Join the waitlist below to lock in early bird pricing and register on May 1.

Breathwork is booming.

In health, wellbeing, yoga, sport and human optimization, more and more people are discovering its benefits. And as awareness grows, the need for breathing instructors is growing too.

If you work with clients as a yoga instructor, health, performance or sports professional, there’s no better time to introduce a breathing program to your business. To learn how to restore functional breathing to support wellbeing, movement, mental focus, and sporting excellence. To understand how breathing can produce physiological adaptations within the body. Adaptations that build resilience and promote longevity.

If you’re looking for a course that certifies you to teach scientific breathing techniques — using an established, recognized method — the answer is right under your nose…

The Most Comprehensive Breath Training Certification Program

  • Transform health and performance for your clients

  • Learn from Tiger Bye, an OA® Master, yoga professional, and owner of Better Yoga.

  • Accelerate your own health, fitness, and professional potential

  • Develop strategies to tailor each client experience

  • And apply the OA™ with clients from all walks of life. From Olympic medalists and pro soccer players to weekend warriors, diabetics, and dieters…

Learn scientifically proven protocols and breathing exercises that will help your clients get fitter, feel better and recover faster.

Course content includes:

  • 3 full days of training with OA® Master Instructor, Tiger Bye

  • Hard and soft copies of the instructor training manual

  • A soft copy of the client manual

  • Access to 14 hours of live online classes with Oxygen Advantage® founder & breathing trailblazer, Patrick McKeown, covering topics including sleep, stress, and anxiety

  • Unlimited access to the instructor training portal

  • Monthly live (via Zoom) refresher courses with Patrick McKeown

  • Marketing images, logos, and designs to use on your own website

  • Customizable PowerPoint presentations to use in your own workshops

  • Community of instructors via the OA® Facebook group and Tiger Bye’s instructor Whatsapp group

To register, simply click below. After registering, you will receive access to the online training portal and have access to all materials straight away.

What You’ll Learn

  • Breathing Science

    —Comprehensive anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system

    —Screening methods to identify dysfunctional breathing patterns

    —Techniques to restore nasal breathing

  • Elevate Health & Fitness

    —Protocols to reduce anxiety, inflammation, insomnia

    —Methods to expand lung capacity and oxygen uptake

    —Tailored training for different sports – swimming, running, yoga, team sports

  • Simulate High Altitude Training

    —How to safely increase red blood cell production

    —Improve endurance, economy, and sprint ability

    —Strengthen respiratory muscles and delay fatigue

  • Customized Client Support

    —Assessments to determine baseline respiratory fitness and needs

    —Personalized breathing exercises based on health factors

    —Modifications for corporate, athletic, or therapy clients

    —OA App for daily practice

  • Breathing for Yoga

    —How to apply Oxygen Advantage® theory and techniques into your yoga practice

    —How to sequence Oxygen Advantage® techniques into your yoga classes

Training Schedule

  • Day 1

    Introduction & theory:
    Nasal breathing, functional breathing, stressor exercises

    Break

    Practice exercises

    Lunch

    Relaxation exercise

    Theory:
    Sleep disordered breathing; asthma

    Break

    Practice exercises

  • Day 2

    Recap of Day 1:
    Nasal breathing, functional breathing, stressors

    Oxyhemoglobin dissociation curve

    Breathing & functional movement

    Break

    Practice exercises

    Lunch

    Relaxation exercise

    Theory:
    High altitude, repeated sprint ability, delayed onset of lactic acid fatigue

    Practice exercises

  • Day 3

    Recap of Days 1 +2

    Breathing anatomy + physiology

    Recap of more complex theory (Bohr effect, ODC)

    Break

    Practice exercises

    Practice teach in groups

    Lunch

    Relaxation exercise

    Tailored material based on group’s interests (anxiety; HBP, etc)

    Practice exercises

    Wrap up

Bonus feature

ONCE YOU HAVE COMPLETED YOUR LIVE TRAINING, YOU MAY ALSO AUTOMATICALLY ATTEND ANY FUTURE ONLINE TRAINING SESSIONS FREE OF CHARGE TO REFRESH YOUR SKILL.

What are the benefits for my clients?

Functional Breathing Benefits:

  • Improves overall health

  • Enhances exercise performance and stamina

  • Helps with lower back pain, posture, and core muscle strength

  • Reduces PTSD, anxiety, depression, and panic disorder

  • Calms high stress and mental agitation

  • Boosts energy, focus and concentration

  • Resolves insomnia and snoring

  • Reduces fatigue and balances mood

  • Relieves rhinitis (stuffy nose and hay fever), asthma and exercise-induced bronchoconstriction

  • Helps with diabetes and epilepsy control

  • Reduces depression and anxiety in people with comorbid conditions like bipolar disorder that prevent the use of anti-depressant medication

High-Altitude Simulation Benefits:

  • Delays the onset of fatigue and lactic acid

How can I use the training?

After you pass your exam, it’s up to you how you use the training. This course may be the missing link that takes your fitness business to the next level. Or breath training may become the focal point for your work with corporate or mental health clients.

Once you have the knowledge, you can apply it to your students, your clients, your area of interest, and your own life.

Yoga Teachers:

Earn 24 hours of Yoga Alliance® continued education hours when you complete the training.

Oxygen Advantage®
Advanced Instructor Training

with Master Instructor, Tiger Bye

September 7, 14, 21 from 9:30am-5pm

Jiva Yoga Center
Hilton Head Island, SC

✺ Frequently asked questions ✺

  • The course will give you everything you need to become an Oxygen Advantage® Advanced instructor. To certify, you must pass the multiple-choice exam and complete 3 case studies. If you want, you can begin these case studies alongside your training. If you do not pass your exam the first time, it is fine to do it again until you do. There is no additional fee for this.

  • You will learn to:

    —Identify dysfunctional breathing patterns

    —Understand dysfunctional breathing and how it impacts health and sports performance

    —Understand the science behind respiratory physiology

    —Teach exercises to decongest the nose and establish nasal breathing

    —Deliver breathing re-education exercises and guidelines to help restore physiologically normal breathing in adults

    —Teach exercises simulating high altitude

    —Plus, you will develop new goals for your business and help meet the global need for breathing instructors.

  • Yes. There is a multiple choice exam that you should complete in one sitting. The exam is thorough, so set aside a couple of hours to finish. Once you have completed your exam, you must also submit 3 case studies. There is no time limit on the case studies, but most instructors submit them within a few weeks of completing the exam. You will find the exam and your case study guidelines and template on your training portal. If you do not pass the exam the first time around, you are welcome to sit it again until you do. You must correctly answer 80% of the exam questions in order to pass and certify.

  • Once you have completed all your required course modules and successfully passed the exam and submitted the case studies, you will be able to download your digital certificate from your training portal. You can download it to your computer to print and display.

  • Yes, upon completion of the three sessions in this course, Tiger Bye can accredit you 24 YA CE credits

  • Yes, you can purchase the course in full or pay in two payments. The first payment is due upon registration, and the second is due by September 6, 2024.

If you have any questions about the Advanced Instructor training that were not answered on this page, please contact Tiger:

yogabyetiger@gmail.com