Code Of Ethics

A safe community grows, collaborates and gets stronger together. This Code of Ethics guides how we all behave here so that everyone — the people who come to breathe, the professionals and training organisations they find, and BreathFinder itself — is heard, valued and supported.

This Code applies to our whole community — customers and clients, breathwork professionals, training organisations, and the BreathFinder team — and together we aim to be trustworthy, respectful, purpose-driven, global, inclusive, transparent and accessible.

It sets out what you can expect from us and what we expect from you. It is also a binding agreement: agreeing to it is one of the checks in our verification process and asks each professional to read and agree to it before a profile can be published. It works alongside our Verification Policy, Terms of Use and Privacy Policy.

If you see anything you believe breaks this Code, please tell us — use the report option on any listing, or contact us via email. We review every report, one at a time.

Our Intentions – Safeguarding our Community:

BreathFinder is an extension of your community, with the power to bring people together in a safe, welcoming space. By using BreathFinder.io you accept and agree to this Code of Ethics, alongside our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. 

How verification works: 

BreathFinder checks that breathwork professionals and training organisations have submitted relevant qualifications and professional information, and presents that in a structured, consistent profile so people can make informed decisions. We check what a professional tells us and show what we find — we don’t confirm or vouch for anyone, and we don’t accredit training or take responsibility for how a professional practises beyond our checks. What a profile shows is the evidence; the person choosing decides who to trust, and is encouraged to use their own judgement. Being listed on BreathFinder is not an endorsement — our Disclaimer sets out exactly what that means.

The full process — the checks, their order, and annual re-verification — is set out in our Verification Policy.

Our seven community values:

Seven values underpin every interaction here. There’s no competition, only one community — each professional brings something of their own, and the platform exists to show that. Below is what each value asks of everyone: customers & clients, breathwork professionals, training organisations, and BreathFinder.

1. Be trustworthy

Our community is built on trust, so everyone can feel safe, heard and supported.

Breathwork professionals & training organisations: keep your profile accurate and current, deliver the service as described, keep your communications and dealings within our Subscriber Terms & Conditions, and make sure the person named on a listing is the one who actually delivers it.

Customers & clients: engage genuinely and honestly, check a professional’s credentials before you book, and take responsibility for your own communications and decisions.

BreathFinder: act with integrity, stay true to our purpose, and put the community’s interests at the heart of our decisions. We don’t support behaviour that is threatening, disparaging or disrespectful.

2. Be respectful

We meet people wherever they are on their journey, and listen without judgement.

Everyone: treat each other with courtesy, warmth and kindness, and assume good intent. Keep your language clean and civil, even in disagreement — healthy debate is welcome, unkindness isn’t.

Everyone: no harassment, bullying, or material that is unlawful, threatening, abusive, hateful or offensive. Our Acceptable Use Policy sets out in full what isn’t allowed here.

BreathFinder: we have zero tolerance for racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic or otherwise discriminatory conduct. Report anything that crosses the line and we’ll act on it.

3. Be purpose driven

We’re here to make breathwork easier to find, understand and trust.

Breathwork professionals & training organisations: run your practice with care, creating a space where people feel seen, heard and supported on their journey.

Customers & clients: invest in and take ownership of your own breath health and wellbeing.

BreathFinder: keep our verification and standards genuine and consistent, and make every decision with the community’s wellbeing first.

4. Be global

One community with a shared purpose, wherever in the world you practise.

Breathwork professionals & training organisations: qualifications earned in another country are welcome; BreathFinder checks them against consistent criteria.

BreathFinder: provide a consistent framework of profiles so people can find and connect with professionals across the world, and share credible, well-sourced content along the way.

5. Be inclusive

Diversity and inclusion make the community stronger.

Everyone: no discrimination or harassment, anywhere in the community.

Breathwork professionals & training organisations: help extend the knowledge and experience of breathwork to more people, through the opportunities the platform offers.

BreathFinder: we hold that wellbeing is everyone’s to reach, and we grow the platform by listening to our community’s feedback while using discernment to stay true to our purpose.

6. Be transparent

We’re open about who we are and how we work.

Everyone: use your real name and details, and post only your own words, photos and content.

Breathwork professionals & training organisations: represent your skills and experience honestly — through clear profiles and discovery calls — so people can make an informed choice.

BreathFinder: keep our pricing clear and tied to the services provided, and be open about how verification works.

7. Be accessible

Open to everyone who shares our purpose.

Breathwork professionals & training organisations: offer accessible ways in — discovery calls, clear profiles — so people can connect with you before they commit.

BreathFinder: provide an easy-to-use platform and a secure payment process, keep improving it from community feedback, and make credible content and verified professionals easy to reach.

Professional practice standards:

The values above set the spirit. These are the specific standards every verified breathwork professional agrees to keep in their practice — the conduct we check against, and hold to, for as long as a profile is live. They are the standards for being verified and listed on BreathFinder: our bar for our own platform, not a claim to govern the wider breathwork field.

Work within your training

Only offer what you’ve actually been trained and equipped to do. Be upfront about which breathwork approaches you’re qualified in, and don’t stretch into techniques you haven’t been taught to run safely.

Trauma is the one line we won’t move. Do not offer trauma-focused breathwork, or take on clients whose primary need is trauma, unless you hold specific trauma training. Where your work touches trauma, your training must support it.

Client safety, screening & consent

Before you work with someone, check for any health or personal factors that make breathwork unsafe or unsuitable for them, and say so honestly when it isn’t the right fit. Make sure clients understand what a session really involves — how intense it can get, and what could go wrong — and get their clear, informed agreement before you begin, using an intake and consent step that matches the work you do. The more intense or state-altering the technique, the harder you screen — and where someone has a serious medical or respiratory condition, they should get their doctor’s clearance first. Our Breathwork Safety & Contraindications guide covers the specifics. Anything a client has been prescribed is between them and their doctor: never tell someone to change or come off their medication.

Clear-headed practice

Turn up to every session sober and clear-headed — never lead one after alcohol or any mind-altering substance. And if a client arrives affected by something, don’t begin until you’re confident they can understand and agree to what’s involved.

Safeguarding children & vulnerable adults

Working with children, or with adults who are vulnerable, asks more of you. Be genuinely trained for it, hold whatever criminal-record or background clearance the law where you work requires, follow sound safeguarding practice, and never let anyone in your care come to harm. Wherever a professional tells us they work with children, BreathFinder checks that the right clearances are in place. (BreathFinder.io itself is for over-18s — see our Minors Privacy Policy, this standard covers your own practice with children and vulnerable adults.)

Sexual & romantic boundaries

The states breathwork can open up, and the trust a client hands you, put you in a position of real power. Keep it clean: no sexual contact or advances with a client, and don’t act on any romantic pull you feel while you’re working together — holding that line is always your responsibility, whatever the client does. If real feelings are still there well after your working relationship has properly ended, give it a long, honest pause before taking anything further, and put the client’s wellbeing above your own wish for it.

Honesty in your claims & advertising

Describe your qualifications, training, experience and what your work can do plainly and truthfully. Don’t inflate what you offer or promise outcomes you can’t genuinely deliver. Whatever you put on your profile is something verification may test, so let it match reality — and the professional named on a listing must be the one who actually delivers the service.

Confidentiality & client data

What a client tells you, and anything you record about them, stays private. Store and handle their personal information carefully and within the law, use it only for what it was given for, and don’t pass it on without their permission unless the law obliges you to.

Duty of care & referral

Know where your ability ends, and point a client towards someone better placed when what they need sits beyond what you can safely give. If you carry professional insurance, keep it live and matched to the work you actually do. The client’s wellbeing matters more than keeping the work for yourself.

Financial transparency

Be open and straight about what you charge, and flag any change before a client signs up. Don’t take financial advantage of anyone, and be careful with gifts, perks or side-arrangements that could bend your judgement or lean on a client’s trust.

Genuine testimonials only

Any testimonial you display must be real and freely given by an actual client. Don’t invent, buy, or embellish social proof. BreathFinder may ask for original proof of a testimonial (such as the original message) when it checks your profile.

If you train others

If your work includes teaching or running a training, hold your students and trainees to the same standards you keep yourself, and live those standards in how you run it. Be honest about what your training actually covers and what it qualifies someone to do — don’t oversell a certificate. And credit the teachers, sources and traditions your material draws on rather than passing them off as your own.

Professional conduct & respect

Treat clients, peers and the wider community with courtesy and honesty. BreathFinder has zero tolerance for harassment, bullying, or racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic or otherwise discriminatory conduct. Act with integrity in how you represent yourself and how you treat the people who find you here.

BreathFinder holds itself to this Code too:

This Code binds BreathFinder as well as the professionals on it. We hold ourselves to the same spirit — honesty, integrity, respect and transparency — and we are accountable for it, not above it. You can expect BreathFinder to:

• Verify honestly and show what we find — we check, we don’t confirm or vouch for you.
• Represent you accurately, and hold every professional to the same standards and the same process.
• Review every report of a possible breach individually, and let you know if we have to edit, hold or remove anything of yours.

Above all: where interests conflict, BreathFinder will not compromise the integrity of verification, or the interests of the person choosing a professional, for commercial gain. That principle governs this Code and everything connected to it.

If BreathFinder falls short of this Code, tell us — the same way you’d raise a concern about anyone else, contact us via email. We answer to our community, and we mean to be held to what we ask of others.

Moderation:

A team of moderators can step in when these values and standards are breached. We can’t read everything the moment it’s posted, so much of keeping this a friendly, safe space rests with all of us — please report anything that concerns you.

How everyday issues between a client and a professional are handled — trying direct resolution first, with BreathFinder staying impartial and helping both parties toward a fair outcome — is set out in our Resolving Issues Policy. Beyond that, a report can concern a professional’s conduct on or off the platform where it bears on their fitness to remain listed. We look into each report before acting, rather than removing someone on an unverified claim, and the final decision on any listing or verification rests with BreathFinder.

BreathFinder is not a professional regulator: we don’t run formal misconduct investigations or mediate disputes as a governing body would. Where a concern involves personal safety, safeguarding, or possible criminal conduct, please also contact the police or the relevant authorities — and, where the professional belongs to a professional body, that body — and BreathFinder will act on the listing as appropriate.

If anything raises concern about your safety or someone else’s, we may contact you to check everyone is safe, and where necessary pass details to people who can help (for example the police or a mental-health crisis service). We take our duty of care seriously, and we reserve the right to deactivate the accounts of those who breach this Code.

If you want to query a moderation or listing decision, contact us privately through our Contact Us form and we’ll look at it again.

If the Code is breached:

Where a breathwork professional breaks this Code, BreathFinder may unpublish their profile and withdraw verification. More generally, and at our discretion, we may also:

• issue a warning;
• edit, refuse to publish, or remove any contribution, temporarily or permanently, including deleting a profile or withdrawing access to the site;
• take legal action to recover, on an indemnity basis, losses and costs (including reasonable administrative and legal costs) resulting from the breach;
• disclose information to law-enforcement authorities or other relevant parties where we reasonably consider it necessary.

Failure to comply with this Code is a material breach of our Terms of Use and Acceptable Use Policy. It is BreathFinder’s decision whether this Code has been breached, and the responses above are not exhaustive — we may take any other action we reasonably consider appropriate. We exclude liability for actions we take in response to a breach of this Code.

Changes to the Code of Ethics:

We may update this Code as the field and the platform develop. The current version is the one that applies, so please check back from time to time — changes are binding once published.

BreathFinder does not warrant the accuracy, adequacy or completeness of this material, and disclaims all warranties, express or implied, including any implied warranty of fitness for a particular purpose. We will not be liable for any decision made or action taken in reliance on information provided on BreathFinder.io.

Contact us:

If you have any questions, concerns about this Code of Ethics, please contact us via email