holotropic: "moving towards wholeness"

Holotropic Breathwork is "among the deepest and most profoundly comprehensive work of the spirit being offered today."
- Jack Kornfield, author of A Path With Heart Holotropic Breathwork™ is a powerful approach to self-exploration and healing that integrates insights from modern consciousness research, anthropology, various depth psychologies, transpersonal psychology, Eastern spiritual practices and mystical traditions of the world.

It is a highly personal, experiential process that uses breathing techniques to clear physical, mental, and emotional blocks and access non-ordinary states of consciousness for the purpose of healing and growth. Lying on a mat, each person uses their breath and the evocative music in the room to help let go of the day-to-day “thinking mind” and gain access to a deeper state of consciousness.  This activates one’s natural inner healing mechanism.

As we learn to allow this innate healing intelligence to come forth, meaningful experiences result.  We begin to access a place of deeper knowing that is always there, but we often lose touch with. Blockages and old patterns begin to release, healing expands, and we begin to feel more connected to ourself and our own wisdom.  Creativity flows, inspiration arises, aliveness and joy emerge. 

Each session may also include some focused body work, and mandala drawing is used afterwards to help integrate insights.

I feel very strongly that proper breathing is a master key to good health. Over and over again, I’m impressed by the power of the breath and its ability to correct specific health problems and promote our general wellness.
—Andrew Weil, M.D., from Breathing:  The Master Key to Self-Healing

Holotropic Breathing is grounded in almost fifty years of observations and clinical research by Dr. Stanislav Grof, who has been observing and studying the healing potentials of non-ordinary states of consciousness since 1955. Dr. Grof is one of the co-founders of the field of transpersonal psychology in 1969 and is one of it's leading theoreticians. He is the author of The Holotropic Mind, Psychology of the Future, Beyond the Brain, The Adventure of Self Discovery, Spiritual Emergency, and The Cosmic Game, among others.  Click here to learn more about Stan Grof.  Or, click for a reading list.

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MEDICAL ADVISORY DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS HOLOTROPIC BREATHING WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OSTEOPOROSIS, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.

Holotropic Breathwork Breathing Worskhops / Seminars in Seattle
Led by Dr. Stanislav Stan Grof trained facilitators

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