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In this video, Sky trains with Michael Stone, a certified facilitator of holotropic breathwork who studied directly under Stan Grof. Michael Stone describes what holotropic breathwork is, how it works, and then guides Sky through a shortened version of this technique.
In this long-awaited book, Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof describe their groundbreaking new form of self-exploration and psychotherapy: Holotropic Breathwork. Holotropic means "moving toward wholeness," from the Greek holos (whole) and trepein (moving in the direction of).
To an outsider, that room in Costa Rica probably looked like the scene of a midday slumber party.
The key experiential approach I now use to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness and gain access to the unconscious and superconscious psyche is Holotropic Breathwork . . .
Holotropic Breathwork is a practice that uses breathing and other elements to allow access to non-ordinary states for the purpose of self-exploration. It was developed by Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., and Christina Grof, Ph.D.
The Way of the Psychonaut is one of the most important books ever written about the human psyche and the spiritual quest. The new understandings were made possible thanks to Albert Hofmann’s discovery of LSD—the “microscope and telescope of the human psyche”—and other psychedelic substances.
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"I did about twenty years of clinical work with psychedelics and then went to Esalen Institute in Big Sur to write a couple of books.
Dr. Grof’s consciousness research over the last five decades has shown that the deepest roots of trauma often lie in experiences from birth or in events from human history that have not yet been resolved and are still active in the collective unconscious.
Stan Grof, MD, Ph.D., a clinical psychiatrist from Czechoslovakia and one the founding forefathers of research in transpersonal psychology for non-ordinary states of consciousness and the therapeutic potential of LSD, has turned breathwork into a psychedelic, and the benefits are profound.
In recent years, a wealth of breathing techniques have come through to help people address breathing deficiencies and with them physical, mental, and emotional conditions that have been fixed in the body.
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