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Stanislav Grof: “Race for Consciousness”

By Stanislav Grof — 2007

05:08 min

Can Holotropic Breathwork Mimic a Psychedelic Experience?: A Q&A with Stacia Butterfield

We talked to Stacia Butterfield, a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator with nearly two decades of experience through Grof Transpersonal Training, to learn what goes into a Holotropic Breathwork workshop and what people can expect to get out of the technique.

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Stacia Butterfield
2021
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A Healing Crisis to Make You Whole: Breaking Down the Benefits of Holotropic Breathwork

In 2008, holotropic breathwork facilitator Martin Boroson wrote an article for Inside Out trying to dispel some of the more controversial myths surrounding the decades-old breathing practice.

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Psychedelic Times Staff
2017
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I Tried to Cure My Anxiety by Hallucinating

Here I am again, at another wacky workshop, trying to get to the root of the anxiety I’ve had for many years. If I can figure out what’s causing it, perhaps I can get rid of it for good.

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Stefanie Cohen
2017
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What Is Holotropic Breathwork and How Is It Used?

Holotropic breathwork is a therapeutic breathing practice that is intended to help with emotional healing and personal growth. It’s said to produce an altered state of consciousness. The process involves breathing at a fast rate for minutes to hours.

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Emily Cronkleton
2018
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Holotropic Breathwork Benefits and Risks

Holotropic breathwork (HB) has become increasingly popular among those seeking to explore a unique process of self-healing to attain a state of wholeness.

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Arlin Cuncic
2020
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Through the Breath and Body: Holotropic Breathwork

"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.

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Stanislav Grof
2020
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Why a Breathing Technique That Makes You Trip—Without Drugs—Should Be Your New Year’s Resolution

The party started like any other. Forty or so women, and two men, had assembled under the pretext of “Om for the Holidays,” a wellness-themed seasonal soiree in a second-floor loft on the Bowery called the Woom Center.

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Eviana Hartman
2016
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The Curious Beginner’s Guide to Holotropic Breathing

To an outsider, that room in Costa Rica probably looked like the scene of a midday slumber party.

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Emma Loewe
2020
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The Way of the Psychonaut: Encyclopedia for Inner Journeys, Volume Two

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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Stanislav Grof
2019
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Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy

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).

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Stanislav Grof, Christina Grof, Jack Kornfield (foreword)
2010
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