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

By Stacia Butterfield — 2021

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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Feel to Heal: Releasing Trauma Through Body Awareness and Breathwork Practice

In this revolutionary approach to living well, a pioneering trauma-release therapist puts relief in reach—with a multi-modal practice that can be done at home.

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Meditating with the Body: A Course in Somatic Practices to Unlock Your Journey

A montage of interviews with Meditating with the Body(R) founder, Reginald A. Ray, teachers Tami Simon and David Iozzi; and participants in a meditation retreat. Filmed during retreat at the Blazing Mountain Retreat Center in Crestone, Colorado, where the course retreats are held.

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Theta Meditation: Road Map to the Seventh Plane

This meditation is a direct reading from the book "Theta Healing" by Vianna Stibal. It is used as a "road map" to the "7th plane" to enter the theta brain wave state and connect with Creator Consciousness. You can use this for entering a state to create healing or manifestation.

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New Research Shows Simple Meditation Can Outperform a Standard V.A. Trauma Therapy — Part 1

Belleruth describes recent research from the San Diego VA Hospital, which concludes that Transcendental Meditation decreases symptom severity in Veterans with Post-Traumatic Stress, outperforming Prolonged Exposure Therapy.

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Healing Trauma: The Light Shines Through the Broken Places

Most of us have encountered trauma either in our own direct experience or with someone in our immediate circle. This talk examines the shame and suffering that arise from trauma and how meditation practices can support a path to full spiritual healing.

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Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN

Tara Brach is an in-the-trenches teacher whose work counters today's ever-increasing onslaught of news, conflict, demands, and anxieties—stresses that leave us rushing around on auto-pilot and cut off from the presence and creativity that give our lives meaning.

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Touching Enlightenment: Finding Realization in the Body

What does it mean to “meditate with the body”? Until you answer this question, explains Reggie Ray, meditation may be no more than a mental gymnastic ―something you can practice for years without fruitful results.

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The Practice of Pure Awareness: Somatic Meditation for Awakening the Sacred

Perhaps the most precious teaching Tibet has to offer the modern world is the practice of meditation. Reginald Ray presents the essence of this tradition through the somatic practice of Pure Awareness—a unique kind of meditation that is thoroughly grounded in the body and in ordinary experience.

Reginald A. Ray

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Somatic Descent: How to Unlock the Deepest Wisdom of the Body

Have you ever had a "gut feeling" about a certain person or situation? Or a sense of intuition about how to respond to a particular challenge in your life? There's nothing magical or mystical about those kinds of scenarios.

Reginald A. Ray

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The Awakening Body: Somatic Meditation for Discovering Our Deepest Life

A senior Buddhist teacher offers fundamental body-based meditation practices that prove enlightenment is as close to you as your own body.

Reginald A. Ray

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