Below are the best resources we could find on Holotropic Breathwork and trauma healing.
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To an outsider, that room in Costa Rica probably looked like the scene of a midday slumber party.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
I was skeptical that a particular breathing pattern could change my life — but then I tried it.
By focusing on the breath, we can remove emotional blockages and deep-seated pain.
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