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Lynda Griebenow, M.S., has a Masters degree in Counseling/Education with more than 20 years of experience as a psychotherapist integrating a transpersonal perspective with nontraditional programming for a variety of populations. She is a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, who began her extensive experience with Breathwork in 1990. She certified as a facilitator of Holotropic Breathwork and joined the staff of Grof Transpersonal Training in 1998. Lynda continues to work as primary staff with GTT, facilitating public workshops and trainings internationally and in the United States. For the past five years, Lynda has had the privilege of teaching courses in Transpersonal Psychology and Spirituality at Sadhana Institute in Lonavla, India. In addition, Lynda is a certified facilitator of Gender Reconciliation work, a psychotherapist/consultant in private practice in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a facilitator of workshops and retreats for private groups. She can be reached at the Center for Integral Practices (612) 963-3630 or by email at LGriebster@aol.com.
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Diana Medina is a resident of southern Colorado. She has practiced as a physician assistant in pediatrics since 1986. She began her adventure with Holotropic Breathwork in 1993, and certified as a facilitator in 1998. Since that time, Diana has offered workshops in Colorado, New Mexico, and India. She has worked at various workshops with Stan Grof and Tav Sparks and has been on staff with the Grof Transpersonal Training program since 1999. This has allowed her to travel with the training to Mexico, South America, and throughout the United States. "It has been a great pleasure being part of the GTT staff and an honor to be a witness and support to people from all over the world in their adventure of self-discovery." |
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Diane Haug, M.A., LPCC, is a licensed therapist living in rural northern New Mexico. Her background includes a decade of working with adults and children dealing with life-threatening and terminal illness. Having completed the Grofs' first three-year training program, Diane has been involved with transpersonal psychology and the Holotropic Breathwork since 1986. As a senior staff member with GTT, she has been involved in teaching modules internationally (Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, South America) and in the United States. Diane has developed GTT training modules including Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy and Healing and The Art of Integration. Diane is currently involved in collaborations with other transpersonal teachers including Wes Nisker, Roshi Joan Halifax, Luis Eduardo Lun , and Ralph Metzner. She is presently on the advisory boards of both the Satyana Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and WASIWASKA: Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness in Florianopolis, Brazil. |
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Kylea Taylor, M.S., is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT# 34901). She earned a Master of Science degree from San Jose State University, San Jose, CA in Marriage, Child, and Family Counseling. She has worked as a counselor in the addictions recovery field since 1970 and was the executive director of a community counseling program for sixteen years. Kylea Taylor has been studying the theory and practice of therapeutic work with clients in nonordinary states of consciousness with Stanislav and Christina Grof since 1984. After completing the Grofs' first three-year training program in the United States, she was certified as a Holotropic Breathworktm Practitioner. Kylea has assisted Stanislav Grof in facilitating large group Holotropic Breathwork workshops and trainings both in the United States and in other countries. She has also facilitated at nine of the week-long Insight and Opening retreats, combining Buddhist Vipassana meditation and Holotropic Breathwork experiences, led jointly by Stanislav Grof and Jack Kornfield. Kylea has been a trainer for the Grof Transpersonal Training, Mill Valley, CA since 1993. She has been an officer of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International and the Editor of its newsletter, The Inner Door, since 1991. She lives on the central coast of California, where she has a private therapy and consulting practice. She has written numerous articles and taught in the USA and Europe. Kylea Taylor teaches workshops following the model presented in The Ethics of Caring. In these presentations, she uses an experiential and non-judgmental approach to self-examination, so that participants can discover where and how they are vulnerable to ethical pitfalls and learn to avoid them. She also has so-taught the Trauma & Transformation module for GTT. Kylea Taylor has extensive personal and professional experience with addiction, post traumatic stress recovery, women's issues, and spiritual emergency. Her study of yoga in the 70's began her enduring interest in the interface between psychological, physical, social, and spiritual aspects of ourselves. She is particularly interested in the effects of rapid spiritual development associated with nonordinary states of consciousness or the dying/grieving process. She says, "I have been studying with the Grofs since 1984. That was the beginning of a period of intense personal spiritual emergency/emergence which lasted for the next five years, during which I completed the Grof's first three-year training program. For me, the most important thing about the training was (and is) that it contains a community of people who are undergoing deep personal change, and who can understand and support one another. Also, participants from many countries learn experientially that they can appreciate one another's differences while recognizing their deep similarities in spirit." Kylea lives in central California, where she has a private therapy and consulting practice. She is the author of The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships (Hanford Mead, 1995), The Breathwork Experience: Exploration and Healing in Nonordinary States of Consciousness (Hanford Mead, 1994) and The Holotropic Breathwork Workshop: A Manual for Trained Facilitators (1991). |
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Matthew Stelzner discovered his two great passions, Holotropic Breathwork and western archetypal astrology, through a class offered at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) in 1995. The class, titled "Psyche and Cosmos," was taught by Stan Grof and Rick Tarnas and explored the interface between transpersonal psychology and archetypal astrology. This class was the turning point in Matthew's life, and he has been intensely exploring transpersonal psychology, breathwork, and astrology ever since. He is currently working to complete a Ph.D. at CIIS in which he is exploring these passions. Matthew has worked with GTT since 1996, when he began the training. Early on, he helped out in the GTT office, doing mailings and responding to phone calls, and later working in the role of coordinator for the US training modules. Certifying in 1998, he began to attend modules in the role of "court astrologer" offering astrological consultations to training participants. Since 2001, Matthew has been fortunate to combine his love for both breathwork and astrology in the teaching of his module "The Power of Archetype." He has taught this module three times - in Australia, Argentina, and, more recently, in the US. Now a GTT staff member, Matthew attends most of the trainings held in the US and Mexico. For more information about Matthew, please visit his website at www.matthewstelzner.com. |
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Maggie Bedord assists Cary Sparks in the office on Wednesdays and helps with the mailings. She says, "I feel inspired by the number of people that are interested in transforming their lives and thereby transforming the world. I have also experienced Holotropic Breathwork, which helps me answer questions from callers." Maggie is also a collage artist, and she enjoys spending her spare time hiking and biking in beautiful northern California countryside with her husband Russell. |
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Glenn Wilson certified in 1998, and has worked for GTT/Holotropics in various capacities since that time. He is also the office coordinator for the Association of Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI). |
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Nienke Merbis has completed courses in transpersonal psychology and shamanism in Canada. Moreover, she is a certified yoga teacher. She began her training in Holotropic BreathworkÔ in the United States in 1994 and certified in 1997. Since then she has been instrumental in creating and facilitating at workshops in Ireland. Nienke was born and raised in Holland. She went to work in Indonesia where she met her Dutch husband. They have lived with their two sons in many different countries around the world, adapting to and learning from new cultures every few years. Nienke is deeply committed to an inner journey, seeking to find and be able to use her potentials. She feels fortunate to have found Holotropic Breathwork™ as a way to give expression to herself and to support others on their journeys. She is equally fascinated employing different forms of art as a way to explore and express the mystery of life. For now, she has settled with her husband in Ireland, but they regularly visit their sons and partners in Canada and Holland. She enjoys her books, her music, her garden, her art and, above all, the playfulness of their two little granddaughters in Amsterdam. |
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Juanjo Segura was born in Madrid, Spain. In 1995 moved to Alicante where he has a private psychotherapy practice. For many years Juanjo was involved in the field of telecommunications, where he was trained in business management. As he decided to change his profession, he fulfilled his wish to become therapist, taking training in Integrative Psychotherapy and Claudio Naranjo SAT program with the Enneagram. Juanjo has also been working for several years with people in substance addiction rehabilitation programs. Very involved in zen meditation, he has taken the breathwork also to meditation groups. His background includes training in body-oriented techniques, martial arts and shamanism.
Juanjo is certified as facilitator in Holotropic Breathwork and has been organizing and leading numerous workshops in Spain and France in the last years. He has also worked on staff at international GTT training modules in Mexico, Spain and Ireland. Since 2003 is the organizer (with Sitara Blasco) of the Spanish GTT program, passionate about creating a structure of training and workshops that allows HB to become well known and available for trainees and for people in their path of self-discovery. Lately, Juanjo travels to the Peruvian forest for retreats with healing master plants. Since he was a child, Juanjo has been fascinated by nature and the animal world, with special interest in insects, amphibious and reptiles. Lately has expanded his interest to bird photography. |
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Sitara Blasco psychologist from Valencia University, Spain; with master studies in Gestalt psychotherapy and Integrative Psychology. Was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and has lived in the United States several years before moving to Spain in 1990. Sitara lives in Alicante – Spain, where she has a private psychotherapy practice. Her background includes training in body-oriented techniques, theatre acting, dancing, shamanism and meditation. In the last years her interest in the Enneagram moved her to take Claudio Naranjo´s SAT program and studies in the spiritual aspects of the Enneagram.
She is certified as facilitator in Holotropic Breathwork, leading numerous workshops every year in Spain and France since 2002. She has also worked on staff at international GTT training modules in Mexico, Spain and Ireland. Since 2003 is co-organizer with Juanjo Segura of the Spanish GTT program. Passionate about the breathwork, she is currently working on her Ph.D. which involves HB. She loves teaching and has been teaching staff in training programs for Gestalt students and for therapist in training. She is often invited to present the healing potential of Holotropic Breathwork in lectures and conferences at Transpersonal Psychology events. She has translated several books in the field of psychotherapy; and has also been translating at GTT training modules in Spain and Mexico. Contact: sitara@holotropica.org and www.holotropica.org |
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