Holotropic Training Poland / Within the Labyrinth: Exploring COEX Systems

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WITHIN THE LABYRINTH: EXPLORING COEX SYSTEMS – Hidden Patterns that Shape Your Path
While conducting LSD-assisted psychotherapy, Stanislav Grof quickly noticed that his patients’ experiences spontaneously formed certain common threads that were crucial to their individual problems. These included similar biographical experiences from throughout their lives, as well as certain transpersonal themes that touched on the same subject. Sometimes these included abandonment, a sense of being wronged, emotional dissatisfaction, or a sense of personal inadequacy. Grof called these COEXs (from the words “Condensation of Experience”) and based many of his guidelines for working in expanded states of consciousness on this. The same, of course, appears in Holotropic Breathwork.
Systems of Condensed Experience (COEX) are dynamic constellations of memories, emotions, and sensations that cluster around a common theme, shaping how we feel, remember, and relate.
These hidden patterns connect personal history, birth experiences, and even transpersonal dimensions.
Exploring them within the labyrinth of the psyche opens powerful pathways for self-understanding, healing, and transformation.
This module offers an exciting and highly experiential exploration of our own COEX systems. Through presentations, exercises, and examples, participants will embark on a process of recognizing and integrating their personal COEX patterns — inviting acknowledgment, release, and the dissolution of rigid emotional structures.
We will explore together:
– The structure and dynamics of COEX systems within Grof’s cartography of the psyche – biographical, perinatal and transpersonal components.
– Emotionally “charged clusters of experience” in other psychological frameworks – like schemes or complexes.
– The dynamic nature of a COEX — how it shapes our perception of reality, our emotional reactions, and our relationships with others, and how reality confirms the COEX
– Why do some experiences become part of a COEX.
– The most frequent COEX systems.
– Recognizing the unfolding of a COEX in oneself and others.
– Discovering your own COEX(s).
– The role of positive COEX(s) in our life and the way to include them into healing process
– Differences between transmodulating the COEX and fully integrating it
– Tools for working with and healing COEX systems in expanded states of consciousness, traditional therapy and in daily life.
– The role of the Holotropic setting in healing specific COEXs
– Integrating COEX material — translating insight into embodied transformation and daily life.
Immersive Practice:
Alongside the conceptual and experiential exploration of Coex, participants will engage in four Holotropic Breathwork sessions (two as breather, two as sitter), complemented by creative practices and integration time.
You will gain both personal insight and professional understanding of how these patterns manifest in our lives — and how to support others in recognizing and transforming them, opening pathways to profound healing, restored flow, and personal growth.

Holotropic Training Poland / The Spiritual Quest, Attachment and Addiction

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New ways to look at psychology and spirituality are offering exciting possibilities in the recovery movement, both for individual seekers and for those who work in the treatment field. This module explores a whole continuum, from the idea of addiction as an extreme form of attachment, which affects everyone and which is crucial to spiritual seekers of all practices, to the more articulate forms of addiction: substance, process, relationship, and more.
Through theory, discussion and experiential exercises, we’ll look at:
– The disease paradigm of recovery;
– The wellness paradigm and Transpersonal Psychology
– Implications of perinatal and transpersonal dimensions for recovery;
– The 12 steps as a world yoga;
– Addiction as spiritual emergency;
– Addiction as shamanic crisis;
– Psychedelics and recovery;
– Recovery and the feminine;
– Addiction from the homeopathic perspective;
– Recovery as death/rebirth;
– Addiction – Global impacts and implications.
Participants will have the opportunity to experience Holotropic Breathwork, a powerful approach to self-exploration, transformation, and healing that combines breathing, evocative music, and release work to explore the deeper dimensions of the psyche. This workshop will be useful to both laypersons and professionals seeking a more authentic and fulfilling lifestyle.
Through four breathwork sessions (two as breather, two as sitter), creative practices, and integration time, you’ll gain both personal insight and professional understanding of how to safely navigate and support expanded states of consciousness.
This will be a very experiential workshop. Besides the breathwork itself, all of the teaching is geared to participants having a direct experience of their own journey. We will work with artwork, film, and other integration practices to engage the holotropic principles in a very personal, embodied way.

Holotropic Training Poland / The Holotropic Paradigm

THE HOLOTROPIC PARADIGM – where ancient wisdom meets modern psychology:
This dynamic six-day module offers an immersive exploration of the principles, philosophy, and transformative potential of Holotropic Breathwork, and Expanded States of Consciousness within the frame of Transpersonal Psychology
This module is a cornerstone and one of the four essential modules for those pursuing certification as Holotropic Breathwork facilitators. It is equally valuable for professionals in the fields of psychology, personal development, and healing who wish to expand their understanding of the psyche and its innate capacity for deep transformation.
Together, we’ll explore the key principles that guide the work:
1. The Origins of Holotropic Breathwork – Discover how Holotropic Breathwork emerged in the field of Transpersonal Psychology, blending ancient wisdom with modern therapeutic insights.
2. Holotropic Principles and Strategies – Learn the core principles—trust in the inner healing intelligence, respect for each individual unique process, a non-directive approach, and the art of “doing not doing” as a facilitator.
3. Cartography of the Psyche – Explore Stanislav Grof’s expanded map of the psyche—biographical, perinatal, and transpersonal dimensions—as a guide to understanding your own inner experiences and supporting those of others in expanded states of consciousness.
4. Perinatal Matrices – Grof’s Perinatal Matrices reveal how the experiences of our birth imprint deep patterns on our emotional, psychological, and even spiritual experience of life. Exploring these layers within Holotropic experiences offers profound insight into themes of transformation and rebirth.
5. COEX Systems (Systems of Condensed Experience) – These are deeply rooted clusters of emotionally connected memories formed throughout our life experiences—including the perinatal period—that shape our inner world. Exploring our individual COEX systems opens pathways to profound healing and personal growth.
Inmersive Practice:  Through four breathwork sessions (two as breather, two as sitter), creative practices, and integration time, you’ll gain both personal insight and professional understanding of how to safely navigate and support expanded states of consciousness.
A profound journey toward self-awareness, transformation, and the essence of the Holotropic approach.

GTT U.S. (CO) Module / The Holotropic Paradigm: The Psyche, the Inner Healer and Moving Towards Wholeness

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This module offers an exciting exploration of the philosophy, principles, and strategies underlying the experience and practice of Holotropic Breathwork®.

Topics covered include:

  1. the power of the inner healing intelligence and moving towards wholeness;
  2. presence: the disciplines required to become an effective Holotropic Breathwork® practitioner;
  3. COEX’s: how the inner healer orchestrates transformation through our experiences of the psyche;
  4. exploration of the frontiers of the psyche through Movie Yoga®;
  5. session stories: valuable teachings from practitioners through their work with breathers;
  6. open forums focusing on every facet of the Holotropic experience;
  7. dance, meditation, and more

The six-day module format is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your process of self-exploration, and to directly experience the healing potential of non-ordinary states using Holotropic Breathwork®. You will meet like-minded people from around the world, and explore together in a safe and supportive environment. You will also learn tools and techniques for living a more creative and fulfilling life, and will have extensive personal contact with some of the best Holotropic facilitators in the country. All modules include four Holotropic Breathwork® sessions, two as a ‘breather’ and two as a ‘sitter’, along with valuable time for group sharing.

In addition to experiencing Holotropic Breathwork®, topics explored in this module is especially relevant for anyone working with others in non-ordinary states of any sort for transformation and personal healing.

This module is an open event suitable for participants in the training program as well as  for those interested in personal transformation.

GTT U.S. (CO) Module / Spiritual Emergency: Embracing Unexpected Transformation

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Open to anyone interested. Previous experience with Holotropic Breathwork® is not necessary.

Each participant will have two sessions of HB as an experiencer, or “breather,” and two sessions as a partner, or “sitter”. Besides the breathwork sessions and the topics covered (described below), there will be art, music, dancing, film, and integration during the module.

In addition to Holotropic Breathwork® breathing and sitting, topics explored in these modules are especially relevant for anyone working with others in expanded states of any sort for transformation and personal healing.

Understanding spiritual emergency is one of the major contributions of the holotropic perspective.  Whether you are a professional or a layperson, someone interested in working with or supporting people in transformational crises, or primarily in your own growth, the module offers a rich experience and valuable information. In addition to differentiating between psychosis and spiritual emergency, we’ll also explore the intensely practical aspects of who, in these kinds of crises, can benefit from Holotropic Breathwork® and how best to work with them in their emergencies. This workshop includes a discussion of the concept of spiritual emergency, its manifestations and forms, historical and anthropological perspectives, treatment strategies and work with family and friends.

Healing and transformation can sometimes imply challenging moments in which we feel destabilized, particularly when following a path that involves experiences in Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness.

These moments of crises have been understood as psychosis or psychological regression by some and as opportunities and major breakthroughs by others. Stan and Christina Grof coined the term “Spiritual Emergency” to refer to such states. What is the difference between psychosis and a Spiritual Emergency? How should we support people going through them?
In this module, we will explore the different challenging manifestations that people sometimes go through in their journeys of transformation. We aim to understand the reasons that lead to such difficulties and identify the best approaches to support these intense processes from a non-judgmental and caring perspective.
In this module, we will cover the following topics:
1) The concept of Spiritual Emergence and Spiritual Emergency.
2) The various types of Spiritual Emergencies as described by Stan and Christina Grof.
3) Contemporary perspectives on Spiritual Emergencies, as encountered in current forms of psychedelic therapy, shamanic experiences, and experiential work.
4) Diverse challenges that individuals may face after difficult experiences in Non-Ordinary States
5) Distinguishing between pathological and transformational states.
6) Approaches to addressing different scenarios in Spiritual Emergencies and integration

These modules are open events and suitable both for participants in the Holotropic Breathwork® training program, as well for those attending primarily for their personal journey of transformation.

GTT U.S. (CO) Holotropic Breathwork® Double-Breathwork Retreat

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Join us for an extended weekend of Holotropic Breathwork® in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains in autumn.

This event is open to all.  You do not need prior experience with Holotropic Breathwork® and there are no pre-requisites to attend.

NOTE: For those who complete (or have already completed) a GTT Virtual Module, this double-breathwork will fulfill the requirement toward certification.

With Holotropic Breathwork® each participant gains direct access to their own inner healing wisdom. In your HB session, this wisdom brings you a unique and ideal combination of experiences that can include aspects of your personal history and birth, as well as psychological death/rebirth, and an infinite array of transpersonal experiences.

Through deep, effective breathing; a specially designed musical journey; and a safe and supportive setting with a trained staff of facilitators, you experience a true expanded state of awareness, allowing deep self-exploration and personal transformation. Mandala drawing and group processing of the experiences are important integrative elements of the Holotropic process.

GTT U.S. (CO) Deepening into Samhain: Tending a Shrine in a time of Darkness

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The season of Samhain, and the festival which marks the beginning of the Irish New Year, is one of four important festivals in Irish tradition: Imbolc (Spring); Bealtaine (Summer); Lughnasadh (Autumn) and Samhain (Winter).

The word Samhain means ‘Summer’s end’ and is seen as important in all Celtic calendars. Samhain is the beginning of the dark season and is greatly associated with the dead (ancestors) and the Otherworld. The Irish, in common with many indigenous cultures, placed great importance on their dead ancestors and this was reflected in their customs and beliefs. At Samhain, focus was placed on the telling of our ancient myths and legends; storytelling and the telling of anecdotes; fireside craft; study and learning. Samhain Eve was a time of setting out on voyages to the Otherworld and the blurring of customs through mask-wearing and cross-dressing. In ancient times, the fires were put out in the home and relit from the sacred fire on the Hill of Tlachtga.

Samhain Eve is a liminal point with deep potential, a place between one season and the other, a point of chaos. We are, alongside this natural liminal point, in times of deep change. At such times, our traditions hold even more importance, and the cultivation of such spiritual practices can provide solace, comfort and a powerful foundation to aid us in accessing deep sources of support. Such support provides us with the depth and strength required to stay in loving awareness and to hold to an ethical approach to life and growth. Unfortunately, in a world that focuses on success, such foundational practices are often neglected.

In this workshop, we will prepare for the coming of Winter, exploring our ancestral stories and the evolution of familial and cultural traditions. We will explore those practices that root us and draw us back to the centre of our being, which benefit us whether we belong to a spiritual tradition or not. Through shamanic journeys, creativity, sound and movement, we will explore the fears we carry societally and individually, represented by the masks we wear at Halloween.

Each participant will have two sessions of HB as an experiencer, or “breather,” and two sessions as a partner, or “sitter.” In addition to Holotropic Breathwork® breathing and sitting, topics explored in these modules are especially relevant for anyone working with others in expanded states of any sort for transformation and personal healing.

Previous experience with Holotropic Breathwork® is not necessary. These modules are open events and suitable both for participants in the Holotropic Breathwork® training program, as well for those attending primarily for their personal journey of transformation.

Our guest speaker is a Druid and an Ordained Priestess Hierophant of the Western Mystery Tradition, a Healer working within the traditions of Ireland. She works with individuals for healing at her centre in Co. Wexford.  She also works with and teaches groups in Ireland aid internationally.  An essential part of her work is in the area of Women’s Mysteries in which she has conducted workshops and ceremonies around the country. She also facilitates sweat lodges within the Irish Tradition and performs Rites of Passage within the community. She is a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and a member of the Fellowship of Isis.

        

GTT Australia module / Celtic Shamanism: The Elemental Wheel and the Ancestral Legacy with Cáit Branigan

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As we travel through life, we are greatly impacted by our environment: culturally, physiologically and through our family lineage. Thus we are shaped, thus we grow. Often, this environmental impact remains unconsciously active within us, influencing our choices and our experience of life.

Within this workshop, we will explore our ancestral legacy – a legacy shaped by the experiences, emotional life, gifts/skills and trauma of our ancestors, both near and distant. Working with the circle of life – inception/birth; youth; middle years and old age – we will track our ancestors in our physical, mental/emotional and spiritual bodies. By doing so, we seek to heal, enrich and awaken to our true selves.

Using shamanic journeying, we will connect to our recent and deep ancestors, finding guides to aid us in understanding the legacy that we carry within. We will delve into the patterns that arise from that legacy and explore the means to resolve that which is unresolved through journeys, pathworking, movement and sound work.

The beauty of this module is that besides the four deeply healing holotropic breathwork sessions (2 as a breather and 2 as a sitter) shamanic journeying will be experienced in a way that you can take this skill back home with you and practice there as well to integrate and foster further transformation.

Open to anyone interested. Previous experience with Holotropic Breathwork® is not necessary.

Each participant will have two sessions of HB as an experiencer, or “breather,” and two sessions as a partner, or “sitter”.

Cáit Branigan is a Druid and an Ordained Priestess Hierophant of the Western Mystery Tradition, a Healer working within the traditions of Ireland.  She works with individuals for healing at her centre in Co. Wexford.  She also works with and teaches groups in Ireland aid internationally.  An essential part of her work is in the area of Women’s Mysteries in which she has conducted workshops and ceremonies around the country.  She also facilitates sweat lodges within the Irish Tradition and performs Rites of Passage within the community.  She is a member of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids and a member of the Fellowship of Isis.

These modules are open events and suitable both for participants in the Holotropic Breathwork® training program, as well for those attending primarily for their personal journey of transformation.

GTT Australia Module / The Power Within: The Practice of Holotropic Breathwork®

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Each participant will have two sessions of HB as an experiencer, or “breather,” and two sessions as a partner, or “sitter”. Besides the breathwork sessions and the topics covered (described below), there will be art, music, dancing, film, and integration during the module.

In addition to Holotropic Breathwork® breathing and sitting, topics explored in these modules are especially relevant for anyone working with others in expanded states of any sort for transformation and personal healing.

In this module, Holotropic theory comes alive. It’s where we experience the essence of the practice firsthand. We discuss the principles that support and inform the practice of Holotropic Breathwork® focused release work. We explain the fundamentals of HB and why it is such a special method for personal exploration and healing.  We will also get to practice holotropic focused energy release work.

Topics include:

1) The power of the inner healing intelligence
2) Facilitator presence and skills
3) Focused energy release work – principles and ethics
4) Focused energy release demonstration and practice (hands-on work by participants)
5) Moving toward closure, and closure
6) Special challenging situations when facilitating

The six-day module format is a wonderful opportunity to deepen your process of self-exploration, and to directly experience the healing potential of non-ordinary states using Holotropic Breathwork®. You will meet like-minded people from around the world, and explore together in a safe and supportive environment. You will also learn tools and techniques for living a more creative and fulfilling life, and will have extensive personal contact with some of the best Holotropic facilitators in the country.

These modules are open events and suitable for both participants in the training program as well for those attending primarily for their personal journey of transformation.