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The Mindfold Relaxation Mask, originally designed by Alex Grey, is a flexible black face plate backed with a high-density soft foam padding. The padding has cutouts that allow you to experience total darkness, even with your eyes open. Adjustable head strap allows comfortable fit.
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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, sound work and breathwork.
Ariadne Patsiopoulos (module facilitator) discovered Holotropic Breathwork® through a series of synchronicities in 2017. After her first workshop, she experienced a profound sense of homecoming that continues to inform her engagement with the work. She remains deeply moved by the transformative potential of breathwork for both participants and facilitators.
Over the past three decades, Ariadne has worked with people across the lifespan in community and post-secondary settings, in roles including facilitator, counsellor, instructor, social service worker, and editor. She brings this breadth of experience, along with a deep respect for the complexity of human experience, to her breathwork practice.
Ariadne believes the holotropic paradigm offers valuable perspectives and practices for meeting the liminal and often challenging circumstances of our times with resilience, compassion, and openness to transformation.
Ariadne divides her time between British Columbia and Ontario, Canada.
COST: $398 early rate through January 9
$428 after January 9
Discount for certified HB practitioners
To enhance the group experience for everyone, please note that everyone will be expected to attend all 7 sessions of the module just as you would if it were being held live, at a retreat center.
Across many cultures and spiritual traditions, human beings have long described experiences of an energetic nature. Understood through concepts such as Prana, Ki, Qi, Life Force, Kundalini and many others, energy has been regarded as a source of healing, transformation, spiritual awakening and expanded states of consciousness.
In holotropic states of consciousness, the energetic dimension can become remarkably vivid and meaningful. Subtle sensations intensify, emotions surface, sound and movement arise spontaneously, and powerful currents travel through us. Sometimes gently and sometimes with great force, these experiences can become profound sources of insight, healing, release and illumination.
Energetics of Healing in Holotropic States is an experiential and exploratory module examining these phenomena through various cultural, spiritual and energetic lenses—while encouraging participants to awaken to what is authentic within their own experience.
Through teaching, discussion, stories from the field, music, movement and personal practices, we will explore the extraordinary range of energies that can emerge both in expanded states and in our ordinary lives—from the quiet, subtle and deeply beautiful to the intense, challenging and unexpected.
The module will emphasize three practical dimensions of working with energy in holotropic contexts:
Opening to spontaneous experience—developing greater sensitivity to energetic phenomena as they naturally emerge.
Cultivating energy intentionally—experiencing practices from different traditions that consciously engage breath, movement, sound and attention to cultivate energy and vitality.
Supporting integration—exploring how energetic experiences and practices can support the integration of work that emerges in expanded states of consciousness.
This virtual module is neither a scientific examination of subtle energy nor an attempt to prescribe any particular model. It is an invitation into direct experience, thoughtful inquiry and curious exploration of something human beings across cultures have encountered and attempted to understand for centuries.
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REGISTRATION & COST coming soon
Early rate ends August 5
Discount for certified facilitators
Modules are 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.
REGISTRATION AND COST coming soon
Early rate ends August 5
Discount for certified facilitators
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.
Early rate cutoff August 23.
This event is for those who have completed the necessary requirements. Please contact us about your individual situation if you are close to fulfilling all of your requirements and have any questions.
To attend certification, you also must:
1) Apply and be accepted to the GTT program. Link to Training Application
2) Apply and be accepted to attend the Certification Intensive. Link to Application for Certification Intensive
3) Register for the Certification Intensive – once you have applied to attend certification (step 2), you will receive a link to register. Early rate cutoff August 23.
If you have questions about registration, rooming, or cost, please email Janet@holotropic.com
Early rate through June 28
Discount for certified facilitators
Modules are 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.
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.
