Diana Medina (training advisor; senior teacher) has been an integral part of the Grof Transpersonal Training staff since 1999. A senior GTT workshop leader and teacher, Diana has taught modules and led workshops independently in Colorado, New Mexico, New York and India, as well as working closely with Stan Grof and Tav Sparks at training modules in the U.S., Spain, Ireland,England, South America and Mexico. Diana began her personal breathwork journey in 1993 and was certified in 1998. She lives in a high altitude mountain farming community in southern Colorado and it was in this community she grew up surrounded by a large family deeply embedded in the importance of nature, community and spirituality. Diana has practiced medicine in the specialties of pediatrics and family practice for over 20 years. Recently she has began practicing craniosacral therapy as an adjunct to her interest in holistic healing practices. When she is not working Diana has a passion for African dancing, spending time in nature and enjoying her family and friends. Diana says, “It is 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. What a wonder to feel so deeply this being a member of the world community”
Zoya Musatova
Zoya Musatova (module facilitator, director of GTT Ukraine) lives in Kiev and has been a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator since 2005.
Sharanya Naik
Sharanya Naik (module facilitator) is a practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork®, a school teacher and leader, and a massage therapist. She has been working in non-ordinary states of consciousness since 1996, was certified as a Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator in 2003, and has since facilitated the Holotropic process for groups and individuals in many cities in the US and in India. She was the editor of The Inner Door – a journal for Holotropic Breathwork® practitioners. Sharanya is a student of many kinds of bodywork. She is a certified massage therapist, she practices Yoga and Yoga-Nidra and was an Indian Classical and American Modern Dancer for most of her life. She has worked in schools for the last 32 years and been a hospice volunteer. Sharanya has been a student of Peruvian shamanism for 18 years. You can find her at hansaholotropic.com
Vicky Nicholson
Vicky Nicholson (teacher; advisor; director of GTT Australia) has a passion both for Holotropic Breathwork and education. She has worked on staff at GTT training modules since 2005 in Australia and the US and coordinates the Australian modules.She is particularly interested in working with her community and learning to live the Holotropic principles and paradigm of moving towards wholeness as a daily spiritual practice in every-day life.
She is an educator in Tasmania, Australia and works alongside Aboriginal people to support teachers and students to improve educational outcomes, particularly for Aboriginal children.
Teachers are encouraged to explore and live from an increasingly holistic worldview, as lived by Aboriginal people, to more fully realise their potential as educators for themselves, their students and school communities. Information about the work Vicky and others are doing this field, including videos, can be seen here.
Vicky completed her PhD dissertation which addresses ‘Questions of knowing and pedagogic relationship’ that examines the relationship between effective teaching and how we know ourselves.
She is particularly moved and filled with gratitude to be allowed to be a witness to people’s deep journey work as they venture into their soul through Holotropic Breathwork, as she herself has been witnessed and supported by others on her own journey.
Fani Pané Solé
Fani Pané Solé (module facilitator) is a Social Science specialist and teacher. Postgraduate in Music by Liceu de Barcelona, she combines her educational career with the organisation of musical events in the educative environment. Fane trained in Music-therapy and Group Dynamics. She organises GTT staff’s Holotropic Breathwork workshops in Barcelona. Fani has facilitated workshops in Spain, Switzerland and Romania. Certified Holotropic Breathwork Facilitator by Grof Tranpersonal Training, she is part of Grof Transpersonal Training Staff in the modules in Spain.
Robert Park
Rob Park (teacher and module facilitator) is a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator through Grof Transpersonal Training. He is a Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and founder of Luna Recovery Services. He has been in the addiction field since 2005, working in several prominent treatment centers around the country. Rob has held workshops for people in recovery at various treatment centers, holds workshops for the public in Houston, TX. He is committed to the holotropic perspective as a way of life and is very passionate about supporting others in their inward journey.
Cal Parrott
Cal Parrott (module facilitator) lives in northern California, and has been a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator since 2011. He is on staff at modules in the United States and Mexico.
Dory Perry
Dory Perry (teacher, module facilitator) began her journey with Holotropic Breathwork® in 2001, after attending a weekend workshop, led by Stan Grof and Tav Sparks. On the heels of a cancer diagnosis and driven by the need for meaning and a more expansive perspective, her experience was profound and life affirming/altering. She began attending weeklong Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT) modules, integrating the work into her life as an ongoing spiritual practice and developing a deep trust in the work and in the inner, ancient wisdom within each of us. In 2005, she was certified as a Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator. As a GTT staff member, she regularly serves on facilitating teams for residential training modules.
Dory has an MSEd, with a focus on writing and literacy. A writer, musician, and filmmaker, she has spent much of her life working in the arts and has a particular interest in the power of writing, sound, and visual storytelling as healing and integrative practices. Originally from the tropics, she now resides in Pittsburgh where she works in higher education and provides ongoing Holotropic Breathwork® workshops.
Lila Pesa
Lila Pesa (module facilitator) is a qualified counsellor / transpersonal art therapist, based in Sydney, Australia.
Lila completed her GTT certification in 2009, worked as an apprentice and, later, as part of GTT team on training modules in Australia, UK, Switzerland, and the US; she works on staff in the Australian modules since 2013.
Lila started participating in Holotropic Breathwork, experiential therapies and meditation practices in the early 1990s in her native Russia, to support her search for healing and transformation as well as her interest in discovering a true Path and life’s purpose.
With a background in applied science, Lila migrated to Australia and trained in counselling and psychotherapy. She works as a counsellor in a non-government agency, supporting people affected by viral hepatitis, HIV, and related challenges, and maintains her counselling / art therapy practice (Centre for Expressive and Transpersonal Therapies) in Sydney’s Lower North Shore.
Lila collaborates with other facilitators in offering Holotropic Breathwork workshops and weekend retreats in Sydney area.
Lila is deeply passionate about conscious parenting and her role as a mother to her young son; she is a devoted auntie to her many nieces. Lila is committed to her own inner work and to creating safe and nurturing environment for seekers that choose her to ‘hold space’ for them in Holotropic Breathwork or therapy.