Your fee includes lunch and a coffee, tea, and snack break on Saturday. Other meals are on your own.
Overnight hotel accommodations are not included and are optional. You may choose to book a room at a nearby hotel, stay elsewhere, or commute from home. Please plan to attend all sessions.
We have secured a group rate room block at the Holiday Inn Golden Gateway, a few minutes walk from the workshop. In order to make a reservation, the attendee must click on the following booking link, Institute for Holotropics Conference, if necessary modify the dates, and then scroll down and select your room.
About Holotropic Breathwork®
Holotropic Breathwork® is a powerful approach to self-exploration and transformation developed by Stanislav and Christina Grof. Using accelerated breathing, evocative music, and a supportive setting, the practice allows participants to enter an expanded state of consciousness and access the psyche’s natural capacity for healing in a movement toward wholeness.
Rather than directing the experience toward a particular outcome, Holotropic Breathwork® encourages us to trust our own inner process and follow where it leads.
Experiences can unfold on many levels—physical, emotional, biographical, perinatal, transpersonal, and spiritual. Participants may encounter memories, emotions, physical sensations, imagery, insights, or experiences that extend beyond their ordinary sense of themselves.
The Holotropic Shift & the Power Within
This workshop explores the central principles of Holotropic work. The Holotropic Shift is a shift in perspective: from believing that answers and direction must come primarily from outside ourselves to recognizing and trusting the deeper resources within. Holotropic Breathwork® gives us an opportunity not simply to understand this idea, but to experience it.
What happens during the weekend:
- The weekend includes preparation, experience, and integration, which includes sharing, art, and time to explore the experiences and insights that emerge.
- Each participant will experience Holotropic Breathwork® as a Breather and as a Sitter.
- Evocative music supports the process
- A trained team of Holotropic Breathwork® facilitators is highly attentive throughout. Individual support may be offered when appropriate and always with the participant’s permission.
- The Sitter remains present and attentive to the breather. Participants often report that being a Sitter is as valuable being a Breather.
No previous experience with Holotropic Breathwork® is necessary. Newcomers and those experienced with Holotropic Breathwork® or other expanded-state practices can benefit greatly.
The workshop is led by Sharanya Naik, a member of the Institute for Holotropics training staff, who has been conducting Holotropic Breathwork® workshops for 25 years, and an experienced team of certified facilitators. Cary Sparks, director of GTT, will also be part of Sunday’s Q&A.
“In over ten years as director of programs at Esalen, I saw virtually every conceivable form of therapy and personal transformation, great and small…In terms of therapeutic effectiveness, Grof’s Holotropic Breathwork was by far the most powerful; there was no comparison.” ~Richard Tarnas, author of The Passion of the Western Mind
“The workshop was profoundly transformative for me, I am forever grateful for the experiences and for the new found knowledge, strength, and wisdom. Thank you.” – Simona
“I want you know that the (weekend) event was the best and the whole group that does the work is more than outstanding. The love and effort is beyond excellent. Thank you.” – David
Approximate Schedule
Friday
5:30 to 6:30 pm – registration
6:30 – 10:00 pm – opening and preparation for experiential sessions
Saturday
8:30 am – 12:30 pm – Holotropic Breathwork® session 1
12:30 – 1:15 pm – lunch is included
1:30 – 5 pm – Holotropic Breathwork® session 2
5 – 6 pm – snack break is included
6 – 8 pm – break into small groups
Dinner is on your own
Sunday
9:30 – 10:30 am small groups
10:45 am – 1 pm large group integration and Q&A
1 pm closing – lunch is on your own