In order to overcome trauma people need to feel safe enough to open up their hearts and minds to others and become engaged with new possibilities. This can only be done if trauma survivors, and their communities, are helped to confront and confess the reality of what has happened and are helped to feel safe again. In many non-Western cultures this... See more

Holotropic BreathworkTM was developed by Dr. Stanislav Grof, a Czechoslovakian psychiatrist, and his wife, Christina Grof. The name "holotropic" comes from the Greek words "holos" (whole) and "tropic" (moving towards), meaning "moving toward wholeness." Dr. Grof, a co-founder of Transpersonal Psychology, began his exploration of non-ordinary states... See more