Exploring Holotropic Breathwork: Selected Articles from a Decade of the Inner Door

Author: Kylea Taylor

Edition: First Edition

Number Of Pages: 605

Release Date: 01-12-2003

Details: From the Publisher We are proud of this large, handsome book, which provides unusual reference material written about the experiences of being a participant experiencing, or a practitioner facilitating, altered states of consciousness--HB in particular. During this decade and a half (1988-2003), Holotropic Breathwork(tm) practitioners were returning from training with Stanislav and Christina Grof to their far-flung communities around the globe. They began providing HB workshops to local participants, working in relative isolation from each other.-writing articles for "The Inner Door", these facilitators achieved professional connection and disseminated their accumulating professional experience to the growing, worldwide HB community. For the most part, the articles in "Exploring Holotropic Breathwork" are written by people whose day job is not the practice of HB. The biographies of the authors in this book are notable for the breadth and depth of their experience and service. Eighty-five (85) different authors have contributed a total of 144 articles and poems, five informed consent forms, and three research questionnaires to this book. The authors include medical doctors, psychiatrists, nurses, researchers, ecology activists, psychotherapists, philosophers, astrologers, bodywork practitioners, writers, artists, ministers, publishers, shamanic practitioners, university professors teaching in several disciplines in several countries, poets, salespersons, meditation teachers, students, specialists in recovery from chemical dependency or trauma, organizational consultants, directors of non-profit organizations, hypnotherapists, psychiatric social workers, professional and amateur musicians, an astronomer, a priest, a lawyer, a playwright, a radiologic technician, an acupuncturist, a cartographer, a stock trader, and a television producer. These authors all bring their unique educations, their own languages and cultures, their particular vocational expertise, and their life experiences to the tasks of describing their own and others' Breathwork experiences and the effects of those experiences. They aim their own particular lenses to view the interface between HB and other psychological models and spiritual systems. Some of the authors are trained in other breathwork schools as well, such as Integrative Breathwork, Hendricks Body-Centered Transformation, and rebirthing. The authors' native countries include: Argentina, Austria, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Russia, South Africa, and the United States. Those who are interested in the theory, practice, and history of HB, and in non-ordinary (altered) states of consciousness in general, now can have easy access to this primary source material. Product Description "Exploring Holotropic Breathwork" collects 144 field reports from a widespread practice of contemporary, non-drug, altered-state work. These articles were first published from 1991-2002-85 authors, trained in Holotropic Breathwork (HB) by Stanislav Grof, M.D., who is the author of "Psychology of the Future." Most of the authors included are professionals in medical, academic, therapeutic, and spiritual fields who also practice HB on a part-time basis. The articles were originally written to share their professional experiences and emerging theories with their peers. "Exploring Holotropic Breathwork" is therefore a rich source of information, not only giving information about the practice of Breathwork and anecdotes of psychological and physical healing in deep states of consciousness, but also discussing traditional therapy, Kundalini, shamanism, addiction and trauma recovery, astrology, and the integration of Breathwork with many other theoretical and practical systems and with ordinary living in general. The book happily includes a previously unpublished, 21-page article by Stanislav Grof entitled "Physical Manifestations of Emotional Disorders" in which he concl

EAN: 9780964315860

Languages: English

Binding: Hardcover

Item Condition: New