Unity Spiritual Education Centre presents Holotropic Breathwork with Carolyn Green

add to outlook add to google calendar remind me

Saturday, September 16th, 2017
9:30 AM to 7:00 PM

Holotropic Breathwork™ is a powerful, natural method of self-exploration and personal transformation. Using the breath to turn inward using Holotropic Breathwork requires extraordinary intention, knowledge and support. Holotropic Breathwork uses sustained, deep breathing and a musical soundscape to direct attention away from the everyday mind and into the deep psyche. A session generally lasts from 2 to 3 hours. Focused energy release may be part of a session. A mandala drawing is done upon completion. Dr Stan Grof and the late Christina Grof pioneered this approach starting in the 1970s when research into the healing potential of non ordinary states with psychedelic medicines was stopped.

Although Holotropic Breathwork is similar to the use of some sacred and psychedelic medicines it is a substance-free and natural approach to expanding consciousness and integrating mind, body and spirit. The workshop day itself is highly experiential. An orientation is available for those doing holotropic style breathwork for the first time or those wanting a refresher. A light meal is included. Early bird price is $125.

You can read up on Holotropic Breathwork - the other psychedelic medicine - at www.thesecretofbreath.com Within the container provided by the workshop setting, the Breath intensifies inner experiences and provides access to states of mind, body, psyche and even the collective unconscious that are normally inaccessible. No two sessions are the same, though themes may recur. Your experience during a Breathwork session can be expected to be as unique as you are because your own inner wisdom is activated to guide you toward a set of internal experiences specific to your personal evolution to greater wholeness. To help build a safe container for our process, and to develop group cohesiveness, this workshop begins by coming together in a group circle for introductions and to review the principles of holotropic breathwork. During two separate sessions, you will have the honour of 'sitting' for a partner as they 'breathe', who in turn will 'sit' for you. Sitting for someone having a holotropic breathwork experience can be a deeply moving, learning experience.

The basic element in Holotropic Breathwork is deep and accelerated breathing done lying on a mat with eyes closed and the attention directed inward. Evocative music provides a soundscape for the inner journey and covers distracting sound. Spontaneous expression of the inner experience is encouraged. Focused body release work may be used as an adjunct to help free old, blocked energy to transform and carry us into expanded realms of ourselves. Drawing a 'mandala' helps to express and honour the inexpressible. A closing circle is used to discuss and help integrate the often intense experiences that arise. This workshop will be facilitated by Grof Transpersonal Training certified Holotropic BreathworkTM facilitator Carolyn Green PhD assisted by Derek Endress who is in private practice integrating holotropic experiences.

Join us for a preview at the Nanaimo Metaphysical Network at Unity Spiritual Centre on September 7th by donation. Holotropic means moving towards wholeness, particularly in non-ordinary states of consciousness where the opportunities for integrating mind, body and spirit are enhanced. Expanding consciousness while evoking physical and spiritual healing is the common ground of many metaphysical approaches and practitioners. This introductory talk on Holotropic BreathworkTM will place the Holotropic Paradigm (using non-ordinary states to activate the innate mechanisms of the deep psyche) within the larger context of explorations of self, consciousness, energy and healing that connect us all.

Simply put, Holotropic Breathwork is an approach that accesses the power within by entering non-ordinary states. Breath and music are central to the approach but within a set and setting developed for use with sacred plant and psychedelic medicines. The experience is surprisingly similar to the use of entheogens – with a less hallucinogenic quality for most people. For practitioners, Holotropic Breathwork can be an efficient way to keep the channel and body clear and accelerate a wide variety of transformative processes in progress. The ultimate purpose is to live life fully by transforming limitations and blocks and aligning with source energy. This interactive talk provides the basic preparation for undertaking deep experiential work using the time tested and natural approach developed by Dr. Stanislav and Christina Grof – pioneers of consciousness research and authors of numerous books. It will be presented by Carolyn Green, PhD and Grof Certified Facilitator. Carolyn started her own breathwork journey in 1993. In 1999 she completed the two-year Grof Training program and has since supervised over a thousand non-ordinary sessions using Holotropic BreathworkTM in workshops and individual sessions in BC and Alberta. She has also worked as a physical therapist and educator in Canada and abroad and is an academic researcher. You will also have the opportunity to register at a discounted rate for the Holotropic Breathworkshop September 16th that will be held at Unity Spiritual Education Centre Nanaimo.

See www.thesecretofbreath.comfor more details or call 250-507-4557 to register.