Transforming Trauma: Healing Our Deepest Wounds

A Holotropic Breathwork Workshop

It is hard to imagine the scope of an individual life without envisioning some kind of trauma, and it is hard for most people to know what to do about it -Mark Epstein

MOST OF US HAVE EXPERIENCED SOME FORM OF TRAUMA IN OUR LIFETIME…
Surviving a pandemic, diagnosis and treatment of a medical illness, loss, abuse, addiction, violence, grief, social isolation, mental health challenges…. Trauma has the power to transform. However, it is some of the most difficult work a person can ever do. Trauma can impact your body, your mind and your spirit.

Holotropic Breathwork is a journey of moving toward wholeness. In this workshop, we create a safe and supportive setting, with highly trained and experienced Holotropic Breathwork certified facilitators, where you can begin to reconnect, heal and regain connection to your body, yourself and life.

The New York Times described Holotropic Breathwork as an effective way to heal yourself and improve mood. The therapeutic benefits of Holotropic Breathwork can include releasing and healing trauma, improving anxiety and depression, higher insights of spiritual understanding, increased connection to self and others, and opening to compassion and love.

Holotropic Breathwork™ is a powerful experiential breathing process that allows for self- exploration and healing. With the eyes closed and lying on a mat, each person uses their own breath and the music in the room to enter an expanded state of consciousness. This state activates the natural inner healing potential of the breather, or “inner healer”, which guides the experience.

In this workshop you will experience:

• Four Holotropic Breathwork sessions (two as a breather/two as a sitter)
• Introductory talk on Holotropic Breathwork.
• Engaging with Nature – Forest Bathing Practice and Foraging in Nature
• Healing Sound Journey
• Creative Expression through Art (Mask Making and Mandala Drawing)
• Evening Fire Ritual and Healing Ceremony
• Loving-Kindness Meditation
• Journaling for Reflection and Release/ Integrative Writing Practice
• Group Support and Connection

This workshop is open to new breathers, experienced breathers, those in the GTT Holotropic facilitator training, Grof Legacy Training or anyone interested in experiencing Holotropic Breathwork. For those who are in a psychedelic-assisted therapy training program or MAPS training, this workshop may fulfill your requirement for practical experience sitting for others in expanded states of consciousness.

This workshop is approved by Grof Transpersonal Training to meet the requirements for an in person double breathwork session for completion of the virtual modules. This workshop is approved by Grof Legacy training to meet the breathwork requirements of the training program.

To register, please email drmcglynn6@gmail.com

CONTRAINDICATIONS: This workshop is not appropriate during pregnancy, for persons with cardiovascular disease including heart attacks and angina, Severe or Uncontrolled Hypertension, Severe Mental Illness, Bipolar Disorder, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CPTSD), Epilepsy, Glaucoma or Retinal Detachment, Osteoporosis, Recent Surgeries, Recent Physical Injuries, Recent Infectious/Communicable Diseases, Asthma (if you have asthma, bring your inhaler to the workshop).

Schedule

Sunday, October 19

• 3 pm Check-in Begins
• 6 – 7 pm  Dinner
• 7:15 – 8 Opening Circle
• 8 – 9:30 Talk: Introduction to Holotropic Breathwork and Working with Trauma

Monday, October 20

• 8 – 9 – Breakfast
• 9:15 am – 12:15 pm Holotropic Breathwork #1 – Please arrive by 9 am
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
• 1:30 – 2 pm Foraging in Nature for Mask Making on Wednesday morning
• 2 – 2:30 pm Break/Self-Care Time
• 2:30 – 5:30 pm Holotropic Breathwork #2 – Please arrive by 2:15 to set up
• 6 – 7 pm Dinner
• 7:15 – 8:30 pm Sharing Circle
• 8:45 – 9:30 pm Sound Healing Session/Loving-Kindness Meditation

Tuesday, October 21

• 8 – 9 am Breakfast
• 9:15 am – 12:15 pm Holotropic Breathwork #3 (Please arrive by 9 am to set up)
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
• 1:30 – 2:30 pm Forest Bathing Practice or Self-Care Time
• 2:30 – 5:30 Holotropic Breathwork #3 – Please arrive by 2:15 to set up
• 6 – 7 pm Dinner
• 7:15 – 8:15 pm Sharing Circle
• 8:30 – 9:30 pm Community Fire Gathering and Healing Ritual

Wednesday, October 22

• 8 – 9 am Breakfast/Room Check-Out
• 9:15 – 10:30 am Mask Making
• 10:30 – 11 am Integrative Writing Practice
• 11 am – 12:15 pm Integration Talk/Closing Circle
• 12:30 – 1:30 pm Lunch
• 2 pm Departure

*Please note that the schedule is subject to change at any time.