Breath Work
Holotropic Breathwork can be a powerful approach to self-exploration and healing that integrates insights
from modern consciousness research, anthropology, various depth psychologies, transpersonal psychology,
Eastern spiritual practices, and mystical traditions of the world. The name Holotropic means literally "moving
toward wholeness" (from the Greek "holos"=whole and "trepein"=moving in the direction of something).
The process itself uses very simple means: it combines accelerated breathing with evocative music in a
special set and setting. With the eyes closed and lying on a mat, each person uses their own breath and the
music in the room to enter a non-ordinary state of consciousness. This state activates the natural inner
healing process of the individual's psyche, bringing him or her a particular set of internal experiences. With
the inner healing intelligence guiding the process, the quality and content brought forth is unique to each
person and for that particular time and place. While recurring themes are common, no two sessions are ever
alike.
Additional elements of the process include focused energy release work and Mandela drawing. Holotropic
Breathwork is usually done in groups, although individual sessions are also possible. Within the groups,
people work in pairs and alternate in the roles of experience and "sitter". The sitter's role is simply to be
available to assist the breather, not to interfere or interrupt the process.
A principle of the Holotropic method is to allow the Inner Healer what it needs in terms of time and support to
process the deep material that arises as the breath opens up the system. The basic principle of this work is to
let the breath do the work. Only when the breather feels stuck in some way does the facilitator take a role,
taking his or her clues from the breather and encouraging the breather to amplify the existing symptoms.
While energy and awareness are held in this area, the subject is encouraged to express fully his or her
reaction, whichever form it takes.
The Holotropic Breathwork experience is, for the most part, internal and largely nonverbal, without
interventions. Although practitioners suggest to breathers at the beginning of the session that they increase the
pace of the breath, breathers are also encouraged to find their own pace and rhythm with the breath. Thus,
after the breathwork session begins, breathers are not "coached" in any particular way of breathing.
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