Description

Considering Holotropic Breathwork® (2008) 170 pp. Softcover; 6×9 inches

The book contains Kylea Taylor’s essays and articles on the therapeutic and sociological functions and effects of the Holotropic Breathwork®, a non-drug method developed by Stanislav and Christina Grof for people to enter extra-ordinary states of consciousness and receive support for transformative process.

Because any experience available with the administration of psychedelics is also possible with Holotropic Breathwork®, this book is recommended for those doing or studying psychedelic-assisted therapy. It includes chapters on:

• What a therapist or a psychedelic psychotherapist can learn from being a Sitter in a Holotropic Breathwork® group session,
• What is now the InnerEthics® Awareness Tool “Protection, Permission & Connection,” which helps a therapist or practitioner assess the balance of risk, safety and support in a therapeutic container
• The research results from Kylea’s facilitation of Holotropic Breathwork® in a residential substance abuse recovery program in the 1990s
• An analysis of the elegant design of a Holotropic Breathwork® workshop or training module for employing the elements of breath and community to support the inner healing intelligence in the transformative process.
• A seminal idea about the Jungian Inferior Function as a gateway for spiritual emergence(y).

Other chapters include:

Sponsoring ‘Unexperienced Experience’, Similarities in the Treatment of Spiritual Emergency and Multiplicity, Yogic Sleep and Meditation States during Holotropic Breathwork®,  and SoulCollage®: An Art Process to Use with Breathwork (and the integration of psychedelic sessions).

Author

Kylea Taylor is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC# 34901). She teaches InnerEthics® in numerous psychedelic psychotherapy training programs. InnerEthics® is a self-reflective, self-compassionate approach to ethics based on her books Peer Consultation Groups & Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners and The Ethics of Caring.

In 1984, Kylea began studying the theory and practice of therapeutic work with clients in extra-ordinary states of consciousness with Dr. Stanislav and Christina Grof. After completing the Grofs’ first three-year training program in the United States, she was certified as a Holotropic Breathwork® Practitioner and worked as a Senior Trainer with Stanislav Grof in the Grof Transpersonal Training, facilitating and supervising 1000s of sessions for participants in extra-ordinary states of consciousness.

Kylea’s books include: Peer Consultation Groups & Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners, The Ethics of Caring, The Breathwork Experience, Exploring Holotropic Breathwork®, and Considering Holotropic Breathwork®. She has written numerous articles and conducted workshops in the USA and abroad.

InnerEthics® Resources

• The InnerEthics® model offers innovative concepts and Ethical Awareness Tools especially helpful for professionals working with clients experiencing extra-ordinary and profound states of consciousness. Learn more at InnerEthics.com.
• “Ethical Right Relationship in Psychedelic Therapy”- Learn InnerEthics® with this series of self-paced courses and earn six hours of Ethics CEs for most mental health professionals and nursing licenses or a Certificate of Completion.
• Sign up for InnerEthics® updates and receive Chapter One of Kylea Taylor’s latest book, Peer Consultation Groups & Ethical Awareness Tools for Psychedelic Practitioners.
• InnerEthics® Consulting offers options for providing education to training programs, certificate programs, or higher education.