Description

Are you interested in what really happens during a Holotropic Breathwork session? Using breathwork participants’ descriptions of their actual experiences, The Breathwork Experience documents and illustrates the power of the breath self-exploration and inner healing. The book takes you inside a breathwork session to see both what happens in the room from the standpoint of an outside observer, and what it feels like to be the person having the experience.

The Breathwork Experience outlines the human history of using non-ordinary states to seek healing and wisdom. It also discusses the theories of Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., author of Psychology of the Future, and describes the sensory, biographical, perinatal, and transpersonal types of possible human experiences in non-ordinary states.

Breathwork and trauma recovery

Three chapters focus particularly on the opportunities for aiding in healing trauma (in post-traumatic stress, childhood sexual abuse, and addiction). Many actual examples illustrate the kind of profound change which can occur using this natural, non-ordinary state as part of a recovery or healing process. Ten opportunities for assisting recovery from addiction through breathwork are listed.

Appendices in the book list systems that use accelerated breathing and other organizational and media resources which can assist those who are doing breathwork or other inner work.

(1994) 172 pp. Softcover. 6 x 9 x 0.45 in.

Spanish Language Version

The Spanish language translation of “The Breathwork Experience” is titled: RESPIRACIÓN. MÉTODO BÁSICO. ISBN: 970-666-809-8

This book should be available directly from its publishers at Grupo Tomo.

Italian Language Version

The Italian language translation of “The Breathwork Experience” is titled: L’ESPERIENZA DELLA RESPIRAZIONE OLOTROPICA and is available on this site.

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.