2023

-03

31

AUG-SEP

DOUBLE HOLOTROPIC BREATHWORK WORKSHOP IN BUCHOV, CZECHIA

EXTENDED EXPERIENTIAL WORKSHOP

EVENT DETAILS

This workshop is recognized as a supplement to the GTT online modules.

We cordially invite you to an extended, double Holotropic Breathwork® workshop in the Central Bohemian village of Buchov. Our workshops often have international attendance and we always make sure that everybody fully understands, and is understood. Full-board accommodation is included in the price. Space is limited to 30 participants.

This 3.5-day, experiential Double Holotropic Breathwork workshop allows for self-healing and self-exploration as well as accessing the roots of emotional and psychosomatic challenges one might face. During the workshop, four breathwork sessions (two as a breather and two as a sitter) will allow you, in a very safe setting, to access an expanded state of consciousness, in which your own wisdom connects with your inner healing and transforming power. This healing wisdom guides the experience towards those aspects which carry an emotional charge, and are ready to be processed or integrated.

Holotropic Breathwork might be of interest if:

● you are seeking a more experiential approach to healing, one that goes beyond talk therapy
● you are experiencing a major life crisis and seeking deep wisdom and insights
● you want to release unresolved issues from the past
● you want to understand the emotional roots of a persistent physical/psychosomatic condition
● you are yearning for deeper insight into the nature of reality and advancement on your spiritual path
● you want to facilitate the integration of a difficult psychedelic session
● you want to find an authentic creative impulse and nurture artistic inspiration
● you have a feeling of an uninterestingly lived life

We will start on Thursday at 17:00, and finish on Sunday at 13:00.

KINDLY MAKE SURE THAT YOU CAN ATTEND THE ENTIRE WORKSHOP, FROM BEGINNING TO END.

In case you have any serious health issues (physical or mental), please contact the organizer in advance to rule out possible contraindications.

More on the topic of Holotropic Breathwork and the Grof Transpersonal Training organization HERE

You can subscribe to our mailing list for workshop announcements HERE

FACILITATORS

TIME

Thursday 31st August 2023 17:00 –
Sunday 3rd September 2023 13:00

LOCATION

Chalupy Buchov
Buchov 3, 257 01 Postupice, Czechia

The retreat center offers accommodation in simple, yet nice, clean, and comfortable rooms, located in 4 neighboring chalets. Most of the bedrooms are twin/double-bed rooms (2 separate beds, or 1 double bed). In addition to that, some rooms with 3 – 4 beds are available. Each of the 4 chalets is equipped with 2 shared bathrooms.

WORKSHOP COST

Early bird rate:  EUR 350.-  (CZK 8.500.-)
Full rate: EUR 400.-  (CZK 9.750.-)

Included in the price are the workshop fee and full-board accommodation (3 nights).

Early bird rate for registrations submitted 1 month or more before the workshop date.

If you are strongly motivated to attend the workshop but your financial situation does not allow you to do so under the given conditions, you can contact us to discuss the possibility of an individual solution.

WORKSHOP REGISTRATION

REGISTER HERE!

ORGANIZER

Holotropic Bohemia
[email protected]
tel.: +420 777 148 087

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The popular term “set & setting” which is now widely used in Depth Psychology and psychedelic circles, was originally coined by Timothy Leary in the early 1960s.

This is to say that, during the transpersonal experience, we may, for instance, experientially identify with some other being, e.g. an animal or a person, in contrast to our usual identification with our regular self. During this experience, we will be fully and intimately aware of that being’s mental and physical constituents and characteristics, as it experiences them in and of itself. However, we may also experientially transcend the associated sense of “I-ness” itself. This is the “self-reflecting” aspect that remains constant across both the examples considered — experiencing yourself as the ordinary “you”, as well as the “you” being the animal or other person. The psychedelic or holotropic experience may, on occasion, move beyond this sense of “I-ness” altogether. At that point, there is no “you”.

In the theory of Psychoanalysis, we have the classic categories of id, ego and superego. Roughly speaking, the id represents unconscious biological drives, the superego internalized rules of conduct from childhood (personal hygiene training, boundary enforcement, etc.), and the ego a self-aware “I”, functioning as a balancing mediator between the other two. In the expanded, holotropic state of consciousness, we may, for instance, have a vivid experience of identifying simultaneously with our regular self and the self of our father, resulting in a new perspective on our relationship with our actual father, as well as the relationship of the respective internal sub-personalities (ego and superego). At other times, our experience may exceed the boundaries of the psychoanalytic model (if, for instance, we happened to be previously familiar with it, and tended to view the internal workings of our mind through its optics) so dramatically and to such a degree, that it would render the entire Freudian conceptual construction completely irrelevant. Consequently, it would be necessary for us to adopt a broader, more comprehensive image of our self.

“While the traditional model of Psychiatry and Psychoanalysis is strictly personalistic and biographical, modern consciousness research has added new levels, realms, and dimensions and shows the human psyche as being essentially commensurate with the whole universe and all of existence.” Grof, 1985, Beyond the Brain

Some indigenous peoples have been using psychoactive plants (and sometimes animal products) for healing and spiritual purposes for thousands of years. Many of them developed original, elaborate contexts for this, both theoretical and practical. These so-called shamanic traditions can be found within tribal communities all over the world, with the Amazonian region being the richest, both in quantity and variety.

Citation from Wikipedia – Human Potential Movement

Abraham Maslow’s book “Religions, Values and Peak-Experiences” is widely recognized as the initiatory paper of Humanistic Psychology.

You can find a list of Stanislav Grof’s books in the Study section of this website. There is also a list with additional recommended reading, links and further information sources in the Integration section.

Since bodywork obviously involves some degree of physical contact, it is important to say that, in Holotropic Breathwork, bodywork is always initiated by the breather, and never takes place without the breather’s consent. GTT certified facilitators are carefully trained in Focused Energy Release Work and are required to follow high ethical standards in their practice.