Holotrophic Breath Workshop - Saturday

[Miss Hepburn]

Anyone ever read Dr. Stan Grof's book "The Holotrophic Mind" ?

I'm taking the Breath Workshop Sat - intro Friday night. $90.

Ever take it?

http://holotropicbreathwork.net/

I have read the book, The Holotropic Mind: The Three Levels of Human Consciousness and How They Shape Our Lives, while I was in England. I just may reread it now. I have not experienced this mystical experience yet thought. How was it?

[Miss Hepburn]

Well, 2 days before the class the facilitators husband came home with a serious illness -so it was postponed.
It was a 65 degree day - so I welcomed not being inside in a workshop!
I will write again when we get notified of another class.
I told her to hold onto my money til next time.

[Miss Hepburn]

Finally, went to the make up workshop. And, sorry, it's Holotropic
My official report:

You have an orientation.
You are taught simple breathing - just to keep it in a ''circle'' so that your out beath ''touches''
your 'in breath' ---no pauses in between - no big deal at all!

You lay down in comfy clothes with clean sheets and blankets, mattresses, satin eye covers - for 3 hours!
You have a 'sitter or watcher' -that makes sure you can find your water in the dark
and guides you to the bathroom...

...While there are 3 ''Facilitators" - walking around silently for 3 HOURS!
(Some people moan, cry, scream out, relive your birth, I guess.)

As you lay there ( being watched the whole time for any sign of need like as if you are an invalid... this is all about "you", for 3 solid hours!)

There is the BEST, floor pounding music playing for 3 HOURS!

Wow, African drums, Native Am drums with singing, Arabic/Isreali type wailing, temple type chanting, dancing sufi type, spiritual, Hindi bajans - to Enya type, angelic strings and flutes melting into another pounding song after another...
For 3 Hours!


You eat, draw a Mandala to be discussed at the end of the day.

Go back in and now YOU are a ''sitter /watcher'' - for more 3 Hours!
With more pounding, floor vibrating music.


The ''sitters'' and facilitators look at everybody (It wasn't all that dark - thus the satin blindfolds.)

(I was voted the happiest and most fun person to watch...called
by one as 'such a peaceful person'.)

I laughed and beamed and 'danced laying down' the entire time for 6 hours
- I got my groove on. (Well, I was reclining as I was a sitter.)

(Understand there were people there that have never even meditated once in there lives - came with their wives for some reason!)


In the evening discussion (as probably in every group dynamic)- their stories told of their poor little minds that were still racing even after 2 hours of being blindfolded and relaxing, listening to great music and practicing breathing.
They certainly found ''some'' peace and certainly some ideas or realizations happened...nice folks, just tortured, some sooo depressed, lost in their past traumas and such -needing to be held doing their sessions.

One left so messed up (a military vet) - I was the only one that could
get near him and hug and kiss him. (But, he had a wife so no one was worried to let him go home. They did NOT even touch, oh well.
What would they have done if he had no partner? I don't know.)

Just to tell ya - things can come up.


For me - I dug it - saw again - the Whole of Creation is a Dance - a blissful, wonderful, joyous Dance...who wouldn't beam for 6 hours realizing and experiencing that?



(My ''sitter'' fell in love with me, a crush...I quickly hung out with his wife to
counteract any insecurity she might feel, since he was acting like a found puppy around me.)

Bonds are made, I have a new group to do New Agey things with at this ''center''
in the mountains built for meetings of this sort.
Yay!

Very cool. $90 ---- all facilitators studied directly with Dr. Grof, I believe for 3 years and most were already lic. therapists of some kind.

[Arcturus]

"found puppy" lol