When Brendan Leier lay down for his first guided breathwork session over Zoom, he settled into a breathing rhythm, keeping a fast pace with the music the instructor was playing. As the session ...

You've probably heard about breathwork, which involves controlling your breathing to improve physical, mental and emotional health. But have you heard of Holotropic Breathwork? Also known as HB, it is ...

Holotropic breathwork holds promise for not only healing past traumas but also for helping the planet. On Thursday night at the Edwards Interfaith Chapel, Dia Lynn, a certified holotropic breathwork ...

There are a lot of trendy treatments out there that promise to bring a new level of awareness to your mental health. But there’s one in particular that’s been popping up all over social media as of ...

In this interview, psychiatrist Dr Stanislav Grof, MD and his wife Christina explain holotropic breathwork, and discuss its uses in psychotherapy. Like hypnosis and psychedelic therapy, holotropic ...

In his 1975 book, Realms of the Human Unconscious, Stanislav Grof wrote, "Psychedelics, used responsibly and with proper caution, would be for psychiatry what the microscope is to the study of biology ...

Breathwork is trendy right now, but it’s not new. People have been practicing breathwork for thousands of years, and it has roots in yoga practice. The basic idea of breathwork is to release toxins ...

When Hermosa Beach, Calif., entrepreneur Amy Lloyd took her first breathwork class, she never expected it to make her emotional. After all, the yoga and meditation classes she regularly attends leave ...

There is a long history in the fields of psychology and psychiatry of using non-ordinary states of consciousness (sometimes referred to as altered states) to facilitate deep psychological work. These ...