Using breathwork participants' descriptions of their actual experiences, this book documents the power of the breath to catalyze 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 inside the participant. It discusses the theories of Stanislav Grof, M.D. about human experiences in nonordinary states, and describes how breathwork has aided in healing trauma from post-traumatic stress, childhood sexual abuse, and addiction. The book lists resources to assist those who are participating in breathwork or doing other inner work.

The Breathwork Experience: Exploration and Healing in Nonordinary States of Consciousness

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Taylor, Kylea

Exercise & Fitness

Hanford Mead Pub

The Ethics of Caring is written for all caregivers, including psychotherapists, bodyworkers, medical practitioners, clergy, hypnotherapists, and acupuncturists, who want to become more conscious in their relationships with clients. It provides unique help to volunteer and professional caregivers who want to sort out confusing ethical dilemmas in seven categories including love, truth, insight, and oneness as well as the more well-known ethical issues of money, sex, and power. Ethical issues pertain to longings, feelings, and motivations which resonate at our very core. Powerful, shared experiences in the context of the therapeutic relationship can bring to the surface compelling fears, needs, and longings in both the client and the caregiver. It offers a new model of self-examination which deepens the therapeutic relationship and can prevent the harmful consequences of ethical misconduct.

The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships

Business & Money

KORNFIELD, JACK

Business Culture

A complete guide and checklist for the practical aspects of facilitating a Holotropic Breathwork(tm) workshop written for those who have been trained by the Grof Transpersonal Training and certified to facilitate this trademarked process.

The Holotropic Breathwork Workshop: A Manual for Trained Facilitators

In her essays, articles, and research collected for more than a decade, Kylea Taylor observes, discusses, and theorizes about therapeutic and sociological functions and effects of the breathwork system developed by Stanislav Grof, MD and his wife, Christina Grof. A good deal of the material focuses on the healing potential of Holotropic Breathwork for addiction recovery and trauma recovery and the mechanisms which make it effective for participants. In one article she deeply considers the ways in which one learns about oneself from the practice of sitting for another in Holotropic Breathwork (or sitting for anyone having strong cathartic emotions). Taylor's groundbreaking early 1990s research using Holotropic Breathwork in a residential center for substance abuse recovery is published here for the first time in its entirety. In another she describes the kinds of states seen in Holotropic Breathwork participants and compares them to the specific yogic sleep and meditation states for which Sanskrit has names. In her most recent essay, Taylor describes Jung's Fourth (Inferior) Function as the gateway for non-ordinary states of consciousness and transformative spiritual emergency. Other articles consider how we sponsor the unexperienced experience (Ivor Browne's term for unfelt trauma) and the ways in which the art process of SoulCollage(r) is useful for integration of non-ordinary state experience.

Considering Holotropic Breathwork: Essays and Articles on the Sociological, Therapeutic, and Spiritual Functions and Effects of the Grof Breathwork

Religion & Spirituality

Staying in right relationship with a client is often an artful movement, a dance with a different "partner" each time. Yet there are helpful rules of thumb that can keep us from stepping on toes (doing harm) and actually support both professional and client in doing a beautiful, healing dance together (creating client benefit). The Ethics of Caring is a unique ethics text designed to guide the self-compassionate self-reflection of students and professionals (therapists, clergy, hospice workers, bodyworkers, educators, medical professionals, mentors, and other caregivers) toward understanding human motivations and countertransference, finding professional right relationship, and making good choices with clients. The Ethics of Caring especially illuminates the inevitable, profound, transformative moments in a professional relationship, which furnish greater potential for client healing, but also may bring greater ethical challenges.

The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients for Profound, Transformative Work in Professional Healing Relationships

Self-Help

Relationships

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