What are the origins of Holotropic Breathwork?
Stanislav Grof, M.D. and his wife, Christina Grof, developed this powerful and natural technique in the mid-1970’s from modern consciousness research and their study of ancient spiritual systems. Dr. Grof is a psychiatrist with more than forty years of experience of research in psychotherapy and non-ordinary states of consciousness. His early research was at the Psychiatric Research Institute in Prague, where he was Principal Investigator of a program systematically exploring the heuristic and therapeutic potential of LSD and other psychedelic substances. Later, Dr. Grof conducted psychedelic research as Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins University and Chief of Psychiatric Research at the Maryland Psychiatric Research Center. He also spent fourteen years as Scholar-in- Residence at Esalen Institute in Big Sur, California. With the ban on the use of LSD for research purposes in the late 1960s, the Grofs developed Holotropic Breathwork as a powerful drug-free way to access non-ordinar
