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holotropic breathwork

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holotropic breathwork (hō·l·trˑ·pik brethˑ·wurk),
n a technique developed by Drs. Stanislav and Christina Grof that uses connected breathing, music, and artwork to alter consciousness and explore deep dimensions of the psyche.


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Taylor (1994:8) states that Holotropic Breathwork operates under the principle that we are our own best healers.
Alexander Lowen's bioenergetics approach (Lowen, 1994), Leonard Orr's rebirthing techniques (Orr, 1977), Stanislav Groff's Holotropic Breathwork (Groff, 1985), and Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks' relationship work (Hendricks & Hendricks, 1998) have all provided rich clinical observations regarding the effectiveness of breathwork therapy.
Relationship to Other Therapies Somatotropic therapy has similarities with primal therapy, primal integration, core process psychotherapy, Reichian breathwork, biosynthesis, holotropic breathwork, trance regression, polarity therapy, and cranio-sacral therapy.
 
 
 
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