The holotropic breathing experience

  • 2015

00:30 The experience is similar to those generated in the processes of meditation and spirituality . This is achieved with a technique in which breathing becomes fast, hyperventilating and with the support of a particular music .

This is a group experience . This is a holotreatic breathing session with Alberto Att as at the headquarters of Danzarte, along with 15 other people. Att as is an onotological coach, transpersonal coach, teacher of primary dance, a facilitator of holotropic breathing certified by the United States Transofessional Trainning Grof and currently directs the School of Integral Transpersonal Psychology of Buenos Aires and coordinates the formation of Grof Argentina. To a greater or lesser extent, we recognize that these are people who have started their searches after a flash of which we can all see the need for an answer that relates to spirituality, but is not found in the daily life of the society.

But what is holotropic breathing? In a talk that precedes the experience, Att as explains that the Czech psychiatrist residing in the US, Stalisnav Grof, along with his wife Christina, a professor of Hatha Yoga, believed this technique of breathing n. Holotropic derives the Greek terms trepein, move, and holos, totality . He did so after conducting more than 3, 000 sessions with patients in altered states of consciousness, which allowed him to develop the broader map of consciousness that he had in the mid-twentieth century.

The holotropic states are comparable to those that occur in certain spiritual or meditation practices, fasting, chamnic trances, ingestion of plants and m Multiple rituals with dances and songs from different cultures, but they are simply achieved with a technique where breathing becomes fast, hyperventilating and with the support of a particular music. The day before the development of the workshop, Att a gave a brief lecture explaining what the technique consisted of, its history, its possibilities and the development of the session.

In summary, he pointed out that “it allows us to expand and increase our sense of connection with us and the world”, “we work in the real world, but with less tangible things like subtle emotions, intuitions and what we know as "the spirit" "." In our modern world we do not honor them as other cultures did, "he said. " They have been part of the ancient spiritual traditions for centuries and remain powerful means to link with nature, the community, but also the spirit." The coach said that these techniques "serve to seek wisdom and healing" and that "some people have them spontaneously."

Beyond the expectations that each participant described, Attía warned that during the holotropic breathing sessions you can experience “ sensory and motor experiences such as tingling sensation, variation of body temperature to cold or heat, olfactory or auditory sensations or tetany, which It is true paralysis of the hands, biographical experiences: from birth to now. Even perinatals: from pregnancy and pregnancy to delivery. But above all the transpersonal ones, which take us beyond our personal identities. It is that the sessions do not have a specific script because you can never predict what will happen, since each person and their personal history is a world in itself. Some participants had seizures but barely remembered their session. After the session, each participant paints a mandala as a means of expressing their experience.

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