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Peri
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posted October 10, 2005 09:54 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
Has anyone ever practised holotropic breathing?
I'd like to know about your experiences if any.
I would try it but am a bit scared...I've heard it might be dangerous for health both physical and mental.

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AcousticGod
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posted October 10, 2005 03:28 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for AcousticGod     Edit/Delete Message
Sounds scary!

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sue g
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posted October 10, 2005 03:54 PM     Click Here to See the Profile for sue g     Edit/Delete Message
What exactly is it Peri? xx

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Peri
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posted October 11, 2005 02:16 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
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holotropic: "moving toward wholeness"

Holotropic Breathwork is an exceptionally effective means of self-exploration and healing which combines the best of modern consciousness research, transpersonal psychology, psychotherapy, eastern traditions, yoga, and shamanism.

Using a combination of deep accelerated breathing, evocative music, bodywork, expressive artwork, and group sharing, Holotropic Breathwork can help release emotional, mental, and physical blocks which prevent you from connecting to -- and expressing -- your most authentic self.

Possible experiences in a Holotropic Breathwork session can include healing of trauma, stress relief, mystical states of consciousness, ecstasy, emotional expression & release, profound relaxation, creative inspiration, and an enormous variety of spiritual visions and insights. Many people also report that it helps them connect to a deeper feeling of meaning and purpose in their lives, as well as a greater feeling of authenticity in their daily life.

During a breathing session you can experience a broad spectrum of consciousness, including prenatal and childhood memories, biographical issues, sequences of psychospiritual death and rebirth as well as transpersonal experiences.

Holotropic breathing is a very individual process and you are allowed to find your own answers and insights in your own way. After the session, the breathers are requested to draw mandalas about their experience. When both sessions are completed, the group come together and share their experience.

Holotropic Breathwork is grounded in forty-five years of observations and clinical research by Dr. Stanislav Grof, who along with Abraham Maslow co-founded the field of transpersonal psychology, and is one of it's leading theoreticians. He is the author of The Holotropic Mind, Psychology of the Future, Beyond the Brain, The Adventure of Self Discovery, Spiritual Emergency, and The Cosmic Game, among others.

Holotropic breathing is not suitable for people with a history of cardiovascular problems, aneurysms, glaucoma, recent injuries or anybody that is currently pregnant. This workshop is not suitable for people with a psychiatric history.


http://www.holisticmed.com/inner/breath/holotropic.html
http://holotropicbreathwork.net/#stay
http://www.becomingme.com/radar.html
http://www.kundalini-info.org/breath.html

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Sheaa Olein
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posted October 11, 2005 05:35 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Sheaa Olein     Edit/Delete Message
I've not (knowingly) tried it. However I'd like to. Sounds like the way to breath wholly if you know what I mean. Thanks Peri, I always learn so much here

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aqua
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posted October 11, 2005 05:42 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for aqua     Edit/Delete Message
this was the first time i heard about it and i came to know so much about it!

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Peri
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posted October 11, 2005 06:06 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
I would probably try it but currently I've got cervical spine problems and some people said they had experienced quite painful muscle spasms and things like that that's why people with spine and neck problems should be very aware of possible risks and outcomes.
I think I should consult a certified instructor, I also read that it is extremely dangerous to practise holotropic breathing at home alone!

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Peri
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posted October 11, 2005 07:14 AM     Click Here to See the Profile for Peri     Edit/Delete Message
Some of experiences

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Strange things started to happen during my breathing exercises. (After a while, you enter an altered state of consciousness)

* I saw a huge emerald-green snake-head staring at me.
* I experienced a terrible pain and a fire in my lower spine during my third breathing session. It felt like something would burst in my back if I went on with the breathing exercise and I had to discontinue the session.

There was a "blockage" there, the Rebirther told me.
During a session, which I did alone, I experienced that I became totally paralysed and I couldn't move. After I had calmed down my breathing a bit, I thought that it would get better. But after a while I felt something unpleasant around me. I felt threatened. When I opened my eyes I saw how grey shadow-beings gushed in through the closed window and through the wall. They wanted to possess me, I felt. I was terrified. Incapable of moving, I could not do anything but scream to them to disappear. I wept and prayed to God to help me, even if I - in that time - did not have a good relation and faith to him/her. I had grown up in an environment where God was seen as the "punisher".)
I don't know, how long time passed in this horrible condition, but finally I saw how they were drawn back and I could crawl up to a sitting position.
I felt very bad many weeks after this, and I heard strange high crack sounds in my apartment and snaps in my windows. I got a thought: what about if one can go mad of exercises like this? I think this thought never really left me, and I am thankful today, because I never could totally do as they said during the training: "Let loose of your control, and let it happen what will happen, you will never get more than you can handle." That is not true, I know it today! You shall never ever loose your control!
I was very frightened, but I accepted the explanation from my Rebirther that I had not fulfilled my breathing session, which I should have. (!!!) Today I know that the noises are called poltergeist phenomenon, and one can be possessed by deceased beings...


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Here below are some of my experiences in Liberating breathing. Some are positive, some I would like to be without.

* I saw a translucent shining, pulsating violet veil between my eyebrows, as in a third eye, when I was relaxing with my eyes closed. It still remains.
* I saw - and still do - a translucent silver-coloured thin wire go out from me. I see it as from a distance, like a transparent x-ray film. The silver-wire is moveable and billowy.
* Out of body-experiences.
* I suddenly saw a large black and white EYE, while my eyes were closed. There was a "zooming-lens" between my eyebrows.
* With this EYE, I sometimes in glimpses can see a "heavenscoloured" circle or "hole". It is like a peephole to another world.
* Ever since that I have seen a large silverwhite "sun" in the sky, which in inspired moments has a tremendous purity and glow, and has sprinkles of gold within. But the light is not glaring. I can see it very quickly, in the second between my blinks. It is intensified in moments of pure pleasure and inspired creative activity. I know that I yet can't endure to see the light longer moments. It would burn down my nervous system.
* Ever since many years back I can see a vibrating white light radiate out from my head and face.
* I can sometimes see quick flashes in the room, especially when the air is very electrically loaded.
* I suddenly began to see colours and light around people, at special occasions.
* Feeling of pulsating energy, which tries with great power to open up a way out from the crown. Huge pressure in the head and throat in periods.
* Periodically fear of losing my mind, which has disappeared after I stopped all my spiritual practising.
* Wavy movements in my body. A strange twisting-feeling as like a tube inside me tries to turn to "the right position".
* High frequent, continuously ringing sounds of electrical kind as from a high-voltage transformer. Strengthened hearing since 1991. (Started in my first breathing session.)
* Electrical currents in the whole body.
* Experience of a chakra opening below the navel one night, extremely painful.
* Visions. Heard a divine Voice talking to me in some occasions.
* Need for silence, retirement and loneliness in periods.
* Respiratory problems.
* Heart problems. The heart makes uneven somersaults in the breast. Examination shows nothing wrong.
* Very ill after an acupressure treatment, with high fever and terrible pain in the whole body. Hard to even move the eyes.
* Experiences of reading people "from the inside", knowing their thoughts. Even experiences of being the person I was thinking of.

These experiences have not given me cosmic consciousness, and I don't think I would have got it either if I had continued with the exercises. On the contrary, I don't think my heart would have handled these energies. One colleague of mine got some ecstasy experiences - cosmic orgasms - in his breathing sessions. He has now got electroshocks to his heart on hospital to get the heartbeats back to normal again. It didn't work...


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I participated in group sessions once every six weeks over an eighteen-month period. (During that time I got "rolfed" and after the third rolfing session the classic migraines stopped.) The breathwork was extremely healing -- on a deep emotional level.

I never experienced my actual birth experience, but lots of other stuff came up, including what appeared to be past-life memories and their connections in this life. After eighteen months I found I could access stuff on my own, so I continued doing that in my own home. (I was once a person who got depressed a great deal. I rarely get depressed now, but if I ever do feel "depression" I know it is a signal that something is ready to come up and be resolved.) One time something incredible happened. I tapped into the planet and "felt" the deep sorrow our Earth feels for what humankind has done to it. (Not anger, but tremendous sadness.)


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My first session was quite profound. All I can say is that I simply "experienced God," and also got the insight that it doesn't really matter if I experience God or not! ("God" is sort of like breathing: You're going to breathe whether or not you know what air is. When something is that ubiquitous you don't need to look for it!) I was also deeply exhausted from that session. Included in that exhaustion was the feeling that I wanted to avoid attempting out-of-body experiences (I had been trying unsuccessfully for months). I have since regained some interest (several months later) but not to the extent I had before.

My second session was odd. On one hand it seemed like "nothing happened." On the other hand I remember that I was laying there yelling and throwing my hands in the air -- so something must have happened! I guess if the brain doesn't get words or pictures then it thinks 'nothing' is happening. I did experience the tetany dissolving, which was very interesting.

My third session was a couple weeks ago. In that session I experienced an aspect of my own birth! It also subsequenty helped trigger an out-of-body experience a few days later (see below). That HBW (holotropic breathwork)day was the first of six monthly sessions I will do with the same group of people. I think having a consistent group will really help the momentum build. Knowing that they will be back next time makes the experience more real, somehow.

Over the past week I have had one OBE (out of body experiences) and several body energy shifts that indicate an OBE is about to start. (I don't go OB easily). I now know what the body energy feeling is like and I'm less afraid of it. I believe this is a direct result of my last HBW session.which partly consisted of the recall an astral memory. However: I can guarantee that HBW is not a "ticket" to having successfull OBE's!, My last experience put me closer to "remembering" what it's like to have an astral body, but there is no way to predict that I will have a comparable HBW session in the future or, if I did, it would help me achieve an OBE again.



http://kundalini-info.org/breath.html

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It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves.
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