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Stanislav "Stan" Grof (born July 1, 1931) is a Czech born American psychiatrist.Grof is one of the principal developers of transpersonal psychology and research into the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness for purposes of psychological healing, deep self-exploration, and obtaining growth and insights into the human psyche.
Edzard Ernst writes that breathwork (or 'rebirthing') is a form of alternative medicine first devised by Leonard Orr in the 1970s. [4] [inconsistent]Breathwork is the use of breathing techniques in order to achieve altered states of consciousness and to have a variety of effects on physical and mental well-being. [3]
Several forms of breathwork developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s are considered New Age practices. Holotropic Breathwork was developed by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof in the 1960s. It uses deepened breathing to allow access to non-ordinary states of consciousness. [16] Rebirthing-breathwork was developed by Leonard Orr in the 1970s. It ...
Breathwork may refer to several different practices connected with breathing. Breathwork (New Age), various New Age breathing practices originating with Stanslav Grof and Leonard Orr; Circular breathing, a breathing technique used by players of some wind instruments; Conscious breathing, an umbrella term for methods that direct awareness to the ...
Due to their holistic perspective, holographic theories of consciousness can accommodate novel approaches to psychology and therapy which consider mind, body, emotion, and spirituality as an interconnected continuum; Bohm's explicate/implicit cosmology, for example, was cited by Stanislav Grof as a major influence on the development of ...
Breathworks was founded in 2004 by Vidyamala Burch, Sona Fricker, and Gary Hennessey, [6] [7] growing out of a 2001 pilot scheme funded by a grant from the UK's Millennium Commission. [8]
Breath was published by Riverhead Books on May 26, 2020. [5] Nestor promoted the book with appearances on The Joe Rogan Experience [6] and CBS This Morning. [7]The book debuted at number seven on The New York Times nonfiction best-seller list for the week ending May 30, 2020. [8]
Some scholars have proposed that many of the qualities of a drug-induced mystical experience are indistinguishable from mystical experiences achieved through non-drug techniques, such as meditation or holotropic breathwork.