Personal Empowerment and Healing
The Holotropic Breathwork Experience, Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011
by James D. Eyerman, M.D.
Assoc. Professor of Clinical Psychiatry, UCSF and Touro University
December 2011/
January 2012
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We are always moving toward wholeness. We each have an inner healer—higher power or evolutionary drive toward self-integration/wholeness. Our left-brain analytical tendencies reduce our experience into linear data. Holotropic Breathwork, meditation or other techniques for quieting the mind, allow the right brain to integrate multiple levels of experience and synthesize cognitions beyond our culturally-conditioned thoughts and judgements. Aldous Huxley has described the resulting self-awareness in terms of The Perennial Philosophy.
Holotropic Breathwork allows spontaneous inner exploration and healing to occur through the use of enhanced breathing and music in a safe, secure, supervised setting. The breath is enhanced to facilitate the release of our culturally-conditioned thoughts and judgements of the left brain. The music enhances the experience of the sacred, the subtle and the emotional. The resulting opening of consciousness allows awareness of the collective consciousness/unconscious.
We share our experiences in a non-analytic way. Our goal is to be innocent and open, embracing every experience accessed in holotropic awareness.
This is a safe and well-tolerated approach to inner exploration and healing. I have personally conducted sessions with more than 14,000 individuals, of whom 8,000 were inpatients at St. Anthony’s Medical Center in St. Louis. Patients participated in each weekly session from 1989 through 2001. There were no adverse reactions.
This workshop, titled “Holotropic Breathwork,” has been likened to Joseph Campbell’s Hero’s Journey, a process of psychospiritual death and rebirth. Transformation occurs by letting go—or ego death—of an old way of being. Holotropic experience facilitates our rebirth into a new self—or a new way of being.
There are four contraindications for this community workshop: severe skeletal, cardiac or psychiatric disorders and pregnancy.
Holotropic Breathwork
Saturday, Dec. 17, 2011, 9:30 a.m.
7332 Pershing, University City, Mo.
To register, email: Jimeye108@gmail.com
or call (415) 686-9255.
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