October 23-25: Weekend Holotropic Breathwork in Nature

Breathwork workshop in Mauricie, between October 23 and 25 I want to reserve my place. We are happy to announce that we will do a Holotropic Breathwork week-end retreat, from Friday, October 23, to Sunday, October 25, 2026. This retreat will revolve of course around a day of Holotropic Breathwork, October 25, but will include […]

Holotropic Breathwork: a natural doorway to ecstasy and emotional healing

Science Confirms What Practitioners Have Known for a Long Time For millennia, spiritual and shamanic traditions have used breath as a tool for transforming consciousness. Today, modern science is beginning to catch up with this ancestral wisdom. A recent study published in PLOS One reveals that high-ventilation breathwork (HVB), when combined with music, can induce […]

The Power of the Group: Why Collective Holotropic Breathwork Sessions Are So Powerful

When people first discover Holotropic Breathwork, one question often comes up: “Can I practice alone, or do I really need to join a group session?”The truth is, both approaches are possible… but the collective experience brings a unique dimension that amplifies the depth and impact of the inner journey. The Breath as a Shared Vibration […]

Eight Good Reasons to Try Holotropic Breathwork

In a world that moves faster and faster, it’s essential to take time for ourselves—to slow down, feel, and reconnect with what is alive within us. Holotropic Breathwork, a method of inner transformation developed by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof, is one of the most powerful practices for accessing this space of reconnection. Using intensified breathing, evocative […]

The difference between holotropic breathwork and other types of breathwork

What makes holotropic breathwork unique from other forms of breathwork? There are four essential things, in my opinion, that make holotropic breathwork not only unique among the different kinds of breathwork offered today, but also among all the activities offered in the field of personal growth. The first thing is duration. A holotropic breathwork session […]

The familiar feeling of confinement

I like to observe things through the lenses of the perinatal experience. Especially events of an archetypal nature such as the current pandemic. A disease rapidly infecting humans on a global scale resonates with the idea of the toxic first matrix. The amniotic fluid, the life-giving ocean from which consciousness emerged, suddenly becomes a poisonous […]

The Hidden Power Within

I like original thinkers, people who have very personal, thoughtful and articulate opinions on all subjects. These thinkers who come to make us question certainties and evidence. But I have no attraction for gurus. For those people who are quick insert their certainty back in place of the certainty they have just shaken. For those […]

The Infallible Inner Healer

One of the central concepts of Holotropic Breathwork is that the use of non-ordinary states of consciousness creates a contact with a mysterious force called “the inner healer”. It is important to note that Holotropic Breathwork does not ask for strict adherence to any system of belief, and that one could very well practice HB […]

Can I “direct” my Holotropic Breathwork session?

During some informal talk with participants after a recent Holotropic Breathwork workshop, one of them asked me: “Am I allowed to ‘direct’ my session?” Since I was not sure what was meant, I asked the person to explain. He added: “I wanted to try some bodywork, but I didn’t want to have to ask for it during […]

Frustration about Holotropic Breathwork: a Holotropic experience

In my practice as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, I often get the feeling that the individuals who feel disappointed after a HB session are among the persons who could benefit from it. I remember feeling extremely frustrated after my first few HB sessions, because I had expected something as powerful as my previous psychedelic experiences. […]