Breathwork Options & Offerings
Facilitated by Patricia Meadows
Holotropic Breathwork One-Day Workshops
Follow-up Integration Work After Holotropic Breathwork
Private Breathwork for Individuals
Semi-private Breathwork for Couples or Partners or Small Groups
Customized & Private Group Breathwork (11/2 to 3 days)
Patricia's Breathwork Background
Holotropic Breathwork One-Day Workshops
(with co-facilitator Matthew Stelzner: www.matthewstelzner.com)
Our one-day workshops are offered regularly, usually bi-monthly, at the Lone Mountain Conference Center in San Francisco, which offers both a lovely and peaceful setting for this work in the city, as well as easy access within the Bay area. The workshops are 11-12 hours in length, and consist of two breathwork sessions, in which each participant, working in partnership with another, has the opportunity to experience one session in the role of “breather,” and another session in the role of “sitter.” Both roles are an integral part of this work, allowing you to practice being present to yourself and to your own experience, as well as to another as witness. The sessions are followed by expressive artwork, personal sharing in a group format, and suggestions, as well as resources for on-going integration and support.
The cost of a one-day workshop is $150.
For a schedule of upcoming workshops, click here.
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Follow-up Integration Work After Holotropic Breathwork
To assist you in stabilizing your experiences, exploring your insights, and integrating them more fully and deeply into your daily life, I offer private integration work uniquely incorporating several modalities complementary to the principles and practice of Holotropic Breathwork. Honoring that “the healer is within,” and with the help of the breath, unconditional presence, direct body sensing, inquiring, noticing, naming, and allowing, as well as gentle guidance and hands-on facilitation as needed, you will learn to trust your own inner wisdom to guide your healing and your on-going process of unfoldment and integration.
Private Integration Session (75 minutes): $125
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Private Breathwork for Individuals
For some individuals, private breathwork sessions may provide benefits unique to their personal needs, situation, or circumstances. For those who desire this option, private breathwork sessions, generally 4 to 4 ½ hours in length, can be scheduled with me. The practice and principles of the private session are the same as in a workshop format, with one modification. Since the work is done individually, it eliminates a partner in the reciprocal role of “sitter.” I will sit for you and also, facilitate of the session as needed. You are welcome to bring someone to sit for you during your session. The session includes: preparation and a brief check-in, a 3-hour breathwork session, artwork, personal integrative sharing, and suggestions for continuing integration. If you have not participated in Holotropic Breathwork previously with me, I request that we have a 45-60 minute phone consultation (included in the price of the initial session) prior to the session to determine the appropriateness of this work for you at this time, as well as to determine if there are any health concerns or medical contraindications. Also, I require that you read the book The Practice of Holotropic Breathwork by Kylea Taylor, which I will provide you, prior to your first session.
Private Breathwork Session (4 ½ hours): $300
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Private Sessions for Couples/Partners or Small Groups
For those who would like to participate in this work with their partner, close friend, or family member, as well as for those who want to support and empower each other’s healing through this modality, semi-private and small, private group sessions may be arranged. The semi-private sessions are 5 hours in length and the format is the same as for a private session, with both people “breathing” simultaneously and I will be sitting/facilitating. For a small, private group of 4 to 6 people who want to participate in this work together as breathwork partners, the session is a day-long and there are two breathwork sessions, enabling each person to “sit,” as well as to “breathe.” This format allows each person to develop their practice of attuned presence, witnessing, contactfulness, and caring without “care-taking,” as well as intimacy through personal sharing.
Semi-private Breathwork Session (5 hours): $300 ($150 per person)
Small Group Breathwork Session (10 hours): $150 per person (for 4-6 people)
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Customized & Private Group Breathwork (11/2 to 3 days)
I am available to collaborate with you on the development of customized Holotropic Breathwork workshops or weekend retreats (from 1 ½ to 3 days in length), to meet the specific and unique needs of your small group (8-16 people). Breathwork can be offered alone or in conjunction with other complementary teachings and practices (for example: meditation, Authentic Movement, expressive arts, etc.). This can be a creative, effective, and affordable way to support the intentions, values, and vision of your existing or self-created group, such as: psychotherapy groups, spirituality groups, women’s groups, couple’s groups, recovery groups, groups of healthcare/mental health professionals, graduate student groups, groups involved with personal and social transformation. Contact me directly to explore your specific intentions and the needs of your group.
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My Breathwork Background
Since certifying as a facilitator/practitioner of Holotropic Breathwork in 1996,
I have facilitated hundreds of people utilizing this approach in my own workshops and retreats, as well as those led by Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D, co-founder of the work. Since certification, I have facilitated annually at the week-long Insight & Opening retreats co-led by Stan Grof and Jack Kornfield, combining Holotropic Breathwork and vipassana meditation. I find that these two practices are very complementary and insight meditation provides a very compatible container/context for breathwork. Also, I assisted Dr. Grof for 5 years as a breathwork facilitator and then as a teaching assistant at the California Institute of Integral Studies in his course on Holotropic Breathwork.
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