Home›Sources›Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and TherapySourcesHolotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and TherapyState University of New York Press, 2010Citation FormatsGeneral ReferenceGeneral Reference Citation TextDivinity Atlas. "Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy." Accessed August 30, 2026. https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/grof-grof-2010-holotropic-breathwork.Copy General ReferenceAPA StyleAPA Style Citation TextDivinity Atlas. (n.d.). Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy. Retrieved August 30, 2026, from https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/grof-grof-2010-holotropic-breathworkCopy APA StyleBibTeXBibTeX Citation Text@misc{divinityatlas-holotropic-breathwork-a-new-approach-to, author = {Divinity Atlas}, title = {Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and Therapy}, year = {2026}, url = {https://www.divinityatlas.com/sources/grof-grof-2010-holotropic-breathwork}, note = {Accessed August 30, 2026} }Copy BibTeXA 2010 academic-press book by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, the psychiatrist and the counsellor who together developed Holotropic Breathwork in the 1970s after legal restriction of the psychedelic research Stanislav Grof had previously conducted. Published by State University of New York Press in its Transpersonal Psychology series, it sets out the technique, accelerated breathing, evocative music and bodywork used to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness, and the theoretical framework, transpersonal psychology, the Grofs built around it. Its strength is that it is the founders' own full statement of the method and its rationale; its limit is that it is not independent research into the method's effects or safety.FactsCross-Tradition ConnectionsClaims Backed By This Source (66 claims)Comments (0)Reader Challenges (0 open reader challenges)FactsAssessmentReliability TierWell-attested2Published by an academic university press (SUNY Press) in its established Transpersonal Psychology series, which places it above an ordinary trade paperback, but it is written by the method's own founders about their own method rather than by an independent historian or clinician, so it sits a tier below independent peer-reviewed research on the practice's effects.CitationAuthorWell-attestedStanislav Grof, Christina GrofPublisherWell-attestedState University of New York PressPublication YearWell-attested2010Source TypeWell-attestedacademic monographCross-Tradition ConnectionsAssociated WithChristina Grof, Historical Figures Well-attested This source names Christina Grof directly: "book by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, the psychiatrist and the counsellor who together developed Holotropic Breathwork in the 1970s after legal restriction of the psychedelic research Stanislav..."Source Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and TherapyStanislav Grof, Christina Groftier 2Stanislav Grof, Historical Figures Well-attested This source names Stanislav Grof directly: "A 2010 academic-press book by Stanislav Grof and Christina Grof, the psychiatrist and the counsellor who together developed Holotropic Breathwork in the 1970s after legal restriction of the..."Source Holotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and TherapyStanislav Grof, Christina Groftier 2Claims Backed By This Source (66 claims)This source backs 66 claims across the atlas. As facts: 42 well-attested. As cited relationships: 11 holds, 4 connected. Plus 9 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.Disposition By TopicArticles, 34 claims: 22 well-attested, 2 holds, 4 connected, 6 general references.Historical Figures, 16 claims: 10 well-attested, 4 holds, 2 general references.Practices, 8 claims: 4 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.Sources, 8 claims: 6 well-attested, 2 holds.Well-attested42ArticlesA Founder's Own Unassisted Childbirth Experience Becomes the Template for Holotropic BreathworkBeyond the Breathwork Session, Christina Grof Builds an Organization and a Body of WritingBreathwork Replaces LSD and Founds a New FieldFrom Psychedelic Research to Breath AloneLSD Research Shapes a Psychiatrist's Early CareerTranspersonal Psychology's Working Method, and Its Open QuestionsHistorical FiguresChristina GrofStanislav GrofPracticesHolotropic BreathworkSourcesHolotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and TherapyHolds11ArticlesFrom Psychedelic Research to Breath AloneTranspersonal Psychology's Working Method, and Its Open QuestionsHistorical FiguresChristina GrofStanislav GrofPracticesHolotropic BreathworkSourcesHolotropic Breathwork: A New Approach to Self-Exploration and TherapyConnected4ArticlesA Founder's Own Unassisted Childbirth Experience Becomes the Template for Holotropic BreathworkBeyond the Breathwork Session, Christina Grof Builds an Organization and a Body of WritingBreathwork Replaces LSD and Founds a New FieldLSD Research Shapes a Psychiatrist's Early CareerGeneral References9ArticlesA Founder's Own Unassisted Childbirth Experience Becomes the Template for Holotropic BreathworkBeyond the Breathwork Session, Christina Grof Builds an Organization and a Body of WritingBreathwork Replaces LSD and Founds a New FieldFrom Psychedelic Research to Breath AloneLSD Research Shapes a Psychiatrist's Early CareerTranspersonal Psychology's Working Method, and Its Open QuestionsHistorical FiguresChristina GrofStanislav GrofPracticesHolotropic BreathworkComments (0)No comments yet. 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