Double Holotropic Breathwork®, Zen and the Spiritual Quest. - 18.10. - 23.10.2025
You are heartily invited to join us on our extended 5-day Holotropic Breathwork® and Zen Meditation retreat on a transformative journey of self-discovery.
Holotropic Breathwork, Zen and the Spiritual Quest.
“An important characteristic of the holotropic strategy of therapy and self-exploration is that sooner or later it turns into a philosophical and spiritual quest.”
-Holotropic Breathwork, Grof & Grof, 2010
“To study the buddha way is to study the self. To study the self is to forget the self."
-Zen Master Dogen (1200 - 1253)
On this retreat we will have five days to dedicate ourselves to the spiritual quest. Through Holotropic Breathwork® (HB), Zazen, lectures, sharing and discussion, making mandalas, movie yoga, physical exercise and being together as a temporary community each person will have time to inquire deeply into themselves. There will be Q&A exchanges with lectures and presentations on the practice and theory of HB. Each participant will experience four Holotropic Breathwork sessions on this retreat. ( Two as Breather and two as Sitter )
Often when studying the concepts and theories of Holotropic Breathwork®, though approached through the mind, an inner yearning can awaken to take up a spiritual path. Zen is such a path. In these five days there will be talks on Zen Buddhism and guidance in Zazen, the age old method of seated meditation. Practicing Zazen - with upright posture, breathing and meditative walking, we take time to integrate our HB experiences. As body and mind settle, turning inside we can see our true nature.
Continuing through the expanded states and sometimes extraordinary experiences of HB and then sitting Zazen, we will be able to look closely at how we relate to our experiences. It can be that immediately after a HB session we feel whole and at ease. But when the mind comes back in, and we attach to and try to organise the experience, we lose the sense of ease and wholeness. Holding or attachment in Buddhist language, is one of the basic actions of a self. In this phase of the journey we start looking into the very idea of who or what this self is.
Developing focused attention in the stopping and seeing practice of Zazen, we can become aware how we sometimes use experiences from our HB sessions to re-create the dualistic self that we were suffering under and had set out to change. Zazen, when practiced in the right way, is a method that does not change or remove anything. Rather, by allowing the body and mind to settle, our dualistic self and its ideas drop away, and we are naturally at ease, not needing to attach to anything. This natural, focused, non-holding attention can in turn be brought back to our HB sessions as we continue to open and let go of experiences so that moment by moment we remain present and available.
Zazen enables us to integrate, embody and allow the settling of our Holotropic Breathwork® experiences. From this settled place, progressively deepening our sense of being home, we are free to experience whatever arises here and now.
No previous experience is required in Holotropic Breathwork® or Zazen meditation. All are welcome.
The workshops are set up to create a deep sense of support and safety for participants, which facilitates the exploration of consciousness and deeper levels of awareness.
The number of participants is limited.
The workshop will be held in english / german with translation in either direction.
This is a residential workshop. We kindly ask all participants to stay at the retreat centre.
Address:
Seminarhof Plockhorst
Im Deilen 4, 31234 Edemissen, Germany
There is an easy train connection and we support with travel arrangements. The nearest airport is Hanover / Germany. By train from Berlin it takes about 2 1/2 hours.
Investment: 450€
Accommodation and full board is extra:
- Single Room + full board: 375€
- Double Room + full board: 375€
- Camping + full board: 295€
WE DO THE RESERVATION FOR YOU.
Please note: there are only a limited number of single rooms available. We will try to fulfill your wishes.
Registration:
Send us an email for Registration. You will get the registration form and the medical form to fill out from us. Your participation in this workshop is secured as soon as the deposit has been received by bank transfer and the registration form and the medical form has been emailed back to:
holotropicbreathworkberlin@gmail.com
Or book directly on this page.
More about us:
Speakers
Lydia Schamschula
Lydia is an actress and filmmaker and was always curious to approach the filmmaking as a way to explore the mystery of life. She is deeply committed to work in consciousness and meditation. Many years ago she found her spiritual guide and a great com... read more ..
Cyrus Bruton
Cyrus Bruton, born 1960 in the UK and lives since over 30 years in Berlin, Germany where he has been guiding and holding space for community grounded in meditation and wholesome daily living since 1999. In the 80’s and 90’s he lived and worked in I... read more ..
Location
Payment Policy
Double Breathwork and Zen Meditation 450€
Accommodation and full board is extra:
- Single room + full board: 375€
- Double room + full board: 375€
- Camping + full board: 295€
The rooms are booked by us, please mail us your choice.
Please note: there are only a limited number of single rooms available. We will try to fulfill your wishes.
Cancellation Policy
If you need to cancel the workshop up to 21 days before the workshop, we will transfer the money back to you. Cancellation within the 21 days before the workshop, we can only refund the money, if we can fill your spot.
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