Journey Within: A Grof® Breathwork Weekend

What if you could enter a psychedelic-like state of consciousness—without taking a psychedelic?

This November, experience a multi-day Grof® Breathwork experience designed for deep inner exploration and transformation. 

Stanislav Grof, M.D., Ph.D., who just celebrated his 95^th birthday, is considered one of the great pioneers of the therapeutic use of psychedelics. For decades, Stan Grof's research with psychedelics revealed that activating the unconscious invites access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished issues from our post-natal biography, imprints of trauma, perinatal experiences, death and rebirth sequences, and transpersonal experiences that can reach mystical, mythological, archetypal, and universal realms.

In the 1970’s Stan developed Grof® (holotropic) Breathwork, which uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and a supportive therapeutic container as a powerful alternative way of accessing the same non-ordinary state of consciousness that psychedelics confer. For those who are inexperienced with psychedelics, it can be a powerful introduction to self-exploration. And experienced psychedelic psychonauts have reported experiences rivaling their most profound psychedelic journeys.

Grof® Breathwork is not about forcing an outcome or chasing a particular state. It is about creating the conditions for something deeper to emerge. The invitation is simply to breathe, surrender, and discover what is waiting within.

Experience the breath differently.

Space is limited to maintain an intimate and supportive workshop environment. Please email any questions to: gianna@grof-legacy-training-usa.com

Facilitators

Colleen Reid

Colleen Reid is a certified Grof® Breathwork Facilitator, Spiritual Emergence Coach®, and Integration Coach, and serves as one of three senior faculty members of Grof® Legacy Training USA.

She holds a B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College and a Master of Environmental Studies from Yale University. Before turning her full attention to work with consciousness and transformation, Colleen spent many years in environmental conservation through fieldwork, research, nonprofit leadership, and consulting. From 1997 to 2002, she also competed internationally in skeleton at the World Cup and Olympic levels.

Colleen’s life was profoundly transformed in February 2014 by a spontaneous spiritual awakening and period of deep spiritual emergence. The experience permanently changed her understanding of consciousness, self, and the sacred, and ultimately redirected the course of her life. During this period, she discovered Holotropic® Breathwork and credits the work not with causing, but with catalyzing, her awakening.

In 2014, Colleen began intensive training in the Grof lineage and was certified in Holotropic Breathwork and Transpersonal Psychology through Grof Transpersonal Training® in 2015. Her additional studies include certification in Spiritual Emergence Coaching® through IMHU and a year-long program in global mysticism with Andrew Harvey and Mirabai Starr. She later founded BodhiBreath®, offering teaching, spiritual emergence coaching, psychedelic integration, and breathwork workshops.

Today, Colleen’s work with Grof® Legacy Training USA is the central focus of her professional life, where she teaches, facilitates, and mentors new generations of practitioners. She brings to this work both extensive training and lived experience with expanded states of consciousness. Her deepest passion is creating safe, grounded spaces in which people can access the innate healing intelligence of the psyche and discover the transformative potential of their own inner process.

Lincoln Scott

Lincoln has been facilitating breathwork retreats for the past fifteen years. He worked on staff with Grof Transpersonal Training from 2010-2016. For the last two and a half years, he has worked as a staff facilitator with the Grof Legacy Project, hosting retreats at Synergia Retreat Center.

In 2008, he began studying with Zen Buddhist writing teacher Natalie Goldberg at The Mabel Luhan House in Taos, New Mexico. He has adapted her "writing practice" to the breathwork experience as an integrative tool. He has been teaching writing workshops both live and on zoom for the past ten years. He spent three summers teaching writing practice with Diane Haug at her Ocamora retreat in Ocate, New Mexico.

He currently resides outside of Wichita, Kansas where he manages a residential remodeling business and a woodworking shop.

Brandon Schneider, MD (apprentice)

Brandon Schneider, MD is an integrative psychiatrist and psychotherapist based in Los Angeles and a Grof® Breathwork Level 2 Apprentice Facilitator. He was drawn to this work following a profound personal experience with holotropic breathwork and views it as a potent tool for transformation and self-exploration.

He holds a BA in Art History from Yale University; an MD from UC San Francisco; and numerous professional certifications, including Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy from the Integrative Psychiatry Institute (IPI), Internal Family Systems Therapy (Level 1), Nutritional Psychiatry (IPI), Interpersonal Psychotherapy from UCLA, and others. He is also an avid yogi and meditation practitioner. 

Gianna Sutley (apprentice)

Gianna is a Program Manager for Grof Legacy Training USA and an Administrative Assistant for the Grof Legacy Project. She is completing her Level 2 Grof Breathwork Facilitator Training and is currently studying in the Grofian Psychedelic Facilitation training. She is also a Certified Psychosynthesis Life Coach and a 200-hour certified yoga teacher.

Gianna is passionate about supporting people who feel stuck, disconnected, or at a crossroads in reconnecting with themselves, their purpose, and their own inner wisdom. Her work centers on helping people integrate transformative experiences, find meaning in what they’ve learned, and create lives that feel more authentic and aligned.

An unconventional thinker and lifelong explorer, Gianna brings the same curiosity to her inner world as she does to the outer one—traveling, adventuring, spending time in nature, and continually exploring new ways of understanding herself, others, and the world. She's living the nomadic lifestyle, but has a semi-permanent base in Denver, CO with her Catahoula Leopard Dog, D'Artagnan.