The mission of the GROF® Legacy Project is to preserve and promote the pioneering work of Stanislav Grof, MD. Informed by sixty years of research, Grof’s understanding of the healing potential of ‘holotropic states of consciousness’ has great relevance across many academic, clinical, and scientific disciplines. The GROF® Legacy Project has been authorized by Stan and Brigitte Grof to carry his work forward in the United States.
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GROF® Legacy Project USA
is pleased to announce
The Healing Potential of
Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness:
The Legacy of Stanislav Grof
GROF® Breathwork Retreats
The GROF® Legacy Project will be offering four residential events in 2025 at Synergia Ranch outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. While open to the public, these GROF® Breathwork residential offerings are attracting many licensed professionals who are on the track to become psychedelic psychotherapists. Many have already completed certificate programs with other schools or organizations. Many express a need to have more hands on experience with people in expanded states. Many realize that they need a safe place to do their own inner work.
GROF® Breathwork has proven to be an excellent tool for those interested in better supporting work in non-ordinary states of consciousness. The skill set involves learning how to carefully prepare people for deep non-ordinary state work; how to create ethical, respectful, and safe settings; how to cultivate the naturally therapeutic presence critical for effective sitting or guiding; and how to provide skillful guidance related to the integrative process that follows a deep experience. All these skills have great relevance in relation to supporting those in psycho-spiritual crisis, the dying process, recovery from trauma or addiction, as well as preparing for work in the emerging field of psychedelic psychotherapy.
Residential GROF® Breathwork retreats at Synergia will offer both a theoretical and practical introduction to the work of Stanislav Grof, MD. They will be highly experiential. Using GROF® Breathwork as a therapeutic modality, participants will have two opportunities to experience the breathwork process and two opportunities to hold space for a partner.
2025 Santa Fe Retreats
March 19-23 | April 23-27 | September 24-28 | October 22-26
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Winter 2024 Update
Greetings from the GROF® Legacy Project team! New York Times Article Featuring GROF® Breathwork The GROF® Legacy Project began the New Year with an exciting Grof-related feature article in the New York Times! In October 2023 acclaimed New York Times journalist,...
New York Times: Breathing Their Way to an Altered State
"As psychedelics move from the underground to mainstream medicine, clinicians aspiring to work in the field are inducing altered states with deep breathing." Article by Ernesto Londoño This article appeared on the New York Times online edition on January 9, 2024,...
October 2023 Update from the Director
Diane Haug Director Dear Friends, As the Grof Legacy Project is moving towards its last residential retreat for 2023 we are reflecting on all that we have been able to offer since our first in-person work began in May 2022 at Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe, New...
2024 Retreat Dates Now Available!
We have now posted the first two retreats in Santa Fe, New Mexico for 2024. These are March and May. Additional retreats to be announced soon. Upcoming Retreats 2024 We are offering the following retreat opportunities in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Additional dates...
