375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States
October 4 - 7, 2026
About this Retreat
Dr. Laurane McGlynn, PsyD is a clinical psychologist who integrates mind/body medicine, psychotherapy, mindfulness, meditation, Holotropic Breathwork, functional medicine and shamanic practices to support healing and transformation. She holds doctoral degrees in Clinical Psychology and Marriage and Family Therapy and Masters degrees in Counseling Psychology and Child and Adolescent Therapy. In addition, she has advanced training and certifications in mindfulness- based stress reduction, somatic resourcing, Vipassana meditation, Family Systems Therapy, Past Life Regression and Health Psychology. In 2023, she completed training in Mind/Body medicine from Harvard Medical School. In addition, she is currently enrolled in a Masters program in Integrative Medicine.
Laurane has earned licensure as a psychologist in Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey. She is the Director of the
A Healing Space - A Center for Integrative Medicine and Wellness in Pennsylvania. She was certified as a Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator in 2015. Laurane received her Holotropic Breathwork training directly from Stan Grof, MD and the late Tav Sparks, former Director of Grof Transpersonal Training. Her work is heart-centered, compassionate, intuitive and empowering Dr. McGlynn offers Holotropic Breathwork workshops throughout the United States and Canada and trainings to psychedelic-assisted therapy programs. Publications: Opening Inward: A Collection of poetry from the Inner World of Holotropic Breathwork Paperback – May 3, 2018. Available through Amazon.com.
www.drlauranemcglynn.com
Stephenie Purnell, Founder of Spiritus8 ®, is a certified Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator, Trance Movement™ practitioner, and expert in the use of expanded states of consciousness for healing addiction. Sober since 2010, she credits her recovery to Holotropic Breathwork®, which succeeded where traditional approaches — including AA, therapy, and treatment — could not. For her, Holotropic Breathwork® served as a reorganizing psychospiritual principle, creating new neuropathways and dissolving maladaptive coping mechanisms.
One of only five certified Holotropic Breathwork® facilitators in Texas and the only certified Trance Movement™ facilitator in the U.S., Stephenie brings over 15 years of experience and more than 800 hours of training in expanded states. She is known for her ability to create trauma-informed, safe, sacred containers where profound transformation can unfold.
Stephenie previously served as a development officer and national advocate for young people in recovery, including leadership roles at the University of Texas Center for Students in Recovery. While fundraising and leading teams for the College of Arts & Sciences at the University of Colorado Boulder, she remained actively involved in supporting collegiate recovery programs both locally and at the national level. Her capacity to hold space — whether for students, donors, or the dying — reflects the heart of her calling: to witness, support, and honor the moments that shape us – the breaking, the becoming and the beauty in between. She now leads Holotropic Breathwork® and Trance Movement™ retreats across the U.S. and abroad. Passionate about integrating Buddhist understanding of addiction as a cycle of insatiable hunger and thirst, she bridges this lens with expanded-state healing modalities. Through lived experience, she believes that every addictive pattern is reversible through deep psychic change.
Details of this retreat
This workshop will explore how Holotropic Breathwork® can facilitate healing from trauma, addiction, mental health issues and our desire for transcendence and wholeness.
The New York Times described Holotropic Breathwork® as “heart opening” and a way to heal yourself and improve mood. For centuries, and across many cultures, non-ordinary states of consciousness have been used as a tool for transformation and healing.
The therapeutic benefits of Holotropic Breathwork® can include release and healing of trauma and grief, improving anxiety and depression, supporting recovery from addiction, higher insights of spiritual understanding, increased connection to self and others, and opening to compassion and love.
You are invited to join us to experience the remarkable healing potential and therapeutic benefits of Holotropic Breathwork®, a powerful breathwork practice that allows for self-exploration and healing. With eyes closed and lying on a mat, you will use your own breath and the music in the room to enter an expanded state of consciousness. This state activates the natural inner healing potential of the breather, or “inner healer”, which guides the experience.
In this immersive double breathwork workshop, you will experience:
Four Holotropic Breathwork® sessions (two as a breather and two as a sitter)
Sound healing Session
Nature-based Practices
Sharing Circles
Mandala Drawing
An Introductory Talk on the Theory and Practice of Holotropic Breathwork
Expressive Movement Experience
Integrative Writing Practice
This workshop is open to new breathers, experienced breathers, those in the Grof Transpersonal Training community, Grof Legacy Training community, Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies or anyone interested in Holotropic Breathwork.
This workshop is approved by Grof Transpersonal Training for completion of the double breathwork requirements for the online training modules. It is also approved by Grof Legacy Training to meet the breathwork requirements for their training program.
*Contraindications: pregnancy, serious heart conditions, epilepsy, glaucoma, retinal detachment, history of severe mental or emotional disorders, acute infectious disease, and recent injury or surgery. For more information or to register please email drmcglynn6@gmail.com.
Schedule:
Sunday, October 4
3 Check-in
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:30 - 8 pm Opening Circle
8 - 10 pm Talk: Introduction to Holotropic Breathwork
Monday, October 5
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:15 am - 12:15 pm Holotropic Breathwork #1 – Please arrive by 9 am to set up if you are breathing
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 pm Self-Care Time
2:30 - 5:30 pm Holotropic Breathwork #2 - Please arrive by 2:15 pm to set up
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:15 - 8:30 pm Sharing Circle
8:45 - 9:15 pm Sound Healing Session
Tuesday, October 6
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:15 - 12:15 pm Holotropic Breathwork #3 - Please arrive by 9 am to set up
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 pm Self-Care Time
2:30 - 5:30 pm Holotropic Breathwork #4 - Please arrive by 2:15 pm to set up
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:15 - 8:15 pm Sharing Circle
8:30 - 9:30 pm Dance Celebration or Fire Ceremony
Wednesday, October 7
8 - 9 am Breakfast/Room Check-Out
9:15 - 10:15 am Integrative Writing/Nature-Based Practice
10:30 - 11 am Talk on Integration
11 am - 12:00 pm Closing Circle
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
2 pm Departure
*Please note this schedule is subject to change at any time.
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