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Diana Medina has been an integral part of the Grof Transpersonal Training staff since 1999. A senior GTT workshop leader and teacher, Diana has taught modules and led workshops independently in Colorado, New Mexico, New York and India, as well as working closely with Stan Grof and Tav Sparks at training modules in the U.S., Spain, Ireland,England, South America and Mexico. Diana began her personal breathwork journey in 1993 and was certified in 1998. She lives in a high altitude mountain farming community in southern Colorado and it was in this community she grew up surrounded by a large family deeply embedded in the importance of nature, community and spirituality. Diana has practiced medicine in the specialties of pediatrics and family practice for over 20 years. Recently she has began practicing craniosacral therapy as an adjunct to her interest in holistic healing practices. When she is not working Diana has a passion for African dancing, spending time in nature and enjoying her family and friends. Diana says, "It is a great pleasure being part of the GTT staff and an honor to be a witness and support to people from all over the world in their adventure of self-discovery. What a wonder to feel so deeply this being a member of the world community" |
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Diane Haug, M.A., LPCC, is a licensed therapist living in rural northern New Mexico. Her background includes a decade of working with adults and children dealing with life-threatening and terminal illness. Having completed the Grofs' first three-year training program, Diane has been involved with transpersonal psychology and the Holotropic Breathwork since 1986. As a senior staff member with GTT, she has been involved in teaching modules internationally (Scandinavia, Europe, Russia, South America) and in the United States. Diane has developed GTT training modules including Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy and Healing and The Art of Integration. Diane is currently involved in collaborations with other transpersonal teachers including Wes Nisker, Roshi Joan Halifax, Luis Eduardo Lun , and Ralph Metzner. She is presently on the advisory boards of both the Satyana Institute in Boulder, Colorado, and WASIWASKA: Research Centre for the Study of Psychointegrator Plants, Visionary Art and Consciousness in Florianopolis, Brazil. |
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Kylea Taylor, M.S., is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT# 34901). She has been a trainer for the Grof Transpersonal Training, Mill Valley, CA since 1993. She served on AHBI's Board and edited its newsletter for 16 years. Kylea is the author of The Ethics of Caring: Honoring the Web of Life in Our Professional Healing Relationships (1995), The Breathwork Experience: Exploration and Healing in Nonordinary States of Consciousness (1994), and The Holotropic Breathwork Facilitators' Manual (2007). She is the editor of Exploring Holotropic Breathwork (2003). |
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Nienke Merbis has completed courses in transpersonal psychology and shamanism in Canada. Moreover, she is a certified yoga teacher. She began her training in Holotropic BreathworkÔ in the United States in 1994 and certified in 1997. Since then she has been instrumental in creating and facilitating at workshops in Ireland. Nienke was born and raised in Holland. She went to work in Indonesia where she met her Dutch husband. They have lived with their two sons in many different countries around the world, adapting to and learning from new cultures every few years. Nienke is deeply committed to an inner journey, seeking to find and be able to use her potentials. She feels fortunate to have found Holotropic Breathwork™ as a way to give expression to herself and to support others on their journeys. She is equally fascinated employing different forms of art as a way to explore and express the mystery of life. For now, she has settled with her husband in Ireland, but they regularly visit their sons and partners in Canada and Holland. She enjoys her books, her music, her garden, her art and, above all, the playfulness of their two little granddaughters in Amsterdam. |
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Dorothy Hopkins combines her experience with business and her passion for working with people by regularly facilitating with the GTT training team in the US. In addition, she provides administrative support for the training and manages the bookstore at modules. Dorothy's personal journey with Holotropic Breathwork began 20 years ago as a fortuitous result of a college course requirement. Dorothy was certified as a Holotropic Breathowork practitioner in 2009. She considers the Holotropic perspective of wellness to be an important part of her life. Dorothy is also Chief Administrative Officer at Fires Creek Center. She was born and raised in Missouri and has travelled extensively throughout the US. She enjoys the outdoors, art, music and movies and considers herself a full time student of life. |
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Juanjo Segura was born in Madrid, Spain. In 1995 moved to Alicante where he has a private psychotherapy practice. For many years Juanjo was involved in the field of telecommunications, where he was trained in business management. As he decided to change his profession, he fulfilled his wish to become therapist, taking training in Integrative Psychotherapy and Claudio Naranjo SAT program with the Enneagram. Juanjo has also been working for several years with people in substance addiction rehabilitation programs. Very involved in zen meditation, he has taken the breathwork also to meditation groups. His background includes training in body-oriented techniques, martial arts and shamanism.
Juanjo is certified as facilitator in Holotropic Breathwork and has been organizing and leading numerous workshops in Spain and France in the last years. He has also worked on staff at international GTT training modules in Mexico, Spain and Ireland. Since 2003 is the organizer (with Sitara Blasco) of the Spanish GTT program, passionate about creating a structure of training and workshops that allows HB to become well known and available for trainees and for people in their path of self-discovery. Lately, Juanjo travels to the Peruvian forest for retreats with healing master plants. Since he was a child, Juanjo has been fascinated by nature and the animal world, with special interest in insects, amphibious and reptiles. Lately has expanded his interest to bird photography. |
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Sitara Blasco is a psychologist from Valencia University, Spain; with master studies in Gestalt psychotherapy and Integrative Psychology. Was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela and has lived in the United States several years before moving to Spain in 1990. Sitara lives in Alicante – Spain, where she has a private psychotherapy practice. Her background includes training in body-oriented techniques, theatre acting, dancing, shamanism and meditation. In the last years her interest in the Enneagram moved her to take Claudio Naranjo´s SAT program and studies in the spiritual aspects of the Enneagram.
She is certified as facilitator in Holotropic Breathwork, leading numerous workshops every year in Spain and France since 2002. She has also worked on staff at international GTT training modules in Mexico, Spain and Ireland. Since 2003 is co-organizer with Juanjo Segura of the Spanish GTT program. Passionate about the breathwork, she is currently working on her Ph.D. which involves HB. She loves teaching and has been teaching staff in training programs for Gestalt students and for therapist in training. She is often invited to present the healing potential of Holotropic Breathwork in lectures and conferences at Transpersonal Psychology events. She has translated several books in the field of psychotherapy; and has also been translating at GTT training modules in Spain and Mexico. Contact: sitara@holotropica.org and www.holotropica.org |
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Matthew Stezner has been practicing as a professional astrologer in San Francisco for more than 15 years. His passion is exploring the intersection of Archetypal Astrology, Transpersonal Psychology, and non-ordinary-states work (and he also loves movies!). He has worked for GTT in a number of capacities over the years: working in the office initially, and then, after completing the training in 1998, spending several years giving astrology readings to training participants. Later, he became a faculty member for the training, and he has taught his astrology module “The Power of Archetype,” both in the United States and internationally.
He is currently also a faculty member for the newly formed Institute of Archetypal Cosmology, which offers courses in archetypal astrology both in San Francisco and online. He is also the host of Correlations: The Archetypal Astrology Podcast. His Web site, the podcast, and his blog can be found at: www.matthewstelzner.com |
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Mireya Alejo, M.A., MFT, (MFC#44997) is a licensed psychotherapist and expressive arts therapist in private practice in San Francisco and Berkeley, California. She has been a certified Holotropic Breathwork practitioner since 1993. Since 1988, Mireya has been committed to the process of spiritual growth, consciousness exploration and creative expression. She studied Social Anthropology at Universidad Metropilitana in Mexico City. Her degree thesis focused on traditional women healers (curanderas), and participated in a comparative study of traditional and alternative ways of healing. She earned her M.A. in Counseling Psychology with a focus in Expressive Arts Therapy at the California Institute of Integral Studies, San Francisco, California. She also studied Drama Therapy with Armand Volkas at the Living Arts Counseling Center. She is the co-creator with Rosy Aronson, Ph.D. of RIE-Release, Immerse & Emerge- A creative meditation practice. |
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