Jim Schofield, (advisor) Jim took the first Grof Transpersonal Training in the USA with Christina and Stan Grof which completed in 1990. With Kylea Taylor he facilitated Holotropic Breathwork® in their home from 1990-2007. He assisted at nine of the “Insight and Opening” Intensives with Jack Kornfield and Stan Grof. Jim is CFO of SoulCollage Inc. and brings his experience in finance, marketing and management as a Silicon Valley executive to the further flourishing of both world-wide self-discovery methods — Holotropic Breathwork® and SoulCollage®.
Juanjo Segura
Juanjo Segura (module facilitator; advisor) Madrid 1961. Therapist. Master in Integrative Clinical Psychology. Holotropic Holotropic Breathwork Trainer | Senior Member, Grof Transpersonal Training International Faculty. Juanjo organized in Spain Grof Transpersonal Training. Trained in the SAT program by Claudio Naranjo. Zen Practitioner. Mindfulness Monitor by EAP (School of Full Attention)
Juanjo facilitates Holotropic Breathwork workshops and training both inside and outside Spain.
He works as a therapist in Alicante and conducts online therapies in English and Spanish.
Linda Smith
Linda Smith Bernal (module facilitator, Director GTT Mexico) has been a certified Holotropic Breathwork facilitator since 2008.
Kylea Taylor
Kylea Taylor, M.S., (senior teacher; advisor) is a California licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFT# 34901). She has been a part of Grof Transpersonal Training since 1993. She served on the Board of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork and edited its newsletter for 16 years.
Kylea says, “I have been studying with the Grofs since 1984. That was the beginning of a period of intense personal spiritual emergence which lasted for the next five years, during which I completed the Grof’s first three-year training program. For me, the most important thing about the GTT training was (and is) that it contains an international community of people who are undergoing deep personal change, and who can understand and support one another.”
Kylea is the author of The Ethics of Caring: Finding Right Relationship with Clients (2017, 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).
Kylea lives in central California, where she has a private ethics consulting practice and manages Hanford Mead Publishers, Inc. and SoulCollage Inc.
Jai Uttal
Jai Uttal, Grammy nominated sacred music composer, recording artist, multi-instrumentalist, and ecstatic vocalist, combines influences from India with influences from American rock and jazz, creating a stimulating and exotic multi-cultural fusion that is truly world spirit music.
Having travelled extensively in India, where he met many great saints and singers, Bhakti Yoga became his personal path. Jai has been leading, teaching and performing kirtan around the world for close to 50 years, creating a safe environment for people to open their hearts and voices.
Monika Wikman
Monika Wikman, Ph.D. (guest teacher) works as an Astrologer and Jungian Analyst along the Tesuque Creek in New Mexico, the land of paradox; home to the invention of the atom bomb, the still vibrant Pueblo cultures, deep poverty, and birthplace of innovation in the healing arts.
She graduated from the Research and Training Center for Depth Psychology according to Carl Jung and M. L. von Franz in Zurich, Switzerland, taught graduate students in counseling for seven years at California State University Los Angeles, and conducted a several-year research study on dreams of the dying at the University of California, San Diego, Medical Center.
Monika particularly enjoys collaborating with Diane Haug creating weeklong retreats with Holotropic Breathwork as a component for diving deeply into the living waters of the psyche.
Silvia Chiemi Yamamoto
Silvia Chiemi Yamamoto (organizer GTT Mexico; module facilitator) lives in Mexico City. Chiemi is a psychologist who has been certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator since 2005. Her degrees and studies are: humanistic psychology MA, MBA, studies in thanatology, NLP and EMDR. Chiemi has worked with HIV organizations, Diversity & Inclusion, Gender and Organizational Culture for 10 years.
Kate Silver
Kate Silver (advisor) is an artist and author. She is the co-creator of The New Earth Tarot Deck and author of The New Earth Tarot Handbook. Kate has been a certified Holotropic Breathwork™ facilitator since 1998.
Jack Silver
Jack Silver (advisor) has been a certified Holotropic Breathwork™ facilitator since 1998. Jack is an attorney who specializes in environmental law.