375 Panterkill Road PO Box 70 Phoenicia, NY 12464 United States
August 9 - 13, 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
Dr. Catherine Hayes is a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator, a Certified Professional Co-Active Coach (CPCC); an Enneagram facilitator; certified Executive coach with the Leadership Circle Profile ™ and the Collective Leadership ™; Hogan Assessment Certified coach; an Authorized and Certified Riso-Hudson Enneagram Teacher, author and a speaker. She works with leaders, individually and within organizations, to uncover the truth of who they are so they can live and lead authentically and from their highest potential.
Uniquely blending her extensive leadership training and experience along with leadership coaching and group facilitation, she offers insights and opportunities beyond typical corporate assessment tools.
She has a keen ability to interpret and translate intricate personality type processes into simple and practical applications that empower individuals and their teams. She is a compassionate partner to leaders guiding them to ignite personal and organizational transformation that optimizes team collaboration, cohesiveness, and productivity in the workplace.
She holds a DMD degree, magna cum laude, from Tufts University and Masters and Doctoral degrees in Epidemiology from Harvard University where she also completed a Dental Public Health residency and a General Practice Residency at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital. She maintains faculty appointments at Harvard University and Boston University.
Dr. Nicholas Collura, DMin, BCC is an Enneagram teacher, spiritual director, retreat and workshop leader, and board-certified interfaith chaplain who currently directs Radius, an ethics program at MIT that challenges uncritical narratives of technological progress. In his early years, he studied film and literature at Yale University and the University of Paris. After earning his MDiv at Boston College, he also trained at the CG Jung Institute of New England and at the California Institute of Integral Studies & Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research. Nicholas spent several years as a Jesuit and then as a palliative care chaplain and chaplain manager in Philadelphia. In addition to his current work at MIT, he teaches spiritual care, developmental psychology, climate chaplaincy, and more at Villanova University and the BTS Center.
Nicholas is a certified teacher in the Narrative Enneagram tradition and is currently adapting his doctoral dissertation at Fordham — which situated the Enneagram in the context of contemporary research in personality psychology and neuroscience — into a book. His climate organizing work with faith-based communities in the United States has also led to a relationship with the Catholic Church in northern Peru, and his next book project is a study of what Christian eco-spirituality can learn from Upper Amazonian plant medicine traditions.
Jay Dufrechou, J.D., PhD is the Director of Grof Legacy Training USA, the United States branch of the international training organization founded in 2020 by Stanislav and Brigitte Grof. He holds a PhD in Transpersonal Psychology from the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (now Sofia University) and has been an adjunct professor there since 2002, often supervising research theses, many of which involve the work of Stanislav Grof. He earned his bachelor’s degree in English from Stanford University and holds a law degree from the University of California, Berkeley. Jay has taught for various transpersonal-related schools and supervised dissertation research, often involving Stan Grof’s work.
He certified as a breathwork facilitator in the Grof lineage in 2015 and has worked on breathwork facilitation teams across the US, and in the UK, Europe, Canada, India and China. He is a certified Grof® Breathwork facilitator and has facilitated workshops in the US, Canada, the UK, India, and China. Jay is the author of Moving through Grief: Reconnecting with Nature, a book that explores the experiences of grief, crying, and other deep emotions that many people encounter through intimate contact with nature, particularly in the context of today’s ecological challenges. He is also the co-author of The Psychedelics Integration Handbook, a companion guide for individuals seriously exploring psychedelics for healing and personal growth.
Details of this retreat
This workshop will explore how Holotropic Breathwork® and the Enneagram can facilitate healing, our desire for transcendence, wholeness and connection to our Divine Nature.
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, transformation 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.
Holotropic Breathwork is a tool for bringing unconscious material into conscious awareness. It can serve as a portal into the unconscious, allowing participants to access, process, and release unprocessed memories, trauma, and repressed emotions. For centuries, and across many cultures, expanded 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.
The Enneagram
Holotropic Breathwork is a practice which helps us to connect more deeply with the truth of who we are, our divine self. When we return to ordinary states of consciousness, however, we may wonder how to integrate this core truth into the fabric of our daily life – and into our own particular ego structure.
The Enneagram is an ancient teaching and a powerful tool for transformation. Understanding our Enneagram personality type can help unlock a greater understanding into the depth of who we are beyond our patterns of behavior. The Enneagram tradition exists to remind us of our unconscious patterns of behavior that keep us asleep to the truth of who we are. Weaving these two modalities together can be a powerful way to uncover, and live from, our divine/true self.
According to the Enneagram system, there are nine facets of the human personality, and no one person will fit into only one type. However, if you consider your patterns of behavior throughout your life, you will likely be able to identify a dominant one. From a spiritual perspective, our primary type is the way our soul seeks to reconnect to the Divine, or our True Nature.
Learning the Enneagram can help us find our way back to a sense of connection, alignment and resonance with our True Nature, especially once we’ve reawakened to it through the modality of breathwork. This is not a primarily cognitive process; in this retreat, our journey integrating the Enneagram and Holotropic Breathwork will be deepened through experiential practices.
In this immersive retreat, our journey integrating the Enneagram and Holotropic Breathwork will be deepened through experiential practices and include:
An introductory talk on the practice of Holotropic Breathwork and Exploring the Enneagram
Four Holotropic Breathwork® sessions (two as a breather and two as a sitter)
Sound healing Session
Opportunities to explore the link between the Enneagram and the Holotropic Breathwork lineage
Learn about the Enneagram theory, focusing on the three triads and the relationship between ego and Essence
Participate in large group demonstrations and small group work to delve deeper into your Holotropic Breathwork inner work through the lens of the Enneagram.
Embodied exercises that connect us to our somatic experience of our Enneagram type
Nature-Based Practices
Sharing Circles
Mandala Drawing
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.
No particular knowledge of the Enneagram is required, but those who are unfamiliar with the nine basic type structures – or who are unfamiliar with their own type – will be given options for a pre-retreat preparation Zoom LIVE session with one of our Enneagram facilitators that will enhance their experience of the retreat.
Schedule:
Sunday, August 9
3 - 6 pm Check-in
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:15 - 8 pm Opening Circle
8 - 10 pm Talk: The Practice of Holotropic Breathwork and Introduction to the Enneagram
Monday, August 10
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:15 am - 12:15 pm Holotropic Breathwork #1 - Please arrive by 9 am to set up
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm Self-Care Time - Sapphire Outdoor Pool and Dewa Spa Open
2:30 - 5:30 pm Holotropic Breathwork #2 - Please arrive by 2:15 pm to set up
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:15 - 8:45 pm Sharing Circle
8:45 - 9:15 pm Sound Healing Session
Tuesday, August 11
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9 am - 12 pm Panels. Large group demonstrations and small group work.
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:30 pm Self-Care Time - Sapphire Outdoor Pool and Dewa Spa Open
2:30 - 5:45 pm Walking the Enneagram Map. Interactive dialogue and sharing.
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:15 - 9 pm Encountering the Sacred. Interactive discussion and experiential exercises.
Wednesday, August 12 – Holotropic Breathwork Day
8 - 9 am Breakfast
9:15 am - 12:15 pm Holotropic Breathwork #3 - Please arrive by 9 am
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 - 2:15 pm Self-Care Time - Pool and Spa Open
2: 30 - 5:30 pm Holotropic Breathwork #4 - Please arrive by 2:15 pm
6 - 7 pm Dinner
7:15 - 9 pm Sharing Circle
9 - 10 pm Community Fire Gathering or Dance Celebration
Thursday, August 13
8 - 9 am Breakfast/Check-Out of Rooms
9:15 - 10 am Holotropic Breathwork Integration Talk
10 - 11 am Enneagram Integration Talk
11 am - 12 pm Closing Circle
12:30 - 1:30 pm Lunch
2 pm Departure
*Please note this schedule is subject to change.
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