January 3-4, 2026
New Year GROF® Breathwork Retreat—Kona Dance & Performing Arts
Start the New Year going within with breath, growth, and expression.
Hi Friends,
After our June retreat, we're returning to the marvelous Kona Dance & Performing Arts to begin 2026 with breath, intention, and community.
This retreat is special because it is one day long, giving many of you an introduction to the GROF® work and community. There is an optional (but highly encouraged!) morning integration on Sunday for non-verbal creative art expression.
We look forward to bringing in the New Year with you all!
With aloha, Elle and Amy
What is Grof® Breathwork?
Grof® Breathwork represents the authentic lineage of holotropic breathwork, authorized by Stan and Brigitte Grof. Born at California's legendary Esalen Institute in 1974, this powerful modality uses three elegantly simple tools to unlock profound states of awareness: accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused bodywork.
By activating the unconscious and mobilizing blocked energies, holotropic breathwork creates access to the full spectrum of human experience—from unresolved biographical material and emotional wounds to perinatal memories, death-rebirth sequences, and transpersonal realms that touch the mythological and archetypal.
“Consciousness does not just passively reflect the objective material world; it plays an active role in creating reality itself.”
Stan Grof
Meet the Team
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Amy Burrell
GROF® Facilitator
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Elle Luna
GROF® Apprentice
Our Tentative Schedule
Before Saturday
After you sign up, you will receive a Pre-Workshop recorded introductory talk (very important to listen to, even if you have come to one of our retreats previously) and an invite to a Zoom call before we gather Saturday.
Saturday, Jan 3
8:00am Arrival
8:30am Opening Circle
9:30am Breathwork #1
12:30pm Lunch (BYO)
2:30pm Breathwork #2
5:30pm Dinner (BYO)
6:30pm Closing Circle
7:30pm Depart
Sunday, Jan 4, optional
8:30am Arrival
9:00am Art Integration
12:30pm Depart
*There will be an optional Post-Workshop Zoom Integration session, a few days after the retreat.
What if I’ve never done breathwork before?
No problem. No experience is necessary.
We will give you all the information you need. It is very important that you watch the video we send to you before arriving on Saturday, even if you have been to one of our workshops before. If you’d like to learn more about Holotropic States, here is a three minute video of Stan Grof talking about the value of this kind of work throughout time and how he discovered the name “holotropic.” Or if you have more time, check out Stan’s interview with Tim Ferriss.
Why do I have to fill out a health questionnaire?
Grof® Breathwork is a transformative experience designed to facilitate self-exploration and healing. Due to the intense physical and emotional nature of the practice, certain health conditions may pose risks during breathwork sessions. To ensure the safety and well-being of all participants, please review the health considerations here.
What is included in the price?
We are offering a special rate of $150 for folks who sign up before December 15. This is a $25 savings. Light snacks, tea and water will be provided, as well as all of the tools you will need to breathe (mat, pillows, sheets, eye masks, etc), to sit, and to make a mandala after your session (watercolors, colored pencils, collage materials, etc). You will also receive a pre-workshop recording from the facilitation team beforehand, as well as a link to a one-hour integration call the following week.
“[Stan] developed, with his wife Christina, holotropic breathwork, which allows people to go to … very profound open states using breath. And it mirrored things that I’d learned in monastery in Burma… [Stan and I] worked together, retreats all around the world, and we’d be in a room with 200 or 300 people… Half of the people, 150 lying on their backs on a nice mat and then a sitter next to them. And then the music would start with the instructions, very simple instructions, breathe as deep and fast and hard as you can and keep it going until liftoff, till you go wherever you go… And they were encouraged to go through it and let it all out… And you’d go like, “What is this?” The result of it is that… if you trust the body and psyche and heart and mind to open and you give it the opportunity… and someone’s with you, so you’re not alone, it wants to open and whatever’s unfinished wants to come out… it becomes the doorway to the realms of profound awakening, freedom, and understanding—beautiful things.”
Jack Kornfield, on the Tim Ferriss podcast