According to Fincham et al. (2023), "Grof Breathwork is a popular technique designed by psychiatrist Stanislav Grof as a non-drug alternative for inducing non-ordinary states of consciousness for psychotherapeutic applications once the drug compound lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) was criminalised in 1968 and could no longer be used for this purpose. It instructs participants to breathe as fast and deep as they can for three hours with no pauses or prescribed rhythm, rate, or pattern."^[1]

References

↑ Fincham, G. W., Kartar, A., Uthaug, M. V., Anderson, B., Hall, L., Nagai, Y., Critchley, H., & Colasanti, A. (2023). High ventilation breathwork practices: An overview of their effects, mechanisms, and considerations for clinical applications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, 105453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105453

[1] Fincham, G. W., Kartar, A., Uthaug, M. V., Anderson, B., Hall, L., Nagai, Y., Critchley, H., & Colasanti, A. (2023). High ventilation breathwork practices: An overview of their effects, mechanisms, and considerations for clinical applications. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 155, 105453. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neubiorev.2023.105453

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