PT478 – Christine Calvert, LCDC – Holotropic Breathwork as a Stepping Stone, Complementary Therapy, and Teacher

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🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 63 minutes

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In this episode, Joe interviews Christine Calvert: Licensed Chemical Dependency Counselor and certified Holotropic Breathwork® facilitator.

She talks about how addiction led her to breathwork, how breathwork has helped her over the years, how breathwork can be a compliment to other self-work, and how becoming comfortable with breathwork first could be a very important stepping stone towards better understanding the psychedelic experience. She talks about how years of breathwork helped her navigate complicated states of consciousness, and the incredible benefit of learning to trust our body's capacity to heal itself.

She discusses using bodywork in sessions and the importance of having the experiencer be the one who requests it; how much a facilitator's past relationship with touch affects how they use touch; the risk in meditation vs. the safety of breathwork; the concept of learning self-awareness; how profound it is to be witnessed in breathwork's dyad model; and why researching and creating guidelines for this kind of work seems impossible.

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0:00.0	Hello, everybody, welcome back to psychedelics today.
0:14.0	Joe Moore here.
0:15.1	Today on the show, we have Christine Calvert, who is somebody I've been following for many years and did a breathwork workshop
0:23.1	that she ran ages ago in Boulder as well. So Christine has been on the show before. I actually
0:31.8	messed that up on the intro, the second intro, they'll hear in a little bit. But Christine was on episode 313 of
0:41.1	Psychedelics A from April 27-ish. Yeah, Christine's website, you can check her out, alchemicalnector.com,
0:48.6	and you'll hear some good stuff here that's in alignment with PT. But we talk a lot about holotropic breathwork.
0:55.5	Horticropic breathwork is a preparation method as a tool in and of itself,
0:59.6	how it can complement therapy.
1:01.9	Yeah, and Christine is a licensed chemical dependency counselor and certified
1:06.6	holotropic breathwork facilitator.
1:08.5	She teaches modules for people who are studying
1:12.2	holtropic breathwork proper. And also, yeah, tries to pull in from other systems such as
1:18.8	shamanism, Smatic experiencing, Jungian psychology, attachment theory, and mindfulness practices
1:23.9	into her own work. She lives in Portland or in Oregon and is supporting some of the
1:29.4	psilocybin facilitator trainings and much more. So real powerful figure to have on the show,
1:37.1	Christine, thank you so much for coming on and I hope we can do more. Yeah. All right. And I think
1:42.9	that's it for now, everybody. Thanks for tuning into this episode and we will see you on the other side. Yeah. All right. And I think that's it for now, everybody. Thanks for tuning into this
1:45.4	episode. And we will see you on the other side. Enjoy.
1:53.0	Hello, everybody. Welcome back to psychedelics today. We are joined by Christine Calvert today.
1:57.9	How are you today? Hey, good. It's good to be with you, Joe. Yeah,
2:02.4	likewise. It's, um, I think our first time ever recording together. And I'm pumped to share you with
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