Dear friends, colleagues, trainees, facilitators, organizers, and members of the Holotropic Breathwork community,
With great sadness and deep respect for this work, I want to share that I have decided to end my collaboration with Grof Transpersonal Training Europe in its current form.
This has not been an easy decision. I have waited and reflected for a long time. As many of you know, Holotropic Breathwork has been one of the central commitments of my life.
I first came into contact with Grof Transpersonal Training in 1998, when I was asked to translate for Stan Grof. I was certified as a Holotropic Breathwork facilitator in 2002. Since then, I have had the privilege of learning and working with Stan and Christina Grof, and with many senior teachers, apprentices, facilitators, teams, and organizers. I have been deeply touched by the integrity and humanity of so many people who have served this work.
For many years, I worked closely with Tav Sparks, a beloved teacher and friend. I had the honor of being by his side in many modules, translating, facilitating, learning, and absorbing the living transmission of this work. In that time, I felt deeply supported and encouraged by him to gradually step forward into teaching.
Supporting people to breathe, learn, apprentice, grow, and facilitate this work responsibly remains a central commitment in my life. I believe that becoming a facilitator happens not only through understanding the theoretical foundations of the Holotropic Paradigm, but also through personal growth, practice, and the accompaniment of more experienced facilitators who can offer presence, kind and conscious feedback, consultations, follow-up, acknowledgement of progress, support with specific challenges, and the careful transmission of practice.
Teaching and supporting this process has been my mission and my passion, always guided by respect for the Inner Healer, the dignity of each person’s process, and the responsibility that comes with facilitating non-ordinary states of consciousness.
For almost two decades, together with Juanjo Segura, I co-organized and taught the training in Spain. Over time, it became much more than a sequence of modules: it became a living community where people could breathe, learn, swim, dance, rest, celebrate, grow, and discover deep inner resources together. For many of us, those modules became a meaningful experience of community, continuity, and embodied learning.
In those modules, Juanjo and I worked with a long-standing core team of teachers, friends, translators, and facilitators. This continuity brought stability and depth from module to module, offered consistent follow-up for trainees, and supported many apprentices who are now facilitating across Europe.
Over the years, I have taught and co-taught modules throughout Europe and internationally, including The Holotropic Paradigm, Spiritual Emergency, The Power Within, Music and Transcendence, In the Heart of Breathwork, which I created, and The Facilitator’s Adventure, created by Juanjo. I have also served as part of the team in a previous Certification in Mexico, and in the last seven European Certification processes.
During those years, we also created original modules that opened new bridges between Holotropic Breathwork and other fields, including Buddhist Meditation and Holotropic Breathwork, Master Plants and Holotropic Breathwork, Consciousness Evolution and Holotropic Breathwork, and Advanced Facilitation Practice. These explorations were born from our creativity and from our wish to expand the dialogue between the Holotropic perspective and other traditions.
Even this brief account can only suggest the depth of the role Holotropic Breathwork has played in my life.
When COVID-19 brought everything to a halt in 2020, our organizing work also paused. What began as an unavoidable interruption became a needed time to rest, reflect, and listen to what was next. Since then, I have continued serving the international community as a teacher and facilitator wherever invited and needed.
In recent years, I have experienced the situation within the wider community as marked by stress, uncertainty, and pain. During this time, I have tried to remain available to the wider community, offering my presence wherever invited, with the hope of supporting continuity and care. I hoped that continuing to teach and facilitate responsibly could serve as a bridge, helping students and organizers recognize the living thread of the teachings and the shared foundations many of us have carried for years.
However, after much reflection, I have come to recognize that I can no longer continue my collaboration with Grof Transpersonal Training Europe in its current form. I am particularly sorry that I will not be present at the next GTT Europe Certification in 2027.
I am aware that this decision may affect trainees and participants who were expecting to meet me there and in future modules. I am truly sorry for any disappointment, confusion, or difficulty this may create. Please know that I hold this with great care and responsibility.
This decision does not diminish my gratitude for the students, colleagues, teams, and many meaningful moments I have shared on this path, or the love I continue to feel for the wider Holotropic Breathwork community.
I also want to say clearly that I am sharing this statement to communicate a personal decision, not to open a public debate or discussion. I understand that people may have their own feelings and perspectives, but for me this is the closing of a chapter that I have considered with great care over a long period of time.
I will continue facilitating, teaching, and contributing to this field through The Institute for Holotropics / GTT in the United States, through Holotropic Training Poland, including my participation in the Certification in Poland in 2028, and through other organizations and projects devoted to Holotropic Breathwork, the Holotropic Paradigm, and the responsible exploration of non-ordinary states of consciousness.
My commitment remains the same: to serve this work with care, humility, integrity, and love.
I hope that, even in this difficult time, we can all remember what this work has taught us: to stay close to what feels true, to listen deeply, to respect the process, and to act with as much consciousness as we can.
With love and respect,
Sitara Blasco