About Holotropic Journeys

Holotropic

(adj.)
from Greek hólos (“whole”) + trépein (“to move toward”)

1. moving towards wholeness; oriented to growth, healing, and self-transcendence.
2. a natural drive or tendency within the psyche to seek integration and expanded states of awareness

Journey

(noun)
from Old French jornee (“a day’s travel”)

1. a process of movement or passage from one state, place, or condition to another
2. an unfolding inner process of experience, exploration, and transformation over time

 

Holotropic Journeys are intentional experiences of transordinary consciousness that can evoke healing, reconnection, and transformation.

Transordinary refers to states of consciousness that extend beyond ordinary waking awareness. Our offerings include modalities such as GROF® Breathwork, psychedelic journeywork, ritual, sound healing, and other experiential practices.

More About Holotropic Journeys

The word holotropic means “moving toward wholeness.” From a holotropic perspective, each of us carries an innate capacity for healing, growth, and becoming more fully ourselves. Like plants that naturally orient themselves heliotropically toward the sun, the psyche possesses an intrinsic orientation toward greater integration and wholeness.

Rather than viewing symptoms, challenges, or periods of crisis as problems to overcome or avoid, we recognize that they can also be expressions of the psyche’s movement toward greater awareness and integration when met with the right support: unbiased, person-centred, and non-judgemental. As one’s journey deepens into the realm of soul work, healing may be experienced as the release of familial, ancestral, or cultural legacies carried from this lifetime and beyond.

Our work is founded on the work of Stanislav Grof, consciousness researcher and pioneer of psychedelic psychotherapy; Christina Grof, co-creator of Holotropic Breathwork; and Brigitte Grof, co-founder of GROF® Legacy Training International. Our philosophy is informed by depth psychology, transpersonal psychology, contemplative traditions, and experiential approaches to healing.

A person’s holotropic journey may involve encounters with grief, fear, trauma, limiting beliefs, or forgotten aspects of themselves. It may also open into experiences of love, creativity, vitality, purpose, connection, and awe. We encourage the full expression of each process until it reaches its own natural resolution, offering compassionate, non-directive, and non-judgmental support throughout. Through thoughtful preparation, attuned facilitation, and integration, these experiences can become embodied as meaningful and lasting change.

Go Within. Grow Beyond.

Meet the Facilitators

Wilde Lawson-King

Wilde is a transpersonal coach and facilitator who discovered Stanislav Grof's work after going through a spiritual emergency in 2017. Since then, he has been dedicated to studying holotropic states of consciousness and their therapeutic value. His dedication to supporting others through spiritually transformative experiences and processes of self-discovery reflects the unfolding in his own life.

In his work beyond Holotropic Journeys, Wilde supports the Comox Valley community as a mental health crisis responder. He also volunteers in harm reduction and psychedelic peer support at large events and festivals.

Kyla Campbell

Kyla provides music therapy with a unique background that blends sound, bodywork, and process philosophy into her work with clients. She creates spaces that invite authentic self-inquiry, where the body, psyche, and spirit can be met with compassion.

Alongside breathwork, her private practice focuses on integrative healing sessions through sound and somatic awareness, supporting emotional release, reconnection, and lasting change. She also supports individuals and families as an end-of-life doula.

Her work is grounded in both lived experience and a deep reverence for life’s thresholds, including birth, death, and transformation.

Learn more about her work at: kylacampbell.ca

Why we do this work?

Engaging with non-ordinary states of awareness has transformed our lives from the inside out. These experiences reconnected us with our ancestral roots, helped us meet and integrate early life wounds, and guided us back to our own creative essence. This work continues to teach us how to show up with greater compassion—for ourselves, for each other, for our community, and for the world around us.

Like a wave remembering it belongs to the ocean, we’ve come to understand healing not as an isolated process, but as a return to our true nature, which is whole and connected with all of life.

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