Grof
®
Breathwork
at
Shulgin Farm
a Fundraiser for The Shulgin Foundation
April 18 + 19, 2026
Today the Shulgin Foundation is dedicated to carrying forward the Shulgins' vision via educational programs, archival preservation, and community gatherings.
The Farm serves as a living bridge between psychedelic history and its future.
Your participation in this event directly supports the Foundation's mission to “To honor the Shulgins’ legacy by maintaining their historic farm as a nexus for psychedelic education and culture, and fostering a vibrant community dedicated to inquiry, healing, and expanded consciousness.”
Paul Daley in the Lab
Join us for a historic convergence at Shulgin Farm in Lafayette, California—a two-day, non-residential Grof® Breathwork event that honors the intertwined legacies of pioneers of consciousness exploration.
Today the Shulgin Foundation is dedicated to carrying forward the Shulgins' vision via educational programs, archival preservation, and community gatherings.
The Farm serves as a living bridge between psychedelic history and its future.
Your participation in this event directly supports the Foundation's mission to “To honor the Shulgins’ legacy by maintaining their historic farm as a nexus for psychedelic education and culture, and fostering a vibrant community dedicated to inquiry, healing, and expanded consciousness.”
Paul Daley in the Lab
Stan Grof and Sasha Shulgin were contemporaries and colleagues in the field of consciousness research—both dedicated to rigorous inquiry, ethical practice, and the transformative potential of expanded states. They knew each other personally, appeared together at psychedelic symposiums, and shared a deep respect for each other's work.
Their approaches, though different in method, were united in purpose: mapping the vast territories of human consciousness with scientific precision and therapeutic intent.
While Shulgin explored the molecular pathways to these states...
Sasha Shulgin and Stan Grof in the Lab (photo by John Hanna).
Brandon Schneider
Apprentice Facilitator
Brandon Schneider, MD is an integrative psychiatrist based in Los Angeles and a Grof® Breathwork Level 2 Apprentice Facilitator. He was drawn to this work following a powerful personal experience with breathwork and views it as a potent tool for transformation and self-exploration. He has undergone training in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy through the Integrative Psychiatry Institute and integrates Western pharmacotherapy with traditional healing modalities in his clinical practice. He is also an avid yoga practitioner.
Christopher Tonry
Event Host
Christopher comes to this work via an unconventional path. With a background in design and visual arts, he has spent years as a problem solver, organizer, and creative practitioner navigating the worlds of aesthetics and business. Currently training in the Grof Legacy Training program, he brings a perspective to the field of expanded states exploration that is informed by curiosity. He finds particular meaning in organizing people for transformative events and creating art from experiences that transcend language.
Rebekah Wheeler
Apprentice Facilitator
Rebekah Wheeler is a nurse, a practicing midwife and a trauma specialist. She has a private practice in Sonoma County supporting people to process and heal traumas. She has been a birth worker for over 20 years, and her love of and commitment to Breathwork draws from her experiences in sitting with people through all of life's challenging transitions and experiences.
Tamara Wolfson
Apprentice Facilitator
Tamara Wolfson, MS, LAc, is a PhD candidate in Depth Psychology & World Mythology at Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she also earned a Certificate in Psychedelics and Depth Psychology. Additionally, she completed her MDMA training with MAPS (Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies) and holds a Certificate in Psychedelic Therapy and Research from the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS). She trained at the Zen Hospice Project in San Francisco and holds certification in Death Midwifery from Sacred Crossings. With over 35 years of clinical experience in natural medicine, she brings a unique integrative perspective to transpersonal healing. Tamara weaves clinical practice with retreat leadership and wellness consulting. Her work explores the intersection of traditional healing modalities, depth psychology, and consciousness studies, with particular focus on supporting transformative life passages, somatic trauma release, and spiritual emergence experiences. Tamara is dedicated to fostering safe, creative spaces for deep and profound process work.
John Stockberger
Facilitator
Professional musician, GLT breathwork facilitator, meditation teacher and mentor. Psychedelic preparation, integration and harm reduction provider.
Marianne Murray
Facilitator
Marianne is an eclectic and experiential practitioner in the field of learning. Her academic studies include master’s degrees in transpersonal psychology and mindfulness-based psychotherapy and a doctoral degree in transformative learning and change in human systems. Integral to her work has been her training with Stanislav Grof – she completed the Grof Transpersonal Training in 2001, is a certified GROF® Breathwork facilitator, and has facilitated holotropic breathwork in the US, UK and Europe, Kenya, and India. She is certified also as a facilitator of Bert Hellinger’s systemic constellation work and completed her training as a massage therapist, both of which inform her practice as a facilitator. Marianne had the good fortune to study with Stan during the mid-1990s, both in breathwork training and as a student at CIIS. Living into Stan’s insights on the nature of consciousness and his cartography of consciousness catalyzed not only deep personal healing, but also radically informed her work with group facilitation in the field of personal learning and change. A faculty member at the Academy for the Love of Learning in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Marianne has been intimately involved with the development of their Leading by Being curriculum and helped to establish the Academy’s overall pedagogy. Topics that motivate her include: somatic awareness as an integral aspect of learning (and un-learning) as we explore unconscious, and semi-conscious, beliefs and biases. The role of facilitator presence in individual and group learning and healing. Now in her mid-70s she can’t help but ask, too, what is the conscious completion of a life’s journey? Marianne is senior faculty/teacher for the GROF® Legacy Training USA, serves on the Board of Directors for GROF® Legacy Project, and is a Mind and Life Fellow.
Meet the Team
Grof pioneered non-pharmacological approaches, ultimately developing Holotropic Breathwork with his late wife, Christina, as a way to access profound inner territories without substances.
In the 1970's during a residency at Esalen, they created this method, describing themselves as "midwives" of a practice based on various "technologies of the sacred" used by cultures around the world since the dawn of humanity.
The term "holotropic," coined by Stan, means "moving toward wholeness" and suggests the transformative experiences this practice can catalyze.
Holotropic Breathwork quickly became a cornerstone of Grofian consciousness studies, with its potential to reach deep levels of the psyche through simple but powerful techniques.
Stan and Christina Grof at Esalen
At 94 years old, Stan continues his lifelong mission to explore consciousness and preserve his legacy. Together with his wife Brigitte, a psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and artist, with many decades of experience in Holotropic Breathwork and holotropic states of consciousness, they launched the international Grof® Legacy Training, a comprehensive program broader than just breathwork that focuses on working with holotropic states of consciousness across many settings.
As Stan stated, "Brigitte is the person who knows me and my work best. Eventually I would like her to continue the legacy of my work."
Represented in over twenty countries, the Grof® Legacy Training authorizes skilled educators and facilitators to develop programs under their guidance ensuring that Stan's six decades of consciousness research continues to guide practitioners worldwide.
Stan and Brigitte Grof
Grof® Breathwork at Shulgin Farm
Fundraiser for The Shulgin Foundation
Saturday, April 18, 2026
9AM - 6PM
Sunday, April 19, 2026
9AM - 6PM
Shulgin Farm
1483 Shulgin Rd.
Lafayette, CA
$500 donation*
(plus ticketing fees)
This workshop brings Grof® Breathwork—an experiential practice combining intensified breathing, supporting music, and intentional bodywork—to the Farm, honoring the historical connection between these pioneering approaches to consciousness exploration.
Participants will experience two complete Grof® Breathwork sessions, engaging once as a breather and once as a sitter, supported by experienced facilitators.
To maintain a powerful and intimate workshop, attendance will be limited to 30 participants.
This event is a fundraiser for The Shulgin Foundation.
Your participation connects you to a community and supports a mission that extends well beyond the weekend: preserving the Shulgin Farm, protecting decades of irreplaceable research, and sustaining the programs bringing psychedelic science and ethics into the future.
*Your admission price is a donation and part of it may be tax deductible. Please consult with your tax preparer to determine this.
Some Questions, Answered
More event information including event schedule can be found on the Registration Page
Grof® Breathwork is an experiential method of self-exploration developed by Stanislav and Christina Grof in the mid-1970s at the Esalen Institute. Built on insights from modern consciousness research, depth psychology, and spiritual practices, Grof Breathwork guides participants into holotropic states of consciousness through a combination of accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused bodywork. This approach allows access to multiple levels of the psyche, facilitating deep self-discovery.
Individuals best suited for this work are those with a genuine curiosity about deep psychological and spiritual exploration who possess both a stable support system and baseline mental health. They should be willing to encounter difficult material while understanding that this is neither a quick fix nor a wellness trend, and must be prepared for the possibility that symptoms may temporarily intensify as unconscious material surfaces. Additionally, they need the capacity to commit to the full workshop duration
Grof® Breathwork is a transformative experience designed to facilitate deep 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, you may review the healt considerations before registering for a workshop:
More info can be found at: About Grof® Breathwork
Shulgin Farm stands as one of the most significant sites in modern psychedelic history, where Alexander "Sasha" and Ann Shulgin conducted their groundbreaking research for over four decades.
Here, Sasha synthesized hundreds of novel compounds while keeping scrupulous records of their pharmacological profiles and experiential qualities.
Ann practiced as a Jungian therapist, providing psychedelic-assisted therapy and authoring pioneering therapeutic guidelines that continue to inform current practice.
Together they cultivated a community of researchers, practitioners, and visionaries who gathered at the Farm to explore the frontiers of human consciousness.
Sasha and Ann Shulgin at the Farm
A Brief History
Stan Grof and Sasha Shulgin were contemporaries and colleagues in the field of consciousness research both dedicated to rigorous inquiry, ethical practice, and the transformative potential of expanded states. They knew each other personally, appeared together at psychedelic symposiums, and shared a deep respect for each other's work.
Their approaches, though different in method, were united in purpose: mapping the vast territories of human consciousness with scientific precision and therapeutic intent.
While Shulgin explored the molecular pathways to these states...
Sasha and Stan in the Lab
Grof pioneered non-pharmacological approaches, ultimately developing Holotropic Breathwork with his late wife, Christina, as a way to access profound inner territories without substances.
In the 1970's during a residency at Esalen, they created this method, describing themselves as "midwives" of a practice based on various "technologies of the sacred" used by cultures around the world since the dawn of humanity.
The term "holotropic," coined by Stan, means "moving toward wholeness" and suggests the transformative experiences this practice can catalyze.
Holotropic Breathwork quickly became a cornerstone of Grofian consciousness studies, with its potential to reach deep levels of the psyche through simple but powerful techniques.
Stan and Christina Grof at Esalen
At 94 years old, Stan continues his lifelong mission to explore consciousness and preserve his legacy. Together with his wife Brigitte, a psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and artist, they launched the international Grof® Legacy Training, a comprehensive program broader than just breathwork that focuses on working with holotropic states of consciousness across many settings.
Represented in over twenty countries, the Grof® Legacy Training authorizes skilled educators and facilitators to develop programs under their guidance ensuring that Stan's six decades of consciousness research continues to guide practitioners worldwide.
Stan and Brigitte
Sasha Shulgin and Stan Grof in the Lab (photo by John Hanna).
Following a visit to the lab, Stan wrote:
Sasha was and is admired and loved by thousands of people who benefited from his work and had their lives positively transformed by the substances he developed.
Those of us who had the chance to visit his home and see his laboratory could not believe that it was the place where he produced scores of psychoactive substances.
This place, probably not larger than twelve feet by twelve feet, looked more like the workshop of a medieval alchemist than a modern laboratory.
Stan Grof and Sasha Shulgin were contemporaries and colleagues in the field of consciousness research—both dedicated to rigorous inquiry, ethical practice, and the transformative potential of expanded states. They knew each other personally, appeared together at psychedelic symposiums, and shared a deep respect for each other's work.
Their approaches, though different in method, were united in purpose: mapping the vast territories of human consciousness with scientific precision and therapeutic intent.
While Shulgin explored the molecular pathways to these states...
Grof pioneered non-pharmacological approaches, ultimately developing Holotropic Breathwork with his late wife, Christina, as a way to access profound inner territories without substances.
In the 1970's during a residency at Esalen, they created this method, describing themselves as "midwives" of a practice based on various "technologies of the sacred" used by cultures around the world since the dawn of humanity.
The term "holotropic," coined by Stan, means "moving toward wholeness" and suggests the transformative experiences this practice can catalyze.
Holotropic Breathwork quickly became a cornerstone of Grofian consciousness studies, with its potential to reach deep levels of the psyche through simple but powerful techniques.
Stan and Christina Grof at Esalen
Paul Daley in the Lab
Today the Shulgin Foundation is dedicated to carrying forward the Shulgins' vision via educational programs, archival preservation, and community gatherings.
The Farm serves as a living bridge between psychedelic history and its future.
Your participation in this event directly supports the Foundation's mission to “To honor the Shulgins’ legacy by maintaining their historic farm as a nexus for psychedelic education and culture, and fostering a vibrant community dedicated to inquiry, healing, and expanded consciousness.”
At 94 years old, Stan continues his lifelong mission to explore consciousness and preserve his legacy. Together with his wife Brigitte, a psychologist, licensed psychotherapist, and artist, they launched the international Grof® Legacy Training, a comprehensive program broader than just breathwork that focuses on working with holotropic states of consciousness across many settings.
Represented in over twenty countries, the Grof® Legacy Training authorizes skilled educators and facilitators to develop programs under their guidance ensuring that Stan's six decades of consciousness research continues to guide practitioners worldwide.
Stan and Brigitte Grof
