Tav Sparks
Tav Sparks was the director of Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT), the only training program that certifies people as practitioners of Holotropic Breathwork. Tav is a teacher, consultant, and writer with over 30 years of experience working therapeutically with people in amplified states of consciousness.
The GTT is considered the gold standard for training psychedelic guides and its methodology has been adopted by: the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for their MDMA Phase 1, 2, and 3 studies, by the USONA Institute that is conducting studies using psilocybin, and by the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) at their Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research.
Since 1986, Tav has conducted hundreds of trainings and workshops. He has conducted over 10,000 holotropic sessions, a process that occasions an expanded or psychedelic state of consciousness in the participant.
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We are blessed to bring you the last public interview Tav Sparks gave before he left his body. This conversation was recorded while Tav was wrestling at the end of his life with challenging cognitive and health issues.
Since 1986, Tav conducted hundreds of trainings and workshops. He may hold the record, having conducted breathwork sessions for over 10,000 individuals.
Tav is the author of four books, a training manual, and a CD series. In his latest book, The Power Within: Becoming, Being, and the Holotropic Paradigm. He shows how a holotropic paradigm can inform all sorts of settings, from the therapeutic to the personal and interpersonal, and more. Tav is the author of the training manual Doing Not Doing: A Facilitators Guide to Holotropic Breathwork.
Tav served on the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) Board of Directors.