Upcoming Workshops
I offer half-day, day-long, and weekend workshops virtually, as well as in Asheville (Fairview) NC, and occasionally other U.S. locations. Participants can choose from a range of modalities to suit their own schedule and requirements including Holotropic Breathwork, Focus Breathwork, and Breathwork & Internal Family Systems.
Stay Home and Journey Longer
A chance to connect online and enter the expanded awareness made possible through Breathwork. Limited to 15 participants. We will be sharing with each other via Zoom and downloading the music to maintain high quality.
Advance registration is required.
Agenda
After you sign up, I will provide a way for you to test the audio and video technology. Depending on the number of new participants, the first 20 minutes or so of the workshop will be for answering questions about Breathwork and making sure everyone's technology is sorted out. By 3:20, everyone should be checking in and getting connected for our group breathing experience. Then, we will do one session of about an hour, followed by sharing from everyone in the group. Figure on an ending time of about 12:30.
Tuition: $30Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask! No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Holotropic Breathwork
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, Holotropic Breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Note: This is the full, official Holotropic Breathwork format! Dinner is included.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$220 if paid before August 16
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
In any case, a payment is required to hold your space.
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
A week or so before the workshop, you will be sent a link where you can learn about the work of Stanislav Grof, nonordinary states of consciousness, and his exposition of the “Basic Perinatal Matrices” or stages of the birth process and their effect on the psyche.
9:00 am — Introductions, questions, demonstration of the breathing technique, partnerships
10:45 am — First breathing session
1:45 pm — Mandala drawing and lunch
2:30 pm — Second breathing session
5:30 pm — Mandala drawing and dinner
6:45 pm — Closing circle
8:00 pm — End
Health & Safety
With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
IFS Essentials II Online Training Program
We have noticed that graduates of Essentials of IFS, as well as the IFS Institutes Level 1, are typically proficient in
helping clients recognize parts as parts
fleshing out Protectors
helping clients bring more acceptance to parts, even when they are problematic
mapping the various parts at play in the system
noticing when their own therapist parts are interfering and gaining some space from them
Often, they are not comfortable moving through the steps of unburdening, such as
identifying an Exile after asking the 6th F
finding scenes from the past where the Exile is stuck in trauma
orchestrating an intervention, or “do over,” to create a desirable outcome for the Exile
retrieving the Exile into the present
unburdening traumatic feelings and beliefs
inviting lost qualities back into the system
According to Bruce Ecker’s view of memory reconsolidation, these steps, especially the “do over,” are what create transformative change, the actual neutralizing of traumatic memory. Otherwise, we are offering only counteractive change, or improved coping.
Our Essentials II course is intended to provide access to your full IFS toolbox, so you can confidently offer the most powerful IFS tools to your clients. It takes some effort to learn the steps, as well as enough practice to comfortably move through the protocol. But after each round of triad sessions, we expect that you will be one step closer to using these powerful tools and watching your clients experience relief from their trauma. The course is open to graduates of Essentials of IFS, as well as graduates of equivalent programs.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) September Intensive
For this September cohort, Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Ron Parks and Zak Foy, are offering a closed group that will experience Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) influenced by the Holotropic Breathwork model. This intensive version of GroupKAP is meant especially for those that live in other locations, so they can visit Asheville for a week of three ketamine sessions, though we usually have some locals sign up as well.
The format of the intensives are different in that we do not meet online in between sessions. There will be virtual orientations on August 27 and September 3 and a virtual follow up on September 24. The medicine workshop days are September 5, 7, and 9. We will offer an integration experience such as nature immersion, movement, or Soul Collage each day. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine.
The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
See more at www.groupkap.com.
Essentials of IFS Online Training Program
Providing a practical understanding of the IFS modality
Have you ever said, “I wish I didn’t…” or “I wish I could stop...”? Does this mean that there is more than one “I” inside of you? In a way, yes. Despite sincere intentions, different parts of our psyche can sometimes take on extreme roles or behave in ways that are out of touch with our own best interests.
How does Internal Family Systems help?
IFS is an approach to psychotherapy that identifies and harmonizes sub-personalities that are in discord within the psyche. Through healing these discordant parts of our psyche, IFS restores balance among the sub-personalities and the Self. Developed by Richard Schwartz, Ph.D. in the ’90s, IFS is a dynamic, effective way to allow Self-energy to bring balance and healing to our internal system. IFS guides us towards the foundation of being that has been with us from the first breath... The core of our true Self.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Fall Cohort
Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Zak Foy and Ron Parks, are interviewing prospective participants for the next cohort of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) incorporating the Holotropic Breathwork model. By offering KAP in a group, we can drastically lower the financial barrier to receiving this exciting new treatment, while also allowing folks to experience the support of like-minded co-journeyers.
Participants will receive three Saturday in-person ketamine experiences with same-day integration, along with online integration groups. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine. The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
The process begins with an orientation session on October 20. See all of the details at www.groupkap.com.
Focus Breathwork
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$110 if paid before June 7
$125 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
In any case, a payment is required to hold your space.
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Anyone who is new to breathwork, or who wants a refresher, is invited to arrive at 12:45 for a review of the breathing technique and to get any questions answered. After the rest of the group arrives, we begin with introductions at 1:00. We then make sure everyone has a partner for the day and prepare for the breathwork. We conduct two breathing sessions to music of approximately 80 minutes, each participant having a chance to experience the breathwork as well as to hold space for a partner. We end with group sharing of any material that arose during the day.
Health & Safety
With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation, somewhat dependent on the temperature outside. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) May Intensive
For this Spring cohort, Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Ron Parks and Zak Foy, are offering a closed group that will experience Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) influenced by the Holotropic Breathwork model. This intensive version of GroupKAP is meant especially for those that live in other locations, so they can visit Asheville for a week of three ketamine sessions, though we already have some locals signed up as well.
The format of the intensives are different in that we do not meet online in between sessions. There will be virtual orientations on April 28 and 30 and a virtual follow up on May 19. The medicine workshop days are May 4, 6, and 8. We will offer an integration experience such as nature immersion, movement, or Soul Collage each day. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine.
The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
See more at www.groupkap.com.
Breathwork and IFS
Join me and see what can happen from combining the power of Breathwork with the safety of IFS. The integration of these two modalities is facilitating experiences that have not been available using either one alone.
Holotropic Breathwork
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, Holotropic Breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Note: This is the full, official Holotropic Breathwork format! Dinner is included.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$220 if paid before March 8
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
In any case, a payment is required to hold your space.
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
A week or so before the workshop, you will be sent a link where you can learn about the work of Stanislav Grof, nonordinary states of consciousness, and his exposition of the “Basic Perinatal Matrices” or stages of the birth process and their effect on the psyche.
9:00 am — Introductions, questions, demonstration of the breathing technique, partnerships
10:45 am — First breathing session
1:45 pm — Mandala drawing and lunch
2:30 pm — Second breathing session
5:30 pm — Mandala drawing and dinner
6:45 pm — Closing circle
8:00 pm — End
Health & Safety
With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
Stay Home and Journey Longer
A chance to connect online and enter the expanded awareness made possible through Breathwork. Limited to 15 participants. We will be sharing with each other via Zoom and downloading the music to maintain high quality.
Advance registration is required.
Agenda
After you sign up, I will provide a way for you to test the audio and video technology. Depending on the number of new participants, the first 20 minutes or so of the workshop will be for answering questions about Breathwork and making sure everyone's technology is sorted out. By 3:20, everyone should be checking in and getting connected for our group breathing experience. Then, we will do one session of about an hour, followed by sharing from everyone in the group. Figure on an ending time of about 12:30.
Tuition: $30Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask! No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Focus Breathwork
This workshop has filled. Feel free to register so you can be contacted if there is a cancellation.
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$110 if paid before February 8
$125 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
In any case, a payment is required to hold your space.
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Anyone who is new to breathwork, or who wants a refresher, is invited to arrive at 12:45 for a review of the breathing technique and to get any questions answered. After the rest of the group arrives, we begin with introductions at 1:00. We then make sure everyone has a partner for the day and prepare for the breathwork. We conduct two breathing sessions to music of approximately 80 minutes, each participant having a chance to experience the breathwork as well as to hold space for a partner. We end with group sharing of any material that arose during the day.
Health & Safety
With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation, somewhat dependent on the temperature outside. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
One Day Workshop for Those with Ketamine Experience
For those who are already familiar with the medicine, we are now offering one-day workshops for continuing benefits from ketamine, along with further integration and processing.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$225 if paid before January 11
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Though we run these workshops according to the needs of the group, a rough schedule would be:
10:00 — Opening circle and introductions
11:15 — Ketamine session and integration
1:15 — Lunch
2:00 — Sharing circle
3:00 — End (those who want to stay longer can)
Medicine
If you do not have any troches left, Dr. Foy will offer follow up screenings for $125. Based on your particular situation, he is open to prescribing enough medicine to cover multiple workshops. If you already have another form of oral ketamine, please check with us to see if it would be compatible with the group.
Note: Please arrange for transportation so that you do not have to drive at the end of the workshop. We can help coordinate ride shares.
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
Focus Breathwork
This workshop has filled. Feel free to register to join our waiting list, and we will contact you if a spot opens up.
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$110 if paid before January 4
$125 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
In any case, a payment is required to hold your space.
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Anyone who is new to breathwork, or who wants a refresher, is invited to arrive at 12:45 for a review of the breathing technique and to get any questions answered. After the rest of the group arrives, we begin with introductions at 1:00. We then make sure everyone has a partner for the day and prepare for the breathwork. We conduct two breathing sessions to music of approximately 80 minutes, each participant having a chance to experience the breathwork as well as to hold space for a partner. We end with group sharing of any material that arose during the day.
Health & Safety
With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation, somewhat dependent on the temperature outside. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
Stay Home and Journey Longer
A chance to connect online and enter the expanded awareness made possible through Breathwork. Limited to 15 participants. We will be sharing with each other via Zoom and downloading the music to maintain high quality.
Advance registration is required.
Agenda
After you sign up, I will provide a way for you to test the audio and video technology. Depending on the number of new participants, the first 20 minutes or so of the workshop will be for answering questions about Breathwork and making sure everyone's technology is sorted out. By 3:20, everyone should be checking in and getting connected for our group breathing experience. Then, we will do one session of about an hour, followed by sharing from everyone in the group. Figure on an ending time of about 12:30.
Tuition: $30Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask! No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Holotropic Breathwork
Due to Helene-related cancellations, we have a few spaces left in this workshop now.
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, Holotropic Breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Note: for the first time since before the pandemic, we are offering the full, official Holotropic Breathwork format! Dinner is included.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$220 if paid before October 19
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
In any case, a payment is required to hold your space.
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
A week or so before the workshop, you will be sent a link where you can learn about the work of Stanislav Grof, nonordinary states of consciousness, and his exposition of the “Basic Perinatal Matrices” or stages of the birth process and their effect on the psyche.
9:00 am — Introductions, questions, demonstration of the breathing technique, partnerships
10:45 am — First breathing session
1:45 pm — Mandala drawing and lunch
2:30 pm — Second breathing session
5:30 pm — Mandala drawing and dinner
6:45 pm — Closing circle
8:00 pm — End
Health & Safety
With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Cohort 14 Fall Foliage Intensive
For this October cohort, Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Ron Parks and Zak Foy, are offering a closed group that will experience Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) influenced by the Holotropic Breathwork model. This intensive version of GroupKAP is meant especially for those that live in other locations, so they can visit Asheville for a week of three ketamine sessions.
The format of the intensives are different in that we do not meet online in between sessions. There will be virtual orientations on October 14 and 16 and a virtual follow up on November 6. The medicine workshop days are October 20, 22, and 24. We will offer an integration experience such as nature immersion, movement, or Soul Collage each day. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine.
The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
See more at www.groupkap.com.
Stay Home and Journey Longer
A chance to connect online and enter the expanded awareness made possible through Breathwork. Limited to 15 participants. We will be sharing with each other via Zoom and downloading the music to maintain high quality.
Advance registration is required.
Agenda
After you sign up, I will provide a way for you to test the audio and video technology. Depending on the number of new participants, the first 20 minutes or so of the workshop will be for answering questions about Breathwork and making sure everyone's technology is sorted out. By 3:20, everyone should be checking in and getting connected for our group breathing experience. Then, we will do one session of about an hour, followed by sharing from everyone in the group. Figure on an ending time of about 12:30.
Tuition: $30Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask! No one turned away due to lack of funds.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Cohort 13
Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Zak Foy and Ron Parks, are interviewing prospective participants for the next cohort of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) incorporating the Holotropic Breathwork model. By offering KAP in a group, we can drastically lower the financial barrier to receiving this exciting new treatment, while also allowing folks to experience the support of like-minded co-journeyers.
Participants will receive four weekend in-person ketamine experiences with same-day integration, along with online integration groups. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine. The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
The process begins with an orientation session on August 30. See all of the details at www.groupkap.com.
One Day Workshop for Those with Ketamine Experience
For those who are already familiar with the medicine, we are now offering one-day workshops for continuing benefits from ketamine, along with further integration and processing.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$225 if paid before August 1
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Though we run these workshops according to the needs of the group, a rough schedule would be:
10:00 — Opening circle and introductions
11:15 — Ketamine session and integration
1:15 — Lunch
2:00 — Sharing circle
3:00 — End (those who want to stay longer can)
Medicine
If you do not have any troches left, Dr. Foy will offer follow up screenings for $125. Based on your particular situation, he is open to prescribing enough medicine to cover multiple workshops. If you already have another form of oral ketamine, please check with us to see if it would be compatible with the group.
Note: Please arrange for transportation so that you do not have to drive at the end of the workshop. We can help coordinate ride shares.
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
Breathwork and IFS
Join me and see what can happen from combining the power of Breathwork with the safety of IFS. The integration of these two modalities is facilitating experiences that have not been available using either one alone.
Stay Home and Journey with Your Parts
Join me and see what can happen from combining the power of Breathwork with the safety of IFS. The integration of these two modalities is facilitating experiences that have not been available using either one alone.
One Day Workshop for Those with Ketamine Experience - with Optional Craniosacral Intervention
For those who are already familiar with the medicine, we are now offering one-day workshops for continuing benefits from ketamine, along with further integration and processing. On this day, participants will also have the opportunity to receive some craniosacral support during their journey.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$275 if paid before June 1
$300 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Though we run these workshops according to the needs of the group, a rough schedule would be:
10:00 — Opening circle and introductions
11:15 — Ketamine session and integration
1:15 — Lunch
2:00 — Sharing circle
3:00 — End (those who want to stay longer can)
Simon Newton’s Art of Undoing
Simon will be available to offer brief craniosacral interventions as participants let go to the medicine, and to assist in integration.
He has a lifelong history with alternative approaches to being and inner states of awareness. It all began with a near death experience at age two, during which he felt the breathless beauty of infinite silence. After studying Applied Psychology at Sussex University he spent several years alternating between holy sites in India and permaculture projects in the UK before settling in Glastonbury, England.
He has studied in the Kriya Yoga tradition with Roy Eugene Davis since 2000 and has led meditation groups in 3 countries. He now has a private practice in Asheville, NC, practicing Craniosacral Therapy with his three Savannah cats. To see the synthesis of psychology, spiritual and psychedelics emerging in the public sphere is a lifelong dream of his. You can read about Simon at his website.
Medicine
If you do not have any troches left, Dr. Foy will offer follow up screenings for $125. Based on your particular situation, he is open to prescribing enough medicine to cover multiple workshops. If you already have another form of oral ketamine, please check with us to see if it would be compatible with the group.
Note: Please arrange for transportation so that you do not have to drive at the end of the workshop. We can help coordinate ride shares.
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
Focus Breathwork
This workshop is full. Feel free to register without paying to be added to the waiting list. Scroll to the bottom of this page to sign up for email notifications.
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$95 if paid before April 28
$105 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
In any case, a payment is required to hold your space.
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Anyone who is new to breathwork, or who wants a refresher, is invited to arrive at 12:45 for a review of the breathing technique and to get any questions answered. After the rest of the group arrives, we begin with introductions at 1:00. We then make sure everyone has a partner for the day and prepare for the breathwork. We conduct two breathing sessions to music of approximately 80 minutes, each participant having a chance to experience the breathwork as well as to hold space for a partner. We end with group sharing of any material that arose during the day.
Health & Safety
When we scheduled this workshop, Coronavirus cases in Buncombe County were pretty stable at 8 per 100,000, the lowest they have been in a year. With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
Shift Happens in Vermont
Join us at ReTribe for five days of Breathwork, IFS, process, celebration, fire, dance, journey, community, learning, fun, eating, nature, and other stuff. All details are at the ReTribe site.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Cohort 12
For this spring cohort, Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Ron Parks and Zak Foy, are offering a closed group that will experience Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) influenced by the Holotropic Breathwork model. This intensive version of GroupKAP is meant especially for those that live in other locations, so they can visit Asheville for a week of three ketamine sessions.
The format of the intensives are different in that we do not meet online in between sessions. There will be virtual orientations on April 3 and 5 and a virtual follow up on April 19. We will still offer an integration experience such as nature immersion, movement, or Soul Collage each day. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine.
The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
See more at www.groupkap.com.
Stay Home and Journey Longer
A chance to connect online and enter the expanded awareness made possible through Breathwork. Limited to 15 participants. We will be sharing with each other via Zoom and downloading the music to maintain high quality.
Advance registration is required.
Agenda
After you sign up, I will provide a way for you to test the audio and video technology. Depending on the number of new participants, the first 20 minutes or so of the workshop will be for answering questions about Breathwork and making sure everyone's technology is sorted out. By 3:20, everyone should be checking in and getting connected for our group breathing experience. Then, we will do one session of about an hour, followed by sharing from everyone in the group. Figure on an ending time of about 12:30.
Tuition: $30Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask! No one turned away due to lack of funds.
One Day Workshop for Those with Ketamine Experience - Featuring the Mantrayana
For those who are already familiar with the medicine, we are now offering one-day workshops for continuing benefits from ketamine, along with further integration and processing. On this day, we will also experience the immersive sound bath of the Mantrayana.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$250 if paid before March 10
$300 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Unlike previous one-day workshops, this one includes an integration experience as we offer in GroupKAP, so note the earlier starting time. A rough schedule would be
9:30 — Opening circle and introductions
10:45 — Ketamine session and integration
12:45 — Lunch
1:30 — Integration activity (Mantrayana)
2:30 — Sharing circle
3:30 — End (those who want to stay longer can)
The Mantrayana
Created by James Thomas, the tuned gongs of the Mantrayana provide a portal to nonordinary states with or without ketamine. We are interested in the synergy between these two approaches. Learn more at themantrayana.com.
Medicine
If you do not have any troches left, Dr. Foy will offer follow up screenings for $125. Based on your particular situation, he is open to prescribing enough medicine to cover multiple workshops. If you already have another form of oral ketamine, please check with us to see if it would be compatible with the group.
Note: Please arrange for transportation so that you do not have to drive at the end of the workshop. We can help coordinate ride shares.
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Cohort 11
Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Zak Foy and Ron Parks, are interviewing prospective participants for the next cohort of Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) incorporating the Holotropic Breathwork model. By offering KAP in a group, we can drastically lower the financial barrier to receiving this exciting new treatment, while also allowing folks to experience the support of like-minded co-journeyers.
Participants will receive four weekend in-person ketamine experiences with same-day integration, along with online integration groups. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine. The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
The process begins with an orientation session on February 26. See all of the details at www.groupkap.com.
Focus Breathwork
This workshop has been filled. Please sign up at the bottom of this page to receive announcements about future workshops.
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$95 if paid before February 10
$105 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Anyone who is new to breathwork, or who wants a refresher, is invited to arrive at 12:45 for a review of the breathing technique and to get any questions answered. After the rest of the group arrives, we begin with introductions at 1:00. We then make sure everyone has a partner for the day and prepare for the breathwork. We conduct two breathing sessions to music of approximately 80 minutes, each participant having a chance to experience the breathwork as well as to hold space for a partner. We end with group sharing of any material that arose during the day.
Health & Safety
When we scheduled this workshop, Coronavirus cases in Buncombe County were pretty stable at 8 per 100,000, the lowest they have been in a year. With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
One Day Ketamine Experience for Alumni of GroupKAP
For those who have completed a Group KAP series, we are now offering one-day workshops for continuing benefits from ketamine, along with further integration and processing. Plus, you can meet some good people who shared your journey at a different time!
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$225 if paid before February 4
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
The format will be slightly different from the one used in GroupKAP. We are replacing the one-hour integration experience that we did after lunch with a little more time for processing and sharing. So, a rough schedule would be
10:00 Opening circle and introductions
11:30 Medicine journey
1:30 Lunch
2:00 Sharing, processing, integration
3:30 End
Medicine
If you do not have any troches left, Dr. Foy will offer follow up screenings for $125. Based on your particular situation, he is open to prescribing enough medicine to cover multiple workshops.
Note: It is not recommended to drive after taking ketamine.
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
Stay Home and Journey Longer
A chance to connect online and enter the expanded awareness made possible through Breathwork. Limited to 15 participants. We will be sharing with each other via Zoom and downloading the music to maintain high quality.
Advance registration is required.
Agenda
After you sign up, I will provide a way for you to test the audio and video technology. Depending on the number of new participants, the first 20 minutes or so of the workshop will be for answering questions about Breathwork and making sure everyone's technology is sorted out. By 3:20, everyone should be checking in and getting connected for our group breathing experience. Then, we will do one session of about an hour, followed by sharing from everyone in the group. Figure on an ending time of about 12:30.
Tuition: $30Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask! No one turned away due to lack of funds.
One Day Ketamine Experience for Alumni of GroupKAP
For those who have completed a Group KAP series, we are now offering one-day workshops for continuing benefits from ketamine, along with further integration and processing. Plus, you can meet some good people who shared your journey at a different time!
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$225 if paid before December 1
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
The format will be slightly different from the one used in GroupKAP. We are replacing the one-hour integration experience that we did after lunch with a little more time for processing and sharing. So, a rough schedule would be
10:00 Opening circle and introductions
11:30 Medicine journey
1:30 Lunch
2:00 Sharing, processing, integration
3:30 End
Medicine
If you do not have any troches left, Dr. Foy will offer follow up screenings for $125. Based on your particular situation, he is open to prescribing enough medicine to cover multiple workshops.
Note: It is not recommended to drive after taking ketamine.
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
Focus Breathwork
Throughout history, virtually every culture has provided an opportunity and a method to access nonordinary states of consciousness for inner exploration and healing. These methods have included drumming, chanting, dancing, fasting, ingesting psychoactive plants, altering breathing patterns, and many others. Drawing from centuries of such wisdom and adding insights from modern consciousness research, breathwork facilitates access to all levels of human experience, including unfinished biographical material, birth memories, transpersonal phenomena, and residues of trauma stored in the body.
Conducted in pairs in a safe and supportive setting, the process uses accelerated breathing, evocative music, and focused body work to transcend normal limitations and empower the inner healer. Group sharing allows integration of the nonordinary experience with daily life.
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Amy Borskey Duffer, MA, LCAS.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$95 if paid before November 11
$105 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Amy or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
Anyone who is new to breathwork, or who wants a refresher, is invited to arrive at 12:45 for a review of the breathing technique and to get any questions answered. After the rest of the group arrives, we begin with introductions at 1:00. We then make sure everyone has a partner for the day and prepare for the breathwork. We conduct two breathing sessions to music of approximately 80 minutes, each participant having a chance to experience the breathwork as well as to hold space for a partner. We end with group sharing of any material that arose during the day.
Health & Safety
When we scheduled this workshop, Coronavirus cases in Buncombe County were pretty stable at 8 per 100,000, the lowest they have been in a year. With fans and a large area of windows, we can create effective ventilation. However, keep in mind that you will be in a room where people are breathing in and out with gusto. Of course, if you are not well on the day of the workshop, we ask that you stay home.
Resources
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Amy Borskey Duffer is a Board-Certified Dance/movement Therapist, Licensed Clinical Addictions Counselor, and a Psychedelic Integration and Transformational Recovery Coach, certified by Being True to You. She has been exploring the use of psychedelics and non-ordinary states of consciousness for healing and expansion since 2019. While all aspects of the psychedelic journey are important, she has particular interest in the integration phase — exploring how to take what is learned during an experience into our lives to achieve growth and wholeness. Amy has extensive experience in holding loving space for seekers of peace and healing with a background in both group and individual therapy work. You can find out more about her and her work here.
PLEASE NOTE: DUE TO ITS STRENUOUS NATURE, THIS WORKSHOP IS INAPPROPRIATE FOR PREGNANT WOMEN OR ANYONE WITH HEART DISEASE, SEVERE HYPERTENSION, EPILEPSY, GLAUCOMA, OR SERIOUS MENTAL ILLNESS.
One Day Ketamine Experience for Alumni of GroupKAP
For those who have completed a Group KAP series, we are now offering one-day workshops for continuing benefits from ketamine, along with further integration and processing. Plus, you can meet some good people who shared your journey at a different time!
Facilitated by Ted Riskin, LCSW and Sarah Levine.
Location
Fairview Space for Transformation
Click here for directions.
Tuition
$225 if paid before November 3
$250 otherwise
Scholarships are available - don't be shy to ask!
Advance registration is required. Please contact Sarah or Ted if you have any questions or concerns.
Agenda
The format will be slightly different from the one used in GroupKAP. We are replacing the one-hour integration experience that we did after lunch with a little more time for processing and sharing. So, a rough schedule would be
10:00 Opening circle and introductions
11:30 Medicine journey
1:30 Lunch
2:00 Sharing, processing, integration
3:30 End
Medicine
If you do not have any troches left, Dr. Foy will offer follow up screenings for $125. Based on your particular situation, he is open to prescribing enough medicine to cover multiple workshops.
Note: It is not recommended to drive after taking ketamine.
Ted Riskin is a psychotherapist specializing in relationship issues and transpersonal psychology. Along with certifications in Core Energetics, hypnotherapy, Internal Family Systems, Breath Therapy, and EMDR, he is certified in Holotropic Breathwork by Stanislav Grof, MD. He served for five years as President of the Association for Holotropic Breathwork International (AHBI) and eight years as the music editor for The Inner Door. He has been facilitating Holotropic workshops regularly since January 1997, except for during the pandemic years, when he switched to offering breathwork online. In March 2022, drawing on his experience leading breathwork workshops, he began offering Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.
Sarah Levine is a psychedelic facilitator whose passion is in helping others intentionally prepare for, navigate, and integrate psychedelic and non ordinary experiences. She is a Certified Psychedelic Integration ad Transformational Recovery Coach with Being True To You, has worked with over 300 clients as a Psychedelic Guide with Mindbloom, a telemedicine ketamine clinic. Sarah is Tripsitters trained, trauma-informed, and is a certified herbalist who studies and practices Western Herbalism, Ayurveda, and Traditional Chinese Medicine. Having concentrated in Ecopsychology at Prescott College, her work supports others in reclaiming a connection to the natural world and considers psychedelic states to be a catalyst for enhancing our sense of relatedness and belonging to our wild, resilient planet. You can learn more about her work here.
Group Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) Cohort 11
For this fall foliage cohort, Amy Borskey Duffer and I, with medical direction from Drs. Ron Parks and Zak Foy, are offering a closed group that will experience Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) influenced by the Holotropic Breathwork model. This intensive version of GroupKAP is meant especially for those that live in other locations, so they can visit Asheville for a week of three ketamine sessions.
The format of the intensives are different in that we do not meet online in between sessions. There will be virtual orientations on October 18 and 20 and a virtual follow up on November 1. We will still offer an integration experience such as nature immersion, movement, or Soul Collage each day. We are looking to find the most benefit from the neuroplasticity created by the medicine.
The whole process will be guided by the Internal Family Systems perspective, which aligns brilliantly with the nonordinary state work and allows compassion for parts that fear the journey.
See more at www.groupkap.com.