The mission of the GROF® Legacy Project is to preserve and promote the pioneering work of Stanislav Grof, MD. Informed by sixty years of research, Grof’s understanding of the healing potential of ‘holotropic states of consciousness’ has great relevance across many academic, clinical, and scientific disciplines. The GROF® Legacy Project has been authorized by Stan and Brigitte Grof to carry his work forward in the United States.
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is pleased to announce
The Healing Potential of
Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness:
The Legacy of Stanislav Grof
GROF® Breathwork Retreats
The GROF® Legacy Project offers residential retreats at Synergia Ranch outside of Santa Fe, New Mexico. While open to the public, these GROF® Breathwork residential offerings are attracting many licensed professionals who are on the track to become psychedelic psychotherapists. Many have already completed certificate programs with other schools or organizations. Many express a need to have more hands on experience with people in expanded states. Many realize that they need a safe place to do their own inner work.
GROF® Breathwork has proven to be an excellent tool for those interested in better supporting work in non-ordinary states of consciousness. The skill set involves learning how to carefully prepare people for deep non-ordinary state work; how to create ethical, respectful, and safe settings; how to cultivate the naturally therapeutic presence critical for effective sitting or guiding; and how to provide skillful guidance related to the integrative process that follows a deep experience. All these skills have great relevance in relation to supporting those in psycho-spiritual crisis, the dying process, recovery from trauma or addiction, as well as preparing for work in the emerging field of psychedelic psychotherapy.
Residential GROF® Breathwork retreats at Synergia will offer both a theoretical and practical introduction to the work of Stanislav Grof, MD. They will be highly experiential. Using GROF® Breathwork as a therapeutic modality, participants will have two opportunities to experience the breathwork process and two opportunities to hold space for a partner.
2026 Santa Fe Retreats
March 25 - 29 | May 6 - 10 | September 30 - October 4 | November 4 - 8
2026 Ocamora Retreat
July 19 - 25, 2026
More retreat dates to be announced soon.
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Winter 2026 Update
Dear Friends,
Winter Greetings from the mountains of northern New Mexico! This last year felt so full both personally and professionally. I have appreciated having a bit more time and space over the last weeks to reflect on both our Grof Legacy offerings this last year – and planning for the new year ahead.
Message from the Director About the MAPS 2025 Conference
Dear Friends,
Winter Greetings from the mountains of northern New Mexico! This last year felt so full both personally and professionally. I have appreciated having a bit more time and space over the last weeks to reflect on both our Grof Legacy offerings this last year – and planning for the new year ahead.
Registration for the MAPS 2025 Pre-Conference Workshop
This highly experiential workshop offers an introduction to the theoretical and practical work of Stanislav Grof, whose groundbreaking research into the value of non-ordinary states of consciousness, including psychedelic experiences, remains a bulwark of psychedelics studies.
Winter 2024 Update
New York Times Article Featuring GROF® Breathwork
The GROF® Legacy Project began the New Year with an exciting Grof-related feature article in the New York Times! In October 2023 acclaimed New York Times journalist, Ernesto Londono, spent a weekend at the California Institute of Integral Studies (San Francisco) with trainees enrolled at the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research (CPTR) certificate program.
New York Times: Breathing Their Way to an Altered State
Notes from the Director, Diane Haug
The setting described in this New York Times article was at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, California in October 2023. Participants in the weekend workshop were graduates of the Center for Psychedelic Therapy and Research certificate program. The workshop facilitation team was led by Diane Haug MA, LPCC, a CIIS / CPTR instructor and Director of the Grof Legacy Project, along with other Grof certified colleagues.
October 2023 Update from the Director
Dear Friends,
As the Grof Legacy Project is moving towards its last residential retreat for 2023 we are reflecting on all that we have been able to offer since our first in-person work began in May 2022 at Synergia Ranch, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Our 4 night / 5 day residential retreats have proven to be extremely well received.
