Canciones, Altares, y Respiracion A Multicultural Approach to Integration
2Integration of spontaneous or induced holotropic states of consciousness can be addressed by working with multi sensorial modalities that support embodiment as well as the enrichment and amplification of the symbolic significance of experiences. In this context, this presentation will address ways in which breath, song, and altar making can be used separately and in combined ways to support integration processes.
Angel Cassidy is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and Grof Certified Holotropic Breathwork Practitioner with three decades in the healing profession. Angel's work includes support & integration of expanded states of consciousness, spiritual emergence, and ecotherapy. She weaves heart connection, music, expressive arts, movement, and the natural world into her holistic approach to supporting the process of healing and exploration.
Mireya Alejo Marcet, MA, MFT, is an artist, licensed psychotherapist, astrologer, expressive arts therapist & ceremonial leader. She certified from the Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT) in 1993 & has facilitated groups and individuals in this approach internationally for almost three decades. She is adjunct faculty at the California Institute of Integral Studies. Her healing work is informed by her years working with traditional healers in her home country Mexico as an anthropologist, a deep understanding of the healing power of non- ordinary states of consciousness, as well the use of the creative arts and astrology as a tool for self discovery, insight and transformation. She is the creator of “ Creative Integration”, a process to help the integration of Holotropic states through he use of astrology, altar creation, somatic awareness and the expressive arts. Mireya strongly believes in the power of sacred, creative and permission giving environments to bring about personal, collective, and spiritual transformation.
Susana Bustos, Ph.D., M.A. in Clinical Psychology & in Music Therapy, teaches and mentors students at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco; conducts independent research on entheogenic shamanic traditions of the Americas; and holds a private integrative practice in Berkeley, CA. Her main focuses of teaching, clinical practice, and research revolve around the healing potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness and their integration in ordinary life, as well as around adequately bridging Amerindian cosmologies and practices into the West.
Susana has written articles and book contributions on the interphase of shamanic song and healing and on entheogenic integration, and she lectures internationally on these topics.