Who we are
Alain Menier obtained his certification as a holotropic breathwork facilitator in 2011 and has since organized over 100 group workshops and worked with over a thousand people. He has lectured extensively on the links between perinatality and the psyche, as well as on the work of Stan Grof, and was coordinator in Montreal for various MAPS studies between 2017 and 2022. He is passionate about music.
Sharon Graham did her first Holotropic Breathwork in 2010 in a room with more than 100 people, presided over by Stan Grof. The experience had a profound effect on her. It gave a new perspective on the prolonged depression she had been suffering. Over the past 13 years Sharon has continued to use Holotropic Breathwork for self discovery. She has been part of workshops in Austria; Czech Republic; Spain; United Kingdom; United States and Ireland. She has done one-on-one sessions, and breathed in a room of more than 300 people. Since 2019, Sharon has co-facilitated Holotropic Breathwork workshops in Toronto, the city she considers home. Currently she also co-facilitates in St. Catherine’s (Ontario), and Ottawa. Sharon is the Mother of four now adult children.
Ariadne Patsiopoulos discovered Holotropic Breathwork through a series of synchronicities in 2017. After her first workshop she was astounded by the sense of homecoming she felt. To this day, she is awed when she witnesses how deeply transformative these experiences can be, not just for herself, but for many others, breathers and facilitators alike. She became a certified HB facilitator with GTT in 2022.
Over the past 20+ years, Ariadne (MA Counseling Psychology) has worked with people at almost every age and stage of life in community and post-secondary contexts in a range of roles including facilitator, counsellor, social service worker, instructor and editor. She believes the holotropic paradigm has much to offer us all as we navigate together with resilience and compassion the liminal, and often chaotic passage of our times.