{"podcast":{"title":"Psychedelics Today","slug":"psychedelics-today-777076","podcast_index_feed_id":777076,"rss_url":"https://psychedelicstoday.libsyn.com/rss","website_url":"http://psychedelicstoday.com","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/d/9/9/6/d996c7aa4655e02327a2322813b393ee/PSY_009__010_Podcast_Art.png","author":"Psychedelics Today, LLC","episode_count":775,"summary":"Psychedelics Today is the planetary leader in psychedelic education, media, and advocacy. Covering up-to-the-minute developments and diving deep into crucial topics bridging the scientific, academic, philosophical, societal, and cultural, Psychedelics Today is leading the discussion in this rapidly evolving ecosystem.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-24T08:18:33.206833+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychedelics-today-777076"},"episode":{"title":"PT 641 - Joe Moore & Kyle Buller - Holotropic Breathwork, Somatics, and Foundations for Psychedelic Work","slug":"pt-641-joe-moore-kyle-buller-holotropic-breathwork-somatics-and-foundations-for-psychedelic-work","published_at":"2025-11-26T14:06:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychedelics-today-777076/pt-641-joe-moore-kyle-buller-holotropic-breathwork-somatics-and-foundations-for-psychedelic-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychedelics-today-777076","url":"https://psychedelicstoday.libsyn.com/pt-641-joe-moore-kyle-buller-holotropic-breathwork-somatics-and-foundations-for-psychedelic-work","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/psychedelicstoday/PT_641_-_Joe_and_Kyle_-_Breathwork.mp3?dest-id=381511","summary":"Holotropic Breathwork sits at the center of this wide ranging conversation between Psychedelics Today co-founders Joe Moore and Kyle Buller. Drawing from decades of personal practice and assorted types of breathwork facilitation, they explore how breathwork methods from the Grof lineage including Dreamshadow Breathwork can prepare people for psychedelic work, support difficult journeys, and deepen integration over time. Kyle shares how his near death experience, somatic training, and breathwork facilitation shaped this new course on breathwork foundations, while Joe reflects on how reading Dr Stanislav Grof and years of experience in Holotropic Breathwork changed how he approaches psychedelics. Early Themes: Roots, Lineages, and First Encounters The episode opens with how each of them first found breathwork. Joe discovered Grof's writing in college, then traveled to Dreamshadow workshops long before he worked seriously with psychedelics. Kyle came to Holotropic style breathwork while studying transpersonal psychology at Burlington College, arriving as a skeptic who assumed people were exaggerating until his first session opened into a full psychedelic level process. They trace the roots of breathwork in modern psychology back to Wilhelm Reich, character armor, and early somatic approaches, then follow that thread into Grof's work and later branches. Joe and Kyle map out the different schools that emerged, including Grof Transpersonal Training, Grof Legacy Training, and Dreamshadow, and explain why the term \"breathwork\" has become a huge umbrella that covers everything from Wim Hof to short online sessions that are not actually Holotropic Breathwork. Core Insights: Breath, Nervous System, and Working the Edges In the middle of the episode they move into what this new fo…","meta_description":"Holotropic Breathwork sits at the center of this wide ranging conversation between Psychedelics Today co-founders Joe Moore and Kyle Buller. Drawing from…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3917,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/psychedelics-today-777076/episodes/pt-641-joe-moore-kyle-buller-holotropic-breathwork-somatics-and-foundations-for-psychedelic-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/psychedelics-today-777076/pt-641-joe-moore-kyle-buller-holotropic-breathwork-somatics-and-foundations-for-psychedelic-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}