Our Approach

Spiritus8® offers highly curated expanded states experiences utilizing Holotropic Breathwork®, Trance Movement™, and complementary modalities. Clients are invited into meaningful internal work within thoughtfully crafted physical and psychological containers.

Each experience is designed for safety, discretion, and depth. Because the individuals we serve carry significant responsibility for organizations, families, and communities, their healing environments must reflect the same level of excellence they expect in every other area of life.

Our standards are simple:

• Safety

• Privacy

• Masterful Facilitation

• Impeccable Ethics

• Beautifully Held Environments

 Every detail matters.

Foundational Practice:
Holotropic Breathwork®

Holotropic Breathwork® is an elegantly simple method for entering expanded states of consciousness in support of deep self-inquiry and transformation. The process combines cyclical breathing, evocative music, and a carefully held set and setting.

Why breath?

For millennia, breath has been understood as the bridge between body, mind, and spirit. It is the most intimate rhythm of human life — both biological and symbolic. While modern Western science often reduces breathing to a purely mechanical function, its profound influence on the nervous system remains undeniable. Breath directly shapes stress physiology, emotional regulation, and overall state of being.

In Holotropic Breathwork®, breath is the catalyst that carries participants into expanded states of awareness. As habitual mental loops soften, access opens to deeper layers of the psyche. Material from all domains is welcome; what is brought forth is ready to be healed and integrated — guided by inner wisdom rather than external interpretation or suggestion.

This practice offers a dynamic, somatic pathway to transformation — one that harnesses life force and honors individual sovereignty.

Foundational Practice: Trance Movement™

Trance Movement™ is an embodied method for entering expanded states of consciousness through rhythm, movement, breath, and sensory refinement. Formerly known as Trance Dance, the practice has expanded to include a broad spectrum of intuitive movement. The social dynamic of watching and being watched is removed. Blindfolded movement and evocative music, within a carefully held container, guide participants inward.

 Why movement?

The human organism is rhythmic by design. Composed largely of water, the body responds to vibration at a cellular level. Music is not processed solely through the auditory system; neuroimaging shows activation in the motor cortex — which is why the body anticipates the next beat. Rhythm synchronizes neural activity, stabilizes the nervous system, and opens access to creativity, insight, and emotional release.

Across cultures and centuries, rhythmic movement has served as a gateway into expanded awareness. Trance Movement™ follows this lineage. There are no imposed steps. The body leads; awareness follows. As habitual patterns reorganize, perception widens and deeper intelligence emerges — guided by innate wisdom rather than external choreography.

This practice offers a potent catalyst for transformation — activating change through movement while honoring individual sovereignty.

Complementary Modalities & Thematic Design

In addition to its foundational practices, Spiritus8® curates bespoke experiential intensives designed around a clearly defined objective, theme, or inquiry. Programming is context-specific and tailored to private individuals, executive teams, creative cohorts, academic institutions, or groups of friends and family members.

These curated containers incorporate carefully selected teachings, ritual structures, contemplative practices, and interdisciplinary frameworks — aligned with the focus of the engagement.

Themes may include:

 • Creative breakthrough and innovation

• Leadership embodiment and decision clarity

• Women’s empowerment and the Divine Feminine

• Sacred geometry and symbolic systems

• Philosophical and contemplative approaches to addiction and transformation

• Ritual frameworks drawn from global contemplative traditions

• Executive and organizational renewal

Experiences are hosted in private residences, professional environments, or high-end retreat settings. In retreat contexts, programming may be integrated alongside modalities such as yoga, somatic practices, sound work, or other wellness offerings, through partnership with host providers when appropriate.

Each engagement is strategically designed and held to the same standards of safety, discretion, and ethical rigor that define Spiritus8®.

Structured Integration Coaching

Work in expanded states is catalytic.
Integration is where transformation becomes enduring.

Without deliberate integration, even the most powerful breakthrough can lose its profundity and dissolve like a dream. The purpose of this work is not peak experience for its own sake, but movement toward wholeness. In fact, Holotropic means precisely that — from Holos, meaning whole, and Trepein, meaning moving toward.

The work is to retrieve and reintegrate lost or disowned aspects of the psyche — often shaped through trauma, grief, adaptation, or survival strategies that no longer serve — so that one returns to life more grounded, more internally unified, and more capable of showing up fully in the world.

Integration guidance is embedded within every Spiritus8® experience.

For clients seeking deeper continuity — whether following immersive work with Spiritus8® or other work in expanded states, including work with master plants — private integration coaching is available.

These sessions provide a confidential, disciplined container for grounding, metabolizing, and contextualizing experience.
They may include:

• Nervous system stabilization following psychological expansion

• Practices for working with emerging memories, images, or symbolic material

• Reflection processes that translate insight into lived awareness

• Relational awareness across leadership, partnership, and family systems

• Structured integration exercises that support long-term meaning-making

Structured Integration Coaching is not psychotherapy, counseling, or life coaching. It does not replace psychological care. Rather, it offers refined support for incorporating expanded states experiences into daily life with steadiness and discernment.

The goal is not temporary elevation or peak experience, but sustained integration that reshapes how one shows up in the world: coherent, grounded, and whole.

Who We Serve

Spiritus8® works with:

  • executives, board members, founders, and leaders

  • entrepreneurs, visionaries, and artists shaping culture

  • philanthropists, donors, and stewards of wealth

  • high-performing professionals

  • individuals at pivotal life thresholds

  • teams and organizations seeking alignment and renewal

Individuals who value depth, discretion, and meaningful transformation.

Apprenticeship & Certification Pathways

Structured apprenticeship pathways are available for individuals called to train in Holotropic Breathwork® and Trance Movement™ facilitation. Participation is selective. If interested, please reach out to Stephenie directly.