Jack Blackwell

Hi and welcome to my website. This website is the culmination of a long dream to fully share with people what I have learned on my sometimes challenging path. Here I present that which I have learned about life's beauty and challenges, and the ways which we can enhance what is serving us and change what is not.

On this website I also provide valuable resources for those looking to learn more about Holotropic Breathwork. This work has been a life changer for me. The experiences I have had and the true depths and beauty which I have seen at these workshops have led me to see with greater clarity the awesome beauty of the human potential. When we create the right setting and a truly safe space the masks come off and human beauty shines.

I returned to school from a career as a flight attendant. As much as I loved the travels and opportunities which being a flight attendant provided, I knew that deep down I wanted work which was more aligned with my heart. Being a flight attendant was great fun, but it was not deep or meaningful. The universe fortunately showed me my way when I was experiencing a shamanic journey. In this journey I saw pictures of woods and a classroom, upon sharing the details with my guide she said that it sounded like Naropa University. Upon hearing this name my heart leapt and kept leaping until I committed. I sold my home, moved from Virginia to Colorado and surprisingly returned to getting an education.

At Naropa university I majored in Contemplative Psychology with an emphasis in the humanistic and transpersonal fields. My two loves have always been psychology and spirituality, in transpersonal psychology I found my two loves combined. Here I found a discipline which saw the human being and the human experience from a spiritual perspective. No longer was I a dysfunctional human being, but I was a spiritual being on a divine path, experiencing exactly what I needed for my highest growth. This was the perspective I was looking for, as this is how I naturally perceiving people and the world.

Within transpersonal psychology I also found another of my greatest questions answered, what is the best way to facilitate healing when we are not simply dysfunctional humans, but divine beings on divine paths? The answer for me was that we can learn to access our inner guidance and listen here for answers and direction. Too many times I see that we search the mind for answers to difficult life problems, and while our minds are beautiful and necessary, because of our wounds they are not the best sources of healing guidance. However if we can tap into our inner natures and ask for answers here, GREAT possibilities will open before us.

Holotropic Breathwork is a catalyst for insights, growth and change. Here we bypass the mind and go straight to our source, our "inner healer." This work creates a truly safe space where we can let down our guards, agendas, and mental planning and STILL get the answers which we need to navigate life's sometimes challenging waters.

For me is working with men. This comes from my betrayal of my masculine energy when I was younger. I was raised by a man whom I was deathly afraid of. This experience combined with a view held by many in society that men were destroying the planet, and a lack of solid male role models during my youth, were enough to solidify my belief that men were bad and that I did not want to be like them. So for the majority of my adult life I avoided men and my own masculine energy. It was not until later in my life, perhaps my mid thirties, that I began to question my own beliefs about men and ponder the denial of my own masculinity. Of particular importance to me was the question, "If I and many other people continue to espouse that men and the masculine are bad and destroying the planet, what effect does this have?"

Upon reflection I began to see that holding this belief was not only causing greater harm (To Be Continued)

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