Vladimir — PhD in Philosophy, Senior Researcher at the Institute of Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Associate Professor and Head of transpersonal programs at the Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis. He is a certified psychotherapist of the Professional Psychotherapy League, the European Psychotherapy Association, the European Transpersonal Association and the World Council for Psychotherapy. He is the author of more than 80 articles on transpersonal psychology and 4 books. Editor-in-chief of the book series " Texts of Transpersonal Psychology "(about 100 books have been published). In 2007-2011, Vladimir worked as a scientific consultant and personal adviser to E. M. Sagalaev in his TV documentary project " Mystical Journeys with Eduard Sagalaev "(6 episodes were released). Author and director of the feature-length documentaries "Dance of Infinity" (2015)" Tools of Evolution "(2019) and" The Secret of Carlos Castaneda "(2019) and 20 programs" At the Origins "(2016-2017, Channel" Psychology 21"), based on interviews with masters of art, transpersonal psychology and spiritual traditions.

Personal website www.vmaykov.ru
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Transpersonal psychology is a branch of psychology that studies transpersonal experiences, altered states of consciousness, and religious experiences, combining modern psychological concepts, theories, and methods with traditional spiritual practices of the East and West. The first person to talk about the "transpersonal unconscious" was C. Jung. As an independent branch of psychological science, transpersonal psychology was formed in the late 1960s as one of the areas of humanistic psychology. The founders of this direction were well-known philosophers, psychologists and psychotherapists A. Maslow, E. Sutich, S. Grof, A. Watts, M. Murphy and others.

Holotropic breathwork is a method of transpersonal psychotherapy that involves hyperventilating the lungs. As a result, a person activates experiences that have been repressed into the subconscious. This method was developed by Stanislav Grof, a Czech-born American psychologist, and his wife Kristina in the 1970s. Analogs to holotropic breathwork have existed in various cultures around the world for thousands of years.