Tav Sparks

Tav Sparks is director of Grof Transpersonal Training (GTT), the only training program that certifies people as practitioners of Holotropic Breathwork. Tav is a teacher, consultant, and writer with over 30 years of experience working therapeutically with people in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

The GTT has long been considered the gold standard for training psychedelic guides and its methodology has been adopted by: the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for their MDMA Phase 1, 2, and 3 studies, by the USONA Institute that is conducting studies using psilocybin, and by the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) at their Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research.

Since 1986, Tav has conducted hundreds of trainings and workshops. He has conducted over 10,000 holotropic sessions, a process that occasions an expanded or psychedelic state of consciousness in the participant.

Tav is the author of four books, a training manual, and a CD series. In his latest book, The Power Within: Becoming, Being, and the Holotropic Paradigm published in November, 2016, Tav shares a wealth of wisdom from his deep understanding of Holotropic Breathwork. He shows how a holotropic paradigm can inform all sorts of settings, from the therapeutic to the personal and interpersonal, and more. Tav is the author of the training manual Doing Not Doing: A Facilitators Guide to Holotropic Breathwork. 

Tav’s CD series covers four topics as they relate to Holotropic Breathwork: Getting Started on Your Inner Journey; Addiction, Recovery, and the Spiritual Path; A Modern Spiritual Method with Lessons for Practical Life; and Healing Stories from Holotropic Breathwork. 

Tav has served on the International Transpersonal Association (ITA) Board of Directors.

Tav left his body in August 2020 soon after recording his presentation.