Meet the Founders

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• Retired Johns Hopkins University Hospital Anesthesiologist
• Adult Leukemia Survivor
• Rabbi
• Mother (to three adult daughters)

 Lauri’s journey through medicine, faith, and serious illness revealed a powerful truth: true healing is not just physical—it is also spiritual, emotional, and deeply personal.

Her experience surviving leukemia became a profound turning point. It invited her to listen more closely to her inner voice and helped her to see the limitations of traditional models of care. In that space, a new path emerged—one of empowered healing, where individuals are not passive recipients of wellness, but active participants in their own transformation.

Through compassionate guidance, grounded wisdom, and integrative practices, Lauri facilitates and supports individuals and groups in discovering their own answers, reconnecting to their own  inner wisdom, and to live with authority, authenticity, and clarity. This creates potential for deep connection, realignment, and the kind of change that lasts. 

Colleen Reid is a certified Grof® Breathwork Facilitator and Spiritual Emergence Coach®,

honored to serve on the faculty of Grof® Legacy Training USA. 

Colleen holds a B.A. in Psychology from Dartmouth College and a Master of Environmental Studies from Yale

University, where she focused on the human dimensions of conservation and the perception of

beauty in the natural world. 

For many years, Colleen devoted herself to a career in environmental conservation—including fieldwork, research, non-profit leadership, and

consulting. 

From 1997 to 2002, she also competed internationally in the sport of skeleton,

racing at the World Cup and Olympic levels.

Colleen’s life was profoundly transformed in February 2014 by a spontaneous spiritual

awakening—an experience of deep emergence that forever changed her understanding of

reality, self, and the sacred. This abiding shift in consciousness brought her into intimate

contact with the beauty of interconnectedness and inner peace, and it now informs every

aspect of her work and life. Following this awakening, she left her conservation career to focus on integrating this new way of being and to immerse herself in the study of consciousness and transformation. 

Colleen’s personal journey resonated deeply with the holotropic paradigm of healing and self-discovery articulated by Dr. Stanislav Grof. She discovered Holotropic Breathwork® during her

spiritual emergence and credits it not with causing, but with catalyzing her awakening. In 2014, she began intensive training in this lineage and in  2015, she was certified in Holotropic

Breathwork and Transpersonal Psychology through Grof Transpersonal Training®. 

Colleen’s additional studies of spirituality, consciousness, and mysticism were largely self-guided, but also include a year-long certification in global mysticism with Andrew Harvey and Mirabai Starr, as well as certification in Spiritual Emergence Coaching® through IMHU. She also served on the Advisory Board of the Foundation for Conscious Evolution. 

She went on to found BodhiBreath®, which offered teaching, spiritual coaching, psychedelic integration, and breathwork workshops.

Most recently, Colleen was invited to help develop and launch Grof® Legacy Training USA,

where she now serves as a teacher, facilitator, and mentor—a role that has become the central

focus of her work.

Today, Colleen lives between Ojai, California and Carbondale, Colorado. A facilitator, coach,

teacher, writer, poet, naturalist, and mother of two young adults, she brings a lifetime of

experience to her work in healing, wellness, and spirituality. In addition to her role with GLT

USA, she continues to support individuals through one-on-one integration and spiritual

emergence coaching. Her deepest passion is to make the sacred practices of expanded states of

consciousness accessible to all who seek them—and to help others discover the transformative

power of their own inner potential.