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Martha Havenith PhD

Martha is a trained facilitator for consciously-connected breathwork and psychedelic experiences, as well as a neuroscientist. She holds a B.Sc. in Psychology, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. in Neuroscience.

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Facilitation & Breathwork 

A decade ago, Martha stumbled on body-led therapies in her search to address her own childhood trauma. Once she focused on embodied sensations rather than cognitive insights, Martha was amazed that old emotional wounds suddenly felt different. Like pain had not just been understood, but shifted, leaving space for new experiences. In the following years, Martha immersed herself in body-centered therapies, completing facilitator trainings for breathwork, Ayahuasca journeys and Voice Dialogue.

Martha facilitates breathwork sessions for individuals and groups, with an emphasis on trauma processing. Together with her husband Abdel, she also offers custom workshops and facilitator trainings, focusing on practitioners with a background in medicine and psychotherapy. Finally, Martha leads neuroscientific studies exploring breathwork, with the aim to connect science to the experiential wisdom we can gain through altered states of consciousness.

Selected published academic, peer-reviewed papers

Atemkraft-Das Breathwork-Handbuch – M Havenith, A Nemri – Klett-Cotta
Non-ordinary states of consciousness evoked by breathwork correlate with improved heart-rate variability – T Canello, A Tlaie, K Chalise, ML Schölvinck, L Pia, MN Havenith
Sharing the Spotlight: Uncovering common attentional dynamics across species – M Glukhova, A Tlaie, R Muresan, R Taylor, PA Ferracci, K Shapcott, … – bioRxiv, 2024.11. 01.621490
Decreased CO2 saturation during circular breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness – M Havenith, M Leidenberger, J Brasanac, M Corvacho, IC Figueiredo, …
End-tidal CO2 saturation during circular breathwork supports the emergence of altered states of consciousness – J Brasanac, MN Havenith, M Leidenberger, M Corvacho, IC Figueiredo, …- Neuroscience Applied 3, 104766
Exhaling the past: A comprehensive neuropsychological test of breathwork as a tool for trauma processing – MN Havenith, I Dziobek, M Bayer – OSF
An experience with Holotropic Breathwork is associated with improvement in non-judgement and satisfaction with life while reducing symptoms of stress in a Czech-speaking population – Journal of Psychedelic Studies 5 (3), 176-189
Rule awareness in mice predicts capacity to generalize rules to new stimuli
Does the brain care about averages? A simple test
Structural degradation in midcingulate cortex is associated with pathological aggression in mice
A central role for anterior cingulate cortex in the control of pathological aggression
Spherical treadmill for mouse VR
Anterior cingulate cortex hypofunction causes anti-social aggression in mice
Headplate and light-blocking sleeve for 2P imaging
Where is cingulate cortex? A cross-species view
Structural and functional MRI of altered brain development in a novel adolescent rat model of quinpirole-induced compulsive checking behavior
Gradient of parvalbumin-and somatostatin-expressing interneurons across cingulate cortex is differentially linked to aggression and sociability in BALB/cJ mice
Aggression in BALB/cJ mice is differentially predicted by the volumes of anterior and midcingulate cortex
The Virtual-Environment-Foraging Task enables rapid training and single-trial metrics of rule acquisition and reversal in head-fixed mice

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