AHHHHHHHHHHHHH SOMEBODY POST AN EXPERIENCE!!! I COMMAND YE TO DO SO!!!
From what i have read, you are supposed to breath as fast and deep as you can. Short and fast breathing is not supposed to be very healthy.
There seems to be a greater emphasis on selling Holotropic workshops than on describing how to do it. I did find the following:
[b]Description of Process
The evocative music begins at this point and lasts for approximately 2 hours. The breather begins breathing faster and deeper as instructed by the facilitator. Some breathwork facilitators suggest usings a “circular breath” (meaning no pauses between the in- and out-breaths) in addition to the deeper and more rapid breathing. The breathing process is up to the breather. Some people ask their sitters to remind them to breath faster and deeper (often by a light touch of the shoulder) if they begin to fall asleep early on in the process. If pain or tension appears in the body during the process and is not resolved by the breath, focused bodywork is offered by the facilitator.[/b]
(Full text: https://www.holisticmed.com/inner/breath/holotropic.html)
I think this description along with the idea of “forcing” the inhale and relaxing on the exhale should cover how to do it.
Now maybe ben7 can give it a try and tell us what happened??? 
I tried it the other night. I only did it for a few minutes I think… I didn’t time it. My only physical response was that my face began to tingle all over which happens in hyperventilation. However, I wasn’t breathing very deeply. I started to become paranoid and creeped out because I was in my dark room and I suddenly recalled someone seeing the faces of the dead while doing it so I stopped. 
I don’t need THAT right before bed.
I will try again sometime though.
Hmm… There was this guy in my class in Junior High, and we were doing something really boring in English… books on tape, or something… so he had this bright idea, he had his hands over his chest and he made himself breathe really rapidly until he almost passed out. Is it kind of like that? 
Uh, No? There is a yogic breathing called the Breath of Fire that is like that but this one is deeper and slower.
I tried it briefly while sitting at the 'puter and got the hyperventilating tingly feeling. Then last night I did it for about 10 minutes in bed before I went to sleep, and didn’t feel hyperventilated. I woke up at 4:30 and did it for another minute or so. In the morning I had not had any LDs but I did notice an increase in my dream recall. It was encouraging enough that I will be using this technique again
I tried for maybe like 1-5 mins, it was hard to tell, and all i got was a little dizzy, and this is the weird part, i felt vibrations a little in my extremities, but most of all in my TEETH [%
was very odd…
OH YEAH! and you find alot more info on the net if u say holotropic breathWORK rather than breathing. 
Same here: I did it for 4min and got really dizzy and disorientated (with a light feeling inside my head), but no real hypnagogic hallucinations (except for a few faint flashes of light).
I looked up the section in Holographic Universe where this was mentioned and the doctor who was using the technique in his experiments (in the stead of LSD) is Stanislav Grof. You can find several of his books on Amazon. The one where he talks about Holotropic Breathwork is called, “The Adventure of Self-Discovery,” I believe. I think he gives a full account of the technique in there.
The practice is akin to hyperventilation but somewhat different as the breaths are deep and quick instead of the shallow, rapid breathing or hyperventilation.
I just cant imagine breathing deepand fast without making it rapidly hyperventylating.That actually bugs me for a while now.I tried it few times 10,20 and 25 mins but didnt get any interesting results except strong vibrations.
I would sure go for a course if we had one in Poland
I have NEVER felt vibrations… I don’t think.
Last weeks, my dream recall was pretty low (1-2 dreams a night), so yesterday I tried the holotropic breathing just before going to bed (for about 5min).
I woke up 4 times during the night and remembered 6 dreams. I don’t know if it has anything to do with the breathing, but it’s strange nevertheless. I studied alot yesterday and it’s known that if you concentrate very much during the day or do much memory work, this reflects in a natural increase in dream recall and dream vividness.
I’m going to try this the following nights to see if it really helps.
Ok I did the holotropic breathing technique for about 5min before going to sleep. I began with the technique on June 18. Here are my results (the number of dreams I remembered):
14/6: 2
15/6: 1
16/6: 2
17/6: 3
18/6: 6
19/6: 3
20/6: 6
21/6: 4
I don’t know how to interprete this. It doesn’t matter if it’s placebo. It’s fine by me as long as it works 
woah. . . . . . … that made my fingers and hands tingly. It was kinda like hyperventilating, but in some ways more intense, and it lasted longer. I did this circular breathing thing just now (with the breathing in, letting the breathe out, then just continuing to breate without stopping), and was slowly feeling more and more funny. I stopped after about 5 minutes because it was getting pretty intense. I wasn’t thinking very straight, and remembered somebody mentioning something about seeing stuff in mirrors so I started to walk out of my room to go into the bathroom, but I was actually afraid of seeing stuff in the dark (if I had hyperventilated I wouldn’t even be able to think enough to be afraid). I ended up coming back into my room and closing the door behind me. and I’m now looking at it and see that I locked it. I have no memory of this action, which would have occured about 4 minutes ago.
whoa! what a rush! 
I only tried it for about 8 minutes… breating in and out like circulation method… only thing I felt was buzzing and tingling. I look around the room to see of I started hallunicating, but I didn’t. I even went to a mirror… I thought I saw my eyes twiching as well when I see myself in the mirror???
Anyways, I tried that before… twice. 1st for 15 minutes… felt really dizzy and I barely could walk cuz I lost my muscles coorination. And then 2nd one for one hour. I began to hallunciate a bit (green light sneaking in the sky)… but I didn’t hallunicate as intensely as I expected it to be. Maybe I do it all wrong. 
Unfortunately I can’t hear the music cuz I’m deaf so I kinda need to do it without any musics…
Anyways… maybe later I’ll try it when I lay down and have my eyes closed.
Man I tried this last night for like 2 minutes and I got all dizzy and tingly and decided to stop. Am I doing it wrong cause it seems like I was hyperventilating? Could this be dangerous? Although this could be a cheap fast substitute for drugs and booze if none are available.
Unfortunately, I don’t think anyone can yet say what it is we’re doing wrong or right or whether or not it is dangerous. But holotropic breathwork does sound like it could be good substitute for drugs. Some of the mystical experiences I’ve read about monks having are always related to simple breathing.