Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork

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Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork

In-person Breathwork workshops and training, online study groups, conferences, and special events

Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork is a practice-linked philosophy that uses breathwork for self-discovery and personal development through a combination of group process, intense breathing, evocative music, body work, and expressive drawing. The term “transpersonal” refers to those experiences where our sense of self-identity expands beyond our personal biography and ego boundaries and transcen

ds the usual limitations of time and space. These experiences facilitate deeper understanding of ourselves, our relation to others and our place in the universe. They help us gain increased comfort in daily life and a spiritual intelligence that fosters calm and optimism amidst the difficulties of the world. Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork draws on the work of William James, Alfred North Whitehead, Carl Jung, Stanislav Grof and others. We offer workshops and training, based on our experience with philosophy, psychology, and over 25 years of offering Holotropic Breathwork® workshops.

08/21/2026

**Today we gather.**

This morning in Pawlet, a new Dreamshadow community begins to take shape.

People are arriving from different places, carrying different stories, different questions, and different hopes for the days ahead.

By the end of the week, these spaces will have held discovery and uncertainty, tears and laughter, music and silence, deep personal exploration, and the quiet recognition that while each journey is our own, none of us walks this path alone.

For now, we are simply at the beginning.

Safe travels to everyone making their way to Pawlet.

We'll see you soon.

08/17/2026

Why Focused Bodywork?

Breath can open a door.

Sometimes what emerges can be understood through insight and words. Sometimes it is experienced through sensation, movement, emotion, or patterns the body has carried for years.

At Dreamshadow, we recognize that the body is not separate from the psyche. It is one of the ways our lives are expressed and experienced.

Focused Bodywork exists because there are moments when compassionate, skillful support can help a process continue unfolding.

How that support is offered is something we teach carefully, experientially, and within a thoughtfully held learning environment.

Join us August 21-26 in Pawlet, Vermont for Focused Bodywork in the Context of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork.

The workshop ends. The community continues.

Link in bio.

08/07/2026

What is holotropic breathwork?

For more than three decades, Dreamshadow has explored the transformative potential of non-ordinary states of consciousness through holotropic breathwork, education, and community.

In this brief excerpt from Life & Breath, Elizabeth Gibson describes the heart of this work and why it continues to matter.

If you'd like to experience this work more deeply, join us August 21-26 in Pawlet, Vermont for our Dreamshadow Breathwork Training: Focused Bodywork in the Context of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork.

The workshop ends. The community continues.

Learn more through the link in our bio.

08/03/2026

The workshop ends. The community doesn't.

Every breathwork journey is deeply personal, but none of us has to make meaning of it alone.

SEEN is Dreamshadow's ongoing gathering for conversation, reflection, and connection. It is a place to revisit experiences, ask new questions, and continue learning alongside others who understand the value of this work.

Whether your first Dreamshadow workshop was this year or twenty-five years ago, there is always a place for you in the circle.

SEEN
Monday, August 3
7:00 to 8:30 PM Eastern

Message us if you'd like to join.

07/28/2026

Most personal development asks us to go inward alone.

Dreamshadow begins somewhere different.

We gather in community, not because everyone is having the same experience, but because something profound happens when individual journeys unfold within a shared field of presence, respect, and care.

Every person's experience remains deeply personal. Yet none of us walks into the transpersonal alone.

For more than three decades, this understanding has shaped the way Dreamshadow approaches transpersonal breathwork.

Community is not an addition to the work.

It is part of the work.

07/24/2026

August 21-26
Pawlet, Vermont
Focused Bodywork in the Context of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork

Some experiences invite us to learn about ourselves. Others invite us to become companions for the journeys of others.

This August, Dreamshadow returns to Pawlet, Vermont for a five-day training in Focused Bodywork within the context of Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork.

Whether you are continuing your own path or deepening your capacity to support others, this training offers an opportunity to explore the relationship between body, psyche, and community within a carefully held learning environment.

We hope you'll join us.
Register at www.dreamshadow.com

07/22/2026

For four days this summer, Dreamshadow joined researchers, philosophers, clinicians, students, and practitioners from around the world at the University of Exeter's EPIC Summer School to explore one of the enduring questions in consciousness studies:
What can direct experience teach us?
Our contribution was not simply to talk about holotropic breathwork, but to invite participants into an experiential encounter with Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork and the questions that arise when lived experience becomes part of scholarly inquiry.
As philosopher Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes reflected afterward, the experience was "surprisingly powerful." We were honored to contribute to a gathering where rigorous scholarship and direct experience were held in thoughtful conversation.
The conversations that began at Exeter continue, and we're grateful to be part of them.

07/06/2026

In a few days, people will begin gathering in Exeter.

Researchers, clinicians, students, facilitators, and members of the public will come together to explore psychedelics, exceptional experience, neuroscience, non-ordinary states, and direct experiential work.

But what stays with many people long after an event like this is not a particular lecture or workshop.

It's the conversations.

The questions.

The people they meet along the way.

As part of the EPIC Summer School, Elizabeth and Leonard Gibson and the Dreamshadow® team will be leading a two-day workshop in holotropic breathwork.

We're looking forward to joining this community of inquiry and exploration, and to meeting many of you there.

July 13–16
University of Exeter

Registration:
https://store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-health-and-life-sciences/psychology/epic-summer-school

For more workshops:
http://www.dreamshadow.com

07/02/2026

What happens when psychedelic researchers, neuroscientists, clinicians, exceptional experience researchers, and holotropic breathwork facilitators gather in the same place?

In a few weeks, we'll find out.

The EPIC Summer School begins July 13 at the University of Exeter, bringing together leading voices in the field alongside direct experiential work.

We're honored that Elizabeth and Leonard Gibson and the Dreamshadow® team will be leading a two-day workshop in holotropic breathwork as part of the programme.

Registration is open, and the event is open to the public.

If you've been considering joining us in Exeter, now is the time.

July 13–16
University of Exeter

Registration:
https://store.exeter.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-health-and-life-sciences/psychology/epic-summer-school

For more workshops:
www.dreamshadow.com

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