Life & Breath: Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork Film Screening

A special film screening and live Q&A exploring breathwork, altered states, and the transformative potential of embodied practice

What happens when we step beyond words and into direct experience?

Breathwork has emerged as one of the most compelling approaches for exploring altered states of consciousness, emotional healing, and personal transformation. Yet despite its growing popularity, few people have had the opportunity to witness what actually unfolds inside a breathwork session.

Life & Breath offers a rare window into that world.

This special online event features a full screening of the documentary, which follows participants, facilitators, and researchers as they navigate the profound experiences that can emerge through conscious breathing practices. The film moves beyond abstract discussions of healing and transformation, bringing viewers directly into the breathwork room and the human stories that unfold within it.

Following the screening, we will be joined live by filmmaker Mustapha Khan and Dreamshadow founders Lenny and Elizabeth Gibson for a discussion exploring the themes raised by the film, the role of breathwork in contemporary wellbeing and psychedelic culture, and the experiential approach at the heart of the upcoming EPIC Dreamshadow Summer School workshop.

Whether you are curious about breathwork, interested in altered states, or considering attending the summer school, this event offers a unique opportunity to engage with the people, practices, and ideas shaping this growing field.

What we’ll explore

• The transformative potential of breathwork and non-pharmacological altered states
• What Life & Breath reveals about healing, self-discovery, and human resilience
• The emotional, psychological, and relational experiences that can emerge through breathwork practice
• How breathwork intersects with psychedelic research, integration, and personal growth
• The importance of embodied and experiential approaches to learning and transformation
• The vision behind Dreamshadow and the EPIC Dreamshadow Summer School workshop
• Audience questions and reflections with the filmmakers and facilitators

Why attend?

Psychedelic research is evolving rapidly, although some of the most of the conversation around altered states focuses on psychedelic substances. This event offers an opportunity to explore a different pathway—one rooted in the breath itself.

Through a powerful documentary and live discussion with the people behind it, you'll gain an intimate insight into a practice that has helped many individuals access profound states of awareness, emotional release, and personal growth.

You'll also have the opportunity to meet the team behind Dreamshadow, learn more about their work, and discover how experiential learning is being integrated into one of the most innovative psychedelic education programmes currently emerging in the UK.

Whether you're a researcher, clinician, student, practitioner, or simply curious about the frontiers of consciousness and human potential, this promises to be a rich and thought-provoking evening.

Speakers

Mustafa Khan

Mustapha Khan is an Emmy Award-winning American director of uniquely inspiring narrative, documentary and television films. His credits include: Song For Our People, a new music documentary currently playing in film festivals; Rocksteady, a coming-of-age action movie about a small town stock car racer; House on Fire, an award-winning documentary about the AIDS epidemic in Black America; twenty years of original films and specials for Sesame Street and other childrens television shows; and his breakthrough film Reflections of a Native Son, which is on permanent display at the American Museum of Television and Radio. Mustapha Khan is a graduate of Harvard University and a member of the Directors Guild of America.

Leonard Gibson

Leonard Gibson Ph.D., graduated from Williams College and earned doctorates from Claremont Graduate School in philosophy and The University of Texas at Austin in psychology. Lenny has 50 years of experience working with non–ordinary states of consciousness. He has taught at The University of Tulsa and Lesley College and served his clinical psychology internship at the Boston, MA V.A. Hospital. He also taught transpersonal psychology for 20 years at Burlington College. Lenny serves on the board of the Community Health Centers of the Rutland Region in Vermont. A survivor of throat cancer, he facilitated for several years the head and neck cancer support group at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center. He is a past president of the Association of Holotropic Breathwork International.

Elizabeth Gibson

Elizabeth Gibson, M.S., has been facilitating Holotropic Breathwork workshops since 1994. She has also worked as an environmental consultant, editor, writer and teacher. Elizabeth is the editor of Stanislav Grof ’s The Ultimate Journey: Consciousness and the Mystery of Death and a contributor to the teaching manual MDMA-Assisted Psychotherapy for the Treatment of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, both published by the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. For several years she was responsible for local news for the Town of Pawlet, VT, where she also served on the Energy Group and Emergency Management Team. From 2007 – 2014 she was the editor of the weekly environment section for the Rutland Herald and Montpelier Times Argus newspapers in Vermont. Currently she serves on the Board of the Vermont Natural Resources Council.

Host

Ryan Khan

Ryan is the Online Events Coordinator for The Psychedelic Society and a life-long psychedelic enthusiast. He is completing his MSc in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine & Culture at The University of Exeter where he specialises in the extra-pharmacological factors affecting psychedelic assisted therapy. Ryan also sits at the intersection of psychedelic research, education and therapy. He works as a Research Assistant at Pneuma Science, Consultant at Psilonautica and Trip Sitter at Beautiful Space. Follow Ryan on LinkedIn.

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