PT545 – Breathwork, Holding Space, and the Healing Power of Connection: Documenting the Dreamshadow Community, with Mustapha Khan
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 6 September 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, Kyle interviews Mustapha Khan: Emmy Award-winning director with over 100 film and television credits, who has worked with clients such as Coca-Cola and Honda, and celebrities ranging from Maya Angelou to Snoop Dogg.
Khan is finalizing a film about Lenny and Elizabeth Gibson and their ongoing work at Dreamshadow – the people and community responsible for Joe and Kyle meeting and the creation of Psychedelics Today. He talks about meeting the Gibsons, being welcomed into their community (instead of his proposed "fly on the wall" role), how centered and happy he felt after his first breathwork session, and what he has learned through the process: that breathwork can be an incredibly healing modality, but the magic he has found has been more in the community surrounding it, and the responsibility (and honor) of being a sitter for someone else.
He discusses:
- The first time his breathwork went psychedelic, and speaking with his recently deceased Mothe
- How he got into filmmaking and why he wants to tell stories about people like the Gibson
- The beauty of breathwork not having a dogma or doctrine attached to it
- The power in holding space for someone else, even if it's just being presen
- The importance of taking action that aligns with psychedelic ethos: What can you do to contribute to your community?
and more!
Khan is hoping to release the documentary, "Life and Breath," in October. In addition to a screening at Dreamshadow, PT will likely do a virtual one as well, so stay tuned for updates!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to Psych Alex today. My name is Kyle Buller and I am the host for today's |
| 0:16.7 | episode. And today I get to chat with Mustafa Khan, who is an Emmy award-winning director with over |
| 0:23.6 | 100 film and television credits. Mustafa talks a little bit about the films that he worked on in the |
| 0:29.6 | podcast, so I'll leave it for him in the podcast, discuss that. Mustafa is a graduate of Harvard |
| 0:35.6 | University, where he was a Harvard College scholar and elected Marshall of his graduating class. |
| 0:43.4 | He was also the recipient of a Rotary Graduate Fellowship, with which he worked as an anthropologist in Kenya prior to becoming a filmmaker. |
| 0:53.3 | And Mustafa is a lifetime member of the director's Guild of America and teaches film production |
| 0:58.3 | at Brooklyn College and lives in Brooklyn with his lovely wife, Alison Smith. |
| 1:03.5 | And Allison, if you're listening, hope you're doing well. |
| 1:06.2 | And we missed you in Vermont when we were filming this and recording. |
| 1:10.7 | I guess we were filming and recording. |
| 1:13.2 | So yeah, this episode was recorded in Pollitt, Vermont. And this was a special interview |
| 1:19.5 | because Mustafa, myself, and a few others from the Dream Shadow community, board members and staff |
| 1:26.7 | members, had a weekend together |
| 1:29.0 | at DreamShadow. And for those that have been listening to Psychedelics today, you've been following |
| 1:34.1 | us for a while, you probably heard us talk about Lenny and Elizabeth Gibson and the work that |
| 1:39.9 | they've been doing at Dream Shadow and Breathwork. I mean, this, they have been really the inspiration that got |
| 1:45.4 | Joe and I started. That's actually how Joe and I met was through Lenning Elizabeth, through the |
| 1:49.6 | breathwork community. So yeah, we got together in Vermont, August 17th. And about two years ago, |
| 1:58.1 | around 2022, Mustafa and another filmmaker, Jethro Waters, started to work on |
| 2:05.5 | this breathwork documentary to focus on breathwork and then also the work that Lenny |
| 2:12.0 | Elizabeth had been doing at Dream Shadow. So we got to finally get together and have a little internal film premiere, |
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