Holotropic Breathwork Didn’t Fix me
By Ronit LeMon Deneen

Holotropic breathwork didn’t fix me.
It found me.

It helped me reach places I couldn’t think my way into.
Old fear. Old stories. The residue of a past marriage that still lived in my body, long after it was over.
Things that had been roosting inside me like dark birds, shaping how I moved, how I loved, how I braced.

Through breath, those places softened.
Some of the fear loosened its grip.
Stories I once believed turned out not to be true anymore.

What emerged was self-awareness.
Self-knowledge.
The kind that changes how you show up.

This work has made me a better wife.
A better mother.
A better coach.
A better human.

Dreamshadow is the community that holds this work with warmth, care, and deep humanity.
A little quirky. Loving. Spacious enough for all of us.

This work matters to me.
I believe it changes the world, one human at a time.

Ronit LeMon Deneen, MA, MCC: Ronit is a Master Certified Coach, Certified Dreamshadow Transpersonal Breathwork Facilitator, Certified Mediator, and Justice of the Peace based in Connecticut. She offers one-on-one coaching and, together with her husband, Matt Deneen, co-creates Sun+Moon Dream Alchemists, where they hold spaces for breathwork, dreams, biohacking and ritual.
Ronit serves as Editor-in-Chief of Drops & Buds, an open-access journal devoted to the work of Stanislav Grof and the philosophy of Alfred North Whitehead. Her work lives where sun and moon meet: where breath opens the body, intuition awakens, and people rediscover the quiet power already moving within them. You can reach her at ronitlemon@gmail.com.