the dot project?

As many of you know, I found holotropic breathwork in 2017. From the very beginning, I felt called to bring this work to a wider audience. The practice itself was powerful, but the way it was often presented felt inaccessible. Too abstract. Too “out there.” I wanted to build something that fit into real life. Something modern, grounded, and genuinely useful for people navigating everyday stress and anxiety.

When I met Courtney, everything clicked. I introduced her to breathwork, and she immediately understood both its impact and the gap I was trying to close. We shared the same instinct: this work matters, and it deserves to be offered in a way people can actually connect with.

During Courtney’s first breathwork session, her grandmother appeared, unexpected, emotional, unmistakably clear. Her name was Dorothy. In that moment, we realized that everyone knows Dorothy, not just from The Wizard of Oz, but through the story and what it represents.

Dorothy embodies the essence of this work: the search for steadiness, the belief that relief lives somewhere outside of us, and the realization that it’s been within us all along.

Staying true to my original intention, to make this work modern, accessible, and a little more masculine, for people who don’t naturally gravitate toward anything spiritual, we chose Dot: a nickname for Dorothy.

Dot is Dorothy, distilled.

Shorter. Sharper. More grounded. A name that feels like an entry point, not an explanation. A signal for people who carry a lot, move fast, and still need a way to come back down, on purpose.

That’s how The Dot Project was born.