Explorations through Inner Space

Psilcybin, along with other serotonergic psychedelics, acts in large part by stimulating 5-HT2A receptors in the brain. Tune in to hear what happens next :) 

A little riff on mindfulness, for your new years listening enjoyment 🙏

This is an oldie but perhaps a goodie? It's a talk I gave at the Downtown Yoga Festival, in the YogaEx session, called "Where Yoga Meets the Road: The Yoga of Compassion & Kindness (aka the real reason to do your yoga every damn day)". Felt cute, might delete, lemme know what you think. Sharing here because who doesn't need some age-old wisdom from 2000+ yrs ago. 

Embodiment is your first person experience of the body, in this world. It’s a subjective sense of wholeness, a sense of being “at home” and at one with who you are. Inhabiting the body is not just a matter of being aware or scanning the body -- embodiment is actually living within your body, being present, and being aware not just of the body, but as the body. The body is your instrument of experience, including perception, thought, emotion, sensation & action. It is your gateway to the here and now, because your body is always in the present moment. You use your body to do everything, and it’s the only way you can feel anything right now. How you’re constructed is in your body: your history, everything you’ve done, and everything you’re capable of.

Mindfulness meditation gives us our brains the street smarts to self-regulate our awareness so that we can keep our attention on the immediate experience with openness, curiosity, acceptance. So let's talk about it. 

“I’m tempted to say MDMA gave me ‘hope,’ but that word isn’t right—the insight was more substantive than hope. I’d held the sensation in my body; I understood, at a visceral level, what might someday be mine: the sense of peace and joy within my body. For me, the therapeutic process could unfurl from there.” —MDMA participant

This is a replay of the audio from a webinar I gave at Center for Change in April 2021, talking about the potential of psychedelics in the treatment of eating disorders. 

A little story time with Karenin about that time she at the magical mushrooms, became a butterfly, and received the message from her supreme Self: You are safe. You are loved. You are worthy. You are divine. 

In this special episode, I get to hear some mind-blowing stories from my brother Jer's ayahuasca experiences from last weekend. 

Spoiler alert: Jeremy drank some ayahuasca tea, saw The Way, conquered his fear of death, and played with his inner children.

It is estimated that 60 percent of us have had a traumatic experience in our life, and that 10 percent of those go on to experience post-traumatic stress syndrome—the different symptoms that circle around trauma. This is part 2 of a 5-part series on Trauma Work, taught by psychiatrist Dr. Reid Robison. 

Trauma is not what happens to us, it’s how your body and your nervous system respond to the event. It's what we hold inside in the absence of an empathetic witness at the time. Join me as we embark on a 5-part series together of how to approach trauma work and your healing journey.