The Vital Point: Pathways To Integration

By JONATHAN SCHECTERReligion & Spirituality Spirituality

The Vital Point: Pathways To Integration episodes

November 03, 2022 46. Integration in Partnership with Mystical Heart Collective (Sinclair Fleetwood & John Steiner)
Sinclair Fleetwood and John Steiner are psychedelic transformation guides on a mission to help you align with your purpose and elevate your vibration with sacred medicines so that you can start living a life that feels good.
Through their work with plant medicines, they have built their relationship on trust, honesty, and a commitment to growth, and they share this light and love through their psychedelic coaching practice, and as co-hosts of The Psychedelic Integration Podcast.
In episode 46, Sinclair and John and Jonathan Schecter discuss …
▶ How Sinclair & John met
▶ One of the core values of their relationship- a commitment to their individual and collective growth
▶ The strengths of having polarity in a relationship, and how differences strengthen a relationship
▶ How a romantic partnership can become a medicine container - with it’s own lessons and potential for development
▶ The benefit of flipping “You vs Me” into “Us vs The Problem”
▶ Being responsible for your own needs, healthy boundaries and communication instead of giving our power away
▶ The reality vs the fantasy of a healthy relationship
▶ What their integration practices look like right now
▶ The meaning of integration
▶ How to make your entire life into a ceremony and embrace the medicine in each moment
▶ The impact that integrating inner work has had on their lives

Sinclair’s Links & Resources:
▶ Website: https://mysticalheartcollective.com
▶ Instagram: @mysticalheartcollective
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1 hr 10 min
October 05, 2022 45. The Importance of Community in the Psychedelic Space with Dr. Sa'ed Al-Olimat
Dr. Sa’ed Al-Olimat, PharmD is the CEO and Founder of Psilohealth, which provides education, supports legislation, and facilitates integration of psilocybin-supported care.
A Taiwanese-Jordanian first generation American immigrant, he is a licensed pharmacist and educator of psychedelic medicine. He has worked with pharmaceutical companies, prescriber clinics, hospice and palliative care organizations, insurance groups, and other settings to enhance patient care. Dr. Sa’ed is a community-pharmacy manager and mental health advocate. His passion in advancing mental health outcomes led him to investigating psilocybin and other classical psychedelic compounds as tools for mental, spiritual, and emotional support.
Dr. Sa’ed serves as the Vice President of the Psychedelic Club of Pittsburgh, and Co-Founder of the Psychedelic Pharmacists Association, in addition to his role with Psilohealth. He believes in ending the war on drugs and establishing equitable entheogen regulatory frameworks to promote consumer safety, psychedelic integrity, ecological sustainability, sacred reciprocity, and healer inclusivity.
Psilohealth has recently launched the Psilocybin Peer Supporter program , an accessible course designed for anyone seeking to learn about psilocybin and how to support their peers and community members in the responsible and safe use of psilocybin under a risk-reduction framework. This fills a much needed role in a community-based ecosystem alongside trained clinicians and and healers to support those looking to heal with psilocybin.
In this episode, Dr. Sa’ed and Jonathan Schecter discuss
▶ Dr. Sa’ed’s discovery and early journeys with psilocybin
▶ the integration from the first Psilohealth Wellness Approachment retreat
▶ the power of community and how it inspired Dr. Sa’ed to start Psilohealth to educate and support psychedelic participants
▶ Dr. Sa’ed own integration lessons and processes
▶ the Psilohealth Psilocybin Peer Supporter Program
▶ the directions that psychedelic treatment and support are going
▶ the importance of community based support and programs like the Psilocybin Peer Supporter as legislation changes continue

Dr. Sa’ed’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: https://www.psilohealth.co
▶ Sign up for the Psilohealth Psilocybin Peer Supporter program
▶ Instagram

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About Jonathan
Jonathan Schecter is an integration coach and breathwork facilitator, in addition to hosting The Vital Point podcast. His coaching work is centered on supporting men change their life through practices that help them find clarity & unlock real change in their work with plant medicine.
Learn more and download his free Breathwork 101 guide at https://beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy
59 min
September 16, 2022 44. Mindfulness Meditation: Creating your own Clarity
In this solo episode, Jonathan Schecter discusses
▶ What mindfulness is good for
▶ How he got started practicing mindfulness
▶ How the mind works
▶ The impact of meditation
▶ Why meditation is so good for people doing work with psychedelics and personal development
▶ Jonathan takes you through a brief introduction to mindfulness that you can do at home

To learn more about mindfulness meditation please sign up for the free workshop Jonathan is hosting October 1. RSVP at https://lu.ma/5ri0hlum
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31 min
September 16, 2022 Season 5 Trailer
update
7 min
August 25, 2022 43. EMDR for psychedelic preparation & integration w/ Ayahuasca Kaur
Ayahuasca Kaur (Birthname Sarai Darbandi) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker & a Trauma Informed Ayahuasca Preparation & Integration Coach.
She has taken her years of being a Trauma therapist and began to intentionally apply her knowledge to the Ayahuasca path beginning in 2016 when she herself experience the power of Ayahuasca. She struggled to deeply integrate the lessons of Ayahuasca in the beginning and began to pay attention to what really worked.
Over the years she has come up with a blend of EMDR, mindfulness, breathwork, inner child and re-parenting work to assist her clients and students with making long-lasting change on the Ayahuasca path.
In this episode, Ayahuasca Kaur and Jonathan Schecter discuss …
⏺ Aya’s experience in Peru at the Ayahuasca Foundation
⏺ What EMDR is, and different protocols and uses
⏺ How EMDR is used to heal trauma
⏺ How EMDR preparation and integration prepared Aya for ayahuasca work
⏺ The nature of trauma and how ayahuasca helps to heals it
⏺ Ayahuasca preparation protocol within the Shipibo lineage
⏺ Aya’s approach to using EMDR as a way to prepare clients for working with ayahuasca
⏺ Aya’s Vital Point “The ability to calm, regulate, and anchor peak experiences”
⏺ The importance of ayahuasca integration
⏺ Ceremony being a mirror for what’s happening in your life
⏺ Aya leads an EMDR anchoring practice that YOU can use to remember and resource yourself
⏺ The relativity of trauma and resilience
⏺ Aya’s group preparation and integration container
Ayahuasca Kaur’s Links & Resources
▶ Website:
beacons.ai/themultidimensionaljourney
▶ Instagram:
https://instagram.com/themultidimensionaljourney
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Jonathan Schecter’s interest in the transformative power of the breath is driven by his own healing journey. After practicing meditation and mindfulness in the Zen and Tibetan Buddhist traditions for almost 20 years, he rediscovered breathwork during a dark night of the soul and was amazed at the impact the practice had on his life. After exploring several types of breathwork and working to create his own system, he found Neurodynamic Breathwork and completed an extensive facilitator-training program that was equal parts breathwork, deep personal development, and training in how to hold space for expanded states of awareness and support others through authentic presence. This training, combined with lessons learned integrating his own extensive experiences with plant medicine helped Jonathan launch his brand “Blue Magic Alchemy ” that provides 1:1 integration and transformation coaching, a podcast, breathwork and meditation circles, and information to support grounded exploration into altered states of consciousness.
Connect with Jonathan:
▶ Website:
https://beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy
▶ Instagram:
https://www.instagram.com/bluemagicalchemy
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1 hr 6 min
July 30, 2022 42. Audience Q&A and big news for the future of the podcast!
I share some big, exciting and yet scary news about the podcast! Thank you for supporting the podcast through the first 4 seasons, and I can't wait to bring you the next season!
After news, I answer YOUR questions:
- Am I ever afraid before a breathwork session?
- What are entities and have I encountered them in the medicine space?
- Is there such a thing as showing up with too much love?
- How to use the work to deal with trauma?

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58 min
July 23, 2022 41. Curiosity About Internal Family Systems with Justin Martin
Internal Family Systems (IFS, sometimes called Parts Work) is a powerful therapeutic method for change, especially with deep parts of our shadow and areas of our personality that are challenging to integrate.
Justin and I chat on this episode about:
what IFS is and how it works
how IFS can help with challenging parts, and what the roles these parts play within us
how IFS can help men and the courage that it takes to open up and be vulnerable
the power of bringing curiosity into the process of transformational practice and therapy
and how sometimes in therapy it can be more important to feel than to think!

Learn more about Justin:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/partsofmetherapy
Website: https://www.partsofmetherapy.com/

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49 min
July 23, 2022 40. Understanding Resistance and Preparing for Deep Work with Greg Lawrence
Greg Lawrence is a psychedelic integration and transformational coach, speaker, educator, and integration coach for The Transpersonal Center in Los Angeles and for retreat centers around the globe.
Greg shares his story of his own transformation- how psychedelics helped to pull his life out of a downward spiral of addiction, and then we get into resistance - how the mind holds us back from achieving the things that we want, why that happens, and how to overcome it.
We also talk about preparation for psychedelics and how surrender can help us get the most from our experience.

Learn more about Greg Lawrence:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/psychedelic_integration/
Website: https://psychedelicintegrationspecialist.com/

Learn more about the Host: Jonathan Schecter
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57 min
July 08, 2022Spiritual Emergence vs. Emergency: How to Navigate Psychedelic-Induced Awakening with Katrina Michelle (Ep 39)
Understanding Spiritual Emergence vs. Spiritual Emergency
with Dr. Katrina Michelle, PhD
What happens when a profound spiritual experience destabilizes your sense of self? How do you tell the difference between a powerful awakening and a breakdown?
In this episode of The Vital Point, I talk with Dr. Katrina Michelle, a holistic psychotherapist, integration coach, and former Director of Harm Reduction at the Zendo Project (MAPS). Katrina’s work bridges the clinical and the mystical, specializing in transpersonal psychology, psychedelic integration, and spiritual emergence.
She holds a PhD in Psychology and conducted her doctoral research on Exploring Resistance to Spiritual Emergence. She also leads The Curious Spirit, a New York-based collective of therapists trained to support clients navigating altered states and expanded consciousness.

We dive deep into questions like:
What is spiritual emergence, and how does it differ from a spiritual emergency?
How can psychedelics, meditation, or breathwork trigger these states?
What happens to identity during intense mystical experiences?
Why do some people grow from these states while others collapse into crisis?
How do we responsibly integrate non-ordinary states into daily life?
This conversation is especially important for anyone working with psychedelics, breathwork, or other expanded state practices—whether you're a seeker, facilitator, or clinician.
Learn more about Katrina Michelle:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/katrina_thecuriousspirit
Website: http://www.thecuriousspirit.org/

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56 min
June 29, 2022 38. Kambo & Full Spectrum Health with Apah Wellness
Samantha & Geoff are @apahwellness, focusing on Kambo and Primal Health coaching, and I loved learning more about their story, of what drew them to Primal Health and then to Kambo, and then really diving deeper into :

🐸What kambo is
🐸Where it comes from
🐸What it's used for
🐸What the benefits of sitting with it are
🐸and some of the benefits they see in their clients after the kambo sessions

We also talked about their "vital point" which is not taking yourself too seriously in personal development, and keeping a sense of childlike curiosity about this work - something that I think is very important to remember considering that we can easily create a whole identity around healing and feeling like we have to fix something.

Learn more about Samantha & Geoff:
Instagram: https://instagram.com/apahwellness
Website: https://apahwellness.com/
Mention: Sapo in My Soul

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53 min