The Vital Point: Pathways To Integration

Hector Marcel is the President of The Three Jewels Enlightenment Studio in New York, which is dedicated to help people reach their highest potential through meditation, yoga, public talks, and community outreach. In addition to being a master teacher of meditation and Eastern philosophy, he also serves on the board of the Asian Classics Institute.

In this episode, Hector and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

Hector’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: https://www.threejewels.org/

▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wakeupist/

Jonathan’s Links:

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

http://beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/bluemagicalchemy

As a spiritual business coach, Beth helps current and aspiring coaches, healers, Psychedelic Pioneers, and spiritual leaders align with your soul's path and grow your business so you can help more people, share your Unique Medicine, and have a thriving transformational business you love.

Using her experience growing multiple businesses (including three of her own), along with neuroscience-backed methodologies, spiritual teachings, and practical business action plans, Beth offers a multi-dimensional approach to help you move past limiting beliefs, overcome obstacles and grow your business in a successful, impactful way.

She guides you in a step-by-step process to grow your business using a balanced, co-creative approach combining practical business coaching and heart-centered marketing strategies together with spiritually based mindset training and manifesting work.

Beth is the host of The Psychedelic Entrepreneur: Medicine For These Times podcast as well as the founder of the annual online summits, Psychedelics, Sacred Medicines, Purpose & Business 2022; Psychedelics & Purpose 2021; Psychedelics & Business 2020, and Psychedelics & Purpose 2019.

She was co-creator of the "Music is Medicine" festival and "Urban Ceremony", a music-mind-body-spirit weekend together with musician East Forest. Beth has spoken on multiple stages, podcasts, and summits, and has been featured in The New York Post, Huffington Post, The Plant Spirit Summit, The Psilocybin Summit, and more.

In this episode, Beth and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ How Beth found the medicine path - from recreation and numbing to finding intentional plant medicine

▶ Finding her authentic voice and stepping into her purpose, and how Beth started helping others doing the same

▶ Choosing to focus on possibility and outcome instead of fear

▶ the wisdom of discomfort and letting go of the illusion of safety

▶ Integration as a life practice

▶ The quantum leaps from integrating somatic practices

▶ Zen and the art of beekeeping

▶ Slowing down & being present

▶ The spiritual experience of nature, in the desert & the jungle

Beth’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: https://bethaweinstein.com

▶ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BethAWeinstein/videos

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/BethAWeinstein

▶ Beth's free Psychedelics and Sacred Medicines Group:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/PsychedelicsandSacredMedicines/

▶ (Free Gift) Learn How to Integrate Psychedelics & Sacred Medicines Into A Business:

https://bethaweinstein.com/psychedelics-in-business/

▶ (Free Gift) 3 Steps to Get Clients & Grow a Thriving Coaching, Healing or Purpose-Based Business You Love!:

http://BethAWeinstein.com/grow-your-spiritual-business

Jonathan’s Links & Resources

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

http://beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/bluemagicalchemy

Tune in to this week’s solo episode with Jonathan Schecter to learn a powerful breathwork method to strengthen your nervous system, increase relaxation and lower your heart rate.   

In this episode, Jonathan takes questions from the audience about:  

▶ different types of breathwork and how they work together  

▶ using your breath the regulate the nervous system  

▶ the appeal of using breathwork to enter expanded states of consciousness, and why that’s not the best place to start  

▶ the differences between cold showers and ice baths  

▶ using cold exposure to handle psychedelics better  

▶ experience and thoughts with “Wim Hof”-type breathwork  

▶ Jonathan guides you through Heart Coherence breathwork that you can use daily to regulate your nervous system, lower heart rate and drop into calm  

Jonathan’s Links & Resources  

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:  http://beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy  

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/bluemagicalchemy

Adam Heaps holds space for transformation through community, nature, and devotion to the path of surrender. He leads Satsang with The Energy Stack, supports local men's circles, and facilitates weekly cold plunges and drum circles in the Utah mountains—offering an open invitation to connect with the higher self, with each other, and with the natural world.

In this episode, Adam and Jonathan explore what it means to live from the heart. They talk about:

• the wisdom of surrender
• how service can become a path to healing
• finding love in every moment, even the hard ones
• integrating pain and challenge as blessings
• starting a cold plunge practice (and why it's more than just a trend)
• choosing discomfort as a doorway to presence

Adam's work invites us into deeper embodiment and presence through rhythm, ritual, and the elements. This conversation is a reminder that we don't have to walk the path alone.

Explore more of Adam's work: www.theenergystack.org @adamheaps // @theenergystack

Hosted by Jonathan Schecter Breathwork facilitator, somatic integration coach, and founder of Blue Magic Alchemy

Feeling like something big is shifting inside you?Join our free community for breathwork, integration, and conscious support:

👉 www.skool.com/bluemagicalchemy

Katrina Michelle PhD, LCSW is the founder and director of The Curious Spirit, a New York-based psychotherapy and coaching practice offering personal transformational work and retreats.

As co-creator and producer of When Lightning Strikes Film she is seeking to demystify, the sometimes unsexy, process of spiritual emergence.

Katrina is also a member of the Emergent Phenomenology Research Consortium (EPRC), currently conducting research seeking to better understand adverse psychedelic experiences.

In this episode, Katrina and Jonathan Schecter discuss transpersonal experiences - specifically taking an informal case study on some of Jonathan’s experiences. This included sharing some of Jonathan’s experiences with Buddhism, as well as some of his experiences working with ayahuasca and sacred mushrooms.

Through all of this Katrina holds compassionate space and the conversation ends with a discussion on the importance of community in integrating our medicine experiences that are realer than real and the ways that they continue to unfold and entwine in our lives.

Katrina’s Links & Resources

▶ Website:

www.whenlightningstrikesfilm.com 

http://www.thecuriousspirit.org/

▶ Instagram:

https://www.instagram.com/katrina_thecuriousspirit/

About the Host:

Jonathan Schecter is a breathwork facilitator and integration coach.

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Conni Biesalski is a Breathwork Facilitator, Meditation Teacher and Somatic Coach. She helps people heal and regulate their nervous system, improve their breathing pattern and come home to their bodies.

In this episode, Conni and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ Breathwork beyond expanded states

▶ Breathwork as the remote for the nervous system

▶ How holotropic/transformational style breathwork is the doorway into a wider world of breathing

▶ Conni’s journey into breathwork facilitation

▶ Developing somatic awareness

▶ The power of somatic awareness and interoception

▶ Conni’s breathwork practice for you to follow along with

Conni’s Links & Resources

▶ Website:

https://www.breathworkalchemy.co/foundations

https://www.breathworkalchemy.co/newsletter

▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breathwork.alchemy/

About Jonathan:

Jonathan Schecter is a breathwork facilitator and integration coach.

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Another multidimensional conversation with mycologist and anthropologist Acacea Lewis on working with sacred mushrooms and other entheogens, Buddhism, cultivating presence in all aspects of life and so much more.

In this episode, Acacea and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ Working with mushroom elders in Oaxaca

▶ The wisdom potential of working with the mushroom

▶ The history of mushroom wisdom in different cultures

▶ The relativity of dosages

▶ Finding similarities in different viewpoints and traditions

▶ Integrating Buddhist and entheogenic experiences

▶ Direct experience of non-duality through working with the mushroom

Acacea’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/acacea_lewis/

About Jonathan Schecter:

FREE Guide to Breathwork for Integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Laura Dawn, M.Sc, is the host of The Psychedelic Leadership Podcast and Founder & Director of Grow Medicine. She has a Masters in Science specializing in Creativity Studies & Change Leadership and is at the forefront of exploring the intersection between psychedelics and creative cognition for leadership development.

Laura Dawn has developed a new framework called “Psychedelic-Oriented Leadership Development,” offering a new model and curriculum for psychedelic preparation and integration for ceremonially-informed leadership development.

Through her retreats and signature programs, she helps leaders, teams, entrepreneurs, and peak performers cultivate the mindsets and skillsets to unlock innovative solutions to the complex challenges we collectively face and become more flexible, adaptable, and resilient in the face of exponential change.

In this episode, Laura Dawn and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ What is ‘Right Relationship’? and why is it so important as we continue to work with plant medicines?

▶ Reciprocity and conservation with the environment, food, and medicine

▶ the differences between developing a relationship and “taking” medicine

▶ Integration as an ongoing process

▶ Opening to the path of Somatic Awareness

▶ What is Psychedelic Oriented Leadership?

▶ How to reframe our somatic experience

▶ Laura Dawn’s story

Laura Dawn’s Links & Resources

▶ Websites:

www.LauraDawn.co

Grow Medicine

▶ Instagram: www.instagram.com/livefreelaurad

Click here to Listen to the Psychedelic Leadership Podcast

About Jonathan Schecter

Jonathan is an integration coach and breathwork facilitator, in addition to hosting The Vital Point podcast. His coaching work is centered on helping men change their life with practices that help them find clarity & unlock real change in their work with mushrooms and plant medicine.

Learn more at www.bluemagicalchemy.com.

Download a FREE guide to using Breathwork for integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Matt Gottesman  is a 2x founder, podcaster and writer. He's also an agile digital marketer and strategist by trade, with a background in helping some of the world’s most iconic brands such as Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy.

Nearly a decade ago he decided to reconstruct his own narrative by taking to the Internet to create, build and publish to the world through his own brands, as well as communicate to the masses at the intersection of culture, creativity, spirituality and entrepreneurship.

He's spent the last 20+ years on the Internet...

4 of them dedicated to my first Internet Startup.15 of them immersed in digital marketing. 12 of them consulting as a brand & digital strategist for multi-billion dollar brands such as Louis Vuitton, Moët, and Hennessy. 8 of them as a content creator building a media platform & community of over 200K people. 5 of them dedicated to crypto and blockchain. 3 of them (most recent years) scaling his boutique growth marketing and automation company.

In this episode, Matt Gottesman and Jonathan Schecter discuss …

▶ the intersection of business and spirituality

▶ authenticity and connecting to your soul’s purpose

▶ acting quickly without overthinking

▶ building in public and sharing your process

▶ why all the steps of the journey are necessary to win

▶ how to develop a healthy relationship with yourself

▶ connecting your purpose and your work to your soul

▶ Matt’s daily practices including journaling, gratitude, breathwork and prayer

Matt’s Links & Resources

▶ Website: mattgottesman.com/about

▶ Instagram: instagram.com/mattgottesman

▶ Twitter: https://twitter.com/matt_gottesman

▶ Substack: mattgottesman.substack.com

About Jonathan Schecter

Jonathan is an integration coach and breathwork facilitator, in addition to hosting The Vital Point podcast. His coaching work is centered on helping men change their life with practices that help them find clarity & unlock real change in their work with mushrooms and plant medicine.

Learn more at www.bluemagicalchemy.com.

Download a FREE guide to using Breathwork for integration at:

beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy

Tristan Victor is a first generation Mexica entrepreneur, artist and ICF certified life coach focused on integration and men’s alchemy. He’s the founder of STAYRIZEN a psychedelic integration focused community offering a network of education, resources and guides exploring the intersection between psychedelics and personal development.  

In episode 47 of The Vital Point podcast Tristan Victor and Jonathan Schecter discuss   

▶ The benefits of microdosing sacred mushrooms 

▶ Intentional usage of mushrooms and other psychedelics 

▶ the benefits and differences of micro vs macro dosing 

▶ the value of Menswork 

▶ healing old patterns of behavior 

▶ integrating new behavior into relationships through microdosing & Menswork 

▶ the importance of a regulated nervous system for communication in a relationship 

▶ the integration process 

▶ Tristan’s Stay R.I.Z.E.N protocol for embodiment and integration

***  Tristan’s Links & Resources  

▶ Website: https://msha.ke/iamtristanvictor 

▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamtristanvictor 

***  About Jonathan Schecter  

Download a FREE Introduction to Breathwork  at:   beacons.ai/bluemagicalchemy 

▶ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bluemagicalchemy

Learn more at www.bluemagicalchemy.com