Body-centered practices for every stage of psychedelic-assisted therapy.
Embodied Psychedelic Therapy is a guide to holding space for clients taking psychedelics for personal exploration, spiritual expansion, and healing. This book emerges from the intersection of psychedelics and somatics, weaving body-centered practices into the various phases of psychedelic work. Covering preparation, the psychedelic journey itself, and integration afterward, it details how a focus on embodiment greatly benefits work with expanded states of consciousness.
Delving into ethics, adverse events, trauma, the use of touch, and other themes relevant to psychedelic-assisted therapy, the authors draw on practices both ancient and modern to support healing and transformation. Here you will learn how to utilize the inherent wisdom of the body to maximize the potential of psychedelic-assisted therapy, allowing you to foster safer, more therapeutic experiences for those pursuing well-being and expansion.
The book is incredibly professional, sensitive, and at the same time captivatingly written. It is very evident that both authors have personally undergone psychedelic therapy as clients, have long-standing experience conducting psychedelic therapy as therapists, and are also accustomed to working within complex therapeutic approaches that include somatic (body-based) experiencing. Right at the beginning, we are presented with two cautionary stories about psychedelic experiences gone wrong with long-term consequences — one during a weekend party among a group of young people, and the other, perhaps even more strikingly, during an actual psychedelic therapy session. These stories serve as a clear warning and also as the raison d'être of the entire book. Yes, psychedelic therapy holds great potential — but it must be approached with utmost care and under strict conditions, otherwise it can easily turn into a nightmare. This book is precisely about those essential conditions.