The Vital Point: Pathways To Integration

In this enlightening episode host Jonathan Schecter, a renowned psychedelic integration and transformation coach, unravels the potent world of Somatic Experiencing™ (SE). Taking you along his personal journey through the second training module of his SE practitioner certification, he explores the intricacies of this body-based trauma therapy method devised by Dr. Peter Levine. The episode illumina...

Dr. Ryan Westrum is the author of The Psychedelics Integration Handbook, founder of Healing Souls and host of The Psychedelic Psychologist podcast. With over 20 years working in mental health, he combines traditional therapeutic methods with holistic, intuitive therapies that empower you to take charge of your life and mental health. Ryan and I explore the intersection of psychedelics and mental h...

Maitreya Wolf is a modern mystic, wisdom teacher, soul mentor, writer, musician, dancer, yogini, and lover of the wild earth. In this episode, Maitreya and Jonathan Schecter discuss transformative experiences, initiatory consciousness, and the importance of cultivating the soul and sovereign self as well as the grieving process within trauma and the importance of having stewards and caretakers to...

Have you ever tried to make a major change in your life and wondered why the $@%& is it so hard? It all comes down to your nervous system and whether you feel safe or not in your body. In this solocast, host Jonathan Schecter dives into the journey of changing careers and the challenges that have come up during the process. These include a vulnerable look at his blocks and where he was stuck,...

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 disc...

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 neuroscienc...

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 app...

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 ex...

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...

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 th...

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 di...

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 Le...

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 communi...

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...

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 th...

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 org...

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 pl...

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 b...

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...

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...

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 a...

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 Redu...

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 sessio...

“Breath awareness is self awareness”. That’s a theme that runs through this wonderful conversation with breathworker and physiotherapist Campbell WIll aka @breathbodytherapy . We discuss how the breath informs and supports all the other systems in the body, how we can use the breath to change those systems (especially our autonomic nervous system) how our modern world is changing our nervous syste...

This episode is all about one of my favorite transformational practices - meditation and is a great start if you're new to meditation and have ever been curious about it but maybe have felt overwhelmed about where to begin or felt like you can't do it.  My guest is that_meditation_guy on IG, Jimmy Wightman. Jimmy is a meditation teacher and genuinely wonderful person, and I really enjoyed getting...