The Vital Point: Pathways To Integration

On this episode we get into a different dimension of somatic work than we have discussed before with my friend Karen. Karen is a breathwork facilitator and yoga instructor and also trained in a very interesting dance modality called Contact Beyond Contact that fuses dance, authentic movement, somatic connection, qi gong and more. I wanted to learn more about this modality because connecting to our...

My guest on this episode is my friend Jessica Posillico. She is a coach and consultant specializing in helping people transition into a more soul-aligned career path. She is also in the process of launching a healing practice providing Reiki, tarot reading and more. She is a friend and beautiful soul and shared her experience sitting with Mother Ayahuasca @rythmia_ in Costa Rica. We also talked ab...

Journaling is one of the most powerful ways to integrate our work with psychedelics, and really any changes you are trying to make in your life. I recently found this out on a retreat - during a journaling activity some strong energy from a journey I had over a year ago came up and has been calling me to write more so that I can unpack it and really figure out what to do with it. My guest on this...

For about as long as I have been working with plant medicines, I have been fascinated with people who are exploring the upper limits of psilocybin. I consider them to be true psychonauts - explorers on a final frontier beyond what you may think of as reality. This type of exploration is not for everyone, I am certainly not endorsing it, nor is the guest on this episode, Dave Hodges. Dave is the fo...

On this solocast episode to close out Season 3, I take some questions from the audience: How did I start working with breathwork and what called me to do this work? What makes someone who is avidly opposed to drugs take the leap to try psychedelics? How to work with a strong psychic shift? Do I think it's important to remember trauma, or is a bodywork approach enough to overcome it? How to give sp...

O n this episode my guest is Acacea Lewis, and what an incredible episode it was. Acacea shared about her school Divine Master Alchemy and her beautiful mission. We talked about the Aztec and Mazotec history of sacred mushrooms, how their use and the place within their culture, philosophy and spirituality has been covered up by the Spanish colonizers. Acacea shared about the mushrooms role in The...

On this episode my guest is Daniel Shankin, founder of M t. Tam Integration Daniel shares a lot of humor and wisdom, which is something I appreciate about him. We also talk about intuitive integration, finding a meditation practice that works for you and the importance of meditation in the integration process why it’s important to have an integration practice and how it is both a short and long te...

In this episode I chat with psychedelic integration coach Erin Doumert. One of the powerful things about this talk was discussing the importance of preparation to the psychedelic integration process and Erin brought up something that I also work with - that preparation is not only your set and setting, but also the skillset that you bring to the experience. What are the tools and resources you hav...

Joe Walters is a psychedelic integration coach and facilitator. Our conversation gets into his story - going into the military and other areas rife with "toxic masculinity" and his journey of coming home to himself and a more embodied state of being, thanks to his inner work with the help of psychedelics.  We also talked about integration and the importance of balancing masculine and feminine...

On this powerful episode my guest is @theanxietymd Russell Kennedy MD. Russell shared his story of living with anxiety for 30 years and some of the techniques and practices that have helped free him, including somatic work and Internal Family Systems. We also talked about: how trauma and anxiety get stuck in the body Why this happens How the body perceived trauma and anxiety as danger How the ego...

My guest on this episode is Christine Dixon @the_ordinary_sacred on IG. Christine is an Internal Family Systems (IFS) coach and does a wonderful job explaining this powerful practice.  IFS is a type of therapy that considers an individual to be made up of different parts- each with different roles. Christine goes into this explanation much more in depth. We also talk about the importance of c...

What a beautiful conversation with @realization_nation Fabian Rodriguez.  Fabian shared his story of being called to work with plant medicine, and how much it has enriched his life - now he’s on his 9th year of leading people into the Amazon to work with the plants and his Maestros.  He also shared about the importance of Menswork and becoming a lighthouse for others.  There was a t...

My guest on this episode is co-founder of the Morozko Forge ice bath Adrienne Jezick. Adrienne's story is inspirational: She shares how cold exposure helped her overcome 3 seperate autoimmune conditions that doctors told her were incurable!  She  goes into some of the incredible mindset benefits of cold exposure,  How she developed her own "Morozko Method" for bringing mindful prese...

Thanks for checking out this episode with Buddhist meditation teacher, Scott Tusa. We get into a bunch of juicy topics including What Scott feels the Vital Point of Buddhism entails His story of finding spirituality & buddhist practice Buddhist mind training (Lo-Jong) and Tonglen (Giving & Taking) The Buddhist view on somatic (body-based) practices and a practice that Scott leads to help you drop...

Hey everyone, I wanted to try something different with this episode and talk about something that's been coming up a lot in my own life recently - grief. Grief is something that we all process differently, and some of us don't really sit with it at all. In terms of the realm of transformational practice, grief is one of the things that can come up if we are carrying around the energy of emotions t...

On this episode Emotional Intelligence facilitator and educator Genny Rumancik chat about what emotional intelligence is, and why it's so important as we engage in personal transformation work. One of my favorite parts of this conversation is around the stories we tell ourselves and how these narratives can consume our lives and limit us, while also holding the potential to become a source of stre...

On this episode my guest is breathwork facilitator and shamanic practitioner @integrativebreath Steph Magenta. This was a fun episode, Steph and I go in on: 🔥 the Presence Process and being authentic for more of our lives 🔥 Steph’s personal journey from addiction to aligned and thriving breathwork facilitator 🔥 how profound and transformational breathwork can be 🔥 how to integrate our breathwo...

This is a great episode with my guest Karden Rabin who is a somatic therapist and body worker. We get into some really interesting content… I actually got really vulnerable on this episode about some aspects of my own healing journey, and how somatic practices have helped me be more resourced to handle it better. We also get into what somatic practice means, how to start feeling more joy, how to b...

On this episode I welcome my partner Ayahuasca Kuar back for a 2nd time and we have a great discussion about integration and what happens when we set strong intentions, but the medicine wants to take us in another direction. What do we do with that? How do we integrate it? And how do we keep an open mindset of a student, someone that's curious and coming to the experience for guidance for transfor...

On this episode I take a couple questions from the IG audience. I dip into an impactful experience from my personal development work, what to expect with breathwork, and what’s next for the podcast.

Matt Gottesman (@mattgottesman) is an entrepreneurial powerhouse, with years in the game, podcast, newsletter and top shelf content. His wisdom, experience and perspective are all appreciated in this conversation about growth and humility.

Martin McPhilimey (@performancethroughhealth) is a sleep expert who has incorporated breathwork into his practice as a coach. This is a great conversation about the tangible benefits of using awareness to build resilience, polyvagal theory, and the magic of using stress to free ourselves from stress.

Embodiment coach Tristan Victor (@iamtristanvictor) joins me on this episode.

Somatic Experiencing therapist Amy Doublet (@wellnessalchemist) joins me on this episode. I think you’ll find a lot of value in this conversation about how to begin cultivating somatic awareness. Amy and I recorded this episode live on IG and the live stream dropped out in the middle of the conversation. I edited out most of the awkward space getting the live back up, but we also used the synchron...

@spiritualblacksmith is my guest on this episode. A spiritual medium and empath, she offered insights on an important aspect to transformational work- how we integrate our spiritual and transpersonal experiences, so that we don’t lose the insights or fall into spiritual pass.