Newsletter March 2023
Hello friend,
Dare we say that spring is upon us? I don't know about you but I am ready for things to warm up a bit!
It's been quite a period of hibernating this winter but I have have still found time for some interesting conscious activities. My first experience of a Holotropic Breathwork retreat continues to resonate, as does a personal session with Greenlandic shaman Angaangaq.
Over the past months I have had the joy of welcoming clients from Germany, UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Australia, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Norway, Switzerland, USA, Spain. Its such a joy to work with people from such a variety of backgrounds and needs.
Interested in a guided psychedelic session? Please reach out.
Integration has been very much on my mind recently. Integrating and embodying the insights that come from our peak experiences into daily life is what make them transformational. But it's not always so easy. I have recently become a certified Somatic Plant Medicine Integration Practitioner through the training of Atira Han. Which has led me to finally set up a community circle for all those people that have been though one of my psychedelic programmes. An opportunity to come together in community to share your psychedelic or peak experiences and to listen to others.
The first gathering will be online online 30 March @19.30-21.00 (CET) – please email me if you’d like to join
Psychedelic research pioneer and Johns Hopkins University professor Roland Griffiths has launched a legacy foundation to establish a world class, rigorous, empirical program of research with psychedelic substances to advance understanding of well-being and spirituality in the service of human flourishing. This is so interesting as to date most research is undertaken though a medical/curative lens rather than the benefit of the psychedelic experience on general well-being.
See here also for a beautiful discussion with Roland and Tara Brach where they discuss not only this legacy but also his diagnosis of terminal cancer and how he is handling it. A truly beautiful soul.
The Cosmic Miracle of Trees: Astronaut Leland Melvin Reads Pablo Neruda’s Love Letter to Earth’s Forests. See here
Psychedelic Research
Hallucinations and Hallucinogens: Psychopathology or Wisdom? - During the last decades a huge body of research has shown that certain kinds of hallucinations, exerted by hallucinogenic drugs, may serve to improve mental health. Read more here
Dutch Minister of Health received research report on therapeutic application of psychedelics. Read here