Insights

Author: Naga Das When people prepare for a plant medicine ceremony, most of their attention goes to the medicine itself: which plant, which lineage, what it might open in them. These are worthy questions. Yet the medicine is only one part of what unfolds. The person holding the space shapes nearly everything around it, before the ceremony begins, while it is happening, and in the weeks that follow. BEFORE THE CEREMONY A responsible facilitator begins with screening. They a

Author: Naga Das I laid on a couch for hours one afternoon, crying about people I had loved badly. The mushrooms were still working through my system when it started. Not a gentle wave of insight, but grief, specific and unglamorous, about my ex-husband, about people I had worked with, about the particular way I had moved through relationships when I was operating from self-preservation instead of anything real. I did not see colors. I did not merge with the universe. I saw,

Author: Laura Small Psychedelics and coaching don’t traditionally go together. Here’s why we’re combining them. The traditional use of...