Touch and Embodiment Lab

In the rapidly growing psychedelic industry, in which trainings to facilitate the psychedelic experience abound, we are running the risk of working outside of our scope of practice to fulfill the needs of clients in non-ordinary states. With so many more people seeking to heal their childhood trauma, healthy, informed, neutral, and wise touch will be needed to support the healing journey. And with that, the skilled language of touch, woven with the language of consent will be pivotal to maintaining a safe and ethical space in which developmental gaps and touch starvation may be supported.

For this therapeutic touch to be safe, it is requisite as practitioners, to engage in an ongoing embodied somatic practice as a fundamental foundation for deep, attuned and resonant listening. “Somatic empathy moves beyond understanding, seeing and hearing another and involves feeling with another." (Sharon Stanley). When embodied, we intuitively sense what is needed…