Lauren Taus on Psychedelic Healing & Embodied Integration

27/07/2021 54 min Episodio 15
Lauren Taus on Psychedelic Healing & Embodied Integration

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Lauren Taus is a psychotherapist with a specialty in psychedelic assisted therapies. As a clinician, Lauren integrates alternative modalities of treatment into her work. She focuses on embodied techniques to support integrative health in mind, body, heart, and spirit. Lauren has decades of experience as a yoga teacher and trainer that translate into therapies that support connection and kind relationship within the body. She studied with David Emerson under the supervision of Bessel van der Kolk at The Trauma Institute in Boston in trauma sensitive yoga, and she’s trained by the Multidisciplinary Association of Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) for MDMA assisted psychotherapy for complex PTSD. Lauren trained with Dr. Phil Wolfson in Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy.Lauren supports psychedelic assisted therapy research with the intention to bring these types of interventions back into the Western mainstream model. Lauren believes that individual and collective healing are intimately intertwined. She is an activist and an advocate for a safer, more integrated world. Lauren is passionate about engaging with individuals and groups to create systemic healing and homecoming to the goodness that exists in all beings.In this episode Lauren Taus and Beth Weinstein speak about ...How there's nothing new about consciousness explorationThe importance of psychedelic education for the uninitiatedHow ketamine has a shadow side - as do all psychedelic medicinesHow psychedelic therapy can help mitigate our suffering by 'assisting' us to open to our painIntegration as critical to psychedelic therapy - we all need outside feedback and help anchoring our work with psychedelicsHealing in and through the bodyHow psychedelics help us embody our experience of ourselves and our livesSpirituality as a path of "de-scension" - of coming home to the bodyHow our conditioning often cuts us off from our own magicHealing happening in relationship - most importantly in our relationship to ourselvesConcerns as the field of psychedelic therapy widens - the need for careful, relational workThe role of psychedelic healing in the context of the current global mental health pandemicThe need for more trained therapists and emerging opportunities for trainingFollow Lauren!www.inbodiedlife.comwww.psychedeliccoalitionforhealth.com
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