[Talk] Somatic Soul Repair (Using Embodied Practice to Prepare for a Psilocybin Journey)
A talk about how embodiment practices inform and prepare us for a psilocybin journey.
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[Talk] What Do People Get from a Facilitated Psilocybin Journey? Takeaways from Psychedelic Sessions with Magic Mushrooms
Did you know that therapeutic magic mushroom sessions are legal in Oregon? Many people are curious to learn more about facilitated psilocybin journeys. In Season 6 of Body Land Metaphor Medicine, I share about my experience in the field. I was in the second cohort of Oregon practitioners who became legal Psilocybin Facilitators (2023-2024) and end up answering questions lots of at dinner parties and gatherings. I find it so fun to talk about and am happy to share. Here are some of the takeaways that people tend to get from their journey. For more talks on psilocybin services — stay tuned! If you’d like to listen to a guided meditation that helps you chill out and down shift, check out Seasons 1-4 in English and Season 5 in Spanish! These are visualizations where you lay down or sit still, close your eyes, and actively dream to regulate your nervous system, and learn that metaphors can be medicine!
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Release Tension, Let Go, Surrender to Sleep, Insomnia Visualization (12 min)
A 12-minute visualization to listen to at bed time, where you are guided through a technique to release tension from specific parts of the body and the body in general, for a deeper, better night’s rest. Sleep well.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Sky Time Deep Sleep Metaphor Medicine to Ease Insomnia (17 min)
In this visualization, we breathe deeply and envision the sky changing through all the color shifts of a day and night. We remind ourselves we are safe as we meld into the colors of the sky, become the deep night and soften into a state of rest.
Read MoreGuided Meditation for Insomnia: Tracing the Body's Silhouette (Body Land Metaphor Medicine, 20 min)
A soft and gentle visualization to help you feel safe and guide you into a good night’s sleep.
Guided Meditation: How to Rest when Fearful, Instant Self Care and Nervous System Regulation (20 min)
When you land in your body and call it your home, your nervous system shifts down a gear. When we tell ourselves stories that enhance our sense of belonging and dignity, we create a quieter place inside where we can ground and center. In this meditation, we ignite the imagination as the tool that helps you feel safer in your body and in the world. Set aside 20 minutes when you are quiet or still, alone or with others, to listen, and follow along in your body.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: How to Cope when Overwhelmed, Metaphor as Medicine to Help you Breathe and Stay in your Body (15 min)
When we are overwhelmed, distraught, deeply sad, and scared, it can be very hard to stay in our bodies and think clearly. This 15 minute guided meditation helps you ground, center, and re-orient so that you recognize yourself and your surroundings. Listen when still and quiet and follow along in your body. Take care. You are loved.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Starlight Dreaming for Better Sleep (20 in)
Settle into a quiet space where you can close your eyes and take time out to reconnect with yourself and your breath. We will ignite the imagination to restore a sense of connectedness with the cosmos and with our own bodies to feel more centered, grounded, and get better sleep.
Read MoreEl Desierto: a Calming, Restorative, Stress Relief Guided Meditation in Spanish from Body Land (11 min)
Vamos a enfocarnos en los colores de un desierto. Imagina la tierra roja, rica y vibrante, que se extiende ante ti, mientras las capas de colores se despliegan a través de las mesas, los acantilados y las dunas de arena.
Visualiza como el cielo abierto esta pintado con un hermoso degradado de amarillo y rosa al amanecer. A medida que el día avanza, observa las tonalidades de azul que van cambiando. Inmensas extensiones de nubes entran y salen. Pesadas nubes de lluvia, con tonos azul-púrpura, se desplazan en el cielo, entrando y saliendo, adornadas por un flequillo de lluvia lejana que parece colgar en el aire. A veces, estas nubes lucen inmóviles, antes de que el sol vuelva a brillar, iluminando con rayos celestiales en configuraciones transitorias. Colores rosas y lavandas estallan en el cielo. Permite que esta escena se anide en tu cuerpo.
Read MoreSpecial Guided Meditation en Español for deep sleep to promote healing: Estanque de Caida de Semillas: Cuerpo Tierra (17 min)
Imagina cómo el aire se extiende hasta lo alto, perdiéndose en la inmensidad del cielo, mientras el estanque se encuentra cómodamente acurrucado en este entorno vasto y abierto.
Read MoreSé un Árbol: A Body Land Special Guided Meditation en Español (11 min)
¿Alguna vez has deseado deslizarte en la piel de un árbol y dejar atrás tu vida habitual? Vamos a ser árboles juntos. Podemos imaginarnos de pie, haciendo que nuestros cuerpos imiten la forma de los árboles. Aunque, por supuesto, podes estar sentada, acostada o en cualquier posición que te resulte cómoda para esta visualización.
Read MoreUna Pluma: A Body Land Guided Meditation en Español for deep rest and breathing (13 min)
Comencemos con una visualización basada en una sola imagen: una pluma. Esta visualización puede ayudarnos a enfocarnos y practicar el arte de generar sensaciones internas usando nuestra imaginación como herramienta. Es una interpretación creativa del trabajo de respiración, pero en este caso, la imagen es la fuerza que guía la conciencia de la respiración.
Read MoreWelcome to Cuerpo Tierra! Body Land En Español. Bienvenidos! Stay tuned for 4 episodes in Spanish.
Cuerpo Tierra en Español
Hola, queridos amigos!
Bienvenidos al fascinante mundo de la Medicina Metafórica del Cuerpo Tierra, creada por la acupupunturista y autora Liz Greenhill y llevada a ustedes en español por Udom Linthavong.
Imagina esto: visualizaciones guiadas que no solo encienden tu creatividad, sino que también calman tu sistema nervioso. Te ayudarán a sentirte arraigado y en sintonía contigo mismo. Este es un espacio donde la energía se mueve, el arte se aprecia, el lenguaje cobra vida, y técnicas de la medicina china se mezclan con métodos somáticos para que puedas dejar atrás la ansiedad.
Tan a menudo, nuestras imaginaciones se aventuran en áreas de miedo y, cuando eso sucede, es como si nuestras mentes secuestraran a nuestros cuerpos y nos llevaran a un lugar de catástrofe vicaria. Cuerpo Tierra está diseñado para ser un micro-antídoto a esa respuesta de estrés.
Read MoreGuided Meditation: Emotions as Colors, Listen at bedtime for Deep Sleep (14 min)
Here’s another visualization to listen to before bed. to free up and bring movement to any emotions that might be hanging around stalling our ability to rest. We use symbolism to envision the emotions as colors, which lets them be energetic, as opposed to stories tied to thoughts, which take us out of the body and into the mind. So, just let the colors fly, float, wash, and waft through you, trusting in the process, the energetic release, and your ability to embody a metaphor as a way to change the way you feel.
Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep: Resonance of the Atlas (12 min)
Tune into your nervous system, creating a sensation of resonance through your whole body, so you can rest.
Guided Meditation: Night Time Ripple Breathing to listen to before bed for deep restful sleep (12 min)
Bring this ripple-inducing breathwork into your pre-sleep awareness for deeper rest.
Read MoreGuided Meditation for Deep Sleep: A Cartography of Rest (18 min)
We talk a bit about the four levels of being (and reality) and how metaphors of the earth apply to the body. We tune into four layers of the body and coax each one into a relaxed safe state. Listen before bed and let me know how it feels.
Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep: Drift into Darkness while Glowing (13 min)
The pattern of the mycelium network is around us and within. Let it transform into a softly glowing nightlight that protects you and feel yourself soften into a resting state.
Guided Meditation for Deep Sleep: My Body is a Habitat and I am Safe (20 min)
Your body is a safe place. Coax your spine into this story and let it become something new and generative.
Read MoreGuided Meditation for Low Back Pain and Anxiety: Waterfall of the Hips (10 min)
Your body is a landscape. You have a river running through you. It horseshoes into a waterfall in the hips.
Rest into nature and into your body through this image of a river running down your spine. This is designed to help increase qi flow in the hips and pelvis.