
"What is the role of the body in the psychedelic session? How do memory, trauma and transference make themselves known in this space? In contrast to the sitter model or transcendent approaches to psychedelic therapy, is there a role for guides to be more interactive and leverage the profound resources inherent in human relationship to address the mental health symptoms that arise from human relational wounding?
Saj Razvi LPC, founder and Director of Education at Psychedelic Somatic Institute, will focus on these questions by describing a novel psychobiological and highly relational approach to psychedelic treatment. In this presentation, Saj will reference Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) and show session clips of various students' working with cannabis or ketamine through the pathway of their autonomic nervous systems.
Saj’s work explores the homeostatic, self corrective mechanisms that are part of our mammalian biology which becomes far more active and far more accessible in psychedelic states.
Please be aware that this presentation contains short video clips of individuals processing trauma through their autonomic nervous systems while in a psychedelic state. The content may be triggering for some."