Psychedelic Midwives
A group practice offering psychedelic and psycholytically supported sessions, workshops and retreats
A Different Approach to Psychedelic Healing
We refer to ourselves as psychedelic midwives. Over many years of deep work with these medicines, our approach has moved away from psychotherapy and toward something older and more intuitive.
The distinction in name matters to us. Conventional therapy begins with a diagnosis and applies a model, usually behavioral or analytical, to a set of symptoms. Its aim is to manage, reduce, or eliminate symptoms as they are seen as the problem.
Yet psychedelic, or expressive medicines, are not suppressants. They act more like a drawing salve, pulling symptoms into awareness and opening them like a door, inviting the user into their inner world. If we accept the invitation we discover the universe within, a highly intelligent, vast network of systems, running the show below our ordinary level of awareness.
The rules here are different and many traditional therapists who work with psychedelics eventually stop trying to "do therapy" and step into a more ceremonial or guide role, letting the medicine ‘do the work’. That's a wiser approach than applying traditional models, but it can miss an opportunity for deeper healing.
A midwife does something different. She experientially knows this inner world herself, and similar to supporting someone during the birth process, understands the innate capacities, trusts a process written into our deepest nature and supports the mother through the meaningful initiation. We see a session supported by psychedelic medicines the same way: as an intentional entrance into our inner world, where innate healers live within us, a non-ordinary moment in life, and one that deserves skilled, attentive support.
We began our work from a clinical perspective but have found over time that ancient practices are more applicable, and personal experience is the primary teacher.
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What We Offer:
Kalyana Retreats
The Sacred Mirror of Special Relationships
Long Weekend Experiential/Instructional Retreats:
(Hosted on a gorgeous farm in Boulder Colorado)
Couple’s Retreat
An experiential teaching on how to effectively use psychedelics as a couple to radically support each other’s healing journey while deepening and strengthening your relationship. A 4-day weekend with a virtual preparation class and individual and couples sessions during your stay.
Women’s Retreat (in pairs or small groups)
An experiential teaching weekend focused on the special bond of female friends, soul sisters as we like to refer. Learn a practice that teaches you how to radically support each other’s healing journey while deepening and strengthening your relationship. A 4-day weekend with a virtual preparation class and individual and parallel sessions during your stay.
Workshops and Groups
Group Medicine Nights for Practitioners
Postnatal Birth Experience Workshop
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Psycholytic and Psychedelic Sessions:
Individual Sessions
Couples Sessions
(contact a practitioner personally to inquire)
Our Approach to Working with Psychedelics
Through the mindful use of psychedelic medicines we can reconnect to:
Our authentic Self
By meeting the parts of ourselves we have suppressed or rejected, we can help them release their burdens and end the war within.
Our innate intelligence
By turning our awareness inward, we bring the unconscious into view. Our blocks and blind spots become clear, and we can update the beliefs we formed in childhood.
Our inner healers
In a culture that looks outward for answers, we rarely notice the wisdom that has been within us all along. When we make contact with it, we discover powerful inner healers, and as they show us what they can do, we come to trust our bodies and minds again.
Our bodies
By releasing what the body has been holding, including unexpressed emotion, unresolved threat responses, and undigested memory, we can change how we feel in our bodies and how we feel toward them.
