You carry your own Unique Medicine…and Your Medicine is what we need for these times. Medicine for These Times with Beth Weinstein combines grounded soul-centered business know-how, psychedelics, sacred medicines, spiritual teachings, subconscious reprogramming and ancient wisdom so you can start sharing Your Unique Medicine, help more people and create transformation in the world. Host Beth Weinstein is a spiritual and psychedelic business coach, three-time entrepreneur, and a leader in the intersection of psychedelics, purpose and business. Beth has coached hundreds of heart-centered change-makers from all over the world to share their medicine and grow their coaching, healing or transformational businesses. If you want to integrate your visionary experiences into your purpose, get clear on your entrepreneurial path, and help people doing what you love, then this podcast is for you. Listen in on conversations with psychedelic leaders, conscious entrepreneurs and transformational leaders who are living proof that a better world is possible when you follow your heart and live in alignment with your soul. Learn more at BethAWeinstein...
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episode 15: Lauren Taus on Psychedelic Healing & Embodied Integration
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 exploration
- The importance of psychedelic education for the uninitiated
- How ketamine has a shadow side - as do all psychedelic medicines
- How psychedelic therapy can help mitigate our suffering by 'assisting' us to open to our pain
- Integration as critical to psychedelic therapy - we all need outside feedback and help anchoring our work with psychedelics
- Healing in and through the body
- How psychedelics help us embody our experience of ourselves and our lives
- Spirituality as a path of "de-scension" - of coming home to the body
- How our conditioning often cuts us off from our own magic
- Healing happening in relationship - most importantly in our relationship to ourselves
- Concerns as the field of psychedelic therapy widens - the need for careful, relational work
- The role of psychedelic healing in the context of the current global mental health pandemic
- The need for more trained therapists and emerging opportunities for training
Follow Lauren!
- www.inbodiedlife.com
- www.psychedeliccoalitionforhealth.com