Psychedelic Healing with Andres Zambrano, LPC

A State of Mind

Andres Zambrano joins Julian for this in depth discussion of psychedelic assisted therapy.

Learn more about Andres Zambrano & Innate Path at: https://www.innatepath.org

Topics (in chronological order):

• The Innate Path Psychedelic Psychotherapy Training
• Andres' background from growing up in Columbia to working in wilderness therapy to his current work with psychedelic assisted therapy.
• How learning about somatic therapy and the importance of the body changed everything for Andres in terms of his own process and healing and in his work with clients.
• Recognizing his own traumas that needed healing
• How the reactions of our nervous system to traumatic situations can lead to ongoging symptoms
• How Disassociation is a more subtle and often unnoticed response to trauma
• Signs of Disassociation, one of which is when you notice it, feeling like your body is oddly shaped or disproportionately shaped
• Life itself is overwhelming at times for all of us and so we all build up stress, to one degree of another.
• When stress builds up and passes a certain threshold, then we are in the realm of trauma. This threshold can be lower or higher depending on our life circumstances.
• Costs of trauma: less energy, aliveness, intimacy, resiliency, more reactiveness, depression, anxiety, etc.
• Parts Work: The role of the 'loyal soldier' as a 'part' that can show up to help one get through life
• The practice of 'touch and go'
• The healthy expression of our Sympathetic and Parasympathetic nervous system responses
• Andres says that most meditative practices actually bring in a healthy dissociative state
• The importance of pratyahara (withdrawal) in Patanjali's schema of the '8 limbs of yoga' and it's relation to healthy disassociation
• How Disassociation, even in healthy forms, that can come from spiritual practices, may be an important part of why so many scandals keep happening in spiritual communities.
• "non-meditation" in the Dzogchen tradition of Buddhism
• How Andres notices and brings attention to Disassociation in the moment in a therapy session
• How working with Cannabis and Ketamine can help
• Differences between working with Ketamine and with Cannabis
• The massive difference that the set and setting and context of deep therapeutic work has in the experience of using psychedelics.
• And more

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