HEART OF THE HEARTH
Kanachiari
Mentoring, Certifications & Transformation
TRAUMA-INFORMED WORK
Somatic Integration
for Psychedelics & Plant Medicine
How do we embody the insights and revelations received in altered states?
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How do we integrate the jewels, or walk with the memories we've unearthed?
What is Somatic Integration?
In the plant medicine and psychedelic experience, we can often enter extraordinary expansive or revelatory states, and we can also unlock difficult or traumatic memories.
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Somatic integration offers methods of harvesting the gifts offered in those euphoric states, and embodying them, so that they can be integrated into our lives and create lasting change.
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Somatic integration also offers methods of gently releasing trauma imprints that have arisen so that they can be slowly discharged from the body (without re-traumatization occurring).
How is this work Trauma-informed?
Everyone carries trauma imprints in their bodies. Some trauma is big and obvious, some trauma is accumulative and unseen (unless activated), and some trauma is deeply complex. Using trauma informed-principles, as well as resources from decades of work in the healing arts and with plant medicines, I meet you with deep compassion for you and your experiences, and honour your own inner wisdom.
Some of the trauma-informed principles that I work with:
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recognizing you as the expert on your body and life experience, and honouring your inner teacher
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listening with deep attunement to you, and tracking the journey of your nervous system with you
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encouraging your sense of agency, and using invitational language
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maintaining professional boundaries with kindness and compassion, and holding a safe and impeccable container for your healing journey
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offering the tools of titration, and sharing practical methods of regulation and polyvagul resources with you
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encouraging and supporting a personal integration plan that arises naturally from your own experience and from your inner wisdom
What are the benefits?
The psychedelic experience or the plant medicine ceremony is the place where the work of the intention begins, but the larger work comes afterwards, during a long period of integration. Unfortunately, there's presently very little integration support available for those re-entering the "world" after these life-altering experiences, and if there IS support, it's usually sparse and not trauma-informed or somatic. The majority of people who are not supported in embodying their experiences, lose them. They might feel great for a few weeks, but don't understand the depth of work that has to occur in order for change to be permanent and embodied. As a result, they often drift back into the patterns of behaviour they sought to change. Others have been re-traumatized by unearthed memories, or need real help understanding what they've been shown during these liminal states. Somatic integration support can be the difference between fleeting change and permanent change, between intellectual understanding and embodied understanding.
Somatic Plant Medicine Integration
1 hour: $135
(sliding scale upon request)
BOOKINGS: please use my online booking calendar (button below)
Kanachiari
My work within altered states of consciousness spans three decades. It includes full curendera training, initiations in the Amazon Jungle, hundreds of ceremonies as participant, apprentice and facilitator, as well as extended altered states induced by meditation & pranayam work (my most profound altered states were during peak experiences as a result of significant Kundalini progression).
In addition to vast and varied personal experience, I hold certification in trauma-informed facilitation and integration specifically for plant medicine facilitators, as well as training in Non-violent Communication. I've been teaching/mentoring healers, intuitives and highly sensitive people since my early twenties. I'm presently completing teacher certification in restorative yoga for trauma.
