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THE RIGHT TO PURPOSE AND SERVICE
EXPANDING SELF
With current plant medicine and psychedelic renaissance, many of us are drawn to ceremonies but often are not ready to hold the experience and the changes it might bring.

In this experience, together, we explore your physical, emotional, and mental set and setting to prepare you for the psychedelic journey and embody the gift you bring in the body-centred integration process. 

THE JOURNEY

Do you identify with one or more of these statements?
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  • I am interested in legal psychedelic-assisted therapy (PAT)

  • I am preparing for a psychedelic experience or ceremony.

  • I had a psychedelic experience and need an integration.

  • I am curious about expansive states of consciousness.

  • I want to benefit from the expansive states of health, creativity, and connection.

  • I have concerns about my past psychedelic experiences

  • I want to know about legal microdosing.

  •  I am interested in adaptogenic mushrooms and plants​

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Yes? Then you might benefit from this session.

Disclamer

We use the natural abilities of the body to access expanded levels of consciousness. This experience does not involve or promote the use of any illegal substances or activity. This is not guidance on how to trip at home or have unguided journeys. 

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THE METHOD

Embodied Expanding

The Expanding Self session is based on my method, Embodied Expanding, which has the fundamental principle that we journey into altered states of consciousness to bring gifts back into the here and now: our body, relationships, and acts of service.​

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I draw from established tools and, importantly, my personal practice and experience.  Embodied Expanding is rooted in:

  • Psychedelic Assisted Therapy (PAT) principles from Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSI) (in training) and Psychedelics and Compassionate Inquiry by Gabor Mate and Kiyumi (completed), 

  • Somatic practices from Biodynamic Breathwork for Trauma Release BBTRS by Giten Tonkov (certified) and Deep Feminie Mystery School (initiated)

  • Ceremonial and ritualistic practices of sacred plant medicine wisdom by Entheowheel and Mazatecan healer Doña Eugenia Pineda Casimiro from Huautla de Jiménez, Mexico.

​Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSI) (in training)

Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP) is a highly relational, highly experiential, embodied therapy model specifically designed to involve the remarkably powerful organic healing tendencies that live in the unconscious mind and body.

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Homeostatic, self-corrective mechanisms are part of our biology and become far more active and accessible when we enter altered states of consciousness to work with unresolved traumatic material. 

 

The emphasis of PSIP is on the interventions, processes, therapeutic relationships, and psychobiological pathways that transform ketamine and cannabis into potent healing facilitators. 

THE PROCESS

You can access holotropic states in many ways: meditation, fasting, sleep deprivation, breathwork, dancing, chanting, sexual practices, sacred plant, and synthesized medicines.

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Holotropic states allow for resurfacing from our subconscious personal conflicts, bring back childhood memories and let trauma. They open creativity and point towards unforeseen possibilities and options. They also open a gate toward the transpersonal collective domain. The sense of identity or self extends beyond (trans) the individual or personal to encompass broader aspects of humankind, life, psyche, or cosmos. The experience of being connected might be pleasant, while emotional intensity might be challenging. 

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If we want to utilize these experiences for personal and societal development, preparation and integration are crucial. It is both being able to deal with changing states of consciousness and letting them influence our lives beneficially. 

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How to prepare?

Before we dive into this work I strongly recommend first taking at least one Releasing Trauma session to balance your nervous system and learn to resource. Sexuality is a very vulnerable topic and breathwork is an excellent way of preparing yourself and the body.

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EMBODIED EXPANDING 

Join us in harm reduction, education, and support to transform psychedelic experiences into opportunities for learning and growth.​

Join us!

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THE SPACE

Sessions take place in Praxis für Humanistische
Psychotherapie in Zürich Old Town.​

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I work independently and as a part of a multidisciplinary team of therapists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists with a focus on body-oriented compassionate process guidance.

 

Address

Praxis für HumanistischePsychotherapie

Obere Zäune 14​

8001 Zürich

https://goo.gl/maps/ikXip8CdeyViDebr7

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INFORMATION

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BOOKING

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CANCELLATION POLICY

  • Cancellation is possible up to 24 hours before the appointment. I guarantee a full refund.

  • The cancellation must be paid in full if it is less than 24 hours before the session.

PRICE - ENERGY EXCHANGE

Below are the regular session prices; however, please contact me if you have difficulties paying them.

We find the solution. Read more about my price philosophy.

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  • IN-PERSON
    • Single session - 90 minutes - CHF 240
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  • Integral Expanding Self First Cycle - 6 x 90 minutes sessions  - CHF 1300 (10 % discount)​ instead of CHF 1440 containing:
    • 3 x 90 minutes preparation
    • 3 x 90 minutes integration
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  • Integral Expanding Self Next Cycles - 4 x 90 minutes sessions  - CHF 820 (15 % discount)​ instead of CHF 960 containing:
    • 1 x 90 minutes preparation
    • 3 x 90 minutes integration
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  • ONLINE
    • Single session - 75 min - sliding scale CHF 180
    • Integral Expanding Self - 4  x 75 min sessions - CHF  648 instead of CHF 720 (10 % discount)​
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For clients who take the second and next package, I offer a 15% discount.​
UPCOMING EXPANDING SELF EVENTS
  • Skin is a Medium of Love: Embodied Expanding
    Skin is a Medium of Love: Embodied Expanding
    Skin is a Medium of Love: Embodied Expanding
    Do., 31. Okt.
    MQ Learning Academy
    31. Okt. 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
    MQ Learning Academy, Schaffhauserstrasse 78, Room 108, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
    31. Okt. 2024, 19:00 – 21:00
    MQ Learning Academy, Schaffhauserstrasse 78, Room 108, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
    Explore the complex role and language of touch and skin.
  • Embodiment As Inner Initiation Rite: Embodied Expanding
    Embodiment As Inner Initiation Rite: Embodied Expanding
    Embodiment As Inner Initiation Rite: Embodied Expanding
    Do., 21. Nov.
    MQ Learning Academy
    21. Nov. 2024, 20:00 – 22:00
    MQ Learning Academy, Schaffhauserstrasse 78, Room 108, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
    21. Nov. 2024, 20:00 – 22:00
    MQ Learning Academy, Schaffhauserstrasse 78, Room 108, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
    Explore the principles of inner renewal and initiation.
  • Returning to Innocence: Body and Psychedelics.
    Returning to Innocence: Body and Psychedelics.
    Returning to Innocence: Body and Psychedelics.
    Do., 30. Jan.
    MQ Learning Academy
    30. Jan. 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
    MQ Learning Academy, Schaffhauserstrasse 78, Room 108, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
    30. Jan. 2025, 19:00 – 21:00
    MQ Learning Academy, Schaffhauserstrasse 78, Room 108, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland
    Explore how psychedelics reconnect us with primal bodily awareness.
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