Julian speaks with Sashi Gerzon-Rose, LPC. Sashi is a therapist working in the Denver/ Boulder area of Colorado. She is a long time practitioner and now a teacher of meditation and yoga. She works with individuals and couples and offers psychedelic assisted therapy with Ketamine.
Topics covered:

Her growing up with Orthodox Judaism
Religion and Culture
Pre-Modern, Modern and Post-Modern cultural shifts
Historical stages in the development of Buddhism, which in the Tibetan traditions are called Hinayana, Mahayana and Vajrayana.
The importance of community and connection as a part of spiritual or meditative practice.
The concept of Regulation and Co-Regulation in Psychology
Couples work
Learning to co-regulate with your partner
Tolerating discomfort and difference in your relationship
Learning productive ways to argue and have conflict
Psychedelics and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy
Discussion of the current state of affairs with Psychedelic Assisted Therapy: what is currently legal and what is not yet , but which hopefully will be in the next several years.
Contra-indications for psychedelic assisted therapy
The primacy of consciousness and the importance of our irreducible, subjective first hand experience.

Learn more about Sashi at: https://wholeheartway.com
She is offering an upcoming Yoga retreat: https://www.littleyogastudio.com/retreats/
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