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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