-
Ashtanga Yoga as a Practice of Structure and Regulation
Ashtanga is challenging in a very specific way. It does not shift to meet your mood. It does not change based on how much energy you have that day. The sequence stays the same. The work is to show up honestly and meet yourself where you are within that structure.
-
Somatic Breathwork: A Physiological Pathway to Emotional Release
Somatic breathwork is not gentle in the way people expect it to be. It is not something you casually participate in while hoping to feel better afterward. It is real work. It asks for effort. It asks for presence. It asks you to stay when your body is doing everything it can to return to…
-
Kambo: Working With Frog Medicine
Kambo is not psychoactive and it does not alter perception or cognition in the way psychedelic medicines do. Its effects are primarily physiological. The secretion from the Phyllomedusa bicolor frog contains a complex mixture of bioactive peptides, which are short chains of amino acids that interact with receptors throughout the body.
-
Sensuality, Sensation, and Coming Back Into the Body
For a long time, I thought being healthy meant doing the right things. Eating well. Moving my body. Managing stress. Staying productive. Understanding myself intellectually. I was good at that part. I could analyze patterns, connect dots, and explain why I felt the way I felt. I knew the language of wellness. I knew the…
-
Wim Hof: A One-Year Reflection
Once I started understanding the physiology behind the breath and the cold, everything I was experiencing stopped feeling mysterious and started feeling logical. The sensations, the calm, the clarity, even the discomfort all had explanations rooted in how the nervous system and immune system work.
-
My Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy Journey
After years of talk therapy and coping strategies, I experienced what happens when healing reaches the nervous system itself. Ketamine opens a powerful neuroplasticity window — and that window helped me release grief, reconnect with safety, and breathe fully again. Here’s why KAP needs to be part of the future of mental health care.
-
My Ayahuasca Experience in Peru: Fear, Frequency, and the Fabric of the Universe
There are moments in life when language fails—when the experience is so multidimensional, so shattering and illuminating at the same time, that trying to summarize it in words feels almost sacrilegious. This is one of those moments. What happened to me in the jungle of Urubamba was not just a psychedelic experience. It was a…
Expanding Minds, Grounding Bodies, and Planting Roots
justjocelynthings 