Episode 12: Somatic Breathwork and Inclusive Psychedelic Community with Aubrey Howard
“I really saw during those journeys that this was a way in which we can help heal the world, heal ourselves and our relationship with nature, with our communities and our environment.”
Welcome to Integrating Psychedelics, featuring insights gleaned from psychedelic experiences and conversations around how to integrate this wisdom into our daily lives. I'm your host, Jenny Weinar, and in today's episode I'm speaking with Aubrey Howard.
Aubrey is an Afro-Indigenous queer woman of color, Breathwork and Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Facilitator based in Philadelphia. She is also a co-founder of Philadose and owns a small private practice here in Philadelphia, Spirit Medicine, providing Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Facilitation and Somatic Breathwork services to people from diverse backgrounds and cultures. Aubrey previously served as a Breathwork & Ketamine-Assisted Therapy Facilitator at the SoundMind Institute.
In this conversation we discuss::
How Aubrey's various identities and religious upbringing impacted her growing up
Aubrey's longtime interest in the transpersonal realm, which opened her up to psychedelics later on
The synchronicity that brought Aubrey to her first ayahuasca ceremonies in Costa Rica
The inner healing intelligence that lives within all of us
How psychedelics helped Aubrey begin to heal her trauma and find her purpose
How psychedelic experiences can be destabilizing without integration
The power of breathwork as an integration practice
Non-traditional forms of psychedelic integration
The inclusive, interdisciplinary psychedelic community Aubrey is creating
…and more!
You can find Aubrey on her personal Instagram and the Philadose Instagram account, as well on her website.
You can connect with me on Instagram, through my website and very occasional newsletter. In addition to providing Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy in Philadelphia, I offer Psychedelic Integration Therapy to residents of Pennsylvania, Colorado and New Jersey.
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