064: "Want to connect to your true self? Sit the fuck down and Engineer Stillness!" with Charlotte Nicholson

In today's episode I talk with Charlotte Nicholson, one of our key retreat facilitators, about the body-breath-mind program she has developed, called "Engineer Stillness". You will learn how it helps people prepare for our retreats by teaching them how to release tension, ground and stabilise, giving them the best chance of surrendering into the psilocybin experience and getting the most out of it.

The power of psychedelics lies in their potential to shift our entire world view in a short space of time, in a way that years of talking therapy alone can fail to do. But for that same reason, a trip – regardless of any blissful experiences of unconditional love or connection to a greater power that may have been experienced in ceremony – has the potential to be very destabilising in the days, weeks and even months afterwards.

It can be a real shock once we insert ourselves back into the problems and hustle of REAL LIFE which won’t suddenly have gone away, and our nervous system responds accordingly, switching into self-defence mode. Especially as newly expanded consciousness means we can be much more sensitive than previously to what someone else is feeling, or the energies of people and environments.

This is why it is crucial to find ways of carefully integrating the insights we receive into every layer of our being; to learn how to regulate ourselves back to a sense of safety and ease within our new reality.

More information about our retreats and integration programs will follow soon.

Enjoy this episode.

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You can find more information on the Engineer Stillness Program here: https://charlottenicholsonyoga.com/engineer-stillness-program

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