77. Low-dose Ketamine with Licia Sky: Somatic Awareness & the Subtle Realms of Trauma Healing

Licia Sky is a somatic educator, artist, singer-songwriter, and bodyworker who works with traumatized individuals and trains mental health professionals to use mindful meditation in movement, theater exercises, writing, and voice as tools for attunement, healing and connection. She is a regular instructor in trauma healing workshops at Cape Cod Institute, Kripalu and Esalen. For the past decade, she has been teaching expanded awareness in workshops to clinicians and laypeople around the world.

Episode Highlights

• Somatic healing and psychedelics
• The power of subtlety in embodied practices
• Unmasking the self
• Embodied awareness: before and beyond psychedelics
• Personal journeys to embodiment
• Intuition vs. Western models in healing
• Exploring the essence of healing beyond symptoms
• The power of attentive listening
• Embracing silence and witnessing in therapy
• Ketamine's unique healing properties
• The importance of integration and personalized healing journeys

Licia Sky’s Links 

• Website: www.traumaresearchfoundation.org
• OFFERING: 30-minute Mind-Body Workshops

Resources Mentioned in This Episode

• Book: The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
• Book: Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life by Jon Kabat-Zinn
• Book: Awareness: Conversations with the Masters by Anthony De Mello
• Book: Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures by Merlin Sheldrake
• Book: Extraordinary Knowing : Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Lloyd Mayer
• Book: LSD Psychotherapy: The Healing Potential of Psychedelic Medicine by Stanislav Grof
• Book: LSD and the Mind of the Universe: Diamonds from Heaven by Christopher M. Bache