Françoise Bourzat on Consciousness Medicine (#131) By Jacob Kyle Posted on April 20, 2021 #Psychology#Spirituality About the Guest Françoise Bourzat has been bridging the divide between western psychology and indigenous wisdom in collaboration with healers in Huaulta de Jiminez, Mexico for the past 30 years. She is a co-founder of the Center for Consciousness Medicine, which trains people to become guides in a holistic method of psychedelic-assisted therapy. She is also the co-author of Consciousness Medicine, published by North Atlantic Books. Françoise served on the advisory board for the Oregon Prop 109 initiative and is currently collaborating with the Pacific Neuroscience Institute in an FDA-approved research study on psilocybin-assisted therapy for Covid-related grief. She has a Master of Arts in Somatic Psychology and is trained in the Hakomi Method. Françoise has taught at California Institute for Integral Studies (CIIS) in San Francisco, is a counselor, and runs online courses and lectures in various institutions. In this Episode, We Discuss: Plant medicine journeying as therapy – incorporating expanded states into our growth process.Psychedelic Psychotherapy Renaissance and the Neo-shamanistic movement.The importance of rooting in lineage, indigenous context, the thread of permission, and respectful sharing.The spiritual dimension of healing and avoiding spiritual bypassing.The relationship between pain and suffering; and the role of meaning in the transmutation of suffering.The role of fear and what it is that we’re afraid of.Françoise’s five-part holistic model: body, mind, spirit, community, and environment. Connect with Françoise Websites: www.francoisebourzat.com; centerforcm.comInstagram: @francoise_bourzatTwitter: @FBourzat2019 Quotes from the Episode Take the podcast with you Subscribe in your favourite app Read more like this #Cultures #Practice #Psychology Ancient and Modern Ritual: A Creative Approach to Working with Grief, Loss, and Change Creative healing methods, including ritual therapy, offer us ways to address all kinds of grief: subtle to catastrophic, known and unknown, recent and historical. By Samantha Black #Grief #Practice #Psychology #Spirituality What is Grief? Grief refers to the emotions we experience around a loss. By Samantha Black #Practice #Psychology #Yoga #Yoga Teacher My Decalogue of a Decade I started attending classes because I had reached a place in my studies where I needed personal feedback about the experiences I was having. I took group classes for about one year before being approached to teach. I was completely ignorant of the culture of yoga building in the West and its historical context in the East. I was only interested in the practice as a psychology… as a way of spotting and shifting patterns of thought and behavior. By Kerry Porter #Spirituality #Traditions Rabbi Rami Shapiro on Living the Golden Rule (#153) Rabbi Rami Shapiro PH.D. is an award–winning author of over thirty-six books on religion and spirituality. Rami co-directs the One River Foundation, is a Contributing Editor at Spirituality and Health magazine, and hosts the magazine’s podcast: Spirituality & Health with Rabbi Rami. By Jacob Kyle TARKA Journal Discover our latest issues or become a monthly subscriber to access all digital and/or print content. Tarka #06: On Spiritual Citizenship Tarka #05: On Queer Dharma Tarka #04: On Death Tarka #03: On Ecology Tarka #02: On Illusion Tarka #01: On Bhakti Tarka #0: On the Scholar-Practitioner