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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