Path of the Practitioner

Introduction to an Embodied Container

Led by Rev. Konrad Ryushin Marchaj, MD, and Lama Elizabeth Monson, Ph.D., this immersive series is designed to help you navigate ineffable experiences using methods that go beyond the rational, logical mind. This includes relational, embodied, cognitive and sacred wisdom practices and philosophies. 

The facilitators discuss their personal and professional backgrounds, alongside the experiences that have fostered their journeys into the unknown. From Anthropology, Psychiatry and Academia to Tibetan Buddhism and Plant Medicine ceremonies - Elizabeth and Ryushin provide holistic approaches to integration through intuitively and cognitively bridging paradox. 

Elizabeth is the co-director of the Natural Dharma Fellowship and the Managing Teacher at Wonderwell Mountain Refuge in Springfield, NH. Expanded states of consciousness encourage us to find new ways of relating and existing in the world. Here you will be introduced to the path of the Dharma student, and what it means to bring a lifelong contemplative practice into the modern era.

In this series, you will be walked through foundational elements of the 9 modules from the Psychedelic Practitioner Core Training program - which are experience-based investigations into what it means to embody the essential elements of psychedelic facilitation. They explore the relationships between the individual and the environmental, by working towards integrating the parts within the whole. Cultivating our conscious attention and awareness allows us to better appreciate this on-going, emergent process. 

Psychedelics often increase our openness to experience, through ineffable realities that cement a feeling of uncertainty. This workshop will encourage you to continue to ask the hard questions, by sharing stories and experiences that will inspire you and challenge your worldview. They will also provide an introduction to some simple and practical techniques including Loving Kindness Meditation, which can deepen the relationship with self and enhance your everyday life.