“Rita was a fantastic guest educator in our InnerTrek training program for psychedelic facilitators. Rita brought a joyful, engaging, competent, and rich presentation to our students. Her presence and expertise was exactly what we needed for this class!”

- Inner Trek

Punk Therapy Podcast

This podcast is dedicated to the exploration and communication of somatic relational trauma-informed practices woven with psychedelic and earth-based medicines. We welcome from the underground the experience of practitioners dedicated to the ethical, creative and embodied use of medicines in therapeutic and ceremonial settings. Our kindness seeks to bridge the lived experience of the underground, the indigenous ways, the institutional studies, and the direct knowledge of those humans seeking to expand their consciousness and heal on all levels.

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When Wise Interventions are Required in Medicine Spaces (To Intervene or Not?)

Ninety percent of our communication is non-verbal, communicated through the eyes, voice, facial and bodily gestures. From the moment we are born we are communicating our internal cues to our caregivers and we need them to attune to those cues to ensure that we not only survive, but flourish. As developing humans, when we are not consistently cared for or appropriately responded to, when misattuned to or neglected, we can suffer relational and development trauma. These developmental gaps and severed neural connections can lead to living in pain, disconnection and chaos.

To flourish as humans we need others to co-regulate, co-reflect and to grow brains with –we need this on an ongoing basis for life. It is the same in the psychedelic space - we need others to get our cues and to come into relationship with us when we have dropped into developmental gaps, dissociation, terror and places of thwarted growth. How do we as practitioners intervene wisely during a medicine session? This is a relational art form.

Rita Bozi will share of her years of clinical experience within medicine spaces and what it means to facilitate with mutuality, reciprocity and nuanced attunement.

The Gifts of Trauma Podcast

This nuanced conversation begins with a deep dive into healing relational trauma. Rita explains developmental trauma, relational trauma and how both are rooted in ancestral and intergenerational trauma.

Morgan Motsinger P.S. We Expire

How do we help when we’re overwhelmed ourselves? Co-regulation and somatic healing with Rita Bozi.

A Human Response to Medicine by Rita Bozi

In a psychedelic session, clients can shutdown or drop into non-verbal states and are not always able to ask for help, touch or engagement. They can feel a profound sense of aloneness, stuckness, terror and isolation. This can cause re-traumatization. These states require the therapist to be intuitive, embodied, creative and offer a human response. Noticing, attuning to, and attending to the nervous system of a client can make the difference between re-traumatizing or companioning a client into co-regulation, safety and developmental growth.

In this 40 minute presentation, Rita Bozi presents a psychedelic session case study with a client in which she uses somatic interventions to promote healing.

Why Our Sense of Connection Matters Psychedelic Café 9

For this session of The Psychedelic Café we explore the question: Why Does Our Sense Of Connection Matter?

A Somatic Relational Approach to Psychedelic Therapy – Adventures Through The Mind Podcast

We feature two anonymous guests on today’s episode to talk about applying psychedelics to somatic relational therapy. One of whom is a practicing underground therapist. The other is not a therapist or doing therapy, but a social worker and researcher specializing in somatic healing, interpersonal neurobiology, and psychedelic therapy.

This is a radically different approach to the psychedelic-assisted therapy you are likely aware of--headphones, eye shades, therapist there to hold a hand if needed. This is a therapy that is fully interactive and engaged.