Chara Caruthers - "Holding Space for Psychedelic Healing"

J. Brown Yoga Talks

J. Brown

Yoga, Health & Fitness, Yogateacher, Alternative Health, Yogaindustry, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality

4.4 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2025

⏱️ ? minutes

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Chara Caruthers returns to talks with J about the therapeutic value of psychedelics and the questions their use raises. They discuss ineffable experiences, connections between meditation and psychedelics, transpersonal psychology, abuses in plant medicine, preparation, bad trips, ontological shock, effects of intention, intervention vs practice, machine elves, research and legalization, personal/professional ethics, relating to mystery from a grounded field, discerning truth, integration, and the capacity to make meaning of our lives.

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, Jay here. Just wanted to make sure you know that I have a new teacher training group
0:06.4	starting online in October, and you can get an early registration discount of 40% off until September
0:12.6	7th. So if it's something you've been considering, now is definitely the best time? You can find out more
0:19.5	and register at jbrownyoga.com slash training.
0:23.6	Also, I recorded this series of mini talks with current participants so you could hear from them
0:29.5	directly what the program was like. Today, we talk to Trent.
0:35.2	Hi, Trent. Hello, Jay.
0:38.4	Good to see you, sir.
0:40.5	Good to see you as well.
0:42.4	It's a nice practice.
0:44.3	Oh, I'm glad you enjoyed it.
0:45.8	There was that new person there which made it fun for me.
0:48.8	Yeah.
0:49.0	And, you know, it's interesting because she is a teacher herself.
0:53.3	I don't know if you heard her mention this, but she recently stopped teaching.
0:58.1	I think she didn't go into all the details, but I felt like some bit of like existential crisis in her over it.
1:05.0	And then afterwards, she talked to me about the training.
1:07.8	So I think she's considering doing it.
1:09.3	You might actually end up meeting her because you'll still be in the training if she joins
1:14.7	it, which I should say, I feel like I need to keep us focused because I know the way you
1:21.4	and I are together.
1:22.9	This is challenging.
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