PT519 – Exploring Somatic Practices and Psychedelics, with Pierre Bouchard, LPC & Kara Tremain, ACC
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4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 7 June 2024
⏱️ 97 minutes
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Summary
In this episode – the first in the 2024 series of Vital Psychedelic Conversations – David interviews Pierre Bouchard, LPC: Vital instructor and lead trainer for the Congregation for Sacred Practices; and Kara Tremain, ACC: recent Vital graduate-turned-instructor, somatic practitioner, and growth and development coach.
In this series, we pair up a Vital instructor with a current or previous student as a way of showcasing different (and aligned) perspectives on what they feel is most vital for the psychedelic space to be discussing, while also highlighting their experiences with Vital, our 12-month training program. The next cohort begins September 17 and we're accepting applications now.
As they are both are passionate about somatic work, they discuss:
- The power of somatics in showing people how much our bodies and nervous systems matter, and how our thoughts are often not the main driver
- How ketamine or MDMA can help with somatic work
- How somatic sound can be, through music for journeys, sound bowls, or tuning forks: Can just the right frequency create magic?
- How somatic work is not solely about resolving trauma, but also about learning to conduct energy and use one's body as a tuning apparatus
and more!
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hi there. Thank you so much for tuning into psychedelics today. My name's David Drackham. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm the host of this episode with Pierre Bouchard and Kara |
| 0:21.7 | Tremaine, and I am super excited to announce the beginning of our Vital fourth cohort admissions |
| 0:29.7 | being open. The course starts in September, and we're starting to interview folks now, |
| 0:36.3 | and this is the first conversation we're having with Pierre, one of our teachers in Vital |
| 0:41.3 | and Kara, an alumni student who just graduated from cohort two. |
| 0:47.0 | And we're talking very much about semantics. |
| 0:48.8 | That is definitely the fairly focused subject of this episode. |
| 0:53.5 | So Pierre Bouchard, he's a counsellor based in Colorado, |
| 0:57.8 | very steeped in spirituality and meditation, martial arts and music and sound. And he's an experienced |
| 1:06.0 | counselor with a group practice and does a lot of work with ketamine. There's also work with MDMA as well. |
| 1:13.7 | Kara is a growth coach, leadership coach, somatic practitioner and integration coach based in Los Angeles. |
| 1:21.7 | And yeah, she's just graduated from Vital and is about to start some training as a psychologist. |
| 1:27.0 | She's got a bunch of sound healing |
| 1:30.0 | equipment at home and she's going to be actually teaching for us in Vital in the third cohort |
| 1:35.6 | right now in the summer elective around somatic approaches to healing. The conversation really talks |
| 1:41.6 | about what is somatics? Why is it a big deal? How does it work? |
| 1:46.2 | What are some of the main theories about somatic approaches and practices? How do we put it into |
| 1:53.0 | practice in real life as integration, but really just as life? And we talk about concepts |
| 1:59.3 | such as the window of tolerance and the x-axis and the y-axis |
| 2:03.3 | pier goes into quite a lot. |
| 2:05.5 | And then we talk about spirituality and energy work and sound healing as modalities that operate |
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