PT531 – Ecopsychology, Plant Dietas, and Plant Consciousness: Building a Relationship with Nature, with Monica Nieto and Jordana Ma
Psychedelics Today
Psychedelics Today, LLC
4.6 • 598 Ratings
🗓️ 19 July 2024
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Vital Psychedelic Conversations, Johanna interviews Monica Nieto: Vital graduate, psychedelic facilitator and integration coach, and founder of Holistic TherapeutiX, a retreat center offering cannabis and breathwork retreats; and Jordana Ma: past Vital instructor and psychological counselor who runs retreats in Peru following the Asháninkan tradition of traditional Amazonian medicine.
They discuss their similar paths to psychedelics and healing, the power of plant dietas and fully immersing yourself into nature, and learning to hear your true teacher: the inner healer. They highlight how we've lost the connection to the ecological consciousness within our bodies, and how the plants – perhaps in a self-serving way – have become allies, trying to teach us to heal the web we're a part of and reconnect to nature and ourselves.
They discuss:
- The importance of combining traditional perspectives and Western psychotherapy into a spiritual practice
- The similarities between yoga and traditional Amazonian medicine
- Singing as a somatic (and breathwork) practice
- How things are meant to work in synergy, and the problem with science trying to extract compounds rather than respecting the power of the whole plant
- Their role models who have inspired them and informed their work
and more!
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to this week's Vital Psychedelic Conversations. My name is Johanna Hilla. I'm the coordinator of education and training at Vital, which is our 12-month training program |
| 0:24.6 | that is starting again in September. |
| 0:28.3 | So if you have not yet learned anything about our offering this wonderful training program |
| 0:34.5 | that we are running, please go to our website at vital psychedelic |
| 0:39.4 | training.com. And if you are somebody who is interested in entering in the field, |
| 0:45.6 | interested in learning more about psychedelics and their therapeutic and healing potentials, |
| 0:50.4 | this training might be something for you. Our early birth deadline, which allows you a discount |
| 0:56.6 | from the total sum of the program ends on 22nd of July. So if you're interested in applying, |
| 1:04.4 | please make sure to do so as soon as possible. And yeah, we've added lots of interesting features to this upcoming cohort. We have |
| 1:14.6 | five specialization tracks that allow you to go deeper into the study of different and the |
| 1:21.1 | trajectories of the field. So yeah, we look forward to hearing from you and reading your application. |
| 1:28.6 | In this podcast, I interview one of our wonderful lecturers, Jordana Grader, who is a specialist in eco-psychology and various other modalities. |
| 1:38.2 | And one of our students from first year, Monica Nieto, who runs a holistic therapeutics organization and is also working |
| 1:48.5 | with us on our in-person offerings. So I had such a wonderful conversation with these two |
| 1:55.2 | incredible women around spirituality, psychedelics, and the wisdom of the plant medicines, indigenous traditions, |
| 2:04.3 | on how it is to be a practitioner in the modern times and use various spiritual trajectories |
| 2:11.4 | in your work. I hope you enjoy this episode. It was such a pleasure to record with both |
| 2:17.3 | Georgiana and Monica and I hope that we this episode. It was such a pleasure to record with both Jordana and Monica, |
| 2:19.1 | and I hope that we get to learn more from them. |
| 2:23.4 | So once again, go to our website, Vital PsychedelicTraining.com. |
| 2:28.7 | Applications close mid-August, but the earlier applied, the better. So if you have any questions, reach out to us via |
| 2:37.7 | email and look forward to hearing from you. Hello and welcome. My name is Johanna Hilla and I'm |
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