SMALL GROUP • 2.5 HOURS • LIMITED TO 6
Discover Your
Autonomic Nervous System Pathway
For Psychedelic Therapy
A 2.5-hour small group experiential introduction to the embodied, relational
core of Psychedelic Somatic Interactional Psychotherapy (PSIP)
MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS
ALTERNATIVE HEALING ARTS PRACTITIONERS
THE GENERAL PUBLIC
$199 Early Access • New sessions available • US & EU friendly time slots • Only 6 seats per session
6
PARTICIPANTS MAX
2.5h
GUIDED EXPERIENCE
1
EXPERT FACILITATOR
THE EXPERIENCE
What you'll be stepping into
What is this?
A 2.5-hour guided introduction to discovering the autonomic nervous system pathway for use in psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy. Not a lecture — an experience.
Who is this for?
For mental health professionals, alternative healing arts practitioners, or the general public who have either a personal or professional interest in including the body and its extensive ability to process stress and trauma in their psychedelic sessions.
Why should I care?
There is so much healing potential left untouched when we leave the body and relationship out of psychedelic therapy. Discovering your autonomic nervous system pathway can be an extraordinary ally in your future psychedelic healing journeys.
"The client needs an experience, not an explanation."
— VIRGINIA SATIR
HEAR DIRECTLY FROM YOUR FACILITATOR, FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION, SAJ RAZVI, LPC
Watch a short example of PSIP being used
with a psychedelic medicine
In this short video, Saj will walk you through what PSIP therapy with ketamine or cannabis can look like. Your small group session will NOT be this deep or intense because it will not involve medicine, and will not be taking place in a clinical setting. However, discovering your autonomic nervous system pathway is our goal and a necessary part of the protocol needed before processing this deeply.
A MOMENT TO CHECK IN
Is this experience a right fit for you?
You will find this valuable if:
You’ve told your story over and over in therapy and it hasn’t changed much
You feel stuck in your therapy despite working hard
You want to feel how your nervous system can be an ally to process trauma
You may also be considering:
Receiving PSIP sessions in the future
Whether the full PSI Apprentice Training pathway is right for you
How to incorporate your autonomic nervous system pathway in future psychedelic experiences
This space is often meaningful for:
Mental Health Professionals
Psychologists, therapists, counselors, social workers (LPC, LMHC, RCC, etc.)
Healing Arts Practitioners
Somatic practitioners, breathwork facilitators, coaches, and practitioners working in relational modalities
Graduate-Level Psychology & Counseling Students
Students in psychology, counseling, social work, or related fields
Individuals with a Personal Interest in PSIP
Those curious about nervous system awareness, somatic processes, or psychedelic-informed approaches
This container may not be appropriate if you're currently in acute crisis or destabilization. This experiential session is not a replacement for therapy but should be considered as adding an additional processing pathway for therapeutic or psychedelic work.
THE CONTEXT
Why conventional therapies fall short
What if you did not fail therapy but therapy failed you? The tools we have for working with your conscious, cognitive mind are not enough to create the depth of change most people are looking for. Insight, storytelling, and cognitive top-down approaches don’t fundamentally shift the core programing that lives in your unconscious mind. The endpoint of many approaches is symptom management, this is very different than symptom resolution.
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The Missing Pathway
When you only have your conscious, cognitive mind available as a pathway for the psychedelic to take through your system, you are missing out on the profound ally that is your autonomic nervous system. Focusing on insight and talking your way through a psychedelic session is missing out on the bottom-up nervous system transformation your body wants to achieve. Your nervous system is a preferential pathway for the psychedelic to take and where it can be most effective.
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Relational Wounding Requires Relational Healing
We know from research that the vast majority of symptoms that cause people to enter into therapy are from the wounds we receive in childhood — the complex, developmental wounding we receive growing up in our family. These are fundamentally relational wounds which is why it is a well known principle in therapy that it is the relationship that heals. We ignore this basic truth in psychedelic therapy when a client is isolated in their own world when they wear headphones and eyeshades. When they are with a passive, mostly non-interactive sitter, they are essentially alone in their own world. This is also true of most ceremonial contexts. As transpersonally beautiful as these experiences can be, they are lacking the human corrective relational contact, attunement, and accompaniment that will open the door to childhood trauma. There is an incredible healing potential that becomes available when your body and relationship are included in your psychedelic session.
3
The Defense That Hides the Wound
Dissociation is an organic, bottom-up defense mechanism that is a natural part of trauma, and it will numb you out the closer you get to your core wound. It will prevent you from feeling, seeing, or contacting the truth of what you experienced. This is not a failure of will or intention, it is your biology releasing natural opioids in the middle of trauma and it’s doing it to this very day. Unfortunately, it is also what prevents most therapies from being effective with wounds that live in dissociation. Most approaches recommend steering away from dissociation as it is considered therapeutically unhelpful — after all, what can you do with a client that is numb? Even psychedelics do not by themselves resolve dissociation, they have to be focused in a modality such as PSIP that specifically goes after dissociation.
4
You Want to Experience It First
Many people see the videos or public case studies of students working with PSIP and medicine. It is hard for the conscious, ordinary mind to relate to what is taking place in those videos. If you are interested in training in PSIP, this will be a helpful taste of what the full PSI Apprentice Training might feel like.
WHAT YOU WILL GAIN
What this session can offer you
What is the goal of the session and what we feel confident you will walk away with:
A Deeper Relationship With Your Nervous System
You will develop a deeper, more trusting relationship with your autonomic nervous system process, and how it viscerally responds to the past stress and trauma in your life. Your autonomic nervous system operates invisibly below your conscious mind, below language. Once you have discerned this remarkable ally, there is a good chance you will be able to find it again in future psychedelic work. It is a preferential pathway for the psychedelic to take through your system versus your cognitive, insight channels.
Discover Your Management Strategies
You will discover your conscious and unconscious management strategies which keep your system stuck, dissociated, and symptomatic. As we begin to inhibit your management, you will feel some of the involuntary muscle movement, emotions, reactivity, and symptoms that your autonomic nervous system has wanted to process for years if it were not being continually interrupted by you. Remember, this is just a first taste; you will not be using medicine which means you will maintain a lot of control. You will have the option to take control and exit the process whenever you want.
Clarity on Your
Path Forward
For those of you with a professional interest in this work, you will gain a good sense of whether the full PSI Apprentice Training is right for you. Just honest clarity from your own direct experience.
Important: Please note that we will not be working with medicine in this session. Discerning the autonomic nervous system pathway is an important step in the PSIP protocol necessary to establish prior to bringing the depth, speed and power of medicine on board.
STRUCTURE & FORMAT
More details about the session
This is not a lecture. This is not a zoom call with eighty people on it and you half-watch while answering emails. It is a small group of just six participants where you will be actively engaged in experiential exercises designed to help you find and let go into your own autonomic nervous system process in real time.
The group is intentionally small because the depth of your autonomic process requires attunement, relationship, and containment. We’ve done this in groups as large as eight but six is ideal. In fact, because we work with medicine in our our full PSI Apprentice Training, the group size there is limited to just three.
DURATION
2.5 Hours
GROUP SIZE
6 Participants + 1 Facilitator
FORMAT
Live & Experiential — Not Recorded
CONTAINER
Small, closed container
PARTICIPATION LEVEL
Active — Not Passive
UPCOMING DATES • US & EU FRIENDLY TIME SLOTS
April 21 & 23 · May 7, 12, & 14
YOUR FACILITATOR
Who is guiding this work
Saj Razvi
FOUNDER & DIRECTOR OF EDUCATION • PSI
Graduate Training in Psychology, 2005
13 Years Private Practice — Complex Trauma
MAPS Phase 2 Clinical Investigator — MDMA-Assisted Therapy for Treatment-Resistant PTSD
Faculty: Pacifica Institute · Synthesis · University of Denver
Faculty: International Jungian Psychedelic Association
Hello,
I’m Saj, I’m the Founder of PSI and the Director of Education here, and I’ll be leading your small group session. I completed my graduate school training in psychology in 2005. Since then, the entire focus of my private practice, research, and teaching career has been complex trauma.
Complex PTSD is what develops when highly stressful or overwhelming levels of threat — unmet needs, neglect, abuse — are experienced in childhood. This means stress and trauma are taking place during sensitive developmental windows, and commonly within one's own family. Unlike a traumatic event that takes place later in life, complex trauma occurs when your brain, nervous system, personality, and psyche are being formed inside of the traumatic experience. Add dissociation to this mix and you get a complicated, treatment resistant phenomenon that impacts much of our lives into the present moment. Unfortunately, it’s also quite common.
This is what motivates me. Going through graduate school and my own traditional therapy, I could feel how insight, storytelling or other cognitive top-down therapeutic approaches didn’t touch what was really going on inside of me. The ultimate end point of many of these approaches is symptom management — which is not very satisfying. I could feel there was more that I just didn’t have access to. What I and most people want is resolution. Not a better bandaid.
"I wanted more for my clients. I wanted more for my family members and friends when they would ask me about getting help. And I wanted more for myself."
This motivation, the significant contribution of others, being a researcher in the phase 2 trial of MDMA and many many years of fine tuning the model in clinical settings has led to PSIP as it is today.
What motivates me is not only the nightmare that many of us build our lives on top of, but also everything in us that arises to meet that nightmare. I am always amazed at witnessing the subconscious intelligence that lives inside of every person emerge and orchestrate their healing process. I promise you, this is inside of you…it is part of the ground you walk on. It is the you that is underneath your conscious mind. We use medicine to help access it, we use a unique therapeutic container to foster it (like lighting a match and using your hands to protect the small flame from the wind), but that flame, that signal, that moves through your body, emotions, and mind is completely you. You will know it because it has the fingerprints of your life energy all over it.
If you can’t tell, I love doing this. I love being a part of this emergence for people. To me, it feels like using one match to light another.
PARTICIPANT REFLECTION
What you may discover in this experience
INVESTMENT & LOGISTICS
Reserve your place
$ INVESTMENT
$199
$249
EARLY ACCESS
Early access pricing is available for the first 48 hours. Standard price is $249 USD.
No cancellations or refunds. Due to the small group size of these sessions, your seat will be reserved for you, and not be made available to other applicants in case of cancellation. We ask that you register for an event you are confident in being able to attend.
$ AVAILABLE DATES
April 21
Tuesday · 2:00 PM Eastern Time
3 seats left
April 23
Thursday · 12:00 PM Eastern Time
3 seats left
April 28
Tuesday · 2:00 PM Eastern Time
Sold Out
May 7
Thursday · 2:00 PM Eastern Time
6 seats left
May 12
Tuesday · 2:00 PM Eastern Time
6 seats left
May 14
Thursday · 12:00 PM Eastern Time
6 seats left
Duration: 2.5 hours via secure video conferencing. Not recorded. Confidentiality and psychological safety are paramount.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Honest answers to real questions
Is this a psychedelic session?
No substances are used or provided in these sessions. The focus is on discovering your autonomic nervous system process with minimal reactivity stress events from your history. The primary learning objective is for participants to use the Selective Inhibition container to discern and follow their autonomic nervous system responses.
How is this different from a lecture or webinar?
The type of experiential learning that we conduct cannot be reproduced in a lecture format. You will be actively engaged in exercises designed to help you feel, viscerally understand, and ultimately discern your autonomic nervous system pathway for use in future non-medicine and medicine therapy sessions.
Will I be required to share personal trauma?
No. Part of the experience involves briefly engaging a stressful (not traumatic) memory to help activate and observe your nervous system in real time. We are looking for a minor, completed stressor — something that caused irritation, anxiety, or frustration at the time but did not involve overwhelm, collapse, or ongoing relational trauma. Examples might include missing a flight, receiving a speeding ticket, or a mild injury such as a bee sting. The event should be over and not an active stressor in your life. You will not be asked to revisit traumatic or childhood material, and you remain fully in control about what you share. Most people don’t share anything about their stress event, our focus which is visible in the class is your nervous system process.
Is this therapy?
No. This is an educational experiential event. While it may feel personal, it is not a substitute for individual therapy.
What if I feel overwhelmed?
The session is facilitated by a highly experienced therapist trained in working with complex trauma and dissociation. The group is intentionally small (6 participants) to maintain safety and containment. You will never be pushed.
Is this recorded?
No. To preserve psychological safety and not effect your process, the session is not recorded.
I’m considering the full PSI Apprentice Training. Is this required?
No. This session is optional but it will give you a taste of what the full PSI Apprentice Training will feel like, and it will put an important skill set in place that is used in the training and in PSIP therapy.
What happens after the session?
Nothing is required. Some participants choose to pursue further training. Others simply leave with a deeper understanding of their nervous system process. You are under no obligation.
Why only six participants?
Because depth requires a container. This work depends on attunement, relational engagement, and personalized interventions. These features are not possible to maintain in large groups.
A FINAL WORD
If this resonates, trust that
If it doesn't, trust that too
$199 Early Access • New sessions available • US & EU friendly time slots • Only 6 seats per session
This is an educational event. No substances are used or provided. Not a substitute for therapy.
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