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Psychedelics & Intimacy Online Summit
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Free 1-Month DB+ Membership Trial, including a Cannabis Ceremony, Breathwork Workshop, and more
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Psychedelics, Sex, and Intimacy Workshop Recording with Nicolle Hodges
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Addressing Sexual Trauma with Entheogens & Psychedelics Workshop Recording with Laura Mae Northrup
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- Psychedelics for healing relationships
- Tripping with loved ones to build deeper intimacy
- Speaking to loved ones about your psychedelic experiences
- Psychedelics for breaking cycles in relationships with others
- Working through shame and barriers to pleasure with psychedelics
- Psychedelics for LGBTQIA+ liberation and queer intimacy
- Men’s healing as a gateway to deeper connection, romance, and sex
- Psychedelics for sexual liberation and claiming your desires through kink, tantra, and beyond
Dr. Molly Maloof specializes in health optimization and personalized medicine. For three years, she taught a pioneering course on healthspan in the Wellness Department of the Medical School at Stanford University before launching her own company, inspired by her unique philosophy of health. Since 2012, she has worked as an advisor or consultant to more than 50 companies in the digital health, consumer health, and biotechnology industries. Dr. Maloof is on the frontier of personalized medicine, digital health technologies, biofeedback-assisted lifestyle interventions, psychedelic medicine, and science-backed wellness products and services.
Britta Love (they/she) weaves between the worlds of conscious sexuality and psychedelic ritual, with a through line of social justice and embodied consent. They became an advocate for sex worker’s rights as an undergraduate at the London School of Economics in 2007 and have been a writer and activist pushing for the decriminalization of drugs and sex work ever since. Britta is a certified somatic sex educator through the Institute for the Study of Somatic Sex Education, has trained with Betty Martin’s School of Consent, and is a certified circle keeper with the Planning Change Restorative Justice Certification Program under the tutelage of Kay Pranis. Britta is currently completing a research-based memoir about healing and awakening through altered states induced by sex and drugs, based on her Consciousness Studies thesis at Goddard College. They are also in the process of launching the Sex Strike // Strike for Pleasure in response to the US abortion bans. Follow her at www.BrittaLoved.com or on Facebook, Instagram or Twitter at @brittaloved.
Dr. Ido Cohen, Psy.D serves individuals, couples, and groups in San Francisco. He received his Psy.D from the California Institute of Integral Studies and trained at the Jung Institute in San Francisco. He specializes in childhood trauma, the inner critic, relationship and intimacy challenges, lack of fulfillment, and psychospiritual growth as well as psychedelic integration and preparation with individuals, couples, and groups. His doctoral study researched the integration process of Ayahuasca ceremonies while applying Jungian psychology to better understand how to support individuals in their process of change and transformation. He is currently finishing a study on the use of psychedelics in couples. He is the founder of “The Integration Circle” and facilitates workshops on the different dimensions of integration and the intersection of mental health, spiritual health, and the entheogenic experience. Ido is passionate about supporting individuals to create long-term, sustainable change leading to intimate, authentic, expressive, and love-filled lives. In his free time, he likes to find new paths in nature with his dog Luna, marvel at art, write, create, and connect with his community.
Dr. Sarah Tilley is a psychedelic-assisted therapist and founder and CEO of Beautiful Space Wellness, a legal and safe psilocybin-assisted therapy program for couples and individuals in the Netherlands. With a focus on modern relationships and sexual wellness, she helps couples reset their relationships and find intimacy again.
She is frequently published in the press and speaks on the transformation of her couples publicly. This year she will start a collaboration with Imperial College London researching couples, intimacy and sexual wellness.
Sarah hosts with guests a monthly free online integration program called The Intimacy Lab as part of her program and also offers education on sex and relationships via @beautifulspacewellness
Monica Cadena is an Afro-Chicana, California-based writer/journalist, movement worker, digital alchemist, plant ally, and advocate of ending the war against culture. The former co-founder of Wear Your Voice Magazine, an intersectional feminist digital publication, Monica’s passionate about highlighting stories from those at the intersections of healing and social justice activism and centering healing based initiatives. Monica works with many organizations within the psychedelic and entheogenic space, and is committed to the healing and liberation of Black and Indigenous communities. Connect with her on Instagram at sacred.alchemist.
Edward is a certified advanced kambo practitioner with the International Association of Kambo Practitioners and Kambo International, an experienced ThetaHealing® practitioner, men’s work facilitator, spiritual and psychedelic integration guide, medicine man, mystic, and transformational coach.
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Edward blends a myriad of modalities and sacred traditions learned on his path as a student of Amazonian shamanic medicines and traditions, the Native American church, the Vedic traditions of India, ThetaHealing®, and Reiki. He has trained as a council carrier and men’s work facilitator with the Ojai Foundation and Sacred Sons, and as an addiction recovery, and spiritual and psychedelic integration coach with Being True To You. Edward has spent extensive time studying with spiritual and shamanic teachers, and indigenous medicinal plants in South America, India, and Mongolia.
Edward has devoted the last decade to studying with teachers, elders, and medicine carriers, and offering his ceremonies and service throughout the world. He resides in San Diego and travels extensively in service to spiritual seekers and communities throughout America and internationally. It’s Edwards’ passion and purpose to guide and help people on their journey of healing and empowerment.
Shane Norte is the founder and leader of the Church Of The People For Creator And Mother Earth, a Decriminalize Nature national board member, and advocate for native earth-based ceremonies and their power to heal. He spent six years defending land in the native movement, from Oak Flat to Standing Rock. He also has a decade of continued practice helping people grow and reconnect back to creator and mother earth through natural settings and teachings with native, earth-based sacraments.
Tony Moss is a recording artist, producer, and founder of I.AM.LIFE, a non-profit music label and event production company focused on music as medicine and its uses in traditional and contemporary ceremony and psycho-spiritual therapy.
His work is a synthesis of passions in music, spirituality, and science, with emphasis on the evolution of human consciousness and potential. With over 25 years of experience with plant medicine work, he is an enthusiastic public advocate for the decriminalization and responsible use of all plant medicines. Learn more about him on his website or on Facebook and Instagram.
Niko Summers is a Native San Franciscan, a fifth-generation herbalist, a certified community herbalist, and a plant medicine facilitator and cultivator. He has grown up using and growing herbs and sacred plants as medicine and a way of healing his life through nature, passed down through his family lineage. He is currently working with his community and helping heal generational trauma by facilitating private and group healing ceremonies using kambo, bufo, and mushrooms. He has had tremendous results in helping people break through their trauma by using a trauma-informed approach to healing combined with his many years of training under various medicines.
Reggie has over a decade of political campaign experience ranging from city council races to presidential elections. On the West Coast, Reggie worked on a local level to replace police with guidance counselors in Oakland public schools with the Black Organizing Project in West Oakland. More recently, he managed the western and southwestern state campaigns with Color of Change PAC that turned the state of Nevada blue.
Reggie has consulted with the largest mushroom cultivators in the world. He has worked with the largest cultivators in The Netherlands and has recently advised in the establishment of the largest commercial mushroom farm and state of the art testing lab in Jamaica.
Over the past three and a half years, Reggie has established Oakland Hyphae, which hosts the Psilocybin Cup (now known as the Hyphae Cup) and a number of Psychedelic Conferences across the country, which were the most impactful psychedelic events in the space. He is a co-founder of Hyphae Labs, which is leading the industry in psychedelic mushroom potency testing. Reggie has also founded Hyphae Nootropics, offering adaptogenic medicinal fungi from Cordyceps to Lion’s Mane. Reggie is a strong advocate for who he calls, “the little guy” or the “legacy plant medicine workers,” whose perspectives he uplifts through his publication HyphaeLeaks. It is Reggie’s goal to create barriers of entry to prevent big money interest groups from the same industry take over they did in cannabis. Ultimately, he aims to protect the legacy plant medicine workers from corporate vultures.
Dr. Beatriz Caiuby Labate (Bia Labate) is a queer Brazilian anthropologist based in San Francisco. She has a Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil. Her main areas of interest are the study of plant medicines, drug policy, shamanism, ritual, religion, and social justice. She is the Executive Director of the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines and serves as Public Education and Culture Specialist at the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS). She is also Visiting Scholar at Naropa University’s Center for Psychedelic Studies and Advisor at the Veteran Mental Health Leadership Coalition. Dr. Labate is a co-founder of the Interdisciplinary Group for Psychoactive Studies (NEIP) in Brazil and editor of its site. She is the author, co-author, and co-editor of twenty-seven books, two special-edition journals, and several peer-reviewed articles (https://bialabate.net).
Sovereign serves as catalyst, curator, educator, and alchemist of systemic change. As the Founder and Co-Creator of ALKEMI Consulting and Development, Sovereign collaborates with individuals, organizations, and movements, through the transmutation of cultural, interpersonal, contextual, and ecological design.
Sovereign earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology & Ethnic Studies with a concentration in Race and Resistance Studies from San Francisco State University. Sovereign also completed their Masters in Resilient Leadership at Naropa University, graduating in May 2020. They currently live in Denver, Colorado, where they are deepening their inquiry of psychedelics as a catalyst for transformation and exploring professional opportunities as an organizer and consultant.
Sovereign’s work is guided by three core values: self-care, community care, and collective liberation. They believe that if we want to see real change in the world, everyone needs to be taking care of themselves and each other. Sovereign is committed to creating spaces where all voices are heard and all people feel cared for. Sovereign believes that the work to make the world a better place is a shared responsibility—and the fight for liberation is an interconnected, interpersonal, and intrapersonal journey. We need each other.
Sovereign is committed to the transformation of systems and has also served as founder of XRYSALIS, a framework created to activate, empower, and heal LGBTQ people of global majority and co-founder of Shelterwood Collective, a 900-acre ecovillage and retreat center led by LGBTQ Black and Indigenous people for the building, healing, and restoration of land and people.
Alex Belser, PhD, is a clinical scientist, author, licensed psychologist and psychedelic researcher. At Yale University, he’s a Co-Investigator for a study investigating psilocybin treatment for people with OCD. He has explored the potential of novel therapies using psilocybin, MDMA, ketamine, and DMT to help alleviate human suffering and treat specific indications, including depression, anxiety, addiction, and PTSD. His most recent book, “EMBARK Psychedelic Therapy for Depression: A New Approach for the Whole Person,” co-authored with Dr. Bill Brennan, will be published later this year by Oxford University Press. Dr. Belser has co-founded a number of leading psychedelic organizations, including the NYU Psychedelic Research Group in 2006; Nautilus Sanctuary, the first non-profit on the East Coast dedicated to psychedelic medicine; and Adelia Therapeutics, where he served as Chief Clinical Officer (CCO). He also served as CCO at Cybin, where he chaired the Scientific Advisory Board. His other main area of interest is mental health for LGBTQIA+ people. His most recent book is “Queering Psychedelics: From Oppression to Liberation in Psychedelic Medicine.” His work has been featured in the media, with coverage in The New York Times, the Atlantic, the New Yorker, The Guardian, Forbes, Rolling Stone Magazine, and in Michael Pollan’s book, “How to Change Your Mind.” Dr. Belser is a hatha and kundalini yoga teacher. He studied at Georgetown, Cambridge, Columbia, NYU, and Yale University. To learn more, you can check out his website at alexbelser.com or his practice website, centerforbreakthroughs.com
S. Cy (they/them) is an instigator of Queer self love through psychedelics and a dedicated mycologist. As a trans person, Cy fully grasps the need for LGBTQIA+ folks to explore sexuality and gender identity while recognizing that entheogens offer a unique opportunity to do so. Through their platform, Queerly Psychedelic, Cy speaks, hosts events, and fosters an online community for Queer individuals.
Behike Sensei Kevon Simpson is a Shotokan Karate Black Belt on a mission of awakening the consciousness of humanity with mindfulness, and medicine. As a published psychedelic author known for his micro to high-dose mushroom work in personal and group settings, he specializes in the release of epigenetic traumas, c-PTSD, and awakening ancestral shamanic recall for all people. Serious, focused, and snap back witty, he is also a medicine guide who still believes in fun and experimentation beyond the protocol of the status quo. Sensei Kevon works with various Entheogens, while birthing western medicine people out of their slumber of soul purpose. International in his efforts, he has been to the Peruvian Amazon to be trained and initiated by native healers who practice curanderismo with Ayahuasca and Huachuma. As a hard working part of the psychedelic renaissance’s reemergence into the mainstream media, he has worked with various organizations, and has been featured in documentaries, podcasts, and interviews. Sensei has even been flown to Taiwan, Boriken, and Xaymaca, the country of his people, in order to serve the medicine. He became reluctantly well known after his first time speaking for a Chacruna Psychedelic Science Conference’s diversity panel, and talking about his underground community The Entheogen Integration Circle, where Light of Iris was able to flourish as quietly as mycelium.
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His credits include: EIC, Light of Iris, Oklevueha Native American Church of NY, Chacruna, Horizons, World Psychedelic’s Day, A Table of Our Own, MAPs, Drug Test, New Moon Mycology Summit, The Maloca by Soltara, Mt. Tam Psychedelic Integration, and so much more.
Noelle Armstrong is a queer poet and editor based in California. She is Managing Editor at Synergetic Press, which publishes timely works on psychedelics and consciousness, ecology and regenerative practices, and social justice. She believes in learning in community and creativity as a form of care.
Mistress Wild Iris is a California-based dominatrix and sex educator. Her approach to her practice is playful, potent, and holistic, and her aim is to guide clients through a cathartic experience that will help them let go and experience their mind, body, and emotions in a renewed way. More information on her process can be found on her website, MistressWildIris.com and by following her on Twitter, twitter.com/mxwildiris.
Nicolle Hodges is an independent journalist, sexual freedom philosopher, author, and entrepreneur. Hodges, a former CTV Vancouver television host and producer, left her previous life to pursue the world of sex, psychedelics, and shedding shame. Staying true to her media roots, she became the culture editor of Herb—the largest cannabis publication in North America—and now writes for DoubleBlind and Microdose about the impact and integration of psychedelics into mainstream culture. She is a leading host for the investor-focused media platform, The Dales Media Group, where she interviews the top CEOs of psychedelic and crypto companies. In 2017, she launched Men Who Take Baths, a men’s mental health movement and interview series addressing masculinity, vulnerability, and gender equity—from the bath! She is also the founder of Girls Who Say Fuck, a pleasure-centric incubator for ideas that instigate change, including its signature event, ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights,” where women are invited to foster deeper friendships within an erotic environment, using BDSM as a healing modality. She launched a viral movement urging people to rebrand “virginity” to “sexual debut,” pushing back against heteronormative, patriarchal ideas of sexual expression. Her debut book, “Oh, the Places You’ll Go Oh Oh,” explores the power of pleasure through Dr. Seuss-style rhyme and illustration.
Hodges is currently studying to become a psychedelic-assisted therapist, and is passionate about exploring eroticism and friendship as a means to instigate positive change in one’s life. To learn more about Nicolle, find her on Twitter and Instagram as @NicolleDoubleL, and LinkedIn.
Courtney Watson is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist and AASECT Certified Sex Therapist. As the visionary owner of Doorway Therapeutic Services, a group therapy practice in Oakland, CA, Courtney focuses on addressing the mental health needs of Black, Indigenous & People of Color, Queer folks, Trans, Gender Non-conforming, Non-binary, and Two-Spirit individuals. She manages and leads a team of over 20 therapists, nurses, and physicians within her private practice.
Guided by the wisdom of her ancestors, Courtney integrates psychedelic-assisted therapy into her services, catering specifically to individuals with multiple marginalized identities and emphasizes the importance of BIPOC and Queer providers offering these services. Courtney’s extensive training from several renowned institutions equips her to provide psychedelic-assisted therapy using a variety of medicines.
Committed to exploring the profound impact of psychedelic medicines on marginalized communities, Courtney actively promotes the decolonization process for individuals from the global majority. She recognizes the current gaps in the field and believes in the urgent need to address the unique needs of Communities of Color and bridge this divide. She is currently blazing the trail as one of the few clinics of predominantly QTBIPOC providers offering Ketamine-Assisted Therapy to the Queer and BIPOC community.
In her dedication to accessibility and equity, Courtney has founded Access to Doorways, a non-profit organization committed to subsidizing the cost of ketamine/psychedelic-assisted therapy for QTBIPOC clients (currently accepting donations for their first 100 recipients!). When not seeing clients or in meetings for the businesses she leads, Courtney can be found watching Nickelodeon with her kids, working on her dissertation or making time for self-care with a well-deserved nap!
Artemisia de Vine is a former sex worker, professional dominatrix and somatic sexologist, turned sexual fantasy coach. She offers a groundbreaking new theory about why we have sexual fantasies. Through being paid to live out the fantasies of thousands of people, she noticed that sexual fantasies are the exact story our ego needs to hear in order to surrender into the vulnerability of connection, pleasure, and sometimes even expanded states of consciousness.
She then developed The deVinery Method, which is an embodied philosophy, and a set of practices and tools that help people bring the transformational power of their fantasies out of their heads and into their beds, in ways that respect themselves, their sexual partner/s, and honors their primal nature.
Liara Roux is a multi-hyphenate sex worker, a high-end escort, writer, indie adult film producer and director, political organizer, and human rights activist. Their political advocacy concerns both sex workers’ rights and the broader issue of freedom of expression, especially for online content creators.
A passionate human rights activist, Liara advocates for the decriminalization of sex work and works with harm reduction groups to provide technical resources and tips to sex workers and survivors. In their political activism, they document the effects legislation has had on members of marginalized communities, as well as coordinate media outreach in the wake of FOSTA/SESTA – a piece of legislation in the US that has harmed sex workers.
They live in NYC with their beautiful dog.
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