Margaret Kirschner, C-IAYT, CADC, CPSS
Certified Trauma-Informed Yoga Therapist, Certified Peer Support Specialist, Spiritual Emergence Mentor
Asheville NC
Our program is based on a simple three-pronged approach, with complementary practices that help you develop resilience, flexibility, self-compassion, and effective mood management. Our approach includes:
Somatic Mindfulness Meditation:
You will learn to safely attune to your embodied, or “felt sense” experience. This includes your posture, your breath, the level of tension in your body, and the subtle ways that your emotional experience makes your whole body feel. This tuning-in process helps you befriend your body and mind, and then make wise choices when under stress.
Therapeutic Movement
I use an evidence-based healing program of gentle, body and breath-centered slow movement, designed to reclaim and revitalize bodies suffering from trauma, addiction, injury, or illness.
Integrative Breathwork
You will learn breathing techniques that calm the body and clear the mind. This practice is powerfully effective for working with addiction, trauma, depression, and anxiety. This can strengthen your immune system and increase your sense of “aliveness” and overall ease.
We are a female/male team holding a safe, supportive space for your psychedelic journey.
I specialize in guiding your psilocybin or cannabis journey using a holistic body and breath-centered approach that incorporates gentle movement, mindfulness, and breathing practices. I am IFS-informed (Internal Family Systems) and offer you the basic skills to meet and unburden your parts. I also provide Integrative Breathwork sessions, a powerful form of self-discovery that supports your preparation and integration process. With 25 years of experience as a Certified Yoga Teacher, I offer an integrated approach to thriving through self-compassion and self-care. Preparation sessions can be online. Your journey is in-person, in Asheville, NC. Your integration support can be online or in-person.
Trauma-informed care is the foundation to safely support your capacity to listen and trust your body’s messages, in the form of felt sensations, while also bringing an attitude of curiosity toward reaching higher possibilities.
Our program includes 3 preparation sessions, a full-day journey, and 2 integration sessions afterward. The first preparation session involves getting to know you and your medical and psychiatric condition, any past recreational or psychedelic use, and current intentions. The second preparation is a two-hour Integrative Breathwork session involving a carefully curated playlist, headphones, and an eye mask for an immersive experience similar to a psychedelic journey without the ingestion of any substance. The third preparation session is skill-building. You will explore simple, easily repeatable mindfulness, movement, and breathing practices to balance your nervous system. The journey itself is a 6 to 7-hour, in-person macro session involving a sacred connection to psilocybin. Our continuous male/female emotional, energetic, and spiritual space holding is our specialty. We provide a nourishing meal afterward. The two integration sessions are somatically oriented. We carefully unpack your insights and revelations exploring multiple ways to weave the most supportive aspects into your everyday lived experience. You will choose a meaningful posture, gesture, or small action step to reinforce and repeat often so it becomes sustainable.