Elizabeth Shuler, PsyD

Some practices are meant to be returned to.

Each Sunday we explore a different pranayama practice, meeting your nervous system where it is that week.

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50–90% of healing comes from one thing. Not credentials.
Research shows outcomes are driven by the therapeutic relationship.
Connection. Safety. Being met.
When choosing a healer, ask: does my body feel safe here?

I am seriously considering finding a group of people to buy land and/or an abandoned village with to create a post capitalist healing community in the next year or two.

Imagining a World with No Bullshit Jobs, with David Graeber - Dissent Magazine As many as half of the jobs we do could be considered pointless, estimates anthropologist David Graeber. How did so many of these jobs come to exist, and what does it mean for labor activists?

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“Everyday we wake up and collectively make a world together; but which one of us, left to our own devices, would ever decide they wanted to make a world like this one?”
― David Graeber, Bullshit Jobs: A Theory

Inspired by Oli Genn Bash 🍄
I use powdered mushrooms as part of my microdosing support. The amount I take vs what’s in most “functional” products isn’t even close.
No extract ratios. Tiny doses.
Mushrooms work. Underdosing is just health theater.

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Today we begin.

Not to fix your body.
Not to push capacity.
But to listen.

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Long COVID and Psychedelics Listen to this podcast about psychedelics for long COVID, featuring MaryAnn Welke Lesage, who reports drastic improvement after MDMA and psilocybin therapy.

Great podcast on Long Covid and how it fits into what we already know about psychedelics, pain, and inflammatory medicine. Also about how MDMA or psilocybin therapy, specifically, could help with Long Covid.

psychedelicstoday.com/2024/05/31/l...

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Breath as Medicine begins Feb 1.

Gentle, chronic-illness–friendly Pranayama focused on regulation and safety. No experience needed. Rest is welcome.

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Inner Evolution Psychedelic Yoga Therapist 🍄 Long COVID puts life on hold. I help you get your energy, focus, and life back.

The work often is in slowing down.
Caving in.
Accepting the flare.

It's scary, but necessary.

If you want to use some of the tools this client used to slow down and find herself again, head here: whop.com/inner-evolut...

We forget about our natural rhythms, about our need for rest, about our own limits.

And we treat our bodies like machines; cut off from our thoughts and emotions, from the natural world, from our spirits.

What she wanted was a way to keep going. What she needed was a path to feel safe resting.

When we push ourselves past our limits, because of family pressure, societal pressure, or just because of fucking capitalism, we forget that we are human beings, not machines.

She decided to give in, stay in bed, and cave into herself.

That was my client who had been go-go-going for... forever. Slowing down felt like death, so she just kept pushing and pushing,
even when her body was shutting down.

Integration happens in the body, not the mind.

This Pranayama series explores breath for nervous system regulation and emotional processing. Especially supportive for integration work.

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A Few Changes I’m writing this week to say that I am moving away from a “I must write something to post this week” framework to a “If I have something to write about, I will” framework.

And I hope more of us to be able to honor those parts of ourselves. To do our best to not create for the sake of production, but because we are drawn to. To let ourselves be more often and do less. To create just for ourselves, not as a means to an end.
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

For those wanting to help our brothers and sisters in Minnesota:
www.standwithminnesota.com

Also an amazing look at anarchist praxis.

Why the Future is Post-Growth: Donnie Maclurcan on Life Beyond Capitalism Episode 006 of the Better Future Podcast

Change the System Fridays!

"...the ways not-for-profit business models are quietly succeeding inside capitalism, what a post-capitalist economy could feel like, and what we can do now to participate in a post-growth future."

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Starts Feb 1

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What if your breath isn’t something to control, but something to listen to?

Breath as Medicine is a gentle weekly Pranayama practice for regulation, relationship, and care for chronic illness and burnout.

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Change the System Fridays early!

Chronic fatigue isn’t laziness.

For years, a hike meant a crash. Microdosing didn’t “fix” me, but it helped my body remember what baseline energy feels like.

Not a high. Not a push. Just more internal room.

What would shift if we stopped judging fatigue and started listening to it?

or a combination that would be most helpful for your particular circumstance.

As far as frequency and number of sessions, that also depends on the client and their intentions. I have a couple of standard programs and packages with sliding scale prices on my website to make it easier to start.

I also ask that my clients practice therapeutic yoga (among other practices) outside of the sessions, with demonstrations inside the sessions when needed. This does not have to be asana, but could be pranayama, yoga nidra, cleansing practices, meditations, more philosophical practices,

Often there is lots of talking: processing, making meaning, delving deeper into the shadow or blind spots. There is also often a lot of somatic & energetic processing, whether that is a somatic exercise, a meditation, Reiki, or some body-based cues I pick up on that we discuss and process.

If we don't vibe, if you don't feel safe with me, I can't be helpful. And, because it's about our relationship, I don't have a "this is what a session looks like" pitch. Each session with each person is different, though always holistic.

My approach is based in person-centered, relational work. I weave together the science that is available with the ancient wisdom of yoga, plant medicine, and energy healing. That includes yoga therapy, Reiki, and other somatic approaches, but the #1 focus is the relationship.

What that means is that set and setting, including the activities we undertake for integration, have an outsized effect on outcomes. For that reason, I take a holistic approach to both preparation and integration.

I wrote this to a prospective client, but their email bounced back. I decided it was a fairly good brief overview of what I do, so here you go!

We know that psychedelics are non-specific amplifiers and create activity-dependent neural rewiring.

Explainer – what is pain? - International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP) This is an expanded and re-targeted version of the original piece, ‘Explainer-What is Pain‘, published in The Conversation. ‘..if someone has a pain in his hand, then the hand does […]

“We now know that pain can be turned on [6, 7], or turned up [5, 8], by anything at all that provides the brain with credible evidence that the body is in danger and needs protecting [9]”

www.iasp-pain.org/publications...

So I often describe it this way:

A macrodose opens the door.
Microdosing helps you walk through it.
Slowly. Intentionally. With your feet on the ground.
Weaving what you touched in ceremony into the mundane, aching, beautiful reality of daily life.

That’s where the real medicine lives.