“Knowledge is only a rumour until it's in the bones” ~ Proverb from the Asaro people of Papua New Guinea
In this episode, Simon talks to Dr Esme Dark about the special interplay between felt intuition, embodied knowledge and psychedelic experience for facilitating healing and transformation.
Dr Esme Dark is a psychedelic and somatic therapist with over 15 years of experience working as a clinical psychologist, including a decade of refugee mental health work in Australia, Thailand and the UK. She works as one of the core trial therapists as part of the
Clinical Psychedelic Research Lab at Monash University, having supported participants through the largest psychedelic trial in Australia to date, exploring psilocybin-assisted therapy to treat anxiety. Esme also has a
private practice offering in-person and remote services, and has launched a new podcast of her own,
Beyond the Trip.
Dr Dark is one of many experts on Onaya's new 6-month
Psychedelic Mentorship Training programme. For more information and to find out how to enroll on our next cohort, visit
Onaya's website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' for a special 10% discount.
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Real intuition isn't one-size-fits-all. And it isn't an inner voice. It is a door into greater participation with the landscape around us... a call and response with the world through our senses. Our inner voice is the bitter taste in our mouth, nudging us into an appetite for carminative greens that will prepare us for hotter weather. The indefinable smell of a lover perfectly suited to our microbiome and DNA. The cheerful sparkle of a finch across our path on a morning run, which reminds us of a similarly cheerful friend we should call and check up on.“ ~ Sophie Strand,
The Flowering WandWhat is In & Through: The Onaya Podcast?
In & Through by Onaya transcends paradigms at the intersection of science, spirituality and psychedelic medicine.
In eclectic conversations navigating psychological growth, spirit entities and everything in between, Onaya welcomes wide-ranging guests including neuroscientists, musical healers and Shipibo curanderos.
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Your main host is Onaya's founder Dr Simon Ruffell, a psychiatrist and research psychologist with a PhD in Amazonian ayahuasca and a student of Shipibo curanderismo.
Onaya is dedicated to bridging the gap between traditional indigenous knowledge and modern science, including a not-for-profit research arm that studies ayahuasca and other Amazonian plant medicine practices. We offer one-to-one support, consultancy and accredited courses that combine shamanism and biomedical science to facilitate holistic individual and collective healing.
For more information, please visit https://www.onaya.io/ or join our mailing list.
*** For a special 10% discount to our 6 Month Psychedelic Mentorship Training, head to our website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' ***
Co-producers: Robbie Redway and Caspar Montgomery
Music: United Freedom Collective