In & Through: The Onaya Podcast

We spend a third of our lives asleep, immersed in richly altered states of consciousness that have been valued by traditional societies throughout human history, but dismissed or ignored by mainstream Western culture.

Swimming against this tide, Maria Nazdravan is a dreamwork facilitator, writer, and trainee integrative transpersonal and trauma psychotherapist, specialising in working creatively with imaginal and body-based interventions. She also runs the Dreamwork Circle, a supportive space for regular group sessions to foster self-discovery and transformation.

Simon and Maria explore her passion for helping others learn the symbolic language of the unconscious and foster healthy relationships with their dreams, through different perspectives offered by Freud, Jung and their followers, as well as Gestalt therapy, depth psychology and shamanic traditions.

Maria Nazdravan 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, visit Onaya's website and use the code 'INTHROUGH10' for a special 10% discount.

What is In & Through: The Onaya Podcast?

In times of political, ecological and psychospiritual crisis — the only way out is In & Through.

Join Onaya as we welcome some of the most interesting people we know, to discuss eclectic topics from psychedelic medicine and Indigenous ways of knowing, to spirit entities, the meaning of dreams, and singing to the plants.

Your main host is our 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