Name: Introduction to PSYCHEDELIC YOGA for Body, Breath, and Mind
Start: 2025-12-30T21:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-12-30T22:30:00-05:00

**Psychedelic Yoga** is a collection of practices—drawn from diverse forms of yoga and yoga-adjacent traditions—curated and designed specifically for psychedelic experience. The goal is to optimize intentional psychedelic work: extending healing results, unblocking creative flow, and supporting spiritual progress.

We draw from the vast universe of yogic methods (including esoteric forms like Tibetan Dream Yoga) and adapt them specifically to suit the psychedelic context—set and setting, dose, specific substance, personal experience and goals. A famous dream yoga master once said that any practice performed in the dream state is *nine times as effective.* Modern science calls this "neuroplasticity." Psychedelic Yoga meets that heightened potential with powerful, time-honored practices.

In this workshop, we'll practice together (live on Zoom) sample methods in the three domains of **body, breath, and mind.** You'll leave with practices you can apply in three ways: to prepare for and integrate psychedelic experiences; during the journey itself; and to induce non-ordinary states of consciousness without substances—for the same healing purposes.

I'm excited to welcome Rob Matthews as co-presenter. Rob is the founder of Pala Medicine, a ketamine clinic in Los Angeles, and a board member of the Psychedelic Yoga Research Collective. He's launching Soma Psychedelic Yoga on the West Coast—a community dedicated to the same systematic approach to body, breath, and mind in the psychedelic context. This workshop marks the beginning of our collaboration to bring PY to both coasts.

Whether you're new to this work or have years of experience with yoga and/or psychedelics, this introduction offers a practical entry point and plenty of inspiration to go deeper.

*A PYRC community workshop*

Rob Shivadas Matthews

Henry Kandel

Psychedelic Yoga

Religion & Spirituality

Yoga

Meditation

Spiritual Growth

Creativity

Spiritual Healing

Psychedelic

Psychedelic Integration

Psychedelic Assisted Therapy

Psychedelic Society

Energy Healing

Wellness

Consciousness

Self Exploration

**Rob Matthews** (Shivadas) is the founder of **Soma Mandala Yoga Studios** in the Los Angeles area, dedicated to bringing yoga arts and psychedelic medicine together in the service of wellbeing, consciousness exploration, and transformative growth. 

In 2021, Rob co-founded **Pala Medicine**, a ketamine therapy clinic in Pasadena, California, which he operates with his wife, a physician and psychedelic medicine provider. Rob also serves as a board member for the **Psychedelic Yoga Research Collective**.

Rob facilitates somatic and contemplative practices that open access to expanded states of awareness while grounding in nervous system resilience. His approach blends breathwork, chakra-based embodiment, and trauma-informed pacing to help seekers transition from dysregulation to inner coherence.

Yoga and psychedelics have both played a major role in Rob’s physical and mental health journeys. As a facilitator and yoga teacher, he has worked with hundreds of clients, sitting for more than 1,000 psychedelic journeys.

**Henry Kandel** designs events that combine many different forms of yoga, intentional psychedelic use, healing and creative flow.  They've taught asana, pranayama, and meditation for psychedelic experience, and have run dozens of workshops integrating cannabis.  They pioneered Ketamine-State Yoga, and have taught it to therapists, yogis, and hundreds of folks online.

They have taught math and science at Saint Ann’s School for 30 years.  They designed and taught original courses in Physics, Astronomy and Game Theory, as well as electives such as “The Sci of Sci-Fi,” “Science of Music,” and, “Dream, Sleep, and Consciousness.”  

They have practiced many forms of yoga over the same time period, focusing on pranayama and Tibetan Dream Yoga.  Psychedelics, combined with yogic practice, have brought them vast spiritual and mental-health benefits.

Henry Kandel and Rob Matthews

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