Ketamine Clinic Collaborations
Developing integration protocols for clinical ketamine settings through partnership with established treatment clinics. Real-world implementation provides evidence of efficacy and generates outcomes data.
Featured interview: Under The Tent
Henry was invited to give an Under The Tent interview for Big Tent Ketamine— a community of ketamine clinicians, the same audience this page speaks to. Over nearly an hour and a half, Henry discusses the practices and ideas behind Ketamine-State Yoga: where the methods come from, how breath and somatic awareness serve preparation, the journey, and integration, and why a yogic approach has something to offer the clinical room. Moderated by Jayne Gumpel and a co-host whose questions push into the substance of the work.
Three Protocols in Development
NDE-Correlated Protocol
Ketamine phenomenologically simulates near-death experiences. This protocol incorporates factors that make spontaneous NDEs transformative—working with the dissolution of self, encounters with profound imagery, and integration of insights.
Self-Referential Somatic Practices (SRSP)
Research shows ketamine reduces neural distinctions between self-generated and other-generated touch—making self-massage, self-hugging, and self-soothing dramatically more effective during dissociative states. This protocol develops self-compassion through body-based practices.
Pranayama Toolkit
Full exhalation as a "physiological doorway" to mystical states. Real-time breathwork tools for patient use during sessions, enabling navigation of intense experiences. The very bottom of the breath, when accessed through letting go rather than force, is associated with vivid intimacy with one's own emotions.
How Clinic Partnerships Work
The PYRC offers ketamine clinics and therapists a body-mind practices toolkit — breathwork, somatic awareness, mudras, and other yogic techniques designed specifically for the ketamine therapy context. These practices support preparation, in-journey awareness, and integration.In exchange, clinical partners provide structured feedback on how patients experience and benefit from these practices.
This feedback loop — yogic innovation meeting clinical observation — is the engine of PYRC's methodology development. Clinicians report on patient responses through brief standardized instruments and reflective notes, generating the real-world data that refines our protocols and strengthens future grant applications.This is a non-monetary exchange: tools and training in exchange for clinical feedback and follow-up.
Every visit includes a collaborative brainstorm where the team co-creates and refines practices to fit their workflow; what comes out of it feeds PYRC’s growing practice library, and brief check-ins at three and six months tell us what’s actually being used.
Baltimore: Expand Your Self Wellness
On Friday, May 15, 2026, Henry led a half-day teaching exchange at Expand Your Self Wellness, a ketamine-assisted therapy clinic in Baltimore founded by Lauren Going, LCSW-C. The room held about ten clinicians — psychotherapists, a physician, and facilitators — working through body-mind practices for the three phases of a ketamine session: preparation, the journey itself, and integration. The visit was the first run of a model PYRC intends to repeat: a clinic-by-clinic teaching exchange built around the practices a given team actually uses.
What clinicians said
“Henry provides excellent, usable tools to increase awareness. Thank you.”— Elissa Levine, psychotherapist
“I am impressed by the depth of Henry’s knowledge about yoga and real ways to bring that into therapy practice.”— Carol Hallinan, clinician at Sherwood Mental Health
“Yoga techniques are such an intuitive fit w/ KAP. Every clinician should consider learning.”
“Reconditioning with certain key yogic techniques through the lens of psychedelic therapy will be a game changer.”
Resources
The Body-Mind Practices for KAP Practitioners one-pager describes what a half-day intensive covers, across preparation, mid-journey support, and integration.
A fuller companion manual — the practices taught in Baltimore, with safety guidance — is available to clinics on request.