Workshops: Healers and Psychedelic Yogis
Body-mind practices you can teach your clients and use in your own work. Six monthly workshops, six therapeutic modalities, developed through collaboration between expert clinicians and psychedelic yogis.
You already know the limits of talk-based work. You're looking for somatic tools — practices that move through the body, settle the nervous system, and open doors that words alone can't reach. You want techniques grounded enough to teach a client next week and powerful enough to hold up in a real session.
And there's a deeper challenge: the patients who most need these practices are often the ones least able to follow a traditional, intricate yogic method. A depressed mind, an anxious nervous system, a newly medicated body. These don't cooperate with elaborate technique. What's needed is simpler, more portable, more immediately useful.
That's what this series delivers: body-mind practices (breath, awareness, somatic technique) tailored for specific therapeutic contexts, and designed to be both powerful and teachable.
What is psychedelic yoga?
A set of breath, body, and awareness practices drawn from contemplative traditions and refined for work with non-ordinary states, whether those states arise through psychedelics, through breath, or through deep practice alone. These are preparation, in-journey, and integration tools. They are designed to be taught and used.
The series
Six workshops · Zoom · two and a half hours each
May 31 – August 1, 2026, 2:00-4:30pm ET
Sun, May 31 · Bill Gallagher, PT — Internal Family Systems & Psychedelic Integration
Sun, June 21 · Robin Silver, MA — End-of-Life Care & Death Contemplation
Sun, June 28 · Lauren Going, LCSW-C — PATH Method & Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
Sun, July 12 · Katarina Bartel, LCSW — Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
Sun, July 26 · Dr. Jasdeep Sandhu — Integrative Psychiatry, Sound & Frequency
Sat, Aug 1 · Cassandra Biron, LCSW — Therapeutic Wonder
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Individual: $85 (no CE) / $110 (with CE).
Three-pack (any 3 workshops): $225 (no CE) / $295 (with CE) — includes one community brainstorm with the psychedelic yogi team.
Full series: $425 (no CE) / $525 (with CE) — includes all six workshops, two community brainstorms, and a 1-on-1 co-creation session with PYRC founder Henry Kandel.
What you'll take away
Each three-hour workshop delivers:
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Specific body-mind practices designed for a particular therapeutic context
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A working understanding of how yogic technique can complement clinical modality
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Experiential time with the practices — so you know how they feel, not just what they do
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Material you can bring into your next client session
Three-pack participants also receive one community brainstorm — a group session where we work on emerging practice questions together. Full-series participants receive both community brainstorms and a 1-on-1 co-creation session with a psychedelic yogi, tailored to your clinical work.
Continuing Education
Continuing Education: 2.5 CE credits per workshop, approved through the Spiritual Competency Academy (APA-accredited)
The Psychedelic Yogis
Tamara Behar
Tamara has been a devoted student of yoga for over 20 years. What began as a love for power yoga has evolved into a multidisciplinary study of meditation, Chinese medicine, Katonah Yoga, breathwork, somatic practices, intelligent hands-on adjustments, and body/face reading.
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Her teaching is rooted in lived, embodied experience. She approaches yoga as a therapeutic and transformative practice — one that offers a profound opportunity to understand yourself more deeply.
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Tamara's classes cultivate connection: to your body, to your inner landscape, and to community. She hopes you leave feeling more curious than certain — with new questions unfolding and a deeper relationship to yourself.
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Ethan Seidel
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Ethan's passion for yoga began in 2011 while searching for a way to heal chronic back pain following scoliosis surgery. After years of resigning himself to discomfort, yoga was a revelation — not only restoring physical wellbeing but bringing a sense of mental calm and internal steadiness that reshaped his relationship to himself. He began teaching in 2017 in Brooklyn, studying with a wide range of gifted teachers across different modalities including Vinyasa, Yin, and Katonah Yoga.
Ethan's teaching incorporates maps, metaphor, and geometric frameworks that help students find relief and ease in the physical body while also accessing deeper layers of awareness within the subconscious. He lives by the mantra: asana builds the cup, breath work fills the cup, and meditation is taking the drink. Ethan views embodied practices like yoga as essential tools for preparation, grounding, and integration — helping individuals translate insight into lived experience.
Henry Kandel
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Henry has practiced yoga for over 30 years across multiple traditions — pranayama, meditation, Tibetan Dream Yoga, and somatic awareness practices. They are the author of Yoga of the Ketamine State and the founder of the Psychedelic Yoga Research Collective, a nonprofit developing yogic methodologies for psychedelic therapy contexts. They also lead the Psychedelic Yoga Meetup, a 5,200-member community of practitioners exploring the intersection of contemplative practice and psychedelic healing.
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Henry's approach treats yogic practices as body-mind technologies — systematic tools that can be adapted, refined, and taught, rather than fixed rituals. Their work focuses on developing tailored practices for specific therapeutic modalities and training stages of the psychedelic experience — preparation, in-journey support, and integration. They teach physics and science by day and believe that the spirit of fearless inquiry connects all their work.
Spring 2026 Co-Presenters
Katarina Bartel, LCSW — Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
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Katarina Bartel, LCSW, is a psychotherapist at Golden Psychology in New York with a background in neuroscience. She holds a Master's in Social Work from Columbia University and a Bachelor's in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology from Emory University. Katarina specializes in Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), and Ketamine-Assisted Psychotherapy, and is certified in Motivational Interviewing. She brings clinical expertise in psychedelic integration and a commitment to trauma-informed, strengths-based care. Katarina serves on the board of the Psychedelic Yoga Research Collective.
Sun, Jul 12 · 2pm ET
Lauren Going, LCSW-C — PATH Method & Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy
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Lauren Going is a licensed psychotherapist, yoga instructor, pioneer in psychedelic-assisted therapy and founder of Maryland's first psychedelic therapy center, now rebranded as Expand Your Self Wellness. She has served as an integration therapist for major psychedelic research studies at Johns Hopkins and Sheppard Pratt, and as a research clinician at Sunstone, including participation in the MAPS Phase 3 MDMA trials. Creator of the PATH approach and author of Expand Your Self: 6 Steps to a Psychedelic Life, Lauren blends clinical depth with expanded-state practices to help clients reconnect with their innate healing intelligence and live more authentic, empowered lives.
Sun, Jun 28 · 2pm ET
Dr. Jasdeep Sandhu — Integrative Psychiatry & Sound/Frequency
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Dr. Jasdeep Sandhu is a board certified psychiatrist who practices integrative psychiatry. She believes we each carry and create the medicine we need. Her approach to mental health treatment brings awareness to various factors influencing wellbeing, and teaches her patients to practice this same awareness. She completed her residency at Mount Sinai in New York City, and focuses on mindfulness, psychodynamic, and transpersonal approaches to therapy and works with the principles of meaning, nutrition, movement, restoration, meditation, and connection as core principles in treatment. She facilitates KAP individual and group sessions, as well as general medicine work personalized prep and integration sessions in her private practice. She also offers consulting and enjoys teaching future doctors, colleagues and the public on psychedelics and holistic mental health.
Sun, Jul 26 · 2pm ET
Robin Silver — End-of-Life Care & Death Contemplation
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Robin Silver, MA, is a death doula, ecopsychologist, and threshold guide whose work explores the intersections of grief, ritual, ecology, and transformation. Robin holds an MA in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, along with certification in mindfulness instruction in the lineage of Chogyam Trunga Rinpoche and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. Her master’s thesis focused on the role that fear of death plays in the polycrisis, and how to use ancestral practices and connection to the rhythmic cycles of nature in overcoming that fear. Her path began in 2011 during a mindfulness retreat at Guang Jue Monastery in rural China, and has since been shaped by 15 years of contemplative study, death & grief work, and cross-cultural healing traditions across the US, Mexico, and Asia. By combining her training in nature connection and contemplative practices, end-of-life care, psychedelic healing, and ritual design, Robin creates containers that support personal inquiry and collective healing. Her facilitation style blends accessible psychological frameworks with spiritually resonant practices, to help participants remember their inner knowing and restore relationship with the more-than-human world.
Sun, Jun 21 · 2pm ET
Bill Gallagher, PT — IFS & Psychedelic Integration
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Bill Gallagher is an Internal Family Systems Therapist, Physical Therapist, Tai Chi & Baguazhang teacher and Yoga Therapist. He has a 40-year-long relationship with psychedelics and has been serving people with physical and mental trauma, chronic pain syndromes, sexual concerns and at end of life for 30 years. He loves to share his passion for and understanding of IFS because he has found it to be such a key to transformation.
Sun, May 31 · 2pm ET
Cassandra Biron, LCSW — Therapeutic Wonder
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Cassandra Biron (she/themme) is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, integrative mental health guide, and death doula. She is co-founder and clinical director of Elemental Brooklyn and founder of Psychotherapist Witch. Cassandra's work blends mind-body psychotherapy, breathwork, culinary medicine, and trauma-informed care, with roots in healing justice and over a decade of experience with 2SLGBTQIA+ communities. She holds certifications in nutritional and integrative medicine for mental health and has trained in both indigenous healing systems and modern psychedelic research. Cassandra believes that joy is not only medicine — it's a radical act of resistance. She also offers care at the edges of life and grief as a trained death doula, holding space for transitions with tenderness, reverence, and curiosity.
Sat, Aug 1 · 2pm ET
Ready to join us?
These workshops were built for the clinicians we've spent years listening to — the ones doing careful, creative work in rooms where something more than talk is needed. If that's you, we hope you'll join us.