#4 — Intuition and the Psychedelic Body with Dr Esme Dark

In & Through: The Onaya Podcast

“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 Wand