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The Dying Rehearsal: Yogic Practice for the Ketamine State at the End of Life

Monday, October 12, 12-3pm ET/9-12pm PT

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What if we could practice meeting death before we actually meet it?

Ketamine is often described as the psychedelic experience closest to a near-death experience, and end-of-life workers sometimes describe a ketamine session as a rehearsal for dying. 

This workshop takes that literally.

In this three-hour interactive workshop, participants move through a substance-free rehearsal of a ketamine journey, from preparation through journey and integration. Yogic and body-mind practices designed to access the mystical dimensions associated with the ketamine state are woven together with ritual, reflection, and meaning-making. Together, these practices support connection, transcendence, emotional release, and exploration of the existential and spiritual concerns that often arise in the context of serious and life-threatening illness.

No ketamine or other medicine is used. The ketamine state is the reference point for the workshop, not part of the session.

Rather than simply learning about these practices, participants learn by doing, developing a felt understanding of the territory and practical methods they can adapt for their own clients.

Attendance is donation-based. The workshop reflects EOLPC’s commitment to interdisciplinary education that honors both the clinical and psycho-spiritual dimensions of dying while supporting ethical, grounded approaches to psychedelic-assisted end-of-life care.

This workshop is best to experienced live but it will be recorded for those unable to attend.

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The Dying Rehearsal: Yogic Practice for the Ketamine State at the End of Life
Instructors
Henry Kandel
Henry Kandel is an educator, yogi, and the founder of the Psychedelic Yoga Research Collective, a Brooklyn nonprofit developing body-mind practices for non-ordinary states of consciousness — in psychedelic healing, in the cultivation of mystical experience, and at the end of life. They have spent three decades teaching subjects from astronomy to improvisational theater, bringing yogic practice into every room. Trained across pranayama, meditation, jnana yoga, and Tibetan dream yoga. After experiencing psychedelic therapy and yogic methods together dissolve decades of depression and anxiety, Henry developed Ketamine-State Yoga and wrote the manual Yoga of the Ketamine State. They lead the Psychedelic Yoga Meetup, a community of more than 5,700people , and teach physics and cognitive science by day.
Robin Silver, MA
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.
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