Sacred Medicine Journeys

FOR HEALING AND TRANSFORMATION

Hi, I’m Joshua. I am a consciousness medicine guide in Berkeley, California. I specialize in facilitating sacred healing journeys with cannabis, and I also offer psychedelic coaching to support your personal exploration into altered states of consciousness. 

I believe in the innate wholeness of each person, and that with safety and support we move naturally toward healing and reconnection. Ultimately, you are your own guide, and I defer to the deep wisdom within each human soul.

I also believe that we are living in unprecedented times, and that each person’s healing is essential to the healing of our planet. It is challenging work to reweave our connections to ourselves, to each other, and to the more-than-human world, but it is also immensely satisfying and exhilarating. A more beautiful world yearns to be born through each one of us.

I work with clients from all backgrounds, and I specialize in the following:

  • climate grief and anxiety

  • artistic exploration

  • journeys of soul discovery and awakening potential

  • cultivating emotional fluidity and somatic awareness

  • deconstructing and healing from experiences in high control religious groups

OFFERINGS

I will work with you in hour-long one-on-one sessions to support your personal exploration into altered states of consciousness. In preparing for psychedelic journeys, we will explore your intentions, gather your internal, external, and transpersonal resources, and cultivate the skills and awareness to safely navigate the psychedelic space. I will also work with you after your journey to support you in grounding your experience and integrating it into your life.

Psychedelic Coaching

I offer psychedelic cannabis experientials both in person and online over Zoom. When particular strains of cannabis are blended together, the result can potentiate a profound healing experience, especially when taken with intention and in the context of a safe and therapeutic container. To deepen this experience I offer guided visualizations, somatic awareness meditations, energy work, sacred ritual, and a curated playlist. I hold the space with nurturing and supportive presence so that you can explore and heal old wounds, gain profound insights into key areas of your life, and disentangle challenging aspects of your relationships.

Psychedelic Cannabis Experientials

About Me

For as long as I can remember I have been fascinated with Big Questions. What is consciousness? How do humans understand and encounter the divine? How did we get here and where are we going as a species? What gifts am I here to bring forth in this life? I first tried to ask these questions as a second generation member of a high control religious group, but my curiosity and path of healing carried me away from that community. As an undergraduate at Northwestern University, I studied Psychology, Human Development, and Religious Studies, and learned to meditate under the Bodhi Tree in Bodh Gaya, India. Since then I have continued to contemplate numinous realities as a writer of speculative fiction and armchair philosopher/yogi.

When my daughter was born in 2019, however, I became urgently concerned about the chaotic state of the world — the multiple converging crises of climate catastrophe, societal breakdown, and the Sixth Mass Extinction. Francis Weller’s ‘The Wild Edge of Sorrow’ was a powerful invitation to befriend my grief, and I became a facilitator for climate grief and anxiety support circles through the Good Grief Network. Grieving the woes of the world led me to grieving the wounds of my own life, and to seek deeper healing than I was able to find through support groups and talk therapy. I began to explore expanded states of consciousness through psychedelic medicines, breathwork, cold exposure, acupressure, somatic awareness, pleasure activism, energy healing, self-generated ceremony, dream-work, and nature connection as I entered a period that I understand as my Dark Night of the Soul, Spiritual Emergence, or Journey of Soul Initiation; I deconstructed the myths of who I thought I was and what I thought I wanted as I reconnected to the full spectrum of my embodied emotionality, the vital essence of who I am. 

My journey of metamorphosis has guided me from climate grief through consciousness exploration, from facilitating groups for men to explore vulnerability and emotional intimacy to fasting in the desert with the School of Lost Borders, and on to becoming a Cannabis Assisted Psychedelic Guide, credentialed through the Center for Medicinal Mindfulness. I am still, and I suspect I will always be, in the inquiry of mystery.

Testimonials

“I have been doing sessions with Joshua for a few months. Before my first session, I was a little nervous. I didn’t know what to expect and was afraid to dive deep into myself. Once we started, I immediately felt safe and taken care of, because of Joshua’s knowledge, personal experience, professionalism, and healing presence. I did another session within a week, and I think that was the best experience during that time in my life. I had just gone through a huge life change and was so lost, hopeless, scared, and hurt. After my two sessions with Joshua, I felt an immense weight taken off of me, and that I was well on my way to being healed. It was truly life changing. And mind changing.”

-Nadia

“Joshua helped me connect to images, feelings, and sensations in my body and mind. These were beautiful and vibrant experiences, which have continued to resonate in my life in meaningful ways, even for weeks afterward. Throughout our session Joshua created a safe and structured space with clear boundaries. He was supportive of my needs, and was always professional and respectful.”

-JZ