During psychedelic facilitation, the body can act as a doorway into deep healing. Participants undergoing psilocybin-assisted therapy have described experiencing a range of embodied phenomena, such as meaningful changes in their perception of their bodies, cathartic discharges of trauma that has been held in their bodies, and enduring changes to their sense of themselves as embodied beings.

EMBARK embraces the body as a site of wisdom and healing. EMBARK draws from pioneering somatic (body-centered) therapies in the recognition that the mind and body are not separate, particularly in the context of non-ordinary states of consciousness. The EMBARK approach employs somatic techniques throughout treatment to guide participants toward trusting their bodies’ intelligence and natural ability to heal. As somatic experiences may indicate a response to past trauma, facilitators receive training to work with emergent somatic material within a trauma-informed frame.