Ontodelic
Introductory Training, Counseling +Guidance
For psychedelic guides
integration coaches
healers
therapists
yoga teachers
Anyone holding healing spaces for transformation
Support the healing and evolution of our rapidly changing world.
※ Do you long to make a deeper impact with your clients or students?
※ Do you find that there are deep-seated repeating patterns that are difficult or mysterious to address?
※ Perhaps you are wanting to start a one-on-one practice?
※ Are you seeking an approach that goes beyond the intellectual into subconscious body-memory where profound lasting change occurs?
※ Do you know those times when we can find ourselves reacting in the same old way, even though it’s not helpful?
We often say, ‘We can only take our clients as deep and far as we’ve gone.’
As a guide-in-training, your own growing self-knowledge is as much a part of your training as learning the techniques.
This intro training supports you in both.
The body remembers, the bones remember, the joints remember, even the little finger remembers. Memory is lodged in pictures and feelings in the cells themselves. Like a sponge filled with water, anywhere the flesh is pressed, wrung, even touched lightly, a memory may flow out in a stream.”
— Clarissa Pinkola Estés
The Art of Ontodelic Assisted Self-Discovery
Ontodelic Inquiry is a somatic modality that explores the depths of our body-memory, patterns, emotions, and being to assist in gaining self-knowledge, efficiently completing cycles, exploring, and revealing new ways of being.
What does ‘Ontodelic’ mean?
Greek word ‘Ontos’ meaning "a being, individual; existence.” Delous in Greek means “to reveal, to shine forth, to make visible.” So ontodelic is the process of the revelation of being, the unfolding of being. And our modality carries a shared root with the word ‘psychedelic’ (‘the revealing of the psyche’) and this insinuates the vast dimensions that exist within each of us, a continued frontier.
We use the past within us to unfold the future. We hold several paradigms of looking: psychological (different developmental models, character structures, relational models), scientific (cognitive and brain science), shamanic (entheogenic, traditional views, nature-based, medicine wheel), phenomonological (mythopoetic, tracking signs, synchronicity), and metaphysical (energetic systems, dimensional models, Hermetics, influences from Diamond Approach). We ground our approach in all 5 and hold them all to be vital ways to interpret our experience and be able to hold the paradox of different views of experience being simultaneously true and yet even possibly contradictory and still both true.
Somatic therapies challenge the notion that our daily suffering is unnecessary and stems from unconscious patterns rooted in our past, distorting our perception of the world.
This method aims to unveil these patterns, unlike traditional cognitive therapies, by delving into the layers beneath conscious thought and analytical frameworks.
Through a meditative approach, we work with inquiry and exploration with attuned awareness of internal states. Clients learn to observe and engage with their thoughts, emotions, memories, and bodily sensations as they emerge.
By employing mindfulness and experiential processes, we recognize the body as a reservoir of implicit assumptions and core beliefs, which shape our personality and survival strategies.
Rather than focusing solely on the narrative, we are prioritizing the individual's journey. It gently and effectively brings hidden mental processes to consciousness, allowing for examination and modification. By addressing and meeting missing experiences, and providing vital nourishment, we reconsolidate memories, and transform the lens in which we see life that impacts our bodies, emotional bodies and offers a more authentic and fulfilling way of experiencing ourselves in the world.
What does the training involve?
In this 7 day Introductory Training, you will:
learn and practice the art of holding space, we learn to how to simply be with people, and how to work with ‘experiments’ in relation to the unconscious material.
enter daily breakout dyads and triads to experientially practice and embody the techniques in explorative containers. Alternate facilitating and receiving.
observe and discuss demo sessions led by the lead teacher, Antonia.
learn and practice Parts work (IFS) and Shadow work within SASD
experience daily guided meditations on theme
review the nature of trauma.
explore the power of Psychomagic and ritual.
learn how SASD communicates in the same psychosomatic and visionary language as entheogens, or ‘medicine speak’.
do your own work in experiential healing containers, which deepens and expands your capacities to hold space for your clients.
discover a new language for life, where you understand and can communicate with your own and others’ unconscious.
Participants Experience a Balance of:
Theory (taught relationally through conversation and group discovery-not a lecture)
The practice and application of the tools
Direct experience through what you discover and what insights you gain between you and your partner in practice sessions..
The Symbolic Power & Art of Psychomagic + Ritual
The unconscious and mammalian part of the brain understands very deeply, prayer, incantation, and ritual.
Just as the unconscious accepts placebos, it accepts metaphorical acts. In fact, it takes a symbolic act as a fact. This adds to the depth of each couple’s transformation by working with the deep symbolic language of life and objects that relate deeply to your soul and shared soul.
Our key principles are:
Mindfulness
Presence
Leading by Following
Wisdom in the walls- Respecting, listening to, and understanding the key role of the defenses
Consentual Experiments (from both the conscious and unconscious)
Deep Curiosity
Interrelated-ness
Retreat Schedule + Details
Details within the days may evolve marginally from what’s listed.
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After we receive your application questionnaire, we’ll set up a preliminary call to be sure its the right fit. We will have the opportunity to meet and explore deeper some of what you may be wanting to hone through the training, and whats alive in your life and in your practice.
We’ll review your form. We will also refrence core patterns in the framework of 5 survival strategies in our personalities. So we encourage you to read this book.
During the call we will work together in defining and clarifying anything want to be supported.
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Monday-Thurs
Berkshires MA
10-6:30
* Principals
* Understanding, practicing and mastering mindfulness, awareness, presence
connection and authenticity
* Creating a safe container/Agreements
* Practicing tracking
* Practicing Verbal Prompts
* Practicing Accessing
* Practicing Experiments in session
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Berkshires MA
Friday, Saturday, Sunday 10-6:30
* The nature of Trauma and meeting trauma responses
* Strong Emotions
* Internal Family Systems Parts Work
* Taking Over for Parts
* Psycho Magic / Psycho Drama / Gestalt
* Practicing Experiments in session
*Closing
Organic Vegetarian Lunch Included
Housing not included
If you feel called to this work, please fill out the questionnaire and we will reach out to you.
Each person is a story that
the Soul of the World wants to tell to itself.
- Michael Meade
Meet your Guides Antonia + Roger
We are honored and excited to support a new wave of facilitators discovering the flowering of the soul through the somatic wisdom of the body.
We are here to support each of you in your own unique experience.
We look forward to the experience of group hive-mind (group genius) and the combined energy of our training cohort that brings forth healing, empowerment, and gems for us all,
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Antonia is an intuitive energy healer and guide. She walks through your worlds with you with exceptional safety and security throughout your paradigm shifts, holding you with love, compassion, grace and skill in becoming realized in your Divine expression, supporting you in living through your heart’s intuition, and guideing you towards embodying your innate essence.
Through her trauma informed understanding that nonverbal expression reveals more than our verbal stories can ever tell about the core material that organizes our experiences, she works with the body as a direct route to the unconscious.
Antonia has a profound adeptness and deftness in working with the body, self and soul on all levels, and in the multidimensional field. Through through the wisdom of the body, and setting up experiments in mindfulness, we can an invoke the psychedelic experience without the psychedelics.
Between co-regulation and self regulation, deep full body listening & awareness, Antonia supports your self healing by evoking and midwifing you through your body and soul's natural, healing processes and through re-consolidating formative experiences using the relational space and sometimes, support from others, including comforting touch.
Antonia has been practicing, and facilitating deep meditation journeys for 22 years, using various modalities.
She leads a yearlong immersive training, theRainbowBridges.com to support therapists, healers, bodyworkers, leaders, change agents, guides and facilitators.
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Roger is a somatic therapist, awakening + embodiment guide, and facilitator of transformational journeys. 17 years ago, inspired by an awakening, he committed himself to a lifelong path of rubber-meets-the-road growth and sharing it with others along the way.In his session-work, the transformative power is in the catalyzing field of co-regulated presence. You can start with anything in your life that is alive for you right now. The present moment is the starting place, and looking deeply is the journey. The body and emotions are deeply affected by the shared inquiry process, as the deeper body awakens, purges, heals, and reveals its histories and secrets. Together, he navigates with you in a safe, deep and compassionate process towards naturally emergent discoveries that pivotally change one’s inner-outer experience.
Roger has been practicing + facilitating deep journeys and gatherings for over a decade, using various modalities.
Hear what people are saying:
ABOUT LEAD TEACHER,
ANTONIA VANORO
“Learning from a master is such an incredible privilege, and Antonia is a true master. She has such an impressive breadth of knowledge and wisdom. Every lecture, every question answered and every live session was vibrant and yielded so much learning on my part.
I am beyond grateful to have had access to her both a teacher and a healer.
— Jeni Wishmeyer
ABOUT CO-TEACHER
ROGER VANORO
“Roger is a master tracker - among the finest of minds. Yet he’s soft. There’s a patient heart to this man that naturally opens the paths of insight within me. Bountiful kudos are owed to him for facilitating a process that is as disarming and gentle as it is incisive, deep, and clear.”
— Award-winning Film Director Emmett Brennan ('Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective', 'Reflection: A Walk with Water')
FAQ
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A: Yes, please fill out the questionnaire form in the blue button and after receiving, we will reach out.
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A: We will all be reading ‘The Five Personality Patterns’ by Steven Kessler as a powerful and essential primer for getting the most out of these workshops. Having some background in healing work and an interest in deepening your practice is all that is required.
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A: Tuition is 1350.
If you are are really wanting to come and are needing support with a payment plan we are happy to explore options with you that will make it possible for you to be with us.
Partial scholarships are available for BIPOC with application for those doing active facilitation or outreach work within your local communities.
If you’d like to apply for a partial scholarship, please let us know more about you and what kinds of work you’re doing in your community.
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A: Great! SASD will support and enhance the other work and trainings you are doing.
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A: Then joining the group will require courage on your part but, rest assured, the group will be a truly supportive atmosphere and a confidential safe atmosphere to grow together. This is an opportunity to help you heal that wound, and have more comfort in groups experiences that you are a part of, maybe even in your family.
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A: Recordings will be available of the sessions. If you miss a day, you will still benefit. Though if you know in advance you’ll miss multiple sessions, understand that you will miss out on the deep experiential learnings and benefits of the container. It’s definitely best to commit to all 6 days.
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A: This group is what is called a closed group once its formed. The members you meet on the first day are the ones that will be with you the whole time. Unless someone drops out, no new members will be added once the training is underway.
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A: For those who need help, you may request a payment plan, we are happy to support in that way.
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A: Due to the commitments of our planning process, all sales are final past May 4th.
After May 4th, no refunds or transfers will be granted.
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A: If you have any questions, requests, or considerations about signing up for the course OR during the course, you can reach out to Matt in our Support Team and he will assist you: matthewdreinhardt@gmail.com
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If you are traveling and plan to stay the weekend in the Berkshires for one or both retreats,
we would recommend staying at an Air B&B. You can look for ones in Sandisfield, Monterrey, Otis, Lenox, Lee, or Great Barrington.
All are within 20 mins.
If you are coming to the retreat with friends or people you know, you can all share a place.
What airport do I fly into?
Albany NY is 1 hr away
Hartford CT is 1 hour away
NYC is 2.5 hrs away
You’ll need to rent a car.
Do I need a car or is there public transportation?
You need a car to get here. There is no public transit or Uber’s to get to Sandisfield.
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This is an introductory training but this is not a full certification as a SASD therapist, which we currently don’t offer.
To continue my training, what other programs do you offer?
We offer an on-going practice program every two weeks called ‘Touchstone: Somatics’ to continue to refine and embody your SASD practice.
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A: This is a trauma-informed training, but it’s not a trauma training.
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A: - This somatic approach is something we consider a ‘fundamental skillset for safe psychedelic-assisted therapy’ but this is not a psychedelic guide training or certification. To deepen further in this domain, we offer a year-long 7-retreat immersive called ‘The Rainbow Bridges’.
$1,888-
$2,888
Per Person
Week-long Intro training
Range is if you want to stay. There is optional Housing & vegetarian organic meals
Next intro training dates TBA
Are you ready to take the journey?
If you feel called to this work, please fill out the questionnaire and we will reach out to you.
Once we secure your place, register with the button below.