Ep54: How do we help when we’re overwhelmed ourselves? Co-regulation and somatic healing with Rita Bozi

Rita is a powerful force for good. The main topic of our conversation? How to be a more humane human. 

 

What does it mean to be human? How do we exercise compassion when we are overwhelmed and feeling stuck ourselves? What can we do to fix some of the biggest problems humanity is currently facing?

Rita teaches us about the importance of embodiment and somatic work, which involves listening to the cues and signals from our bodies. We discuss the importance of non-verbal communication and how it contributes to polarization and a sense of unease and unsafety. We also talked about the impact of trauma on our perception of danger and fear, and how it can affect our interactions with others.

Rita's Bio:

Rita Bozi is a multidisciplinary Somatic Relational trauma-informed Facilitator and Psychedelic Therapist, author, educator, podcast co-host, playwright, and retired professional actor and dancer. In the past thirty-six years she has performed in Canada, the United States, Germany, Hungary and Iceland, and Estonia. With twenty-nine years experience in the healing arts, she is the director of Brilliant Healing Inc. She works with individuals and groups, leading unique, experiential, and creative healing retreats. She trains, mentors, and supervises individuals in her 3 module program: Somatic Relational Trauma-informed Practices for Medicine-Assisted Facilitation. In 2023, she was guest faculty at The Synthesis Institute and is a co-founding member of Communitas Collective in the Netherlands, a psychedelic think-tank for best practices in psychedelic care.

 

Rita is a colleague of Dr. Gabor Maté, was mentored by the late visionary Carol-Anne Bickerstaff, and is currently in a Practicum with Sharon Stanley PhD. Rita is a former instructor at Mount Royal College in Calgary and Langara College in Vancouver. Rita has deep respect for and experience with both non-traditional and Indigenous medicines and practices a non-pathologizing, body-centered, attachment-based, mindfulness, and bio-psycho-social approach to healing.

 

Though she is now a retired dancer and actor she will always be a creator and performer. Her first novel, When I Was Better, released in 2022 is a winner of the Firebird Book Award, and is a finalist for the 2022 Goethe International Literary Award for Late-Historical Fiction. She is currently writing PUNK Therapy, drawing on her clinical work with psychedelic medicine in combination with somatic relational practices. Her podcast PUNK THERAPY: Psychedelic Underground Neural Kindness launched on Feb 16th, 2022, and has over 10,000 downloads.

 

Born to Hungarian refugees who fled during the 1956 Revolution, Rita honors and remembers the long line of serfs and peasants who are her ancestors. She is devoted to the work it takes to become a kind and wise human, decolonizing the body and cultivating cherished and cooperative communities.

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