Paragliding and Expanding Your Awareness with Ari In The Air

Paragliding and Expanding Your Awareness with Ari In The Air

Is paragliding the stupid thing that you do, or is it the path that leads you to realize your life might be worth more than paragliding? Ari DeLashmutt asks that question. Not rhetorically. He's watched people answer it both ways. Ari is a paragliding instructor and men's coach, helping men be safe in the air and secure, authentic and free in their lives on the ground. He runs men's retreats that double as paragliding clinics around the world. He lives in Bend, Oregon with his wife and young child. In this conversation we cover: * How powder skiing unlocked a new dimension and why paragliding took that even further * How to read the invisible, finding thermals when you can't see the air * Why paragliding demands everything: body awareness, risk, ego, emotional intelligence, reverence for nature * Motivational structures underneath risk-taking and how they shift moment to moment * What men actually transform in the group: relationships, sobriety, father-son dynamics, belonging located internally * The concept of obedience, following the current rather than fighting it * Expanded awareness as a skill that transfers from the glider to your whole life * Why getting really good at paragliding reveals you were always dealing with yourself When you get really good at paragliding you start realizing you were never just dealing with the air. You were dealing with yourself. Connect with Ari on Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ariintheair/] Ari talks about expanded awareness as something you develop over time, one flight at a time. Your story is the same, it's already there, it just needs excavating. If this conversation opened something up for you, that's the starting point. My story excavation guide walks you through pulling your own transformation story using the Six Dynamics Framework. Download it here [https://tr.ee/9VOzpUjHaU]! Connect with ESP: Enhanced Senses Podcast explores what it feels like to be you through portals like extreme sports, psychedelics, creativity, and intimacy. Follow on Instagram: ⁠@enhanced_senses_podcast⁠ [https://www.instagram.com/enhanced_senses_podcast/] Substack: ⁠Enhanced Senses Substack⁠ [https://substack.com/@enhancedsensespodcast] Patreon: ⁠Enhanced Senses Patreon⁠ [https://www.patreon.com/c/EnhancedSensesPodcast?vanity=user] Thanks for listening to Enhanced Senses Podcast. See you next time.

Moving Between Worlds: Creativity, Consciousness & Psychedelics

What worlds do you have the power to move between? Vex has painted murals around the world. She's been a full-time artist for most of her adult life. And she'll tell you that her career was guided into existence by early experiences with psilocybin and LSD, taken after losing her father and asking the questions most of us eventually ask: what is the point of life? How do I make mine count? This conversation lives at the intersection of creativity, coaching, and psychedelics. We talk about whether consciousness or creativity comes first, how Vex uses metaphor to paint pictures with words instead of paint, what the flying girl she kept returning to as a motif actually represents, and why those who can move between worlds wield the most power. Not as dominance, but as empowerment. In this episode: - How early experiences with LSD and psilocybin after losing her father guided Vex toward becoming a full-time artist - Whether consciousness or creativity comes first and how they interconnect - Integration: what actually has to happen after a psychedelic experience for creativity to open - The left-hand drawing exercise: what the subconscious produces when you stop managing it - How Vex paints pictures with words in her coaching practice using image and metaphor as entry points into emotional blocks - The flying girl: metamorphosis, falling vs. flying, and why she's thinking about bringing her back -Carl Rogers on the personal and the universal and what it means to share the thing that feels most uniquely yours - Moving between worlds: what it means to be the 'weirdo artist' in a business meeting and the business person in an art space - Why the intersection of disciplines is where the juice is Connect with Vex: Instagram: @vexta [https://www.instagram.com/vexta/] Website: vexta.com.au [https://www.vexta.com.au/] Coaching and psychedelic integration: cosmic-vision.com [https://www.cosmic-vision.com/] Vex talks about moving between worlds as the place where the most power lives. Your story lives there too — in the moments where you crossed from one version of yourself into another. If this conversation opened something up for you, that's the starting point. My story excavation guide walks you through pulling your own transformation story using the Six Dynamics Framework. Download it here [https://tr.ee/01aP68plok]. Thanks for listening to Enhanced Senses Podcast. See you next time. Connect with ESP: Enhanced Senses Podcast explores what it feels like to be you through portals like extreme sports, psychedelics, creativity, and intimacy. Follow on Instagram: @enhanced_senses_podcast [https://www.instagram.com/enhanced_senses_podcast/] Substack: Enhanced Senses Substack [https://substack.com/@enhancedsensespodcast] Patreon: Enhanced Senses Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/c/EnhancedSensesPodcast?vanity=user]

Rupture & Integration: A Grand Canyon Story

What happens when the container isn't strong enough to hold you? Erin Witter is a certified and licensed natural medicine facilitator in Colorado's regulated psilocybin market, trained in psychedelic preparation and integration, and a practicing psychospiritual transformation coach. He was the very first guest on Enhanced Senses Podcast and in this episode, he turns the mic around and interviews me. This is a flip-flop conversation. A year after I interviewed Aaron, he interviewed me about something I've been processing ever since: a 22-day Grand Canyon river trip, what happened on a layover-day hike, and what integration has looked like in the year since. What You'll Hear: - My history with psychedelics in outdoor and river contexts: from floating Minnesota rivers at 16 to kayaking the Colorado - Why I describe psychedelics as performance-enhancing in a river context, and the nuance on that - What happened on a seven-mile hike on day 10 of the Grand Canyon trip: a trigger, an ask for space, a rupture - What I did to ground myself when the group left and I was alone on a rock shelf at the peak of the experience - The consent question that stayed with me: if someone breaks their foot on a river trip, no one says the group didn't consent to the accident, so what does consent mean when someone has an emotional rupture? - Why preparation and integration matter as much as the journey itself Connect with Erin: - Enhanced Senses Ep. 1 — the original Erin Witter episode, where Danielle interviewed him - Website: coloradopsychedelichealing.com [https://coloradopsychedelichealing.com/] -Instagram: instagram.com/manifest_mind_coaching/ [https://instagram.com/manifest_mind_coaching/] Building your capacity to answer the question about what a container is able to hold is the process of integration. Enhanced Senses Podcast is about the felt sense of being a self. Extreme sports and psychedelics are the portals I've used to reach that felt sense most often in my life.

Art Reveals Process: Developing Your Creative Relationship

What does your process reveal about who you're becoming? Alyssa didn't think they were an artist. They couldn't draw what they saw the way other people could. But at 16, when they tried psychedelics, something shifted. Art and the medicine became inseparable. And they realized their non-traditional relationship with creativity, the way they actually work, was the thing that made them uniquely valuable. Now an art therapist and co-founder of the Psychedelic Art Therapy Network, Alyssa has spent the last 13+ years teaching people that your creative process, how you think, how you make, how you relate, isn't something to optimize or hide. It's the portal to understanding yourself. They bring trauma-informed, intersectional care to this work, believing that healing and creative expression have to be accessible to all of you, not just the parts that fit. Alyssa draws a distinction between process and product. When you stop asking "what should this look like?" and start asking "how does this feel?" that's when the aliveness shows up. A creative process is only as valuable as the relationship you're willing to build with it. Connect with Alyssa: Website: psychedelicarttherapy.com [https://www.psychedelicarttherapy.com/] Instagram: @mycelialyssa [https://www.instagram.com/mycelialyssa/] Psychedelic Art Therapy Network: @psychedelicarttherapynetwork [https://www.instagram.com/psychedelicarttherapynetwork/] Website: psychedelicarttherapynetwork.org [https://www.psychedelicarttherapynetwork.org/] Building your capacity to understand your own creative process—that is the practice of becoming. Enhanced Senses Podcast is about the felt sense of being a self. Art, psychedelics, and extreme sports are the portals I've used to reach that felt sense most often in my life. Connect with Enhanced Senses Podcast: Instagram: @enhanced_senses_podcast [https://www.instagram.com/enhanced_senses_podcast/] Substack: @enhancedsensespodcast [https://substack.com/@enhancedsensespodcast] Listen on Spotify [https://open.spotify.com/show/2gHBKEAO47qzfw6gkOgWcL?si=4gib5KqhTdGt6jIK8JBgUQ] If this conversation opened something up for you, that's the starting point. My story excavation guide walks you through pulling your own transformation story using the Six Dynamics Framework. Download it here [https://tr.ee/01aP68plok]. Thanks for listening to Enhanced Senses Podcast. See you next time.

Holding Space from the DJ Booth to the Breath: Portals, Pathways, and Integration

What if every unexpected turn in your life was actually leading somewhere? Jonathan Schecter has followed that thread his whole life. From making mixtapes as a kid, to pioneering an internet radio show documenting LA's underground rave scene, to walking away from a full-time DJ career at its peak because meditation made him uncomfortably aware that something wasn't right. Every portal led somewhere he couldn't have predicted. Every exit turned out to be an entrance. Now a breathwork facilitator, Somatic Experiencing practitioner, and integration coach, Jonathan curates professional music for breathwork, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and psilocybin sessions. He brings the DJ's skill of reading a room into the most intimate spaces of human transformation. Jonathan draws a distinction between portals and pathways, and it's not the one you might expect. This conversation will make you think differently about which one you're chasing and why. A portal is only as valuable as what you do with what it opens. Connect with Jonathan: Community: Pathways to Integration on Skool [https://www.skool.com/pathwaystointegration/about]. Podcast: The Vital Point: Pathways to Integration [https://open.spotify.com/show/6GT5LO2bKKoKca5SZSiGJb]. Music services for facilitators: breathwork, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy, and psilocybin sessions. Building your capacity to answer this question — that is the process of integration. Enhanced Senses Podcast is about the felt sense of being a self. Extreme sports and psychedelics are the portals I've used to reach that felt sense most often in my life.