Our body holds more than tension; It holds stories waiting to be heard. At Unwind Oakland, we honor the body as a guide and storyteller by embracing the language of ethical and attuned touch.We value inclusive, co-created experiences where joy is sacred, fear is companioned, and humor is transformative.Through psychedelic integration bodywork and Ketamine-Assisted Therapeutic Myofascial (KATM) Bodywork, we work alongside you in your journey toward deeper connection with yourself and others as fellow Earthlings. Committed to doing our own work and deeply knowing this terrain, we strive to meet the unique needs of our clients with expansive approaches to psychedelic care. Here, you are invited to explore to restore, integrate, and fully inhabit your embodied experience—changed, yet whole.
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Connecting Our Community
Touch with Substance 2026 presenters announcement!
Replay | What the Fascia?! Perimenopause, pain, and prescribing (CEs!)
Aug 14 | Wait... is Fascia THE Emotional Organ!?
Sep 13 | FREE Constellations Day
Touch with Substance, October 2026
We Want You to Join Us
Bridge building and centering new voices is why we created Touch with Substance. Unlike most multi-speaker online events that flood you with a full day of information, we are spacing out our sessions throughout October. You have time to integrate and process. We also have a virtual art display, a place to share playlists, a library to share reading recommendations, and more!
The best part of any in-person conference is the hallway conversations and the magic when the spotlight is off. At the virtual Touch with Substance, you get access to a private, conference-only forum without the public noise. This is a space where you can discuss presentations with peers, ask questions of presenters, build genuine relationships, and enjoy a meaningful sense of connection.
Let's join hands and build the bridge together!
Speakers!
Oct 01 | Fascia: Soft Tissue and the Hard Problem of Consciousness (A Speculative Voyage) with David Lesondak
Oct 02 | Using Visual Art Techniques and Embodied Practices for Process Encounters with Non-Ordinary States of Consciousness with Rebecca Wilkinson
Oct 09 | Two Years Later: What We Are Learning Prescribing Ketamine-Assisted Myofascial Therapy and Ethical Peer Monitoring for Affordability | Daniel Irby, MD and Suz Vera Burroughs
Oct 09 | Touch Is One Tool: Rehabilitation-Informed Somatic Care in Psychedelic Practice with Marin Campbell
Oct 16 | The Five Bodies: Why Touch Matters in Altered States with Lisa Parker
Oct TBD | When Legal Isn't Ethical: Psychedelics, Touch, and the Cost of Regulation with Sabrina Santa Clara
Oct TBD | When the Body Speaks: Are We Mislabeling Embodied Experience as Adverse Events in Psychedelic Research? with Suz Vera Burroughs
Oct TBD | Techniques for Companioning the Jaw: Clenching and Tension as Content with Suz Vera Burroughs
Oct TBD | Entactogens, empathogens, connectogens, or neuroplastigens? Relational containers, the tactile sense, and clearer nomenclature with Special Guest(s)
Perimenopause pain is a fascia story that deserves more than a shrug. Suz Vera and Dr. Daniel Irby unpack where bodywork, mental health, and prescribing meet during this wild chapter. Perfect for those crafting holistic care plans for patients and clients (without all those annoying platitudes). Includes autogenerated subtitles in a handful of languages.
Please forward this email or share links to these events.
Your heartfelt connections are the only way we grow this community.
Thank you for you.
✨ Ready for Magic? ✨
Join Dr. Irby and Suz for a free monthly online gathering where we’ll come together for a lightly facilitated, deeply human hour for professionals exploring topics in bodywork, medical care, psychiatry, & expanded states.
2026 August 14 - Wait... is Fascia THE Emotional Organ!?
2026 September 11 - Expanded States of Pain: Migraines, Clusters, & Headaches
2026 October 8 - Touch with Substance Crashes the Rumpus!
2026 November 13 - Touch with Substance Integration
2026 December 11 - Magical Friendship Holiday Special
email hi@bookunwind.com to Request to Join the Magical Friendship Rumpus Hour
SEPTEMBER 13
FREE Constellation Day with Rev. Katherine Revoir
Family Constellations are powerful portals that bring understanding and a fresh perspective to the big picture of our lives. Join our next online free constellation day. Together, we can gently untangle the mystery of how things got to be the way they are.
Join us at Touch with Substance 2026! We center grounded, consent-based approaches that honor complexity, lived experience, and responsible practice. If your work thoughtfully engages touch in expanded or non-ordinary states through clinical, cultural, or embodied lenses, we encourage you to apply and contribute to this growing, collaborative conversation.
Our body holds more than tension; It holds stories waiting to be heard. At Unwind Oakland, we honor the body as a guide and storyteller by embracing the language of ethical and attuned touch.We value inclusive, co-created experiences where joy is sacred, fear is companioned, and humor is transformative.Through psychedelic integration bodywork and Ketamine-Assisted Therapeutic Myofascial (KATM) Bodywork, we work alongside you in your journey toward deeper connection with yourself and others as fellow Earthlings. Committed to doing our own work and deeply knowing this terrain, we strive to meet the unique needs of our clients with expansive approaches to psychedelic care. Here, you are invited to explore to restore, integrate, and fully inhabit your embodied experience—changed, yet whole.
Connecting Our Community Act Today! | Touch with Substance 2026 call for presentations Replay | What the Fascia?! Perimenopause, pain, and prescribing (CEs!) July 16 | Peery-Menopause Circle LIVE! in Oakland August 2 | FREE Constellation Day Please forward this email or share links to these events. Your heartfelt connections are the only way we grow this community. Thank you for you. Call for Presentations Join us at Touch with Substance 2026! We center grounded, consent-based approaches that...
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