Katabasis - A Ketamine Therapy Journey
Katabasis
Stories are how we make sense of life.
The ancient Greeks had a word for the journey of descending into the unknown with intention — and returning changed by what they found there:
ka · TA · ba · sis.
It was a deliberate choice to go deeper when nothing on the surface was working anymore.
3½ years ago I had a nervous breakdown; CPTSD had been building for years, and when it broke the surface, 4 of my 6 kids chose to estrange themselves from me. Now our 30-year marriage is looking like it’s ending in divorce.
I have not found clarity or peace in my grief and suffering.
So I’m doing what the ancients did. I’m going in with intention.
This podcast documents my ketamine-assisted therapy experience at the Within Center at AWKN Ranch in Austin — a first-person account of going deeper when nothing else has worked.
I invite you to join me on the journey.
This is ka · TA · ba · sis.
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Katabasis - A Ketamine Therapy Journey
Sound Bath - Episode 4
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Day 4 brought something I wasn’t prepared for: a sound bath led by the woman who runs frequency healing at AWKN Ranch. 7 singing bowls tuned to the chakras, a symphonic gong, and breath work focused on gratitude. I didn’t know what to expect.
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I want to know it's what I keep coming back to. Um, but even at those moments, I always end up so great for what I think uh me, or most of them I can even if I have, you know, a bag of rights and I can be not being happy, you know, if we have to start to ask what things come into your life.
SPEAKER_02Um focused on what we don't have, to notice the work that we have to my life, and what uh experience, I guess, information that I can start today is how much I do have all the things that have continue to come to be so much, and so I would like us to bring that intention for ourselves and working on different things here. We all have trust, we all have um things that maybe not wanting to think about because I would like for us to just kind of close our eyes, feel your body in your seat, just take a deep breath together, and just open your mouth, clear what it is, and then from the bottom, fill the back to the screen from the part of the top, and you're not extra all the way up to the top, like an extra step in at the top, and just hold it up, and then just start to bring into the eye second, just in this moment it's around the keys that somebody can find that for just another second, hold on, faculty. Just exhale all the other let's take it back in. Make your exhale even longer than your inhale. Just slowly lay it out, don't force me about so you just let the breath up. Inhale. Bring your breath all the way up, so your chest tough up, or your ribs extend, full breath all the way up. Please attention.
SPEAKER_00Your spine nice and long. Squeeze your side breath and pull the nail to your spine to release that little bit more breath out the end of your example.
SPEAKER_02And take another deep full breath and again focus on one theme or several themes reference for it. In a long circuit saw while all of the breath goes. Just give yourself a few moments to deepen your influence. And just allow yourself to be fully present in this moment. It's not that you're trying to force the breeze, recognize it, and then you just can't still let it go. When you've got it, you want to be a list of things, whatever that is for you.
SPEAKER_00So we've got all these little enemies, tens of thousands of them and sparms. So it's not the best together, still all these little points in your brain of the body just before.
SPEAKER_02Start to feel the balance that you are cultivating between your right palm and your left palm. Right and the left side of your brain. In this posture, you are creating balance, tallness, keys. One more round of breath. Going to take us to the ball stop.
SPEAKER_00So just anything that you can feel, screen yourself back to your breath, back to the gratitude.
SPEAKER_02Just inform the present and just not anything else you can just do outside the breath, outside the space. Gift yourself all presents. An honor to gift extremely frequencies, charge your heart, your nervous system, any little distortions in our mind and our thoughts, start to regulate, start to be guided to what you need. Next one behind it. Moving on your fingers, stepping your inputs, feeling starting to use and movement back into your body. Just make it stretch, which your eyes out through your hand. Put your hands in over to one side. And just bring your hands back down as you're stretching fore. Drop your chin down towards your chest. So that's what on the back of your mouth. Lift your chest towards your toes. Let your chin jump down. Roll your ear towards your left shoulder. And bring your chin back towards the center of your chest. Just let the head jump forward. Inhale, roll your ear over towards the other shoulder. Just pause as it leans over to the side. And bring your chin back to center. And roll your ear towards your left shoulder. Gently left the head wall. Not forcing it above your feet. All the way around to the opposite shoulder. Back to the starting point. Nice and slow to set the weight of the head of the room. Last year. And then change your direction and down. One head to the right to go. And back to the center point. Take the wave of your head moving around. All the way to the other side. And then compete with your chin back forward to just. And then inhale, just lift your hands in your chin down up to the floor.
SPEAKER_00Rest your hands on your thighs. Just inhale, lift your shoulders up into your ears. Roll your shoulders forward.
SPEAKER_02Lift them back and back. Roll forward. Snap your shoulder circles. And you bring it back up. And change direction. One more big circle around. Last wire. Exhale. Melt all the tenth down and just shake your hands up.
SPEAKER_03Take your hands up.
SPEAKER_02Just bring your hands back into your heart seat and swing and release anything you're holding in your head. Let's take a deep breath into that. Exhale through your nails. Just bowering slightly towards your heart. Press your palms together and lift your heart. Breathe into your mind, into your thought. Whatever it was that you began your practice with. Maybe something else is coming up for you. Bringing in the gratitude into your heart space. And then exhale as you allow to radiate from your heart into your hands, into everything you do, everything you touch. Another deep full breath in. Focus on the gratitude, that thing that you're so grateful for. Bring it into your heart space. Everything you touch, everything you receive. Hold it for just a second. And then exhale. Let it radiate into the space all around you. This beautiful weather, even the rain that we've had, and the healing that my body has gone through, strength that I have, resilience, also the selfness, his ability to receive, and to give. So grateful to both of you being yourself here to be present, share your energy, to share your gratitude. I'm grateful for awakening much for within center. All the people that support me, surround me, uplift me, allow me to give and to love and to be a part of this beautiful place. And all the beautiful connections.
SPEAKER_04I don't think I'm gonna be still gonna be talking.
SPEAKER_00Yeah.
SPEAKER_04So I didn't think I was gonna be able to do the whole thing.
SPEAKER_00Yeah. The frequencies are very powerful. The balls have to kind of open up different areas, but the gong, nothing gets past the gun. It's gonna gather the energy and it's gonna like refine it, and then it's gonna send it back out. And so the yawning is actually a really good sign, I think for your nervous. Yeah, I mean it's a nervous that comes back and leaving and it's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, the yawn is like always a good sign. So I think about yawning. If I see people snoring or sleeping while the gong's playing, I'm like, yeah, but yeah, it's one of the few things that can look like an effect on a cellular level, and there's like science can show how it affects the nervous system and what it does to the areas of the brain.
SPEAKER_01Um what's the gong call?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, this is a um synchronic column, and so it's not tuned to a certain frequency, so it has all of the frequency, whereas somebody's also tuned to a specific frequency.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_00And that one is like this one is in a sound like a hard time. So I don't know where the other ones are, and then they can summon them to the sum of the uh there's like a red white one, which is like a um there's the red one, which is the large deeper tone one, and that's for like your root, your base, and there's the orange one that's more for this um, and some of the questions is like uh center of power creativity, or you know, receiving, giving, loving. And then there's the one which is here, and then so I don't know what the yoga to call.
SPEAKER_01Uh-huh. Yeah, and what is it? What kind of classes did you go to?
SPEAKER_00Uh well, I've done several things. I've done uh yoga therapy, where it works on like very physical stuff, and then also, you know, the frequency things too. Um probably about 15 years ago that I started working on the gong, and I had some pastor teachers that just came out. So actually, today with the gong, I was really feeling like frequency things that was like projecting from the heart, but I also I don't play the gong, the gong plays me and it tells me what to do and where to go. So I'm just in a receptive state where I'm just listening and I'm feeling what's going on in the right. The gong will let me know. I don't like that. So it's just very um it's it's sounds different every time. Sounds different every time. So we need to do this again. Um I'm not sure uh I'm not each of the other is the one. I don't want to talk to them. Um the comments free from things for the four.
SPEAKER_01Oh, this is a form of