Soul Repair Society, LLC is Oregon-based licensed psilocybin facilitation, psychedelic preparation, and somatic integration with Liz Asch Greenhill.

Journeys take place in Portland, Oregon at your choice of service center.

ABOUT LIZ

 

As a certified Psilocybin Facilitator in the state of Oregon, I received an informative and innovative education at the Synaptic Institute from 2023-2024. My previous training is in somatic awareness practices, processes of repair and resilience-building from Eastern Medicine, and explorations of creativity from a lifetime of work in the arts. I bring to the psilocybin experience knowledge of meridian theory, the four levels, and the five-elements alongside a skillset that helps you deepen your subtle body awareness and interoceptive communication skills as we work together.

 

I have spent the past 15 years in Oregon as a trauma-informed acupuncturist and herbalist, integrating myofascial release work, guided visualization, and a variety of language-based embodiment methods that support trauma healing. I hold certificates from the Embody Lab, the Body Wisdom Academy, and somatic work for the treatment of trauma with Peter Levine. Before becoming an acupuncturist, I worked as an artists’ assistant in New York City and Western Massachusetts. A writer and artist, I have published poetry, essays, short stories, interviews, reviews, and art in over thirty journals, magazines, and anthologies.

 

I am fascinated by the way that language can change the way we feel, both in our bodies, and in our minds, impacting our outlook and attitude. Body Land: Metaphor Medicine podcast, is an audio collection of guided visualizations I made that help you meditate, relax, recharge, and reset your nervous system. These meditations can also be used as a way to familiarize yourself with qi cultivation, exploring mystical realms, and preparation for the psychonaut experience. Body Land is designed to be listened to when you can be still and quiet with your eyes closed, whether that’s in bed or on the sofa or on your bus or subway commute. Most episodes are in English with some in Spanish. You can listen to Body Land Metaphor Medicine for free on Apple podcasts, Spotify, or Amazon Music.

 

Growing up Jewish and queer in the American South in the 1970s, 80s, and 90s helped me develop humility and compassion related to being marginalized and othered. As a child, my happiest and most peaceful times were spent drawing and being out in nature. I was a kid who wanted to be an artist and a writer, and as a teenager I was an active environmentalist and advocate for people living with HIV and AIDS and their loved ones. At Vassar College I studied conceptual poetry and 16 mm filmmaking and wrote analytically about literature and art. I am the mother of a grown child who is now in college. I was living in New York city in 2001 and after the attack on the twin towers, bereft and struggling with my mental health, I went seeking a way to heal my body, mind, and soul. I abruptly changed my life, left the art world, and enrolled in school to study Chinese Medicine. 

 

I am also the creator and host of the podcast, Recto/Verso: Conversations Beyond Art, an interview project where I ask artists reflective questions about their methods, processes, and lives, with an emphasis on normalizing the shadow side or under side of what we go through as creative people putting work in the world. When we think of the ‘recto’ that’s like the finished work we put out there to the public, while the ‘verso’ is the private part, including all that went into it that goes unnoticed or unsaid. In this podcast we talk candidly about all the aspects of these personal processes.

 

 

PSILOCYBIN AS A HEALING MODALITY

 

In my studies of Eastern Medicine, I learned of ways in which we can be seen as having four levels to our being. We have a body, a mind, a feeling (or emotional) self, and a soul (or spirit). The world can also be seen as existing on these four levels. Many pre-modern cultures are known to see the body and world this way. This interpretation resonates with me very much, as a human, and as a practitioner. We live in a society in which there is much soul sickness. The soul can be damaged by trauma (collective and personal), poverty, stripped dignity, addiction, abuse and violence. Our society upholds many systems of inequity and these carry enormous impacts. When we are sick on the soul level, we need healing on the soul level, but our society offers few resources. We can help the physical body through physical means. We can help the emotions through relationships built on health and respect and rehabilitation. We can help the mind with therapy and pharmaceuticals. Each of these methods of repair are essential components of healing for many. The soul level is both subtle and highly sensed. We are in touch with our soul when we have moments of awe, chills, bliss, resonance, uncanniness, perhaps serendipity or déjà vu, strong intuition, and mystical experiences. A therapeutic psilocybin journey is like stepping onto a launchpad that take us to that mystical realm and the world of the soul. In that etheric place, mysterious sensations, images, and scenes can play out that help us repair our wounded spirit. We can encourage the likelihood of reaching the spirit level by crafting our intentions for the journey with care, clarity of request, awareness, surrender, and humility. We will also do somatic work together in our prep sessions in which we practice touching in to the subtle body, to familiarize ourselves with the sensations and help build the muscle of accessing the soul. When we approach this mysterious level with curiosity, openness, and support, we may be able to repair the essence of our being in ways which we likely could not reach otherwise.

 

 

WORKING WITH ME – WHAT TO EXPECT

 

A psilocybin experience with me as your facilitator includes about 20 hours of work together. Unlike therapy, this is a brief relationship. Also unlike therapy or other modalities of care, I am not going to give you advice or direct your healing process. Rather, I am a friendly, supportive, caring witness who is there to keep you safe. I am not the director of your journey experience. You are also not the director of your journey experience. The mystic wisdom of the mushrooms is the director of the journey. That is why we call it a journey. You are a passenger, and the mushrooms are the driver. You are not expected to navigate. You are the one sitting in the front seat with a great view! Just try to enjoy the journey and let the mushrooms lead. I’ll be there in the wings to keep you safe. It's best if you come to your mushroom journey with a beginner’s mind. Try to let go of the need to control the experience — or lead with expectations. More on that later!

 

Our work together is comprised of:

  1. an introductory virtual conversation (approx 30 min) in which I help you determine if this approach seems salutary and timely for you and we both assess if we are a good fit to work together

  2. two virtual preparation sessions

  3. your journey day (in-person at the service center which best fits your needs)

  4. a virtual integration session the day after

  5. a second integration session 2-3 weeks after your journey

 

My rates are sliding scale.

 

$1500 is my rate for the package (the list of 5 above)

$500-$1250 for those living under the poverty line (offered in limited quantity)

$2000 for those with extra means who generously help allow those in need to work with me

  

Bear in mind that in addition to paying your facilitator, you will need to pay the service center an additional $600-$900 for the room, their services, and your mushrooms. Some service centers offer a limited number of reduced rates as low as $250 for the room and their services for those in need. If that fits your needs, let me know and I will look into that option for you.

We can schedule your journey day at a number of Portland’s service centers. Let me know what is important to you regarding your journey and I’ll suggest some options, if you don’t already have a center in mind.