Nick Walker

Somatic Practices and the Psychedelic Experience

Nick Walker

Somatic practices are practices that use physical movement and other aspects of embodiment (breath, posture, etc.) to facilitate change in the psyche. Join Dr. Nick Walker, somatic psychologist, and expert on transformative somatic practices, for a discussion of the many roles that movement and somatic practice can play in enhancing, integrating, and inducing psychedelic experience.

Dr. Nick Walker is a transdisciplinary scholar, author, and futurist whose work explores the edges and intersections of somatic psychology, depth psychology, queer theory, neurodiversity, embodiment, and transformative practice. She is a faculty member at the California Institute of Integral Studies, senior aikido instructor at the Aiki Arts Center in Berkeley, author of the book Neuroqueer Heresies, and one of the foundational thinkers in the emerging field of Neurodiversity Studies. She also writes speculative fiction, including the urban fantasy webcomic Weird Luck.