07: Rita Bozi: Relational Embodiment and PUNK (Psychedelic Underground Neural Kindness)
“There is nothing more extraordinary than, when you can resource your body enough, get enough support, to embody the people that have harmed you. It’s such a lesson in understanding intergenerational trauma. That there are no villains or victims. But that, as Gabor Maté says, there’s a lot of hurting people. “
Rita Bozi is a multidisciplinary Somatic Relational trauma-informed Facilitator and Psychedelic Therapist, author, educator, and podcast co-host of PUNK THERAPY (Psychedelic Underground Neural Kindness). With twenty-nine years experience in the healing arts, she is the director of Brilliant Healing Inc. working with individuals and groups leading therapeutic, experiential and creative medicine retreats. She teaches internationally and trains, mentors and supervises medicine practitioners in her unique program, Somatic Relational Trauma-informed Practices for Medicine-Assisted Facilitation. In 2022, she was guest faculty at The Synthesis Institute and in 2024 she completed a practicum in Somatic Transformation with Sharon Stanley PhD. Rita has deep respect for and experience with both non-traditional and Indigenous medicines and practices a non-pathologizing, body-centered, attachment-based and bio-psycho-social approach to healing.
She is a retired dancer, actor and playwright. Her first novel, When I Was Better released in 2022 is a winner of the Firebird Book Award and a finalist for the Goethe International literary award for Late-Historical Fiction. She is currently writing PUNK Therapy, drawing on her clinical work with women.
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