I’m not a big fan of labels like coach, therapist, or healer.

But what I can say is that I’ve worked with hundreds of people from many walks of life, and I consider this work more of a calling, and less of a profession or a job. If you’d like to explore working together, please check out my offerings, my podcast, the writing on my blog, or the testimonials page below to get a better sense of whether or not we would be a good fit to work together.

On the frontlines of the modern psychedelic renaissance, working for plant medicine retreat centers internationally as a facilitator, program director, and Integration specialist. Otto has gained unique insight into the process of what it means to live a life according to our nature, our personal mythos, and the guidance of a transcendent reality.

With a deep and obsessive love for poetry, philosophy, raw and direct experiences with transcendent ritual, and relationship with the soul, Otto seeks beyond conventional notions of well-being and meaning offered in the modern therapeutic discussion.

Through an eclectic blend of Depth psychology, IFS therapy, Active imagination, somatics, and the decolonization of the psyche, Otto has personally developed a novel Integrative methodology that has been translated into educational programs and courses taught to other healers and therapists, a successful private practice, and ceremonial facilitation.

Training and Education

☀ Internal Family Systems Trained Practitioner

IFS Institute

☀ Trauma informed 5MEO Facilitator Training Program:

F.I.V.E Education.

☀ Certified Psychedelic Educator and Integration Guide::

Psychedelic School, Los Angeles California

☀ 500 hr Certified Meditation and Pranayama Teacher:

Shree Mahesh Ashram, Rishikesh India

☀ MA, Integrative Psychedelic Psychotherapy (in process)

AWE Program - Ubiquity University

☀ Somatic Attachment Certificate : Embody Lab

☀ Certified Transformational Recovery and Psychedelic Integration Coach:

Being True to You, Los Angeles California

☀ Trained Kambo Practitioner:

Jungle Expeditions, Iquitos Peru

Featured Media

In her inaugural Mormons on Mushrooms episode as a host, Stephanie Brinkerhoff is joined by Otto Maier to take a deep dive into Individuation, a term coined by Carl Jung, the founder of modern depth psychology, to describe the process of transformation where one turns towards the unconscious to discover and bring to light their unique individual nature.

Otto is a certified and practicing Psychedelic Integration guide, Individuation Coach, and Psychedelic educator with FIVE education, Writer, Poet, and human being.

His personal spiritual path led him from a mental health crisis to spending months studying meditation at Ashrams in northern India, experiencing master plant dietas with Shipibo maestros in the Amazon, studying psychedelic integration, Jungian psychology, Dream work, Curanderismo, and working as a facilitator for multiple Ayahuasca retreat centers in the US and Peru.

In helping others ground and embody transformational experiences he implements the foundations of IFS therapy, Jungian and Archetypal psychology, Somatic awareness, Indigenous philosophy.

The main focus of his work is assisting individuals in bridging the gap between their plant medicine/spiritual experiences and what they live in everyday life. He believes that if we can open ourselves to the poetry and aesthetic sensibility of nature, our relationships, and the soul that is orchestrating the dance of these elements, that life can be as simply profound as these fleeting transcendent spiritual experiences. That healing is not an event, but a process, and is available to all who have eyes to see, and ears to listen to the healing calling us from within.
Exploring higher consciousness while healing from toxic religious shame.

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Photo: Courtesy of The EAST Institute

This podcast episode is a repost from the “Soul & Psyche” podcast, where Luis and Otto Maier discuss topics that include art as therapy, the mystical experience, animism, and more. Otto is a trained and Certified Psychedelic Integration guide, Jungian Coach, Ceremony facilitator, Kambo practitioner, and Breathwork facilitator for retreat centers around the world.

You can listen to the “Soul & Psyche” podcast here.

You can learn more about Otto's work here: https://www.soulpsyche.org/
You can register for the webinar here: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com/moving-through-freeze-webinar
You can register for the August Community Somatics here:
This podcast explores holistic stress and trauma recovery. I am your host, Luis Mojica. My work, Holistic Life Navigation, was modeled after my own journey in healing myself from chronic illness and PTSD. I share this podcast with many brilliant minds who, like me, healed themselves through unique, unusual, and unorthodox ways.

For more information, please visit: https://www.holisticlifenavigation.com.

Written, produced and recorded by Luis Mojica. Edited by Fredo Viola. Intro/outro song: "Witch Love" by Luis Mojica.

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