
END OF LIFE PSYCHEDELIC CARE PRESENTS
Yogic Practice for the Ketamine State at the End of Life
A WORKSHOP BY THE PSYCHEDELIC YOGA RESEARCH COLLECTIVE
What if we could practice meeting death before we actually meet it?
Ketamine is often described as the psychedelic experience closest to a near-death experience, and end-of-life workers sometimes describe a ketamine session as a rehearsal for dying.
This workshop takes that literally.
In this three-hour interactive workshop, participants will move through a substance-free rehearsal of a ketamine journey, from preparation to journey to integration.
Yogic and body-mind practices built to draw out the mystical depth of the ketamine state — the depth that research links to lower death anxiety – are woven together with ritual, reflection, and meaning-making.
No ketamine or other medicine is used. The ketamine state is the reference point for the workshop, not a part of the session.
Rather than simply learning about these practices, participants learn through direct experience, developing a felt understanding of the territory along with practical methods they can adapt for supporting their own clients.
This workshop reflects EOLPC's commitment to interdisciplinary education that honors both the clinical and psycho-spiritual dimensions of dying, while supporting practitioners in developing ethical, grounded approaches to psychedelic-assisted end-of-life care.
This workshop is best experienced live but it will be recorded for those unable to attend.
This workshop is for experienced end-of-life practitioners, people facing mortality, and those who love and care for them, including:
• Palliative and Hospice Care Professionals
• Chaplains and Spiritual Care Practitioners
• End-of-Life Doulas
• People living with serious or life-limiting illness
• People navigating aging, grief, or their own mortality
• Family members, loved ones, and caregivers
• Anyone supporting someone through serious illness or at the end of life
The full session is three hours and remains interactive throughout.
— 12:00 PM ET | Preparation
Participants settle into breath and body awareness, establish an intention, and create a personal homecoming phrase and body-breath anchor. A brief mortality reflection, personal altar, and “before” drawing help set the stage for the journey. Ritual, somatic, and breath practices are woven together from the beginning.
— Journey | Elemental Dissolution
The central journey follows the dissolution of the elements: earth, water, fire, and air. Each element is invoked and gradually released through breath and yogic practices of letting go. Participants may bring their own questions, experiences, and intentions to the journey, including around dying, grief, fear of death, curiosity about death, or supporting others through these territories.
— Break | Guided Yoga Nidra
A period of rest and deep relaxation through guided Yoga Nidra.
— Integration | Meaning-Making & Return
Participants begin to make meaning of the experience and explore how to carry the practice into daily life. Returning to their homecoming phrase and body-breath anchor, they consider simple ways to keep the work alive through breath and somatic practices, a candle or altar, or a daily ritual. An “after” drawing mirrors the opening reflection.
— Reflections and Q&A
Reflect on the experience, share insights, and explore questions with the group.

Henry Kandel is an educator, yogi, and the founder of the Psychedelic Yoga Research Collective, a Brooklyn nonprofit developing body-mind practices for non-ordinary states of consciousness — in psychedelic healing, in the cultivation of mystical experience, and at the end of life.
They have spent three decades teaching subjects from astronomy to improvisational theater, bringing yogic practice into every room. Trained across pranayama, meditation, jnana yoga, and Tibetan dream yoga.
After experiencing psychedelic therapy and yogic methods together dissolve decades of depression and anxiety, Henry developed Ketamine-State Yoga and wrote the manual Yoga of the Ketamine State. They lead the Psychedelic Yoga Meetup, a community of more than 5,700people , and teach physics and cognitive science by day.

Robin Silver, MA, is a death doula, ecopsychologist, and threshold guide whose work explores the intersections of grief, ritual, ecology, and transformation.
Robin holds an MA in Ecopsychology from Naropa University, along with certification in mindfulness instruction in the lineage of Chogyam Trunga Rinpoche and Psychedelic Assisted Therapy. Her master’s thesis focused on the role that fear of death plays in the polycrisis, and how to use ancestral practices and connection to the rhythmic cycles of nature in overcoming that fear.
Her path began in 2011 during a mindfulness retreat at Guang Jue Monastery in rural China, and has since been shaped by 15 years of contemplative study, death & grief work, and cross-cultural healing traditions across the US, Mexico, and Asia.
By combining her training in nature connection and contemplative practices, end-of-life care, psychedelic healing, and ritual design, Robin creates containers that support personal inquiry and collective healing. Her facilitation style blends accessible psychological frameworks with spiritually resonant practices, to help participants remember their inner knowing and restore relationship with the more-than-human world.
Yes, the recording will be sent to all registrants within 24-48 hours after the event.
This 3-hour workshop is offered on a donation basis with a $10 minimum, with 100% of your contribution supporting EOLPC’s work to Advocate, Educate, and Connect and expand access to safe psychedelic care at the end of life.
No. This is a completely substance-free workshop. The ketamine state is the reference point for the practices.
No. The workshop focuses on breath, body awareness, surrender, and accessible embodied practices rather than physical yoga poses.
No. This is an educational and experiential workshop for professional practitioners.
A quiet, comfortable space where you can participate without interruption. You may also want a candle, simple materials for a personal altar, and paper and drawing materials for the "before" and "after" drawings.
You will leave with practical body-mind methods for preparation, journey support, and integration, along with a firsthand understanding of the practices and the territory they are designed to support.
Date
Monday, October 12, 2026
Time
12 – 3 PM ET
9 AM – 12 PM PT
Location
Online via Zoom
Price
Donation-Based; $10 minimum
End of LIfe Psychedelic Care • Death Sangha
eolpc.org