Beyond Set and Setting: Ecodelic Attunement to Regulate Nervous Systems

With Dr. Yogi Hendlin

Workshop, Dinner, Lecture & Music for Psychedelic Professionals, Practitioners & Explorers

Saturday April 5, 2025 at Salon Ruigoord

Pick your journey:
1 – 7 PM | Workshop & Dinner
And/Or
7-10 PM | Lecture & Music

Psychedelics heighten our sensitivity, revealing hidden layers of perception and opening doors to deeper connection. They help us move with more grace through the world, fostering attunement to ourselves, others, and the living environment. Yet, this expanded awareness can also leave us in a liminal space—where familiar patterns no longer serve us, while new ones are not fully formed. How do we navigate this delicate transition? How can we cultivate resilience and embodied presence in the midst of transformation?

Join us for this edition of the Psychedelic Salon, where we explore these questions through an ecodelic lens—integrating psychedelic experiences with nature-based practices that support nervous system regulation. This Salon invites us to reimagine set and setting as something more expansive—an ongoing attunement to self, ecology, and the unseen networks that shape our experience. Whether through immersive workshops, intellectual inquiry, or artistic expression, this space is dedicated to exploration, reflection, and co-creation. Choose your path—whether it’s deepening into practice during the day or joining an evening of dialogue and music—and engage in a way that resonates with your journey.

Afternoon Workshop: Somatic Practices for Navigating Liminality

This hands-on session offers tools and techniques to engage with the often-overlooked spaces in our bodies and psyches, fostering trust in self and environment. Through an ecodelic approach, we will explore how slowing down and deep listening can support the integration of psychedelic experiences. These practices serve as anchors, helping us metabolize the intensity of transformation and deepen our capacity for connection.

What you will learn:

• Navigating Liminality – Practices for moving through the transitional space between old and new ways of being.
• Psychedelics in Ecological Context – Understanding how our surroundings profoundly shape psychedelic experiences.
• Somatic Practices for Integration – Engaging the body as a site of wisdom and healing.
• Slowing Down to ‘Do the Work’ – Cultivating nervous system regulation to support sustained transformation.
• Techniques for Before, During & After – Applying these practices at different stages of the psychedelic journey for greater depth and resilience.

Evening Lecture

For those drawn to an intellectual and artistic exploration, the evening program offers a thought-provoking lecture by Dr. Yogi Hendlin, followed by a live music set. In this lecture, Yogi will explore ecodelic attunement—how the environment, including the built and natural world, profoundly shapes our experiences with psychedelics. He will discuss the importance of integrating ecological awareness into psychedelic practice, highlighting how nervous system regulation, cultural narratives, and societal structures influence the way altered states unfold. Drawing from a background in environmental philosophy and public health, Yogi will offer insights into how we can move beyond the conventional understanding of set and setting towards an ecological approach that understands the wisdom of psychedelics from the outside in.

Who is Dr. Yogi Hendlin?

Dr. Yogi Hendlin is an environmental philosopher, public health scientist, and interdisciplinary researcher. Yogi is core faculty at the Dynamics of Inclusive Prosperity Initiative and an assistant professor at Erasmus School of Philosophy, Erasmus University Rotterdam. For two decades, Yogi has been affiliated with the University of California, San Francisco medical school. As the Editor-in-Chief of the journal Biosemiotics, Yogi studies meaning-making in more-than-human organisms, exploring the complexity of life, agency, and consciousness.

Beyond academia, Yogi integrates scientific inquiry with embodied wisdom. Yogi is an AcroYoga and TaKeTiNa teacher, musician, and DJ, and co-founded Ecstatic Dance Berlin. Yogi’s futurist perspectives have been featured in Happinez magazine, Het Nieuwe Instituut, Leiden’s Brave New World festival, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and other global platforms. Yogi’s research on industrial epidemics—how modern industries create harmful social and environmental consequences—has been covered by BBC, The Guardian, National Geographic, and many more.

Programme

Ticket 1: Full Experience: Workshop, Dinner, Talk & Tunes

13:00 – 13:30 | Arrival & Welcome
13:30 – 14:00 | Tea Ceremony – Traditional gong fu style Puehr tea ceremony
14:00 – 17:00 | Workshop
18:00 – 19:00 | Dinner (Vegetarian)
19:30 – 20:15 | Lecture
20:15 – 20:45 | Q&A, moderated by Daan Keiman
21:00 – 22:00 | Ecstatic Dance by Yogi

Ticket 2: Evening Session: Talk & Tunes

19:00 – 19:30 | Arrival & Welcome
19:30 – 20:15 | Lecture
20:15 – 20:45 | Q&A, moderated by Daan Keiman
21:00 – 22:00 | Ecstatic Dance by Yogi

This event will be conducted in English.

We are not able to offer refunds.