“Embodied empathy, responsiveness and care”
“Embodied empathy, responsiveness and care”
Somatic Relational Psychedelic Therapist, Somatic Transformation Educator, Author
Rita Bozi is a multidisciplinary Somatic Relational trauma-informed Facilitator, Psychedelic Therapist, Somatic Transformation Educator, author, and podcast co-host. With thirty years’ experience in the healing arts, she is the director of Brilliant Healing Inc. She works with individuals and groups, leading unique, experiential and creative healing retreats. She trains, mentors and supervises international students in her 3 Module program: Somatic Relational Trauma-informed Practices for Medicine-Assisted Facilitation. Rita is teaching Cohorts in Canada, Europe, the US and Australia and is guest faculty at The Synthesis Institute. She has been invited to lecture at the Psychedelic Association of Canada, for the Psychedelic-assisted Therapy Graduate Certificate Program at Vancouver Island University and at ATMA Journey Centres in the Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy Program. She was mentored by the late visionary Carol-Anne Bickerstaff and spent four years in a practicum with Sharon Stanley PhD, studying her Somatic Transformation Model. She is a Consultant Facilitator of the One Brain System, has a Diploma in Shiatsu Therapy and is a former instructor at Mount Royal College in Calgary and Langara College in Vancouver.
Her podcast PUNK THERAPY: Psychedelic Underground Neural Kindness has had over 20,000 downloads which she co-hosts with Dr. T. In 2013, Rita wrote, produced and co-starred with Gabor Maté in the multi-disciplinary show, The Damage is Done which performed to sold out houses. Her first novel, When I Was Better, released in 2022 is a winner of the Firebird Book Award, and is a finalist for the 2022 Goethe International literary award for Late-Historical Fiction. She is a retired dancer, actor and performer.
For more information about Rita visit: https://www.brillianthealingsystems.com