Depth Medicine, County Clare, Ireland, Liscannor (2026)

15/01/2026

In the words of Bayo Akomolafe, “Times are urgent; let us slow down.”

Returning to the US has been an adjustment. And honestly, it’s been rough.

But I think it’s been rough for all of us. I’ve watched how my nervous system contorts itself just to function here. How we internalize the police state that is all around us, and is becoming increasingly impossible to ignore.

Anonymity is literally killing us, as community responsibility is eclipsed by isolated freedom. Almost everyone I know seems to be on the brink. Perhaps you are too.

(My latest Substack article dives into each of these reflections, and more. Check it out.)

“Times are urgent” indeed. So I am slowing down.

I’m taking the rest of this month off Instagram to ponder my orb.

But in the mean time, I want to share that my books are open for new clients.

I’m craving to return to seeing individual therapy and coaching clients–the backbone of my practice and training–where we can explore the depth psychological, mythopoetic, and Jungian realms that have always guided my work.

This was why I became a therapist in the first place, and honestly, I miss it. After years of teaching, writing, and guiding groups through transformative experiences, I’m excited to offer more intimate, 1:1 containers, where we can dive into the world of the deep psyche together.

If you’re seeking support or guidance that weaves together myth, depth, and altered states of consciousness, my books are open for a handful of new clients.

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Learn more about working with me through the link in my bio, or visit:
simonyugler.com/mentorship

Read my latest Substack piece:
https://open.substack.com/pub/simonyugler/p/6-reflections-on-returning-to-the

See you when the dust settles.

08/01/2026

Ever since I met in Santa Fe last year, and felt an immediate kinship. Hiking around in the parched badlands outside of town, our conversation stretched from vision fasting to animism to the struggles of being a creative entrepreneur.

When she asked me to be a part of her live conversation series, Creative Devotion, here in her new home of Portland (!) I couldn’t say no. I’m so excited for what she’s bringing to the community here.

On January 15th, I’ll be part of curated panel conversation called *Creative Devotion: On Grief and Vision*.

This series is about the parts of the creative process that don’t often get talked about — the vulnerability, the grief, and the psychospiritual dimensions of developing offerings.

This is an in-person gathering. If you’re in Portland and want to meet some amazing folks, I’d love to see you there.

January 15th from 6–9 PM at

https://www.midwives.studio/creative-devotion

31/12/2025

Greetings from the glorious Columbia River Gorge!

Quick announcement that my 7-week online course, Mythopoetic Integration, is available today and tomorrow for a massive discount.

I’m stoked to offer this training once more, and to dive back into the terrain of the deep psyche with a whole new group of inner explorers. I’m excited to meet you all.

We begin in January 4th. See you there! (Link in bio to register)

28/11/2025

Here’s a picture of me at the edge of the world to let you know that my 7-week course on Mythopoetic Integration is currently on sale for over $200 off.

Black Friday is weird. Money is weird. Consumerism is weird. And yet here we are. I designed a course that I am really proud of, based on years of hands-on work, experience, and theoretical grounding. I am excited to offer this deep dive once again to the wild and mythic souls who show up.

So - its currently on sale, in honor of our the dark inner worlds (symbolized by “black”) and out of a desire to share and celebrate and connect with you all (symbolized by “Friday,” or Frey’s day, related to the Norse god Frey - the masculine god of farming, fertility, abundance, and family).

In the spirit of the fertile darkness, which could be the true mythopoetic meaning of “Black Friday,” you’re invited to join me this winter for this 7-week adventure.

Links in the bio. See you there.

07/11/2025

🌀 We can’t make sense of otherworldly experiences when we don’t know the language of the otherworld itself.

I’m thrilled to once again be offering my online course, “Mythopoetic Integration.”

I’ve taught versions of this material over the years with organizations like Pacifica Graduate Institute, California Institute of Integral Studies, Naropa University, Inner Trek, Psychedelics Today, and other training programs. I write about it in the first chapter of my book. And I’ve practiced it with clients for years.

But this 7-week course is the deepest dive I offer. My hope is that you’ll come away with an awakened understanding of how to weave myth, symbolism, and animistic perspectives into your practice, and your own path.

Last year we had over 60 participants with some truly incredible people. This year I’m expanding the course by a week, allowing more time for connection, demos and practices, and discussion.

🔥 Registration is now open! I’d love to see you there.

Learn more through the link in my bio, or visit:
simonyugler.com/courses

31/10/2025

Did you know that there is a precise physical location where Halloween originates in Ireland?

In County Roscommon, there is a cave known as Owynagat, or the “cave of cats.” A small opening in the ground, what basically looks like a ditch, opens into what was once considered the Irish “gates of hell,” the opening to the Otherworld.

On Halloween night, it was said that the Morrigan would fly out of this cave, perhaps in a storm like the very one currently raging outside my windows. Inside the cave, inscribed on a lintel stone, is an Ogham script–an ancient form of Celtic writing–reading, “Fraech, son of Maeve.”

Queen Maeve was one of the most important feminine presences in Irish mythology, a warrior queen, and a personification of the Morrigan herself. The sovereign queen of Connacht, Ireland’s northwestern quarter, Maeve instigates the events of the Táin bo Cúailnge, or the Cattle Raid of Cooley, Ireland’s longest poetic epic which describes the events of the warrior hero, Cu Chulainn.

Yet dip one toe into the world of Irish myth and it becomes strikingly clear that behind the masculine hero, it is the goddess who always runs the show. Queen Maeve and the Morrigan are mythic beings who personify the sovereignty of the land itself.

Read the whole article on Substack. Link in bio.

And Ireland is always a she.

17/10/2025

37.

I spent my birthday hiking up Ben Bulben - a mountain stepped in myth, poetry, and Irish lore. Pretty quickly, the path up its steep mossy slope disappeared entirely, leaving me to quite literally experience what it means to be walking a “pathless path.”

The lesson? Pay attention.

I reached the top, after traversing this windswept lunar fairy-scape, looking in all directions at the storied land. In the distance loomed Knocknarea, a pulsating chthonic presence, the burial place of the legendary Queen Maeve, who some say was an even more ancient earth goddess, called the Morrigan. Deeper in the valley lays tomb after Neolithic tomb, burials from 5,000 years ago.

I am merely a visitor here.

Then I descended the mountain, found a tiny sauna on a pier, and threw myself into the salty Atlantic Ocean.

I feel blessed to mark my 37th year in such a place. Thanks for all the love.

In the words of W.B. Yeats, “Cast a cold eye on Life, on Death. Horseman, pass by.”

02/10/2025

One year later.

Today marks one year since the release of “Psychedelics and the Soul.”

Malidoma Somé once said that a mark of initiation is that, if we knew what it would entail, we would walk the other way.

If you had told me that the year following the release of my first book would be one of the most difficult and confusing years of my life, I would have laughed in your face.

But one year out, and I can say that this year has been an unexpected initiation of the most potent variety.

I’ve experienced outward success paired with inward collapse, objective progress mirrored by subjective struggle, and excruciating oscillations between the head and the heart.

The book came out. The celebration happened. It was wonderful. And now it’s back to the drawing board.

Either I’m unique in this vacant, anti-climactic feeling, or this is simply how it is. Perhaps that is one of the things that drives creative people to keep creating, because they know the good feelings won’t last forever.

Perhaps that’s because real art doesn’t allow us to hang our hats on it. We get bucked off the back of this wild thing called creativity and eventually have to muster up the courage to climb back up again. There is no “territory to claim,” as Chogyam Trungpa would say, no ground to stand on, because creativity is a process, not a thing.

The truth is that for most of this year, I’ve felt lost in the forest…

Read my complete reflections on Substack.

https://open.substack.com/pub/simonyugler/p/one-year-later?r=2w7yv&utm_medium=ios

18/09/2025

🌿✨ Two Weeks Away ✨🌿
In just two weeks, we’ll gather for The Art of Ceremony — a 4-day ceremonial & breathwork retreat for psychedelic practitioners, therapists, and healers.

For four days, we’ll immerse in: ✨ Two live-sound medicine ceremonies ✨ Holotropic-inspired breathwork ✨ Morning dreamwork ✨ Daily integration & tea ceremony ✨ Nourishing organic meals

This retreat is about stepping into the living current of group ceremonial work — an artform that can only be experienced, and rarely ever explained.
📍 October 2–5 | Oregon, 45 minutes from Portland 🌀 Limited to 16 participants — a few spaces remain 📝 Learn more & apply through the link in my bio

The circle is almost formed. If you feel the call, now is the time.

09/09/2025

There are a few spaces still left on my upcoming retreat, The Art of Ceremony, October 2nd-5th!

More and more, I see ceremony as a way to reconnect to something deeper and ancient within the human soul, which is available to all of us, simply by way of being human.

This retreat is an opportunity to explore these deeper inner worlds with a group of devoted fellow travelers and skilled facilitators.

Honestly, I haven’t been this excited for something in a long time. It’s gonna be epic.

Link in the bio or visit: simonyugler.com/retreat

26/08/2025

Whether I like it or not, grief’s cold shadow is a part of my life. Never has it been more present than the last few years, and particularly the last few months.

When I was asked to speak on a panel about grief and death at the Psychedelic Science conference this year, I was confused. Little did I know it would open a hidden doorway into the immense experience of grief itself.

When the good people at asked me to write an essay about one of the Five Gates of Grief as a part of reissuing “The Wild Edge of Sorrow,” the beloved text by Francis Weller, I was honored, and also confused.

Yet I take these two requests as invitations to step even more deeply on the path of grief tending. I suspect the direction of my writing and work may begin to go in such a direction.

In terms of facing our current collective moment, which for anyone paying attention is entirely outside the realm of the ordinary, we might find a healing balm in Weller’s new book, “In The Absence of the Ordinary,” a collection of essays about facing our times with courage and heart.

The book is out now. Check it out!

19/08/2025

I’m tired of the persona, of being seen as an “expert.” I’m tired of “educating,” and trying to condense the ineffable into a power point presentation.

I’m tired of pretending like well-meaning people fresh out of their first mushroom trip are in any way prepared to become “licensed facilitators.”

I’m tired of the psychedelic “industry.”

I’m tired of acting like governments and venture capital will do anything but dilute and denature this counter-cultural movement that has always been a danger to the status quo.

I’m tired of the self-congratulatory ambiance of the psychedelic “scene.” I’m tired of those only in it for the clout, the attention, or the endless pursuit of the party.

Did I mention I was tired?

Maybe I’ve said too much. But I know when to see myself out.

It’s time to go in a radically different direction.

Read the whole article on Substack.

Depth Medicine