Allan Ajaya explores how embodiment focused and non-dual psychotherapy, experiences with psychedelics, and the practice of embodied meditation can complement one another to free us from constricted ways of living and limiting beliefs, lead us to embrace and embody all aspects of ourselves and awaken us to transcendent being.

Allan Ajaya explores how somatic psychotherapy, embodied meditation, and the use of psychedelics complement one another. They enable us to transcend limiting assumptions about who we are. They lead us to uncover, accept, and embrace all aspects of ourselves. We shift from living exclusively through dualistic ways of experiencing, such as right/wrong and good/bad. Instead of residing in a world in which we only know conditional love, based on these dualities, we find ourselves at home, resting in unconditional love. This awakening is the source of all healing. Allan has been a speaker at international conferences and has lead experiential workshops worldwide. During the past several years, he has also been a mentor to many health care professionals who are enrolled in a year long training program to become skilled psychedelic therapists.

Allan has a private practice as a psychotherapist and meditation guide in Madison Wisconsin. He also assists those seeking to integrate their psychedelic experiences. He offers video consultations for those who cannot meet with him personally.

Allan received his PhD in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley. He was then, a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry, where his supervisor was Dr. Carl Whitaker. He then trained with well-known meditation and yoga teachers, notably, Chogyam Trungpa, Swami Satchidananda, and Swami Rama. He was himself, initiated as a Swami on the banks of the Ganges in Rishikesh India. For the next twenty years he periodically traveled to India to study, teach, and deepen his meditation. As one of the first yoga teachers in Madison, he founded the Yoga Meditation Society. He then established Shakti Bookshop on State Street in Madison. It was the first spiritual/new age bookstore in the Midwest, offering books from many spiritual traditions. Shakti was a beloved source of inspiration and wisdom for consciousness explorers for over forty years.

Allan has trained with several well-known teachers of somatic therapy, including his friend, Ron Kurtz (the originator of Hakomi Therapy), Arnold Mindell, and David Grove. He has been guided by Jean Klein, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche in non-dual awakening. Allan has written and edited several books, including, Living With The Himalayan Masters, Yoga and Psychotherapy, and Healing The Whole Person. He was profiled in the book, Psychedelic Wisdom.