Allan Ajaya explores how experiental 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 all aspects of ourselves and awaken us to transcendent being.

Allan has been a speaker at international conferences and has led experiential workshops, worldwide. For the past several years, he has also been a mentor to health care professionals (including doctors, psychotherapists, and nurses) who are enrolled in the Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research, a year-long training program, to become psychedelic therapists. This program takes place at The California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS).

He also has a private practice as a psychotherapist and meditation guide in Madison Wisconsin and offers video consultations for those who cannot meet with him in person. Allan also works with clients seeking psychedelic integration.

Allan received his PhD in psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Wisconsin Department of Psychiatry. He then studied with yogis and meditation 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. He has written and edited several books, including, Living with the Himalayan Masters, Psychotherapy East and West: A Unifying Paradigm, and Healing the Whole Person. He was also profiled for the book, Psychedelic Wisdom.

Allan also studied with several innovators of experiential psychotherapy, and non-dual awareness. Among these are Carl Whitaker, Ron Kurtz, the originator of Hakomi Therapy, David Grove, Jean Klein, and Tsoknyi Rinpoche.