Kalyana Bliss is a trauma specialist, mindfulness teacher, and researcher based in Maine, working at the intersection of evidence-based, mindfulness-based programs such as MBSR, trauma-sensitive mindfulness, yoga, and psychedelic preparation and integration program design. She is a BAMBA-registered MBSR teacher and has trained in trauma-sensitive mindfulness with her mentor, Dr David Treleaven since 2021. She is also a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner and has trained in Internal Family Systems. Her Buddhist chaplaincy training at the Sati Center shapes how she supports people across very different ways of making meaning of their experiences.

A graduate of Vital (Cohort 5, 2026), Kalyana has just completed her MSc thesis at Bangor University. The thesis is a systematic review of randomized controlled trials combining mindfulness programs with psychedelics.

Through Bliss Mindfulness she teaches individuals and groups. She has also hosted Sublime Sunday, a free weekly online heart-based meditation drop-in, since 2020. With Kate Ensor, she is co-founding Vibrant Depths, a trauma-sensitive psilocybin retreat in the Netherlands. The residential retreat is bracketed by online mindfulness-based psychedelic preparation and integration program for women.

Emily Wisdom is a transformational coach, speaker, business advisor, and founder of Wisdom Mind & Body, where she helps people create greater health, wealth, and happiness in their lives. With a B.A. in Business Administration, an M.S. in Criminology & Human Behavior, and more than 1,000 hours of yoga teacher training, Emily brings together practical strategy and whole-person well-being.

Rivkah Standig, LCSW, NMCF, is a psychotherapist, Colorado Licensed Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator, and organizational systems practitioner working at the intersection of psychedelic care, clinical ethics, and organizational safety. She has provided psychedelic preparation, facilitation, and integration across clinical, healing-center, and retreat settings. Before entering clinical practice, Rivkah spent more than a decade working in technology, product, and organizational systems, including leading complex initiatives in startup and mission-driven environments. She is the founder of Mystic Ops, an operations and strategy consultancy for psychedelic, healing, and transformational organizations. Her current work examines how leadership, power, organizational design, professional boundaries, and systems of accountability shape practitioner well-being, ethical decision-making, and participant safety.

Maja Sadikovic is a psychedelic facilitator, published researcher, healthcare professional, and founder and developer of Indra, a sensory-based contemplative modality for altered and expanded states of consciousness. Her interdisciplinary background spans biological research, education, writing, and nearly a decade working in cardiac medical technology with Boston Scientific. She holds graduate degrees in education and creative writing and is a graduate of Psychedelics Today’s Vital program, with additional training in yoga, Reiki and energy medicine, Ayurveda, and contemplative and somatic practices. Through Indra, Maja brings these disciplines into conversation, exploring how sensory perception, embodiment, ritual, attention, and witnessing shape altered-state experience. Her current work focuses on developing Indra as a practitioner framework and an emerging subject of formal inquiry into the role of sensory experience in psychedelic and non-psychedelic altered states.

Claudia Barfoot, LPC, NMCF, is an integrative psychotherapist, psychoanalyst, Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator, and ancestral healing practitioner. Over a 20-year career as a psychodynamic, trauma-informed psychotherapist, she has accompanied hundreds of people as they let their truths emerge and allow all of who they are to belong. Her 25 years of apprenticeship and practice in ancestral ways of knowing and healing have given her the roadmaps she brings to navigating the inner world, its depths, and our interdependence with the world around us. She is a licensed Natural Medicine Clinical Facilitator in Colorado, offering psilocybin-assisted work and integration support. She is the creator of the 9 Gates of Consciousness™ framework.

Natalia Fedulova is a Partner at Elephant Gate, a psychedelic-focused accelerator and venture fund. Previously, she worked with early-stage startups at 500 Global, helping accelerate companies around the world. Over a two-decade career spanning finance, venture capital, and startup acceleration, Natalia has helped hundreds of founders secure funding and build companies from zero to one. A graduate of the Vital program, she works at the intersection of capital, entrepreneurship, technology, and psychedelics, identifying infrastructure gaps and backing founders building solutions. Beyond investing, Natalia brings on-the-ground psychedelic harm reduction experience with Zendo Project at Burning Man and a deep love for building large-scale participatory art.