Healing Without Effort

Where Plant Medicine
Meets Pleasure

The Future of Healing

with Yuliya Cohen

Two intimate evenings only — New York City, July 12 & Boston, July 26.

Space is limited. Reserve yours before they’re gone.

or see the dates & request your place here

Dear friends,

I have been quiet for some time. Something new was being born in that quiet — something I could not have rushed. It is ready now, and you are the first I am sharing it with.

For over thirty-five years I’ve been asking one quiet question: can healing become gentler? I never believed healing had to hurt to be real — and that search became Healing Without Effort.

This summer I’m opening a doorway I’ve only offered a handful of times: an evening where the intelligence of plant medicine meets the healing power of pleasure. Let me show you the space we’ll share.

The journey space — candlelight, soft music, and a ceiling of galaxies.

Here, there is nothing to perform and nothing to relive. You are wrapped, warm, and held beneath a sky of stars, while the medicine does the gentle work of restoring what has been missing.

You rest, wrapped and held, while the medicine does the work.

A guided Plant Medicine Energy Transmission Journey — experienced without ingestion. Nothing is consumed.

It began after I came back from Peru, when something I never expected started to happen. The plant medicine spirits — Ayahuasca, San Pedro, Psilocybin — started arriving in my sessions. Not as substances. As presences. They gave me a message I have carried ever since: we are entering a new stage of healing — softer, more loving, more embodied — one that brings people what they need rather than sending them back into what hurt.

Slowly, session after session, I watched it become true. We don’t always have to go back into the pain to heal it. Sometimes the body heals when we bring in what it has been missing for a very long time — pleasure. Not as escape. Not indulgence. The precise quality of pleasure that trauma, grief, or years of simply surviving quietly took away.

And the medicine never brings a generic pleasure. It brings the exact one a person lost: softness for one, joy for another, sensual aliveness, safety, the simple relief of being at home in the body again. Never random. Always intelligent. And when it returns, something turns. The nervous system softens. The heart opens. The healing follows.

◆  Ready when you are  ◆

This is what the body knows.

Pleasure is Medicine.

This is both a workshop and a journey — an evening in two parts that become one. First we learn; then we receive.

AWAKEN — The Workshop

We begin gently, and we begin by learning.

A boundary meditation to discover your soul’s home.

A particular breath, and sensory practices that awaken the brain’s own pleasure centers — the insula and the little-known hedonic hotspots.

A taste of something sweet brings everyday pleasure alive in the body, until it moves through you as a whole-body state, not an idea.

Often what we crave is pleasure, not food — and as real pleasure returns, cravings can ease, and weight can settle naturally too.

These practices are yours to keep — simple tools you can bring home, making your own brain your ally.

RECEIVE — The Transmission Journey

Then the lights soften, the music rises, and you simply lie back. Carried by a richly curated soundscape, we enter a guided Plant Medicine Energy Transmission Journey. Nothing is ingested. Ayahuasca brings the energy you need. San Pedro — gently, lovingly, open-heartedly — brings the precise pleasure your body has been missing, weaves it through you into a full-body experience, and holds you in a safe, womb-like field until it is fully your own. Psilocybin opens this renewed aliveness into connection and joyful presence.

RETURN — More Deeply Alive

More pleasurably embodied. More receptive. More connected to yourself, to one another, to life. Quietly, underneath it all, an invitation toward a more Yin way of living — listening, tenderness, presence — where the heart softens and we remember how to receive.

The future of healing may not ask us to become stronger.
It may invite us to become more receptive.

The Three Plant Intelligences

Private healing spaces in NYC & Boston

Address provided upon registration

Space is limited  ·  Advance registration required

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Come as you are. Leave transformed.

✦  From the Journey  ✦

About Yuliya

Held, unhurried, safe.

Yuliya Cohen is a visionary shamanic energy healer, teacher, and founder of the Energy Restructuring Institute. For over 35 years, she has worked at the intersection of trauma healing, energy psychology, energy medicine, and spiritual transformation — developing a unique approach to energetic restoration and healing without effort.

Through her Plant Medicine Energy Transmission Journeys, Yuliya guides participants into non-ordinary states of awareness and connection with the intelligence of Ayahuasca, San Pedro, and Psilocybin — without ingestion — creating a sacred field for deep trauma healing, embodiment, and profound transformation.

With love,

Yuliya