Sophia Rokhlin is an author, speaker and nonprofit organizer from New York City. Through engaged botany and ecology, she bridges the worlds of indigenous ecological knowledge and Western science. She holds a BA in anthropology and religious studies from The New School and a M.Sc. in Ecological Economics from the Institute of Environmental Science and Technology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. She is a Program Coordinator at the Chaikuni Institute and currently directs the sustainable ayahuasca cultivation program at the Temple of the Way of Light, a traditional plant medicine retreat center in the Peruvian Amazon. She is a co-author of When Plants Dream: Ayahuasca, Amazonian Shamanism and the Global Psychedelic Renaissance (Watkins, 2019) on the global spread of ayahuasca. She has worked with several psychedelic harm-reduction programs such as KosmiCare, and is a member on the Ayahuasca Community Committee for the Chacruna Institute for Psychedelic Plant Medicines. Her research has been featured in publications including the New York Times and the BBC. Sophia and I met 7-years-ago when we attended a retreat together in Costa Rica at a space called Guaria de Osa, and I tried plant medicine for the first time. In the unfolding space since that journey, it's been such an inspiration to witness Sophia's career blossom and bloom, as her voice offers a wise (and extremely necessary) grounding as the psychedelic renaissance continues to unfold. In this conversation, Sophia and I discuss her origin stories, what lead her on a journey to study and work with sacred plant medicines in the Amazon Basin, what you can expect in her book, When Plants Dream, and much more. We originally recorded this episode on April 4th, and since then we have been having more bi-weekly conversations in our Facebook Live conversation series, Isolation Tank, which happens on Tuesday's at 7pm EST and Friday's at 9pm EST. To learn more about Sophia's work, please visit her website: sophiarokhlin.com Follow Sophia on Instagram: instagram.com/sophiarokhlin To purchase her book, co-authored with Daniel Pinchbeck, please visit: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1786780798/?ref=exp_jennifersodini_dp_vv_d