Pilar Brooks

Pilar is a guardian and educator of how to embody and integrate expanded states of consciousness. She is a mentor for therapists and sacred space holders, as well as a consultant for retreat centers, brands, and individuals.

Her study in consciousness began when she received her BA in Fine Art from University of Southern California where she learned in the ins and outs of the analog photo lab. Spending lots of time experimenting with light, color, and shadow—having only to rely on the senses of her body in the dark room—Pilar accidentally fell into her first conscious meditation practice. From there, she went on to study Meditation and Trauma-Informed Yoga and received her 200-RYT certification. She taught public and private classes in Venice, CA until she became increasingly more interested in the marvelous and complex relationship between the emotional and somatic body. Continuing her somatic education by studying the body-based psychotherapy modality of Somatic Experiencing©, Pilar’s enrapture with the psyche + body grew like wildfire—spreading to Pacifica Graduate Institute, where she received her MA in Depth Counseling Psychology in 2019.

In her Masters program, Pilar studied psychotherapy from a Jungian, Humanistic, and Imaginal perspective. To study the unconscious in such depth propelled her psyche (soul) and soma (body) to link patterns she had discovered in her years of disciplined meditation practice and psychedelic adventures. The psychedelic realms no longer solely belonged in symbolic imagery and intangible conceptualization, but rather had been given a language for her modern mind to understand these psychedelic spaces within and without with profound clarity. Pilar spent hours reading, writing, and working—in both academic and therapeutic formats—with her images presented in dreamtime and psychedelic spaces to integrate discovered wounds of her lineage and what divine sacred medicines can bring forth. Inspired by the world of the unseen, Pilar explored the realms of witchcraft in her published thesis, Bones of the Therapist’s Chair: An Exploration of Witchcraft and Psychotherapy to further employ the unconscious relationships of the ancient witch as it pertains to the role of the modern psychotherapist.

Pilar continues to spend a good portion of her personal time in various meditative practices, including Cha Dao tea ceremony, traveling around the globe, and studying with indigenous plant medicine wisdom keepers from the Inga tribes in Putumayo reign of Colombia. She is an apprentice, lead integration therapist and program consultant for internationally recognized plant medicine retreat centers supporting indigenous medicine traditions. She is a Gemini sun/Libra rising/Libra moon, a Manifesting Generator and can easily be found floating in any body of water, or planning her next trip to the jungle.