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Pala Medicine Dr. Suraiya Rahman is a Board-certified Physician providing Ketamine Therapy for Mental Health in Pasadena, CA Inner Healing Journeys.

At Pala Medicine we help our clients take advantage of ketamine's powerful psychedelic healing potential -- which is known to play a key role in helping patients transform their lives to be free from Addiction, Depression, PTSD, Anxiety, Suicidality, or Chronic Pain.

10/15/2026

Two of the most important things when we help people with psychedlic healing is safety first and foremost, but also intention.
In this episode, Shane Aspegren, founder of ONDO, walks us through the layers sound works on at once: the auditory and meditative, the brainwave entrainment that binaural beats create by splitting two nearly identical frequencies between the ears, and the physical, somatic layer where bowls rest on the body and stored stress starts to move.

You can find the episode here: https://youtu.be/N9N2tDfccZs?si=H0nf513KrfCunaDA

10/11/2026

You do not only hear sound. You feel it, and a nervous system that has been braced for years feels it first. In this episode of Too Curious MDs, we sit down with Shane Aspegren, somatic sound facilitator, embodied integration coach, and founder of ONDO. Shane explains what separates a somatic sound session from a sound bath at the end of a yoga class, why he keeps the medicine dose low when vibration is in the room, and why he is far more interested in the nervous system work that happens before and after a psychedelic session than during it.

10/09/2026

What if the most important part of a psychedelic session happens before and after it?

On this episode of Too Curious MDs, somatic sound facilitator Shane Aspegren of ONDO explains what happens when singing bowls sit on the body instead of across the room, why he keeps the dose low when vibration is in play, and why he thinks silence belongs in medicine work too.

Watch the episode now: https://youtu.be/N9N2tDfccZs?si=KwyF-mP4nJiqnNYC

10/07/2026

As a student she was getting weekly treatments while she learned the medicine, and one day in clinic, feeling a panic attack starting, her supervisor told her to stay, and then put her on the table. Her eyes began to flutter, a colleague asked why, and the supervisor said, it is just chaos leaving the system. She teaches from that image now, that what is moving through you can be something passing rather than something you are.

Trauma sometimes waits for safety before it starts to express itself in the body. We discuss how moving through trauma is a process of finding safe ways to witness and allow it to pass through. Where medications, alcohol and drugs can suppress the symptoms, where guilt and shame can keep us locked in identification for years, the new science of psychedelic medicine coupled with techniques and tools from the great healing traditions of the world -- acupuncture, Doaist principles that move energy through the body, is revolutionizing trauma healing in a essential way.

Come discover a new way of healing -- one that respects where you are on your journey, and listens to what your body carries -- no judgment, no labeling, no blame story to unpack -- just supportive healing that is effective and long lasting.

10/06/2026

Place leaves a mark on physiology. In Oregon she saw damp and cold, paler and more swollen tongues, bodies holding water. Back home in Los Angeles almost everyone arrives with a red tongue tip, in a city where the common idea of relaxing is planning a vacation.

Sustainability is not only an environmental question. Because we are not separate from nature, she reads it at the scale of one person: the seasons of a year, the seasons of a life, the cues a body gives about when to eat, rest and move. Overriding those cues is its own kind of extraction.

Knowing is not healing.

Dr. Gina Dang could name everything that had happened to her, in clinical language, with a therapist, and she was still having panic attacks. On Too Curious MDs, Dr. Simi Rahman talks with her about liberatory embodiment, what an acupuncturist reads in a pulse that a person cannot say out loud, and why living out of sync with your own rhythms is an extraction problem rather than a discipline problem.

10/05/2026

Gina and I first met in the healing world around Pasadena, so I knew the shape of her work before we sat down, but I had not heard the whole arc. She was born in Los Angeles to parents who left Vietnam by boat, and her childhood carried what came over with them, violence and emotional neglect and the intergenerational weight underneath both. School was the safe place, so she did what a lot of us do and processed it all from the neck up. That held until she had the degree and the job and the apartment, and then it stopped holding. She has a line for what she learned next that I keep repeating back to people: knowing is not healing. She could name every part of it and still could not stop the panic.

10/05/2026

Sustainability is not only an environmental question. Because we are not separate from nature, she reads it at the scale of one person: the seasons of a year, the seasons of a life, the cues a body gives about when to eat, rest and move. Overriding those cues is its own kind of extraction.

She practiced first in Oregon and now works across Los Angeles County, offering in-home acupuncture and one-to-one coaching built on somatic awareness, Human Design, Taoist alchemy and earth-based practice, alongside a growing amount of group facilitation. She also writes Auric Minority, which she describes as a soft anthropology of consciousness for curious minds and soft hearts.

Learn about Dr. Gina Dang's acupuncture and coaching: ginadang.com
Read her writing on the authentic self at Auric Minority: auricminority.substack.com

Yoga and ketamine therapy work in complementary ways.Yoga helps regulate the nervous system, increase body awareness, an...
05/11/2026

Yoga and ketamine therapy work in complementary ways.

Yoga helps regulate the nervous system, increase body awareness, and build a sense of safety within yourself.

Ketamine therapy can create space for new perspectives, emotional processing, and cognitive flexibility.

Together, they support both the body and the mind in healing.
Many patients find that incorporating gentle movement before or after sessions helps them feel more grounded and connected.

Healing is not one-dimensional. It is layered, intentional, and deeply personal.

05/08/2026

In this episode of Too Curious MDs, Dr. Suraiya Rahman speaks with Deborah Anderson (Aura) about her global journey capturing Indigenous voices and rediscovering connection to Mother Earth. A powerful conversation on presence, curiosity, and remembering who we are.

What happens after a session matters just as much as the session itself.Sleep plays a critical role in how the brain pro...
05/06/2026

What happens after a session matters just as much as the session itself.

Sleep plays a critical role in how the brain processes and integrates new experiences. It supports emotional regulation, memory consolidation, and nervous system repair.
If you are exploring ketamine therapy, optimizing your sleep is not optional. It is part of the work.

Simple ways to support your sleep:
• Keep a consistent sleep schedule
• Reduce screen time before bed
• Create a calming nighttime routine

Healing is not just what happens in session. It is how your body is supported afterward.

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959 E. WALNUT Street, SUITE 214
Pasadena, CA
91106

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Monday 8am - 6pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 6pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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