The Mush Room, Episode 7: Shannon Pereira: From Ashram Lockdown to Microdose Coaching
Microdosing coach Shannon Pereira was locked in her parents' basement during COVID, in a house where a family member was struggling with meth addiction, when a friend asked if she wanted to join a psilocybin microdosing study. That first dose in a bathtub cracked her open. This week on The Mush Room, John James Staniszewski and Shannon go deep on perspective shifts, the drug war, why every coach needs a coach, and the Changa DMT journey where she felt the whole mushroom life cycle from spore to sporulation.
IN THIS EPISODE WE COVER:
🍄 A live microdose: philosopher's stone sclerotia vs. a Golden Teacher blend with L-theanine, saffron and rose
🍄 How psychedelics quiet the default mode network, and the "6 or 9" lesson on perspective
🍄 Why mycology was pushed out of the mainstream, and what the drug war got wrong about psilocybin
🍄 What a microdosing coach gives you that books and forums can't: accountability, reps and pattern-spotting
🍄 Yoga, Soma and the ancient roots of psychedelic practice
🍄 Women and psychedelic research: cycles, dosing and why tracking matters
🍄 "Don't give your power away, even to us": the warning that came from the mushrooms
KEY TAKEAWAYS:
Mushrooms don't teach you something new. They help you remember what you forgot. The small shifts count: not snapping at the cop, being more patient with your kids, that compounds into a different person. And the power was always yours. The medicine is a more efficient path back to it, not a replacement for doing the work.
ABOUT SHANNON PEREIRA:
Shannon is a mushroom consciousness speaker, writer and microdosing coach behind Powered by Mushrooms Coaching. A certified yoga teacher (Hatha, Yin, Tantra, Kundalini), Ho'oponopono, EFT, meditation and breathwork practitioner, she left a burnout corporate career in Australia to study in ashrams across India and Asia. She's a contributing author in a bestselling anthology and is writing the Powered by Mushrooms Microdosing Coaches Guidebook.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 Intro
01:14 The live microdose
03:10 Meet Shannon Pereira
05:35 Corporate burnout to ashram
07:31 COVID basement, first microdose
10:39 How perspective shifts work
14:38 Mycelium, the grand communicator
16:33 Why fungi were ignored
19:01 Ergothioneine, Reishi and TCM
21:10 Flesh of the gods
23:33 The drug war lie
25:33 Why hire a microdosing coach
30:35 Yoga, Soma and psychedelics
34:25 Pain, growth and embodiment
39:14 Microdosing and endurance
43:03 McKenna and free thinking
46:06 Becoming a mushroom on Changa
49:48 The butterfly and the struggle
54:06 Women in psychedelic research
55:55 Journaling and tracking progress
59:03 Don't give your power away
1:02:27 Mushrooms as ancient intelligence
1:06:12 The unseen world around us
1:07:37 Becoming un-f***-withable
1:08:07 Where to find Shannon
📚 MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
Microdosing for Health, Healing, and Enhanced Performance by Dr. James Fadiman & Jordan Gruber
Mindful Meds
Lee Carroll, medicinal mushroom expert
Dante Liberato's 500-mile run
Terence McKenna
The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
🔗 CONNECT WITH SHANNON
Instagram & Facebook: @poweredbymushroomscoaching
Book a call: https://calendly.com/powered-by-mushrooms-coaching-with-shannon/30min
🔗 CONNECT WITH JOHN & THE MUSH ROOM
https://mrfungitarian.store/
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This episode is for educational purposes only and is not medical advice. Psilocybin and DMT are controlled substances in many places. Talk to a qualified healthcare provider before making changes to your health routine or medications.
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