You already know
non-ordinary states.
At mile 80 of a hundred-mile race, something shifts. The ego quiets. The ordinary defenses dissolve. What remains is something more essential: a version of yourself that is stripped of pretense, meeting the terrain and the moment with everything you have.
Endurance athletes know this territory. They have been there. What many have not had is a guide to help them understand what those experiences reveal and how to bring that understanding back into the rest of their lives.
This is the connective tissue between endurance sport and the work we do at Heart Alchemy Institute. Both are portals into non-ordinary states. Both require preparation and integration to yield their deepest gifts. The race reveals. This work helps you understand what was revealed, and what to do with it.
The experience of the self dissolving under extreme physical duress is not metaphor. It is a genuine non-ordinary state. It has more in common with a ketamine session than most athletes realize.
The flatness, disorientation, or unexpected grief that follows a major race is not weakness. It is the integration gap: the space between what the race revealed and what daily life can hold.
What drives someone to run 100 miles? The answer is rarely just physical. This work creates space to explore the deeper motivations, fears, and meanings that live beneath the training log.
The Three Pack
Three focused coaching sessions designed to prepare you for what the race will reveal and integrate what it does.
Before the race, we create space to clarify what you are carrying into it: the hopes, the fears, the questions you haven't yet asked yourself. We set an intention that will serve as an anchor when the terrain gets difficult.
After the race, while the experience is still fresh, we explore what arose. What did you meet out there? What surprised you? What do you want to understand more deeply? This session captures what the race revealed.
The third session bridges the race experience to your daily life. We explore what the insights mean, how they connect to your broader story, and what concrete shifts in training, relationships, or self-understanding they might invite.
Savannah Miller, MSW, LICSW (WA), LCSW (CA)
I specialize in helping clients integrate non-ordinary states of consciousness, whether those arise through psychedelic-assisted therapy, the physical extremes of endurance athletics, or near-death experiences. As a licensed psychotherapist with over 20 years of experience, I bring both clinical depth and a genuine understanding of the terrain endurance sport can open.
My work with athletes is grounded in the same principles that guide all of Heart Alchemy's offerings: that non-ordinary experiences, whether produced by a ketamine session or a 100-mile race, carry information that deserves careful attention, skilled support, and time to integrate.
This program is offered in collaboration with Alpenglow Endurance Coaching. Sessions are coaching-based and do not include ketamine-assisted therapy. For those interested in KAP as part of their journey, we invite you to explore the Heart Alchemy Journey.