Kricket Blackwell
Founding Faculty & Instructor
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Kricket
BlackwellThe Body SpeaksBefore the Words Do
Long before Kricket entered psychedelic education, she was learning to notice what people reveal through breath, movement, tension, and silence.
Founding Faculty & Instructor
Kricket Blackwell knows that “I’m okay” does not always mean someone is okay.
The words may sound convincing. The body may be telling a different story. Breath becomes shallow. Shoulders tighten. A person pulls away from sensation or seems to disappear behind a practiced smile.
Kricket notices.
That awareness did not begin with psychedelics. It developed across decades of movement, motherhood, community leadership, family business operations, yoga, sound healing, and supporting people she loves through difficult seasons.
Her path into psychedelic education began the same way much of her life’s work has begun: by watching people struggle and wondering whether something deeper might help.
Psychedelic healing kept appearing through people she met, her own somatic work, and her growing interest in alternatives when familiar approaches were not enough. What drew her was not the spectacle of the experience. It was the care surrounding it.
How do we help someone feel safe? How do we remain grounded when their inner world becomes intense? How do we support a person without taking ownership of what belongs to them?
For Kricket, those questions matter more than having an impressive answer.
Movement Was Her First Language
Before Kricket became an operations leader or yoga teacher, she was a professional Middle Eastern dancer.
From 1993 to 2004, she performed at the Marrakesh Moroccan Restaurant, the Bacchanal Dinner Theater at Caesars Palace, and corporate events throughout Las Vegas. Dance taught her to communicate without relying entirely on words. It also taught her to pay attention to rhythm, posture, energy, and the subtle information carried through the body.
Movement eventually led her to yoga, first as a way to care for the body of an active and retired dancer. Over time, the practice became something deeper.
She began exploring the relationship between physical tension and emotional experience. She studied somatic release, breath, stillness, and the ways people reconnect with themselves when given enough time and safety to listen.
Kricket completed a 200-hour yoga teacher training in Isla Mujeres, Mexico, followed by yin yoga trainings in Ibiza and Las Vegas. She also completed private sound-healing training.
Her teaching style is gentle and accessible, particularly for people convinced they are “not yoga people.” She understands that unfamiliar spaces can make people feel exposed. Her job is not to make them perform wellness correctly. It is to help them become curious about what their own body is communicating.
Calm Is a Professional Skill
Kricket also knows that warmth without structure can unravel quickly.
In 2020, she stepped into a leadership role within her family’s Nevada landscape business during the uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic. The company had already been operating for more than 30 years, but the moment demanded steadiness, adaptability, and clear communication.
Kricket gravitated toward the people-facing side of operations. Her responsibilities grew to include hiring, benefits coordination, employee relations, safety compliance, licensing, insurance management, leadership development, and client communication.
Running a family business taught her how to show up when pressure is high and the answer is not immediately obvious. It taught her that people need clarity, especially when circumstances feel unstable. It also reinforced the value of boundaries, dependable systems, and communication that does not become vague simply because a conversation is difficult.
Those lessons translate directly into psychedelic support.
A calm room is not created by candles and a soothing playlist alone. It is created by someone who can remain present, communicate clearly, recognize risk, and avoid becoming another source of instability.
“I’ve seen how clear boundaries and steady presence can calm a room faster than any technique.”Kricket Blackwell
Care Is Not the Same as Competence
Personal psychedelic experience can deepen empathy. It can introduce someone to uncertainty, vulnerability, awe, fear, and the strange elasticity of an altered state.
It cannot teach everything required to support another person responsibly.
“Your own journeys don’t teach you how to support someone else’s body. That’s where real training comes in.”Kricket Blackwell
A facilitator must learn to recognize what may be happening beneath a traveler’s words. Someone may insist they are fine while their breathing, posture, or nervous system suggests mounting distress.
Kricket has seen a grounding breath or a gentle return to bodily awareness shift an experience. She has also learned that knowing when to intervene is only part of the work. A facilitator must know when not to crowd the moment, interpret the experience, or make another person’s process about their own expertise.
Somatic awareness, breathwork, ethical boundaries, and real-time observation are practiced skills. They are not souvenirs brought home from a meaningful personal journey.
That distinction sits at the center of what Kricket will bring to the Inner EDGE Travel Academy™ classroom.
Steady Without Becoming Rigid
Kricket’s leadership style was also shaped by eighteen years as a stay-at-home mother and a decade serving as a parent-organization president.
She raised funds, developed enrichment activities, supported educators, and helped strengthen the school community. The work required patience, organization, and the ability to bring people together around a shared purpose.
Across each chapter of her life, the setting has changed, but her role has remained remarkably consistent. She creates environments where people can settle, reconnect, and grow.
In the classroom, Kricket plans to bring a warm, grounded presence, clear communication, and real-life experience. She wants students to feel confident and steady as they learn to hold space for others.
Not performative confidence. Not the confidence of someone who believes they have seen everything.
Confidence rooted in preparation, practice, ethics, and the ability to stay connected to themselves while another person moves through something difficult.
Do Not Leave Yourself Behind
When students complete the Pilot Cohort, Kricket hopes they carry more than techniques into the world.
She wants them to develop a regulated presence, solid ethics, and respect for the responsibility involved in supporting altered-state travelers. She wants them to remain grounded without becoming rigid and compassionate without abandoning necessary boundaries.
Most importantly, she wants them to learn how to hold space without losing themselves.
That may be one of the quieter lessons in facilitator education, but it is not a small one. Support does not require absorbing another person’s experience. Presence does not require self-erasure. Care becomes more sustainable when the facilitator can remain connected to their own body, boundaries, and scope.
Kricket has spent much of her life learning to recognize what happens beneath the words.
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