The Alchemy Learning Center
An educational community sharing Alchemy and Self-Cultivation as a path to a more fulfilling authentic life
ALCHEMIST-IN-TRAINING MEMBERSHIP
Become an Alchemist-in-Training and all our classes, our Alchemy and Five Element study groups, our live webinars, Stages 1-3 of Alchemical Meditations, Inspired Action podcast member-only content, and more!
New Ghost Points Book Coming Soon!
Cultivating the Thirteen Ghost Points
by Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy
Discover ancient acu-points for spiritual transformation… Whether your dream is to live without suffering, achieve your fullest potential, or to reach true enlightenment, Cultivating the Thirteen Ghost Points is a step-by-step guide that you can start applying to your life today.
The Ghost Points possess a broader purpose beyond just dispelling inner and outer turmoil. They hold spiritual potential, not solely for banishing evil spirits, but also for nurturing inner cultivation and growth.
Online Classes
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Are you a fast learner or a slow earner? It’s up to you!
Our self-paced learning classes come in an easy and fun format.
Join our membership to access all classes or buy lifetime access to individual classes.
Your Alchemical Meditations
What are Alchemical Meditations
Alchemical Meditations begin with mostly visualizations and sensory body awareness techniques. Over time they progress to deeper levels of meditations, moving into other states of mind. At the Alchemy Learning Center, we recommend you begin with our Intro to Alchemical Meditations to practice this form of meditation before progressing through the Nine Stages. The progression should not be rushed and can take years! We suggest that you combine the meditations with receiving Alchemical treatment (in person or virtually through telemedicine) with a practitioner. However, you can also work through the meditations on your own. We hope you enjoy our guided meditations. You can use them each time you meditate or use them simply as instructional suggestions for your own exploration into these “meditation exercises.”
FREE - Your First Alchemical Meditations
To begin our Alchemical Journey, let's start with a few basic meditations. As you progress, you will move onto the Stage One of Alchemy Meditations.
Stage One of Alchemy Meditations Class
The goal of Stage One of Alchemy is to create ease in your life so that you can commune with your higher self.
Stage Two of Alchemy Meditations Class
The goal of Stage Two is to clear the baggage of this lifetime, release the armor you carry on your chest, and free your heart so you can live unprotected and free.
Stage Three of Alchemy Meditations Class
The goal of Stage Three is to release the baggage of previous lifetimes and ancestral influences.
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Join the Alchemy Learning Center and get free access to the PodList, Connecting Your Circle book, our ALC Newsletter, and Advanced Five Element Webinar!
Schedule a Private Session (Virtual or In-Person)
Are you ready to begin transforming your life?
If you would like to explore your own personal Alchemy, we offer Alchemy Private Sessions or Alchemical Life Strategy Sessions with Leta or Jaye. We can also arrange a private session with our MAP network of practitioners around the world. These can be in-person or virtual (telemedicine).
Free Classes
Join us!
Join the Alchemy Learning Center and get free access to the PodList, Connecting Your Circle book, and Advanced Five Element Webinar!
Books
Frequently Asked Questions
“Alchemy can take you on a journey of self-cultivation with the goal of helping you truly fly in your life and live your full potential.”
The Nine Stages of Alchemy is a map created by the ancient Chinese Alchemists. The stages are a set of directions… telling you to go left here, right here, etc. I learned them from Dr. Jeffrey Yuen, an 88th generation Daoist priest, and then practiced them on myself and with others for many years in my clinic.
The Nine Stages as a spiritual evolution roadmap to a destination with specific directions that say… “Turn right here. Turn left here.” It’s not the only way to get to the destination, but it works. It’s a proven way to get there. The ancient Chinese Alchemists put out all the signposts for us, so why not follow those signs instead of create our own? Buddha created his own path. And that’s fine. It’s not easy or everyone would have done it by now. But if Buddha did it, anyone can theoretically do it that way. However, we like the signposts. We like a little linearity. “First do this. Then next do this. Third do this.” These steps can be done in any order theoretically, but in this particular order, everything goes very smoothly. The Stages of Alchemy have changed our lives completely. It’s hard to explain without describing the whole process, but it’s an evolutionary process. It asks you to walk through doors fearlessly—doors that open up new worlds to you, but are difficult to explain or describe to anyone.
Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy, authors of the new book, Through the Mystery Gate, created the Alchemy Learning Center as an educational community space for people to discover the tools for personal Alchemical transformation and growth… and to have a little fun along the way!
The Alchemy Learning Center is dedicated to learning ancient wisdom for modern times with the desire to empower, inform, and motivate people toward the path of living authentically.
We focus on living an authentic and true-to-self life from the understandings of the ancient Chinese Five Elements and the secrets of Internal Alchemy.
We’ve created the Alchemy Learning Center to teach others how we’ve done it and how they can do it too.
Understanding the Five Elements
For Healers and Self-Cultivators
The first step is to look at the Five Elements within yourself!
Are you looking for a fun and exciting way to learn more about the Five Elements and how they fit into your life?
What if you could simply watch someone walking towards you, and just by how they move, you could immediately know many things about them? It can help you with your family, your friends, your coworkers and especially your clients if you have a healing practice.
Once you understand who you are, you can begin to maximize your true potential in ways you’ve never known before.
The Five Elements and Your relationships
For Healers and Practitioners
Join us for some fun and excitement for one of our MOST requested topics — LOVE and the Five Elements!
Learn more about Deeper Love and Hotter Sex through understanding Elemental Relationship Dynamics
- You want me to do WHAT? What does your partner really want from you, and what do you really want from your partner?
- Touchy Feely – How to touch a Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, or Water person so they like it!
- Sex – Yes, Please or NO Thank you? What works best for you sexually (and for your partner)
Your Self-Cultivator Path Starts Here...
we call this the Nine Stages of Alchemy.
If you're a practitioner wanting to add the remarkable healing work to your practice... it all starts with YOU!
Our Immersive Program
Master Alchemy Program
For Healers and Self-Cultivators
Long-Distance Learning:
Join Jaye and Leta on this magical quest along with the healers and practitioners in the Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program. This year-long virtual program is aimed to begin, refresh, and reset your journey of self-exploration and engagement in life and your healing practice if you are a practitioner.
For Healers, Practitioners, Self-Cultivators, Coaches, Counselors, Therapists, Teachers, Managers, Actors, Mentors, or anyone who is curious and may want learn about the Ghost Points and the Nine Stages of Alchemy.
Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program
For Healers and Practitioners
Long-Distance Learning plus Clinical In-Person Supervision:
Many of us chose the path of the healer with the goal of helping others while striving to find a path we love. However, as with any career, the mundane-ness of the daily routine can set in after the newness is over.
If you know that there’s more potential inside you as a Healer, you have the potential to go deeper into the Mystery of Life both personally and then with clients.
Alchemy is a continual changing and growing journey that eliminates the boredom and the mundane in our lives. If you are seeking more… Practicing Alchemy could be of interest for you.
The Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program will not only transform you as a Healer, but as a Human as well. This program will help you foster and guide your personal journey towards your own radical transformation. This unique apprenticeship will teach not only the theory, but the practical hands-on training as well as personal self cultivation, self exploration, facing and letting go of past traumas, and so much more…
Your Nine Palaces
- Take your Nine Palaces Assessment
- Take your Relationship Assessment
- Dive into your Loving Yourself Exercise
- Answer the 10 Million Dollar Question
- The True values Exercises
- How to practice Alchemical Life Strategy Coaching (for coaches and practitioners)
- Nine Palaces Challenges
- The Who Am I Meditation
- The Void of the Heart Meditation
- Full How-to Handout
Class Bundles
Your Five Elements
In between these two paths, lies the Wu Wei (inspired action) path of the Alchemist.
This path begins with accepting yourself - your authenticity!
Choose Your Path!
Self-Cultivator
- Alchemical Meditations
- Discover your Authentic Energetic Nature
- Experience an Alchemical treatment or strategy session
Discover Alchemy for your own transformational growth path.
Practitioner
- The Alchemical Chinese Medicine Method
- Getting to the Root of a person’s illness
- Greater connection with clients in treatment