The Practitioner Path
Our Practitioner journey is for those who want to go beyond treating symptoms and into the root causes of illness—the emotional, spiritual, and energetic patterns that create disease.
Our Alchemical approach goes far beyond what’s typically covered in acupuncture programs. While schools may mention the Ghost Points or Starry Sky Points, they rarely teach the deeper esoteric framework—the Nine Stages of Alchemy, entity work, heart liberation teachings, and the spiritual foundation that makes these techniques truly transformational. This path will give you clinical tools and spiritual depth that transform both how you work with clients and who you are as a practitioner.
The core principle: You can’t guide others through work you haven’t done yourself. Your own Alchemical transformation is not optional—it’s the foundation of effective practice.
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Your Path to Enhancing Your Practice
Our Practitioner journey is for those who want to go beyond treating symptoms and into the root causes of illness—the emotional, spiritual, and energetic patterns that create disease.
Our Alchemical approach goes far beyond what’s typically covered in acupuncture programs. While schools may mention the Ghost Points or Starry Sky Points, they rarely teach the deeper esoteric framework—the Nine Stages of Alchemy, entity work, heart liberation teachings, and the spiritual foundation that makes these techniques truly transformational. This path will give you clinical tools and spiritual depth that transform both how you work with clients and who you are as a practitioner.
The core principle: You can’t guide others through work you haven’t done yourself. Your own Alchemical transformation is not optional—it’s the foundation of effective practice.
Explore The Practitioner Journey
These foundational teachings from Daoist Inner Alchemy provide the energetic language and spiritual perspective that all advanced Alchemical work builds upon.
Your journey as a practitioner begins here—and continues through clinical mastery, your own deep transformation, and potentially teaching others.
Wherever your path leads — self-cultivator, practitioner, or teacher — it all begins here.
Start with these free resources to understand our approach:
Free Clinical Webinars:
- Thirteen Ghost Points Webinar – Our most-watched clinical teaching. Discover this ancient treatment for releasing trauma, grief, and ancestral patterns. Learn the points, the theory, and when to use this powerful protocol.
- Advanced Five Elements Webinar – This explains how we work with the Five Elements differently from traditional Five Element training. Essential for understanding our Alchemical diagnostic approach.
- Alchemy and the Ghost Points webinar – Understand the complete system of Alchemical Chinese Medicine and how the Ghost Points fit into the larger framework.
Free Resources:
- Through the Mystery Gate audiobook – Complete foundation in Daoist Alchemy and the Nine Stages. This is essential background for understanding the spiritual framework behind the clinical work.
- Intro to Alchemical Meditations – Start your own practice. This is non-negotiable—you must do your own Alchemy work to guide clients effectively.
- Inspired Action Podcast + Pod List – Explore clinical topics, Five Elements, Nine Palaces, and the deeper teachings. Use the Pod List to find episodes by topic.
Foundations of Alchemy: Where Every Path Begins
Your clinical training begins with these three core classes. This is where you learn our Alchemical framework—the foundation that all our advanced clinical work builds upon.
- Understanding the Five Elements
This is foundational to all Alchemical Chinese Medicine work. You’ll learn our unique “Five Element stack-up” diagnostic approach—understanding not just someone’s primary Element, but their full Elemental makeup and how to quickly assess someone’s nature by observation and work with all Five Elements in treatment. This isn’t the Five Element theory you learned in school—this is the energetic framework all our advanced clinical work builds upon. - Understanding the Nine Palaces of the Heart
This is core to Alchemical Chinese Medicine. The Nine Palaces reveal the influences driving a person’s life patterns—what they want, what blocks them, and where illness originates. Essential for identifying what’s truly blocking your client and understanding chronic illness patterns at their root, not just symptoms. This framework is foundational for all deeper Alchemy work with clients. - Intro to Alchemy
This class summarizes the breadth of Alchemical Chinese Medicine and its protocols. Learn the complete system—what techniques are available, when to use them, and how to integrate this work into your treatment room. Essential overview before diving into advanced protocols. - Weekly live practice: Five Element Friday ($25 per session) – Explore Elemental energies with us in real-time and deepen your understanding.
This section is designed to expand your ability to see, feel, and treat through the lens of Alchemical Healing. Whether you’re working with physical symptoms, emotional imbalances, or spiritual stagnation, these teachings offer practical tools and advanced insights that help you transform how you approach client care.
You’ll learn how to build deep, transformative rapport, apply nuanced Five Element energetics, and confidently diagnose and treat complex patterns — all while staying rooted in the Alchemical framework. From subtle channel work to hands-on therapies like cupping and gua sha, this training meets you where you are and gives you what you need to go deeper.
Essentials Teachings
Alchemical Rapport and Professional Intimacy
Learn how to create deep, transformative connections with your clients by cultivating authentic presence and energetic intimacy — a vital skill for meaningful healing work.
Advanced Alchemical Five Element Energetics
Expand your diagnostic precision and deepen your understanding of how to work with elemental patterns and imbalances at a soul level.
Smooth Flow of Qi: Clearing Channel Blocks
Master one of the simplest yet most powerful techniques for restoring energetic flow, relieving stagnation, and initiating profound shifts in your clients’ systems.
Advanced Diagnostics & Treatments
Intro to Divergent Channels
Explore the Divergent Channels and how to use them to treat chronic and lingering conditions like arthritis, joint pain, and unresolved illnesses held deep in the body.
Dai Mai vs. Ghost Points
Learn how to distinguish between these two powerful Alchemical treatments — and when to use each — to address trauma, chaos, and deep energetic blockages.
Yin/Yang Imbalances
Gain diagnostic tools to recognize and treat critical yin/yang imbalances, including conditions that may present as life-threatening or systemically destabilizing.
Finding Balance: Left/Right Channel Imbalances
Discover how to detect and correct subtle energetic imbalances between the left and right sides of the body, restoring harmony and flow at the root level.
Bodywork (Optional)
Learn Cupping
Master the fundamentals of cupping therapy to relieve pain, release stagnation, and support deep energetic clearing in your clients.
Learn Gua Sha
Learn how to use this traditional scraping technique to move stuck qi, reduce inflammation, and promote natural healing in the body.
Learn Facial Cupping & Gua Sha
Explore gentle facial techniques that support lymphatic flow, reduce tension, and enhance both energetic and aesthetic rejuvenation.
You can’t guide clients through Alchemy without doing your own work first. These meditations are the heart of that inner transformation. Rooted in ancient Taoist principles, each stage helps you peel back layers of emotional and energetic stagnation — from surface tension to lifetime patterns to ancestral imprints. This practice not only deepens your personal healing journey, it prepares you to hold space for others with greater clarity, compassion, and integrity.
Whether you’re just beginning or already on the practitioner path, this is where true Alchemy begins — within.
Intro to Alchemical Meditations
Begin your meditation practice with foundational techniques that help you center, ground, and connect to the energetics of Alchemical Healing.
Alchemical Meditations (Stages 1 - 3)
Stage 1 Meditations
Cultivate internal stillness and emotional ease by learning to gently clear surface-level tensions and settle the spirit.
Stage 2 Meditations
Go deeper to release the emotional and energetic patterns accumulated in this lifetime that may be holding you back.
Stage 3 Meditations
Work with ancestral and inherited patterns to clear deep-rooted imbalances and restore harmony across generations.
For practitioners ready to immerse themselves in a focused area of Alchemical Healing, these 12-week trainings offer a powerful next step. Each program explores a unique dimension of the work — from stones and plants to heart-field energetics — and is designed to deepen your clinical application, intuitive skills, and personal transformation.
Choose based on what’s calling you — these are parallel paths, not a progression. Whether you’re drawn to the grounding presence of stones, the whisper of plant allies, or the transformative space of the heart, each program stands on its own and supports you in becoming a more attuned and aligned healer.
Alchemy Stone Medicine – Level 1 (Starting February 2026)
Learn to work with stones as healing allies in your clinical practice. This immersive training teaches the energetic properties of specific stones, how to use them in treatment protocols, and how to develop intuitive relationships with the mineral realm for deep, grounded healing.
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Alchemy Plant Spirit Medicine – Level 1 (Starting May 2026)
Step into sacred relationship with plant allies and learn to incorporate their spirit-based wisdom into your healing work. This 12-week journey blends Taoist Alchemy, seasonal energetics, and intuitive connection to guide you in using plant medicine beyond the physical — for emotional and spiritual transformation.
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Heart-Centered Alchemy – Level 1 (Upcoming)
Explore the profound space of the void within the heart — the still point from which true healing begins. In this deep and subtle training, you’ll learn how to access the heart field in yourself and others, cultivate resonance, and hold space for transformation through presence, not doing.
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For practitioners ready to fully embody the path of the Alchemical Healer, our Mastery-level offerings provide the most in-depth and transformational training available. These immersive programs are designed not only to teach advanced clinical techniques — but to facilitate your own profound inner transformation.
This is where Alchemy becomes lived, not just practiced. You’ll gain access to advanced protocols, energetic diagnostics, and mentorship in esoteric Chinese Medicine — while being deeply supported in your own evolution as a healer and guide.
Whether you’re beginning the Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program (MAAP) or continuing into the Alchemy Life Strategy Intensive, this level of work prepares you to hold space for life-changing healing in others because you’ve walked through it yourself.
What Other Practitioners Think...
“It really spoke to me deeply and I couldn’t be happier in this program. I feel like it actually is giving me an opportunity to connect with what I feel like originally got me into Chinese medicine in the first place. I’ve been exposed to many of these ideas because I’ve been a student of Jeffrey Yuen’s for 13 years, but the way Leta and Jaye have put this all together is, in my experience, really special. It’s complete and it’s bottomless and the community is completely amazing. Jaye and Leta’s joyful hearts are completely amazing, and I would unequivocally say jump in if it speaks to you because it’s awesome.“
Bill Wright
Acupuncturist, Self-Healing Coach
“Leta and Jaye have a wonderful ability to create sacred space and hold the container for everyone. I felt completely at ease, and I learned SO MUCH!! This medicine is amazing, and I am so grateful they are sharing it.”
Brittney Chowning, LAC
Alchemy Practitioner and Acupuncturist
“I’ve done other trainings in other alternative healing methods, but I’ve never been in a program like this where I felt so held and where I could really have a personal relationship with my mentors.”
Mikhael Oskarrson
Alchemy and Stone Medicine Practitioner
FAQ's
You can take 1 or 2 levels of this 3-level program. Each level also has its own certification process. So you can be certified in level 1 as soon as you finish the requirements and graduate from Level 1.
Coursework ($5,600) gives you the complete Level 1 training: all 26 lectures, your 10 monthly Alchemy sessions, prerequisite courses, Q&A sessions, and access to Meditation Monday and Five Element Friday. You learn the Ghost Points protocol, Stages 1 & 2 of Alchemy, and complete your own transformation. You can advance to Level 2 after completing Level 1 coursework.
Certification ($4,350-$6,150) adds the clinical training components: observing treatments, supervised practice sessions, independent treatments with supervision, and your graduation requirements. This is what qualifies you to offer Ghost Points treatments to clients, gives you 90+ CEUs, and gets you listed as a certified practitioner on our website.
Many students complete the coursework, move to Level 2, and add certification later — often completing their clinical work in their second year. Certification is optional but required if you want credentials, CEUs, to be listed on our Web site, or to practice this work clinically.
The coursework is entirely virtual, so you can participate from anywhere in the world with reliable internet. For certification, you’ll need to travel to receive and observe in-person Ling-Shu treatments (available in Northampton, MA and other US locations, or at our retreats). Supervised Ghost Points treatments can also be arranged in various locations.
Yes, you can complete the coursework from anywhere. However, for certification, you’ll need to travel to the US for in-person treatment observations and supervised clinical work. We also have students who time their certification work with our retreats or visits to the US.
Yes. Practitioner Certification students are eligible to receive 90+ NCCAOM continuing education credits (or 50+ California CEUs) after completing all prerequisites and certification requirements. Our current year’s program is pending NCCAOM approval, however, every year we receive approval.
We want students who are genuinely ready for this work. Due to the personalized nature of the program and our small cohort size, refunds are limited.
Before the second class: Full refund minus $500 (administrative fee) and cost of any sessions already received.
After the second class: Tuition is non-refundable.
If you’re on a payment plan and need to withdraw, your payments will stop, and you’ll retain access to all materials and recordings you’ve paid for through your withdrawal date.
If you’ve paid in full and need to withdraw, you’ll retain access to all course materials and recordings, and can rejoin a future cohort (if available) without re-paying tuition.
For certification components paid separately (observations, supervised treatments), these are non-refundable once services have been scheduled or rendered.
In cases of documented medical or family emergencies that prevent program participation, please contact us directly to discuss possible accommodation.
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