Alchemy Treatments and Coaching Sessions
(Virtual or In-Person in Massachusetts)
If you would like to explore your own personal Alchemy, we offer Alchemy Treatments with an Alchemy Practitioner or Alchemical Life Strategy Sessions with an Alchemical Life Coach.
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Alchemy ∙ Acupuncture ∙ Acupressure ∙ Herbal Medicine ∙ Nutrition ∙ Massage
Stages of Alchemy Treatments
Stage One of Alchemy Treatments use acu-points to help you move through the first stage of Alchemy. These treatments can be done in-person at the Alchemy Healing Center in Northampton, Massachusetts or virtually through a telemedicine appointment. These treatments work very well “long-distance” where the practitioner works on your energetically while you can optionally hold the points on yourself and learn self-treatment techniques.
Alchemical Life Strategy Session
Alchemical Life Strategy Sessions are 3-4 hour sessions that can be in-person or virtual. These sessions help you identify your Five Element Energetic nature, your Nine Palace priorities, and your Alchemical path. In addition, you can do regular Life Strategy sessions to continue to support your self-cultivation.
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Alchemy ∙ Acupuncture ∙ Acupressure ∙ Herbal Medicine ∙ Nutrition ∙ Massage
Our Practitioners
Leta Herman
CI-AOBTA®, CP-AOBTA®, LMT Alchemy and Acupressure
Leta Herman is a Chinese Medicine practitioner, Certified AOBTA instructor, author, teacher, co-founder of the Alchemy Healing Center, and co-host of the Inspired Action podcast. She offers a wide range of energetic acupressure and Alchemy treatments based on the principles of ancient Chinese Medicine. Please see her Treatments page for more information on how she can help you and your family.
A former journalist and syndicated columnist, Leta is the co-author of four books: Through the Mystery Gate (also available as an audiobook) The Energy of Love, Connecting Your Circle, and The Big “Little” Gua Sha Book.
“I have completed and continue to study advanced principles in Chinese Medicine with Jeffrey Yuen, an 88th Generation Daoist priest and Chinese Medicine master. I have been teaching the Five Elements for over twenty years and have provided Five Element counseling to hundreds of individuals and couples. I am also a graduate of Eliot Cowan’s Plant Spirit Medicine studies program. I have studied intensively with well-known teachers and former students of J.R. Worsley, who brought Five Element Acupuncture to England in the 1960s. I also have a license in massage therapy and am certified in acupressure by the American Organization of Bodywork Therapies of Asia (AOBTA). My acupressure practice is very unique and diverse, focusing on ancient Chinese healing practices that are largely unknown today in the Western culture. People travel from around the world to my clinic to do intensive Alchemical work with me.”
Jaye McElroy
Alchemy Strategist
Jaye McElroy uses her knowledge of Alchemy and the Five Elements to provide very unique life strategy sessions. She is an author, coach, photographer, co-founder of the Alchemy Healing Center, and co-host of the Inspired Action podcast. Jaye combines her career in advertising, business, and writing with the Five Elements and Alchemy to help people manifest their true potential in life. She is the co-author of four books: Through the Mystery Gate (also available as an audiobook), The Energy of Love, Connecting Your Circle, and The Big “Little” Gua Sha Book.
Jaye’s Alchemical Life Strategy work dives deep into your energetic temperament to help you use the gifts of who you truly are and transform the ways you are blocking yourself in life. During a session, Jaye maps out your Elemental stack-up (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal and Water), giving you deep insights into how your energetics influence your behaviors and relationships in your life. Whether it is a challenge, an obstacle, or just feeling stuck in your life, she can help guide you into clarity and ease.
Jaye also brings in the Nine Palaces and how they map to your Five Elements, so you can prioritize better what’s most important in your life, whether it’s Career, Relationship, Health, Wealth, Home, Travel/Adventure, Children/Creativity, Wisdom, Prosperity. No good, no bad…no right or wrong…a 100% no-judgement zone created just for you to thrive not just survive.
Penny Herter
Alchemical Healing (Virtual Stages of Alchemy)
Penny Herter has studied Alchemy with Leta and Jaye for the past three years. She is the newest member of our team, offering Reiki and Alchemical Treatments (like the Thirteen Ghost Points and the Stages of Alchemy) at the Alchemy Healing Center. She also often assists Leta with her Acupressure sessions as she continues her Acupressure training.
Her Reiki treatments are incredibly relaxing and rejuvenating, while easing pain in many cases. She has studied Reiki under Reiki Master Teacher, Rosie Pearson.
Reiki is a unique, healing therapy that can restore the body to equilibrium through the transfer of beneficial energy. Treatment can be localized to the site of a specific ailment or conducted across the body. You will enjoy feelings of warmth and comfort, and may very well find yourself in a deep state of relaxation.
