Integrate Alchemical Healing in your own Practice
Learn Ancient Alchemical Treatments
Become an Agent for Healing - a Vehicle for the healing process
Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program Track
Year One
with Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy
for Acupuncturists, accupressurists, and energy healers
Learn Alchemical Treatments and transform as a healer.
Included in your MAAP program is the following:
On-line classes - 9 online classes are included when you begin the program
- Intro to Alchemy class
- The Five Elements class
- The Nine Palaces class
- Releasing Chaotic Energy
- 13 Ghost Points class
- Advanced Alchemical Five Element Energetics
- Alchemical Rapport & Professional Intimacy
- Removing Obstacles with the Nine Palaces
Zoom Live Wu Wei Wednesday classes (with Replay)
Weekly Meditations and Live Discussions
Tentative Schedule – Subject to Change
Noon to 2:00 Wednesdays (Eastern Time/USA)
(2023 schedule TBA)
This is a wonderful opportunity for everyone to practice a lifestyle that embraces self-cultivation and a level of focus for a year or more in transforming yourself and the work you’re doing with others.
September 14th – Intro to the program, meet and greet, meditation – Who Am I?
Your Treatments
As Alchemy Practitioners, we must first personally experience Alchemy before we can help others along the path. So it’s imperative to embark on your own Alchemy path before you begin treating.
- A Thirteen Ghost Points Treatment (4-6 hour in-person treatment plus 1 hour follow-up session) with past/current MAAP practitioner (Limited availability for Leta - for additional fee)
- An Alchemical Life Strategy Session (3-4 hour virtual or in-person with Jaye)
- Monthly Ongoing Nine Stages of Alchemy treatment OR Alchemical Life Strategy follow-up sessions (virtual or in-person with Past/Current MAAP practitioners (Limited availability for Leta - for additional fee)
Clinical Work: Retreats, Observation, Supervision, Practice
- Retreats: As part of the certification program, you will complete your observation and supervision work during our retreats (or come separately to our clinic on your own).
- Observation: Shadowing is when you observe a treatment and play a role within that treatment - reports after each session are required
- Minimum 2 Ghost Point treatments
- Minimum 2 Nine Stage of Alchemy treatments
- Supervision: Supervision is when Leta supervises you doing a session - reports after each session are required. You must observe at least 2 Ghost Points sessions before receiving supervision for your first Ghost Point treatment.
- Minimum 2 Ghost Point treatments
- Minimum 2 Nine Stage of Alchemy treatments (can be done on same day as the observations)
- NOTE: Many apprentices opt to observe more than the minimal requirements.
- Practice: After completion of your supervised treatments for each level of training, you can begin to start practicing on your own. Clients may be friends, families, patients, volunteers. At this point in your training, we ask that you complete and submit notes for:
- Five (5) treatments (Ghost Points) with your clients
- 5 Stage One Alchemy Treatments
- Final Review: All of your observations and supervisions must be documented and submitted. We will do a final review of your material before completion of the program/certification.
REGISTRATION - $12,950
$12,950 $11,950 USD (Pay One Fee)
DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 7 (OR UNTIL SOLD OUT)
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DEADLINE IS AUGUST 20
CLASSES BEGIN WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
*OR CHOOSE THE 8-PAY PLAN OPTION ($1618.75 a month)
USE THE 8-PAY PLAN IF YOU’D LIKE TO PAY IN MORE BITE-SIZED CHUNKS.
"You’re not seeing yourself as the person who is doing the healing, but rather as the medium or the intermediary by which something comes through you, and through you, you’re serving as a vehicle of the healing process."
- Master Jeffrey Yuen
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.
Are you finding yourself pondering the question:
Is there more to life than this?
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…
All illness comes from wanting things to last forever. Historically, Chinese Medicine's purpose is to heal our spirits. We know things can't last forever, but it's human nature to wish things could or that we could go back in time and do it over again. We wish for permanence in life, but the only constant in life is the idea of change.
Deepen or discover an Alchemical Self-Cultivation Routine that fits your life
Be part of a world-wide focused & motivated Learning Community
Study and Learn with Alchemical Healer, Teacher & Shaman Leta Herman
How Does It Work?
"This Alchemical path is one of the fastest personal growth journeys that you can embark on. By helping others transform on a daily basis, you go through your own deep and radical transformations as well."
"Can you provide something that can deeply transform your clients' lives while going through your own transformational process? Yes, you can!"
The Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program is a 1-3 year learning program with Leta Herman & Jaye McElroy that provides the fundamental skills to embark upon your Alchemical Practitioner journey. The program is suitable for Chinese Medicine Practitioners and many other healers who are seeking to integrate ancient Alchemical Healing Treatments into their current healing practice.
Alchemy is truly a personal journey. But it helps to take that journey in a supportive community and learn from those who are maybe a little further along this path. This apprenticeship builds on the years of wisdom of its teachers in a way that can speed up your learning process. Our students accomplish in a few years what took us 10 to 20 years to accomplish. Our approach is effective… We take the theories of Alchemy and apply it to practical clinical work so you can step out on this path boldly and confidently. Some students like a more fast track approach while some of our other students love to take their time and let the material soak into their conscienceless on a deeper level. And still other students love the personal Alchemical journey for themselves, as they have many past traumas that have been holding them back and are loving the new found freedom from their own Alchemical treatments and self-cultivation practices.
We are flexible and patient. Whatever timeline and pace you choose to take, we believe it is for you to decide on your own path. We are just the guides, it is your journey to take.
Year One: Two Tracks
The MAP program focuses on understanding the transformational principles and theories that serve as the foundation in Alchemical Healing. This unique Alchemical Healing system of transformation provides practitioners with practical yet expansive skills and applicable resources to effectively provide Alchemical Healing and transformational sessions. This intensive and transformational program can be both theoretical and clinical.
Master Alchemy Program
(Theory - Virtual)
The Theory of How to Practice
Long-Distance Learning:
This program has been redesigned to take into account our disparate locations from around the globe. Since the pandemic, we all have to had to adapt to a new world “normal’, and we will continue to make adaptations to offer this work for many who couldn’t access it before. Flexibility is key. We are embracing as much of technology as we can to further help guide healers to continue their Alchemy practice.
The Master Alchemy Program series is the Virtual classroom (lectures, guided exercises, and online classes) portion for our Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program. This program is for those who cannot do the in-person portion of the program (due to location or time/resources) at this time. This program focuses on the fundamental building blocks for becoming an Alchemical Healer.
Year One
The first year focuses on the Ghost Points, the Nine Stages of Alchemy and self cultivation.
Year 2 and Year 3 focus on the Nine Heart Pains, Grieving, IDs, EDs, and the Starry Sky points.
The current schedule for Year One:
Live "Wu Wei Wednesdays" Zoom Classes
(with Replay)
Weekly Meditations and Live Discussions
Tentative Schedule – Subject to Change
Noon to 2:00 Wednesdays (Eastern Time/USA)
Starts September 14th
September 14th – Intro to the program, meet and greet, meditation – Who Am I?
September 18th – Advanced Ghost Points
September 21 – The Ghost Points – Intro – What’s Holding You Back?
September 28 – Ghost Palace, Ghost Convincing Meditations
October 19 – Ghost Eyes and Ghost Heart
October 26 – Ghost Road and Ghost Pillow
November 9 – Stages of Alchemy
November 12-13 – 9 Stages of Alchemy
November 16 – Stage One – Enter the Mystery Gate
November 30 – Ghost Bed and Ghost Market
December 7 – Ghost Cave
December 14 – Stage One – What Do I Really Want
January 4 – Stage One – Align Your Heart
January 11 – Ghost Hall and Ghost Hidden
January 18 – Ghost Official and Ghost Seal
February 1 – February 8 – Stage One – Rebellious Qi
February 15 – Stage One – Communing with Your Higher Self
March 1 – Stage One – Letting Go
March 8 – Stage Two – Creating your Alchemical Cauldron
March 15 – Removing Your Tentacles – Part 1
April 5 – Removing Your Tentacles- Part 2
April 16 – Best Protection is No Protection
May 10 – Clinical Discussions
May 24 – Psychic Powers
June 7 – Claircognizance
June 21 – Alchemical Coaching
July 12 – TBD
July 19 -TBD
Aug 9 – TBD
Aug 16 TBD
Master Alchemy Apprenticeship
(Clinical - In Person)
Mentorship and Certification
In-Person Learning:
We recognize the richness and power of in-person learning, especially for the depth of Alchemical healing techniques. As such, all apprentices come to learn in person at pre-scheduled retreats or independently visiting the Alchemy Healing Clinic for a day, weekend, or even a week at a time. This program is built along side the Master Alchemy Program and all Apprentices are required to take the MAP intensives and Wu Wei Wednesday Zoom sessions at the appropriate times in the program.
These in-person clinic learning sessions make it possible for you to get your observation and supervised trainings in with maximum flexibility depending on your location. Apprentices who live in the United States, can spread their in-person trainings out and come when it is convenient for in-person learning. Apprentices who live far away from our clinic can come for extended stays and do the bulk of their trainings at once. We have 2 international airports within 2 hours of us — Boston (2 hours) & Hartford/Bradley (45 mins).
This program is designed to provide the mentorship that is so helpful in learning this level of work. This is about having the assurance of someone who has been doing this work for many years being by your side while you embark on your journey.
All clinical and in-person treatment & training sessions will require observation of strict safety protocols for the State of Massachusetts, including in some cases getting tested for COVID for all in-person events. These requirements vary depending on the current status of our state’s laws. We will provide each student with a detailed list of protocols and requirements. If the current state of COVID and world travels continue to improve, our plans for multi-year students to gather for in-person healing retreats will resume and will be announced. More on the retreats as things develop and are not currently part of the tuition.
"Your confidence and learning curve will develop faster than you can imagine with the apprenticeship and the support of the community behind you. Together we can and will move forward and grow as Alchemical Healers. It truly can be a transformational, positive, and self-loving way to learn Alchemy."
The MAAP Apprenticeship has three levels and is designed as a 1-3 year intensive program
(but can have a more flexible timeline if needed):
Year One Certification: Embarking on Your Journey
–Completion of Becoming an Alchemical Healer, the Thirteen Ghost Points, and the Nine Stages of Alchemy (Stages 1 and 2) classes
–Your Cohort Sessions, which include Alchemical meditations and self-cultivation
–Your Ghost Points treatment and monthly Alchemy treatments
–Your Life Strategy Session
–In-Person observation and supervision of your treatments
–Treatments on your own (with written notes)
Year Two Certification: The Practitioner’s Journey
–Completion of The Nine Heart Pains, The Alchemical Grieving Treatment Intensives
— Your Cohort Sessions, which include Stages Three and Four of Alchemy
–Your Heart Pains treatment and monthly Alchemy treatments
— In-Person observation and supervision of the treatments
–Treatments on your own (with written notes)
Year Three Certification: Going Deeper
–Completion of IDs and EDs Treatments and Gui Possession and The Starry Sky Point Treatments Intensives
–Your Cohort Session, which include the remaining 9 Stages of Alchemy
— In-Person observation and supervision of the treatments
–Treatments on your own (with written notes)
Upon successful completion of all the requirements for each level, students will receive an Alchemical Practitioner Certification for their completed level (Certified Alchemical Healing Practitioner). Graduates of the program will be permitted to list their services using the Alchemy Certification Program logo(s) on their own website and marketing materials. Active Certified Practitioners may also be listed for client referral on the official Alchemy Learning Center Certification Program website under the category of Certified Practitioners.
Get ready to live your life’s purpose, fulfill your potential and help others do the same. The Master Alchemy Program is open for enrollment. Join us.
JOIN US FOR OUR UPCOMING MASTER ALCHEMY PROGRAM
REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS SEPTEMBER 7th (or until sold out)
EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT DEADLINE IS AUGUST 20th
CLASSES START WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14
REGISTRATION: $4200
*OR CHOOSE THE 8-PAY PLAN OPTION
USE THE 8-PAY PLAN IF YOU’D LIKE TO PAY IN BITE-SIZED CHUNKS.
Yes! I’m ready to get inspired and learn transformational work!
This program has an application process. Click on Apply Now, complete the form, and we will set up a Zoom call to discuss your plan.
About Your Guides
Leta Herman is an Alchemical Healer, Chinese Medicine teacher, Podcast host of the Inspired Action Podcast, as well as author of Through the Mystery Gate, The Energy of Love, Connecting Your Circle, and The BIG “Little” Gua Sha Book. She is the co-founder of the Alchemy Healing Center, a very active Chinese Medicine clinic in Northampton, MA dedicated to helping clients find their true potential through Alchemical transformation. She is the driving force behind the new Alchemy Learning Center, offering online classes and live events related to The Five Elements, The Nine Palaces, and Alchemy.
She has immersed herself in the philosophies of Daoism, Alchemical Healing, and Chinese Medicine for over twenty years. She is a long-time student of Master Jeffrey Yuen, an 88th generation Daoist priest and Chinese Medicine master. She is also a graduate of Eliot Cowan’s Plant Spirit Medicine studies program and has studied intensively with well-known teachers and former students of J.R. Worsley, who brought Five Element Acupuncture to the West in the 1960s.
Jaye McElroy is an Alchemical Life Strategist, Podcast host of the Inspired Action Podcast, as well as author of Through the Mystery Gate, The Energy of Love, Connecting Your Circle, and The BIG “Little” Gua Sha Book. She is the co-founder of the Alchemy Healing Center, a very active Chinese Medicine clinic in Northampton, MA dedicated to helping clients find their true potential through Alchemical transformation. She is a co-founder of the new Alchemy Learning Center, offering online classes and live events related to The Five Elements, The Nine Palaces, and Alchemy.
McElroy combines her career in business, writing, and creative arts with Alchemy and the Five Elements to help people manifest their true potential in life. She considers herself a humble student of life, love, and laughter.
Master Alchemy Program
(Theory - Virtual)
More About Your Teachers
The Alchemy Healing Center
Healing in modern day society is focused on getting rid of symptoms as quickly as possible. The Alchemy Healing Center in Northampton MA, founded by Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy, is focused on cultivating your true potential while healing the source of the problem, whether it is emotional or physical.
Leta & Jaye's New Book
Order Leta Herman & Jaye McElroy’s new Alchemy book!
Enter the Mystery Gate of Daoist Alchemy and discover how to remove the obstacles in your way, embrace the magic of all that is, and learn to fly in your life.
Upcoming Live Events
Join us for a number of online and in-person events!
Our events cover everything from livestream classes on Alchemy and Chinese Medicine, Self-cultivation Quests, the Apprenticeship Program, and yearly Alchemical retreats.
The Podcast
Season 5 is here!
Embrace the magic of the mystery of your life. Take a journey with Leta and Jaye through the Mystery Gate with Season 5 of the Inspired Action Podcast. The first episode explores new beginnings and new directions.
Alchemy is the Road Less Traveled
If you’re attracted to Alchemy and to the ways it can transform your life, you must ultimately walk it alone. But we like to say you can have friends along the way, who will share the path with you. Many Alchemists retreated to the mountains in the old days, to practice in small groups. This is a tradition of living life differently than people do in mainstream modern culture. The focus is on self-cultivation. We’ve been practicing Alchemy for many years now. We are also lucky to have found and built a community of others who want to practice with us.
– Leta & Jaye
Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program
In this program, we will share many of the beautiful teachings passed down from
Master Jeffrey Yuen, an 88th generation Daoist Priest.
In ancient times, some very wise human beings observed the nature of life and the natural human responses to it. Instead of trying to teach humans how to deal with the choppy waters of life without a rudder, sail, or oars, they decided to raise the bar! They wanted more, asked more, needed more—and they sought knowledge, rather than material items. These ancient Alchemists discovered a way to navigate the tumultuous waters in their lives and set sail to a particular destination of their choice.
They set out to become what the Chinese called a “realized human being” or what’s known as a “Zhen Ren” in Chinese. They were the wizards and magicians who cracked the code on how to transcend the life of an “average human being.” We think it is truly a road worth taking.
Alchemy is mastery of your own life. It’s not easy to achieve, but anyone can achieve it.
The Eight Immortals of antiquity in China are considered to represent all the types of people in the world. In today’s language, the Eight consisted of a healthy young man, an elderly man, a woman, a wealthy man, an under-privileged, gender non-conforming person, a handsome prince, a creative artist, and a man with a disability. The diversity of the group is meant to show us that anyone, at any point in their lives, can start their journey and achieve mastery in their own lives.
You can be on your deathbed taking your last breath or recently born and taking your first breath and still discover the meaning of Alchemy.
You just need the tools, the awareness, and some guidance—though that guidance could certainly come from within you.
Alchemy came to us through the guidance of many teachers and life experiences, but our true inspiration to learn more about Alchemy came from Master Jeffrey Yuen and his vast knowledge of ancient Alchemy. We think of the Nine Stages of Alchemy as a roadmap that can guide us with specific directions that say now turn right here, and make a left there. It’s not the only way to get to our destination; in fact, anyone could invent their own Alchemical road map. However, we believe that a group of very wise people created a wonderful map for us a very long time ago—so why not follow the stepping stones they laid out for us to follow? It’s just one way to get there. The ancient Alchemists did it, and they surely wanted us to give it a try.
- Contribute to an active learning community that manifests our true potential as cooperative social beings
- Develop or expand a vision of Alchemical culture
- Grow further inspired to manifest that vision
- Perpetuate positive action to incite others to embody their own Alchemical path
- Be part of and connect with an emerging community of Alchemically-oriented people
- Celebrate transformation, curiosity, inspiration, and self-cultivation
Program Details
Start Date: September 2022
- Online sessions with Leta and Jaye (watch live or recorded version)
- Accountability pods
- 100 day journaling challenge
- Weekly exercises and meditations
- Access to the alchemical library of meditations, online classes, and books
- Discount on virtual or in-person optional Alchemy treatments (90 minutes)
- Discount on virtual or in-person optional Strategy sessions (90 minutes)
Who am I?
When we are looking outside ourselves for the answer to the Who Am I question instead of finding inspiration from within, then it becomes about who you are not. You may ask, "Why can't I be like that artist that painted that beautiful painting or why can't I be like that athlete who won Olympic gold?" These are questions that require deep contemplation.
This is about asking yourself better questions.
What You Receive in the Apprenticeship Program
- Access to on-line prerequisite classes
- Initial planning session with Leta
- Online livestream classes and Zoom trainings, in-person options will be available
- A guided path to learning and understanding the 9 Stages of Alchemy and several Alchemical treatments
- A deeper personal transformation that will change your life and your clients
- Shadowing Leta personally during treatments in our Healing Center.
- Study pods with fellow Apprentices in your group
- In-Person Retreats - Based on COVID guidelines (Year 2 & 3 sessions)
- A personalized self-cultivation routine that will last a lifetime that you will love!
- Hands-on Learning in treatment sessions
How to Use an Alchemical Approach to Create Deeper Levels of Transformation in Yourself and Your Clients
Interested in Becoming a Transformational Healer?
We put together a free webinar on how to use Alchemy to powerfully change your Healing practice and your life.
When Can I Begin
Learning Alchemical Healing?
The next start date is
September 2023
