Alchemy School
The Path of Alchemy Begins with YOU!
Alchemy School is the foundational first year of the Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program, with three ways to walk the path: as a Self-Cultivator, an Alchemy Strategist, or an Alchemy Practitioner.
From $498 a month.
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What Is Alchemy School?
Alchemy School is the first year of the Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program, nine months of intensive Alchemy training for anyone who feels called to understand themselves more deeply and live more fully as who they truly are.
If you are new to this work, you don’t need a background in Chinese Medicine or a healing practice, only a willingness to look honestly at yourself and a curiosity about what becomes possible when you do.
If you are already a practitioner, Alchemy School takes you far deeper than any technique, into your own transformation first, and then into clinical classes that bring the Stages of Alchemy and the Ghost Points into your treatment room.
What Is Daoist Alchemy and Why Now in Your Life?
We’ve developed this comprehensive system over decades of practice and study. We draw primarily from Master Jeffrey Yuen’s teachings, as Leta has been his student for over 20 years and Jaye since 2012, but this synthesis also includes other lineages, Leta’s own Alchemical and Shamanic studies with other teachers, and years of direct transmission and refinement.
This is a living tradition we’re actively creating and evolving.
With MAAP, I discovered a transformative journey of learning, growth, and becoming more authentically myself. Rooted in ancient Daoist principles, the program deepened my understanding of the body and authentic Qi. I came without a degree in Traditional Chinese Medicine, but with an open heart and a willingness to learn. The genuine support of the teachers, mentors, and community made this experience truly meaningful. I’m deeply grateful I said yes, and excited to share what I’ve learned with my clients, friends, and family.
Dani Palacio
Energetic Intuitive, Author, Business Owner
What an amazing adventure! In the past three years my relationship to the entirety of my life, my work, and my ‘self’ has transformed. The depth and breadth of Leta and Jaye’s transmission of this work is difficult for me to quantify. I was inspired, challenged, guided, and lovingly encouraged In my learning throughout. I continue to feel supported with individual attention and held within the loving framework of my cohort and the wider Alchemy family they have created and fostered. With so much change, one might think I’d say, “I don’t recognize myself” but the converse is true. I recognize and treasure this relationship with my authentic self more and more each moment and am grateful to be part of this Alchemy family and playing a part in bringing this work into the world.
Zhen Wolffe
Tai Chi Instructor, Energy Healer, and Life-Long Learner
Transform Yourself First
Everything in Alchemy School begins with you. Your own ghosts, your own stuck patterns, and your own resistance to change are the work of this first year, and that work is complete and transformational on its own.
What makes our program different is what comes next if you want it. Because you have walked through this work yourself, you can learn to guide others through it, as a practitioner bringing Alchemy into the treatment room or as a coach or guide through Alchemy Life Strategy. You transform first, and then, if you choose, you help others transform.
Your Journey Through the Year
1. We begin with the foundation, everything you need to better understand yourself and the people in your life: the Five Elements, the Five Virtues, the Five Spirits, the Nine Palaces of the Heart, and more. These become a living map you can use every day, in your relationships, your work, and your quiet moments alone.
2. From there, we embark on a journey through the Nine Stages of Alchemy, an ancient path for becoming an Alchemist, and we dive into Stage One, learning its practice and feeling it work on you.
3. Then we journey into deeper authenticity through the Thirteen Ghost Points, which clear the hooks that keep us from living as our true natures. This is where old patterns begin to loosen and something truer starts to emerge.
4. We round out the year with Stage Two of Alchemy, and the protocol that frees the heart from the baggage of this lifetime.
Why This Path?
In ancient times, wise sages observed that most people lived like little boats on a stormy sea, tossed this way and that. Many ancient Alchemists pursued a higher path instead of being at the mercy of life’s turbulent seas, unable to navigate without a rudder, sail, or oars.
The Alchemists craved wisdom rather than material possessions. They discovered a way to navigate through life’s storms, charting a course to destinations of their choosing. Their aim was to become what the Chinese call a “realized human being” or a “Zhen Ren” — wizards and magicians who energetically embraced all Five Elements within themselves and learned to unlock the secrets of transcending the ordinary human experience through Daoist Alchemy. We believe this is a road truly worth taking.
Three Ways to Walk the Path
Everyone in Alchemy School shares the same foundation, the same cohort, and the same monthly Alchemy sessions. What changes is where you want the work to take you.
The Self-Cultivator
This is the heart of Alchemy School, and every student walks it. You come for your own transformation, to understand yourself more deeply, meet your own ghosts, and live more fully as who you truly are. No license or healing practice is needed, only a willingness to look honestly at yourself.
The Alchemy Strategist
This path is for coaches, guides, therapists, teachers, and anyone who feels called to help others make real change in their lives. In Alchemy School, Life Strategy lessons are woven right into the core, and you can add Alchemy Life Strategy sessions of your own with a Strategist-in-Training. Then, beginning in Year Two, you can join the Alchemy Life Strategy program and train to become a certified Alchemy Life Strategist.
The Alchemy Practitioner
Alchemical Chinese Medicine goes deeper than symptoms and deeper than root causes, straight to where transformation actually happens. This medicine works at the spirit level of illness. The Ghost Points help unlock buried trauma, patients transform in the treatment room, and you learn to track the Stages of Alchemy unfolding over a longer journey, often across many years.
Alongside the shared classes, practitioners join six clinical classes that teach the Stage One, Ghost Points, and Stage Two treatment protocols, with clinical supervision options and CEUs available. It is a completely new way of practicing that is actually a return to the ancient shamanic roots of Chinese Medicine. Most practitioners only learn techniques, and we teach transformation.
Alchemy School Core Program
Our first year provides a foundational education for personal transformation and growth and is great for Self-Cultivators.-
You’ll take 20 live core classes on Mondays, with replay access.
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You’ll receive 10 monthly virtual Alchemy sessions for your own transformation.
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You’ll have weekly exercises and challenges, the prerequisite courses (Five Elements, Nine Palaces, Chaotic Energy, and Intro to Alchemy), Meditation Monday and Five Element Friday twice a month, and community access.
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10 Monthly Interactive Group Sessions
Practitioner Track
Optional Add-On Track-
You’ll join six clinical classes in the Alchemy Stage One, Ghost Points, and Alchemy Stage Two treatment protocols, counting toward your Alchemy School certification.
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You’ll be eligible for CEUs.
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Certification requirements such as observations and supervised treatments are paid as you go.
Strategist Track
Optional Add-On Track-
You’ll receive six one-on-one Alchemy Life Strategy sessions with a Strategist in training from our Alchemy Life Strategy program.
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The Life Strategy lessons are woven into the core to give you the foundation of the work you'll begin in Year Two.
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You'll be invited to begin certification requirements such as observations at our retreats, which are paid as you go.
Payment Options
Everyone begins with the same Alchemy School core program, which includes all of your classes.
| Enrollment Type | One-Time Single Payment | 10-Monthly Payments | 12-Monthly Payments |
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Core Only |
$5,800 |
$597/mo |
$498/mo |
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Core + 1 Add-On Track (Practitioner OR Strategist) |
$6,750 |
$695/mo |
$580/mo |
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Core + 2 Add-On Tracks (Practitioner AND Strategist) |
$7,600 |
$780/mo |
$650/mo |
Save $100 when you add both tracks to your core enrollment.
Begin Your Journey into a New Multi-Year Path
The Master Alchemy Apprenticeship Program is a three-year journey through a complete system of Alchemy.
Each year is nine months of live training, with optional in-person retreats and optional certification. Every year is complete in itself, so you can pause after any one of them, or keep going when you’re ready.
The most distinctive element of MAAP is that you receive Alchemy while you study it. Throughout each year, you receive ten monthly virtual Alchemy sessions, not demonstrations or case studies, but your own sessions for your own transformation.
This is what allows the teaching to land. You’re not just learning about releasing the baggage of this lifetime or freeing your Heart from its tentacles; you’re actively doing that work with skilled guidance. As you move through the year with your cohort, the lectures illuminate what’s happening in your personal sessions, and your sessions deepen what you’re learning in the lectures.
Every Alchemist begins in the same place, with themselves. In Alchemy School, you learn the language of Alchemy and meet your own ghosts, the old patterns and stories that keep you from living as who you truly are, so that everything you build from here rests on solid ground.
- The Foundation gives you the Five Elements, the Five Virtues, the Five Spirits, the Nine Palaces, the Thirteen Appearances, and more, a living map for understanding yourself and others.
- The Nine Stages of Alchemy is the core teaching of the apprenticeship, and you complete your own Stages One and Two through your ten monthly Alchemy sessions.
- The Thirteen Ghost Points clear the hooks that keep us living inauthentically because of trauma, ancestral patterns, and Shen disturbances. Everyone first cultivates the points for their own authenticity, and practitioners then learn the treatment in six clinical classes.
- Life Strategy is woven into the core, with lessons that give you a first taste of Alchemy Life Strategy, and you can add Alchemy Life Strategy sessions with a Strategist-in-Training to experience the work for yourself.
- Practitioners can sign up for the Practitioner track, which includes all the treatment protocols and techniques.
For us, Alchemy is always about the Heart. Every point, every meditation, and every weekly challenge comes back to the same human desire, to live with a Heart that is free.
- The Nine Heart Pains take you on a journey through the Heart and Heart Protector Channels, into the heart of you and, if you practice, into the hearts of your clients. Practitioners learn the Heart Pains protocol for emotional healing, addictions, heartbreak, and so much more.
- In Stages Three and Four of Alchemy, you release ancestral and past-life baggage so you can birth the Sage Baby, and then learn to see the world like a child again, new and magnificent.
- Death, Dying, and Grieving becomes a lineage practice, as you carry forward the good your loved ones gave you, move through the Five Stages of Grieving, and let those you’ve lost become a source of strength.
- Multidimensional practices from the Daoist and Shamanic traditions awaken your intuitive abilities, and you begin the Seven Star Sword Form that prepares your body for the Starry Sky work of Year Three.
- The Thirteen Journeys of the Practitioner begin, expanding the Nine Stages of Alchemy to the number Thirteen.
- Alchemy Life Strategy begins this year as an optional add-on, taught by Jaye and Leta, for those who want to deepen their own lives through this work or become certified Alchemy Life Strategists who guide others.
Prerequisite: Completion of Alchemy School
Everything in Alchemy comes back to Spirit. In Year Three, you step fully into your role as an Alchemist and receive the final teachings of the Nine Stages.
- You complete Stages Five through Nine, moving through Wu Wei, No Good and No Bad, Spirit, and the Greater Void, and learning to meet life without constantly sorting experience into right and wrong.
- You cultivate Big Shen, the expansive Spirit that grows as your Heart is no longer afraid, and deepen your relationship with the Five Spirits: Shen, Hun, Po, Yi, and Zhi.
- Celestial Medicine connects you with the Big Dipper and Ma Danyang’s Starry Sky Points, as you explore your place between Heaven and Earth.
- You learn to tell True Qi from Xie Qi, understand Gui, and meet spiritual disturbances with confidence and reverence, while practitioners learn the Internal and External Dragons protocols for Shen disturbances and possession.
- Your own cultivation deepens through the Microcosmic Orbit, the Three Elixir Fields, the Seven Star Sword Form, and the Alchemical Shen Gong practices.
- You travel the Thirteen Journeys of the Practitioner at their deepest level, and Alchemy Life Strategy continues as an optional add-on.
Prerequisite: Completion of the Year of the Heart
Because Alchemy is... Everything.
“For us, Alchemy is everything. It forms the core of our own personal journeys, and we’re eager to share this path with you — when the time is right for you in your life. We created the Alchemy Learning Center for those who seek more: more understanding, deeper insights, and an expanded knowledge of time and space to go beyond what you thought was possible for yourself.
Here, you get to write your own story, and we’ll guide you as best we can. Alchemy is a solo journey that can be shared with others.”
– Leta & Jaye
Thinking about Joining the MAAP? Do it!!!
This jam packed program brings so much value to any practitioner’s toolkit. I really enjoyed learning all the cool treatments that you don’t learn anywhere else. I thought I’d be learning more about a branch of Chinese Medicine it turned out to be a whole new forest. The treatments are very special and super effective particularly on the emotional and mental domains and that’s only one of the many treasures you will discover.
Raven Grace
Dao for Now (Australia)
Doing this work with Leta and Jaye has really transformed my life. Prior to coming into this program, I was looking for more and I wasn’t feeling at ease with myself. This program really helped me to release a lot of what we call baggage of this lifetime. It’s really transformed how I live, how I feel, my relationships, and my practice. My practice has really transformed and I am doing Alchemical work. It’s really powerful and people are very excited about it. People’s lives transform and change, and it’s really beautiful to see.
Carol Baker
Alchemy & Shiatsu Practitioner
I have been in the MAAP program for two years now. The leaders, Leta and Jaye are truly kind, accommodating individuals. From what I have seen and experienced, they are creating more than an apprenticeship. Being part of this MAAP is being in community, making friendships with people from all walks of life, ages and cultures while learning in a kind, inclusive environment. I have been to trade schools, graduate programs, big universities and community colleges. In a world where online learning cuts corners, this is a program worth the investment.
Stephanie Phillips LAc
Elements in Alchemy Acupuncture & Wellness
Rooted in a Living Lineage
This apprenticeship is built on years of study with Master Jeffrey Yuen, 88th generation Daoist priest, and on two very different kinds of real-world experience.
Leta brings more than 20 years of study with Master Yuen and more than 25 years of clinical, hands-on practice.
Jaye has studied with Master Yuen since 2012 and spent 20 years running her own advertising agency, where she learned how people make choices and how real change takes shape. That understanding became Alchemy Life Strategy, the system she created by weaving the Five Elements, the Nine Palaces, and Alchemy into practical guidance for everyday life.
Together, they teach what actually works, in life and in the treatment room, with real people moving through real trauma and real transformation. And you’ll do it alongside a community of fellow Alchemists who become some of the deepest connections in your life.
What's Included in Alchemy School
Everyone begins with the same Alchemy School foundation. Life Strategy lessons are woven into the core, Practitioners add six clinical classes, and Strategists add six one-on-one Alchemy Life Strategy sessions. Practitioner certification is optional, and you can complete it when you are ready.
Alchemy School Program 2027
Live On-Line Classes with Replay Access
20 live core classes on Mondays from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m. Eastern, beginning January 11, plus 6 clinical classes for Practitioners, covering the Thirteen Ghost Points and Stages 1 and 2 of Alchemy protocols and methods. They are dynamic and highly interactive, with deep discussions across many perspectives and Elemental types. Can’t make it live? Every class is recorded, with permanent access.
10 Monthly Alchemy Sessions
10 monthly virtual Alchemy sessions for YOUR transformation. This is what makes this program unique. Your learning follows your transformation. (Special pricing available if you wish to add additional sessions.)
Included Prerequisite Courses
Before the live program begins, you'll have access to our foundational online courses: Five Element Theory, Nine Palaces, Chaotic Energy, and Introduction to Alchemy plus Qi Movements classes and Alchemical Meditations. By the time we gather for our first live session, everyone enters with shared vocabulary and core concepts mastered.
Monthly Interactive Group Sessions
These LIVE monthly Q&A sessions provide space for your deeper questions about this work - both for your own cultivation and, if you're a practitioner, for your clinical work. In addition, there are twice a month Five Element and Alchemical Meditation discussion groups. This is where the teaching gets even more personal and deeper.
Weekly Exercises & Challenges
Engaging practices designed to enhance your self-cultivation and move you into deeper understanding of your own life. This is where the lectures become lived experience.s
A Community of Alchemists-in-Training
Access to our private community forum where you can connect with fellow students, ask questions between sessions, and be supported by others walking this path alongside you.
Optional Practitioner Certification
Add Level 1 Certification (optional)
Observe Stages of Alchemy Treatments (minimum 2)
Observe at least two Stages of Alchemy sessions (Stage One or Two sessions). These are the monthly transformation sessions that students receive throughout the program. Recorded or live.
Observe Ling-Shu Treatments/Sessions (minimum 2)
Ling-Shu means "Spiritual Pivot" — our term for the intensive, all-day Alchemy treatment protocols like Ghost Points, Internal Dragons, External Dragons, and Alchemical Grieving. You'll observe at least two of these treatments in person for your Level 1 certification. Observing these treatments can be profound and essential for deeper learning of how to hold space for this deep work.
Supervised Treatments Plus Post-Clinical Review
Complete two supervised Ghost Point treatments (4-6 hours each) and two supervised Stages of Alchemy sessions when you're ready. Then complete five Ling-Shu treatments on your own while still receiving your clinical supervision. This gives you real-world practice with ongoing support.
Personal Alchemical Life Strategy Session
A profound session working through your Five Element stack-up and Nine Palace life issues. This deeply personal work helps you understand your own patterns and transformation.
Pre-Graduation Review & Recommendations Meeting
We'll review all your clinical work and help you prepare for practice as a certified practitioner.
Receive 40+ NCCAOM or 40+ California CEUs
For Practitioner Certification students, you'll have access to additional specialized classes focused on advanced treatment protocols, clinical applications, point energetics, and professional practice development. You will be eligible to receive approved continuing education credits from NCCAOM or California after completing these courses.
Alchemy School Overview
In this program you’ll explore:
- Your personal Alchemical path and transformation
- The complete Nine Stages framework and deep work in Stages 1 & 2
- All Thirteen Ghost Points – their energetics, clinical applications, and ethical use
- A deep exploration of how the Five Elements and Nine Palaces can enhance your Alchemy
- Alchemical meditations and visualizations that can enhance your personal Alchemy
- Heart work, unconscious patterns, and releasing lifetime baggage
- Building your Alchemical cauldron
- Daoist numerology, the Five Confucian Virtues and the transformation to the Five Daoist virtues
- Daily practices including Qi Gong, meditation, and weekly challenges
Lecture 1: Welcome to Alchemy School
Lecture 2: Rapport and Intimacy Through the Five Elements
Lesson 3: The Five Virtues
Lesson 4: The Nine Palaces of the Heart
Lesson 5: The Five Spirits, Daoist Numerology, and the Thirteen Appearances
Lesson 6: The Nine Stages of Alchemy and Entering the Mystery Gate
Lesson 7: The Five Steps of Stage One
Practitioner Class 1: The Stage One Nine Flowers Treatment
Lesson 8: The How of Why with Jaye
Lesson 9: Introduction to the Ghost Points and the First Trinity
Practitioner Class 2: First Trinity
Lesson 10: The Second Trinity
Practitioner Class 3: Second Trinity
Lesson 11: The Third Trinity
Practitioner Class 4: Third Trinity
Lesson 12: The Fourth Trinity
Practitioner Class 5: Fourth Trinity
Lesson 13: The Ghost Points as Your Teachers
Lesson 14: Putting It All Together
Lesson 15: Ethics in the Ghost Points Work
Lesson 16: Stage Two: The Best Protection Is No Protection
Lesson 17: You Are the Talisman
Lesson 18: Releasing the Baggage of This Lifetime
Lesson 19: The Tentacles of the Heart
Practitioner Class 6: The Stage Two Talisman Treatment
Lesson 20: Stepping into Year 2
Daily Practice Requirements
- Movement: Qi Gong & Dao Yin Exercises (daily throughout program)
- Meditation: Various guided meditations as assigned
- Weekly Challenges: Practical application exercises
Program Materials
- Five Element Handouts and Exercises
- Stage One Treatment Guides
- Ghost Point Treatment Guides
- Daoist Numerology Reference
- Virtue Cultivation Handouts
- And many more…
Who This Is For
This program is for people who are:
- Called to work with consciousness, spirit, and transformation (whether in themselves or in service to others)
- Willing to do their own internal work as the foundation
- Looking for mentorship, not just coursework
- Drawn to lineage-based teaching rooted in Daoist tradition
- Inspired and Ready for real change, not just more information and lectures
You might be a licensed acupuncturist or TCM practitioner wanting to go deeper, a bodyworker, herbalist, or energy healer ready to integrate Alchemical principles, a coach or guide who wants to bring Alchemy to the people you serve, or someone brand new to Chinese Medicine but genuinely called to this path.
The MAAP program was first about me: deeply, profoundly transforming, coming alive to the truest, most authentic, most creative, loving, expressive, free, infinite version of myself. Now I can bring that potentiality to clients, so that they too can have their own unique experience of that expression… I finally found the magic and true transformation I was seeking.
Dr. Julie TwoMoon, NMD, MSOM
Acupuncturist and Naturopathic Doctor
What matters isn’t your credentials. It’s your readiness to embrace this medicine.
Who This Isn’t For
This program is not for those:
- Looking for quick techniques or weekend certifications
- Who want information without personal transformation
- Who aren’t willing to share in a group setting with fellow students
- Who need their learning to stay comfortable and intellectual
We hold a deep container. That means we ask real things of our students — to show up, to be honest, to do the work. If you feel in alignment and you can connect, you will love this program.
“The one main question would be: do you want to change? If you do, great! This is the program for you!”
Linda Schecterle,
MAAP Graduate
Additional Program Enhancements
Ling-Shu means “Spiritual Pivot” – and that’s exactly what this intensive in-person session provides.
This is the work that changes lives.
Students describe these treatments as magical, life-changing, even life-saving. This is where stuck patterns that have been running your life for decades finally release. Where grief that’s been lodged in your body begins to move. Where you access levels of authenticity you didn’t know were possible.
This is a full-day treatment (4-6 hours on day one, with a follow-up session on day two) where one of our certified practitioners assesses what you need most and provides the appropriate Alchemical treatment protocol.
You might receive:
- The Thirteen Ghost Points – releasing the deep patterns, heart wounds, unconscious beliefs, guilt, shame, and identity issues that keep you small
- Internal Dragons – for the deepest blocks that make you inaccessible to yourself
- External Dragons – for blocks in your Will that prevent you from walking your destiny path
- Alchemical Grieving – moving stuck grief that’s been held in the body, grief that won’t budge
We don’t prescribe the protocol before we meet you. Your practitioner will assess what’s clinically appropriate – what will serve your transformation most powerfully at this moment in your journey. This is better medicine than applying a formula.
These treatments promote the deeper levels of authenticity required for real Alchemical work. They release whatever has been preventing you from progressing in your life – and especially in your Alchemy. Students consistently report that receiving this treatment in conjunction with the program unlocks everything else. The teachings land differently. The practices go deeper. The transformation accelerates.
For Practitioner Certification students:
What’s required: You must receive a Ling-Shu Treatment that includes the Thirteen Ghost Points protocol specifically, since this is the primary treatment we teach in Level 1. You must experience it from the inside before you can offer it to others.
Most students only need one treatment because when your practitioner assesses you, they determine the Ghost Points protocol is what you need – and you’re done. One session fulfills the requirement.
Occasionally: Your practitioner may assess that a different protocol (Internal Dragons, External Dragons, or Alchemical Grieving) will serve your transformation better first. In that case, you’ll receive that protocol in your first Ling-Shu Treatment, then schedule a second session for the Ghost Points once you’re ready.
Total investment for certification students:
- Most students: $1,800 (one Ling-Shu Treatment with certified practitioner) or $900 (with supervised student)
- Occasionally: $3,600 (two Ling-Shu Treatments with certified practitioners) or $1,800 (with supervised students)
This isn’t just a requirement – it’s essential. You cannot guide others through this work until you’ve walked through it yourself.
Where to receive these treatments:
- With certified practitioners in Northampton, MA or other locations in the USA
- With supervised student practitioners (when available)
- At one of our Alchemy retreats
You can add your first Ling-Shu Treatment during enrollment or schedule it during the first few months of our program.
Alchemy Life Strategy Day
This is where the ongoing Alchemy work that you’ve done comes together in ways that radically change your life.
This is a full-day treatment (4-6 hours on day one, with a follow-up session on day two) where one of our certified strategists walks you through your Elemental stack-up, your Nine Palaces, and ultimately how your Alchemy transformation can look in your actual life.
Typically you do not do the Alchemy Life Strategy Day until after you’ve completed your Thirteen Ghost Points treatment. Your Alchemy practitioner and you can decide the best time to proceed with this session.
For Practitioner and Strategist Certification students:
What’s required: For certification, you must receive a Ling-Shu Treatment that includes the Thirteen Ghost Points protocol specifically and an Alchemy Life Strategy Day.
Total investment for certification students:
- Most students: $1,900 for an Alchemy Life Strategy Day or $950 (with supervised student)
This isn’t just a requirement – it’s essential. You cannot guide others through this work until you’ve walked through it yourself.
Where to receive these treatments:
- With certified practitioners in a number of locations in the USA
- At one of our Alchemy retreats (we have at least 2 per year)
Many students find twice-monthly sessions create stronger momentum:
- Add 5 sessions (15 total over the year) for $1000
- Add 10 sessions (20 total over the year) for $2000
This is a discounted rate. The regular rate for these sessions is $250 each.
The Alchemy MAAP program has been a life-changing experience for me. I began with self-cultivation, as I was dealing with a very serious autoimmune condition that I couldn’t control and it was slowly destroying my life and my body.
…I felt cared for and supported in the group and the people were just amazing! This experience brought me back out into the world and I continue to enjoy the lessons and the challenging and interesting subjects we discuss.
…I highly recommend this program if you’re ready to enjoy and participate fully in life and/or help others do so as well.
Tracy Krohn
Acupuncturist, North Carolina
FAQ's
These sessions are based on specific acupoint protocols from the Nine Stages of Alchemy system. Even though we’re working virtually, the medicine is precise and powerful.
During your session, your practitioner works with specific acupoint sequences designed for your current stage of transformation. Using our Alchemical approach, we vibrate these points energetically to “shake up” the stuck patterns that have been protecting you – patterns that may no longer serve you but that your system has been holding onto.
This isn’t forceful. It’s invitation. The vibration motivates change, supports release, and creates space for growth, depending on which stage you’re working with.
You might be:
- Releasing rebellious qi to create ease in your life (Stage One)
- Building your internal cauldron for transformation (Stage Two)
- Releasing ancestral baggage or prebirth influences – past-life memories that haunt you, inherited patterns, anything from before this lifetime (Stage Three)
- Becoming a sage child and flying in your life – where the real fun begins (Stages Four-Six)
- Working with even deeper consciousness transformation in the later stages
Sessions are typically 60 minutes. You’ll be on video with your practitioner, fully clothed, in a quiet space where you can relax and receive. Many students report feeling shifts during the session itself – warmth, tingling, emotional release, deep relaxation, or clarity. Others notice the changes unfold over the days following.
The key is consistency. Monthly sessions create momentum. Twice-monthly sessions accelerate the work significantly.
Many students choose to add additional sessions during enrollment to receive sessions twice monthly throughout the year. This option is available at the same deeply discounted rate as your included sessions – only during enrollment.
Please Note: Scheduled Alchemy sessions must be rescheduled at least 24 hours in advance if you cannot make the session.
These sessions often begin with a deeper assessment of your Elemental stack-up. Over time, they progress to your Nine Palaces and the perceived difficulties you experience in life.
Even though we’re working virtually, the sessions are precise and powerful.
Please Note: Scheduled Strategy sessions must be rescheduled at least 24 hours in advance if you cannot make the session.
MAAP runs on a two-week rhythm. Here’s what your schedule looks like:
Week 1 (Full Week)
- Monday: MAAP Level 1 class – lecture, meditations, exercises, and discussion (2 hours)
- Monday: Meditation Monday session (1 hour)
- Friday: Five Element Friday session (1 hour)
- Throughout the week: Daily practices (Qi Gong, meditation – 15-30 min) + Weekly Challenge
Week 2 (Lighter Week)
- Monday: Extra MAAP Level 1 class – lecture, meditations, exercises, and discussion (2 hours)
- Throughout the week: Daily practices + Weekly Challenge
Once per month:
- Your personal virtual Alchemy session (1 hour, scheduled flexibly)
- Live Q&A Session before Five Element Friday (1 hour)
Total time commitment:
- Live sessions: 2.5-3 hours per week (average)
- Daily practices: 2-3 hours per week
- Independent study/exercises: 1-2 hours per week
- Average: 6-8 hours per week
Yes! If you don’t currently have some type of medical practice, you can still join the core program for your own self-cultivation purposes. Of course, doctors and alternative medicine practitioners are also welcome.
Each year starts in January. We take November and December off because we like to give you some time to digest and review the current year’s content before moving forward.
You can take 1 or 2 years of this 3-level program. Each year also has its own certification process for practitioners. So you can be certified in level 1 as soon as you finish the requirements and graduate from Year 1.
Coursework gives you the complete Year 1 training: all lectures, your 10 monthly Alchemy sessions, prerequisite courses, Q&A sessions, and access to Meditation Monday and Five Element Friday. You learn the the course content and complete your own transformation. You can advance to Year 2 after completing Year 1 coursework.
Certification for Practitioner or Life Strategist 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 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 Year 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.
Ghost Points work is profound and powerful medicine. We strongly encourage clinical supervision and mentorship for this work — which is why we built it into the certification path.
That said, we understand many practitioners take MAAP to deepen their overall practice and for their own spiritual growth. You’ll learn the Ghost Points protocol thoroughly in the coursework. What you do with that knowledge in your own practice is your choice.
What certification provides is structured supervision, feedback on your technique, support as you navigate the depth of this work, and the confidence that comes from guided practice. This is medicine that works at the spirit level — having experienced mentors review your cases and guide your development makes a significant difference in how effectively and safely you can offer this work to others.
If you’re planning to offer Ghost Points treatments as a primary modality, we strongly recommend you get supervision before doing so and ultimately certification. If you’re integrating Ghost Points knowledge into your existing practice or using it primarily for your own transformation, the coursework may be sufficient.
Yes, you can pay the coursework in full (for a discounted rate) if you prefer.
Certification costs are typically paid as you go through the clinical requirements — observations, supervised treatments, etc. This naturally spreads the cost over time. If you need a specific payment arrangement, contact us to discuss options.
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 treatments (available in a number of US locations, or at our retreats). Supervised 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 NCBAHM PDAs (or California CEUs) after completing all prerequisites and certification requirements. For Year 1, we offer 20 CEUs for live classes and over 20 CEUs for online classes. Our current year’s program is pending 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 access to all materials will be discontinued.
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.
We offer two partial scholarships each year. If you wish to apply to a scholarship, click here.
About Your Teachers
The curriculum for the Master Alchemy Program is based on heart-centered transformation (of yourself and your clients). This program is not just teaching you how to treat others (though many who join the program want to incorporate this into their practice). This program is about YOU! It’s about YOUR HEART… and a journey we will take through your transformation path. Heart-centered teaching is a philosophy that is not prioritizing intellectualism, but rather merges our brilliant minds with our emotional heart center and recognizes the heart pains that may be interfering with our own authenticity.
Leta Herman
Co-Founder
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 clinic 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.
Jaye McElroy
Co-Founder
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 clinic 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.
Leora Esterra
Instructor
Leora Esterra, MD, MAc, DABMA, DiplAc is a certified Alchemical Practitioner and Teacher in the ALC. She brings a strong clinical background to the ALC teaching program along with a deep understanding of Alchemical Chinese Medicine. She began her healing journey in Western medicine, starting with a Bachelor of Science in Biology at Columbia University in New York City and Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2007. She holds a Master’s Degree in Acupuncture from the Academy for Five Element Acupuncture in Gainesville, Florida and also completed the Medical Acupuncture Course for Physicians through the Helms Medical Institute.
Brittney Chowning
Certified Practitioner
Brittney Chowning, LAc, is a certified Alchemical and Ghost Points Practitioner for the ALC. She is currently completing her advanced training in our MAAP Program and brings fresh energy and perspective to the mentorship calls. Brittney is a licensed acupuncturist in Colorado and helps our new students bridge the gap between ancient wisdom and modern application.
