The Year of the Stars – Big Shen
Everything in Alchemy comes back to Spirit. In Year Three, the Heart you’ve been freeing becomes a home for your Spirit.
Year Three is the deepest and most sacred year.
Renewal Window Closes December 15th
Everything has been preparing you for this.
The first two years prepared you through your own self-cultivation to meet the shadow, the sacred, and everything in between.
In Year Three, you begin to fully embody your role as an Alchemist—or Alchemical practitioner—and receive the final teachings of the Nine Stages of Alchemy.
This is where the work of true Alchemy begins.
One Room for Every Alchemist
Year Three is one program for everyone.
A few classes dive deeply into practitioner work—including Starry Sky Points, Internal and External Dragons, and treatment protocols—but everyone is welcome. Join live, watch later, or simply let those classes go.
Even if you’re here solely for your own self-cultivation, the cases and practitioner teachings may deepen your journey in ways you don’t expect.
Self-Cultivation
Advanced Teachings
Practitioner Learning
Complete the Map You Began Two Years Ago
By the end of Year Three, you’ll have received the complete teachings of the Nine Stages of Alchemy.
Years One & Two
Stages One–Four
Preparing the self. Freeing the Heart. Releasing what you carry.
Year Three
Stages Five–Nine
Wu Wei. No Good, No Bad. Spirit. The Greater Void.
What You’ll Journey Through
Big Shen & The Five Spirits
Cultivate Big Shen—the expansive Spirit that grows as your Heart is no longer afraid—and deepen your work with Shen, Hun, Po, Yi, and Zhi.
Celestial Medicine
Connect with the Big Dipper and Starry Sky Points, exploring your place within Heaven and Earth and the Greater Void.
Advanced Cultivation
Deepen the Microcosmic Orbit, Three Elixir Fields, Seven Star Sword Form, and Alchemical Shen Gong.
Stages 5 through 9
Complete the Nine Stages of Alchemy while exploring Wu Wei and No Good, No Bad—learning to meet life without constantly sorting experience into right and wrong.
Dragons, Gui, & Spiritual Distrubance
Explore Internal and External Dragons, distinguish True Qi from Xie Qi, understand Gui, and learn to navigate spiritual disturbances with confidence and reverence.
Divine Authority & The Greater Void
Step into advanced Daoist shamanic practices, psychic abilities, and the Thirteen Journeys of the Alchemy Practitioner.
Everything included in Your 3rd Year
Practitioner Certification is not included in the base tuition, however, you have the option to pre-pay or pay for each treatment, observation, and supervision individually. [Learn More Below]
Your Year Two Journey is Waiting
Your Year Two Tuition Includes everything detailed above and can be paid in full or in monthly payments.
This is the Best value — save $300 overall.
10 Monthly Payments Base Tuition
More flexibility — spread tuition across 10 months.
Practitioner track add-on
Continuing Toward Practitioner Certification?
If you plan to pursue Year Three practitioner certification, your required treatments, observations, and supervised experiences are completed in addition to the core Year Two program.
These experiences are separate from your Year Two tuition, and you can pay for each experience individually as you reach that stage of your certification journey. Either way, you can continue working toward certification at your own pace.
NCCAOM/ California CEUs. We’ll do our best to give you as many NCCAOM CEUs as possible if you’re on the practitioner track. Please let us know how many you need. There is a small extra charge for California CEUs.
Certification Requirements List. The following is a list of required tasks that need completion prior to your certification.
Certification Requirement Fees You pay for each treatment, observation, and supervision experience individually as you reach that stage of your certification journey.
- Your Heart Pains Treatment with a Certified Practitioner: $1,900
- Your Heart Pains Treatment with a Supervised Practitioner: $950
- Clinical Observation Day: $125
(included at no additional cost during a retreat) - Supervised Treatment: $950 (If you provide your own client, you may charge them some or all of the $1,900 treatment fee.)
- Final Supervision & Graduation Review: $500
