October 2023

Alchemical Retreat: Building Your Alchemical Cauldron

The path of the Alchemist is a gentle path yet can be sometimes fierce with the quest for wisdom, experience, peace, love…and more!

Build Your Alchemical Cauldron – your foundation for Alchemical change

Five Element Rapport and Intimacy Exercises – creating deeper levels of connection

Flex Your Heart Muscles – opening and accessing the void of your heart

Begin realizing and living your full potential

As Alchemy Practitioners, we must first personally experience Alchemy before we can help others along the path. It is so helpful and inspiring to embark on your own Alchemy path and self cultivation before you begin treating others.

This is a transformational opportunity to practice and embrace a personal self-cultivation routine with guidance, open-heartedness, mutual appreciation, like-mindedness, support and with an amazing group of healers from around the world!

Who should attend:

We feel, Alchemy requires self-cultivation that enables you to undergo deep and vulnerable transformation. Together we can motivate, grow, and influence each other on our own separate but intertwined Alchemical journeys.

Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy bring you this Alchemy retreat from the perspective of Alchemical Chinese Medicine Healing. As we delve into the Daoist Meditation and Chinese Medicine philosophies of human energetics and priorities, we can come to a better understanding our own authenticity.

Change can feel scary because it takes us into the unknown... "The Mystery Gate." But if you're willing to make the commitment to yourself, to knowing there is something more, even if you don’t know what that is, that’s the first step in Alchemy/Transformation. The greatest investment you can make is in yourself. Once you understand and accept your natural strengths and weaknesses, you can stop beating yourself up and start celebrating your natural gifts.

- Leta Herman

2022 Master Alchemists Retreat

Alchemy is the path 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

Building Your Cauldron - October Retreat 2023

Thursday 10:00 - 5:00 p.m. - Optional Observation/Shadowing Heart Pains Treatment
Thursday 6:00 p.m. - arrive, opening meditation, session
Friday 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. - Qi Gong, Meditation, Exercises in Five Elements and Alchemical Heart Connection, Free evening
Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 9:00 p.m. Morning meditations and Qi Gong exercises, Ghost Points Treatment clinical Observation and Alchemical Life Strategy Observation, plus Nighttime activity
Sunday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Morning meditations and Qi Gong exercises, Ghost Points Treatment clinical Observation and Alchemical Life Strategy Observation (Rain Date for Fire)
Monday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Morning meditations and Qi Gong exercises, Ghost Points Treatment clinical Observation and Alchemical Life Strategy Observation, Group Evening/Fire in Huntington, MA
Tuesday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m., Morning Meditation, Follow-up Treatments, Hike, and closing thoughts (Rain date for Fire)
Wednesday 8:00 - 5:00 Optional Observation/Shadowing of Heart Pains Treatment

Focus and Intention

Location: Northampton, MA

EARLY BIRD PRICING (Until 9/1/23):

Retreat cost: $1199

Early Bird Pricing: $999 (until 9/1/23)

Deposit: to hold your spot: $250 non-refundable deposit (secure your spot now, remainder due by 9/1/23)

Payment Plan: Beginning in June – pay $250 Deposit, then pay $249.75 for 4 months

Room Deposit: If you need lodging, please check with us before paying the lodging deposit. Thanks!

Treatment Fee: If your Ghost Points or Heart Pains treatment is not included in your MAAP program, there is an additional fee for the treatment.

FOOD OPTIONS:
Snacks will be provided during the week. There will be options for eating lunches and dinner together as a group.

Where to stay:

Accommodations are not included in the retreat fee. The retreat location is near the center of town in Northampton at the Alchemy Healing Center. If you would like to share a cabin with others, we have several spaces available. This is rural, but comfortable. We also have several AirBnB suggestions that are close to the clinic. Please note: this is a very busy weekend in the area, PLEASE book ahead!

Treatments:

There are a very limited number of treatments / sessions available during this week with Leta & Jaye. These will be chosen as a whole based on what is best suited for the group as a learning experience(s). There may be additional slots available before the event starts, so please, if you are looking to get a treatment for yourself (or for a partner/spouse/client), email us as soon as you know that you are attending. Please Note: We are full and have a waiting list. If you would like to request a treatment, please contact us ASAP.

Please Note: If you are in the MAAP program, you must meet the minimum requirements before you can do your supervised treatment(s).

Registration

RETREAT REFUND POLICY

Your deposit and room deposit is non-refundable after 9/1/2023. We offer a 50% refund for cancellations completed 30 days or more before class. Cancellations made from 29 to 15 days in advance will be offered a 25% refund. We are unable to offer refunds for cancellations made less than 15 days in advance.

Need Help? Contact us at: [email protected]

Alchemy Learning Center
17 New South Street, #108
Northampton, MA 01060

NCCAOM Provider # 170388
California Acupuncture Board Provider # 1735

NCBTMB Provider #102200