The Apprenticeship year Three:

Energetic, Shamanic, and Magical Healing

 
 
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Journey Track
 

Opening Rhythm: Introductory Module

September

Since the dawn of humanity, our ancestors have held a profound reverence for the connection to the Earth, a connection woven through the very fabric of existence by the thread of energy. This energy, an ethereal current from the great cosmic whatnot, courses through all living things, uniting the animate and the inanimate in a perpetual flow. It is the breath of the universe, the hum of the cosmos, the pulse that can be felt, heard, and cultivated. Some commune with it, others bask in its glow, but all are touched by its various frequencies and qualities. It is the underlying essence of all things, the unseen force that shapes our reality.

Excerpt from: The elusive concept of Energy

Transformational Process

  • Review of the energetic theory and the transformational process

  • Review of the human energetic system

  • Fascia as a medium for energy conduction

Practices & Integration

  • Shielding and grounding

  • Room cleansing

    • Proper smudging

    • Salting

    • Crystal cleansing

Handouts

Elemental Foundations

Five-Element Framework

  • TCM elements

  • Ayurvedic elements

  • Other systems

Chakras: Layers and Forms

  • As a center & focal point

  • Organ and fascial relationships

Channel Theory

 

Practices

  • 5-element breath

  • Journey to the Underworld (mother point journey)

  • Removing the harms

  • Specific practices to remove from self and home



 

Autumn Rhythm I: The Descent

Air / Metal

October:

For everything there is a season and a time for every matter under heaven:
a time to be born and a time to die;
a time to plant and a time to pluck up what is planted;
a time to kill and a time to heal;
a time to break down and a time to build up;
a time to weep and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn and a time to dance;
a time to throw away stones and a time to gather stones together;
a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing;
a time to seek and a time to lose;
a time to keep and a time to throw away;
a time to tear and a time to sew;
a time to keep silent and a time to speak;
a time to love and a time to hate;
a time for war and a time for peace.

Ecclesiastes 3:1-8



Other Energy patterns

 

November (Samhain)

Earth within Air / Metal

Fair Folk Podcast: October Almanac

Chakras

  • Root Chakra

  • Heart Chakra

Channels

Advanced Practices & Integration




Winter Rhythm

Water

December (Winter Solstice)


Our bodies are governed by the cycles of the sun. The Sun tells us when to wake and when to go to bed. In ancient times, the sun was worshiped as the great giver of life, for this very reason. In the spring, we see the sun growing brighter and brighter. The days begin to wax, to grow longer and fuller. Even in a very long, harsh and cold winter by the spring equinox people are so reassured, convinced of the sun's return it is not uncommon to hear the phrase, "He is risen!"

But we are not yet there. Not now, not today. We are in the darkest of days, the longest of nights.

Excerpt from: Let there be light!

Fair Folk Podcast: 12 days December
Winter Solstice, Queen of Feests
Little Christmas

Chakras

  • Sacral


Channels

  • Kidney (KI-10)

  • Bladder (BL-66)

Handouts


January

Channels

Review Channel Theory

 
 

February (Imbolc)

Earth within Water

Chakras

  • Root Chakra

  • Sacral Chakra

Earth Channels

Water points on earth channels

Water Channels

Earth points on Water Channels

Other Energy Patterns

Advanced Practices & Integration

Spring Rhythm

Ether / Wood

March (Spring Equinox)


We’ve been cooped up indoors, fighting the cold, wet winds, mounds of snow on the ground; Mother Nature clearly and relentlessly calling to our circadiem to stay inside, take the season off, to slip into a long torpor… Meanwhile, we're still stuck at work after dark and dreading the traffic jam on the long commute home.

As the sun begins to re-emerge and we internally flip an optimistic switch, from standby where our vacuum tubes have been warming by the hearth, to overdrive, ready to screech and snarl in summer’s sun, only to be attenuated with more cold, wet weather. The ceaseless rains melt the snow. The snow floods the rivers. The rivers kick up the debris from fallen leaves in autumn, broken branches once glistening icicles—a beauty so laden its sheer gravity tears the limbs from their trunk.

Excerpt from - Clavicle: Key To the Cloud Gate



April

Continuation of Wood / Ether season


  • Ether / Wood Session


Spring Cleaning:

 


May (Beltane )

Earth within Ether / Wood

Fair Folk Podcast: May Almanac
Traditional Mayday Song: Hal-an-Tow

  • Chakras: Root, Throat, Third Eye, Crown

    Especially the relationship between the root and the crown

  • Earth baseline points: ST-36, SP-3

  • Earth within Wood points: LV-3, GB-34


Earth Channel Shu Points:

Summer Rhythm

Fire

June (Summer Solstice)


  • Chakra: Solar Plexus

  • Shen / Spirit (of the Three Tresures)

  • Heart & Small Intestine

  • Pericardium & Triple Heater



Technique and Applied Theory

  • Tonification

  • Rooting and Grounding

  • Cleaning and Clearing

Shamanic State of Conciseness

  • Witness without imposing judgment

Vision Walking

  • Preparation for Fire season

  • Advanced Practices & Integration

Fire

Fire(2)


July

  • Element: Fire

  • Chakras: Heart, Solar Chakra

  • Meridians: Heart (HT-8), Small Intestine (SI-5), Pericardium (PC-8), Triple Burner (TB-6)

  • Fire points across all channels: LU-10, LI-5, ST-41, SP-2, HT-8, SI-5, BL-60, KI-2, PC-8, TB-6, GB-38, LR-2



August (Lammas aka Lughnasadh)

Earth within Fire


  • Chakra: Root, Solar Chakra

  • Earth baseline points: ST-36, SP-3

  • Earth within Fire points: HT-7, SI-8, PC-7, TB-10

Special Energy Patterns:

  • Vata Passifying

  • Wu Chi Shield

  • East-West Currents


Autumn Rhythm II: The Return

September (Autumn Equinox)

Air / Metal

Special Energy patterns

Closing Rhythm: Integration Module

October

  • Review of all elemental points and chakras across the wheel

  • Re-centering Earth as the harmonizer

  • Advanced Practices & Integration