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🌟 Alchemy in Practice: Inner Sensing – Turnin

🌟 Alchemy in Practice: Inner Sensing – Turning the Light Around 🌟

Inner Sensing, or what Taoist alchemists call “reversing the handle of the stars,” is a body experience—a cornerstone of Alchemical Healing.

This practice isn’t about making sense to your rational mind. It’s about letting go, being open to the odd or unfamiliar, and allowing your body to speak in its own language. You don’t need to know—just feel.

❄️ Ready to dive deeper? In February, @loriedechar is offering an INNER SENSING INTENSIVE to help participants embody this transformative process and bring it back to their lives and practices.

🎥 To see the full clip of Lorie’s demonstration of Inner Sensing, join our FREE Explorers’ membership as part of our Mighty Network. DM us for the link to join the network and the Inner Sensing Intensive.

#InnerSensing #AlchemicalHealing #AlchemyInPractice #TurnTheLightAround #HealingJourney

❓ Alchemical Q&A 🌿 Do you have something you

❓ Alchemical Q&A 🌿

Do you have something you’ve always wanted to ask us? Now’s your chance! Whether it’s about Alchemical Healing, our studies, garden, practices, or even our favorite ... anything! We’d love to hear from you.

👉 DM us with your questions (no medical advice, please). We will be choosing a select few to feature in upcoming newsletters and social media posts. Questions can be kept anonymous at your request.

Let’s dive into the world of Alchemical Healing together—one question at a time. 💫

#AlchemicalHealing #AskAway #AlchemyInAction #HealingJourney

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanks

“I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual. It is surprising how contented one can be with nothing definite - only a sense of existence. Well, anything for variety. I am ready to try this for the next ten thousand years, and exhaust it ... My breath is sweet to me. O how I laugh when I think of my vague indefinite riches. No run on my bank can drain it, for my wealth is not possession but enjoyment.”

― Henry David Thoreau

#thanksgiving2024
#noblackfriday
#anewpossibility

As Pluto makes its final entry into Aquarius - the

As Pluto makes its final entry into Aquarius - the sign of ’new possibilities’ - at 3:30 pm EST today, I ask myself ...
Have we tired yet of division, blame, resentment, hatred, and killing?

Might we instead intend in the direction of unity, self-responsibility, forgiveness, peace, and the enduring allure of love?

We each in our own ways play a role in creating the new world we want to see.

~ Benjamin Fox

#anewpossibility #unity #forgiveness #peace #healing

✨ November Alchemical Healing Professional Membe

✨ November Alchemical Healing Professional Member Spotlight: Meet Karla Vandenbergh! ✨

We asked Karla, “Can you recall a moment when tuning into your body’s felt sense brought clarity in a challenging situation?”

Her reply:
“I’ve found the body felt sense so useful and powerful. During triggering family events, I breathe into the felt sense of the outer edges of my skin—the edges of my own physical container. This helps me return to myself and avoid slipping into old habits like people-pleasing or feeling responsible for everyone else’s satisfaction.”

Karla is an alchemical acupuncturist and teacher of esoteric Taoist-Buddhist cultivation arts in Buffalo, NY. She’s passionate about sharing the transformative power of Inner Sensing and the Body Felt Sense in both life and work.

🌿 You can learn more about Karla and her work here: @dovetailhealingarts.
🌿 And, you can discover more of Karla’s insights in the full Spotlight when you join our FREE Explorer’s Membership at our Mighty Network.
🌿 Also, @LorieDechar is presenting a weekend Inner Sensing Intensive in February that you can register for now!

DM us for the links to join either the Explorer’s Membership or the Inner Sensing Intensive. 🔗

#HealingSpotlight #InnerSensing #BodyFeltSense #AlchemicalHealing #MindBodyConnection #ANewPossibility #LorieEveDechar #AlchemicalHealing

You begin the work of alchemy by stepping into a l

You begin the work of alchemy by stepping into a laboratory - a protected place where you do intentional, conscious creative work. The laboratory might be a treatment room where you heal, a journal where you write, a studio where you paint, a garden where you cultivate vegetables, or a designated space where you meditate and read. It could be your kitchen, your bedroom, your body, or a tent in the wilderness. It could be a friendship, a group, a marriage, or an ongoing therapeutic relationship.

The matter is the medium you are exploring. It can be pigment, soil, soup, anger, grief, love, your vision for the future, or the wounds of your childhood still haunting your current life. It can be a dream. IT IS ALWAYS CONNECTED TO YOUR SOUL.

The tools are the things you find in your hand and hold in your heart.

That laboratory can be any place in the world you inhabit. What distinguishes it from other ordinary places is the key that you use to enter.

Inner Sensing is one of the keys that will help you open the door so that your whole life can become a living alchemical laboratory.

Inner Sensing begins with our awareness of the Body Felt Sense, a vague bodily sensation that is meaningful.

The Body Felt Sense is a sensation somewhere between physical and emotional. It is the feeling you get in your body when you’ve forgotten something even though you don’t know precisely what you left behind. An example is the “stop” you feel at a somatic level when you are about to leave your house without your keys.

Is there an incident in your life during which you experienced a Body Felt Sense?

Where in your body did you feel it and how?

These excerpts and questions are from The Inner Work Lab, our interactive, online reader’s guide to help you engage with the learnings from our book The Alchemy of Inner Work. This guide is available free to all members of our Inner Healing Circle!

DM for the link to join if you’re interested and keep an eye out for @loriedechar’s upcoming Inner Sensing Intensive in February 2025. 📸 Cred: @dovetailhealingarts

#InnerSensing #AlchemicalHealing #AlchemyInPractice #AnewPossibility #LorieDechar #BodyFeltSense #HealingJourney

㊎ Metal was the last, most demanding and most en

㊎ Metal was the last, most demanding and most enigmatic of my Five Element teachers. The others were easier on me. They cut me some slack. Although all required long hours of study, years of outer lab work and inner cultivation, Water, Wood, Fire, and Earth were familiar to me. I recognized them as a part of me. They had their challenging aspects, but ultimately we could hang out and have fun together.

But Metal was different. Metal held its secrets close. Metal hid in the white bones, invisible crystalline structures, and silences of the underworld. Even now, long after I have moved on from my early apprenticeship and accepted that loss, grief, and death are a necessary part of the cosmic cycle, Metal continues to ask me questions I do not know how to answer. Breath by breath, Metal reminds me of the almost unbearable preciousness of each moment as they slip away between my fingers.

Join @LorieDechar TOMORROW Tuesday, November 12 at 4pm EST, to explore the Metal Element, not only as a concept but as a living, breathing teacher, an ally in the treatment room and a crucial support as we traverse what many are calling the “End Times” of culture as we have known it. These seasonal Alchemy at the Edge: AcuSpeak sessions are a benefit of our Inner Healing Circle membership. If you’re interested, DM us for the link to find out more and join us.

#innerhealingcircle #lorieevedechar #anewpossibility #pdapoints #acupuncture ces #innerhealing #alchemicalhealing #bodyfeltsense

Tuesday, November 12, join us for not one but TWO

Tuesday, November 12, join us for not one but TWO enriching events in our Inner Healing Circle:

⭐️ Alchemy at the Edge: AcuSpeak Metal Season session with @LorieDechar at 4 PM EST – NCCAOM-CEU approved!
We will explore the gifts of Metal—the alchemy of the ephemeral, of spaciousness and loss, the necessity of letting go of outmoded structures in order for new possibilities to emerge, and the larger question of how to bring the potent medicine of Metal to our patients, families, and communities.

Bring your questions, reflections, musings, and longings … in the midst of the chaos, clamor and emotional storms of the outer world, let’s join with our human and other-than-human allies to co-create a web of beauty, peace, and healing.

⭐️ Inner Healing Circle Community Meet-Up on Zoom - this month we’ll be discussing the Body Felt Sense and Inner Sensing Practice as a Foundational Tool of Alchemical Healing.

Comment below if you’re interested and we’ll DM you the link for more info about joining the IHC.

#innerhealingcircle #lorieevedechar #anewpossibility #pdapoints #acupuncture ces #innerhealing #alchemicalhealing #bodyfeltsense

Sitting to do some Inner Sensing early today, I ca

Sitting to do some Inner Sensing early today, I came upon a body felt sense of swirling storm winds. I could not tell if the winds originated within me or without, but they were real and they were powerful.

Yet, at the very center of the chaotic storm, I felt a gossamer thread that swayed and swirled … but held.

Bringing my attention to that thread, it extended like a mountain down into the Earth, reaching up to a star high above my head.

The capacity of this thread to hold does not come from me alone. Just as the tree depends on the fungal rhizomes of the forest floor, our connections to one another nourish our stability.

As we navigate the swirling storm winds today, find your stillness through the practices you’ve cultivated. Lean into your community. #VOTE.

We are visioning an outcome that invites us all to a more peaceful world.

Image: I Ching, Hexagram 52, Wilhelm Baynes translation

#election2024 #electionday #anewpossibility #yourvotecounts #voting

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