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Alchemy continued. 💫 You begin the work of alc

Alchemy continued. 💫

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 or read.

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 childhood still haunting your current life.

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

Over the course of the next weeks, we are sharing with you 7 keys that have opened the door to our own laboratories again and again. We turn to these keys when we need to understand our physical symptoms, our emotional upsets, and our dreams. We rely on them when we face big decisions. Daily, these keys help us stay on track and aligned with what is best for us, from deciding whether to say yes or no to an invitation, to knowing what foods will best nourish our bodies, to adjusting our work schedules when we are feeling pushed to our edges. We bring these keys with us every time we work with clients.

We hope these keys will be valuable to you as you perform alchemical work in your own laboratory. 🙏

——

🔑 7 Keys to Alchemical Healing (6/7)

Begin by reversing the light! Drop your awareness down and in. You can close your eyes or leave them open. Bring awareness to your body and say hello.

Beginning at the top of your head, travel downward, using your imaginal sight to view each part of your body as your awareness drops down from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. Bring an attitude of kindness to any fidgety, painful, or upset feelings you encounter along the way.

Once you’ve journeyed through your body, invite any tensions, worries, or concerns that you don’t need to drop away. If some things want to stick around, make room for them too.

Cont. in comments below.

Alchemy continued. 💫 You begin the work of alc

Alchemy continued. 💫

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 or read.

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 childhood still haunting your current life.

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

Over the course of the next weeks, we are sharing with you 7 keys that have opened the door to our own laboratories again and again. We turn to these keys when we need to understand our physical symptoms, our emotional upsets, and our dreams. We rely on them when we face big decisions. Daily, these keys help us stay on track and aligned with what is best for us, from deciding whether to say yes or no to an invitation, to knowing what foods will best nourish our bodies, to adjusting our work schedules when we are feeling pushed to our edges. We bring these keys with us every time we work with clients.

We hope these keys will be valuable to you as you perform alchemical work in your own laboratory. 🙏

——

🔑 7 Keys to Alchemical Healing (5/7)

Begin by dimming the lights in a room or do this practice at twilight or dawn in a peaceful place.

Find something you want to look at—a tree, a pond, a mountain, a crystal, or even a photo of a person to whom you feel close.

Bring your awareness down into your body. Notice your breath and invite any extraneous thoughts and tensions to drain away.

Notice any tension around your eyes. Squeeze them tightly together and then release them, softening the muscles. Allow your eyes to sink back into the sockets, to rest easily in the hollow of the orbital bones. Cont. in the comments…

August Integral Chinese Medicine Collective (ICMC)

August Integral Chinese Medicine Collective (ICMC) Dialogue

Listening as Needle: How does the radical receptivity of heart-centered listening allow us to penetrate our patients and our world more deeply?

Recently, @loriedechar spent a remarkable 90-minutes exploring the multi-dimensional power of listening as a tool in healing with her dear ICMC friends, Randine Lewis (@randineandersonlewis), Alexander Love (@ourbeautifulfuture), Lonny Jarrett (@lonnysjarrett), Vasanthi Vanniasingham (@vasanthivanniasingham), and Will Morris (@willmorris33). For her, the dialogue was an experience of integral awareness in real time, a simultaneous presencing to self, one other, and to a transcendent wisdom that emerged in the field collectively constellated through communion and profound care for the topic being explored.

We hope that you will take the time to join us in the space of true listening. This is a conversation you do not want to miss!

And, as always, we’d love to hear your reflections, questions and insights in response!

Comment below and we’ll DM you the link to the full video.

#integralconsciousness #taoistpsychology #fivespirits #chinesemedicinepractitioner #chinesemedicine #fiveelementsacupuncture #fiveelements #integralchinesemedicine #woodseason #woodelement #integralchinesemedicinecollective #intentionalhealing #alchemicalhealing

Alchemy continued. 💫 You begin the work of alc

Alchemy continued. 💫

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 or read.

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 childhood still haunting your current life.

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

Over the course of the next weeks, we are sharing with you 7 keys that have opened the door to our own laboratories again and again. We turn to these keys when we need to understand our physical symptoms, our emotional upsets, and our dreams. We rely on them when we face big decisions. Daily, these keys help us stay on track and aligned with what is best for us, from deciding whether to say yes or no to an invitation, to knowing what foods will best nourish our bodies, to adjusting our work schedules when we are feeling pushed to our edges. We bring these keys with us every time we work with clients.

We hope these keys will be valuable to you as you perform alchemical work in your own laboratory. 🙏

——

🔑 7 Keys to Alchemical Healing (4/7)

In this moment, wherever you are as you read these words, stop and place the tips of your fingers in the slight depression just in front of your ears. In traditional Chinese medicine, this point is called Listening Palace.
Turn your attention to the sounds around you.

Out of this tapestry of sound, find one sound—a voice outside the window, a footfall on a stair, a honking horn, a bird on a branch, a cloud passing, a star falling in a galaxy far away—and offer this sound as a gift to your Heart.

#ChineseMedicine #SeasonalWisdom #loriedechar #anewpossibility #alchemicalhealing #alchemy #chinesemedicalpractitioners #fiveelements #fivespirits #acupuncture

Our Inner Circle Membership is beginning a new ser

Our Inner Circle Membership is beginning a new series! Join us (if you aren’t already an existing member) for an immersion into the theory, practices, tools and skills of Alchemical Healing. 💫

Here are ten monthly topics we will explore in the coming year:

🗓️ September: Why Alchemy Now? An Overview Of This Series
🗓️ October: Consciousness As Medicine
🗓️ November: Body Felt Sense As A Foundational Tool To Alchemical Healing
🗓️ January: The Relational Field In The Clinical Encounter
🗓️ February: Heart-Centered Listening And Multi-Sensing Presencing
🗓️ March: Reverie: Navigating The Space Between Waking And Dreaming
🗓️ April: The World Of Archetypes
🗓️ May: Taoist Psychology - Finding Your Tao
🗓️ June: Alchemical Dialogue And A New Possibility
🗓️ July: Transitioning Your Practice To One That Is More Alchemical

We are convinced that if we are going to see our way through these times to ‘another possible future,’ we need tools, skills and practices to relate differently to ourselves, to one another and to the world.

None of us can do this work alone. We need the collective Wisdom emergent through community.

You can join or cancel anytime. If you aren’t already a member of our Mighty Network, you can join at community.anewpossibility.com, and if you are already a member at the Explorers’ Entry member level, follow the same link and you can upgrade to the Inner Healing Circle membership for free for 3 days or join right away with a monthly or annual subscription. We embark on this new journey in less than a month and hope you’ll be with us.

Photo Cred: @katherineemeryphoto
#innerhealing #onlinecommunity #loriedechar #benjaminfox #anewpossibility #alchemicalhealing #chinesemedicine #chinesemedicalpractitioners #alchemy #intersubjectivedialogue

📣 New and timely course happening in October: S

📣 New and timely course happening in October: Steadying Through the Storm - Tonifying the Nervous System with Taoist, Ayurvedic, and Alchemical Practices

As we juggle our busy lives and care for others, we are also being summoned to upgrade skills, steadiness, and resilience.

Here is an invitation to weave our collective wisdom through ancestral and modern practices of self-care. In this course, timed to coincide with the amplification of the political landscape in the States and possibly elsewhere, we will move, learn, and share together. Teachings will include polyvagal theory, aromatic medicine, yoga, ayurveda, taoist arts, and shadow work as they pertain to a balanced, resilient nervous system.

What are the skills that we need to cultivate a deeper tether to our core during times of upheaval? How can we support others while maintaining our grounding? How do we find real steadiness in the turbulence ahead? Together we will investigate what community feels like now, in a time between worlds, as we knit the threads of witnessing and being witnessed into a tighter, and more beautiful, and intentional weave. We need each of us to thrive. Hope you will join us.

🗓️ Thursdays, October 17 and 24, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Eastern
🗓️ Wednesday, October 30, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Eastern (to keep Halloween open on Thursday, 10/31)
🗓️ Thursdays, November 7 and 14, 7:00 - 8:30 pm Eastern.
Course facilitators: Kate Pagliasotti, MS LAc @sunshinekate2 / Jo Whitsell MS, Lac @jowhitsellpdx, and Alana Layne, MA, Ph.D-c @alanalaynephd

Find this course at community.anewpossibility.com. If you aren’t already a member, you can join at the Explorers level for free or the Inner Healing Circle for $25.00/mo (your first 3 days are free.)

#innerhealing #loriedechar #acupunctureceus #anewpossibility #alchemicalhealing #alchemy #chinesemedicalpractitioners #chinesemedicine #fivespiritsacupuncture #5elements #alchemicalacupuncture

Alchemy continued. 💫 You begin the work of #al

Alchemy continued. 💫

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 or read.

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 childhood still haunting your current life.

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

Over the course of the next weeks, we are sharing with you 7 keys that have opened the door to our own laboratories again and again. We turn to these keys when we need to understand our physical symptoms, our emotional upsets, and our dreams. We rely on them when we face big decisions. Daily, these keys help us stay on track and aligned with what is best for us, from deciding whether to say yes or no to an invitation, to knowing what foods will best nourish our bodies, to adjusting our work schedules when we are feeling pushed to our edges. We bring these keys with us every time we work with clients.

We hope these keys will be valuable to you as you perform #alchemical work in your own laboratory. 🙏

——

🔑 7 Keys to Alchemical Healing (3/7)

Pick one small action that you don’t do regularly—drinking a cup of tea in silence while watching the sky, feeding sparrows, doing a sun salutation in the morning, writing a note to someone you love or a friend who is estranged, reading something beautiful in the morning. It can be anything.

Decide how long you will continue the practice (a day, one week, one month . . .).

Watch what happens as you work with the practice. Watch your resistance but do it anyway. Watch the tricks you play with yourself to get out of it. Watch the emotions that move through you. Watch your doubt that doing something this simple can make a difference.

And then watch what happens when you do stay with it. Record what you notice in a journal. #seasonalwisdom #anewpossibility #fiveelements

🗓️ Saturday, August 24th at 3:00 pm EDT is ou

🗓️ Saturday, August 24th at 3:00 pm EDT is our second Mythical Writing Workshop hosted by community member, @hannah_custis

Socrates: Whether any event has turned out well or ill in the city, what disgrace may have descended to any one from his ancestors, male or female, are matters of which the philosopher no more knows than he can tell, as they say, how many pints are contained in the ocean. Neither is he conscious of his ignorance. ... I will illustrate my meaning, Theodorus, by the jest which the clever witty Thracian handmaid is said to have made about Thales, when he fell into a well as he was looking up at the stars. She said that he was so eager to know what was going on in heaven, that he could not see what was before his feet. (from Plato’s Theatetus)

Sound familiar to anyone?

Even if it doesn’t - and unlike the philosopher in the story, you can keep your attention on the stars and the ground at the same time - you are still welcome to join us for our 2nd Mythical Writing Workshop at A New Possibility. This month we will be exploring the archetype of The Star and some of its many variations across cultures and time. In addition to participant reflection and discussion, there will also be storytelling, free-writing, and a chance to share written work.

All are welcome, regardless of knowledge or experience of mythology and/or writing. If you cannot make the event yet are interested, a video recording of selected parts of the workshop will be available afterwards.

If this sounds interesting to you, please join our community today. DM us with questions or for a link to join at either the Explorer’s Entry level for free or the Inner Healing Circle level for $18.99/mo. If you are already a member of our community, you can join at the scheduled time by clicking on the “Mythical Writing Workshop” Focus Group in the left sidebar menu, clicking into the event where you will find the Zoom link.

#archetypes #wellarchetype #onlineworkshops #mythicalwriting #hexagram48 #innerhealing #community #alchemicalhealing #alchemy #anewpossibility

Alchemy continued. 💫 You begin the work of alc

Alchemy continued. 💫

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 or read.

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 childhood still haunting your current life.

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

Over the course of the next weeks, we are sharing with you 7 keys that have opened the door to our own laboratories again and again. We turn to these keys when we need to understand our physical symptoms, our emotional upsets, and our dreams. We rely on them when we face big decisions. Daily, these keys help us stay on track and aligned with what is best for us, from deciding whether to say yes or no to an invitation, to knowing what foods will best nourish our bodies, to adjusting our work schedules when we are feeling pushed to our edges. We bring these keys with us every time we work with clients.

We hope these keys will be valuable to you as you perform alchemical work in your own laboratory. 🙏

——

🔑 7 Keys to Alchemical Healing (2/7)

All you need to begin is a stone, a leaf, a handful of earth from beneath your feet, or an annoying symptom that won’t go away.

Approach whatever comes to you as an aspect of your Self. Sit next to it like a friend. Notice its texture, its smell, its flavor, the sound it makes when you hold it in your hand. Remember that all life is connected.

Once you have integrated this “other” into your being, you will be able to carry its intelligence within you.

When the time is right, ask a question and wait . . . listen for what comes.

#ChineseMedicine #SeasonalWisdom #loriedechar #anewpossibility #alchemicalhealing #alchemy #chinesemedicalpractitioners #fiveelements #fivespirits #acupuncture

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