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Alchemy Learning Center

The Alchemy Learning Center combines Leta Herman and Jaye McElroy's life’s work of over 25 years experience studying, practicing, and teaching Alchemy, the Five Elements, and the Nine Palaces all over the world. As co-hosts of the Inspired Action Podcast and owners of the Alchemy Learning Center and Alchemy Healing Center, they bring you in this newsletter engaging and comprehensive writings about these and other Daoist and Chinese Medicine concepts.

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☯️ [I Ching] The Alchemy of Asking Better Questions

December 30, 2025 ☯️ Who Are You Becoming? (An Alchemical Inquiry) We’re 8 days past Winter Solstice. Yang energy has reemerged and is growing stronger each day - still tender, still new, but present. And here we are at another threshold: the turning of the Western calendar year. While the Chinese New Year won’t arrive until February (at the second new moon after Solstice), we can’t ignore the cultural energy for this moment. In our society, December 31st and January 1st carry weight - a...

We held a webinar this week on Alchemical Chinese Medicine and the Nine Stages of Alchemy. We had almost 150 people sign up for this event - we were so honored and excited! This was 90 minutes of talking about what it means to work at the Shen / Spirit level, how Ghost Points unlock what's been buried, why your own transformation has to come first, and how the Nine Stages of Alchemy create a map for real change—in your life and in your practice. People asked deep questions. We answered! It...

What is Alchemical Chinese Medicine? Join us for a free webinar on Alchemical Chinese Medicine. December 17th. This is medicine that goes deeper than symptoms, deeper than root causes—straight to where transformation actually happens for your clients (and for YOU!). We'll explore: How to treat Alchemically from the Void of your Heart The Nine Stages of Alchemy - a map for spiritual growth and consciousness Why your own transformation is the foundation of this medicine What Ghost Points...

December 9, 2025 ☯️ Is your practice what you thought it would be? Are you just working too hard? What if you could do things in your life and in your practice differently? We talk to practitioners all the time who want to go deeper with their clients—to work with the ancient wisdom and spiritual depth that called them to this medicine in the first place. Alchemical Chinese Medicine offers an approach to getting to the root cause of illness... Our free webinar on What is Alchemical Chinese...

What is Alchemical Chinese Medicine? Join us for a free webinar on Alchemical Chinese Medicine. December 17th. This is medicine that goes deeper than symptoms, deeper than root causes—straight to where transformation actually happens for your clients (and for YOU!). We'll explore: How to treat Alchemically from the Void of your Heart The Nine Stages of Alchemy - a map for spiritual growth and consciousness Why your own transformation is the foundation of this medicine What Ghost Points...

This isn't just coursework. It's your transformational path. Most practitioners collect more techniques. More certifications. More weekend workshops. They learn how to treat symptoms. Maybe root causes if they go deep enough. Nothing wrong with that. But here's what we've noticed in over 25 years of clinical practice: the practitioners who truly change lives are the ones who've done their own work first. You can't take someone deeper than you've gone yourself. That's why our MAAP is...

December 1, 2025 Hello Reader, This week we've been exploring our Gratitude through the lens of the Five Elements - five different ways to experience thankfulness that are all within us, just waiting for us to go deeper. We created a guided meditation that takes you through cultivating gratitude for each of the Five Elements within you - for the strength of your Wood, the love in your Fire, the nourishment of your Earth, the preciousness of your Metal, and the resilience of your Water. Some...

Hello Reader, The trees are showing us something profound right now. As the leaves drift down, we begin to see what was there all along - the essential architecture, the true structure, the bones of being. This is the gift of the Metal Element season. In Daoist philosophy, Metal is the energy of autumn, of letting fall what is no longer needed so that what remains is pure essence. Just as the tree releases its leaves to reveal its fundamental structure, we are invited to release what obscures...

Hello Reader, What a beautiful transition into Autumn we are having here in New England! We have been enjoying long hikes, trail runs, and meditating on our little lake. As we move from the abundance of late summer into the crisp clarity of Autumn, we're embracing the Metal Element season - a perfect time for letting go and welcoming new beginnings! 🍂 🍁 Metal is the element of autumn's profound knowing that everything comes to an end so that new life can begin. This is the energy that honors...

June 24, 2025 ☯️ A book launch party for our New Book... join us! Cultivating the Thirteen Ghost Points: Clearing and Transcending Life’s Traumas—and you’re invited! Join us for an informal chat where we'll share a couple of our most powerful stories from the book, reveal what the Ghost Points are really about (hint: it's not what most people think), and explore why we think this ancient wisdom is exactly what our world needs right now. 🗓️ TUESDAY, June 24th at 6:00 PM ET 📍Online (so yes, you...