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Clinical Alchemy

Synthesizing a Century of Mind-Body Modalities For Impactful, Therapeutic Interventions
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Naturopaths, Coaches, Chiropractors, Therapists, Acupuncturists, Somatic Body Workers, Psychedelic Guides, Trauma Specialists, Analysts

As practitioners we are all yearning to engage with clients in ways that go beyond piecemeal treatment plans, but for the most part, that’s all our training offers. We are taught one modality then another, pivoting from one intervention to the next, and calling it holistic mind-body medicine, when it’s more of a hodgepodge that is in no way woven together, seamlessly blended, and intrinsically connected.

However, there is a way to integrate the most powerful modalities we have within the biological, depth psychological and somatic domains that give rise to powerful, practical, actionable interventions.

This is a clinical space in which every spoken word is a clue to the deeper needs of the psyche, every energetic ripple a message from the energetic body, every symptom and life condition a reflection of the hidden, intra-psychic reality, They are all yearning to be recognized, realigned, and nurtured for health, well being, and longevity. It’s simply up to us, to learn how to see, hear and feel them.

If you’re a healer:

  • In pursuit of professional mastery
  • Devoted to your craft and the complex interweave of the body-mind
  • With a desire to be at the forefront of innovative ways of healing
  • Ready to learn the deeper, energetic, unconscious, systemic causes of sickness and health

If you’re working with clients suffering from:

  • Chronic illness
  • Nervous System Disorders
  • Mystery Symptoms and Hypersensitivities
  • Arrested Development in Life, Work and Love
  • Repeating Trauma Patterns
  • The Archetype of the Overgiver, Empath, Sensitive, Exile
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Mind-Body Modules

The training will begin from the very first conversation with your clients and patients, and cover every major aspect of the therapeutic healing process. This will include:

  • How to identifying unconscious blocks and imbalances within the first session
  • Understanding where they originated from and how they manifest
  • How to safely unlock trauma trapped within the body and heal it
  • How to do this in a way that honors the mandates and requirements of the complex and inner child
  • Understanding why your clients have chosen you. (No, its never random)
  • How to catch critical, and often missed, unconscious cues hidden in the layers of your clients’ stories and patterns
  • How to decode these patterns and correlate them to their physiological symptoms
  • How to map physiological responses to emotional changes between client sessions
  • How to immediately implement comprehensive practices that honor the body’s wisdom, intuitive intelligence, and innate healing capacity
  • How to differentiate between trans-generational trauma, childhood trauma, adult trauma, and chronic and insidious environmental trauma.
  • How to combine the somatic, depth psychological and symbolic to create lasting impact and change that you will be able to apply immediately in your practice

A Deeper Cut

INITIAL CONDITIONS

In every opening conversation, meeting or introductory call you will be presented with verbal cues, emotional spikes and behavioral patterns that will reflect the complexes of your clients and patients. Do they interrupt you? Try to drive the course of the session? Over apologize for arriving one minutes late, or repeatedly make schedule changes? Everyone you meet will be locked in a pattern that will play out repeatedly in minor ways from the very beginning. See this and you will know what their Psyche is asking you, even before they do.

Your wound is the lens through which you will perceive your patients and clients and the main attractor sites that will draw them to you. Without knowing this will trip you up over and over again, but being fully aware of it will allow you to know what’s inevitably coming, where you will be tested, and how to prepare.

Now that you know what to look for in yourself and in the initial conditions of those you meet, you get to vet for success and trust that your best approach is to work only with those in the sweet spot of your skill level, and to refer everyone else out. Knowing this will not only keep you in integrity with your abilities but avoid any unpleasant missteps. It’s not about quantity, but quality, and if you think you want both, then this course may not be for you.

Now that you have called in the right patients and clients, and know the wounds within yourself that may have called them to you, you can learn to identify the spectrum of defense mechanisms preventing them from thriving. From superficial intellectual rationalizations, to warring sub-personalities, to disregulatory emotional patterns, all connected to unconscious, long forgotten exiled inner children, unresolved birth or even past life trauma, the great work of a healing practice is to learn how to build a complete picture of Psyche, not so you can presume to know what She needs, but so you can learn to attune to what She says.

You are not simply mixing modalities, but aware of how each is a window into the intrinsic nature of the body-mind itself. Whether Somatic Experiencing, Family Constellation, Hypnotherapy, Jungian and Depth Psychology, Archetypal Analysis, Energy Medicine, Past Life Regression or Shamanism, a modern healer needs to understand the greater landscape within which they are working, to be effective and minimize blind spots.

Although not strictly required, this course will be most suited to intuitives and empaths who are learning, or already able to sense the wounds of others in their own body.

Using the body as a ‘geiger counter’, by-passes all theory and goes right to the root non-locally and non-temporally, so that wounds from the distant past can be sensed and healed, in the present.

If you know my work, you know I place a premium on having a knowledge of Archetypal Patterns , or the highly predictable trends that include the scapegoat, over-giver, martyr, tyrant, whistleblower, outcast, and dutiful soldier. All of which can be found in myth, mythology, folklore, fairy tale and scripture going back to the very origins of the healing arts. Knowing these stories provides an uncanny insight into the needs of clients and patients and, especially what role you are being called to play in their healing journey.

Observe behavior and listen attentively to narrative and you can infer a patient’s emotional wounds, childhood traumas, the chakras, corresponding organ systems, vertebrae, and teeth that may be effected, as well as the friends and partners they will call in via those receptor sites, and the very dynamics that they will face with their children. This is the multi polar matrix of the body mind. Boundaries and parasites. Vampirism and heavy metal toxicity. Speaking truth and the thyroid, sexual trauma and endometriosis, over giving and the liver, auto immunity and self harm, conflict aversion and weakened immune system, the list goes on, but in time you can gain an intuitive understanding of the bigger picture, even from seeing just one corner.

Building a practice based on heart and soul but also professionalism and expertise, isn’t easy, and many of the most subtle and essential elements are not even taught. When you receive 1:1 guidance to lay a strong foundation built brick by brick, you may stumble but your practice will grow in integrity and durability, and with every lesson learned, a greater capacity for healing gained.

This is one of the most fundamental elements of the training and the one you should be most careful of diving into without a warning. Because if you decide to go on the journey of learning how to hear unconscious communication, its going to change reality for you, and in ways that will make you feel as if you’re slightly losing your mind. Because it’s going to reveal a whole deeper, more primal level of human communication to you that can be very disturbing. It’s like suddenly hearing the intimate confessions of everyone around you. And at some point you won’t be able to un-hear them. Whether your children, your partner, your parents, your peers, even yourself. It’s an entirely invisible third level of the chess board of life that suddenly appears before you that has always been there and that you never knew existed. I’m not simply talking Freudian slips, or non verbal cues like crossing your arms when you’re feeling defensive. This goes much deeper and essentially reduces almost everything we are all saying to single discrete archetypal bulletins that we are constantly broadcasting in the stories we tell and the energy we run. If you ask me, it’s the original mother tongue of Psyche herself.

Teaching Style

Instead of passively absorbing information, we practice what’s being taught, explore nuances and collaborate with students in real time so that your experience is fully embodied. This means being acutely aware of the somatic waves that are woven into everything we say and do, especially around having challenging conversations that involve illuminating blindspots, holding others accountable and maintaining healthy boundaries. It is for these reasons that only an embodied approach can truly cultivate authentic mastery and meaningful personal growth.

Zachary Feder

Zachary Feder

Zachary is a multi-disciplinary healer and archetypal analyst, former Executive Director of the Edgar Cayce Center in Manhattan, Organizational and Leadership Development associate with LionHeart Consulting, and in-house psyche-somatic specialist at Sophia Health Institute under the guidance of Dr Dietrich Klinghardt.

In this training you will be directly exposed to how everything is connected in life, and in the clinical space, and how to bridge the translational gap between the psycho-somatic map and the biological territory, between ‘upstream’ energetic causes, and their ‘downstream’ physiological manifestations. Most importantly we will help you to zero-in on the most valuable interventions you can make in any given situation, and in ways that you can begin using with your clients immediately, after the very first class.

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What People Are Saying

“Phenomenal training. Life changing. Thank you.”

“I have been a student of this work for more than 3 years now and it’s given me invaluable tools and meaningful support I haven’t found anywhere else. I highly recommend getting on this road trip, it’s exciting, groundbreaking, heartfelt and very challenging at times, but you get to face your fears compassionately, supported all the way.”

“These teachings have changed the course of my clinical practice to be much more aligned with my potential as a clinician. He provided the missing pieces that I needed to help bring my clients and myself to points of profound growth. I’ll be forever grateful for his guidance and support.”

“Would you like to go to the unconscious inner works that are playing in the client’s life and your own…decipher them, gain insight into them and learn how to address them? This class is for you! Excellent investment. You will be glad you did. I have benefited beyond I imagined. Thank you!”