Alchemical Alignment 101
An Introduction
NB, AlchAlmt Adjunct classes are supplemental series that harmonize with our main training program. The Foundation Program consists of the First and Second Year trainings. The teachers of the Adjunct classes are Graduates, or Assistants. Some are Foundation Training Teachers as well.
Six Week Small Group Course
Fall 2025 TBA
12:30 - 2:30pm Eastern Time, live and recorded
Alchemical Alignment is a somatic modality that combines the science of nervous system healing with the magic of nature and mystery of spirit.
In this 6 week course, you will be introduced to the foundational principles and practices that make up Alchemical Alignment. You will learn how to track and map nervous systems responses in a nuanced way and be invited to practice both foundational and more advanced somatic skills. Classes combine experiential learning, small group discussion and somatic sitting and movement practices.
This course is for anyone with some somatic experience interested in learning from a more spiritual, intuitive perspective as well as for practitioners curious about the modality but not yet ready to apply for our training program.
In this course you will learn:
How to use The Map of 7 Realms to develop a more robust and health-oriented understanding of the nervous system.
Somatic practices including the alignment movement sequence, stabilization, orienting, containment, pendulation, feeling for tides, attuning to the blueprint of health and more.
How an approach rooted in Alchemical Alignment principles holds one of the keys when working with early, chronic and ancestral trauma, double binds and freeze.
Course Curriculum
Week One: Safety
Being within our Range of Reguation is a dynamic state of safety. Explore what slow, medium and fast regulation feel like while learning how to resource for stabilization.
Week Two: Stress
Our body’s security system uses stress as a healthy response to help us avoid, mitigate and avoid danger. Learn how to track your stress physiology, and re-orient to safety.
Week Three: Trauma
Unmet traumatic experiences imprint onto our inherent blueprint of health. Learn about how to pendulate between safety and threat when navigating triggering subjects.
Week Four: Layers of Support to Stabilize, Soothe and Distract
In order to repair our nervous systems, we must learn how to meet and match the activation in our bodies with appropriate support and containment.
Week Five: Epic Imprints and Tidal Health
When trauma is early, chronic or ancestral, it requires early, consistent and ancestral resources in order to be met. Learn how to access larger fields of support, starting with tidal health.
Week Six: Creating Conditions for Health
Life force offers an inherent treatment plan that lies within each organism. As we learn to listen to this blueprint of health, we create conditions to heal and thrive.
Tuition and Registration:
Alchemical Alignment 101 tuition is on sliding scale pricing which offers financial accessibility to those who need it and a chance for those with financial stability to practice redistribution. A great big thanks to Alexis J. Cunningfolk for their writing on sliding scale pricing .
Scholarship Tuition
$350 USD upfront
*$117 USD X 3 months
The Scholarship Tuition is for you if meeting basic needs takes up your budget and paying for this class would be significant or stressful. BIPOC, queer & trans, working class, disabled, neurodivergent and immigrant folks to the front please.
Standard Tuition
$500 USD upfront
*$167 USD X 3 months
The Standard Tuition is the actual cost of the course. It’s for you if you have some financial stability and limited expendable income. Paying for this class will likely mean prioritizing this above other non-essential spending.
Redistribution Tuition
$750 USD upfront
$250 USD x 3 months
The Redistribution Tuition is for those with financial security who can afford to help cover the tuition costs of your peers who have less. Home-owners, white, cis, able-bodied, settler, university educated folks - this is your price.
Course Details
Format: Classes will combine experiential lessons, drawn maps of nervous system function (including the map of 7 realms), guided somatic practice and whole/small group discussions.
Class Size and Instructors: Small! The course will be supported by 4 assistants who will be available for live support during each class.
Recordings: A recording of each class will be made available within 24 hours after class, so you can catch up if you miss a week. Or so you can attend asynchronously aka watch on your own timeline.
CE’s: 12 from NCBTMB pending.
Student feedback:
"This class is the planting of seeds that have the potential to change your life."
"This course gave me the language to understand my nervous system in a whole new way. I cannot recommend it enough."
(Varia Erochina teaching)
“What I most liked was to experience real space and freedom to come as I am, to be me without having to do or be something else. This felt vulnerable, but with space to give myself what I need for that vulnerability. It made a learning environment where authentic / natural learning is possible. This is something that personally moved me deeply, and that I since the classes am more consciously taking into my work as a practitioner and my being a mom for my toddler. I also loved how everything seemed to come together in the last class. This felt like a full circle. Having Varia as a teacher was a great experience as well, she brought many helpful an relatable examples for the theory, and it was really nice to feel her humanity, not a teacher on a pedestal somewhere above, but a equal human being sharing knowledge and space.”
(Varia Erochina teaching)
“Having spent a few years immersed in the Polyvagal Theory, and learning about trauma resolution through various teachers, there seemed to be something missing in how to support myself with a Hypoarousal response that limited me from being able to fully express my potential. From the 6 weeks in Alchemical Alignment 101, I reconnected with my health blueprint through the teachings. I remembered my deep connection with the natural world, my environment and my intuition. Much of what I was trying to move beyond has transformed into an entirely new experience for me, one I am embracing and actually enjoying rather than resisting against. I have felt so more embodied, more spiritually alive and more connected to present moment awareness than I have in a long time. I feel as though I am dancing with life now, which feels so much more me than who I'd been trying to be.”
(Varia Erochina teaching)
“I loved this class and what I internalized about right timing, choicefullness, and allowing myself to be slow. Something I learned from AA that has had a transformative impact on my life. Varia is an incredibly skilled teacher. They were able to explain the content clearly and in ways that made sense for different learners. But they also were able to show us, and guide us towards experiencing the content ourselves. I don't think I've ever done a training that had a more direct impact on my system, my day-to-day life (both personally and in my practice as a therapist with clients). I especially loved how Varia took the time to explain what we could expect each day, and with the course as a whole. I always felt oriented, which was very grounding and helped me to be more fully present. I appreciated the space that Varia and the assistants created for vulnerability, while also containing it enough that it was still professional and focused. The balance of theory and practice worked very well for me. What a meaningful six weeks. I am so grateful to have been part of it.”