Elemental Alchemy
Design the Life of Your Dreams.
A Mentoring Series with Erin Chalfant, MA, MFA
Nature Loves Courage.
An alchemist sees the weft and weave beneath the wave of circumstances. An alchemist dances in the chaos of creation, an alchemist designs a world no one else could imagine.
Elemental Alchemy is a powerful crucible of ongoing somatic, mytho-poetic and eco-psychological support for artists, dreamers, healers, and those devoted to lives of service for themselves, their families, and the planet. Open your heart to the life you want, and life will rise up beneath you and create through you. This Series provides a container to support a distillation of the medicine from the elements of nature. It is a path of devotion dedicated to designing the life of your dreams.
Conspire with nature to design the life of your dreams. There are chapters of our lives that ask more of us, inviting us to shape-shift: to soften, widen, grow, and sprout wings.
The Elements of Air, Fire, Water, and Earth have been used since the beginning of time as a path of transformation. Alchemists understand how to command with the laws of nature and shape reality that honors life and is in service to collective thriving.
Becoming an alchemist requires a transfiguration of who we once were. This is a powerful place where what was is gone and what will be has not yet appeared. You’ve woken up to something, answered a call, made a big shift, and now it is time to pull through the medicine of those choices and integrate it into a truly new foundation and way of being.
A bit of guidance helps when life is asking us to step in more fully. In the Elemental Alchemy, a series of four one-to-one hour sessions, we will set aside time dedicated to create a structure and container for this playful work.
Conspiring with the Elements
The Elements are ways of understanding patterns, events and behaviors cross-culturally. Indigenous Native American cultures work with the Medicine Wheel, and the Celtic traditions also look to Air, Fire, Water and Earth as guidelines and structures of support in co-creation.
The sessions are arranged as follows:
Air in the East
Session One: We set intentions, explore ideas in the mental realm, access resources, and have an introduction to what elemental support and pattern recognition looks like.
Fire in the South
Session Two: We ignite the power of the fire element and explore myth, re-storying your life, and naming your archetypal patterns through understanding primary relationships.
Session Three: We dive deep into the subconscious and collective layers of your psyche with dreamwork, creative expression, and powerful movement practices.
Water in the West
Session Four: We come back to life with a new vision, and we make plans, set up structures, access ongoing nourishment, and prepare for integration and a grounded way forward.