The Alchemical Heart
A six month inner pilgrimage
A Six-Month Human Alchemy Initiation
A six-month immersion into the living heart of your own magnificant psyche.
The Path of the Alchemical Heart is a contained circle of depth work for those who feel called toward conscious transformation. It is designed for those who sense that something within them is ready to move, to shed, to descend, and to return altered.
Across six months, we travel through a carefully held process that integrates depth psychology, trance, somatic awareness, symbolic inquiry and alchemical mapping. The work is experiential, reflective and embodied. You will encounter your patterns, your defences, your longings, your shadow material and your vitality in ways that are grounded, psychologically informed and ethically held.
Each month builds upon the last. The circle itself becomes the vessel. Within it, you will engage in guided processes, paired exploration, symbolic exercises, journaling, and carefully facilitated descent and return work. Between gatherings, there are integration tasks designed to anchor insight into lived reality
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This initiation may be appropriate for you if:
• You are ready to examine your patterns
• You sense that old strategies are limiting your growth
• You want structured depth work rather than casual conversation
• You are willing to take responsibility for your transformation
• You value psychological rigour alongside spiritual intelligence
This is not a crisis intervention space. Participants need to be resourced enough to engage in reflective inner work.
Application is required. Where appropriate, a short conversation will ensure alignment.
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What You Will Gain
Over six months, participants commonly experience:
• Greater emotional regulation and embodied awareness
• Clearer boundaries and relational insight
• A deeper understanding of personal myth and shadow patterns
• Increased capacity to tolerate complexity and ambiguity
• A felt sense of personal authority and inner Power
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Monthly live gatherings (4–5 hours) 10am start
Maximum of ten participants
Guided process work
Depth exploration
Somatic and symbolic exercise
Integration missions between sessions
The circle is intimate by design. Containment is essential for depth.
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The Path of the Alchemical Heart follows a coherent transformational sequence:
Month One – Threshold
Clarifying intention. Establishing the vessel. Meeting the personal myth that shapes your life.
Month Two – The Landscape
Exploring complexes, protective strategies and inherited narratives. Understanding the terrain of your psyche.
Month Three – Descent
Conscious engagement with shadow material, emotional contraction and the parts of self that have been exiled or silenced.
Month Four – Retrieval
Reclaiming vitality, instinct, agency and buried gifts. Working with inner figures and symbolic restoration.
Month Five – Integration
Learning to embody insight. Translating depth experience into relational behaviour and external life changes.
Month Six – Return
Standing differently in the world. Re-authoring your story. Anchoring personal authority and responsibility.
This structure is deliberate. It mirrors alchemical process and depth psychological development. It honours that transformation requires both containment and movement.
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The Path of the Alchemical Heart is rooted in the Sacred Alchemy method, yet it stands as its own offering.
This circle becomes an incubator for your our collective human unfolding.
The work is somatic as well as symbolic. We attend to sensation, posture, breath, micro-movement and relational field. We track nervous system responses. We use trance responsibly and ethically. We approach shadow with curiosity .
The circle is a living field where insight is metabolised and wonderful things occur.
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The full cost is £1200. There will be an early Bird offer running until April 30th, you can purchase the course for £1000.
There is an option for monthly payments too.
Early Bird Payment Plan £167 per month for 6 months (total £1,000)
Standard Payment Plan £200 per month for 6 months (total £1,200)
Start: May 9th 2026
Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act, just once, with beauty and courage. Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.”
Rainer Maria Rilke
About The Sacred Alchemy School
Founded by Alexia Elliott, Sacred Alchemy blends hypnosis, shamanic craft, NLP and depth psychology. After thousands of client hours over two decades, the School focuses on what works for the individual based on their worldview, not on fashion or dogma. This is imaginative, ethical, effective work.