Alchemical Alignment Professional Training
An advanced somatic training for sensitive
and intuitive healing practitioners
We work at the intersection of body, spirit, science, and mystery.
Trauma Resolution & Embodiment of Spirit
If you’ve been studying and practicing healing/helping work for some time and are ready to deepen your embodied understanding of what might be possible in somatic healing, welcome.
You already know that with any present time challenge your clients bring to a session you’re often working with imprints of undigested life experience, outdated inherited threat responses, and/or internalized collective or systemic difficulties - the past time threats which once overwhelmed limit access to available resources and create difficulty in the body.
We’ve learned over decades of experience working with clients, and through study across bodywork and spiritual modalities, that patterns of fight/flight/freeze/appease are only part of the story.
Alchemical Alignment brings a potent paradigm shift towards simplicity and efficiency to the world of trauma resolution and embodiment of spirit.
The subtle yet profound practices of this course will expand your perceptual capacities, fill in the missing pieces of your embodied understanding of somatic healing, and offer you leading edge skills to weave into the training you already have.
We wait…
Until the body brings unfinished issues to the foreground to transmute them. We welcome the whole person as past difficulties arise and rely on embodied practitioner skills to create the conditions that allow for resolution - integration or completion of the outdated pattern. This can be done in quantum leaps (safe, consensual, catalytic work) or in small, doable bits over time.
And then…
As threat responses are completed and unmet needs are met, after a certain amount of trauma resolution, we witness "Embodiment of Spirit." It’s possible for clients to feel areas of physical and emotional pain and tension melt away and experience boundary and relational field repair. Some report inner awakenings, like a repair of sensory awareness, feeling the body balancing itself, empty parts filling in, or disappeared parts returning.
Others find a connection with their Higher Self, more insight, spiritual awareness, compassion and clarity; finding their voice; and/or receive blessings and support from the ancestral field.
This and more are possible as you support your clients to consistently access the places where experiences of being and belonging are realigned with a blueprint of life.
Join us if you are on the path to becoming more resonant, embodied and empowered, and are interested in the art, magic and science of this kind of practice.
Modalities that inform AA include:
Bodywork, massage and manual therapy
Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy
Osteopathic Neural and Visceral work
Polarity- and PPN-based Body into Being
Somatic Experiencing
Aikido
Family Constellations
The training is recommended for practitioners with an active practice, who have done a fair amount of personal work, developed some resilience, and are ready for a deeper somatic exploration, attunement, and skills.
Classes include an updated, nuanced, and holistic approach to trauma theory, experiential practice, exchanges in dyads or triads, the practice of "The Alignment Sequence™" a mindful embodiment ritual movement meditation, as well as guided embodiment meditations.
Homework invitations include regular meditation, movement, readings, peer exchanges, receiving professional sessions, giving practice sessions, and attending either Integration Circles, or individual supervision to support the embodiment of the work.
For your comfort, you will want a foundation in some skill before you come to this intermediate to advanced-level class, whether it is mindfulness, intentional work, self-development, bodywork, or other therapeutic skills. Stillness and movement practices, and high-level self care greatly enhance your learning.
This training should not be considered therapy or a process workshop. We ask each person to have an adult practitioner self available to meet themselves and others. While some support is available during the training, we recommend that you come with many layers of support, including your own trusted therapeutic practitioners.
Each participant will be asked to continue to work within the scope of their current practice. Our scope of practice includes present time felt sense and image. This is not a regressive therapy. This training, while thorough, does not license participants to have a touch practice, or to call themselves trauma experts.
This course is full of theory and practical tools for private practice - it is not intended to teach a foundation of business skills or practice development.
All practice work in class will be done with bodies clothed, while seated, standing, or lying down. The online training has virtual contact practice, and the in-person training can include touch.
This somatic training is appropriate for practitioners working with the health of the body, mind, and/or spirit.
The training can feel rigorous, thus you would want to come with a certain amount of resilience, as well as enough time for practicing the work between Modules.
If you're interested in the program and have questions before applying, you can schedule a 20 minute call with either of our current First Year faculty: Joseph or Kimberly.
Training Calendar
The First Year
2024-25 Online Cohort
Taught by Joseph Saine over Zoom, all classes 10 am - 4 pm Eastern Time
Nov 7 - 9, 2024
Nov 21- 23, 2024
Dec 12 - 14, 2024
Jan 23 - 25, 2025
Feb 20 - 22, 2025
Mar 13 - 15, 2025
Apr 3 - 5, 2025
Module 1
Module 2
Module 3
Module 4
Module 5
Module 6
Module 7
2024-25 In Person Cohort -
Glen Echo, Maryland
Taught by Kimberly Clark
Nov 14 - 17, 2024
Jan 16 - 19, 2025
Feb 13 - 16, 2025
April 10-13, 2025
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
2024-25 In Person Cohort -
Portland, Maine
Taught by Kimberly Clark
Oct 10-13, 2024
Jan 23-26, 2025
March 13-16, 2025
June 19-22, 2025
Level 1
Level 2
Level 3
Level 4
Modules 8 - 14: Somatic Death Imprints in Life, and in Birth
Taught by Brigit Viksnins
over Zoom, all classes 9:20am - 3:45pm Eastern Time
Module 8
Module 9
Module 10
Module 11
Module 12
Module 13
Module 14
Oct 10 - 12 , 2024
Oct 31 - Nov 2, 2024
Dec 5- 7, 2024
Jan 9 - 11, 2025
Mar 6 -8, 2025
Mar 27 - 29, 2025
April 24 - 26, 2025
Explore the Curriculum
Modules 1 - 3 Online, or Levels 1 - 2 In Person:
Begin to develop the resilient practitioner presence, capacity, and stability needed to practice trauma resolution work efficiently and sustainably. Learn to recognize trauma imprints and how to create conditions to meet places in the injured relational field that may have previously been inaccessible.
Foundations of Health
The Alchemist’s Relational Field
Begin to cultivate the internal practitioner awareness, stability, attuned pacing, and relational skills needed to meet danger and safety issues in clients. Introduction to the 7 Realms of the Body Security System.
Creating Conditions for Transmutation
Deepen into the 7 Realms and additional maps of the Body Security System. Learn about the 7 Waves of nervous system expression. Receive an introduction to sequencing, boundary repair, and the expression of the inherent intelligence of the body. Begin to meet, reregulate, and transform post-traumatic physiology patterns within yourself and others with subtle yet powerful exercises.
The Mystery of the Valiant Protectors
Explore how the intelligence of the body can hold unfinished threat responses and unmet needs in the joints and diaphragms. Experience relating with the extremities as portals to previously inaccessible somatic zones. Begin to differentiate categories of health and threat responses..
“After two decades of personal development work, workshops, retreats, psychotherapy, bodywork, I can finally say that I've arrived into my body and into my life. This would be enough, but I've also received fabulous new skills to transmit this experience to others, should I choose to. It was unbelievably rich, sweet, and welcoming. I've never been around someone or something this coherent and integrated. It is ripe and exquisite.”
Modules 4 - 7 Online, or Levels 3 - 4 In Person:
Learn to mend the gaps in the weave created by trauma imprints. Build capacity to meet higher levels of intensity and subtlety of imprinted and embodied dysregulation patterns held at the core. Explore details of reclaiming the buried treasure of frozen health and power held in place by threat response patterns.
Advanced Trauma Resolution Skills and Embodiment Practices
The Quest for the Dragons of Health
Begin to develop the capacity needed to meet waves of sympathetic mobilization (fight & flight) in yourself and clients. Learn how to support the resolution of outdated body security system default settings of danger (neuroception). Deepen your understanding of optimal and dissonant expressions of the complexity of the social nervous system (ventral vagal; please & appease). Develop skills to meet and transform double bind patterns that can arise in threat responses.
Reclaiming Core Presence
Explore three aspects of the midline/central channel of the embodied Self. Learn skills for reregulation of orienting physiology. Learn how to offer appropriate accompaniment to those held in these historical threat response patterns. Explore a map of the phases of tidal body experiences of returning to wholeness from the physical to the embodied cosmic.
The Alchemist in the Multiverse
Explore the multidimensional possibilities of Self through the fascia, fluid, and visceral organs of the belly (dorsal vagal). Clarify and differentiate time, space, and subject in order to allow for the emergence of the more deeply embodied Self. Receive details about Blueprints of Health. Deepen your understanding of boundary repair, trauma imprints, and trauma categories.
The Compass of the Heart
Develop and refine skills for meeting held polyrhythmic, polyvagal somatic patterns after intense or inescapable conditions. Explore the thoracic sphere and its contents - the heart, and mediastinum. Witness what is possible through continued attunement of the present time aligned self. Explore quantum leaps of experience and how to cultivate a sustainable business over time that allows you to bring your version of this work forward in the world.
Modules 8 - 14: Somatic Death Imprints in Life, in Birth
Optional Advanced Modules with Brigit Viksnins after completion of M1-7 Online or L1-4 In Person.
Modules 8 - 11
Become curious about how to resurrect a Self by inquiring into Hot and/or Cold Double Binds seemingly eternally mired in somatically-held states of deadness. Join us for four Modules exploring challenge vs trauma, and skill development for somatic imprints left by (near) death of others and (near) death in self, at various ages. Learn theory and practical skills for rewriting foundational life-altering set points left in place by life-threatening, inescapable circumstances. Learn Time, Space, Self, and Subject Rehab.
Modules 12 - 14
Light conception might not be possible the first time you bring your best skills to the health as well as the (near) death at points along the early timeline. Join us for three Modules exploring somatic blueprints and tools to reach imprints from preconception to post-birth, where we reach existential and survival-level physiology. Hone your jedi-like, compassionate presence, somatic and metaphysical skills, developing Creation and Reality Rehab abilities.
Sometimes as a practitioner it can be a very lonely journey. Alchemical Alignment training helped me to ground my work and lay a new and more stable foundation. I experience more ease in my sessions and I feel more connected to others who are doing similar work. It’s a great environment to grow and expand and become more of who you truly are.
Tuition and Registration
Modules 1 - 7
Regular rate: $8250 USD total, which includes the $500 non-refundable registration fee.
Early Rate: $7000 USD two months before M1. Monthly payment plan available.
Retaking: $3500, or $3000 USD early.
Commitment to all seven Modules is required for lowest tuition rates.
If there is space, M1-3 applications will also be considered. Students applying for Modules 1-7 will be given registration priority.
Participation eligibility, and advancing to the next Modules, to be determined by instructors.
See application for all payment options, dates, and breakdown of costs.
What’s included in Modules 1 -7:
Seven 3-day trainings in a small group setting, with faculty Joseph Saine (online, 7 Modules, 105 hours) or Kimberly Clark (in person, 4 Levels, 100 hours)
Group Integration Circles (20 hours)
Membership in Maintain Alignment practitioner community after applying, during the training and for three months after the completion of your final Module (100+ hours)
Peer exchanges, client practice time (23-46 hours)
15 Bodywork CE hours per Module, 25 per Level, through NCBTMB. Alchemical Alignment is approved by the National Certification Board for Therapeutic Massage & Bodywork (NCBTMB) as a Continuing Education Approved Provider
Scholarships
We love variety. The idea of people from various backgrounds, languages, cultures, and communities getting this healing message, and translating it into what will serve their community feels fulfilling to us. Because of this, a limited number of scholarships of 25-75% off are available for individuals coming from and working directly with historically marginalized communities. Please include an explanation in your application if you are interested in being considered.
Retaking
Part of the Alchemical Alignment culture includes retaking, as often as you would like. This is a win-win situation, where your skill reaches new breadth and depth, receiving the information again and again. In addition, the newcomers benefit from your level of practice. There is always something new to learn or into which to deepen, for practitioners at all levels. This model is based on Aikido classes and seminars, where all ranks of students train together, honing their abilities for a lifetime.
Withdrawal/Cancellation policy
Alchemical Alignment, LLC reserves the right to cancel or postpone any program. In such a case, tuition credit is transferred to future classes. We also reserve the right to ask any student to transfer to another cohort, leave, or wait for another round, for any reason.
In case of student cancellation:
This policy encourages you to commit to coming. Tuition is transferable to another round of training up to 6 weeks prior to the start of the class. Within 6 weeks of class, if you leave early, or decide to change to a future group, the $500 registration fee will be charged. Also within 6 weeks of class, your full tuition is non-refundable or transferable, regardless of your participation in classes, except in cases of dangerous weather, or unexpected illness or emergency.
International Courses
Students are welcome to participate from anywhere in the world, and we are in the process of making the core curriculum available in other countries and languages. The first of these is an upcoming round of Alchemical Alignment training in Portuguese, taught in Brazil in June of 2024. Learn more here.
Prospective Student Call
If you're interested in the program and have questions before applying, you can schedule a 20 minute call with our Module 1 - 7 faculty: Joseph or Kimberly.
Modules 8 - 11 and Modules 12 - 14
Regular rate: $3350 USD for each set of modules, $6500 for both.
Early Rate: $3150 each, or $6000 for both, commit 2 months before M8.
Retaking: Half price of the above rates, same dates.
There is a separate application process for Modules 8-14, Somatics of Death within Life - called “Death,” and Early Timeline Somatic Work - called “Birth,” with Brigit Viksnins. Prerequisites are M1-7 online or Levels 1- 4 in person.
