Alchemical Alignment 101
TM
An Introduction, Online
Six-Session Small Group Course Online with Salyna Cole
Dates Oct 29 • Nov 5 • Nov 12 • Dec 3 • Dec 10 • Dec 17
1 pm Eastern, 2 hour classes.
Location: Internationally available, online
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 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
Class 1: Health
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.
Class 2: 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.
Class 3: Trauma
Unmet traumatic experiences imprint onto our inherent blueprint of health. Learn about how to pendulate between safety and threat when navigating triggering subjects.
Class 4: 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.
Class 5: 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.
Class 6: 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.
*These categories are general and not meant to describe the nuances of each person's experience with money and privilege.
Please follow your aligned guidance in self-determining what tuition category fits best.
Scholarship Tuition
$350 USD upfront
*$117 USD X 3 months
The Scholarship Tuition is discounted. Consider if this price is for you if paying standard tuition would be significant or stressful because you have difficulty accessing resources and meeting basic needs takes up most of your budget. This is especially for people who are of the global majority (POC), LGBTQIA+, working class, disabled, neurodivergent, or immigrants.
Standard Tuition
$500 USD upfront
*$167 USD X 3 months
The Standard Tuition is the actual cost of the course. Consider this price if you are able to meet your basic needs and have little-to-no expendable income. Paying for this class may qualify as a sacrifice but it would not create hardship.
Redistribution Tuition
$750 USD upfront
$250 USD x 3 months
The Redistribution Tuition allows you to help cover the tuition cost of your peers who have less. Consider if this price is for you if you are comfortably able to meet all of your basic needs and have expendable income. This is especially for property-owners/high-end renters, white, cis, able-bodied, settler, university educated people, or if you have investments / a retirement-fund.
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.
Recordings: An audio recording of each class will be made available after class, so you can catch up if you miss a time. Or so you can attend asynchronously, aka watch on your own timeline.
Meet Your Instructor:
Salyna Cole is a somatic practitioner, movement facilitator, and bodyworker whose work explores the intersection of body, spirit, healing, and liberation. Her decades long inquiry into human behavior, relationships, and transformation has led to an expertise on how survival responses and systems of oppression, shape our relationship to our bodies, spirit, pleasure, sensual power, belonging, and self-expression and culture.
Through Alchemical Alignment, she found a framework that bridges nervous system healing, the intelligence of nature, the mystery of spirit, and the body's innate capacity for transformation.
Drawing from a decolonized lens informed by both alchemical alignment and somatic abolitionism, Salyna’s teaching invites practitioners into deeper relationship with resonance, the tides of human experience, and the living currents of love, joy, and wholeness that support the embodiment of spirit.
Frequently Asked Questions
I’m an experienced practitioner, but I’ve never studied somatic trauma resolution. Is this class really for me?
Absolutely. Whether you’re a mental health practitioner, bodyworker, movement facilitator, coach, or other helping professional, AlchAlmt101 welcomes the wisdom and experience you already bring.
We begin with foundational somatic skills: noticing, orienting, tracking, and accompanying experience across the physical, emotional, mental, spiritual, energetic, and relational realms.
You don’t need to be equally familiar with all these realms. The experience you already have can become a natural doorway into neighboring territories, with small, well-supported steps into something new.
Think of AlchAlmt101 as an additional layer of support and perception that can enrich both your own life and the work you do with others.
And there’s another possibility: this experience can be just for you. These six classes are, first and foremost, an opportunity for practitioner self-care—a space to receive somatic support, deepen your capacity for presence, and cultivate greater ease in meeting difficulty.
You don’t have to arrive knowing how to do this work. You simply need a willingness to explore.
Do I need previous training in somatic work or trauma resolution?
No previous training in somatic trauma resolution is required. AlchAlmt101 introduces foundational skills step by step, offering a supported way to begin exploring how the body, nervous system, emotions, and other dimensions of experience inform one another.
I’m a talk therapist, physician, coach, or other professional who primarily works with the mind. Will this be relevant to me?
Yes. Somatic awareness can offer another dimension of understanding and accompanying the people you serve. You’ll begin exploring how to notice and track experience beyond words, while developing a more nuanced sense of presence, pacing, and relationship.
You don’t need to leave your existing approach behind. Alchemical Alignment can offer a complementary perspective that enriches the work you already do.
I’m a bodyworker or movement practitioner. What might I gain from this class?
Your familiarity with the body is a valuable starting point. AlchAlmt101 invites you to expand your perception of how physical experience relates to emotional, mental, spiritual, energetic, and relational processes.
You’ll begin developing a broader map for noticing what is happening, staying present with complexity, and accompanying change without needing to force an outcome.
What if I’m not sure I want to use these skills professionally?
You’re welcome to take this class for your own growth and well-being. Learning to notice your experience, orient to the present moment, and meet difficulty with greater support can be valuable whether or not you ever use these skills in professional practice.
You are also welcome to let your learning unfold at its own pace. There is no need to turn every personal discovery into something you must offer others.
What if I feel intimidated by learning something unfamiliar?
You don’t have to master everything at once. AlchAlmt101 emphasizes small steps, supported exploration, and the development of your own capacity to notice and accompany experience.
You can begin with what you already know and gradually explore what is less familiar. The intention is not to perform or get everything right, but to cultivate greater awareness, presence, and ease.
What can I expect to take away from six classes?
You can expect an introduction to foundational somatic skills and the Alchemical Alignment approach to exploring experience across seven realms. Just as importantly, the classes offer an opportunity to receive support, strengthen your capacity for presence, and develop a more compassionate relationship with your own experience.
Whether you come to enrich your professional practice, explore a new field of learning, or simply care for yourself, AlchAlmt101 offers a place to begin.
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."
“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. I have felt 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)
“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)
“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.”