Why do some people do everything “right” (the diet, the supplements, the yoga) and still feel stuck? In the Elemental Alchemy Framework, the answer usually lies in a simple principle: healing has three parts, and none of them can be…
In medical research, the placebo effect is usually treated as a nuisance: something to be controlled for. Look at it the other way round, though, and it’s remarkable. What a person expects can measurably change what they experience. Its shadow,…
Emotions are neither good nor bad. They are information: the body’s language for what matters to us. In the Emotion pillar of the Elemental Alchemy Framework, we treat them as energy in motion that wants to keep moving. Trouble starts…
In Ayurveda, the traditional medicine of India, dinacharya means daily routine: the rhythms of waking, eating, moving and sleeping that keep body and mind in balance. It’s one of the simplest and most powerful parts of the Life pillar. Everything…
You carry an instrument with you everywhere. Your voice creates vibration you can feel in your chest, throat and head, and gentle sound-making is one of the quickest ways to settle the nervous system. Sound runs through the Embodiment pillar…
Many traditions, from Ayurveda to the medicine wheel, describe the world, and us, through elements. In the Nature pillar of the Elemental Alchemy Framework, we work with five. Earth: structure, stability and grounding. Your bones, your routines, your sense of…
Shamanic journeying is one of the oldest healing practices in the world, and one of the most misunderstood. In the Energy pillar of the Elemental Alchemy Framework, it’s a way of travelling, in a deeply relaxed and focused state, into…
The aurora is caused by charged particles from the Sun — the solar wind — interacting with Earth’s magnetic field and atmosphere. When those particles collide with oxygen and nitrogen atoms at high altitude, they excite the atoms into emitting…