cocoon
a five-month community container for ancestral healing.
find your people
dive into the ancestral patterns in all areas of your life with accountability and support.
body care: healing how we perceive & treat our bodies
book club: grounding our healing in liberatory literature
career cuties: unpacking ancestral patterns at work
global majority: finding common ground among the melanated people of the world
hush harbor: Afro-diasporic healing space
money healing: surfacing & rewiring family financial patterns
radical love: intentional relationships
rainbow spirits: trans* & queer club
spiritual seekers: recovering from religious racism & the witch wound
white people’s work: divesting from the wages of whiteness
draw on collective support and shared structure to build long-term habits that emerge from your values. share what comes up in your bodymind and be witnessed with care. rewire your nervous system through positive feedback and repetition of new routines. one action per day, your persistence will build a legacy.
money mondays: practice meeting your finances with intention to initiate new money patterns in your lineage
truth-teller tuesdays: work on lovingly assertive, honest communication
wisdom wednesdays: tap into the folkways and medicine of your lineages
throwback thursdays: research genealogy and family history
freedom fridays: celebrate the aspects of your identity that society at large undermines
somatic saturdays: make time for your body
solidarity sundays: take action for just futures
what you receive within the cocoon
guided meditations for nervous system regulation help bring you out of physiological trauma reactions
spiritual and somatic strategies that tend to your ethereal and embodied nature
rigorous critical theory and history that root your healing in reality
a step-by-step system to break through the overwhelm of centuries (sometimes millennia) of trauma
comprehensive inventory of the interlocking effects of intergenerational patterns on your finances, physical health, interpersonal relationships, and spiritual connection
an escape from the whirlpool of denial, shame and self-punishment over "bad" ancestors into purposeful, constructive action
tools to respond to the crises of our time without hardening your heart or falling apart at every headline
live calls and ongoing online community-building with a cohort of people committed to this work
epigenetic alchemy is a unique blend of non-binary magic, Africana studies, and Chinese medicine.
theoretical rigor: Africana critical thought is our theoretical foundation. the macroeconomic, ontological, and socio-historical structures of the past millennium systematically cause intergenerational trauma. everything we do stems from this reality.
indigenous healing methods: our model of embodied energetics emerges from camellia's training in the 5,000+ year-old medical traditions of China. we draw upon our ancestral traditions to address the spiritual and somatic effects of systemic intergenerational trauma. three of our practitioners are initiates of the isese tradition and directly train with the unbroken Adesanya Awoyade lineage. we do not mix-and-match between a grab-bag of decontextualized new age modalities. we are in ongoing reciprocal relationships with living lineage bearers who are themselves descendants of unbroken medicine families. we are directly accountable to them.
biomedical integration: camellia draws upon hundreds of hours of graduate training in biomedicine, never pretending that energy alone can solve a problem. we share strategies for navigating the western medical system, and taking advantage of its strengths, while also protecting oneself from its systemic failures.
Epigenetic Alchemy is the result of a family member choosing to face, process, and consciously respond to intergenerational patterns.
By encountering and moving through cognitive dissonance with the power of community support, Epigenetic Alchemists leverage the strengths of their Ancestral Identity Archetype to inventory all aspects of their lives, then repeat new behaviors that result in a New Lineage Identity Narrative. Group support reinforces these shifts through contextual stimuli and accountability.
Sustained behavior and attitude change literally alters neurobiology and gene expression. The recovery saying "Let it begin with me" can result in an actual physiological transformation when factors that consistently support behavior change are present. Epigenetic Alchemy utilizes these key levers - community support, gentle accountability, clear structure, care, celebration of wins, manageable goals - to catalyze an embodied, energetic and intellectual metamorphosis.
A glimpse into the cocoon...
their spirits spin your chrysalis.
september 22, 2023
it is available for five months at a time. we recommend working through each module in no less than one month. this incentivizes engagement with the learning and accountability for the process. there are 8 waitlist spots open until september 22. open enrollment is september 22-29. the program runs from october 1st, 2023 to february 29, 20254.
community: $444 up-front OR $99/mo for 5 months. median: $1999 up-front OR $425/mo for 5 months. resourced: $2495 up-front OR $555/mo for 5 months.
our offerings are priced to reflect the value of the transformation we catalyze in the lives of those we serve. these prices allow us to offer donation-based and free resources, to continue our studies of traditional medicine, to practice what we preach by making our vocations sustainable long-term, and to pay our community members. at times, when we make an offering of our resources, we are more likely to commit to the work. at the same time, racial capitalism brutally and systematically deprives many of access to basic resources. in reflection of this reality, we are now offering equity pricing plans.
we will never ask you to justify or prove your financial situation. we ground in our integrity and we trust you to do the same. all of us on our team have a deep lived experience and analysis of economic injustice. we ask that you give at the capacity you can, from your overflow. if the payment plan isn't doable for you, let's talk about it. if there's a monthly rate that would allow you to commit without depriving your household of what you need, let us know. asking for what you need avoids us assuming we know who needs what (arrogance) or trying to rescue people (inappropriate and ineffective). this work is for those who choose it. if you feel called to choose this chrysalis with us, let us spin your cocoon together. we have limited scholarships available, and the more resourced folks share, the more we can hold the collective. 💛
full refund for the first seven days after purchase ONLY. we encourage each person to deeply root into their own sovereign knowledge of what serves them, and purchase with a commitment to their own ancestral healing.
if you feel called yet don't have funds for the full investment, please reach out to [email protected] and let's see what we can do. in addition, you can refer our offerings to others in your network. if they choose to purchase ancestral counseling or cocoon, we'll gift you free access to the introduction to ancestral healing mini-course.
we support you in practicing discernment. we invite you to check out testimonials, read about who we serve, try camellia’s free meditations, read about our values, consider camellia’s intellectual lineage, subscribe to our mailing list, and book a complimentary discovery call to get to know our work (all links at www.epigeneticalchemy.com). it has been our experience and observation that ancestral work is the key because it unlocks patterns stored in the body that play out interpersonally. when healing happens in intentional community, its impact increases in a shorter amount of time.
camellia’s book elemental healing is the closest thing to a group program integrating Chinese medical wisdom, critical Africana scholarship, and polyvagal theory for ancestral breakthrough. cocoon is for people who are committed to going deeper and working collectively. while ancestor work plays a major role in elemental healing, cocoon is an immersive community container create the conditions of metamorphosis.
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