the alchemical vessel
Strong enough to hold the fire. Open enough to hold the mystery.
A six-week experiential journey for therapists, facilitators, coaches, and healing practitioners who hold space for transformation.
Transformation requires a vessel strong enough to hold it.
When we hold space for another human being, we enter a field that is emotional, relational, somatic and, at times, difficult to explain through one framework alone.
A client becomes highly activated.
A group suddenly shifts.
You feel something in your own body that may or may not belong to you.
An experience arises that could be understood psychologically, energetically, spiritually, or through the nervous system.
How do we remain present without becoming overwhelmed?
How do we stay open without becoming porous?
How do we discern what belongs to us, what belongs to another, and what is happening in the space between?
And how do we work at the edges of what we understand while remaining grounded in integrity, ethics, and our own scope of practice?
This is the work of the Alchemical Vessel.
tending to the vessel
Before we learn to hold more for others, we have to understand the vessel through which we hold.
Your nervous system.
Your body.
Your boundaries.
Your unconscious patterns.
Your capacity for emotional intensity.
Your relationship to intuition.
Your ability to remain rooted when the space becomes charged.
The quality of the spaces we create is inseparable from the quality of presence we bring into them.
Over six weeks, we will explore the inner structure, relational capacity, and energetic integrity that allow us to hold transformational spaces with greater clarity and depth.
Not by becoming impenetrable.
But by becoming grounded enough to remain open.
where two ways of knowing meet
The Alchemical Vessel was born from an ongoing conversation between two practitioners working from different, yet deeply complementary perspectives.
Courtenay brings over 10 years of clinical experience working psychotherapeutically with complex trauma, attachment, nervous system science, somatic work, and experiential approaches.
Amakizia brings decades of yoga, embodiment, spiritual practice, ritual, energetics, and ancient wisdom traditions.
Again and again, we have encountered similar human experiences through different languages.
One perspective may speak of nervous system activation, relational dynamics, projection, or transference.
Another may speak of energy, intuition, boundaries, or the field.
We are not interested in collapsing these perspectives into one.
We are interested in the discernment that becomes possible when we allow them to sit beside one another.
Throughout the journey, you will experience both perspectives in dialogue—not as competing explanations, but as a living inquiry into what each way of knowing can reveal.
the six week journey
Each week moves through a different stage of the alchemical process and explores an essential capacity of the practitioner.
Week 1
Building the Vessel
The Foundation | Integrity
What makes transformation safe enough to occur?
We begin with the practitioner and the container they create.
Through grounding, centering, and orienting practices, we explore relational safety, boundaries, ethics, facilitator presence, and the relationship between protection and permeability.
THE CAPACITY: INTEGRITY
Creating a trustworthy container.
Week 2
holding the fire
Calcination | Stability
How do we remain present when the work becomes intense?
Transformation can bring heat—activation, resistance, fear, urgency, or the impulse to fix or rescue. We explore how to stay grounded in intensity without becoming overwhelmed, controlling the process, or abandoning ourselves, while engaging fire as a symbol of transformation and courage.
THE CAPACITY: STABILITY
Remaining grounded amid activation.
Week 3
holding the waters
Dissolution | Fluidity
What allows us to soften into what has been against?
Not all transformation happens through fire. Some experiences ask us to soften, receive, grieve, and allow what has been held to begin moving again. We explore emotional processing, somatic experience, co-regulation, surrender, and receptivity without forcing experience toward an outcome.
THE CAPACITY: Fluidity
Allowing movement without losing presence.
Week 4
discernment
Separation | Clarity
What belongs to me? What belongs to another? What is happening between us?
Perhaps the most important capacity for anyone who holds transformational space is discernment. We explore relational dynamics, projection, transference, countertransference, differentiation, and protective patterns alongside intuition, energetic boundaries, and sovereignty—holding multiple possibilities while remaining grounded in ethics and scope of practice.
THE CAPACITY: Clarity
Discerning self, other, and the relational field.
Week 5
sacred union
Conjuction | Coherence
How do seemingly opposing truths become integrated?
Healing does not always require choosing one truth over another: psychological and spiritual, structure and surrender, self and other, knowing and mystery. Through partner practices and co-regulation, we explore integration, relational repair, and wholeness alongside sacred union, polarity, heart coherence, and ceremony.
THE CAPACITY: COHERENCE
Allowing apparent opposites to become part of a more integrated whole.
Week 6
BECOMING THE VESSEL
Distillation & Fermentation | Prescence
How do we continue this work without believing we need to know everything?
We end not with mastery, but with humility. Through reflective practice, integration, ethics, sustainability, and stewardship, we explore how to remain devoted to our own practice while recognizing the edges of our capacity.
It means knowing yourself deeply enough to remain open without losing your center.
THE CAPACITY: PRESENCE
Living the work through ongoing practice, reflection and service.
pricing
EARLY BIRD PRICING: 399 EURO
REGULAR PRICING: 499 EURO
SIX CAPACITIES OF THE VESSEL
These are not techniques to master.
They are qualities we cultivate over a lifetime.
Integrity
Creating a trustworthy container.
Stability
Remaining grounded amid activation.
Fluidity
Allowing emotional movement without losing presence.
Clarity
Discerning what belongs to self, other and the relational field.
Coherence
Integrating apparent opposites into a more unified whole.
Presence
Embodying the vessel through ongoing practice, reflection and service.
this journey is for
The Alchemical Vessel is created for people who already hold space for others and want to deepen the way they do so.
Therapists.
Facilitators.
Coaches.
Healing practitioners.
People who work at the intersection of transformation, embodiment, psychology, spirituality or energy.
You may already have years of experience, yet find yourself encountering moments that your existing training does not fully explain.
You may want to deepen your understanding of relational and nervous system processes without dismissing your spiritual or intuitive knowing.
Or you may come from a deeply spiritual background and want greater grounding in relational, psychological, and ethical perspectives.
You do not need to abandon one way of knowing to learn another.
You are invited to become more discerning in how you hold them.
what you will leave with
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A deeper understanding of yourself as the vessel through which you facilitate
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Greater capacity to remain grounded during emotional or energetic intensity
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Practical tools for regulation, embodiment, and energetic boundaries
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Greater awareness of relational dynamics, projection, transference, and countertransference
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More discernment around what belongs to you, what belongs to another, and what may be occurring within the wider field
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Multiple perspectives for understanding psychological, somatic, spiritual, and energetic experience
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Greater awareness of boundaries, ethics, and scope of practice
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A more sustainable relationship with the work you are here to hold
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amakizia
Amakizia is an author, retreat facilitator, and practitioner whose work is rooted in decades of embodied spiritual practice. She began teaching yoga in her early twenties and led yoga teacher trainings internationally for over a decade. In 2015, she published two books on yoga.
Her path has taken her deeply into yoga, meditation, ancient Egyptian wisdom, feminine spirituality, ritual, and energetic practice, including many years of study and immersion in India.
Today, Amakizia leads international retreats, facilitates individual sessions, and creates educational programs that bring ancient teachings into contemporary life. Her work centers on embodiment, integration, and bringing spiritual practice out of theory and into lived experience.
Courtenay
Courtenay Crucil, MA, RCC is a psychotherapist, ecotherapist, and group facilitator living in Northern British Columbia. She has worked in the healing arts since 2008, with clinical experience spanning non-profit, academic, governmental, Indigenous community, and private practice settings.
Courtenay specializes in complex trauma and dissociation, and her work is informed by attachment theory, developmental psychology, interpersonal neurobiology, affective neuroscience, somatic therapies, and experiential approaches. She is certified in EMDR and Experiential Dynamic Therapy and holds an Advanced Certificate in Complex Trauma and Dissociation from the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation.
the format
6 weeks
6 live 75-minute sessions
Embodiment
A guided practice to experience the week's theme directly.
Relational & Experiential Lens
Teaching, reflection, and experiential practice with Courtenay.
Spiritual & Energetic Lens
Teaching, reflection, and experiential practice with Amakizia.
Each session offers an opportunity to experience the material rather than simply learn about it.
Live on Zoom
Recordings included
This is an educational and experiential offering. It is not psychotherapy, clinical supervision, or a substitute for mental health treatment. Participants are invited to engage with the material within the boundaries of their own training, ethics, and professional scope of practice
THE ALCHEMICAL VESSEL
The vessel does not stop the fire.
It gives the fire somewhere to burn.
It does not stop the waters.
It gives them somewhere to move.
And it does not remove mystery.
It gives us enough structure to meet the unknown without losing ourselves within it.
Strong enough to hold the fire.
Open enough to hold the mystery.
Six weeks with Courtenay Crucil & Amakizia
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