The Curriculum

🐚 Eastern Psychology, including Buddhist and Vedic teachings, describes an ancient way of relating to suffering which differs radically from Western thought. As a Helix student, you will be able to help yourself and others step outside of suffering, accept impermanence, and begin the process of eradicating the emotions of greed and imbalanced desire. You will be more in tune with the contracting and expanding forces of your own nature and those of the cosmos.

🐚 Distant Healing and Active Prayer teach the power of prayer and how to unite prayer with single-pointed intention.

🐚 Group Healing Techniques utilize the expansive power of the collective to effect healing through chanting, sounding, and laying on of hands.

🐚 Meditation and Pranayama introduce a voyage into the mind and breath leading to an understanding of both ordinary and extraordinary states. Meditation and Pranayama are disciplines that support your practice as a healer.

🐚 Perspectives in Multidimensional Reality describes the personal relationship to Divine Intelligence. You will discover how you are a co-creator with Spirit and begin to understand your immense inner resources. You will be introduced to a philosophy of liberation that connects you with your abundant and generous nature.

🐚 Ancestral Healing Practices explore ritual, ceremony, and journeying to understand the passageway to Spirit, healing, and alternative ways of knowing.

🐚Sadhana is a daily spiritual practice. We will explore the benefits of a daily practice and how that practice leads to liberation.

🐚 Developmental Psychology is the study of personality from birth to death and how humans relate, love, and work in each of these stages. Several models are utilized including Object Relations Theory, the Parts of Self, the Core Conflict model from Core Energetics, Chakra energy systems, and Ancestral Medicine Wheel teachings from around the world.

🐚 Diagnosis and Treatment — utilizing Transgenerational, Eastern, and Western clinical modalities to hold the delicate balance of our suffering without pathologizing the human experience.

🐚 Dream Interpretation includes Jungian and Gestalt techniques and the work of Arnold Mindell.

🐚 Gestalt Psychology is about being in the here and now and taking responsibility for one's feelings and actions. Through this, you will learn to understand emotional processes.

🐚 Body-oriented Psychology works with blocked, repressed energy. The goal is to free the individual to live a fully embodied and conscious life. You will learn how to identify blocking patterns in the body and apply techniques developed to help release these blocks thus allowing the individual full access to and energetic expression of the sexual and social self.

🐚 Skillful Means include an ability to create a compassionate holding environment, to make skillful interventions, to manage boundary issues, and much more.

🐚 Contemporary Methods of Hypnosis for building a deep rapport with others through a variety of methods and for helping them mobilize their inherent resources. This helps to promote a deep understanding of other people's belief systems and how those beliefs affect their actions. You will learn how to help others to transform negative experiences in a non-threatening and useful way.

🐚 Journeying to enter alternate realities, using drumming, rattling, and power objects, in order to obtain information, find guides, and meet power animals.

🐚 Intuitive States are one mode of relating to the web of connectedness that is a vital, though often unexplored aspect, of our being. It is both ordinary and sacred — ordinary magic — that opens the way to guidance, supports resourcefulness and in its skillful practice awakens an awareness that nourishes wisdom. Intuition informs us about our inner dynamics: relationship issues, health, work, and, at the deepest level may provide us with a connection to our soul's pattern. It is a skill that can be taught so that its natural presence evolves.

🐚 Core Energetic Exercises are powerful techniques for moving energy and emotional release.

🐚 Healing Touch is learning to identify and work with the body's auric fields and energy currents to bring the body into balance and health.

🐚 Sound Healing uses the human voice, musical instruments, nature sounds, and more as tools for healing.

🐚 Ancestral Energy Work introduces ways of working with the luminous body including illumination, soul retrieval, and death rites.

🐚 Intuitive Gestalt Energy Work is an energetic approach to Gestalt Therapy. All healing takes place in the context of life energy. Using this Universal Source, one can directly potentiate deep therapeutic work by creating a healing chrysalis between therapist and client where sensory, emotional, and energetic experiences can be accessed and healed within our core.

🐚 Spiritual, Folk, and Clinical Herbal Systems of Wellness — An introduction to Traditional Chinese Medicine, Ayurveda, African herbalism, Native American, Modern American, and European herbal remedies. An overview of alternative medicine wheels and treatments to support mental, physical, and spiritual health for individuals and families. Discussions of how to merge this rooted wisdom with the modern science of healing and how to dismantle the harmful aspects of colonized systems of wellness.

🐚 Relationship Healing focuses on the comingling of both Eastern and Western practices in relationship dynamics including the profound relationship we have with self. This coursework explores parts work, narrative theory, mindfulness, attachment theory, and stoicism.

🐚 Vedic Yogic consciousness and its applications for personal and community healing and evolution.

🐚 Sacred Healing Arts — how art, music, and dance have their place in the collective consciousness and personal healing journey.

🐚 The Rise of Psychotropic Medications — discussions on the benefits and contextual applications of organic and inorganic consciousness-expanding medicines that your clients may be exploring. You will become grounded with insightful information to be used to support the integration needs of people experiencing cathartic life transformations.

🐚 Mysticism, Ancestral Reverance, and Mediumship — mythic and alternative perspectives that explore our connection to spirit and nature. Channeling benevolent beings on the other side of the veil for personal and professional guidance and collective planetary healing support.

🐚 Womb Awakening Feminine Consciousness — an integrative experience for all people of resurrection, reclamation, and sovereign creative power as a path to support life and trauma healing.

🐚 Therapeutic Hold — Learn to cultivate a sense of safety, trust, empathy, and support between you and the client. A strong therapeutic hold requires active engagement and responsiveness from the therapist to the client's needs and concerns. It is crucial for effective therapy as it creates an environment where the client feels understood, accepted, and free to explore their thoughts and emotions.

🐚Astrology — Exploring the ancient art of interpreting celestial influences on human affairs. This tool can help one to discover the inherent wisdom and strength that they came in with and can use to navigate life their life.

🐚 Beyond the Norms: Crafting Your Unique Psychospiritual Counseling Practice — Learn skills to navigate entrepreneurial essentials, embrace technology for seamless communication, and adopt conscious business practices.

🐚 Emergent Theories and Practices — Helix continues to explore and expand its curriculum to meet the psychospiritual healing needs of our community and the earth with the best tools and practices being successfully implemented in the world. As our faculty and community expand, the wisdom of our ancient ancestors becomes an integral part of the tools that Helix practitioners utilize in their services.