a 5-week e-course for 12-19 year olds
Emotional AlchemY
The Magic of Turning What You Feel Into Your Superpower
starting sat nov 7th, 2026
What if your emotions weren’t something to control, hide, or “get over”—but powerful information you could learn to understand and work with?
In Emotional Alchemy, we explore the fascinating connection between emotions, our brain, our body, and our personal energy. Through a fun, magic-and-alchemy-inspired approach, you’ll learn to recognize how emotions show up in the body, listen to the messages they may be carrying, and use practical tools to move toward greater healing, joy, and coherence.
We’ll explore how experiences, beliefs, social expectations, and other people’s opinions can shape what we feel—and how to recognize what is truly ours. Students will learn to meet difficult emotions with self-compassion rather than judgment, allowing hurt, fear, anger, or disappointment to become opportunities for understanding, healing, wisdom, and growth.
We’ll also discover how cultivating emotions such as gratitude, joy, curiosity, hope, and love can influence our choices, relationships, and the possibilities we notice around us. Your emotions aren’t your enemy. They’re ingredients. Learn how to work with them, and you can create something extraordinary.
course details
when
saturdays
nov 7 - dec 12, 2026
1pm PST | 4pm EST | 9pm UK
(60min)
where
zoom
Recordings are provided
cost
$55 / $111 / $222
Equitable Pricing;
Equitable Learning
course overview
week / module 1
The Alchemist Awakens: the Language of Emotion
Your emotions are messengers, not enemies.
We explore what emotions are, why we have them, and how they can show up in the brain, nervous system, body, and energy centers. You’ll learn to notice physical clues such as tightness, heat, heaviness, butterflies, expansion, contraction, or changes in breathing, and when an energy centre is blocked with emotion.
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Body-map exercise, “Where do I feel it?” experiment, emotional vocabulary, and beginning an Alchemist’s Journal.
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The Body Compass
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Before you can transform an emotion, you have to become curious about what it is telling you. This means “Being with” yourself in compassion. Holding space for the alchemy to begin.
week / module 2
Is This Mine? Decoding Your Emotional Programming
Not everything you think or feel tells you who you are.
We explore how family, culture, friends, social media, experiences, expectations, and repeated messages can create beliefs and emotional patterns. We learn to distinguish between “What happened → What I felt → What I believed it meant → What I chose to do”. This gives us tremendous agency without making our feelings wrong.
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“Whose voice is that?” exercise, belief detective activity, identifying emotional triggers and body signals.
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The Sovereignty Filter
Questions like: Is this true? Is this mine? Where did I learn it? Does this belief help me become who I want to be?
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You can listen to an emotion without letting it decide who you are.
week / module 3
The Secret Ingredient: Self-Compassion
Transformation begins with how you treat yourself.
You’ll learn what happens when you add a layer of shame or criticism to the difficult emotion you’re experiencing. Instead, we’ll learn to bring compassion to what hurts. I will introduce simple nervous-system/coherence practices: breathing, grounding, hand-to-heart, humming/toning, compassionate self-talk, movement, and noticing sensations without immediately trying to change them.
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Create a personalized Self-Compassion Potion—3–5 things they know help them return to themselves.
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The Compassion Elixir
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You don't have to fight yourself to change yourself.
week / module 4
The Transformation Chamber: Turning Emotion Into Wisdom
Feel it. Listen to it. Work with it. Choose what comes next.
This is where we actually practice Emotional Alchemy. We’ll take common experiences—rejection, embarrassment, anger, jealousy, disappointment, loneliness, fear, failure—and walk through the transformation process. The goal isn't to prescribe one meaning to every emotion, but to teach curiosity and coherence.
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Anger → What boundary might need attention?
Fear → What am I trying to protect?
Jealousy → aWhat might this show me that I desire?
Sadness → What mattered to me?
Embarrassment → What story am I telling myself about what happened?
Coherence: Once I have listened compassionately to the emotion, what state would I like to cultivate now?
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The Transformation Formula
Notice → Name → Feel → Listen → Compassion → Choose
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The emotion contains energy. You decide what you create with it.
week / module 5
The Master Alchemist: Creating From Coherence
Now that I understand my inner world, what do I want to create?
This is where everything comes together—and where you can bring in intention and manifestation in a grounded way. We explore how cultivating states such as gratitude, love, curiosity, courage, hope, excitement, peace, and joy can affect what we notice, how we relate to people, the choices we make, and the actions we’re willing to take. We explore brain/heart coherence here more fully.
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Coherence Meditation
Coherence Questions: Who do I want to become? How do I want to feel? What do I want to create? What choices support that version of me?
Emotional Alchemist's Code —create your own personal statements that you want to carry forward.
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The Coherence Compass
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Your power isn't in controlling everything you feel. Your power is learning how to work with what you feel—and choosing what you create from there.
your guide
Arla Markael
Arla Markael is an educator, coach, tone weaver, emotional alchemist and witness of the importance of human sovereignty, embodiment, secure relationship, and conscious choice. She brings 20+ years of experience in education, wellness, and human development, along with a deeply lived understanding of how inner authority is formed, challenged, and reclaimed.
Growing up immersed in nature, Arla developed an early sense of presence and connection to the body, which was lost due to trauma. Later, she navigated and ultimately left a highly legalistic cult, and both experiences shaped her commitment to helping people recognize conditioning, reclaim their inner voice, and work with their emotions to achieve brain coherence and inner peace..
Arla emphasizes holding one’s own sovereign inner space—learning how to be grounded, self-aware, and internally anchored so one can speak, choose, and be heard from a place of clarity and self-trust. Her teaching style is compassionate, practical, and empowering, offering teens (and adults) tools they can carry for life.
our equitable learning model
To make our courses accessible to as many children as possible, we offer an equitable pricing model with 3 options - please choose the one that feels most aligned for you.
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moon light
A supported tier that reflects the beautiful glow of community care.
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star light
A sustaining tier that helps keep our school’s light shining.
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Sun light
A supportive tier that illuminates the path for more Star Children.
While we use a membership portal to host our courses, these are all single payments.