In Welcome to spiritual alchemy, the art and science of transformation. I am Mariah Beretta, a quick introduction. Go ahead and grab a pen and a piece of paper when you take this. This class is based off of my studies and my experience and everything that is in here I have experienced firsthand and or studied thoroughly, either under someone or self study. These are bits and pieces of information that I've put together for this class to help you move forward on a spiritual path with more knowledge of energy dynamics because that's what we're dealing with. When we're dealing with spirituality.

We're dealing with energy dynamics, and healing through energy and vibration and frequency. Also self knowledge And self healing. So So a little bit about me. I am a Reiki Master Teacher and initiate of shamanism and a sound healer. I also was certified in hatha yoga in 2010. I've been a fine artists I still am a fine artist, I sell paint, fashion designer, a turntablist dancer, a landscape architect, a gymnast, a gymnastics coach and an event producer.

I mastered the art of transformation through emotional creative expression through art music, in fashion, which led me into more direct energy healing. My artistic work was really about bringing up subconscious issues that I had within myself and I didn't know I was doing that at the time through music and fashion and art. It was a way for me to bring these deeper seeded thoughts and beliefs and emotions to the surface and process them, to look at them and to heal from them. And at some point in the journey, I realized I needed to understand exactly what I was doing. And a lot of the things I'm teaching in this class, I've always known intuitively, but I didn't understand them intellectually. So this is this writing this class.

And studying all this self helps me to align my head and my heart, my intuition and my logic. And so that's really what this class is about is helping you to align those two things because many times they feel like two very different belief systems. And so when you're going back and forth from your logical mind to your intuition in their battle, It's kind of like feminine and masculine sides. Also, it's hard to align and move forward when you're battling internally with yourself. So hopefully this class helps you to align those concepts and thoughts not only intuitively, but rationally also. So I mastered the art of transformation through expressive creativity with music, art, fashion and movement.

And I followed my greatest path leading into more direct energy healing. I've been studying the art of transformation and science of spirituality for close to 20 years. I'm not a huge believer in dogma, I don't blindly believe anything. So anything that I learned or was taught, I had to try it out for myself and CFA aligned, if it worked. And if it had not only spiritual energetic benefits, but also physical benefits, everything I'm teaching in this class, I have done myself in a worked for me. So through trial and error experimentation, study and practice, I put the following information together in a way that was coherent and systematic and that makes both intuitive and logical sense.

As with all spiritual guidance, you need to use your discernment and filter all information through your highest faculties to discern the truth for you. As you will learn in this class, truth is a matter of perception, and we are all individual authentic and capable of creating our own reality that aligns with our belief systems. Use this information as a guide to your truth not as the truth. As with any information you ever get. You need to make sure it aligns with your truth. So what is spiritual alchemy?

Spiritual alchemy is the process of transmuting spiritual energies. A master Alchemist is capable of creating self initiated information. Magic and is highly educated in the science of transformation. It is each individual's responsibility to bring about their own transformation, and to embody that transformation completely. alchemy increases your ability to relate self knowledge to experiences so that you are able to regenerate and change yourself. And by changing yourself, you change the world.

So we're going to begin with the hora alignment meditation. And this will just help you fully connect from source energy to Gaia, which helps the energy flow through it should open up your mind and your heart get you in a coherent state. So energy is flowing so the information can flow smoothly. So what you're going to do is place your right hand right above your heart and your left hand below your belly button. Take a deep breath in and exhale three times. Now visualize the cord growing out of the crown of your head, extending out to the infinite source of creation.

Feel it connected there. See, feel into it. Tap cord of light, connecting you to source. Bring your consciousness back into your body and visualize the cord growing out of your tailbone extending to the core of the Earth. Feel visualize into it. That cord of energy moving through the layers of the earth until it gets to the center of the earth.

Routed there and ground it. Once you do that, feel the connection with Earth within your body. Now bring your consciousness back into your body. Feel the energy connecting between your hands. Focus on this energy becoming stronger and just sit with it. Take a deep breath in and when you're ready, open your eyes.