Important information

• Term 1 commences on Monday 11 February, with one week break from 21 to 30 March.
• All terms are 8 weeks in length.
• Classes are held at Earth Institute, Suite 1/20 Clarke St, Crows Nest, NSW 2065 Sydney unless otherwise indicated.
• All prices are inclusive of GST.
• For more information on subjects and how they fit into diplomas, certificates and other programs, see courses

Additional subjects and workshops will be added to these timetables. Please check them regularly for updates. If there is a workshop or topic you would like to see offered, please do not hesitate to give us a call. We value your input.

Alchemy is the art of working with the energies of change within oneself and life in order to evoke healing, transformation and evolution. It involves creating trust and a sense of spaciousness in order to surrender to spirit and the unknown, so as to open to expansion. This ongoing weekly program will enable participants to explore their conscious choices for life change at a personal level. Through alchemical (energetic and shamanic) practices students will be provided with opportunities to work intentionally with the evolutionary process of spirit in their lives. All Term 1 Diploma Subjects

Our first course introduces you to the stage (the houses) and the backdrop (the signs) of the birth chart. By the end of the workshop you’ll be able to demonstrate which houses are dominant in your horoscope and explain how that affects your life. You will be able to determine which Zodiac signs influence which areas of your life and come to understand why you act differently in different situations. You’ll also encounter some of the famous faces throughout history who worked with astrology.

Discover a new predictive tool – solar and lunar returns, and how they can enhance your understanding of future cycles. Our focus is on practical, real life interpretations so you learn how to prioritise different predictive techniques. This course will hone your forecasting and interpreting skills to a professional standard.

In this 2 day workshop student’s learn how to apply ecotherapy, shamanic and energetic healing practices to maintaining their own personal ground of sacred space. The participants are supported in extending and enhancing their process and learning from ecopsychology. Clinical skills are refined as participants work with each other. Specific divination, empowerment and healing work is conducted within the workshop. This is integrated through the use of mind-body counselling and then reviewed personally, professionally and ethically.

Experience the beauty, gifts, teaching, healing and guiding powers of the spirit of the earth in this nature based retreat. This subject supports your discover of your unique relationship with nature and the earth. Practical guidance and experiential activities are designed to foster an awareness of your own connection with living earth as a healing and guiding force in your life. The cost of this course includes all accommodation and catering. All Term 1 Diploma Subjects

Earth Kids is an inspirational one day workshop of fun, excitement and joy for kids aged 6-11years. It is a day where they get to dive into their own inner world of wonder and creativity, where their own potential gives rise to itself and shines. Earth Kids is extremely grounding for children, which is so vital in our fast-paced, modern world. It helps kids focus, improves self-esteem and real connection…with themselves, others, and their world. Much of the day is spent in nature, where they experientially learn to tap into their deeper knowing, their inner strengths, innate joy and reverence for life. This fun and magical day consists of visualisations, self-expression, active meditations, play acting, nature activities, dance, shamanic journey and much, much more!!!

Planting the seed, introduces meditation using simple but powerful practices that enable students to take their place in the established ground of meditation through the ages. Students will study clear techniques to enter, deepen and share meditation.

Explores teaching as a spiritual path. ‘Teaching by heart’ means that you will develop the skills to access your whole being as well as learned knowledge to become ethical and soulful leaders in the area of meditation. This term consists of three Sunday classes and one weekend retreat.

Since earliest times the elders of traditional communities would provide a sacred space for the stories of the past, present and future to be shared. Through the telling of these stories, and other rites of passage, boys would be initiated into the world of manhood, with a real understanding of what is means to be a man. In the absence of these ancient rituals, we need to find new ways to explore what it means to live consciously as a man in our world today.

Integral Man provides a space of respect and acceptance, where our personal and shared stories as men can be honoured and explored in relation to four powerful and enchanting masculine archetypes: King Warrior, Magician and Lover (one each term).

Women today need stories from spiritually mature women in our time and culture who are demonstrating the sacred in ways appropriate to today’s world. Integral Woman is an invitation and exploration into what it means to be fully alive, conscious and empowered so that we are free to embody our own unique creative expression and potential. Within this work is the opportunity to embrace personal transformation and healing through the old and new with sacred circle work, the medicine wheel, shared stories and our own unique connection with the archetypes. While each term can be taken as a stand-alone course, the evolution of the program each term and how they are connected will provide a meaningful journey of depth, challenge, reward and empowerment as part of the quest of what it is to be living in our fullness as women.

Mind body counselling incorporates the use of embodiment, intuition, imagery work and energetic awareness into the classical counselling framework.  This module introduces the basic theory of mind/body counselling and provides students with an opportunity to practice basic counselling and mind/body counselling methods and receive support. It provides an understanding of the philosophy, frameworks and practices of person centred and mind-body counselling at a foundational level. This subject includes a mentoring session. All Term 1 Diploma Subjects

To heal is to make whole. Coming into your wholeness is a process of self-discovery, release and renewal. Each moment of life is a fresh moment where you can intentionally begin to step into the sea change you wish to live. The 'Heart of Healing' is a unique workshop that gently yet powerfully immerses you into the wellspring and source of your life. You will learn to engage with the ebbs and flows, the challenges and opportunities that life presents you. This 'Sea Change for the Soul' experience brings you to the true shore line of your own existence and how you relate to what really matters to you. Now you can move forward in your life with real trust in the decisions that you make.  

A true sea change involves restoring the soul to its rightful place in our lives. This powerful and vast inner universe speaks through your current situations, body symptoms, dreams, and other experiences, including your interactions with others, nature and the world. The Vision Quest is a nature based adventure into the landscape and alchemy of your soul life. Discover your life purpose and vision with others and in solitude with nature as your teacher, healer and guide. Learn how to align with the elements and Spirit to empower a sea change for your soul through this three day initiatory rite of passage.

There is a secret about the breath that distinguishes whether the breath is being used for ‘surviving’ or for’ living’ and being really alive. Conscious breathing is completely different to automatic breathing and leads to working through unresolved past events through breath and body sensations alone. This workshop trains participants in the application of their breath to act freely and be at points of choice in daily life – instead of reacting and acting out survival modes. This course is level 1 of the Tantra and the Living Breath Training. Note: High gradient breathing practices so please eat 3 hours before each session or wait until a break.

The shamanic journey is a classical and cross cultural method of healing, empowerment and divination drawn from the traditional practices of medicine men and women. This program is a series of 6 shamanic journey experiences within a group context.  Processes and practices for the integration and application of these experiences to ones self and ones life with be provided.  This program is for those wishing to open to the support, wisdom and guidance of nature and spirit in their life journeys in a safe, progressive and enlivening way. The shamanic journey course is for those at the beginning as well as the more experienced journeyer.

The shamanic journey is a classical and cross cultural method of healing, empowerment and divination drawn from the traditional practices of medicine men and women. This program is a series of 6 shamanic journey experiences within a group context.  Processes and practices for the integration and application of these experiences to ones self and ones life with be provided.  This program is for those wishing to open to the support, wisdom and guidance of nature and spirit in their life journeys in a safe, progressive and enlivening way. The shamanic journey course is for those at the beginning as well as the more experienced journeyer.

Summer is a time of continued growth and the beginning of the year is often a time to reassess our life direction and goals.  In this first Sacred Space workshop of the year we will explore how what you would like to create in your life can be supported through your living environment.  We will then work with creative tools to energetically spring clean your home or apartment to enable you to create what you desire for this time of growth and change.  By the end of the workshop you will have an understanding of and ability to use simple tools to keep your environment clear and balanced so it supports you to live the life you desire.

This workshop addresses the artistry of creating safety, and the refinement of presence and intentionality for alignment of spirit. Through professional considerations, energetic and shamanic work participants will explore and establish a personal orientation toward the development and maintenance of a sacred healing space for clients. They will learn how to enable and sustain another person’s soul alignment to spirit and to observe and work with transpersonal and energetic experiences and state that present in and around the client and the field. The use of colour therapy will be introduced working with chakras, auric fields and intentional/sacred space of the client.

In this weekly subject, students will reflect on their personal sense of soulful and spiritual living, including preceding experiences and current aspirations. They will set intentions for how they wish to be more alive and present as a human being. They will then be supported in a soul-centred way with each other including working in an ongoing way with a peer to address any psychological and energetic issues and blocks. The module reviews clinical work that has been conducted from a mind-body counselling, shamanic and energetic prospective. It introduces crystal work as a specific practice in working with alignment and client defenses and blocks. This subject includes a mentoring session.