Become the guide this world is asking for.

The Wild Alchemy apprenticeship

A yearlong apprenticeship in soul restoration — for those called to guide others through spiritual transformation.

ENROLLMENT CLOSES JUNE 1
Next round 2028.

Enrollment is currently closed.
Join the waitlist for the next cohort.

While you wait: Rewilding the Spirit is the prerequisite for this advanced training. Learn more here.

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    An Invitation

    The Wild Alchemy Apprenticeship is a yearlong online training in soul-centered healing, spiritual leadership, and the art of transformation.

    It weaves ecological wisdom, alchemy, imaginal practice, and ethics into a grounded methodology that supports both your personal journey and your capacity to guide others.

    You will learn the art of soul restoration: a unique methodology that weaves spiritual coaching with frequency medicine and guided imaginal practice.

    The result of this work is soul coherence. The ability to embody, experience, and live out your soul’s blueprint for this lifetime. Inner freedom, creative capacity, and heartfelt meaning and joy naturally arise.

    No matter what type of spiritual or healing practice you offer, this program will make your work in the world more effective, more sustainable, and more aligned with your own soul’s gifts.

    By the end of this program: You will be equipped to offer client sessions with confidence and clarity. And you will have the skills to guide others through trance states and journeys that seamlessly bridge energy medicine, imaginal transformation, and the alchemy of change—all in service to soul-level coherence.

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    There are four primary aims of this program:

    1. To learn soul-centered spiritual tools—including trance, ritual, energy medicine, animist healing, and intuitive practices—to support sacred transformation for clients and communities.

    2. To help you hold exquisitely safe and ethical space, so you can continually empower your clients, navigate resistance, create both short and long-term healing containers, and coach skillfully.

    3. To understand your unique medicine, gifts, and way of working, so you can engage in this sacred work in sustainable, nourishing, and soul-aligned ways.

    4. To give you foundational skills in business and spiritual leadership so you can begin sharing your offerings with confidence.

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    This is an emerging path to transformation.

    We aren't healing what's wrong — we're building bridges to where we want to be. By attuning to the frequency of what we wish to create, we draw it to us. When we embody our divine blueprint, our aligned life naturally unfolds. We step into the field of our collective metamorphosis as true spiritual guides, creators, and leaders.

    Does any of this sound familiar?

    You love the Earth — yet something still feels just out of reach.

    This program brings animism out of the abstract and into the embodied.

    You already offer healing work, but you feel underprepared when deeper or more complex challenges arise.

    This program gives you the foundational human and energetic skills to meet whatever arises.

    You feel called to spiritual leadership but something keeps stopping you from showing up fully.

    This program helps you discover and share your authentic soul gifts — and gives you the skills to work with the resistance and fear that come up along the way.

    You've been burned by spiritual communities — had your trust broken at this most intimate level.

    This program is built around ethics, boundaries, spiritual sovereignty, and transparency. You’ll be held in safety and learn to hold safe spaces for others.

    You’ve had the highs — the spiritual insights, sacred ceremonies, peak experiences — but their effects didn’t last.

    This program helps you integrate spiritual wisdom into the human experience.

    You are overstuffed with knowledge and techniques — but struggle to put everything into a cohesive whole.

    This program gives you need is integration, real practice, and personal mentorship so you can finally create something meaningful, all within a small cohort with direct access to Juniper.

    You sense a call deepening in you — a yes to something you can't quite name.

    Trust this. You are in the right place.

    become the rare practitioner who can hold the human & the mystery

    Let’s be honest: It’s actually quite rare to be deeply skilled in both spiritual healing and human healing. 

    (I think this is why coaching, wellness, and general transformational industries can have such problematic reputations.) 

    No matter how gifted you are at spiritual techniques — energy healing, shamanic methodologies, Akashic record reading, intuitive guidance — if you don’t have “human” skills, your clients will struggle with actual integration and transformation.

    And no matter how skillful you are as a coach or therapist, if you aren’t able to facilitate spiritual and energetic transformation, your clients will never feel fully seen or nourished at the soul level.

    But when you become skilled in both…

    you become the rare practitioner who can hold the human and the mystery.

    You guide your clients into cosmic states of consciousness and back into their bodies where their insights root and grow. 

    You create coherence of mind, body, energy, and soul — and your clients will feel the unshakable truth of their own gifts awakening.

    Now imagine moving through your own life with these same qualities. 

    Embodied, present, and connected to your true self. You are a clear vessel, capable of alchemizing whatever arises — transforming the densest material into spiritual light.

    This Program IS For You If...

    You're an existing practitioner—a coach, therapist, healer, teacher, or guide—and you want to deepen your capacity to work at the soul level. You're skilled in what you do, but you sense there's a missing layer of depth, a framework that would make everything click.

    You're a serious beginner who knows this is your path. You're choosing this work as a foundational practice from which you'll build your offerings. You're willing to learn slowly, practice consistently, and show up even when it's uncomfortable.

    You understand that spiritual power, ecology, and creativity are inseparable. You want to work in a way that honors the living world, not as a performance but as a real, authentic relationship.

    You're done with spiritual frameworks that center gurus, bypass reality, or keep you in endless loops of self-improvement. You want freedom, empowerment, and sovereignty within your own spiritual path.

    You want ethical training. You understand that this work involves power, projection, and vulnerability, and you want to learn how to navigate this with integrity.

    You crave intimate mentorship from someone who has been doing this work for over a decade—not pre-recorded videos and a Facebook group with 200 other students.

    You understand this is both a complete professional training and a foundational one. Everything here unfolds in a lifetime of learning. (The more “advanced” you are, you the more you see the truth in this.)

    You are ready to stop consuming spiritual content and to become a conscious creator of your own spiritual unfolding.

    Who this is for?

    This Program IS Not For You If...

    You're still working through heavy trauma. This training asks you to take responsibility for your gifts and show up in service. If you're still in survival mode or need intensive therapeutic support, that work comes before a program like this (You can come back when you’re ready!).

    You're a total beginner when it comes to the woo. You should already have a personal spiritual practice, some experience with meditation or inner work, and a basic understanding of energy, ritual, and consciousness. If you're just starting to explore spirituality, this will be too much too fast.

    This is not for you if you need constant reassurance or hand-holding. I hold this container with care, but I don't rescue or parent my students. You need to be able to take feedback, show up consistently, and do your own inner work between sessions. (Psst: If a teacher says they are always available, watch out for the narcissistic control to come.)

    You're looking for personal healing only. Yes, you'll do deep personal work (you can't guide others through what you haven't faced yourself), but the purpose is to train you as a practitioner in service of our collective. Spiritual maturity and readiness are essential.

    This is not a training in core shamanism, energy medicine, or psychic development. This work integrates those elements within a much broader, more grounded framework that includes coaching skill, ethical practice, intellectual rigor, and ecological wisdom.

    This is not dogmatic or lineage-bound. If you're looking for a guru, a specific tradition, or someone to tell you exactly what to believe and how to practice, this isn't it. I teach you how to think, not what to think.

    If you’re seeing yourself here, apply now:

    Apply Now

    The Wild Alchemy apprenticeship is a Multidisciplinary approach to Spiritual transformation that combines:

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    Alchemical
    Coaching

    Understand each stage of the transformation arc — guide skillfully rather than pushing toward an outcome before the ground is ready.

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    Imaginal
    Practice

    Facilitate guided journeys and symbolic work that move stuck energy in ways that talk-based approaches often can't reach.

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    Ecological
    Wisdom

    Ground your work in natural cycles and our wild animal bodies, supported by the spirits of the natural world.

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    Spiritual
    Leadership

    Develop the capacity to hold complexity and creative vision without bypassing, rescuing, or losing your ground.

    Your guide

    Welcome! I’m Juniper Stokes.

    I'm a ritualist, soul-healer, and teacher of animism and alchemy. And I have over twenty years experience guiding others back to the heart of who they are and why they’re here.

    I've spent the last decade specifically refining how to work with soul restoration through an alchemical and ecological lens—in ways that are grounded, ethical, and rooted in spiritual and intellectual rigor.

    My primary influences in creating this formation include my work with: Jessika Siorai and her mentorship in Taoist alchemy; Jamie Wheal’s trainings in flow states, leadership, and navigating the polycrisis; Joanna Lindenbaum’s mentorship in depth coaching, group facilitation, and ethics; Robert Falconer and his mentorship in IFS for unattached burdens; over two decades intensive spiritual trainings; and my lifelong mythic and mystic relationship with the animated nature of the earth and cosmos.

    I’m here to support you no matter what traditions you come from or are drawn to. You are the expert of your own spiritual path. I believe that diversity is a gift to any circle and welcome those from all walks of life to join my communities.

    Integrity and service are at the heart of my offerings…as is joy! This is serious work and we don’t shy from shadow, but we do laugh our way through.

    Learn more.

    I believe re-ensoulment — at the individual level, the community level, the planetary level — is not a luxury. It is the work of these times. And I believe it begins with each of us becoming more fully, freely, and unapologetically ourselves.

    • "If you want to learn from a gifted person who is deeply committed to her practice, Juniper Stokes is an excellent choice. What struck me most, beyond her depth of wisdom and knowledge, is that she sustains an effortless capacity to empower. It is obvious that she believes we all have something wild and wise within us. Juniper creates a space to nourish this inherent capacity for each person.”

      —Cit Ananda, Energy Medicine Practitioner, Poet

    • “Juniper is such an incredible teacher. A truly beautiful, spirit who fully embraces her divinity in a deeply authentic way. Juniper's perspective is rich with experience of all things ethereal. She teaches from a place of deep respect for our great Mother Earth. I have so much gratitude for all that she has learned in order to cultivate her container of wisdom to bring benefit to us all.”

      — Kelli W., Intuitive Healing Guide

    • “I learned so much — and I mean truly learned — that has already helped me in my own inner work and will significantly empower the work I do to help others. You are a very gifted teacher and guide, truly a wisdom carrier who speaks to heart and mind.”

      —Hank W., Blue Heron Rising

    • Juniper is a true healer, seer, and knower of truth. I've been blessed to work with her on several occasions, and I can testify that she is the real deal. I've experienced many layers of healing and self revelation from her work. I believe she will be one of the great teachers and healers of our time.

      Lisa G., Spiritual Medium

    • Juniper is a gifted healer, teacher, and guide who skillfully weaves together an ethereal fabric of sight, wisdom, creativity, and compassion then wraps it around her clients with care and grace. I have found her guidance to be informative, transformative, and superlative. I recommend here completely.

      Heather Porter, Animisma

    • Working with Juniper is such a pleasure! Juniper's gifts run deep and wide, spilling into every space of a session with her. Her way of holding me in complete compassion and tenderness while maintaining powerful connections to the seen and unseen is tremendously healing. The work we have done together has allowed me to deepen into my path and my medicine in this lifetime. I am so grateful for the gifts she has given me through her special alchemy in this realm and in others—they have been unexpectedly potent blessings on my way.

      Katie P., Shamanic Healer and Wilderness Guide

    • I've had several coaching sessions under Juniper's care and guidance during a difficult unexpected transition in life. Juniper has a beautiful ability to help soothe and ground with her calming voice and caring nature. Her years of experience in accessing her own inner knowing, as well as trusting guidance came through with very pertinent questions on the topics explored, leading to next steps in my inner growth and feelings of relief. I would trust Juniper with helping to guide any of my loved ones as I know they would be handled with the utmost care. If you feel called to work with Juniper, I highly recommend her coaching services.

      Brie Larson, Grief Counselor & Life Coach

    • Being coached by Juniper is equivalent to being in the presence of a beautiful force of nature. She is a remarkable healer, guide and teacher with an incredibly grounding energy and a well of wisdom. Intuition and penetrating insight wrapped in a loving presence and deep compassion. I had the honor to be in her sphere during a challenging and stressful time, where even in the lowest moments she could always bring me back to see the path of least resistance and to resource from my power through her profound guidance.

      Agnes Udoh, Integrative Coach

    The Pillars of Our Temple

    This program trains you simultaneously as a spiritual coach — working through language, inquiry, and the alchemical framework — and as an energy healer working directly with the field, the body, and the imaginal realm.

    These two disciplines are usually taught separately; here they are brought together. Because you need skill in both to be an effective healer and guide at the soul level.

    And this program roots everything in animist and ecological consciousness. There is no transcendence that bypasses our bodies. Only threads of love that weave us into a web of wholeness with all of life.

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    Pillar 1: Working with the human

    • Deep listening, reflection, and transformational questioning

    • Understanding resistance and how to navigate it skillfully

    • Working with limiting beliefs, survival patterns, and false personas

    • Navigating projection and biases — from clients and within yourself

    • Creating ethical, empowering containers for short- and long-term work

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    Pillar 2: Soul-Level Healing

    • Soul fragmentation and restoration

    • Energetic cords, entanglements, and clearing

    • Discerning and clearing foreign energies and frequencies

    • Working with the chakra system and auric field in practical, applied ways

    • Plants, flower essences, crystals, and the elements as healing allies

    • The energetic mapping of your soul blueprint

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    Pillar 3: Working with spirit and the imaginal

    • Trance facilitation and shamanic journeying — with and for clients

    • Discerning true intuition from ego, fear, and inherited stories

    • Working with past lives, ancestral lines, vows, and soul-level mapping

    • Creating sacred rituals for transformation 

    • Partnering with the spirit world reciprocally and ethically

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    Pillar 4: Building your practice

    • Creating and structuring client offerings and healing containers

    • Knowing your scope of practice, referrals, and ethical boundaries

    • Understanding your unique medicine and how it wants to be shared

    • Talking about what you do in a way that resonates with the clients you can help the most

    • The foundations of a sustainable, soul-aligned practice

    Kind words…

    “Juniper is the BEST!! I can't say enough about Juniper's teaching style. She teaches in a perfectly paced and structured way that aligns all intro teaching elements together in perfect format for both beginners and those more experienced.

    I truly admired her gentle boundary setting in each class as to keep things moving so not to go down too many rabbit holes :) Previous teachers I have worked with unfortunately were not great with this and many trainings turned into what felt like a group therapy session focusing on one or two people's journeys or questions not allowing for us to get deeper into topics being covered.

    She not only teaches the history behind different spiritual practices and styles but covers very important topics as well, such as ethics as a practitioner. She is such a lovely, kind, wise, passionate, and intelligent teacher and healer and I feel more than grateful to have connected with her on my healing path.

    I have been searching for a teacher just like Juniper for years and I am SO happy, I was divinely lead to her. I cannot recommend her enough as a healer and teacher!

    —Stacey Downing, Licensed Psychotherapist/MFT, Bend, OR

    What Soul Restoration Means for you and your clients

    Soul restoration is the alchemical process of coming into full coherence with all of yourself.

    This is the return to the fullness of your original life blueprint — your birthright to experience, create, serve, and love in the specific ways you came here to do.

    Obstacles don’t vanish, but they stop feeling so threatening. Instead, you touch upon your innate resilience to hold joys and sorrows with an embodied presence rooted in love and meaning.

    Graduates of this program work in many different ways — as spiritual coaches, energy healers, shamanic practitioners, and guides who weave these threads into their existing work as therapists, teachers, or bodyworkers.

    What they share is the ability to hold a client through a complete arc of transformation: from the first fragmented glimpse of what wants to heal, through the clearing, all the way into the embodied experience of their own restored wholeness and creative essence.

    Some build private practices. Some deepen into their existing work. Some offer group containers, ceremonies, or retreats. The form will be yours. The methodology is what we build together.

    The Soul Restoration Journey

    The program follows a carefully sequenced arc inspired by the spirals and cycles of the natural world:

    We root into the Earth.

    You cultivate an animist consciousness and learn to connect with the living field of the land where you are, attune to natural cycles, and let the Earth — and the spirits of nature — become allies for everything that follows.

    We are guided by alchemy.

    But we rewild alchemy in this program, tying the alchemical cycles of transformation back to the earth and our animal bodies again and again. We become both the alchemist and the alembic — the catalyst and vessel for change.

    We clear what’s in the way.

    We look at what is blocking soul coherence at multiple levels of being. You will learn powerful techniques for identifying and releasing all types of energies and entanglements — the things that are yours and the things that were passed down from family, culture, and collective energies. From this lifetime and beyond.

    We restore and vision.

    As the blocks are healed, more of your divine blueprint comes online. The work shifts from clearing to co-creation — visioning from a new place, discovering what your soul actually came here to do, and learning to hold this tender, sacred space for others.

    We meet chaos with creativity.

    This is where the program's deepest purpose comes into focus. Creativity is the antidote to chaos. This is a literal alchemical truth. Entropy is the raw material; we take it and organize it into something beautiful.

    Give Yourself a Year of…

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    Plant Support

    Anointing ceremonies
    Making flower essences
    The spiritual dimension of plants
    Plants as healing allies

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    Spiritual Cultivation

    Meditation and daily practice
    Energy medicine
    Cosmological exploration
    Spiritual sovereignty

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    Nature Connection

    Tune into celestial cycles
    Deepen into place
    Reciprocity & relationship
    Elemental magic

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    Alchemy & Embodiment

    Holistic wellness
    Body as alembic and vessel
    Alchemy as transformation
    The three elixir fields

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    Being of
    Service

    Your unique medicine
    Navigate times of change
    Integrity, ethics, and power
    Deepen work with clients 

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    Wild
    Worth

    Remember your true self
    Freedom from old patterns
    Radical self care
    Creative power & prosperity

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    Creating
    Community

    Live calls with Juniper
    Deep dive group practice sessions
    Online discussion forum
    Small group and partner work
    Live and online ceremonies and rituals

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    A woman crouching in a grassy field by a pond, surrounded by mountains and a forest under a cloudy sky.
    Colorful autumn harvest display on a patterned blanket with pumpkins, corn, apples, and flowers.
    A group of people standing outdoors in a garden area, with trees and a bamboo fence in the background. They are casually dressed, some wearing hats and holding items, standing on grass with stone steps.
    Outdoor gathering in a backyard with people sitting in a circle on the grass, red umbrellas in the background, trees and a house visible.
    Three people standing outside, playing drums near a fire pit in a grassy area surrounded by trees.
    Person in a forest with sunlight filtering through trees, surrounded by red and orange wildflowers.
    Altar setup with a black panther statue, candles, Egyptian figurines, crystals, and decorative panels in a mystical theme.

    The Mentorship That Makes This Different

    Here's what most programs won't tell you: The container matters as much as the curriculum.

    This is a small, intimate cohort. You're not one of 100 students watching pre-recorded videos. You're in a living circle where I know your name and can provide support for your own becoming.

    You get direct access to me through:

    • Live lessons & community calls with personal feedback

    • Practice intensives where we refine your skills together

    • A private online community where I'm present and responsive

    This level of mentorship is only available to apprentices in this program. It's not something I offer elsewhere, and this value alone exceeds the cost of the entire program.

    "I learned so much that has already helped me in my own inner work and will significantly empower the work I do to help others. You are a truly gifted teacher — a wisdom carrier who speaks to heart and mind."

    — Hank W., Blue Heron Rising

    “Juniper is an amazing teacher and facilitator. She has a deep connection with all of life, but her knowledge of and connection with non-ordinary reality are obviously a fundamental part of her nature and of primary importance to her. She embodies everything she teaches, and just being in her presence is healing.”

    —Kathy Frank, All Species Reiki Practitioner, WA

    Prerequisites

    This program is open to those who have completed Rewilding the Spirit. Exceptions may be made for qualified applicants. Reach out with questions: info@alchemessence.com.

    Enrollment is currently closed.
    Join the waitlist for the next cohort.

    While you wait: Rewilding the Spirit is the prerequisite for this advanced training. Learn more here.