In Our Element
Five Element + Flower Essence Training
Everything you touch, you change.
Everything you change, changes you.
The only lasting truth is change.
-Parable of the Sower, Octavia Butler
The Five Elements are a guide, and a system for organizing that we experience as the manifestation of a greater universal pattern. We find the signatures of Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal in nature, in our personal lives, and in our collective experience. When we come into alignment with these currents of change, we feel more alive, capable, vibrant, energized, and connected.
In other words, We are In Our Element.
Each of the five elements lives and breathes within us, showing up in different junction points and inviting us to step fully into our power. You are not any one element—you are all of the elements!
This course will take you on an embodied journey through Water, Wood, Fire, Earth, and Metal. Learn how to use the Five Elements to flow with change, embrace the unexpected, amplify your blessings, and answer your heart's calling.
In Our Element offers support and guidance as you:
Tap into art, music and nature for deeper self-awareness and soul serenity
Work with flower essences: safe, easily accessible, over-the-counter plant medicinals that support ease, joy and emotional well-being
Recognize and manage emotional stress patterns in yourself, friends and family- including feeling depressed, anxious, overwhelmed, heartbroken or stuck
Develop wellness rituals that awaken your physical, emotional, and spiritual potential
Practice mindfulness and meditation with acupressure, essential oils, and yoga protocols that fit easily into your busy schedule or clinical practice
Support your friends and family with tools to navigate change and transition, including special considerations for working with children
Experience a deep sense of community as we come together to heal, learn, grow, and teach one another
What students are saying…
“Lindsay’s teaching is soul medicine. She engages your ancestral knowing and rhythms, intellectual rigor, curiosity, and creativity to a course of study that is as healing for you as it is for the people you will touch because of it. I love being her classes and can’t recommend her work highly enough.”
— Mia Herndon, Licensed Acupcunturist
“Lindsay brings her skills as an educator and as a holistic practitioner together to build an environment where knowledge and growth are not just handed to you as information, but are created together as embodied and shared experiences. I highly recommend her offerings.”
— Sebene Selassie, Author of You Belong: A Call for Connection
“The training feels like a way better version of ‘Hogwarts’! It’s magical and it’s fun- I have learned so much about best practices and how to hold space for clients as a certified wellness professional. This medicine is so beautiful and deep, and reconnects us with nature. It’s been a wonderful experience.”
— Stephanie Wattley, 2021 certification graduate
Course Details
Pictured: Yang Water Meridian
In Our Element meets for 14 live virtual sessions via Zoom on bi-weekly Sundays, from 12-2pm EST/ 9am-11amPST. There is also a lively student discussion forum with weekly practice exercises.
This course meets Fall 2024- Summer 2025. Dates TBD
Required Books:
In Our Element: Using the Five Elements as Soul Medicine to Unleash your Personal Power by Lindsay Fauntleroy (Llewellyn 2022)
Alchemy of Inner Work by Lorie Eve Dechar and Benjamin Fox (Weiser Books 2021)
Flower Essence Repertory: A Comprehensive Guide to the Flower Essences researched by Dr. Edward Bach and the Flower Essence Society by Richard Katz and Patricia Kaminski
Also recommended:
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds by adrienne maree brown (AK Press 2017)
Kigo by Lorie Eve Dechar (Singing Dragon 2020)
Flower Essence Services Affirm-a-Flower Deck by Richard Katz and Patricia Kaminski
We are in this TOGETHER.
In Our Element portfolio projects take the form of embodied and experiential research, personal reflection, music art, and personal ritual. We learn from each other as we co-create a neo-ancient medicine for the soul.
Check out some of the work created by students as they explored how the Elements are manifesting in their personal experience. You’ll see that though ancient, the Five Elements are alive and well!
“Our changing moods, the creative and destructive forces within the human being, as well as our adaptability and sense of community are also reflected in nature”.
- The Loss of Human Connection to Nature: Revitalizing Selfhood and Meaning in Life through the Ideas of Rollo May
“The growth, maturation, and transformation of nature is an important teacher about the processes of spiritual transformation that we cannot see, but guide our spiritual progress in a similar fashion”. '
-Na’im Akbar, Know ThySelf
“Each of the elements is a real but also a symbolic expression of how the life force moves and manifests on our planet and in our psyches… their imagery and poetry begin to heal us at unconscious levels long before we have any conscious understanding of the theories themselves.”
-Lorie Eve Dechar, The Five Spirits