The 5 Elements of Wellness 
5 Series

In our 5 Elements of Wellness series, we spend one year exploring, discovering and uncovering your wellness 

through five deep-dive, immersive, interactive 2.5 day weekend intensives.   

 

During the year, you will learn & apply the 5 elements

that ancient cultures ascribed to creating and maintaining health and wellness

to your own unique 1-in-4 Trillion Elemental Map*. 

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These 5 Elements are explored by season and through five levels of the body

from the skin to the DNA/Ancestral.  

 

Each 2.5 day session builds foundation for the next in the series.  

 

Each of the five in-person immersive sessions will thoroughly discuss the energetics, tools, methods,

elements, elementals and aspects of the seasonal elements and

their corresponding 5 Elements of Wellness element.  

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Each seasonal session will include guided instruction on application of these

multi-faceted and multi-dimensional aspects, 

suggestion and guidance on self-paced discovery between sessions,

and community support through your Jia Chen Lóng Dragon (Male Wood Green Dragon) cohort.

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The first crucial aspect to healing, wellness and health --

your Elemental Map.

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Each person is a combination of the 5 elements identified by the ancient Chinese -

Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal & Water.  

Not only are you composed of the same elements of carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen and so on as these elements but you also carry microcosmic characteristics of these macrocosmic elementals, ie. a 'fiery disposition', a 'stick up the ass' mentality, a 'go with the flow' personality.  

 

These elements are in certain percentages within you based on four factors and is how you interact with the world regardless of influence or impact.

These four factors are:

 

1. The 1-in-4 Trillion exact moment of your birth which creates an 'elemental map' that is expressly unique to you. 

2. Your parents elemental constitution at your conception.  

3. Nurture.  

4. Your Ancestral Impact.

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Through our time together, you will:

• Discover and uncover your unique 1-in-4 Trillion Elemental Map* (Series 1).

• Learn and create relationship with the 5 Elements of Chinese Medicine. 

• Access your 5 Elements of Wellness and balance them via your Elemental Map (Series 1-5).  

• Learn the role of Spirit, Spirituality and Shen Spirit in your wellness.

• Create relationship with personal spiritual gifts through guided support.

• Learn how, what and whom when working with any healing or spiritual tool.

• Be guided through the 5 levels of the body starting with exactly where you are.

• Learn the Yinside Out gentle circular progression

(which does not require proof nor perfection for value and worth determination).

• Let go of the yang dominant linear progressive path ​(that utilizes comparison pressure and goal obtainment as proof of personal value).  

• Be guided on how to find small hinges that swing open big doors to wellness.

• Reclaim your power and Sovereignty that was lost or traded resulting in imbalance or being unwell.

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The second crucial aspect to healing, wellness and health --

Sovereign Power of the Heart.

 

Three decades in alternative and allopathic medicine has made clear that the loss of power and feminine Sovereignty, traded through centuries for security and survival or stolen through personal or Ancestral trauma, has led to imbalance of the Heart resulting in illness, overall systemic imbalance and general lack of wellness

across the mind, body, emotion, energy and spirit.  

 

As you progress through the 5 Series, healing yourself, regaining balance, you will learn how to trust yourself again, calling back bits and pieces of yourself from the spaces and places you left yourself and your power in and ultimately,

will reclaim your Sovereign autonomy.

 

Throughout the year, you will work in the old ways of women in supportive community

while independently remembering and recalling how to work from your personal seat of sovereign grace

where bargaining and trading are replaced with calling and commanding everything you need as a rightful Sovereign well-woman in right relationship with herself who is 

Living Yinside Out, fiercely and fearlessly Wild & Wide Open, in full Feral Beauty. 

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If you feel called to be well, to discover who you truly are, to reclaim all that was lost or taken from you or to step fully into your Sovereign power as a woman, then I encourage you to

Show Up. Step In. Be Bold.

I look forward to helping you Live Yinside Out, Wild & Wide Open in Feral Beauty.

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In Dr. Cliff's continual commitment to your success, and in honor of her Daoist Wu Shamanic and Barefoot Doctor lineages, is including the following support aspects:

• A private WhatsApp group for ongoing discussion, guidance and support from your class cohort & direct access to Dr. Cliff.  

• 'Homework' between series to reestablish trust, create relationship with the 5EW and come into upright and right relationship with yourself. 

• Four private 1-hour 5EW coaching/mentoring sessions with Dr. Cliff to clarify, support and empower.  

       {Note: Not an acupuncture treatment.}

• Meet-up sessions between series to strengthen communal bonds, provide support, offer guidance and empower.

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Protections & Assurances

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Dr. Cliff staunchly believes in safety, security and protected space for all individuals.  

As such, various physical and spiritual protections will be placed at the session location.  

Sessions will be held at the Sacred Grove Retreat Center in Gold Hill, NC. 

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The 2024 Wood Dragon Cohort series is limited to 12 students in order to engage Daoist Shamanic Wu energetics.  

Please note that the 5 Elements of Wellness Series is a compounding series and

requires a commitment to the full year.  

If you have never received acupuncture nor been immersed Chinese Medicine,

please contact Dr. Cliff for a best-fit interview.  

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Please also note that this 5 Series focus is on singular healing of yourself.  

If you wish to more deeply understand how to work with others in their own 5 Elements of Wellness,

I will be offering a 5 Elements of Wellness Coaching Certification course in 2025.  

This 5 Elements of Wellness 5 Series is a prerequisite to the 5 Elements of Wellness (5EW) Coaching course.  

Please note on your registration form if you have an interest in future 5EW coaching.

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Tuition for the one-year comprehensive 5 Elements of Wellness 5 Series is $4128, which includes all materials for making your own Medicine Bag, handouts, Elemental Map ring stack and also includes dorm-style lodging and culinary medicine chef-designed food medicine meals.    

To secure your spot in the circle, a deposit of $1032 is required.  The remaining balance will be paid in monthly automated equal payments of $344 with payment in full by the Winter 2025 series.  

If you would prefer a different payment plan, please contact Dr. Cliff.  

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We understand the uncertainty of life.  

Please read our 3F Guarantee & Program Pause Information here.

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One full scholarship is available to those in indigenous, BIPOC, LBGTQIA,

and other marginalized communities who are unable to meet the financial investment. 

Please contact Dr. Cliff for full details and application.  

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In support of women and children, 1% of net revenue from the 5 Elements of Wellness 2024 Series will be donated in the name of the 2024 Cohort to a vetted charity or initiative as decided by the class.  

Areas of support are as follows:

Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)

Ending Human Trafficking Charities (especially children)

Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault

Trusts for Education of Marginalized Women for Future Business Ownership

Homeless Efforts

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Please note that Dr. Cliff will not be diagnosing nor treating you as part of this course.  

During the session intensives, she will be acting solely in a Teacher capacity in the old ways of Teacher/Student relationship.

If you are seeking Chinese Medicine or acupuncture care from Dr. Cliff, please schedule a New Patient Session here.

 

This 5 Series in no way gives you the training, power nor permission to diagnose nor treat.  

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{*Elemental Mapping percentages requires your exact time of birth.  If not possible, we have other methods and can determine your primary, secondary and tertiary elemental but will be unable to determine your exact percentages.*  Please place your exact birth time on your registration intake form.}