Tirzah Firestone
Journey through an immersive alchemical process to transmute the pain-body of your family lineage and become the center of an intergenerational healing axis — fully equipped to effectively heal old wounds and move forward in the life you’re meant to inhabit, one that is full of light and love.
Conventional wisdom tells us that we can only be a force for good in the world when we have our own house in order.
What if your “house” holds not just your personal challenges, but all those that have been passed down through your family lineage for generations?
We all embody a residue of pain from the trauma and hardships our ancestors endured and the choices they made, and those wounds affect how we walk through the world today.
Do you ever feel trapped in an entanglement of burdens that didn’t start with you?
As a current student in Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone’s course, Ancestral Wisdom for Walking the Path of the Holy Being, you’ve immersed yourself in the ancient teachings and powerful practices of both Judaism and Tibetan Buddhism — and dedicated yourself to walking a sacred, empowered path toward your most holy self and the illumination of others.
You now have an opportunity to go deeper into your ancestral healing work, to transform yourself and future generations, through a powerful alchemical process that will enable you to transmute the intergenerational suffering you’ve absorbed.. and finally put to rest the shadows that are playing out in your life today.
Join Rabbi Tirzah for an advanced 9-module journey of compassionate self-examination and excavation. You’ll address the core wounds in your family line, recognize how they’re affecting your psyche, extract yourself from them, and heal them through a unique, highly transformative process that weaves together mysticism, magic, and science.
She’ll gently guide you through the four stages of the alchemical process — as well as the seven principles of trauma healing — to raise the “bones” of your lineage and ultimately bless and bury them... transmuting the darkness they hold into light, goodness, and love.
Through Rabbi Tirzah’s teachings and the many exercises she’ll take you through — meditations, visualizations, rituals, journaling, and other integrative activities — you’ll be able to penetrate the central blockages and traumas of your family to honor, love, and release them... enabling your full radiant self to emerge.
Healing and love will flow freely from you so you can help liberate yourself, your family, and future generations, once and for all, from the intergenerational traumas that have besieged you. You’ll be left with the fortitude and the resilience you need to continue, unimpeded, to better the world.
The goal is to connect with the Prima Materia — the divine spark of your primal self and the sacred riddle of your existence — which we all carry at the root of our soul. It’s the primary Essence of creation, the union of all opposites, the hidden wholeness within... and, when uncovered and brought to the forefront of your being, it heals all imperfect bodies that it touches and serves as the clay with which you can mold a destiny of profound purpose and service.
You’ll be invited to work deeply with an ancestral family affliction, understand the roots of it, and use the power of alchemy to transmute that heavy “lead” into light.
With the help of your wise and well ancestors, you’ll be guided by Rabbi Tirzah to become a healing axis for your lineage, with the capacity to release your wounded ancestors from their unresolved suffering as you reduce challenges in your own life, the lives of your present family, and even those who will come after you.
Alchemy for Your Soul’s Evolution
Alchemy, the medieval forerunner of chemistry, is an art and philosophy based on the transformation of matter. In its physical form, it was used to convert base metals into gold.
Its process was adopted by Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung and used metaphorically for self-purification, individuation, and the deep work of soul-transformation — helping people carve out a path toward full integration and self-realization.
Through the , Rabbi Tirzah will usher you into the esoteric field of alchemy to do comprehensive, transformational healing work.
This work will help you — what the alchemists call the Philosopher's Stone— the mystical symbol for the .
is the heightened state you can achieve when you transmute negative burdens into usable, healing wisdom.
During this experiential course, you’ll:
- Dive deeply into the four stages of alchemy to transmute the shadow material and intergenerational suffering your family has carried... and finally put to rest the shadows that are playing out in your life so you can be a force for good in the world
- Become an axis of healing for your family — past, present, and future — and birth a new, unencumbered lineage
- Learn and practice the shared work of Kabbalists and alchemists
- Choose one ancestral family affliction to heal... once and for all
- Connect to the mercurial element within you called the Prima Materia — the divine stuff of your primal self — and receive powerful help to shape your destiny for good
- Visit the Ancestral Halls to call upon your wise and well Ancestors and Guardians who will assist you in the process of transformation and renewal
- Be guided in a variety of experiential activities to help you embody the transmission of Rabbi Tirzah’s wisdom, as you receive it from the depths of your psyche
- Penetrate and release the central blockages and traumas of your family so you can untangle yourself from the heaviness that doesn’t belong to you and allow your full radiant self to emerge
- Experience the seven principles of trauma healing
- Honor and bless your wounded ancestors and lay to rest the burdens they carried
- Uncover your soul’s birthright, your Philosopher’s Stone — the alchemical symbol for perfection, enlightenment, and inner peace
- Explore the Jungian archetypes that you embody to expand your consciousness and healing capacity
- And much more...
What You’ll Discover in These 9 Modules
In this 9-part transformational intensive, Rabbi Tirzah will guide you through a comprehensive alchemical healing process to release the wounds of your family lineage — and emerge luminous and equipped to effectively move forward in the life you’re meant to inhabit.
This course will feature step-by-step teachings and experiential practices with Rabbi Tirzah. Each session will build harmoniously upon the previous ones, so you’ll develop a complete holistic understanding of the practices, tools, and principles you’ll need to release the inherited wounds of your ancestors and emerge luminous and fully equipped to effectively move forward in the life you’re meant to inhabit.
Module 1 At the Boundary of Science & Magic
In this opening session you’ll start to explore alchemy and how depth psychology explains it as a metaphor for a healing process that leads to full integration and self-realization.
You’ll look at symbols and images known as archetypes — which reside in humanity’s shared universal psyche — and learn to understand the collective unconscious... universal patterns harbored in all of nature, animals, and the cosmos itself.
Rabbi Tirzah will begin to guide you through the cross-cultural, trans-gender archetypal patterns of the personality, all of which are the facets of the Philosopher’s Stone, which symbolizing the ultimate goal of the mystic path — likened to enlightenment, unity, and bringing heaven to earth. These archetypes will be central to your alchemical process.
You’ll start to recognize important archetypes within your own personality, such as Persona, your social mask… Ego, the hero within you seeking its place in the world… and Complex, the place of your original wounding — when you experienced a trauma that became one of your organizing principles.
You’ll also learn how the Prima Materia is akin to the mystical Hebrew letter Aleph, a magical essence that carries the power to unify opposites that create discord in the world and ill health in your body.
In this module, you’ll:
- Learn about history of alchemy as an art and esoteric science and philosophy
- Begin to think about thePrima Materia at the root of your soul and how it’s been molding your destiny
- Look at the meaning of the Philosopher’s Stone as the desired goal of the transformational path
- Explore the universal power of the collective unconscious
- Start to understand the workings of your own psyche as you learn various important archetypes within your own personality
- Experience a process in which Rabbi Tirzah guides you into the ancestral chambers, where you’ll call upon your wise and well ancestors and contact your lineage guardians — to receive their symbol of your Prima Materia... and their blessing
Module 2 Coming Through the Dark Night of the Soul
In this module, you’ll learn the basic tenets of alchemy, as Rabbi Tirzah provides vivid images that represent the discovering and living out of the true self. She’ll explain why this process of self-discovery is inexorably linked to tikkun olam — your contribution to redeeming the world.
You’ll learn the alchemical terms and images for the dark night of the soul — Nigredo, Mortificatio, and Putrificatio (black stage, death, and decay) — the first stage of alchemical transformation. Although this stage can be challenging, it’s necessary to go through to do the work of alchemical healing and transformation... and birth new life.
Rabbi Tirzah will introduce you to the alchemical vessel — the key alchemical instrument, which must be sealed for the magic of transformation to work. You’ll learn how it relates to Ego, health, boundaries, and relationship structure.
You’ll study alchemical images of the peacock, born of the death process, and the Phoenix, born of ashes. This is the blackening stage in the alchemical process, which rises and glows in beautiful hues of flame.
With the goal of bringing Prima Materia into actuality, you’ll examine the “core complex” of your being and that of your family, and understand it as a reflection of a rupture that occurred and is carried in your lineage.
You explore the archetypes at play within you and the world around you — Death and Rebirth, the vessel of the Ego (in both its ruptured and whole shapes), the Inner Partner, and the Wise Old Woman and Man within you.
And, you’ll learn about the archetype of the Wise Old Woman or Man, the realized self (or Tzaddik) within you, and how it can guide you to the ultimate goal of the Self — the integration of your potential as the integration of all sub-personalities and parts that lead you to experience the Philosopher’s Stone.
In this session, you’ll:
- Understand the alchemical terms for the dark night of the soul in terms of Jung’s psychological process of death before rebirth... and how this psycho-spiritual stage paves the way for renewal
- Explore the “core complex” of your being and that of your family
- Grasp how the dark night of the soul is the flip side of revelation, and a new dawn emerging
- Learn what the sealed vessel represents in your own development, and how ego containment and boundaries may or may not have been allowed in your family of origin
- Be guided through a meditation to experience Jung’s powerful teaching of the inner partner, called the Anima and Animus — the feminine and masculine energies within you
- Experience a ritual practice to enter the Ancestral Halls and seek help from the ancestors who know your family’s darkness — both wise and well and those who’ve been paralysed, wounded, and stuck in their soul’s evolution
Module 3 Alchemical Ritual Lab 1 — Raising the Bones
In this practicum, you’ll investigate the myth of Serach, the daughter of Asher, a young girl from the Hebrew lineage who’s gifted with prophetic powers. She’s called upon to find the bones of Joseph — hidden at the bottom of the Nile River — before the exodus of the people.
Rabbi Tirzah will guide you to find yourself in the story to understand the call of the ancient elder Joseph, who could see ahead that his descendants would lose their way, become enslaved, and one day be redeemed. Joseph entreats his children to carry his bones out of Egypt into the promised land — and so must you.
When you enter the alchemical laboratory, you’re invited to bring with you an actual object that serves as a symbol of your core wound or complex or that of your family. You’ll be asked to have your altar prepared with all the elements on it as well as ancestral photos.
In this process, you’ll use each of the elements to activate your symbolic representation. With the music of Serach, you’ll travel deep into the chambers of the ancestral halls and ask for the wounded and paralysed to make themselves known. There we perform an alchemical ritual to raise the bones and carry them forward through time.
In this ritual lab, you’ll
- Bring the old family bones — the wounded and unfinished lives of your ancestors — to the surface of your consciousness, for the sake your highest good and healing and that of your family
- Encounter the pain body that you and your family carry — the onus of your bloodline’s history
- Understand the trauma residue and painful programming that you and your family carry in a socio-historical context
- Realize that deep healing requires distance from the heat and inflammation of the trauma and wounding
Module 4 Marrying Your Inner Other
As you continue with the myth of the ancestral bones, which you must carry to the promised land, you’ll begin your study of the Philosopher’s Stone — the goal of alchemy and elixir of life.
You’ll explore the first three of the four stages of alchemy and their four corresponding archetypes.
You’ll review the alchemical stage of Nigredo (or blackening) from Module 2, which represents the experience of psychological death when things fall apart in our lives. In alchemists’ language this is the “lead” that must be charred and burnt into black ash.
This stage paves the way for renewal, found in the alchemical stage known as Albedo (or whitening) — the purification that happens when we marry or unite with our inner opposite. For male-identified people, it’s the feminine energies of the psyche, or Anima, and for female-identified people, the internal masculine energies, or Animus.
This inner marriage leads to the alchemical stage known as Citrinitas (or yellow brightening) — the stage of psychological development when you tap into your wise and well ancestors and cultivate relationships with them. This, in turn, signals a deepening of your soul and access to your own inner wells of wisdom.
In this session, you’ll:
- Study the first 3 of the 4 stages of alchemy and the facets of your personality that correspond to them. .. as a metaphor for the healing journey you’re on
- Be guided through a meditation to uncover and experience Jung’s powerful teachings about the archetype of the Wise Old Woman or Man — the realized self (or Tzaddik) within you
- Understand the archetype of the Self — the integration of your potential that comes with the integration of all your sub-personalities and parts
- Understand the alchemist term “mystical marriage,” and the state of hermaphrodite — inclusively male and female, integrating both
- Be able to apply this wisdom to the current broadening of sexual orientations and gender identities
- Experience a practice, with all your allies and guardians present, to call on the wounded souls in your lineage and begin the work of healing — transmuting the pain body and laying down the burden of the family onus, preparing to bury it in the coming week
Module 5 The Glistening Warmth of a Whole Self
The great alchemists believed that we can’t materially turn lead into light (gold) if our being isn’t in line with the process. No change can happen in the laboratory if it doesn’t happen within the alchemists themselves.
In this session, you’ll work with the next principle of alchemical healing — healing our human tendency to fear, blame, and dehumanize the other . Rabbi Tirzah will guide you to reclaim your shadow projections.
You’ll explore the final alchemical stage known as Rubito (or redenning), in which you find the warm ruby red of the Philosopher’s Stone — your magical, whole, and healing self.
In this modules, you’ll:
- Discover that reclaiming your projections (or shadow) from others is critical to ancestral trauma healing
- Learn why the practice of “othering” weakens the seal on your alchemical vessel
- Explore the ways you unconsciously other others — and even yourself — casting your own self out of your heart
- Journey into the alchemical laboratory of old Prague to visit the ancient circle of alchemists
- Be introduced to the wisdom and twinkling brilliance of your own ancient and ever-new self
- Work with the Ego — the self axis — and discover that when the axis is strong and open, it can be a strong channel to the higher self
- Tap into the inner wells of your soul’s wisdom, which will help you continue your designated healing work
- Experience a guided process into the ancient laboratories of the alchemical wizards and mystics, to gaze upon your ancestral lineage and in their presence, and encounter your own internal wizard — your potential
Module 6 Alchemical Ritual Lab 2
Rabbi Tirzah will begin this practicum guiding you through cleansing breath practices to flush out your right and left orbital hemispheres. You’ll then recite together an ancient chant, Tehom el Tehom (From the Deep I Call to You!) to invoke your ancestors as you enter a ritual ceremony into the Ancestral Realm. ..
... where you’ll bring gifts and honor to your father’s lineage and then your mother’s, to collect the gratitude and acknowledgement for raising and carrying the bones of the ancestors to peace.
In this process, you’ll be invited to feel the different characters and tricksters of each lineage, those who might want to trip put blocks in your while, all the while remaining present and grounded.
Rabbi Tirzah will lead you on a journey to a sacred spot on Mother Earth, where you’ll see how you’ve been carrying the onus of your ancestors. Finally, in the presence of the wounded ancestors, you’ll bury your family’s pain body.
This is the deep work of facing the wounded in your family, honoring them, listening, and hearing their cries.
You’ll be asked to bring with you a bone, stone, or other relic, to invest it with the pain of your family or lineage wound.
In this practicum, you’ll:
- Experience a cleansing breathing technique to clear your mind and body as you flue out your right and left orbital hemispheres
- Participate in an 3, 000-year-old chant to invoke your ancestors
- Bring gifts to honor both your paternal and maternal lineages, fitting to their unique qualities, and feel yourself being seen and honored by your ancestors
- Be guided on a journey to a sacred spot in nature, where you’ll see how you have been carrying the onus of your ancestors
- Elevate your wounded ancestors as you bury your family’s pain-body
- Learn a powerful maxim to transform the wounded into your spiritual allies
Module 7 Re-Choosing Your Voluminous Self
What are you left with now that you’ve buried your family’s pain body?
Having released the bones to Mother Earth, you need to shed the old story you’ve been telling yourself about yourself.
It’s time to enter new territory — what the myth calls the Promised Land.
In this module, you’ll explore the stumbling blocks set up by the inner Saboteur and wetiko — the dark forces that trick us on our path to wholeness and tempt us to creep back into our small self. These forces coax us to dig up and embrace the bones of our old self, so we can feel safe and familiar again.
So, how do you occupy your voluminous self and embrace the idea that you’re longer wounded ?
You’ll discuss your renewed ancient self and your return to the grand vista you had when you came into this life.
Rabbi Tirzah will guide you in an alchemical practice to transmute the world’s heavy energies of suffering and pain.
In this session, you’ll:
- Become wise to the snares of your inner Saboteur, who tries to lure you back from your spiritual gains
- Explore Wetiko — the sense of the dark forces that attempt to impede your progress
- Discover expanded consciousness, or big mind, within yourself
- Come to understand the pitfalls and nuances of the superiority/inferiority complex and how you can get stuck in our “specialness”
- Practice Tonglen, first for those who are ailing today, and then for those in your lineage who died in agitation, trauma, fear, or confusion
Module 8 Alchemical Ritual Lab 3
As a whole and robust soul who’s accomplished the alchemical stages of self-transformation, you’ll now practice Ars Moriendi — the sacred art of rehearsing for a conscious and beautiful passing from this life at a ripe age to come.
A guided journaling exercise will help you explore your personal fears and the negative ancestral beliefs we’ve absorbed about death.
Rabbi Tirzah will then guide you through meditation to the threshold of this life to harvest its lessons from a state of expanded consciousness. You’ll practice being seen and received by the loving hands as you assume your light body. Ample time will be provided for gentle integration.
In this session, you’ll
- Start to cleanse the fears you associate with your death and release the cultural, religious, and familial baggage you’ve accrued from the traumatic deaths of people close to you
- See your life from an expanded viewpoint and experience a profound appreciation for all that you are and all you’ve achieved
- See areas in yourself and in your relationships that haven’t been in your awareness
- Experience the deep love that surrounds you in other dimensions
- Learn a protective prayer and invocation, as you practice journeying across the threshold of this world
- Attain a sense of what it may feel like to be a body of light
Module 9 Creating a Luminous Legacy
In this closing session, you’ll explore the archetype of the Apocalypse. The archetype of our time, Apocalypse refers to the great uncovering, a revealing of what’s been previously obscured. You’re now ready to look at the myth or central narrative that you’re living today... and what’s coming to light in your present life.
Alchemical wisdom teaches that, at times like these — with polarization and tensions building — destructive conflicts of opposing forces will generate energies deep within the psyche that, while extremely chaotic and difficult, ultimately allow for renewal and revitalization.
You’ll be invited to share with your co-participants whatever’s burgeoning with new life for you, and where you’re energized to apply your life force and sow seeds of new light. You’ll have an opportunity to share how you’re planning to take action and BE the Philosopher’s Stone in the world.
There will be time, if you choose, to share drawings, poetry, collages, or musical expressions of your alchemical healing journey... and to journal about your journey of becoming an axis of healing — the Philosopher’s Stone — in your family and the world.
You’ll participate in a closing meditation, to bathe in the new facets of yourself that enable you to enact timeless healing, take and send Tonglen, and be light in the world.
Finally, Rabbi Tirzah will guide you in a visualization of the future, where you’ll see yourself steady, deeply grounded, and useful.
In this final module, you’ll:
- Be guided through a review of the alchemical healing stages and the archetypes, images, and principles you’ve studied... likely leaving you feeling deeply integrated
- Receive teachings about the mythic period we’re living in, and how the archetype of the Apocalypse is the organizing principle
- Understand why new possibilities and creativity are available, even in the midst of great destruction
- Be guided in a profound meditation for the future of the world and its healing
- Hear a heart-opening poem about the destruction and rebirth that’s occurring in today’s world
SPECIAL BONUS OFFER
In addition to Rabbi Dr. Tirzah’s transformative 9-module course, you’ll receive this special bonus offering to complement the course and take your understanding and practice to an even deeper level.
How the Ancient Art of Alchemy Can Help Us Transform the Weight of the World
Video Dialogue With Tirzah Firestone and Paul Levy
The medieval art of Alchemy is a grand metaphor for the deep process of transformation we must go through to become whole, healed, and integrated — so we can truly shift the world around us. Tirzah’s fascinating conversation with Paul Levy explores how the principles of alchemy can help us transform and heal the destructive forces within our own l psyches and in the collective.
Return to the Ancestral Halls Meditation
Video Session With Tirzah Firestone
Mid-Course Community Parlor
Q&A Session With Tirzah Firestone
Delve into the wisdom that’s emerging from the collective work through the practices taking place in class. This session will take place at the mid-point of the course, to give you a chance to immerse yourself in Tirzah’s guidance and receive the support you need to finish this journey in a powerful way.
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Nine 90-Minute Class Sessions With Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Experience a unique opportunity to learn from Jungian psychotherapist and award-winning author Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone — from the comfort of your own home. Each class session includes a streaming video option and guides you to discover specific skills and abilities to transmute your familial pain-body, once and for all, through an intensive alchemical process.
Nine Transcripts of Class Sessions
In addition to the high-quality videos and MP3 audios, you’ll also receive the entire class transcription after each session is completed. You can then review, print, and highlight the most important insights and practices you were given.
Exercises and Questions for Each Lesson
Between class sessions, you’ll have the option of completing related exercises, practicing new tools, and answering questions to accelerate your learning and integrate each lesson.
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Author of God of Love: A Guide to the Heart of Judaism, Christianity & Islam and Caravan of No Despair: A Memoir of Loss & Transformation
Author of The History of Last Night’s Dream and The Jew in the Lotus
About Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone
Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone is an author, Jungian psychotherapist, and renowned Jewish scholar and teacher. Widely known for her groundbreaking work on Kabbalah, depth psychology, intergenerational trauma healing, and the re-integration of the feminine wisdom tradition within Judaism, Rabbi Tirzah lectures and teaches globally about spiritual and ancient wisdom practices that are honed to assist us at this critical time in world history.
Rabbi Tirzah’s publications include With Roots in Heaven: One Woman's Passionate Journey into the Heart of Her Faith and The Receiving: Reclaiming Jewish Women’s Wisdom.
Her latest work, combining research on depth psychology, neuroscience, and the field of collective traumatology, is highlighted in the award-winning book Wounds Into Wisdom: Healing intergenerational Jewish Trauma. In it, she shares the remarkable life stories of people around the world who have healed from profound tragedy and trauma. The book provides directives for the transformation of all of our injuries — both personal and inherited — into moral wisdom, courage, and compassion.