Master Series Study Groups

  • Fear and Longing and Staying On Track

    $497.00

    Fear and Longing and Staying On Track

    $497.00

    Fear and Longing and Staying On Track

    The Ethics of Caring, Honoring the Web of Life in our Healing Relationships
    by Kylea Taylor with Matthew Sweigart, CI

    Work with clients in non-ordinary states of consciousness offers tremendous potential for healing and for navigation of a slippery slope. This is an understanding that is essential to the practice of many healing arts. Sitting across from one another in regular conversational consciousness can only take us so far along the healing path.
        Yet, non-ordinary states of consciousness present the healing artist with a challenging landscape when it comes to living within ethical, aligned behavior. These states present deep and specific vulnerabilities for both client and practitioner. To guide the process of discovering these vulnerabilities, Taylor follows fears and longings as they relate to a Chakra-based functional model to explore a full range of life concerns.

    As a 35 year clinical healing artist, Sweigart brings a wealth of case study experience to the ethical questions of working with the induction of non-ordinary states of consciousness. He artfully interweaves the Wei Mai Vessels and the Cycles of Aging and Development into the Chakra sequence to deepen therapeutic understanding.

          In this deep journey, participants dive in and swim through the powerful teachings and invitations presented by Kylea Taylor, in her master work, The Ethics of Caring, Honoring the Web of Life in our Healing Relationships.  In addition to 35 years of healing arts experience, Sweigart brings 15 years in men’s groups and an uncanny knack for drawing out insights from written word, His calm and professional guidance helps students dive deep into developing that “internal locus of control” when working with clients in non-ordinary states of consciousness.

    • A 2 hour Zoom call each week for 6 weeks
      Tuesdays, October 3 – November 7, 2023, 10am -Noon Pacific time
      All classes will be recorded and uploaded to a private student drive. you may log in to the drive and “attend” the class at your leisure. If you are not attending live, a small quiz will be provided to keep you up to date on the material. (Any sensitive personal content shared will not be recorded! So students attending in real time may feel safe to share their deep concerns and stories in the online classroom.)
    • Email and Text support
    • 1 one-on-one session with group leader (To be scheduled)
    • Total Fee: $497 (or ten weekly payments of $55 please inquire)
      Paid in full by September 19 – $397

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  • Natural Foods Cookery

    $595.00

    Natural Foods Cookery

    $595.00

    Matthew’s journey in the healing arts didn’t actually begin with Shiatsu. It began with cooking! In college he practiced being a Vegetarian for a year, and learned just how important food preparation is to creating tasty, healthy meals. Then, as his theatre career interests were waining, he discovered the macrobiotic diet, and spent two years practicing this dietary health regimen. In that time he learned many food preparation and combining techniques.

    There won’t be heavy lessons on alkaline/acid balance, or dogmatic teachings that say “eat this way.” Rather it will be a delicious romp through nature’s cornucopia of foods, with an omnivore’s sensitivity and a colorful approach to culinary adventures. 

    Ten Weeks:
    October 7 – December 16, 2021. Varying length class videos, general meal times (based on Matthew’s kitchen schedule), including breakfasts, lunches and dinners, and possibly a grocery shopping video! Attendees will get notice in advance of classes, and also have access to recordings.

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  • Between Heaven and Earth, Your Elemental Type!

    $695.00

    Between Heaven and Earth, Your Elemental Type!

    $695.00

    Between Heaven and Earth, by Korngold and Beinfield

    Ten Weeks: Thursdays, September 30 – December 9, 10am – 12:30pm Pacific Time


          A perennial favorite, everyone has a natural affinity to connect to the elemental powers of our our world and discover how these elements manifest within our own body, mind and spirit. This master class takes us deep into the study of the Five Elements of Chinese Medicine, where we discover our own elemental type. 

    In this deep dive journey, Matthew takes participants in and through the powerful teachings and invitations presented by master authors Efrem Korngold and Harriet Beinfield in their master work on the Five Elements: Between Heaven and Earth.

    • A 2.5 hour Zoom call each week for 10 weeks
    • Email and Text support
    • 1 one-on-one session with group leader (To be scheduled)
    • Total Fee: $695 (or ten weekly payments of $79.95 – please inquire)
      or fast paid in full – in advance – $495
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  • Iron John Initiation – Journey to Genius!

    $995.00

    Iron John Initiation – Journey to Genius!

    $995.00

    The Iron John initiation – Journey to Genius,
    Twelve Week Hybrid (Live & Virtual) Program

    Mondays, September 25 – December 11, 2023
    6-8:30pm Pacific Time

    (All meetings will be recorded and uploaded to a private student Drive folder. You may attend at your leisure through the student drive. For those not attending live, a small quiz on the day’s lesson will be provided to keep you up to date!)

    Discovering, Uncovering, Recovering, Celebrating!

    • Discovering

      • Step 1 – The curse on the Wild Man
      • Step 2 – Bucketing
      • Step 3 – The Caging of the Wild Man
    • Uncovering
      • Step 4 – The Golden Ball
      • Step 5 – Stealing the Key
      • Step 6 – Running off with the Wild Man
      • Step 7 – Apprenticeship
      • Step 8 – Disillusion, Katabasis
    • Recovering 
      • Step 9 – Kitchen Work
      • Step 10 – Hunger for the King
      • Step 11- Gardening & the GodWoman
      • Step 12 – Off to Battle
      • Step 13 – Pageantry, Winning the Heart of the GodWoman/SoulMate
    • Celebrating
      • Step 14 – Revelation, Integration, Celebration

     The Iron John Initiation – Journey to Genius offers an in-depth reading and discovery of Robert Bly’s masterful work about men. Following the plot-line of an ancient folk tale, Bly explores the process of maturation and growth from boyhood to manhood. Significant parallels arise between the ancient tale and our day-to-day experience in the world. Filled with insights into the process of development and growth, the study of Iron John sheds light on every aspect of becoming clearer and stronger in your daily walk as a men in today’s world. Of particular interest in the journey is the process of Katabasis, the vertical descent. In the initiation we learn to “go down” consciously with support, and learn how to rise back up again, better than before. The alternative being that we stumble along in the dark and allow life to “take us down,” and find ourselves lost on the journey! Matthew helps participants find the path into and through that shadow, so that they come through it wiser and deeper and ready for all that life sends their way. 

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  • Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies – Master Series

    $995.00

    Dragon Rises, Red Bird Flies – Master Series

    $995.00

         In this deep dive journey, Matthew takes participants in and through the powerful teachings and invitations presented by master author Leon Hammer. With 35 years of healing arts experience, 15 years in men’s groups and an uncanny knack for drawing out the insights from the written word, Matthew helps students dive deep into Dragon Rises, Redbird Flies, and apply it to their own life and practice.

    • A 2.5 hour Zoom call each week for 12 weeks
    • Email and Text support
    • 2 one-on-one sessions with group leader (To be scheduled)
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  • Extraordinary Healing with Extraordinary Vessels!

    $1,095.00

    Extraordinary Healing with Extraordinary Vessels!

    $1,095.00

    In this Master Class, Sweigart weaves the story of his own unique bodyworker’s approach to the Eight Extraordinary Vessels. Join this master class to get a front row seat to the edge of Chinese Medical philosophy and an unfolding discovery of the application of the medicine to a variety of contemporary conditions, such as trauma, psycho-emotional healing and current psycho-social conditions.

    On the journey, Matthew takes participants in and through the powerful teachings and invitations of Classical Chinese Medicine’s Extraordinary Vessels. With 35 years of healing arts experience, 15 years in men’s groups and an uncanny knack for drawing out the insights from the written word, Matthew helps students grasp the depth and scope of Extraordinary Vessel theory, and apply it to their professional healing practice and life conditions.

    The course consists of:

    • A 2.5 hour Zoom call each week for 12 weeks.
      •. Email and Text support
      •  2 one-on-one sessions with group leader (To be scheduled)
    • Total Fee: $1095 (or ten weekly payments of $119.50)
      or fast paid in full – in advance – $895

    The text for this course is an original slide show presentation, created by Matthew Sweigart that will be forwarded to you upon registration. 

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    Enspiriting

    $1,295.00

    Enspiriting

    $1,295.00

    Coming up in 2022!
    Engage in classic personal growth work with a group of fellow “enspirtors,” to draw out the seminal offering of the great master futurist, Warren Ziegler. In the class, we will practice his invitation to the “futures room” by entering into the practices of deep listening, questioning, intentioning, discerning, dialogue, learning and imaging.

    The course consists of:

    • A 2.5 hour Zoom call each week for 12 weeks.
      •. Email and Text support
      •  2 one-on-one sessions with group leader (To be scheduled)
    • Total Fee: $1295 (or ten weekly payments of $139.50)
      or paid in full – in advance – $995
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