A Year-Long Initiatory Path Through the Five Elemental Phases

You have already done meaningful inner work. This is an invitation to bring that work into the way you live, choose, relate, and move through the world—grounded in the rhythms of nature and rooted in the living earth.

Begin Your Initiation

“I had known about these teachings before, but this made them real. Something I could actually feel in my body and live with.”

The Invitation

This year-long guided mentorship is designed for heart-led practitioners, leaders, and wayshowers who are ready to move beyond insight and begin embodying their work.

Drawing from Daoist Five Phase wisdom, the path brings together somatic practice, seasonal ceremony, and embodied integration to support a deeper relationship with your body, your life, and the world around you.

Recognition

This Path Is For You If…

You know that transformation is not something done in isolation. It lives in relationship—with your body, with the elements, and with the cycles of the living earth.

You have tended your inner landscape and now feel called toward a wider, reciprocal connection with nature that nourishes your physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual life as one whole.

You are a practitioner, leader, or wayshower who supports others with skill, and you sense how easily dominant culture pulls us away from our natural rhythms and our inherent interconnectedness.

You are not seeking another course. You are ready to remember yourself back into the living web, to align with the wisdom of the elements, and to live life’s spiraling transformations as a reality rather than an idea.

This Is Not the Right Fit If…

You are at the beginning of your inner work. This mentorship does not cover foundational material; it assumes you already have substantial experience and are ready for deeper integration.

You want a quick shift or a weekend-style experience. This is a year-long commitment to slow, seasonal, lasting change.

The Shift

The Transformation

Insight can happen quickly. What follows is something deeper.

Wisdom you consult becomes intelligence you feel moving through your body
Transformation that visits and leaves becomes a perceptual reorganization that cannot be unlearned
Knowing where you want to go becomes knowing where you are in the greater turning
Feeling the earth’s pull without a true home in it becomes daily reciprocal relationship with the living world
Studying ancient wisdom becomes living inside it
Personal transformation becomes a contribution to collective healing
Carrying the long view alone becomes being held within a community of fellow wayshowers

The Gap

Between Knowing and Living

Retreats can open you. Courses can offer language. Therapy can help you understand your patterns. But only moving through the energetic seasons can create the slow, irreversible reorganization of how you perceive and move through life.

This is for those ready for deeper integration—the kind that is metabolized in the body and supports genuine relationship with self, with life, and with the changing present moment.

The Path

What the Year Holds

The Living Spiral is a living temple space. You move through it season by season and element by element, weaving body, spirit, and soul into harmony with nature’s cycles.

Bi-weekly live integration calls — Ground the teachings through direct experience and receive real-time guidance, community, and support.
Seasonal rituals and elemental ceremonies — Deepen your relationship with the unseen, the sacred, and the intelligence of life.
Embodied practices — Yin Yoga, Qi Gong, and somatic movement to support regulation, energetic awareness, and a body-led way of living.
Guided sound journeys, meditation, and integration tools — Support the mental, emotional, and physical landing of transformation.
Nature connection and rewilding practices — Restore a reciprocal relationship with the natural world as mirror, teacher, and stabilizing force.
Weekly wisdom transmissions and guided self-inquiry — Recorded teachings and journaling prompts to help you bring each season’s themes into daily life.
A private, supported community space — Be witnessed, held, and challenged within an intimate group on a shared path of depth.

Bonus for Full Payment

Private 1:1 Coaching Session with Sonja

Value: $250 ~ Personalized support for your transformation

The Journey

The Five Elemental Phases

Each phase includes wisdom shares, rituals, Qi Gong, Yin Yoga, somatic movement, sound journeys, deep self-inquiry prompts and journals, and nature connection practices specific to that element and season.

November 24th – January 13th
Water | Winter
February 3rd – March 31st
Wood | Spring
May 12th – June 30th
Fire | Summer
July 7th – August 28th
Earth | Late Summer
September 15th – November 3rd
Metal | Autumn

Your Guide Through the Spiral

Sonja Alina den Elzen, R.Ac

Sixteen years ago, Sonja encountered the Daoist Five Transformations through shiatsu training. What began as intellectual curiosity gradually became a lived way of perceiving the world—shaped by elemental intelligence and attuned to life’s rhythms and cycles.

That change came through moving beyond study into direct relationship with the elements, the seasons, and the forests and waters that became teachers along the way.

She is a licensed acupuncturist, Daoist martial arts practitioner, yoga teacher of fourteen years, ceremonial and sound artist, and somatic guide. Living Spiral was created for those ready to go deeper, informed by her own path and nourished by her teachers, Mother Earth, and the Dao.

Your original connection is always there. This journey offers a way back to it through self-knowing and cultivation.

Investment & Reciprocity

$3,164 USD for a full year of live, guided transformation rooted in ancient wisdom, with personal support through every season.

Payment Plan

$500 USD down

+ 12 monthly payments of $222 USD

Bonus

Full Payment: $3,164 USD

Full year access + one 1:1 coaching call with Sonja

Partial scholarships and reciprocity options are available for those with financial need, honoring accessible transformation and sacred exchange.

Wondering if This Is Right for You?

If you would like to explore whether this mentorship is a fit for you at this time, or if you have questions, you are warmly invited to book a discovery call with Sonja.

Frequently Asked Questions

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The Spiral Is Turning

There is a knowing in you that you belong to this earth in an embodied, connected way. The seasons are not only something to observe—they are guides for living as part of nature’s constant transformation.

This path is for those ready to move beyond knowing and begin living it, season by season, year by year.

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