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Courses built on
a single thesis.

Six offerings. One thesis: the practice is a delivery system for the state.

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Why The Alchemille

The state first.
The yoga second.

These aren't courses about yoga. They're courses about what yoga produces: a one-to-three-hour state during which the brain is measurably, chemically, objectively better at creative work than at any other time in your waking life. Everything in the catalog is organized around reaching it, protecting it, or applying it.

6
Distinct Offerings
14
Years of Daily Practice
∞
Lifetime Access
3
Pillars: Container · Practice · State
The Catalog

One hub. Three spokes.
Two doors in.

The Hub — Premier

The Post-Practice State

The only yoga course that teaches the practice as a delivery system for a measurable neurological state. Container, practice, state — taught together, because the window only opens when all three are in place.

Debut Live Cohort

What Yoga Actually Is

Four live sessions. The philosophical warm-up — what yoga is actually answering, and why it matters. The funnel into the premier.

Spoke — Pillars I & II

Supporting the Practice with Herbalism

Nervines, adaptogens, digestives, restoratives. Plants that keep the container sustainable. Integrated with the yoga, not sold separately.

Spoke — Pillar II deepening

Optimizing Your Cycle Practice

Cycle-phased practice intensity. How the post-practice window shifts across the follicular, ovulatory, luteal, and menstrual phases — and how to work with it rather than against it.

Spoke — adjacent to Pillar III

Chakras, Emotions & the Endocrine System

Chakra theory mapped onto the endocrine system — vishuddha/thyroid, anahata/thymus, ajna/pituitary. The biochemical basis of what a body-state actually is.

The Other Door — Philosophical

Yoga History / 250hr Refresher

Samkhya cosmology. Purusha and Prakriti. The five kleshas as a real-time diagnostic. The Sutras, taught by a practitioner who has sat with them for fourteen years.

The Three Pillars

Taught together — because
all three are required.

01

The Container

Life, home, nervous system. The unglamorous prep that makes a daily practice sustainable. Without it, the practice decays.

02

The Practice

Tristhana taught mechanically. The 45–90 minute duration envelope. Savasana as mandatory consolidation. The recipe that reliably opens the window.

03

The State

A one-to-three-hour window — BDNF, cortisol suppression, DMN coherence, hippocampal replay — spent on the work you actually came here to do.

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Yoga is a practice of understanding the most simple, underlying archetype that has created life.
Alison
Founder — The Alchemille

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Start with the hub. Or enter through the philosophical door. Either way, the catalog invites you across.

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