Immerse.
A year-long space for practitioners to deepen their relationship with the seasons, themselves, and the medicine they practise.
A full turn of the Creative Cycle.
An invitation to live and work in rhythm with nature.
For practitioners who sense their qualification was only the beginning.
What Begins to Change
Over a year inside Immerse, practitioners often notice:
- greater trust in their diagnostic instinct
- more ease in how they pace their work and life
- clearer recognition of seasonal patterns in clinic
- deeper emotional resilience at professional thresholds
- renewed relationship with nature as a clinical teacher
Welcome to Immerse
Immerse is a year-long seasonal companion for practitioners who feel called to step out of linear ways of living and working, and into a conscious, lived relationship with the Creative Cycle and the Five Elements.
Rather than asking you to do more, Immerse invites you to listen differently — to the seasons, to the body, and to the subtle movements of life as they unfold over time.
This is not a training to complete.
It is a relationship to return to.
Because Immerse follows the seasonal cycle, enrolment windows are intentionally limited.
Joining at Spring or Autumn allows practitioners to enter the work at a natural energetic threshold.
Spring enrolment is currently closed.
The Work at the Heart of Immerse
The Five Elements — water, wood, fire, earth, and metal — describe not only the natural world, but the rhythms, thresholds, and cycles of human life.
Working seasonally allows us to:
- recognise when to move and when to rest
- notice where energy is flowing or becoming stuck
- meet life’s thresholds with more clarity and less force
Immerse offers a steady, spacious container for this work across a full year.
How Immerse Works
Over the course of the year, you are invited into five seasonal spaces, each aligned with an element and its psycho-spiritual landscape.
Each season includes:
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a seasonal workbook exploring the themes, yin–yang dynamics, and organ relationships of the element
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contextual teachings to orient you to the season
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optional somatic and sensory practices to support embodied engagement
The core practice that runs throughout Immerse is simple:
spending time consciously in nature, and allowing that relationship to inform how you live and practise.
Across the year, many practitioners experience Immerse as a quiet but consistent influence on how they diagnose, pace their clinics, and relate to professional thresholds.
A Non-Linear Container
There is no schedule to keep up with in Immerse.
No requirement to work through material in order.
No expectation to do everything that is offered.
You may:
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dip in and out
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return to the workbooks year after year
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begin wherever your attention is drawn
Some practitioners choose to move with each season as it arrives. Others return to the material only when life brings them to a threshold.
Both approaches are valid.
This is cyclical learning, not linear progression.
Who Immerse Is For
Immerse is for practitioners of any modality who:
- already carry depth in their work
- feel called to live and practise more seasonally
- sense the limits of effort-driven, linear approaches
- want to trust nature as an organising intelligence
- are ready for their practice to mature over time
No prior training in Chinese Medicine or Five Element theory is required. Immerse meets you wherever you are in your professional life — whether newly qualified or decades into practice.
Immerse is unlikely to suit practitioners seeking fast strategies, structured coursework, or certification.
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Your Guides
Guide - Claire Dabreo
Five Element acupuncturist, teacher and writer, Claire has spent over 15 years in clinical practice and practitioner education, and is known for her work in integrating seasonal awareness into modern therapeutic settings.
Co-Guide — Amelia
Aromatherapist and yoga teacher with a deeply embodied approach to movement. Amelia brings a long-standing relationship with essential oils as sensory companions to seasonal practice.
Relationship to Retreats
Immerse is designed to stand alone and also to support deeper, live work.
Seasonal retreats offer space for:
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embodied transmission
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shared inquiry
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live teaching and practice
Many practitioners experience Immerse as the ground that allows retreat work - and clinical insight - to land more fully.
Practical Details
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Duration: 12 months. A full year allows practitioners to experience the complete energetic arc of the Creative Cycle rather than encountering the Elements conceptually.
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Format: Self-paced, non-linear.
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Access: Immediate, year-long.
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Location: Online
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Investment: £333
The investment reflects a year-long relationship with the work, rather than the volume of material provided.
Irina Clifford, Health Coach
Thank you for creating such a unique and amazing programme. I really love it and I feel it is helping me on my journey to create my own business.
Julia Davis, Acupuncturist
Capturing the nature and wisdom of the five elements, this course offered a wealth of seasonal info and insight alongside exercises and conversations. It literally made my year.
Emma Le Provost, Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach
I feel like working with the seasonal energies is something that is a non-negotiable for me now.
A Closing Invitation
Immerse is an invitation into rhythm rather than performance.
A space to return to relationship —
with the seasons,
with yourself,
and with the medicine you practise.
If you feel drawn to let nature lead rather than effort, you are warmly welcome.
Many practitioners recognise when it is the right season to enter this work.
Join the Waitlist. Enrolment opens March 3rd.
