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Searching for a supportive environment to learn how to find more inner and outer balance, physical, emotionally and spiritually?
We are an Educational Centre in Costa Rica, dedicated to exploring the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Five Elements in community.
The School of the Five Elements experiments with inter-generational group learning, encouraging us to heal as a collective and in community. This will allow us as individuals to be able to find true balance and harmony within ourselves that is in alignment with the great intelligence of life’s unfolding.
Through education on natural hygiene, fruit-based living and healing we balance our physical bodies. Through experiencing the wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine, acupressure bodywork therapy and learning the language of The Five Elements we balance our emotional bodies . Through practicing silent meditation we balance our spiritual bodies and realise the true nature of reality and Self.
Through finding more balance in life we can then deeply reconnect to our soul’s purpose and find clarity in how life would like us to share our gifts. These are explorations we inspire at The School of The Five Elements.
We host a variety of in-person community events and immersive, personalised retreats at our home in the paradise of Caribbean Costa Rica. Here we are establishing a holistic and conscious community and village named Anatta .
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We also are creating an online community, where we host group fruit-based detox and cleanses remotely in order to provide the support, guidance and education needed to transition towards a more healthy and balanced lifestyle .
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The School of the Five Elements offers its services in the Spirit of the Gift. That means that all classes, events and experiences are given freely to the community without any charge. The School trusts that those who value whatever it is that they have received, will generously give back and contribute to the School’s future by whatever means they can, with the intention of helping the School to continue its work and serve the community. To support the school please find our fundraiser here .
Are you ready to thrive physically, emotionally and spiritually?
Contact us now and speak with us about how you can begin your journey with the School of The Five Elements, in person or remotely. There are so many ways you can become involved in our work.
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Ålam trained at the European School of Shiatsu between 2021-2023. There he discovered the language and power of Traditional Chinese Medicine’s Five Element Theory as well as the powerful healing therapy of acupressure massage.
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In 2023 he moved to Costa Rica to pursue his dream of finding a tropical home for the community village and school he knew life had been willing him to birth ever since the vision of becoming a father first came to him whilst living in a Vipassana meditation center, a place he has frequented often over the last 8 years of his life to sit in deep silent meditation.
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Introducing Ålam, founder of The School of The Five Elements:
Ålam, originally from the UK, began transitioning towards a fruit-based diet 8 years ago in 2015, when he also first discovered silent meditation. Since then he has been passionate about assisting others on their journeys to find more balance in their lives so they can thrive both physically and spiritually, and discover their unique gift that life brought them here to give to the world.
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Now he offers his unique Five Element acupressure massage therapy in the beautiful Caribbean Jungle near to Puerto Viejo, Costa Rica, as well as teaching English online, developing the school, offering retreats and events both in person and online. Together with his partner he is creating the conscious community of Anatta Village, a place dedicated to a natural simple way of lifestyle, maintained by fruit-trees and inner work that provides supportive spaces for all generations to become established in a more balanced way of life.
For more information about Ålam’s journey and the story of how The School of The Five Elements came into existence click here .
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TESTIMONIALS
Claudia Lendt, Costa Rica
Ålam is an amazing practitioner and visionary.
I was able to experience his extraordinary abilities as a Chinese medicine therapist as he accompanied me during a very serious illness. Ålam, unlike many others, is not a talker, he is a very serious and conscientious young man with the best of intentions. His spectrum of knowledge extends from medicine to nutrition and meditation.
Sarah Charlton
I met Ålam when he lived in the same village as me. Alam is a rare and beautiful soul, a person that when you meet them you instantly recognise their vibration of truth, integrity and love. He is someone who is very nature is to be in service to all beings. I know and trust that each step of his journey is guided and supported for the well-being of all beings. Alongside this my experience of Alam is that he is grounded. He has the capacity to gently hold and effectively steer groups of people and projects with wisdom, courage and certainty.