A Three-Year 1:1 Initiation into the Medicine Wheel
with Rev. Denise Saracco-Zoppi, MSAc, LMT, CMLDT, RMT
Some Healers Are Trained. Others Are Initiated.
You’ve felt it for a while.
Maybe it’s a pull when you sit with someone who is hurting. Maybe it comes through your hands, your dreams or your intuition. Maybe it’s a quiet knowing that you came here to do more than take another weekend certification.
You don’t need more techniques. You need to be initiated.
This apprenticeship is for healers who are ready to stop collecting tools and start becoming the medicine.
This Isn’t Just A Certification Course. It’s also a Rite of Passage.
Most energy healing programs teach you what to do.
This apprenticeship teaches you who to become: a healer who can hold sacred space, guide another soul through deep transformation, and stay grounded, ethical and clear while doing it.
Over three years, you’ll walk the Medicine Wheel, the sacred framework at the heart of my book, Walking With The Sacred. You’ll be guided step by step through your own healing and initiation while you build the skills, confidence and integrity to lead powerful 1:1 healing ceremonies in a professional practice of your own.
This is personal transformation and professional training, woven together.
Why 1:1? Because Depth Can’t Be Rushed.
For more than 20 years, I taught healers in group settings. Over time, I saw something important: the deepest transformation happens one-on-one.
In a group, the teaching has to fit everyone. In a private apprenticeship, the teaching fits you: your gifts, your wounds, your pace and your calling.
That’s why I now offer this apprenticeship only as a private mentorship, and why I accept just 5 apprentices per year.
Meet Your Mentor
Rev. Denise Saracco-Zoppi, MSAc, LMT, CMLDT, RMT
Master Shamanic & Energy Healer · Master Bodywork Professional · Master in Acupuncture · Doctoral Candidate in Chinese Medicine
International Best-Selling Author of Walking With The Sacred and The Sacred Journey
For more than 25 years, I’ve worked as a healer, sitting with patients through grief, trauma, illness, transition and awakening. For more than 20 years, I’ve trained healers.
When you apprentice with me, you don’t just learn from a curriculum. You learn from decades of real healing work:
- Real case studies. I share stories from my own practice (kept confidential) so you can see how the medicine works with real people, in real moments.
- Trauma-informed training. You’ll learn to recognize trauma responses, work within your scope, keep healthy professional boundaries, and know when to refer a client to medical or mental-health care.
- The integration of East and Earth. My background in shamanic healing, bodywork, acupuncture and Chinese medicine gives you a rare, whole-person understanding of energy, body and spirit.
How the Apprenticeship Works
- Two private 3-hour sessions per month, in person or virtually
- A curriculum shaped around your spiritual gifts, deepened over time
- Academic-level rigor: homework, readings, quizzes, midterms and finals
- Supervised practice: you’ll show your skills in live, observed 1:1 ceremonies before you move forward
- Personal initiation work alongside professional skill-building
- Optional initiation weekend retreats (priced separately)
This apprenticeship focuses only on individual (1:1) healing ceremonies.
The Journey: Three Years Around the Medicine Wheel
Year One: Awakening the Healer
Foundations · The East (Part 1) · The South
You begin by building a strong foundation: the shaman’s path, sacred space, grounding, protection, ethics and the core energy healing skills every practitioner needs.
In the East, the direction of the rising sun, you meet illumination, vision and new beginnings. You awaken your gifts and learn to see with the eyes of a healer.
In the South, you enter the fires of your calling: transformational healing, empowerment, dispelling illusions, reclaiming your courage and your own personal medicine story.
Professional growth: You learn to open, hold and close a 1:1 healing session with confidence, consent and clear boundaries, and learn healing modalities of chakra healing, rattle doctoring, power retrieval, clearing ceremonies, and more.
Year Two: Into the Depths
The West · The North
In the West, the place of the setting sun, you walk through sacred transitions, grief, the heart, and loss. You face what has already died and offer it a sacred death while you learn the deeper medicine of soul retrieval, drum medicine, and psychopomp work.
In the North, you sit with the Elders and the ancestors. You gather wisdom, strength and the steadiness of a true medicine carrier. You will rebuild your identity around your sacred truth, and rediscover your sovereignty.
Professional growth: You learn to facilitate deeper ceremonial work, read complex client patterns, and use trauma-informed care in practice. Healing modalities include crystal healing, soul retrieval, crossing/healing spirits ceremony, land healing, and more.
Year Three: Embodying Your Medicine
The East (Part 2) · The Center
You come back to the East changed. This time you carry your own vision as a healer and discover the medicine of the East for the mind: clear thinking, awareness, intention.
In the Center, everything comes together: spirit, body, the Wheel and yourself. Here you step fully into your medicine and your calling. You remember who you are. You know how you will move forward. You answer the call.
Professional growth: You refine your signature healing approach, complete your final competencies, and prepare to run an ethical, sustainable private healing practice. Healing modalities include sound therapy, voice activation, deep trance channeling, and more.
One Year at a Time
The apprenticeship is a three-year journey, but you take it one year at a time.
At the end of each year, we sit down together to review your growth, your competency and your calling. If you’re both ready and willing, you recommit to the next part of the path.
- Your choice is honored. You commit to one year at a time, not three years all at once.
- Your readiness is confirmed. You move to the next stage only after you’ve shown the skills and inner work it requires.
- Your intention is renewed. Each new year starts with a fresh, conscious “yes” to the work.
Each year you complete earns a Certificate of Completion, so every stage of your journey is recognized.
This Path Asks Something of You
This is sacred, serious work. You’ll be asked to:
- Show up fully, on time and prepared for every session
- Complete your homework, readings, quizzes and exams
- Do your own inner healing, not just learn to heal others
- Practice your skills under supervision until you can show competency
- Honor the ethics, boundaries and responsibilities of a healer
If that excites you more than it scares you, you may be ready.
Is This Apprenticeship for You?
This path is right for you if:
- You already have a background in energy healing and feel called to go deeper
- You want to lead powerful 1:1 healing ceremonies with skill and integrity
- You want to build, or grow, a professional healing practice
- You value depth, mentorship and real-world wisdom over quick certifications
- You’re ready to commit fully to a year of deep transformation, and you’re open to recommitting each year as your path unfolds
This path is not right for you if you’re looking for a fast certificate, a casual hobby class or group training.
Your Investment
| Option | Investment | Your Savings |
|---|---|---|
| Per session (3 hours) | $399 | n/a |
| Monthly (2 sessions) | $699/month | Save over $100/month compared with paying per session |
| Annual (paid in full) | $7,777/year | Save almost $1,800 compared with paying per session |
Enrollment and tuition are renewed each year when you recommit to the next part of the apprenticeship. Initiation weekend retreats are priced separately from tuition.
Begin With a
Sacred Discovery Call
Every apprenticeship starts with a conversation.
The Sacred Discovery Call is a 1-hour interview where we explore your calling, your experience and your goals, and decide together whether this path is right for you.
Investment: $77
This fee is fully credited toward your first month’s tuition if you’re accepted and enroll within 30 days of your call.
Whether or not we walk this path together, you’ll leave with clarity about your next step as a healer.
Not every applicant is accepted. This isn’t about exclusivity. It’s about making sure we’re the right fit for deep, devoted work together.
Only 5 spots are available this year. Once they’re filled, enrollment closes.
[Book Your Sacred Discovery Call]
Online: havenofharmonynj.com · Phone: 862-268-3213
The $77 Discovery Call fee is due when you book. You can reschedule once with at least 24 hours’ notice. The fee isn’t refunded if you miss the call or cancel late. The tuition credit expires 30 days after your call.
The Calling Doesn’t Go Away.
You can put it off. You can tell yourself “someday.”
But if you’re still reading, part of you already knows.
The only question is whether you’ll answer it.
[Answer the Call: Book Your Sacred Discovery Call]
Disclaimer: The Shamanic Energy Healer Apprenticeship is a spiritual and educational program. It doesn’t confer medical, acupuncture, massage or mental-health licensure, and it doesn’t authorize graduates to diagnose, treat or perform licensed medical, acupuncture or mental-health procedures. Shamanic and energy healing services are not a substitute for professional medical or mental-health care. Certificates of Completion recognize completion of this apprenticeship only.