Advanced Training
The Gateways to
Embodied Enlightenment
The Academy Medicine Wheel
Born as the Earth Zen Academy (BEZA)
A Rites-of-Passage School
BEZA is a rites-of-passage initiation school for grounded, higher learning. We are a non-profit academy incorporated to facilitate authentic transformation in you and your relationships to others and the community of all beings.
With a vision to meet the imperative for a shift in human awareness and way of life, BEZA teaches a tried-and-tested practical spirituality to create a new human story.
Our model of training is experiential, hands-on, and co-operative. Apprentices and Students work independently and collaboratively and at their own pace.
With a focus on Zen Buddhism and Nature-Based Wisdom, the curriculum is deep, broad and evolutionary.
Become a Gatekeeper to Nature’s Wisdom through BEZA’s Advanced Training
BEZA’s Training Mandala
Gatekeepers are shamanic practitioners whose function is to purify the energies they let in and out of their being. By attuning, cleansing, and bringing these energies into balance, Gatekeepers become the Wisdom Keepers of the World. They are initiates of the 5 Elemental Bodies of the Medicine Wheel — the body of Mother Earth from whom we originate.
A Gatekeeper upholds integrity and responsibility in all relationships – professional and personal. They serve the transformational power of love for the benefit of all beings.
- Each Elemental Module – 80hrs
- Apprentice Gate (by application) – all 5 Modules = 400hrs
- Student Gate (by invitation) +400hrs
- Facilitator Gate (for committed students) +800hrs
- Personal development within a spiritual community
- Integrative training supported by student facilitators
- Schedule designed to accommodate the working parent
- Spacious time between modules for Integration
- Inclusive of supportive embodiment modalities
- Scholarships available
Apprentice Gate
by application
Student Gate
by invitation
Facilitator Gate
for committed students
Grounded EARTH Module
Way of the Heart
26 June - 10 August 2025
Never before has "Knowing Thyself" been so vitally important. During the Grounded EARTH Module (the third Elemental Gateway in the BEZA Medicine Wheel), we learn practical and spiritual skills to reconnect with Mother Earth - and consequently our True Self.
Gatekeeper Training in the Earth Element is an initiation into Self. We have all been on a long and winding journey, ultimately searching for ourselves. This is the journey homeward - the Great Return: a Homecoming.
During this Module we learn how to remain centred during these extraordinary times of revolutionary change and powerful transformation. Anchor into the abundance available within your grounded, present self. Become open and available (no matter the situation) with an ever expanding heart while the truer you emerges. Reclaim your sovereign uniqueness as you learn to embody your inherent enlightenment. Study how abundance and karma are related and how to orient yourself at the various stages and cycles of growth. Embrace your healing power as you open to Mother Earth's Love. Celebrate the diversity of all dualities and manifestations as you connect to the unifying, common ground of community, home, identity, and otherness.