Building the bridge of light
A 37-gateway meditation from Esoteric Acupuncture, taught as a practice you can verify in your own body — and, if you are a practitioner, in your own clinic.
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31 Oct – 1 Nov · Yellow ChurchLight Worker Training
Two days in Mullumbimby
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Out of the cave: a Full Moon Dragon transmission
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Online · coming soonThe Antahkarana Primer
Integration Synthesis, taught and then activated
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Lightbody Activation, taught properly.
A practice rooted in Dr Mikio Sankey's Esoteric Acupuncture and extended through classical Chinese medicine, Daoist cultivation and transpersonal psychology. Mechanism first, mystery intact.
The practice
Sequences of acupuncture points — gateways — held in attention in a set order, forming geometries in the field. No needles are needed to practise; touch, intention, tuning forks and breath all work.
The lineage
The New Encoding Patterns and the 3-6-1 Antahkarana Meditation are Dr Sankey's. What is taught here is credited to him and extended with care; the commentary, the extensions and any errors are Steven's.
The bridge
Between a clinic and an inner practice; between the biomedical register and the esoteric one. You will always be told how something works before you are asked to feel it.
The Antahkarana Primer
Integration Synthesis — the first pattern, taught and then activated. A 20-minute talk, a guided activation, a workbook, one live Q&A. $47, credited to the full course.
Antahkarana — 13 modules
Fortnightly from late January – February 2027. Personal and practitioner streams on one timetable; the practitioner stream adds the logbook, case studies and supervision.
The Lightwork Practitioner pathway
For bodyworkers, energy healers, qigong and yoga teachers and Chinese-medicine practitioners who want to bring this work into their practice. Levelled, assessed, and open to non-acupuncturists.
The pattern, on paper.
Thirteen gateways, the geometry they form, and the reasoning behind every one of them — the text of a Lightbody Activation process from Esoteric Acupuncture.
Steven Allan Booth
Ordained Daoist priest. Twenty-five years in the internal arts and teaching since 2001. Formerly a registered Doctor of Chinese Medicine; a Graduate Diploma in Psychology; ten years of shiatsu and seven thousand clinical hours. On the Esoteric Acupuncture practitioner register, teaching this work in Byron Bay since the first workshops — and now online.
The register is plain: what is taught here is explained before it is practised, credited to where it came from, and offered as education, not treatment.
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Build your Antahkarana — a free five-part primer by email.
What the bridge is, how a pattern works, the first three gateways, and how the 13-module course is put together. One email every two days. Then the Friday letter, if you want it.