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A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal magic: 14 modules covering what a crystal actually is, the history of stone magic across cultures, essential stones for a working collection, ethical sourcing, cleansing, charging and programming, chakra placement, wearing and carrying crystals, meditation, spellwork, crystal grids, and working with specific intentions. Taught pure to its own tradition, honest about the difference between ancient teachings, modern inventions,

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal magic for specific intentions: meet the working kits for love, prosperity, protection, healing, courage, creativity, and clarity, from rose quartz under the pillow to citrine stationed where money enters and black tourmaline at the four corners. Discover lepidolite, the lavender mica with lithium locked in its chemistry, then learn the five-step Situation Method that turns any unlisted situation into a staffed working with th

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal grids: explore the four-part anatomy of center stone, surrounding stones, quartz amplifiers, and activation, plus the sacred geometry behind the circle, triangle, hexagon, flower of life, and Metatron's cube. Follow the complete eight-step build-and-activation skill, learn worked castings for prosperity, love, and protection grids, the lunar rhythm of setting at new moon and closing at full, and the equally important craft of

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystals in spellwork: learn the stone's three jobs as anchor, amplifier, and continuous worker, then follow the complete candle-and-stone working through all six steps. Explore jar spells with crystal chips, sigils and petitions charged under programmed stones, crystal baths run by the water safety map, and the indirect elixir method that keeps malachite, pyrite, and cinnabar risks out of your glass entirely.

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal meditation: follow the six-step held-stone meditation where a stone in the palm anchors a wandering mind, then explore crystal gazing, the gentle doorway into scrying done with soft eyes and candlelight, and the breath-and-stone rescue for days the body runs hot. Learn why consistency outranks duration, why one stone held for a week teaches more than daily rotation, and how sitting trains the perceptual sensitivity no book pr

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on living with crystals: learn the Daily Companion rite for pocket stones, purpose-built crystal pouches for travel and grief, and how worn jewelry works, from silver's lunar leanings to the left-wrist-receives convention. Explore the classic desk set of black tourmaline, clear quartz, and citrine, room-by-room home placement, stones for the car and the carry-on, and the bedside arrangement with amethyst, moonstone, and the bright stone

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on chakras and crystal placement: meet the seven centers by their Sanskrit names, Muladhara through Sahasrara, and the honest history behind them, from the tantric traditions of India through The Serpent Power translation to the Western rainbow color scheme and Katrina Raphaell's nineteen-eighties laying on of stones. Learn the stone roster for each center, the full seven-step chakra layout, single-stone placement, and the real boundary

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on charging and programming crystals: explore why charging exists as its own step after cleansing, five charging methods including moonlight, sunlight, earth, breath, and the standing charging station built from an amethyst geode or quartz cluster. Follow the five-step programming procedure for setting one specific intention into a stone, learn to compose working intention sentences, keep an assignment alive through use, and retire or r

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on cleansing crystals: discover ten complete methods, water rinse, moonlight, sunlight, smoke, dry salt, earth burial, the rice bowl, sound, the selenite shelf, and breath with intention. Learn the safety map for water, sun, and salt, why selenite dissolves and malachite turns water toxic, which stones fade in sunlight, and the craft's most important warning about crystal water and gem elixirs. Includes when to cleanse, how to choose a

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal magic: walk the honest conversation about where stones really come from, from Madagascar's child labor and Congo's hand dug malachite to the cutting workshops the chain forgets. Learn why ethically sourced is an unregulated claim, run the Five Questions on any seller, meet the heavy history stones, lapis lazuli, Myanmar jade, and amber, then take the kinder roads: rockhounding, secondhand pieces, and lab grown crystals.

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal magic: shop the stone market with working eyes, from tumbled, raw, point, sphere, and palm forms to the six step in person method and the return test that rarely misleads. Meet the great fakes by name, baked amethyst sold as citrine, dyed howlite posing as turquoise, opalite glass, and molded moldavite, then run five home tests, warming, bubbles, scratch, weight, and acetone, and learn why disclosed treatments are biography,

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal magic: meet the beginner's working collection of twenty essential stones, from the quartz family, clear, rose, amethyst, smoky, and citrine, to dark protectors like black tourmaline, obsidian, and hematite, heart healers rhodonite and rhodochrosite, prosperity stones pyrite, jade, tiger's eye, and carnelian, plus labradorite, moonstone, lapis lazuli, selenite, and kyanite. Start with just five stones and learn the week long m

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal magic: trace stone magic across five thousand years, from Tutankhamun's lapis lazuli and Greek amethystos, the not drunk stone, through Pliny's Natural History, medieval lapidaries, and Hildegard of Bingen to living jade and jyotisha traditions. Then meet the recent chapter honestly, Blavatsky, Atlantis inventions, Katrina Raphaell, and Judy Hall's Crystal Bible, learn why birthstones were standardized in 1912, and master the

A free course by Everything IFS Academy on crystal magic: discover what a crystal actually is, an ordered atomic lattice built along three roads of fire, water, and pressure, from magma cooled quartz to garnets forged under the earth. Learn the Mohs scale, the difference between minerals, rocks, crystals, and amorphous obsidian and opal, the real science of piezoelectricity in quartz watches, what the craft honestly claims, and the first skill: meeting a stone with full atten