6-week immersion with dr. Kris GonzΓ‘lez, DACCHM
When Earth Bears Metal
Perimenopause as Your Crucible κ₯ Forged Into Power
You're not falling apart, love. You're being
asked to change shape.
This is a 6-week Perimenopause Immersion that maps your body, psyche, and spirit through the lens of East Asian Medicine.
We begin Tuesday, October 6th, 2026!
This season asks everything of you. It will unravel you before it reveals you.
the hormone story
Your body doesn't run on hormones alone.
Somewhere along the way, [peri]menopause got reduced to a hormone problem with a hormone solution. But you know there's more to this story, this is a psycho-spiritual journey as much as a physical one.
In Chinese Medicine, Blood is the root of female physiology, and it's also where Shen, your spirit, is anchored, moving alongside Yin, Yang, and Qi like four currents braided together. Hormones are one instrument. The rest of the orchestra still needs a conductor, and that's the work this season is quietly asking of you.
βΈ» There's power in that ask.
your metal years
What do you need, underneath all that giving?
Estrogen has long been the hormone of your Earth years, the ones that asked you to relate, to soften, to give more of yourself in the care of others. But as the current shifts, so does the ask.
In your Metal years, it becomes less about appeasing. It's asking what do you need? Who are you, underneath all that giving? What is essential? What needs letting go?
Your body signals the shift is coming, but we've just been taught to override, tune out, and push through the messages instead of listen to them.
the long honest look, inward
The answers were never going to arrive from outside of us.
This is where Metal asks something of us: a long, honest look inward. This is mirror work, where we get really honest with ourselves.
The answers were never going to arrive from outside of us. They live in the discernment we build by cultivating intimacy with ourselves.
What This Season Forges In You
This immersion moves through six elemental archetypes across six weeks, each one forging a concrete shift you'll carry with you long after it ends.
π‘οΈ Metal Element: From the Sovereign White Tigress
Skin changes, shifts in elimination, stuck in survival mode, all Lung & Large Intestine symptoms, the same organs that governs discernment and boundaries. You'll learn to stop outsourcing your decisions to everyone else's advice and trust the certainty you've actually had all along.
π Water Element: From the Warrior Black Tortoise
Depletion, aching bones, urogenital challenges, Kidney and Urinary Bladder symptoms, the same organs that holds your Jing reserves. You'll learn real, practical ways to protect and rebuild your Jing and Yin, not just to get through this season, but to have something left for your Second Spring and beyond.
π Wood Element: From the Visionary Green Dragon
Joint stiffness, vision changes, headaches/migraines, sudden irritability, rage, all Liver and Gallbladder symptoms, the same organs that govern vision and movement. You'll learn to move that energy instead of swallowing it and see the big picture instead of getting stuck in the weeds.
π¦βπ₯ Fire Element: From the Alchemical Red Phoenix
Heart palpitations, anxiety, insomnia, night sweats, all 4 Fire organ symptoms (including the Heart), the same organs that house your Shen, your spirit. You'll learn to meet the rising heat of this transformation with the cool, deep Yin it's actually asking for, instead of exacerbating it with more Yang - overworking, excessive exercise, etc.
π₯ Earth Element: From the Nourishing Yellow Bird
Digestive changes, weight shifts, foggy brain, all Spleen and Stomach symptoms, the same organs that govern the "digestion" of not only food but all of your experiences. You'll build protection around what you are letting in and learn how to receive pleasure as necessary, not indulgent.
π Metal Element: From the Crowned White Tigress
A return to your Metal organs, and the power of using your muscles of discernment and boundaries, fiercely protecting yourself. Everything that felt scattered, symptom by symptom, finally settles into rhythm, a felt, practiced sense of your own authority, the kind other people start coming to you for.
Your cycling years are drawing to a close, so that something new can begin, your Second Spring.
not another thing to do
Most of what's marketed to you in this season asks you to do more.
Everything out there is telling you to do more: more supplements, more protocols, more tracking, more optimizing. It's a lot of noise, and it's easy to mistake it for the answer. But what you actually need is to turn inward.
This season is asking you to trust something most of us were never taught to trust: the same sharp, certain discernment you already feel every month, right before your period. That skill has been living in you your whole life. Reclaiming it, and finally letting it lead, is where your power begins.
It's time to cultivate the power this season grants you.
Solo work, sacred witness
You go inward, and you go held.
Nobody else can do this part for you.
There will be grief here, for the roles you're releasing, the person you thought you had to be. And on the other side, a homecoming, to a truer version of yourself that you've been asked to override for a long time.
Rites of passage were never meant to be walked without witness. You go inward, and you go held.
6-Week immersion with dr. kris GonzΓ‘lez, dacchm
When Earth Bears Metal
Perimenopause as Your Crucible κ₯ Forged Into Power
Enrollment for Autumn 2026 is now closed.
Email [email protected] if you have any questions.
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WHAT'S HELD HERE
12x 2-Hour Live Immersion Classes
Lifetime Access: Alchemy of Perimenopause E-Course
Lifetime Community Access: The White Tigress Den
Replay Access for 1 Year
our weekly journey
We will meet twice a week for 6 weeks beginning Oct 6th - Nov 12th. Each live class will be about 2 hours long and recorded.
Tuesdays, 11am PST β Root Teachings: Live teaching on each element and how it relates to your changing body and spirit.
Thursdays, 11am PST β The Hearth: Live discussion, Q&A, somatic practices, self-tending rituals, the mirror work of finally listening to the questions this season has been quietly asking, because you matter too. Where the teaching becomes lived experience.
Week 1 - Metal: The Sovereign White Tigress πΌ
Root Teachings: Breath, boundaries, grief, elimination pathways (lungs & large intestine), and connecting with our skin.
The Hearth: The mirror work begins here: relating to the contraction, the tension, the pressure of true cutting away. The same sharp discernment you already know from your premenstrual edge, now asked to lead your whole life instead of just a phase per month.
Week 2 β Water: The Warrior Black Tortoise π€
Root Teachings: Your ancestral reservoir: jΔ«ng η²Ύ, bones, and adrenals.
The Hearth: Rebuilding your Yin container and your reserves, the roots, the lubrication, the fluidity beneath the shell that's finally allowed to soften. Coming home to a body you've been asked to override for a long time.
Week 3 β Wood: The Visionary Green Dragon π
Root Teachings: Flexibility and joints, sight (big-picture visioning), sacred rage, the Architect.
The Hearth: Movement medicine for what's stuck: the sacred rage, the boundaries, the freedom of finally trusting the voice you were taught to override.
Week 4 β Fire: The Alchemical Red Phoenix π¦βπ₯
Root Teachings: Heart, sweat, sleep, emotional alchemy, and transformation.
The Hearth: The redirection made tangible: Qi and Blood moving up toward your Heart, where your Shen lives, instead of down toward your Womb. Desire, passion, sex, and circulation, alignment and resonance with who you actually are.
Week 5 β Earth: The Nourishing Yellow Bird π₯
Root Teachings: Digestion in the fullest sense, what you ingest, metabolize, and integrate. Blood, muscles, and getting comfortable with change and transitions.
The Hearth: The give/receive dynamic: finally turning the attention you've spent a lifetime giving everyone else back toward yourself. Nourishment and pleasure as birthright, not indulgence.
Week 6 β Integration: The Crowned White Tigress π
Root Teachings: Re-orienting to your cycles and rhythms, weaving all five elements into one embodied whole.
The Hearth: A return to Metal, sharp discernment settled into something quieter and wiser, the kind of wisdom the next generation will actually come to you for. Closing circle ritual, and your Power Vow to yourself.
messages from the tigress den
Testimonials
The most powerful part of the program was how down to earth, simple, natural, and familiar the group felt, and the content was, it felt demystified in an empowered way that I wish for all women during perimenopause.
I'm also an acupuncturist and I share similar work, but I deeply enjoyed being in receiving mode. It's just a deepening of this journey.
Wonderful deep dive into the topics of perimenopause and understanding our bodies from a truly holistic perspective.
Helping you to connect to your body, cycles & rhythms.
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