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.
We begin Tuesday, October 6th!
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. MHT is more available right now than it's been in decades, and plenty of providers will hand you a patch and call it a day. 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. It moves alongside Yin, Yang, and Qi like four currents braided together. Hormones are just one instrument in this grand orchestra. 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, the element of this season, asks something of us: a long, honest look inward. The Autumn season of our lives is where we build the muscles of the soul.
The answers were never going to arrive from outside of us. They live in the discernment we build by cultivating intimacy with ourselves, tuning in to where our own life energy has gone still, stuck, or depleted.
Change has a way of surfacing what's been fragmented in us and waking us from complacency. Perimenopause is a change of this magnitude.
This immersion helps you zoom out to see the whole, holistic picture of your womb continuum, and maps your entire terrain along the five elements. Hormones are part of that map, but they were never meant to be the whole one.
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.
This is the real work of this immersion: the same clarity that gets you through this season is what eventually settles into something wiser, the kind of wisdom the next generation will actually come to you for.
Solo work, sacred witness
You go inward, and you go held.
Nobody else can do this part for you.
There's a reason your outer shell can start to feel dry, even brittle, this season. That isn't decline, it's redirection. Your vital energy is turning away from the exterior and back toward the interior, where the seeds of your heart and soul are finally being tended.
In Chinese Medicine, this is the same redirection of Qi and Blood, moving up toward your Heart instead of down toward your Womb, the shift that brings you into alignment, resonance, coherence with who you actually are underneath it all.
That alignment doesn't arrive without a reckoning. This season will hand you more questions than answers: who are you when there's no one left to please? What's true, and what have you simply inherited?
Not everything you've been carrying was ever yours to hold, some of it was picked up out of habit, out of duty, out of not knowing there was another option. There will be real grief in this: for the roles you're releasing, the person you thought you had to be, the years spent performing a life that was never fully your own.
And on the other side of that grief, there will also be a homecoming, to a body you've been asked to override for a long time, and a clearer sense of self, a new inner landscape you couldn't have reached any other way.
Rites of passage were never meant to be walked without witness. You go inward, and you go held, by a community that stays with you.
6-Week immersion with dr. kris GonzΓ‘lez, dacchm
When Earth Bears Metal
Perimenopause as Your Crucible κ₯ Forged Into Power
investment
$497 Early Bird
Regularly $547
Use coupon code: TIGRESS2026 to save $50 with Early Bird Enrollment until Sunday, Sept 20th at midnight PST. Payment plan options are available at checkout.
*Alumni are welcome to re-join this immersion at a discounted rate.
Email [email protected] if you haven't received your invitation.
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 asking the hard questions this season is demanding we finally voice and qigong. Where the teaching becomes lived experience.
Week 1 - Metal: The Sovereign White Tiger 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 Tiger 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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