Crystals and stones can be used to heal physical, psychological, and emotional issues. You will see how certain stones can be recommended to address issues in particular scenarios.

In this first module you will learn:

• About the Mineral Kingdom and how it complements the other kingdoms of our world: human, animal, and vegetable
• What a mineral is
• What crystallization is
• The details of five stones for your catalog

“Lithotherapy”, not a word you hear everyday, is the term for the practice of healing through the use of crystals and stones. The lithotherapist is a practitioner of this holistic healing method, using the energetic properties of stones to address a client’s ailments or issues. 

In this second module, you will take your first steps as a lithotherapist by learning:

• How to make diagnoses, particularly to determine the immediate and underlying causes of the problems
• What an introductory questionnaire looks like
• How to approach your practice
• How to choose a stone or stones to recommend
• The various ways of using stones to heal
• How to prepare to perform a lithotherapy session
• The details of two stones for your catalog

The modern practice of lithotherapy did not come from purely Eastern/Asian roots. In fact, it came about as a conglomeration of Eastern and Western traditions.

In this third module, you will explore:

• The ancient Greek traditions and writings on the powers of certain minerals, particularly of Dioscorides whose work was used up to the 16th century AD
• The teachings of the 11th century nun, St. Hildegard von Bingen, on the use of minerals, which are the bases for modern lithotherapy
•  The progress of lithotherapy in the 19th and 20th centuries
• The details of two stones for your catalog

The physical and energetic properties of stones come from how they were formed. Looking into the formation of these stones will help you determine what they can do for you and for those who come to you for advice,

In this fourth module, you will learn:

• The categories of minerals as sedimentary, magmatic, or metamorphic and their respective properties
• The atomic bonds that comprise minerals and stones and how these contribute to a stone’s potency
• The seven ways crystals are internally organized
• How crystals are formed
• The details of three stones for your catalog

The physical properties of stones often signify what they can do for a person. Similarly to other healing tools, these stones need to be properly maintained if they are to retain their efficacy.

In this fifth module, you will learn:

• The stones’ four physical characteristics that determine their fragility, consistency, and use
• The various ways of purifying stones of negative energies it may have absorbed
• The various ways of recharging stones to regain their energetic potency
• How to properly store stones based on their physical characteristics
• Which kinds of stones go well together, which do not, and which work best alone
• The details of two stones for your catalog

Colors indicate both the physical and energetic properties of stones. Going deeper, the stones’ chemical compositions often produce these stones’ colors on top of giving the properties these colors indicate. Thus, these aspects need to be studied.

In this sixth module, you will learn:

• What the colors of stones mean
• How to use a piece of porcelain to determine a stone’s color line
• The energetic properties indicated by certain colors
• What the main chemical elements of stones are
• How to look at chemical elements from an energetic view
• The 12 essential chemical elements and the eight classes of minerals
• The details of three stones for your catalog

When the topic of healing with crystals comes up, it often conjures images of Asian/Eastern mysticism in a Westerner’s mind. And with good reason. Let us now look into the Asian/Eastern traditions that gave rise to the modern practice of lithotherapy.

In this seventh module, you will learn:

• The “energy” aspect of healing with crystals
• Lao Tzu’s fundamental laws of energy
• The yin and yang of stones
• The five phases of the movement of energy (wood, fire, earth, metal, water)
•  The details of two stones for your catalog

As we go deeper into energy therapy, we will explore how stones can be used in relation to a person’s chakras or energy centers of the body. This energy aspect is fundamental in traditional Chinese and Ayuvedic medicines.

In this eighth module, you will learn:

• About the seven chakras of the body
• How each chakra influences certain bodily and personal functions
• Which stones could rebalance each chakra’s energies
• The details of five stones for your catalog

At this point of the course, you should have enough scientific and energy information to be able to facilitate a full lithotherapy session. Here you will be introduced to a full lithotherapy session and how to facilitate it.

In this ninth module, you will learn:

• How to determine a person’s energy balance
• How to gather as much information not only about the client’s problem, but about the client him/herself and how to analyze that information
• How to determine the immediate and underlying causes of the client’s problem/s
• How to choose the appropriate stones
• How to verify and give detailed explanations
• How to perform treatments
• Assigning home-based continuation of treatment
• How to ask questions and get feedback
• Details of four stones for your catalog

Because you are taking this course, we can safely assume that you want to practice lithotherapy. As such, you could combine lithotherapy with other healing arts like astrology and aromatherapy.

In this tenth module, you will learn:

• The basics of astrology
• How to supplement lithotherapy with astrology (or vice versa)
• The basics of aromatherapy
• How to supplement lithotherapy with aromatherapy (or vice versa)
• The details of two stones for your catalog

To effectively practice lithotherapy, you have to go beyond head learning, concepts, and abstractions. You have to experience the effects of the energies of stones in your own life. Here, , you will be taught just that.

In this 11th module, you will learn:

• How to choose stones to match the problem
• What stones to use for protection against certain energies and other purposes
• How to uses stones to ground yourself to the earth
• How to use stones to regain energy
•  How to use stones to address depression
• How certain stones match with certain organs in the body
• Details of two stones for your catalog

As you finish the course, you are given a chance to apply what you have learned. Use every bit of knowledge you have gained to address the problems given.

In this twelfth module, you will:

• Address the problems given in two practice scenarios
• Plan out a full lithotherapy session to help a young man with his problems
• Learn about three stones you can add to your catalog