Elements of Life Institute

Perceptual Awareness, Protection & Energetics I

Learn to refine, protect, and trust your perception

Every person perceives. This training teaches you to understand what you are perceiving, to strengthen it, to protect it, and to work with it — with clarity, discipline, and spiritual alignment.

Why This Matters

More Than Feeling Energy

Every person carries perceptual awareness. Some feel it through the body, some through emotion, some through intuition; others perceive through the energetic field, through spirit, dreams, the subtle senses, or a soul-level recognition. Whatever form it takes in you, it can be trained.

This is not simply a class about feeling energy. It is a training in discernment, regulation, energetic protection, Spirit Body awareness, and Divine connection — the inner foundation that all deeper clinical energetic work rests upon. Before you ever learn to treat, you learn to perceive clearly and to remain protected while you do.

The Foundation

Protection Begins with Awareness

Faith and prayer are powerful foundations for protection, and perceptual awareness makes them sharper. When you can recognize what is moving through the body, the emotions, the intuition, the spirit, and the soul, you can direct your faith, prayer, and discernment with real precision — knowing what needs grounding, what needs prayer, what needs a boundary, and what simply needs to be released.

This is how awareness becomes protection. You respond from wisdom rather than fear, confusion, or overwhelm, growing more present, more discerning, and more aligned with Divine guidance in how you meet yourself, others, and the energetic environments around you.

What You’ll Develop

What You Will Walk Away With

  • 1
    Increased Perception

    You come to recognize how perceptual awareness moves through the body, the emotions, the energetic field, the subtle senses, intuition, spirit, and soul — and how it works in you specifically.

  • 2
    Trust Without Overreacting

    You learn to trust what you sense without rushing into interpretation, fear, fantasy, or assumption. Perception becomes steady rather than reactive.

  • 3
    Protection for Your Field

    You build a clearer energetic container, so you can perceive without becoming overwhelmed, drained, or entangled — and hold your field before and after energetic work.

  • 4
    Regulation and Stability

    You practice methods that settle the body, calm the mind, and strengthen the field, bringing perception back into balance whenever it runs high.

  • 5
    Preparation for Clinical Work

    You lay the perceptual and protective foundation the next Practitioner-level training rests upon, where these skills are carried into clinical energetic diagnosis and treatment.

Is This For You?

Who This Class Is For

This training is for anyone who wants to understand perceptual awareness and energetic sensitivity in a grounded, disciplined, spiritually aligned way. You do not need to already call yourself intuitive, empathic, or highly sensitive — only ready to train perception as a real faculty of connection.

  • Students continuing through the Elements of Life Institute Practitioner track
  • Those with Foundations-level Qìgōng experience, or instructor approval
  • People who feel energy but do not always understand what they are feeling
  • People who want stronger energetic boundaries, or who feel energetically affected by others
  • People who want to develop intuition with more discipline and clarity
  • Those preparing for deeper clinical Qìgōng training
  • Anyone seeking to grow their connection to Qì, Spirit Body awareness, and Divine guidance
What to Expect

An In-Person, Experiential Training

Each day blends teaching, movement, meditation, partner exercises, reflection, and guided cultivation — held in a balance of physical movement and Dǎoyǐn review, energetic protection training, perceptual awareness development, Spirit Body practices, emotional and energetic clarity work, field regulation, and Divine connection.

Throughout, the focus stays on the inner and perceptual foundation. The clinical treatment protocols and deeper applications are reserved for the continuation course.

Reserved for the Continuation Course

What This Course Does Not Include

So that you can build perception, protection, regulation, and spiritual maturity first, this course does not take up the full clinical side of the Practitioner training. The following are reserved for the continuation course:

  • General Treatment Protocol
  • Full table work and the full clinical treatment practicum
  • Full Yìquán training
  • Advanced issuing and martial Qì practices
Your Guide

About Dr. David Hone

Dr. David Stokes Hone, DCEM, ND approaches healing through a multi-dimensional framework that addresses health at its physical, energetic, emotional, mental, and spiritual roots. With over a decade of clinical experience, he specializes in the most complex cases — life-threatening illness, oncology, autoimmune and neurological disorders, fertility challenges, and multi-system imbalances — integrating Qìgōng, breathwork, nutritional medicine, and intuitive health assessment to uncover root causes where conventional approaches fall short.

Since 2016, Dr. Hone has trained and mentored practitioners worldwide through the Elements of Life Institute, equipping them with the advanced methodologies needed to navigate today’s most difficult health challenges.

Course Details

Everything You Need to Know

DatesJuly 16–18, 2026
Schedule8:00 AM–12:00 PM · 2:00 PM–6:00 PM
Lunch 12:00–2:00 PM daily
LocationLehi, Utah
Exact venue & prep details sent after registration
InstructorDr. David Stokes Hone
Tuition$897
Required ForPerceptual Awareness, Protection & Energetics II
Reserve Your Place

The Foundation for Everything That Follows

This first course opens the perception, protection, field regulation, and Spirit Body foundation you will carry into clinical energetic diagnosis and treatment. Space is intentionally limited so that each student receives real attention.

Complete your registration to hold your seat for July 16–18 in Lehi, Utah. Tuition is $897.

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