The Academy Membership: All Courses for One Year

The academy membership is the simplest way to study with me if you are curious about more than one subject: instead of choosing a single course, you open the whole library for one year and move through it at your own pace. It suits learners who want breadth, a steady rhythm and room to revisit lessons.

If you are studying from the UK, the membership works fully online, so you can follow the lessons on your own timetable and time zone.

I work online with students and clients across the GCC, and in person in Dubai.

What an academy membership actually is

Most people arrive at my academy with one question. They want to learn reiki, or read tarot, or understand why the direction of a desk matters in vastu. They enrol in that one course, and somewhere around the third lesson a second question appears. Tarot leads to numerology. Reiki leads to the chakras. Vastu leads to astrology.

The academy membership speaks to that second question. Rather than paying for and tracking separate enrolments, you hold one pass that covers the courses in the academy for twelve months. I will not list every inclusion here, because the catalogue grows and the courses page is always the accurate source. What I can describe is how a year of open access changes the way you study.

Why one year, and not forever

You may wonder why a membership would run for a year instead of offering open-ended access. My honest view is that a deadline with breathing room is kinder to a learner than no deadline at all.

"Forever" is where good intentions go to rest. A year is long enough to live through four seasons of your own life, including the busy quarter at work, the school holidays, the weeks of travel and the quiet stretch when you finally have evenings free. It is also short enough that you can see the end from the beginning, which makes you plan.

These subjects are traditions of practice, not facts to memorise. A year gives you time to read a card every morning, to notice a room over several months, to sit with a hand position until it becomes familiar. That repetition is where the learning lives.

Who the membership suits, and who it does not

I would rather you choose the right format than the biggest one. In my experience, a full year of access works well for:

• The curious generalist who cannot yet say which practice will become their main one and wants to sample before committing.
• The career changer who is exploring a career in healing and needs a rounded foundation across several traditions rather than one narrow skill.
• The practising reader or teacher who already works with one modality and wants to add a complementary one.
• The returning student who took a single course with me and kept wishing they could open the next door.

It is less suited to someone who knows they want exactly one subject and has only an hour a week. If that is you, a single course is the more sensible choice, and there is no need to hold access you will not use.

How to plan your study year

Open access is a gift and a trap. With everything available, it is tempting to start five courses in the first week and finish none. I suggest dividing the year into four simple terms.

1. Term one: one foundation. Choose a single course that grounds everything else. For many students this is the chakra material, because its language appears across the other subjects.
2. Term two: one practice. Add a hands-on discipline such as reiki or tarot, something you do daily rather than only read about.
3. Term three: one system. Take on a more structured subject such as numerology, astrology or vastu, where charts, directions and calculations need slower attention.
4. Term four: review and depth. Return to whichever subject held your interest and go through it again with a year of experience behind you.

Four courses done properly will serve you far better than twelve skimmed. Anything beyond the plan is a bonus, not an obligation.

A weekly rhythm that survives real life

Most adult learners study around demanding jobs and families, often across time zones. The ones who finish a course are rarely those with the most free time. They are the ones with the smallest, most repeatable routine.

• Two fixed lesson slots a week. Put them in your calendar as you would a meeting. Thirty to forty-five minutes is plenty.
• One short daily practice. Ten minutes of the thing you are learning: a single card, a few breaths with the hands resting, one observation about a room.
• A paper notebook. Write the date, what you practised and one sentence about what you noticed. By month six this notebook is your most valuable study tool.
• A monthly look back. On the first weekend of each month, read your notes and decide whether to continue, slow down or change course.

If you miss a week, do not try to catch up by doubling the next one. Simply return to the next scheduled slot. A year absorbs gaps easily; it is the guilt about gaps that makes people stop.

How the courses speak to each other

The quiet advantage of holding everything at once is seeing the connections. Each tradition has its own vocabulary, yet they keep pointing at similar themes of attention, balance and timing.

When you study the chakras, you learn a map of seven centres and their petals. Aromatherapy then gives you a sensory way to mark a moment of practice. Tarot offers images to reflect on. Numerology and astrology give you frameworks of number and cycle to think with. Vastu turns the same attention outward, toward the rooms you live and work in.

None of these is a prediction machine, and I do not teach them that way. I teach them as languages for reflection. A student who learns two or three of them begins to cross-reference naturally, and their reading of any single one becomes richer and more careful.

Questions to ask before you join the academy membership

Before you enrol, I would like you to check a few things for yourself, so that the year starts with clear expectations.

• Which courses are currently included, and are any offered separately?
• What is the fee, and what are the terms for the twelve months?
• Are certificates issued, and for which courses?
• Is the material self-paced, live, or a mixture?
• How many hours a week can you honestly protect for study?

The first four answers belong on the courses page, where they are kept up to date. The last answer belongs to you. Please be realistic. Three protected hours a week, held for a year, is a serious education.

Your next step

Dr S Pujah teaches and works online with learners across the GCC, and in person in Dubai.

Dr S Pujah teaches in person in Dubai and online for students in the UK, across the UAE, the GCC and worldwide.

If you recognise yourself as the student with a second and third question already forming, a year of open study may be the right container for you. Begin by reading through what is on offer and noticing which titles you return to twice. Then sketch your four terms on a single page before you enrol. You can browse every course in the academy and see the current membership details there. I would be glad to study alongside you this year.