The Way of Love
The Way of Love is our intensive 18-month course in personal transformation and healership. This highly personalized program of study helps students heal emotionally, intellectually, and spiritually so they can make profound changes they desire in their own lives, and support others in being able to do the same.
Grounded. Practical. Effective.
We believe that whenever you show up as your authentic, joyous, and loving self, you naturally act in healership to the world. That’s why the Way of Love works both as a graduate-level training for therapists, and as a life-changing, highly applicable program of personal healing for people from all walks of life and in any profession.
Our unique three-pillar approach offers deep, sustained healing for profound personal transformation. The experiential group setting helps students to practice and integrate their education in real time. Students learn to:
understand and address unfinished developmental tasks and familial patterns;
access and support their bodies’ wisdom; and
connect with their own unique spirituality as a source of power and resilience.
Practical and Professional Applications
Many students in the healing professions — psychotherapists, counselors, nurses and doctors — have used the Way of Love to “clear the mirror” of their intuition, gain new tools for working with clients, and deepen their spiritual commitment to their work. However, many others in varied careers (professors, artists, lawyers, doctors, nonprofit leaders and businesspeople) use their training within their families and workplaces to become more confident, authentic, and effective leaders, parents, and community members.
“I changed my marriage and my work. I experienced huge professional benefits from this process, receiving promotions and raises that I otherwise wouldn't have been ready to ask for or receive.”
— Amy Snyder, 66, chief financial officer
“I came to Inner Source because I was becoming consciously fed up with feelings of self-hate and needed to change it. My classmates and I experienced a big change: a shift from a desire to remove self-hate to a willingness to cultivate self-love.”
— Brett Naylor, 35, chef
“The philosophies at Inner Source help me make sense of a chaotic world that is both beautiful and challenging. It’s not always easy, it’s not always pretty, but it’s always real. And for that I am grateful.”
— Andrea White, 39, acupuncturist
Overview
The program’s basic structure is described here, although how the content is delivered will vary. Our experienced teachers are highly responsive to student needs and tailor the curriculum to each class.
First semester:
The first semester consists of readings, lectures, experiential healing exercises, and practice with deepening in community and relationship. Topics include:
Introduction to energy.
Learning what it is (language, feel, identifying it, using it for healing). Your flavor of knowing energy and using it.
Fully engaging one’s body/mind/spirit to live in Wholeness.
Certification in first- and second-degree level trainings in Reiki. (Healing for yourself, family, friends and the world.)
Learning about the powerful interrelationships between spirituality and psychology through Pathwork readings.
The first semester is structured as follows:
Three weekends (Eight-and-a-half hours on Saturday and three-and-a-half hours on Sunday).
Four cohort meetings (3 hours each) to be scheduled by the group.
Two individual energy healing sessions with Marlene (either in person or long distance).
Second semester:
The second semester builds on the topics covered in the first semester, covering these additional topics:
An exploration of Characterology, the study of personality defenses and how our body holds them.
Deepening in living a holistic and freer life.
Certification in Holy Fire Master level Reiki training.
The second semester is structured as follows:
Three weekends (Eight-and-a-half hours on Saturday and three-and-a-half hours on Sunday).
Four cohort meetings (3 hours each) to be scheduled by the group.
Two individual energy healing sessions with Marlene (either in person or long distance).
Third semester:
Gratitude, Service and Mindfulness are three major elements of happiness. Toward that end, you will develop a service project, participate in six months of healing, and engage in a case presentation.
The class may elect, if they wish, to have an additional overnight retreat, which would cost extra.
Tuition: The cost for the entire 18-month program is $4,950. (Payments may be made in three equal installments of $1,650 for each 6-month semester.) However, students may take advantage of a special discount rate of $4,500 for the entire program if paid within first three months. Different options are available for payment plans. Discussion about finances and concerns (if necessary) are welcome.
The first semester begins the weekend of October 10–11, 2026 (Saturday 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM; Sunday 9:30 AM to 1:00 PM)
If you are interested or have questions, please call Marlene Keesler at 610-580-8573 or email her at mskeesler@gmail.com.
Human Behavioral and Spiritual Frameworks
Study of how humans develop core beliefs and ingrained behavioral responses, and how to uncover and dissolve these patterns through healing inquiry.
Energy Healing Training
Learning how energy moves through the body for healing purposes. Hands-on training in opening energetic channels to resonate more fully with the Universal Energy of cohesiveness and oneness.
Healing Project and Presentation
Completion and presentation to the entire class of an in-depth healing project, utilizing applied healing practices.
Assisting and Mentoring
Integrating knowledge and skills by assisting during Way of Love and healing workshops; learn to experience and work in your full authority.
Certification in Holy Fire III Karuna Reiki
Study of techniques and supervised hands-on practice leading to Certified Mastership in Holy Fire III Karuna Reiki healing. The training is distributed across the 18 months.
Curriculum
Bodily Awareness; Freedom from Limited Thinking
We start with the intellectual and physical foundations for the Way of Love program. Students work with the victim-villain-savior triangle, address and unpack their unique dynamics and relationships that consistently create internal conflict, and learn to fully enjoy, celebrate, and expand upon areas of ease and strength in their lives.
Objectives:
Learn to identify the negative stories about yourself and others that keep you feeling small, trapped in unhealthy situations, or unable to achieve your goals.
Gain a foundational body awareness — the ability to receive and interpret information from your body.
Let yourself and the people you love off the hook; experience more fun and connection in relationships.
Freeing Up Energy; Fully Living in The Body
Then you will go deeper learn to identify how the human body stores unhealthy patterns of thought and behavior developed in childhood, as well as how to work with the body to release these patterns.
Objectives:
Learn the five major energetic defense structures and how they manifest in one’s own relationships
Complete intensive healing exercises designed for each of the five major defense structures.
Experience increased energy, and greater vibrancy and pleasure in daily life.
Becoming Your Own Healer; Owning Your Authority and Personal Power
Finally, you will be formally initiated into the role of healer. You will complete approximately 20 hours in the role of healer and healee, and share your experience in the Case Presentation – a cornerstone experience of the Way of Love program.
Through completing a case presentation, you’ll learn to inhabit your full power and authority in relationships – from your class to your families and workplace.
Objectives:
Practice supporting a client throughout a long-term healing relationship, from exploring family history to where they experience ease and dis-ease in their present lives.
Set up a healing space and receive support in your project from a school mentor.
Practice full embodied presence — with yourself and with others — through the Case Presentation process.
Complete the Case Presentation: give and receive up to 20 hours of talk therapy and hands-on energy healing work.
