Jeff Bausemer is the founder and producer of The Alchemy Institute and East Meets West. He founded the Institute because of a number of chronic physical health problems he had for more than 7 years that didn't respond to western medicine, which forced him to turn his scientifically minded eye towards various traditional medicinal systems for treatment. Jeff has a strong background in the liberal arts, science, philosophy and healing arts. He is an alumni of The Boston Latin School, Tufts University, and the Great Books Program at St. John's College (Santa Fe), where he graduated with a double major in Philosophy and The History of Math and Science and a double major in the Classics and English Literature.
Jeff has been a student of Yoga for 15 years, has lived in the Sivananda Yoga Ashram in San Francisco, and has done a 150-hour IYI training with a School of Yoga in Mexico in 2012.
He completed a 250-hour western massage therapy program at The School of Healing Arts in San Diego in 2012.
He completed a 330-hour training in Herbal Medicine at The Arborvitae School of Herbalism with Richard Mandelbaum and Claudia Keele in New York City in 2015.
In addition, he completed a 200-hour training in Ayurveda with Hillary Garivaltis and Kristen Rae Stevens, as well as a 100-hour training in Integrative Sound Therapy under the supervision of Alexandre Tannous, both trainings taking place at The New York Open Center in 2016.
He completed a year long program in Western Hellenistic Astrology in 2017 with Adam Elenbaas and began studying Tropical Vedic Astrology independently with Ernst Willhelm and Michael Reed.
He completed an Ashtanga Vinyasa Training in 2018 with the Spirit Sadhana School of Yoga in Barcelona and also began an independent training in Yoga, Qi Gong and Sexual Alchemy.
In 2019 he began exploring the world of biohacking, listening to 2+ hours of podcasts on the topic almost every day, in addition to beginning studies in Jungian psychological astrology and finishing improv comedy studies at UCB and beginning musical improv studies, and also began training in and receiving coaching from many professional coaches including Jason Goldberg, Simone Sloan and Michael Mcdonald, and read most books on the topic from Steve Chandler, Jason Goldberg, Rich Litvin and many, many others.
In 2020 he began to explore and understand the financial system, cryptocurrency, credit technology, financial astrology and astrological magic while deepening his existing practices.
In 2021 he trained in Imaginal Psychology at Meridian University , began studying and training in Internal Family Systems, and began training in Improv at the Magnet Theater in NYC, both normal and musical.
In 2022 he completed a training in Focalizing, another form of Imaginal Psychology and Trauma-informed therapy and continued his astrological and improv comedy practice and studies.
In 2023 he began the Holistic Wellness Pathway at Hill College, a comprehensive training in nutrition, herbalism and wellness coaching, in addition to the MISPA Jungian Psychological Astrology training program taught by John Green as well as the Family Constellations Training Program taught by Nick Werber. He also completed official training in musical improv at the Magnet Theater, began studies at the Brooklyn Comedy Collective, and performs regularly with many improv comedy teams throughout New York City.