Whether you’re a therapist, coach, healer, or spiritual seeker—you know there’s something more. A deeper truth. A calling. A power within you that’s been waiting to be activated.
At the School for Intuitive Ascension, we help you unlock your full intuitive potential—so you can heal, guide, and rise into your highest path. Our courses combine deep emotional clearing, trauma release, and intuitive mastery—bridging modern therapy with ancient wisdom.
Guiding transformational healing through emotional clearing, psychic mastery, and soul awakening.
Supporting students in energetic alignment, higher guidance, and intuitive development.
For Seekers, Empaths & Self-Healers
Ready to heal from within? This track is designed to help you clear emotional baggage, release trauma, and awaken your natural intuitive abilities—so you can finally feel like yourself again.
For Coaches, Therapists, Healers & Psychics
This professional path is for those ready to guide others—while deepening their own spiritual and intuitive mastery. Learn how to blend emotional healing with advanced psychic tools and become a certified intuitive guide.
Unlike many “woo” programs, our approach is both grounded and profound. We train you to remove subconscious filters and emotional distortions so you can perceive spiritual truth clearly—for yourself and others. You’ll:
The School For Intuitive Ascension classes not only empowered me to harness my intuitive gifts but also equipped me to guide others on their paths to healing. Witnessing the transformative change in those I’ve helped fuels my passion for this work.
Focused on spiritual development, emotional healing, and intuitive mastery.
The School for Intuitive Ascension has been truly life-changing. When I joined, I was full of self-doubt and second-guessing my gifts, but the tools and techniques I learned helped me embrace and celebrate them.
The blend of high-quality training, practice sessions, and supportive community gave me a safe space to refine my intuition and clear the fears that once held me back. Each session unlocked more of my authentic self, and now I feel empowered to live my purpose and even launch my own coaching and healing work. This program doesn’t just teach skills—it ignites transformation.
— Masooma Tamim
As someone with a PhD in psychology, I deeply respect the approach of The School for Intuitive Ascension. Unlike many programs that only teach psychic skills, this school prioritizes personal healing and emotional clearing as the foundation of intuitive work. Techniques like the Goran Technique ensure students remove filters, programming, and patterns so they can reach neutrality—essential for accurate and ethical readings.
This focus not only prevents projection of unhealed wounds, but also prepares students to become effective, responsible intuitive therapists and life coaches. It’s a comprehensive and holistic training that fosters both personal transformation and professional mastery.
— EJ Katigak
When I first arrived, I was struggling with depression and felt stuck in life. Through these classes, I was able to clear the blocks that were holding me back.
Today, I no longer live with depression—I feel empowered, strong, and in charge of my own life. These tools have given me the freedom to create a higher quality of life than I ever thought possible.
— Jo Anne Goodsell
Before joining SIA, my path in intuition and psychic development felt scattered, and I often left classes that didn’t resonate. As a Black man, therapy and emotional exploration were unfamiliar territory for me, but the focus on emotions and cultural perspectives opened a whole new dimension of healing.
The tools helped me confront buried emotions, recognize my sensitivity as an empath, and learn to navigate energy with clarity instead of overwhelm. What makes these programs so powerful is that they go beyond intuition—they clear past wounds and build real self-understanding.
Thanks to this work, I’ve released old blocks, grounded myself in uncertainty, and experienced a depth of transformation I never thought possible.
— Kier Johnson
I’ve spent years in self-help and personal development, but the true acceleration of my healing has happened through Merit’s courses. In the past 18 months, I’ve experienced breakthroughs that still leave me in awe.
One lifelong struggle—carrying an extra 35 pounds—shifted almost like magic once I began using the clearing techniques taught in this program. These tools have helped me resolve issues that haunted me for years, creating freedom I never thought possible. I am eternally grateful for this course, and if you feel even the slightest nudge to join, follow it—it could set you free.
— Carol Wagner
— Rebecca Gaglio
As a long-time Reiki practitioner, I spent over 30 years journaling, meditating, praying, and trying every form of energy work and ritual I could find—yet nothing cleared the painful thoughts and patterns that haunted me.
It wasn’t until I learned the Goran Technique that I finally experienced true change. The tools helped me release layers of trauma and frustration, shifting my energy, my thinking, and even my ability to feel joy.
For the first time, I felt deeply free within myself, no longer trapped by the same cycles. These techniques gave me the lasting transformation that decades of journaling and energy work alone never could.
— Gabrielle Bohannah
Before this program, I didn’t realize how much my subconscious thoughts, feelings, and hidden patterns were shaping the person I thought I was. Through the techniques and tools in this program, I learned how to clear those patterns and begin reshaping both my inner and outer world.
The work has transformed my relationships—turning past family struggles into heartfelt, loving connections and allowing me to move through life with more ease and joy. It feels magical to release lifelong patterns and step into a version of myself I never imagined possible. This program has shown me that creating a life beyond my wildest dreams is truly within reach
— Leona Rustin
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In 1998, Todd began his metaphysical journey, through an out reach program offered by the renowned Berkeley Psychic Institute. In 2000, Todd enrolled in the one year Intensive Clairvoyant Training Program at the Berkeley Psychic Institute of Santa Rosa, California. There, Todd learned the art of “spirit to spirit” communication, developing his innate clairvoyant and healing abilities by participating in hundreds of psychic readings and aura healing sessions.
Upon graduation, Todd enrolled in the teachers program at BPI. Shortly after, he was offered and took the position of Director of the Berkeley Psychic Institute of Santa Rosa. During his time as director, Todd taught and trained hundreds of human souls how to develop their own unique psychic abilities, providing foundational tools and skills to unlock one’s “Inner-Standing”.
Todd has a love and passion for music in all its forms. In 2006, Todd decided to pursue a dream and dove headfirst into the world of music. He developed a band, produced an album and managed to work with a few record labels along the way. Todd was exposed to elements of greed and corruption that altered his life course and perception of the music industry. Although Todd’s dream of musical success (along with his band mates) garnered zero commercial success, the experience brought years of growth he would otherwise not have been gifted.
After the dismantling of Todd’s musical endeavors in 2012, he spent nine years adrift. Processing tremendous grief and battling with depression, addiction to drugs and alcohol and all manor of self sabotage. Todd describes this time in his life as “ the journey through the dark night of the soul”. A journey he believes all humans go through. Dark and light must come into balance if one intends to ascend!
In 2021, Todd enrolled in the Facilitator Training Level 1 program, developed and created by Jerry Sargeant, the founder of Star Magic Healing. Todd is now a certified level 2 Facilitator of Star Magic Healing. Todd now lives in the world of sacred geometry, light language, frequency and code.
Todd’s soul mission is to assist humanity in the ascension process, by utilizing the modalities and skills he has developed. Todd is available to support, nurture and advise. Through the facilitation of healing, Todd is able to locate the root cause of “Dis-ease” within the body, assisting the human soul in the recalibration of their energetic template. Todd is dedicated to the process of empowering each human soul to come into their own divine light and discover who they truly are!
Merit Solara Duran is a sought-after intuitive therapist and transformational teacher known for her extraordinary ability to pinpoint the hidden beliefs, emotional pain, and energetic blocks that stand between you and your deepest desires.
A graduate of the Berkeley Psychic Institute and a certified Master Trainer of the Goran Technique™, Merit combines over 20 years of experience in energy healing, emotional repatterning, and psychic development. Her clients often say, “She has a gift for making the unconscious, conscious.”
With advanced training in consciousness work, Merit helps clients and students find and clear the root causes of trauma, patterns, and stored pain—whether imprinted in the unconscious mind or embedded in the physical body. Her methods blend powerful emotional release tools with clairvoyant training, helping students not only heal but also awaken their intuitive gifts with clarity and confidence.
Born to a Chinese-American father and a Japanese-American mother in the culturally rich yet often harsh streets of San Francisco, Merit grew up surrounded by drug use, violence, and emotional neglect. By the age of nine, she was already battling depression and suicidal thoughts. Despite trying years of traditional therapy, nothing could touch the hopelessness she carried—until she discovered the Goran Techniques™.
Using this groundbreaking method, she was able to permanently dissolve the core unconscious programs that had kept her trapped in despair. This healing became the catalyst for her life’s work.
“The deeper you clear, the higher you rise.” – Merit Solara Duran
Today, she trains empaths, healers, and awakening intuitives from around the world to do the same—guiding them to step fully into their power, purpose, and psychic mastery.
Merit is especially known for helping those who feel broken, lost, or “unhelpable”—including clients recovering from narcissistic abuse, childhood neglect, suicidal ideation, and complex emotional patterns that other therapists couldn’t shift.
She is also a recognized clairvoyant and medical intuitive, trusted by clients in the entertainment industry and professional sports. Her School for Intuitive Ascension offers professional certifications in intuitive healing and emotional clearing, with a soul-centered approach that blends grounded skill with cosmic connection.
If you’re ready to shed what’s been holding you back and rise into who you really are—Merit will walk that journey with you.