This is a school with ancient and sacred information on stones and crystals

Like a crystal held up to the light and turned facet by facet, many Masters have encoded this body of knowledge with their own unique discoveries.

Originally materialized by the Wu of ancient China and then carried forward by Master teachers throughout time, the great legacy of stone medicine is still alive today. The Upper Clarity School of Stone Medicine is an invitation for you to enter this flow, bringing your unique consciousness to this evolving wisdom.

The school is named in honor of Lady Wei, who originally birthed the Shang Qing tradition out of China via her own direct revelations. The name is a genuflection to her devotion and the powerful consciousness that rippled out from her inner work. 

Upper Clarity means Great Clarity, which means the highest and clearest realms of Tian (Heaven). Lady Wei's revelations were received from the Great Clarity.

 Sarah Thomas, the founder and lead instructor of Upper Clarity, is simply a longtime grateful student of these teachings through Jeffrey C. Yuen. You can read more about this on the About Sarah page.

 Since 2009, The Upper Clarity School of Stone Medicine and hundreds of students from around the world have absorbed the living teachings, imprinted them with their own unique revelations, and continue to carry them forward.

The students of this school are ushering in a new wave of crystal consciousness. We are acupuncturists, herbalists, ceremonialists, healers, energy workers. We are Earth-workers, Seers, shaman, and everyday household stone lovers. All others who honor the Earth are invited to meet these teachings and the enduring spirit that carries them through time.

Joining the flow is as easy as tuning into the learning experience that feels right for you and getting started. Welcome.

Sarah Thomas, MAc, LAc

quietly founded The Upper Clarity School of Stone Medicine in 2009 among small groups of students meeting in little healing centers. Sarah is a healer, acupuncturist and educator and is immersed in the clinical and academic experience of ancient stone medicine and future crystal technologies.

Sarah's been honored and blessed to stand on the front lines as a soul healer, sharing treatments day in and day out, with some beautiful souls for almost twenty years now.

Sarah (whose secret name is Starwolf) is the lead instructor at the Upper Clarity School, teaches at Earth medicine conferences all over the U.S., founded North Carolina's first mineral studies program for healers, and guides hundreds of students from all over the world in stone medicine certification trainings.

Sarah's Dao is to resurrect the vast and uncharted potential of healing and awakening with stones.

Sarah's teachers include Jeffrey C. Yuen, 88th generation priest of the Jade Purity Lineage. Sarah has studied stone medicine and Chinese medicine with Jeffrey since sitting in a year-long immersion in New York City in 2008. Many many hours and weekends and notebook after notebook have been received and (mostly!) integrated since then. For those of you who have studied stone medicine, you know it's a lot of information.

Sarah is also mentored by Marna Whaleheart of the Andean Mysticism lineages and Jyoti Ma and the many teachers of the Old Ways teachers Jyoti carries and represents. Sarah also studies deeply with an Indian Avatar teacher for almost 20 years now.

The foundation of stone medicine knowledge has been given to us by the Daoist traditions, and the wisdom and activations we ultimately orient towards are seeded by all paths mentioned herein.

Sarah is a student, a teacher, and a healer. These 3 experiences in action seem to really support students in learning stone medicine. All of the lineages and paths we learn from are ultimately intended to activate our own inner truth.

After many years of teaching,

we learned that our students would become as obsessed as we are about each stone.

They would ask me where they could get every stone we used as a demo in class.

So I started to buy a whole flat when I would purchase stones and sell them to my students in class. These would sell out so fast. Over the past ten years, we have become more and more conscious about offering stones. From harvesting practices to heat-treatments, we came to really know this global market.

We made long-term relationships and connections with families, rockhounders and other conscious suppliers.

We learned what students really need in order to create results in their healing, ritual and alchemy practices.

Still sourced in the desire to make powerful, ethical, and natural stones accessible to students, The Clarity Crystal Shop lives on today.