The intention of the courses I talked of was to give the participants the possibility of a first-hand-experience (in their own bodies, minds, souls) of a remedy for two reasons: to recognize it much more easily in a patient than after only reading about it, and also for self-development.
The wife of the homeopath who offered the course is a shamanically gifted woman who undertook shamanic travels and "saw" trances on the remedies. With Hyos it was only the potencies C200 and M, with Nat-m also C10000 and C50000.
So we also got an impression of the levels different potencies work at. (Months later I read of Sankaran´s idea on this, which is partially similar.)
The course itself took about one week. We started with the C200, the text of the trance for it was put online, we were recommended to read it slowly in a meditative state of mind. Doing so brought up pictures, feelings, sometimes a sequel of the story in the trance, dreams... and a deep understanding of the themes of the remedy and what they had to do with us.
In an internet-forum we discussed our experiences with the trances, and any other effects we had during or, as I already mentioned, before this time. Emphasis was on the emotional, mental and spiritual state.
So we went from one potency to the other, the group-experience also boosting the effects. We could feel the different aspects of a remedy ourselves respectively see them (reflected?) in one of the other participants.
The leader of the course offered additional material, not only on the pathologic side of the remedies, but also of the positive, "redeemed" side, and practical exercises to get from the first to the latter.
This is a rather intuitive, right-brain-approach. A shamanistic one. Certainly something many homeopaths can´t go with easily, especially the more left-brain-centered-people. The participants were almost exclusively female - not by pure chance, I suppose.
It´s nothing new in the healing world that energy can cause effects in a body without being fixed to globuli.
E.g. Qi Gong works with that. (I practise this too.) You can send energy over 100s of km´s even without ever having seen the person before. I tested it, and it worked. Qi Gong masters can even cure cancer by that.
Prana healing is another example. And shamanism, of course.
(And I am sure there are many more.)
Intention plays a very important role in all these. "Energy flows, where attention goes."
If you are willing to open up to the "being" of a remedy, if you ask it to show its aspects, chances are, it will.
In the shamanistic approach remedies can be seen as "creatures", "spirits". So a proving is something like a "voluntary temporary obsession". I wouldn´t put my signature under this, but I can´t really deny it either.
(My hyos-experience felt quite obsessed, at least.
)I hope I was able to explain. If not, feel free to ask further.
Regards
Irene