Life Energy Course 1
Payment plan available: 3 payments of $199
SAF's proprietary online training course teaches you the Self Awareness Formulas: how to read your body's patterns, interpret your own energy chains, and understand yourself in a way you haven't before.
SAF, the Self Awareness Formulas, is a system developed by researcher Joseph R. Scogna, Jr. that connects the body's organ and gland systems to the emotions and patterns stored within them. Every physical symptom, recurring behavior, and emotional loop has a story. SAF gives you the tools to read that story.
Course 1 is where that reading begins, with your own chain. Through structured online lessons drawn directly from SAF Simplified and the course workbook, you will learn the SAF numbering system, complete your own questionnaires, and work through three personal chain interpretations with instructor feedback.
By the end of Course 1, you will understand yourself in a way you haven't before. That understanding alone is worth the course.
Course 1 is the required foundation for the complete SAF certification pathway. After completing Course 1, graduates move into Course 2 — Clinical Foundations and Working with Others — and then Course 3, the full SAF Practitioner Certification. Everything begins here.
See the full training pathway →Life Energy Course 1 consists of 8 structured modules delivered entirely at your own pace
What SAF is, how Life Energy works, and the dragon: the unresolved trauma that's been shaping your life without your knowledge.
The 24 organ and gland systems, their corresponding emotions and conditions, and how to begin reading the code your body speaks.
Lead, Core, and Anchor: the three positions that turn a sequence of numbers into a grammatical sentence about your life.
Setting up your SAF Aware account, navigating the dashboard, completing questionnaires, and generating your personal chains.
Your first personal chain: from major complaint to questionnaire to full interpretation, submitted for instructor feedback.
Your second chain, building on what the first one revealed. Instructor feedback included.
Your third chain interpretation. By now the process is becoming your own. Final graded submission.
The SAF Code of Ethics, what it means to work with this system responsibly, and your final certification exam.
All lesson content is sourced directly from SAF Simplified and the SAF course workbook, delivered through structured online modules. You do not need to purchase additional books to complete this course, though having SAF Simplified as a reference is always recommended.
Step-by-step guidance for setting up your SAF Aware account, completing the Stress-120 questionnaire, and generating your personal chains throughout the course.
The SAF Code of Ethics and your responsibilities as a student and future practitioner of this work.
You must pass all module quizzes at 80% and a 25-question final exam to receive your Course 1: Personal Discovery & Self-Awareness certificate from Life Energy Publications.
Personal chain work completed on yourself and submitted for review. Your instructor reads every word and provides written feedback on your chain reading, connector questions, and rectification. This is not automated. A real person reads your work.
Each module includes a quiz (80% pass threshold), and the course concludes with a 25-question certification exam. All assessments are completed online at your own pace.
Course 1 is Step One of Three
After completing Course 1, graduates continue to Course 2 and Course 3 to earn the full SAF Practitioner Certificate.
“What Joe Scogna so capably gets across is that instead of throwing up our hands in surrender, there is beauty and balance that went into the creation of this process called life.”
—Mark Stern, M.D.
“I’ve been all around the world with my businesses and have reported on all types of health and self-improvement programs. There is nothing like SAF® anywhere — it’s quite miraculous! I am flabbergasted at how my own life has been enriched with my personal SAF® program.”
—Roger Willoughby-Ray
“The insights and connections the infrared reveals continue to astound me even after years of seeing it work. Following the numerical pattern of a client’s chain, generated by the infrared, combined with client history, dialogue and experience, unravels years of stress from the body, mind and spirit. We can use this incredible technology to gain new awareness and educate ourselves on how to see our own light and untapped potential, and help others do the same.”
—Sandy Aquila, Om Center Director
“I love infrared because it bypasses one’s defenses and gets right to the heart of the matter, or the spleen or the colon. It is simple to use and reliable. Everyone who has been scanned is blown away, and wants to know, How could it know that about me?”
—Nancy Porter, DN, Iowa
“The SAF® Online service is awesome! With the Modality Sorter, I can find if exercise, acupuncture, or yoga is needed. Working with the withholds has been the most dramatic and rewarding for releasing energy.”
—Paulline Caraher, Arizona
“I use both SAF® questionnaires and the Infrared. Amazing! With the questionnaires, we have the patient’s point of view; however, English is the 2nd or 3rd language for my patients so I use the Infrared more often. It is an interesting tool — scans on babies have been very impressive!”
—Dr. Jim Eerebout, MD, MA Belgium
“SAF Online is quick and easy to use, an extremely advanced technology for personal change and for helping others. The Up-Links in the interpretations create a comprehensive picture of the ages when traumas occurred, where in the body they are located and how they are impacting our lives in the present.”
—Brian Kilian, Tennessee
Read a real, anonymized Course 1 case study — a 17-year-old whose lifelong anxiety traced back to his own premature birth, uncovered through a single Stress-120 questionnaire.
Read the Case Study →The Life Energy Course 1 is a fully online, self-paced course — 8 structured modules with quizzes, three personal chain interpretation assignments graded by your instructor, and a 25-question certification exam. You will emerge with a working knowledge of the SAF system and your Course 1 Certificate.
Life Energy Course 1
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SAF® is an educational, self-awareness methodology. It is not medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment.
No. Course 1 starts from the very beginning. The only requirement is genuine curiosity about yourself and a willingness to do the personal work. If you've read SAF Simplified, you'll find the course deepens and structures what you already know, but it is not required.
Most students complete Course 1 in 8 to 12 weeks working at their own pace. There is no time limit on enrollment. The course is self-paced, so you can move faster or slower based on your schedule and the depth of your chain work.
A chain interpretation is a personal self-awareness session generated from the Stress-120 questionnaire on the SAF Aware platform. No special equipment is needed for Course 1, just a computer or phone and your SAF Aware account. Infrared scanning is introduced in Course 2.
Your instructor reviews your work personally and provides written feedback on your chain reading, connector questions, and rectification. You are not graded by an algorithm. A real person reads your work.
Yes. Upon passing all module quizzes at 80% and the final 25-question certification exam, you receive a Course 1: Personal Discovery & Self-Awareness certificate from Life Energy Publications.
Yes. Course 1 is the required foundation for all advanced training. It begins with personal discovery, and those who feel called to work with others will continue through additional courses that build on what you learn here.
Course 1 graduates are eligible to continue into Course 2 — Clinical Foundations and Working with Others — and then Course 3, the full SAF Practitioner Certification. Each level builds directly on the last. You can view the complete training pathway here → or learn about Course 2 here →.
The SAF system was built to help you find it. Course 1 is where that work begins — with yourself, at your own pace, with a trained practitioner alongside you.
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