FT10 Biofields Therapy Webinar
Location
Online event access details will be provided by the event organiser
Hosted by
Steven Goldstein
About
The term “biofield” was coined in 1994 by a panel convened by the US National Institutes of Health’s Office of Alternative Medicine. It has since been treated as an emerging field of research.
We will take a broad swath through subtler hands-on work and then consider what occurs when the hands are removed.
I take a soul-centred approach, and I’ll clarify what that means and how this intent can show up in your practice. We look at holism and reductionism, and at what “energy medicine” actually means. We consider advocates such as James Oschman, whose 2000 book Energy Medicine: The Scientific Basis set out many of the concepts and models we’ll discuss. We look at spiritual traditions through history that practised hands-on healing, and what that meant to them. We then turn to contemporary views of the biofield, including those who have courted controversy, such as Rupert Sheldrake and his 1981 hypothesis of morphic resonance (the idea that living systems inherit a kind of collective memory from others of their kind).
From there we move into exercises to sense energetic exchange between yourself and a partner, and then apply this to living, vibrant soft tissue and bone. We explore this interface. We consider the work of the late Fritz Smith, whose Zero Balancing (developed in the early 1970s) focuses on the energy held in bone, and we use tuning forks to resonate into bone.
The fundamentals of safety (grounding, presence and intention) are explored, with strategies to bring them into your practice. We also look at a range of concepts and applications, including fulcrums (points of held pressure or stretch that the body organises itself around), the auric field, chakras, and the use of pendulums as a diagnostic tool.
This is a comprehensive look at the various proposed mechanisms, and at how difficult this work is to advocate to a mainstream or skeptical audience.