Energy healing modalities have been around for centuries, and they continue to be popular today. These modalities involve the use of energy to balance and restore the body, mind, and spirit. The number of modalities available today is growing, while some of them are very old, new modialities are popping up and making an impact in the world of energy healing and energy medicine.
Healing Modality Guide
This list has been compiled to to assist you with finding a healing modality that may enrich your healing journey - whether you are looking to learn a new modality, or to find one to help you heal. While the focus of this guide is to identify energy healing modalities, it also includes some 'hands on' healing modalities that are not traditionally categorised as an energy healing modality - however they may be of interest or assistance to you.
Energy healing modalities compliment modern medicine, but they should not be used as a substitute for medical treatment for serious health conditions. If you have a serious or longstanding health condition, consult with a qualified healthcare provider before trying any new treatment or healing modality. I have not experienced all of the modalities in this list and therefore do not endorse them. I urge you to use your discernment when working with a new modalitiy or healer.
Acupressure
Acupressure applies pressure to specific points on the body to relieve pain and restore balance and is based on acupuncture but without needles. Pressure is applied with fingers (usually between 30 seconds to 3 minutes) to certain locations on your body. This energy healing technique promotes blood circulation and eases muscle tension, making it an effective method for managing pain and stress.
Acupuncture
Acupuncture restores balance in the body's energy flow, alleviates pain, and promotes overall wellbeing. It is a traditional Chinese medicine practice that involves inserting thin needles into specific points on the body, believed to help balance the flow of energy, or "qi," throughout the body. This ancient practice can enhance energy balance techniques and contribute to holistic healing.
Affirmations
Affirmations are positive statements or phrases that are repeated to oneself with the intention of influencing one's subconscious mind and creating a desired outcome or belief. These self-healing practices can help change negative thought patterns, boost self-confidence, overcome limiting beliefs, and cultivate a more positive outlook on life, ultimately promoting mind-body healing.
Afformations
Afformations are a variation of affirmations created by Noah St. John. Instead of stating a fact, they are framed as questions. For example, instead of saying "I am successful," an afformation would be "Why am I so successful?" This technique shifts focus towards positive outcomes, harnessing the power of the mind's natural inclination to seek answers, making it a profound tool in spiritual healing practices.
Alexander Technique
Alexander Technique enhances posture and movement, reducing tension and improving overall health. This mind-body therapy focuses on improving posture and movement patterns to alleviate pain and tension, contributing to self-healing practices by fostering body awareness and relaxation.
Angel Healing
Angel Healing is a form of spiritual healing that involves connecting with and working with angels to bring healing and balance to a person's body, mind, and spirit. This practice can be done in various ways, including meditation, prayer, and the use of angelic symbols and crystals. The goal of angel healing is to restore balance and harmony to one's energy field, promoting emotional and spiritual growth.
Aromatherapy
Aromatherapy is a holistic healing practice that uses essential oils—highly concentrated plant extracts—to promote physical and emotional well-being. Essential oils are believed to contain the plant's natural healing properties, reducing stress and anxiety, improving sleep, relieving pain, and promoting relaxation. Different essential oils serve distinct purposes; for instance, lavender is often associated with calmness, while peppermint aids digestion and headache relief.
Art Therapy
Art Therapy is an expressive therapy that uses art materials and creative processes to explore and express emotions, thoughts, and experiences in a non-verbal way. It involves various mediums such as painting, drawing, and sculpting, helping individuals communicate their inner world and process trauma, grief, and chronic illness. This therapeutic approach can facilitate self-discovery and emotional healing.
Aura-Soma
Aura-Soma uses color, plant, and crystal energies to balance the aura and promote well-being. This holistic healing technique works by applying specially formulated oils that correspond to various colors to the body, aiming to restore energy balance and enhance personal growth.
Ayurvedic Healing
Ayurvedic Healing balances the body's energies through diet, lifestyle, and herbal remedies for overall health. This traditional system of medicine, originating in India over 5,000 years ago, emphasizes the interconnectedness of body, mind, and spirit. By balancing the three doshas—vata, pitta, and kapha—Ayurveda supports self-healing practices and offers a comprehensive approach to health.
Bach Flower Remedies
Bach Flower Remedies utilize flower essences to balance emotions and promote mental clarity. These plant-based treatments consist of 38 flower essences, each corresponding to a specific emotional state or personality trait. By restoring emotional balance, these remedies help the body heal itself, making them a valuable tool in alternative healing methods.
Bioenergetics
Bioenergetics combines bodywork and psychotherapy to release emotional and physical blockages. This therapeutic approach focuses on understanding and resolving the underlying emotional issues that contribute to physical tension, facilitating mind-body healing and promoting energy balance.
Biofield Therapy
Biofield Therapy is a form of energy healing that works with the body's biofield, or energy field. Techniques such as Reiki, healing touch, and therapeutic touch aim to restore balance within the biofield, enhancing overall well-being and health.
Body Code
Body Code uses muscle testing to identify and clear imbalances or blockages that can lead to illness and disease. This system addresses emotional and physical imbalances by identifying blocks and releasing them through various therapies, aligning with the principles of energy healing for beginners.
Body Talk
Body Talk is a holistic therapy that uses muscle testing and intuition to communicate with the body's innate healing intelligence. By identifying and addressing imbalances, this modality aims to restore harmony within the body and mind.
Breathwork
Breathwork encompasses a range of techniques focusing on conscious control of breathing for improving physical, mental, and emotional health. By enhancing the flow of oxygen, these self-healing practices can reduce stress and anxiety, promote relaxation, and contribute to energy balance techniques.
Chakra Healing
Chakra Healing focuses on the seven main energy centers, or "chakras," located along the body's central axis. Practitioners employ various techniques to balance and activate these energy centers, promoting physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being through effective energy healing practices.
Chakra Dance
Chakra Dance uses movement and music to balance and align the chakras. This form of self-expression, explored in Natalie Southgate's book "Chakradance: Move Your Chakras, Change Your Life," integrates mind-body healing and energy balance techniques.
Clearing Energy Blocks
Clearing Negative Trapped Emotions is a process of identifying unprocessed emotions, such as grief, anger, and fear, that become trapped in the body, leading to physical symptoms and disease. Techniques such as muscle testing and scanning energy fields are utilized to identify and release these trapped emotions, fostering emotional healing and overall well-being.
In my online course Break Free of Your Limiting Beliefs, I guide you through 'easy to learn' techniques to release your energy blocks.
Colour Healing/Therapy
Colour Healing, also known as chromotherapy, is an alternative therapy that involves using colours to heal physical and emotional ailments. Each color has unique vibrations and frequencies affecting energy flow in the body. For instance, blue light promotes calmness, while red light enhances circulation and energy levels.
Craniosacral Therapy
Craniosacral Therapy relieves pain and tension through gentle manipulation of the skull and spine. By focusing on the craniosacral system, practitioners use light touch to release restrictions, promoting balance and holistic healing throughout the body.
Crystal Healing
Crystal Healing utilizes crystals to balance energy, enhance healing, and promote spiritual growth. Practitioners place crystals on or near the body, allowing them to absorb and transmit energy, thereby harmonizing the body's energy fields.
Cupping Therapy
Cupping Therapy increases circulation, reduces pain, and removes toxins from the body. This ancient technique, often used in Traditional Chinese Medicine, creates suction on the skin to promote blood flow and enhance recovery.
Dance/Movement Therapy
Dance/Movement Therapy employs movement and dance to foster self-expression, emotional healing, and personal growth. This therapeutic approach emphasizes mind-body integration, supporting emotional well-being through the benefits of energy healing. See also Chakra Dance.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) aka: Tapping
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) is a method involving tapping on specific acupressure points while focusing on negative emotions or beliefs to release them and promote healing. It's a powerful self-healing practice, with resources from the Ortner family’s Tapping Solution enhancing its reach.
Emotional Detox
Emotional Detox is a breathwork technique that helps release stored emotions, allowing individuals to confront and heal from past traumas and emotional blockages.
Family Constellations
Family Constellations is a therapeutic approach that seeks to reveal and resolve dysfunctional patterns within a family system. Developed by German psychotherapist Bert Hellinger, this practice addresses the impact of ancestral trauma on current relationships and emotional health, making it valuable for personal growth and healing.
Feldenkrais Method
The Feldenkrais Method is a somatic therapy that employs gentle, mindful movements to improve posture, flexibility, and coordination. This mind-body approach fosters self-awareness, promoting healing through enhanced movement patterns.
Frequency Healing
Frequency Healing utilizes specific sound or electromagnetic frequencies to promote healing and balance within the body. Exposure to healing vibrations, whether through music or direct application, supports overall health and wellness. See also Infusion Healing.
Healing Touch
Healing Touch is a holistic energy therapy that uses gentle touch to balance the body's energy systems and promote healing. This technique enhances energy flow, supports mind-body healing, and fosters emotional well-being.
Herbal Medicine
Herbal Medicine employs plant-based remedies to support and treat various conditions. This ancient healing modality, prevalent in many first-nation cultures, utilizes the natural healing properties of herbs to restore balance and promote self-healing practices. Companies such as Weleda has products that are based on herbal medicine.
Holotropic Breathwork
Holotropic Breathwork uses accelerated breathing to access altered states of consciousness for healing. This technique encourages emotional release and personal transformation, supporting self-exploration and spiritual healing practices.
Homeopathy
Homeopathy stimulates the body's self-healing abilities using highly diluted substances. This alternative healing method emphasizes individualized treatment, aiming to address the root causes of health issues.
Ho'oponopono
Ho'oponopono is a Hawaiian reconciliation and forgiveness practice for restoring harmony and balance within oneself, others, and the divine. It is based on the belief that every problem or challenge we encounter in life is a manifestation of the memories and traumas stored in our subconscious mind, which affect our behavior and relationships.
Hypnotherapy
Hypnotherapy employs guided relaxation and focused attention to access the subconscious mind, facilitating therapeutic change. This energy healing practice can help alleviate stress, anxiety, and pain, and can support personal growth and transformation.
Infusion Healing
Infusion Healing is a unique modality I developed, combining innovative energy healing techniques with frequency healing to infuse the body with the specific energies it needs. This approach harnesses the healing vibrations of flower essences, herbs, essential oils, crystals, color therapy, and more.
Integrated Energy Therapy (IET)
IET is an energy healing technqiue that combines energy work with elements of counseling and psychotherapy to promote emotional healing and release.
Intuitive Healing
Intuitive Healing taps into the healer's intuition to identify and address imbalances within a person's energy field. This holistic approach aims to promote self-awareness, emotional release, and overall well-being through intuitive insights.
Iridology
Iridology studies the iris to assess an individual's health and identify imbalances. By analyzing the patterns, colors, and conditions of the iris, practitioners can gain insights into a person's physical and emotional state.
Jin Shin Jyutsu
Jin Shin Jyutsu is a Japanese healing art that involves using hands-on techniques to harmonize the body's energy. It involves holding specific points on the body to restore health and vitality.
Johrei
Johrei is a Japanese energy healing technique that involves the transmission of healing energy from a trained practitioner to a recipient through light touch or focused intention. Key aspects of Johrei include: Channeling Energy: Practitioners use their hands to transmit Johrei energy to recipients, facilitating healing by promoting relaxation and balance in the body's energy systems. Focus on Purification: Johrei emphasizes the purification of the mind and spirit, which practitioners believe can lead to improved physical health. Spiritual Development: In addition to physical healing, Johrei aims to foster spiritual growth and enlightenment for both the practitioner and the recipient. Community Practice: Johrei is often practiced in group settings, where participants can receive and share healing energy, creating a supportive community atmosphere.
Kinesiology
Kinesiology is the study of human movement and physical activity. It explores the mechanics of body movement and their effects on physical performance, health and well-being. kinesiology uses muscle testing to identify imbalances in the body’s energy systems. This technique helps practitioners assess stressors and promote healing through targeted interventions, such as nutrition and lifestyle changes. Key aspects of Kinesiology include movement analysis, rehabilitation, ergonomics, sports performance and energy healing.
Kundalini Yoga
Kundalini Yoga awakens dormant energy, balances chakras, and promtoes spiritual growth. It incoporates a variety of techniques, including: Asanas (postures): Physical exercises to help release energy blocks and increase physical strength and flexibility. Pranayama (breathing techniques): Specific breath control practices designed to enhance energy flow and promote relaxation. Meditation: Techniques that encourage mindfulness and focus, helping to connect with and elevate one's energy. Mantras: Sound vibrations used to help focus the mind and stimulate the energy centers (chakras) in the body. The practice aims to raise awareness, balance energy, and promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being, making it a valuable component of energy healing and personal development.
Laughter Yoga
Laughter Yoga combines laughter exercises with yoga breathing techniques to promote physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being. This playful practice enhances mood, reduces stress, and fosters a sense of community.
Light Therapy
Light Therapy treats mood disorders, skin conditions, and seasonal affective disorder (SAD) using specific light frequences. It promotes healing and balance within the body. Light therapy may be used to address physical, emotional, or spiritual imbalances.
Magnet Therapy
Magnet Therapy is also known as magnetic therapy or magneto-therapy, uses static magnetic fields to improve circulation, reduce pain and promote healing. It is believed the magnetic fields help to restore balance in the body’s electromagnetic field.
Matrix Energetics
Matrix Energetics (ME) is a technique that involves accessing the quantum field to promote healing and change. It involves techniques such as intention, attention, and energy work. Practitioners believe that by tapping into the "matrix" of energy that connects all things, they can access a field of potential and create instantaneous shifts in a person's physical, emotional, or spiritual state. The approach emphasizes the importance of intention and awareness in the healing process. ME is used to address emotional challenges, and spiritual growth. It encourages practitioners to explore possibilities beyond traditional diagnosis and treatment. Sessions often involve a combination of hands-on techniques and guided visualization, allowing clients to experience changes in their energy field and physical body. The practitioner may facilitate shifts by using light touch or even distance healing techniques.
Meditation
Meditation encompasses various techniques for promoting mindfulness, relaxation, and self-awareness. Regular practice can lead to profound emotional and mental healing, enhancing the mind-body connection and supporting overall well-being.
Mindfulness
Mindfulness is a mental practice that encourages awareness and acceptance of the present moment. By cultivating mindfulness, individuals can reduce stress and anxiety, enhance emotional well-being, and promote self-healing.
Movement Medicine
Movement Medicine is a therapeutic approach that integrates dance and movement practices with personal growth. This modality encourages emotional expression, healing, and transformation through the joy of movement.
Music Therapy
Music Therapy uses music to address physical, emotional, cognitive, and social needs. This therapeutic approach enhances emotional expression, fosters relaxation, and promotes self-healing through the healing power of music.
Nature Therapy
Nature Therapy, also known as ecotherapy, promotes healing and well-being through connection with the natural environment. This practice encourages individuals to immerse themselves in nature to restore balance, reduce stress, and improve mental health.
Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)
NLP focuses on the relationship between language, behavior, and the subconscious mind. By reprogramming negative thought patterns and beliefs, this practice can facilitate personal transformation and self-healing.
Polarity Therapy
Polarity Therapy is a form of energy healing that involves working with the body's energy combining touch, exercise and lifestyle changes to promote balance and healing. It involves various techniques, such as bodywork and energy work, using a variety of touch techniques, from gentle holding to deep tissue manipulation.
Pranic Applications Healing
Pranic Applications Healing is an off-shoot of Pranic Healing developed by Dr Hazel Wharda who was trained by Master Choa Kok Sui. Like Pranic healing it uses prana or lifeforce energy (the energy of our environment) to cleanse, balance and heal the body's energy systems, promoting healing. Pranic Applications uses energy healing to work with practical day-to-day needs as well as physical, mental and spiritual healing.
Pranic Healing
Pranic Healing uses life-force energy to cleanse and energise the body, promoting health. It was developed by Master Choa Kok Sui in the 1980s. it's a form of energy healing based on the principle that the body has an innate ability to heal itself, and that by increasing the flow of vital energy, or "prana," throughout the body, one can facilitate the healing process. Practitioners use their hands to sense and manipulate the body's energy fields, with the aim of restoring balance and promoting well-being.
Qi Gong
Qi Gong is an ancient Chinese practice that combines movement, meditation, and breath control to cultivate and balance life energy (qi). This holistic practice supports physical health and emotional well-being through gentle movements and mindfulness.
Quantum Healing
Quantum Healing involves accessing the quantum field to promote healing and change. It often involves techniques such as meditation, visualization, and energy work. Quantum Healing is a term popularized by Dr. Deepak Chopra, referring to a holistic approach to healing that integrates principles from quantum physics with traditional healing practices. It suggests that the mind and body are interconnected at a quantum level, and that consciousness plays a significant role in the healing process.
Quantum Touch
Quantum Touch is a hands-on healing technique that uses energy to amplify the body's natural healing abilities. It was developed by Richard Gordon and focuses on using the body's energy to facilitate healing. It operates on the premise that individuals can harness their own life force energy to promote healing in themselves and others. Key aspects of Quantum Touch include: Breathing and visualisation techniques, touch and intention, energy amplification and self-healing.
Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT)
RTT combines hypnotherapy, psychotherapy and coaching to facilitate lasting change. It was developed by Marisa Peer and is an holistic approach that empowers individuals to break free from limiting beliefs, overcome challenges, and create positive change, making it a valuable option for personal development and emotional healing.
Reflexology
Reflexology is a practice that involves applying pressure to specific points on the feet, hands, and ears which correspond to different organs and systems in the body, stimulating healing and balance throughout the body.
Reiki
Reiki is a Japanese energy healing technique that involves channeling healing energy to promote relaxation and balance. Practitioners use light touch or hold their hands above the body, enabling the recipient to experience deep relaxation and release tension.
Rolfing
Rolfing is a form of deep tissue manipulation that aims to align the body’s structure within gravity. It involves working with the fascia, the connective tissue surrounding muscles and organs. It reorganizes the body's connective tissues to improve posture and relieve chronic pain.
Shamanic Healing
Shamanic Healing involves spiritual practices to heal the soul and restore balance in the body, by connecting with the spirit world to promote healing and balance. It often involves techniques such as journeying, soul retrieval, ceremony, and energy work.
Shinrin-yoku (Forest Bathing)
Shinrin-yoku is a Japanese practice that involves immersing oneself in a natural forest environment to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Developed in Japan during the 1980s, shinrin-yoku has gained international recognition for its health benefits and is often regarded as a form of nature therapy. It promotes relaxation, recudes stress, and improves overall health by immersing oneself in nature.
Shiatsu
Shiatsu is a form of Japanese bodywork that uses finger and palm pressure, stretches, and other massage techniques to improve the flow of energy (qi) through the body.
Sound Healing
Sound Healing is a practice that uses sound vibrations to balance and harmonize the body's energy fields. Practitioners use instruments such as singing bowls, gongs, and tuning forks to produce different frequencies and promote relaxation and healing. Sound vibrations help to release blockages from the body's energy centers and promote relaxation.
Spiritual Healing
Spiritual Healing addresses the emotional, psychological, and spiritual aspects of health. Various practices—including prayer, energy work, and spiritual guidance—aim to restore balance and promote self-healing.
Systemised Healing
Systemised Healing refers to healing modalities that follow a specific system or protocol. Examples include Pranic Applications Healing, Reiki, Shamanism, Acupuncture, and Homeopathy. These systems are designed to address specific imbalances within the body and promote overall health and wellness.
In my online course Develop Your Energy Healing Skills, I teach systemised healing techniques so you can heal yourself and your family and friends.
Tai Chi
Tai Chi is a Chinese martial art that involves slow, flowing movements and deep breathing to promote relaxation, balance, and flexibility.
Therapeutic Touch
Therapeutic Touch is a technique where practitioners use their hands to detect and manipulate the energy fields surrounding the body, often involving light touch or hands hovering over the body.
Theta Healing
Theta Healing is a holistic healing modality developed by Vianna Stibal in the 1990s. It combines elements of energy healing, meditation, and self-discovery, aimed at creating deep emotional and physical healing. Theta Healing is a technique that involves accessing the theta brainwave state to promote healing and change limiting beliefs. It involves meditation, visualization, and energy work.
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM)
TCM encompasses various practices—such as acupuncture, herbal medicine, and tai chi—to promote health and well-being. This holistic approach addresses the balance of yin and yang and the flow of qi throughout the body.
Transformational Coaching
Transformational Coaching guides individuals through personal and professional changes. By providing support and tools for self-discovery, this coaching approach fosters emotional healing and facilitates positive change.
Visualization
Visualization is a mental technique that involves creating vivid images in the mind to promote healing and personal growth. This practice can enhance relaxation, reduce stress, and support overall well-being.
Vortex Healing
Vortex Healing is a holistic healing modality that integrates energy healing and spiritual transformation. It was developed by Ric Weinman in the early 1990s and is rooted in the concept of working with divine energy to facilitate deep healing and transformation on physical, emotional, and spiritual levels. nvolves various techniques, such as energy work, visualization, and meditation.
Yoga
Yoga combines physical postures, breath control, and meditation to promote physical, mental, and emotional well-being. This holistic practice enhances body awareness, flexibility, and emotional balance through mind-body integration.
Zero Balancing
Zero Balancing was developed by Dr. Fritz Frederick Smith in the 1970s. It Practitioners use gentle touch to apply pressure to specific areas of the body (often at joints) while also being mindful of the energy flow within the body. The goal is to create a state of balance that supports physical, emotional, and spiritual health. Zero Balancing is said to help release tension, enhance relaxation, improve body awareness, and promote overall wellness.
Zero Point Healing
Zero Point Healing is based on the concept of zero point energy. This is the lowest possible energy state of a quantum mechanical system. Zero point healing aims to access this energy and use it to promote healing in the body. The focus is releasing blockages and restoring balance to the body's energy fields. Techniques include meditation, visualization, and energy work to access this energy. They may use their hands or other tools to direct the energy towards the person in need of healing. Zero point healing is said to work on a deep level, addressing the root cause of illness rather than just the symptoms. Some people report feeling more relaxed and energized after a session.
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