Pellowah

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield · Kachina Ma'an · 2002 · Australia

What it is

Pellowah is a hands-off, non-contact energy-healing method from Australia. Its founder, Kachina Ma'an, describes it as channelled "from Spirit". The official Pellowah Teachers site says it was channelled in 2003 and has been taught internationally since 2004; some practitioner pages give 2002, but…

Format

• Session structure as practitioners publish it
• Hands-off session. The practitioner works above the body without touch and says they are directed by the energy rather than directing it.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Training route and certification
• Practitioner Workshop / Level 1. This is the only training required to become a certified practitioner for one-to-one sessions. It includes attunement, meditations, and training to give sessions in person and at a distance, and also to animals and plants. Teachers often run it with Level 2 over a two-day weekend, and the course listings state no prerequisites or prior experience. The official site says the…
• Level 3 / Teacher Training. The Teacher Trainer Workshop is taught only by Kachina Ma'an and requires the Practitioner Workshop and Level 2; graduates are "authorised to train others". The official site is a directory of certified teachers only: teachers request a listing with a teacher number for verification, and practitioners are not listed. One listing says practitioners who complete Levels 1 and 2 are…

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Phase D: review. After the planned series, review against the client's own goals. Stop if there is no benefit, or if it is displacing evidence-based care.

Questions to explore with your client

• What drew you to it, and what are you hoping it will change?
• Is there physical contact? Was it explained beforehand, and do you feel free to say no or stop at any point?
• Does it involve any substance, plant preparation, remedy or supplement? Has your doctor or prescriber been told, especially about any medication you take?
• Does it involve intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Is it a group, retreat or community? How do they respond if someone wants to leave or raises a concern?
• Who runs it, and what training or registration do they hold?
• What actually happens in a session or meeting, and how often?
• What does it cost, and is there pressure to commit to more?
• How do you feel afterwards, in the hours and days that follow?
• Does it fit with, or clash with, the work we do here?

What practitioners of it watch for

• Spiritual inflation or certainty creeping into clinical judgement.
• Requests for open-ended sessions. Interest in buying training as a fix. Cost strain.
• Isolation after the session. Distress when no one is present. Confusion about whether the session has ended.
• Distress at being alone, or not knowing when it ends. Prefer staying present for any client with a dissociative history.
• Hesitancy about lying down, or about a mask or closed eyes, particularly in trauma survivors. Offer the seated, eyes-open version. Bracing, breath-holding or startle at the start.

When to involve someone else

• New or worsening physical symptoms, or advice to stop or change prescribed medication: involve the client's doctor or prescriber.
• Signs of coercion, isolation from family and friends, escalating costs or secrecy: discuss openly and consider safeguarding.
• A crisis or thoughts of suicide: follow your crisis protocol. In the US, call or text 988; in the UK and Ireland, Samaritans on 116 123.

Drawn automatically from the guide's own sections. Stay curious: neither endorse nor dismiss what the client values, and check anything that matters against the full guide and its sources. Not medical advice.