Aura cleansing

Domain XII · Complementary, energy & biofield

What it is

In the Theosophical writings of C. W. Leadbeater (Man Visible and Invisible, first published around 1902–1903) and Leadbeater with Annie Besant (Thought-Forms), people are described as having invisible bodies around the physical one, seen by trained clairvoyance, whose colours change with emotional…

Format

• It is a single-session procedure that may be repeated; it is not a phased therapy. The sequence below combines the Pranic Healing session as journalists observed and practitioners described it with the published Healing Touch session sequence.
• Phase B, practitioner preparation. Goal: the practitioner becomes centred and sets an intention for the client's "highest good"; in the observed Pranic Healing session an invocation was said that left the deity to the client's own belief.

Who practises it, and how they are trained or regulated

• Training and certification route. Pranic Healing: Basic Pranic Healing (no prerequisite; one centre sets a minimum age of 16; typically two full days), then Advanced Pranic Healing, Pranic Psychotherapy and Pranic Crystal Healing, with certificates from the Institute for Inner Studies; course review is available to certificate holders. Healing Touch: practitioners hold the CHTP (Certified Healing Touch Practitioner)…
• Professional-body position. The APA Ethics Code requires competence through training or supervised experience, and in emerging areas reasonable steps to ensure competence and prevent harm (2.01, 2.01e); judgments based on established scientific and professional knowledge (2.04); and, for treatments without established techniques, disclosure of their developing nature, risks, alternatives and voluntary participation…
• Version followed: "aura cleansing" is a generic name, not a single method with one founder or manual. This guide follows the most codified teaching of it: the scanning, cleansing ("sweeping") and energising sequence of Pranic Healing as taught in Basic Pranic Healing courses derived from Choa Kok Sui's teachings, with certificates issued by the Institute for Inner Studies. It adds the closely related "Magnetic…

Evidence status, as the guide reports it

• Informed consent in one paragraph (illustrative wording for the form). Aura cleansing is a complementary practice, not psychotherapy and not medical treatment. The practitioner moves their hands slowly through the space a few inches from your body while you sit or lie fully clothed; in some…

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 intense or unusual breathing? Have you been told about the medical conditions for which that is not advised?
• Does it involve fasting, a special diet or 'detox'? Have you discussed this with your doctor?
• 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

• dizziness, spaciness or a dissociated look; continue grounding before they leave or drive.
• drowsiness, emotional release or tearfulness (pause, invite the client to open their eyes and describe what is happening; see 5.3).
• strong attributions ("you took the darkness out of me") that place power in you rather than the client; gently return agency to them.
• feelings of agitation, heat, headache or restlessness; stop and ground the client (4.9). Do not frame energising as treating an organ or illness.
• a client who is uncomfortable with a prayer or invocation (keep it silent and secular); your own wish for something to happen, which can lead to suggestion.

Problems the guide addresses

• Client feels nothing or is sceptical
• Client is stuck or wants repeated cleansing
• Overwhelm, emotional release or dissociation
• Discomfort with closeness or touch, or a consent rupture
• Clash with faith, culture or family
• Physical illness, delayed medical care or disease claims
• Contamination fears, psychosis and spiritual crises
• Over-attribution to the therapist and dependency
• Commerce, trainings and products
• Scope and competence questions

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.