Barbara Brennan

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name = Barbara Ann Brennan
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birthdate = February 19th 1939
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occupation = Energy Healer, Teacher, Author
nationality = American
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subject = Energy healing
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influences = Wilhelm Reich, Eva Pierrakos, John Pierrakos
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website = http://www.barbarabrennan.com

Barbara Ann Brennan (born 19 February 1939) is an American author and spiritual healer working mainly in the field of energy healing.

cientific training and early career

Brennan originally trained as a physicist. She received her Bachelor of Science degree in Physics in 1962 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and two years later received her Masters in Atmospheric Physics from the same institution. She then worked as a research scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. [http://www.kheper.net/topics/subtlebody/Brennan.htm Profile of Barbara Brennan by M. Alan Kazlev] ]

Metaphysical training

Since 1970 she has researched and worked with the human energy field. She completed a two–year training program in Therapeutic Counselling at the Community of the Whole Person in Washington, D.C., followed by completion of a three-year program in Core Energetics at the Institute for Core Energetics in New York, New York in 1978 and a five-year program in Spiritual Healership at the Phoenicia Pathwork Center in Phoenicia, New York in 1979. She was strongly influenced by Eva and John Pierrakos, who founded a system for self-transformation called the Pathwork, drawing on the ideas of Wilhelm Reich. Brennan worked with the Pierrakos', and became a practitioner of the Pathwork and core energetics. She developed her own private healing practice and then began to teach others.

Ideas and theories

Her first book, "Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field", became popular in 1989 and is considered a classic in the field of spiritual healing, with over one million copies in print in 22 languages. Brennan's books are most noted for their drawings of auras and energy fields, and her descriptions of how human energy fields interact with each other. Her ideas and healing processes are similar in some ways to writers such as Mantak Chia and Ken Page, and draw on the views of Theosophists such as C. W. Leadbeater and Alice Bailey. She has popularized a seven layer model of the energy field, each layer being structured of differing frequencies and kinds of energy and performing different functions. [ [http://heartofhealing.net/energy-healing/human-energy-field/various-models/ Heart of Healing - Brennan’s Seven Layer Model] ] She views the chakras as transformers that receive and process cosmic energy, as well as enabling expression and healthy functioning of the individual's own consciousness and psycho-physical make-up. Her unique contribution is to indicate two rows of chakras, arranged in pairs located at the front and rears, the front ones being associated with Feeling, the rear with Will, and the upper three with Intellect. [ [http://www.kheper.net/topics/chakras/chakras-BAB.htm Brennan's views on chakras] ]

Brennan claims to receive intuitive messages about her clients during sessions. She also claims to see repetitive patterns in the energy consciousness of her clients indicating common roots underlying their difficulties. Her books draw on messages channeled from Heyoan, who she believes to be her spiritual guide.

Barbara Brennan School of Healing

In 1982 she established the Barbara Brennan School of Healing, designed to train professional healers. The school is now located in Florida, and is licensed by the State of Florida Commission for Independent Education. It offers a Bachelor of Science degree and a Professional Studies diploma in "Brennan Healing Science". The curriculum is built around four areas: healing science, awakening (self-exploration and awareness), creativity, and professionalism. [ [http://barbarabrennan.com Barbara Brennan School of Healing website] ] In 2003, Brennan opened the "Barbara Brennan School of Healing Europe", originally in Mondsee, Austria but which moved in 2006 to Bad Neuenahr near Bonn, Germany. In 2007, a new branch opened in Tokyo, Japan.

Publications

*"Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing through the Human Energy Field", 1987
*"Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing", 1993
*"Seeds of the Spirit", 1999

ee also

*Index of topics in alternative medicine
*Terms and concepts in alternative medicine
*Body psychotherapy
*Energy (esotericism)
*Energy medicine
*Energy field disturbance
*Mental body
*Therapeutic touch
*Bioenergetics

References

External links

* [http://barbarabrennan.com Barbara Brennan's website]
* [http://www.kheper.net/topics/chakras/chakras-BAB.htm Barbara Brennan's explanation of the chakras]
* [http://healthy.net/asp/templates/interview.asp?PageType=Interview&ID=165 Interview with Barbara Brennan on Human Energy]
* [http://innerchangemag.com/BarbaraBrennanInterview.html Interview with Barbara Brennan]
* [http://healership.com Brennan Healing Science Portal]