About Polarity Therapy
Polarity Therapy is a natural healthcare system with its scope of practice based upon the universal principles of energy: attraction, repulsion and neutrality. The interrelation of these principles forms the basis for every aspect of life, including your experience of health, wellness and disease. With this understanding, Polarity Therapy addresses the interdependence of body, mind and spirit and the value of creating a way of life in harmony with nature.
The practice of polarity is a system of energetic touch, reflex and acupressure points that balance energy flow in your body. Polarity, an integrative approach to healing and wellness, involves energetic bodywork, energetic exercise and polarity yoga stretches, and energetic food awareness.
Benefits of Polarity Therapy
- Reducing stress
- Increasing vital energy
- Promoting healing through self-awareness
- Restoring and maintaining proper energy flows throughout the body
- Supports better sleep
- Decreases anxiety
- Nourishes and strengthens the whole body
- Strengthens resilience to stress
- Enhances immunity
- Decreases the drying effects of aging
- Increases longevity
- Stimulates the internal organs and circulation
- Detoxifying tissue layers
- Anti-inflammatory effect on joints
Polarity, having its structure in the traditional system of Ayurvedic medicine, defines patterns of health based upon the concept of energy movement. The practice of polarity will focus on the flow and balance of energy as the foundation of good health.
Experiencing a Polarity Therapy Session
In a typical session, the practitioner assesses energetic attributes using energetic touch, observation and interview methods. Sessions usually take 60-90 minutes, do not require disrobing, and involve soft touch, some rocking as well as point specific touch.
Energetic Touch is the work Polarity Practitioners perform with clients - verbal interaction is energetic communication that has to do with reading the energy in people's words and staying neutral versus engaging in the emotions of the patient and verbal interaction. Contact may be light, medium or firm. In the session, the practitioner supports the client in increasing self-awareness of subtle energetic sensations, which are often experienced as tingling, warmth, expansion or wavelike movement. The results of Polarity Therapy sessions vary, and may include profound relaxation, an understanding of energetic patterns and their implications, and relief from numerous specific problematic situations such as hypertension, anxiety attacks and breathing disorders.
What is Polarity Therapy?
Polarity therapy is a natural healthcare system with its scope of practice based upon the universal principles of energy: attraction, repulsion and neutrality. The interrelation of these principles forms the basis for every aspect of life, including your experience of health, wellness and disease. With this understanding, polarity therapy addresses the interdependence of body, mind and spirit and the value of creating a way of life in harmony with nature.
As part of the larger field of energy medicine, polarity therapy complements existing systems with an integrated, holistic model. Polarity therapy is a transformative influence for change in healthcare and in wellness education.
The practice of polarity is a system of energetic touch, reflex and acupressure points that balance energy flow in your body. Polarity, an integrative approach to healing and wellness, involves energetic bodywork, energetic exercise and polarity yoga stretches, and energetic food awareness.
How is Polarity Therapy Practiced?
In polarity therapy, four therapeutic techniques are related: bodywork, energetic foods, exercise and self-awareness. In the bodywork portion of this therapy, practitioners place their hands lightly on the body to redirect the client's energy. Cleansing programs and yoga-like exercises may be recommended to enhance the client's health.
Can You Tell Me More About Polarity Practitioners?
The Profession
Polarity, within its scope of practice includes energetic approaches to somatic energetic contact, verbal facilitation, energetic foods, polarity yoga and self help exercise and health education.
Entry into the profession requires a thorough knowledge of energetic principles. The course of study includes entry level and advanced education, with certification programs in basic and advanced training.
As a profession, Polarity Therapy upholds basic values such as service, diversity, spirituality, the sacredness of relationship, community outreach, accessibility and the Polarity Therapy professional's continual growth and development.
Future-sighted and research-oriented, Polarity Therapy professionals are both participants and leaders in redefining the healthcare field. Polarity practitioners, "APP/RPP" are registered by the American Polarity Therapy Association. APTA sets standards, rules and regulations for the profession of Polarity Therapy. As a governing body, APTA has a strict code of ethics and an elected member board.
Polarity training schools under the Institute of Holistic Health Careers are registered by the State of Ohio State Board of Career Colleges and Schools (Reg. ##00-01-1528T).
Board Certified State and National -- American Association of Drugless Practitioners
Polarity Practitioners
Polarity practitioners are certified by The American Polarity Therapy Association (APTA), the governing body of Polarity Therapy. A Registered Polarity Practitioner (RPP) must have 750 hours of class work plus clinical experience hours. They are highly skilled and trained practitioners with knowledge of and training in Anatomy, Physiology, Energy Theories and Principles of Polarity, Polarity Energetic Bodywork, Communication, Energetic Evaluation, Energetic Food Awareness, Stretching Postures and Ethics and Standards for Polarity Practitioners. An Associate Polarity Practitioner (APP) is an Associates Certification with 155 hours of training plus supervised clinical work. All Polarity Practitioners must adhere to The American Polarity Therapy Association's Standards and Bylaws and be an APTA member in good standing in order to practice.
American Polarity Therapy Association
Polarity Therapy is a rapidly growing profession and comes under the guidance of APTA. APTA accredits and sets the standards for the profession of Polarity Therapy. APTA is the primary national organization with a Board of Directors and an Ethics Board, which supports the promotion and development of Polarity Therapy as a field and as a profession. APTA fulfills the following functions:
Sets standards of excellence for practice, education and ethical conduct.
Actively protects the right to practice Polarity Therapy.
Is responsible and accountable to its membership.
Supports harmony, diversity and relationship as essential ingredients to a functional and balanced organization.
Provides a range of member benefits, designed to maximize the potential of the individual member to succeed in the field of Polarity Therapy.
Ensures its long-term success by creating organization and financial stability.
Regulates the practice of Polarity by maintaining high competency standards for registration of Polarity Practitioners and schools.
Sets standards for registration of RPP (Registered Polarity Practitioners) and APP (Association Polarity Practitioners).
Has an ongoing Ethics Board that provides and promotes consumer protection and monitors scope of practice issues. |