Polarity Practioner Training Course

Become a certified Polarity Practitioner.

What is Polarity Therapy?

Accumulated stress and tension from everyday life, work, and relationships can limit our experience of life. When energy is unbalanced, blocked or fixed due to stress or other factors, pain and disease arise. The Polarity Process supports the release of tension, fear, pain, and energy blocks, and literally frees us to be more focused in the present, to experience ease and confidence.

Polarity Therapy is five-fold. Not only is it a therapeutic approach working with a client’s energy field, but it also includes applying knowledge about movement, nutrition and diet, and good mental health habits with the essential element of love. Using the polarity process enhances all other personal and professional experiences. One begins to experience the world energetically.

Dr. Randolph Stone (1890-1981), the originator of Polarity Therapy, conducted a thorough investigation of energy in the healing arts over his 60 year medical career… Drawing from a wide variety of sources, he found that the human energy field is affected by touch, diet, movement, sound, attitudes, relationships, life experience, trauma, and environmental factors. Dr. Stone’s desire and purpose for practice was always to alleviate people’s suffering.

Everything is energy…

Polarity Therapy is the practical application of an understanding that everything is energy. The way we express ourselves physically, emotionally, and mentally is energy at work. This energy is the Vital Force, chi, or prana. With training we can see, feel, and use this Vital Force to bring health and fulfillment.

Course Information

This training includes learning and applying the fundamental theories of polarity therapy. Graduates will have received training in offering energy bodywork sessions, energetically evaluating clients’ eating patterns, breath, mental health habits, and attitudes; and advising clients in polarity yoga practice. Class includes polarity yoga, presentation of polarity theories, facilitation of healing, and giving/receiving energy bodywork.

This polarity training is a 145 hour course which includes 120 classroom hours, 30 hours outside bodywork practice, and 5 hours receiving professional sessions. The course will be in Asheville, North Carolina, starting with a 3-day block (Fri, Sat, and Sun) followed by 2-day blocks (Fri & Sat) approximately every 3 weeks, beginning in spring 2010 and continuing for six months. The course schedule will be tailored as much to the scheduling desires and needs of the participants as much as possible.

This course is also accredited by the American Polarity Therapy Association through the Atlanta Polarity Center. Approved graduates may apply to APTA for certification as an Associate Polarity Practitioner. It has also been approved for continuing nursing education by the North Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. ANCC-approved 145 nursing contact hours
Meet the Instructors

Angela Whitney

...is Spirit Venture’s Resonating with the Source course creator, director, and presenter. A Registered Polarity Educator and Practitioner, Angela founded Asheville’s Spirit Ventures, dedicated to individual’s capacity-building, in 1996. Combining medical and alternative approaches to healthcare as an Integrative Health practitioner, Angela is a Family Nurse Practitioner and an Intrinsic Coach® also working for Mission Hospitals in community health. With 35 years of experience in individualizing holistic approaches to health, she facilitates healing and personal growth developmentally and creatively. Co-director of Light of the Mountains Retreat Center and teacher with Universal Awakening, she supports clients, retreatants, and students in their own experiences of learning, renewal, and personal satisfaction. See Spirit Ventures website www.myspiritventures.com.

Guest Instructors

Eleanora Lipton, BA CMT, RPP

...is a nationally-recognized instructor of Polarity Therapy and yoga, and co-author of The Therapeutic Art of Polarity. Director of the Atlanta Polarity Center, leader in the polarity national association APTA, and polarity teacher of other instructors Angela, David, and John. Eleanora maintains a private practice in Atlanta, teaches the polarity/massage interface, and offers vacation yoga experiences. She brings a richness of knowledge, skill and sensitivity to the facilitation of the polarity process. We are grateful for her participation in this course.

David Bate MD, RPP

…is board-certified in Holistic Medicine as a Charter Diplomate of the American Board of Holistic Medicine and was Medical Director of Sisters of Mercy Urgent Cares for more than 20 years, he is now with Blue Ridge Community Health. As an APTA Registered Polarity Practitioner and Educator, Somatic Expriencing certified practitioner, and a collaborator with Spirit Ventures, David’s melding of allopathic and alternative worlds has been a blessing to many. He brings love, and humor to his clients, and practices integrative medicine at Spirit Ventures.

John Johnson Th.D.

…is a healer, executive, international teacher, originator of the Raphaelite Work, and founder of Universal Awakening (universal-awakening.org). A Certified Polarity Practitioner and co-director of Light of the Mountains Retreat Center, John specializes in inspiring others to their highest aspirations.

Other guest instructors to be announced

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