Polarity therapy is both a way of life and a healing modality based in energy medicine. Polarity works with the body, mind, and spirit through the lens of the five elements and the chakra system. It offers a way to honor the unique path of each persons healing journey and empowers its practitioners with specialized techniques of listening, communicating, creating resonance and rapport, and holding space for energetic blocks to resolve. More than just a healing modality, polarity offers an elevated way to view and assimilate all of life's experiences.
This extraordinarily holistic system of healing leaves nothing out.
Polarity includes various tools and approaches to balancing the human energy system. It utilizes energetic nutrition, yoga-based energy exercises, right thinking, sound healing, and both hands off as well as hands on bodywork including cranial sacral therapy and autonomic nervous system balancing techniques.
Where did it come from?
The philosophy and practices that inspired Polarity therapy began in 1912 by Dr. Randolph Stone DO, DC, ND, who traveled the world for over 60 years practicing and studying various energy medicine techniques, including traditional Chinese medicine and Ayurveda Yoga, Reflexology, and more. In Dr. Stone's philosophy, all imbalances, whether mental/emotional, physical, or spiritual, result from how our energy is flowing.
Is energy medicine even relevant in todays world?
Although this work is based in ancient philosophies from across the globe, it is also backed by cutting edge research. As the world and science evolve to acknowledge the more profound and subtle ways that life energy flows and communicates, energy comprehension becomes increasingly valuable for people of all walks, including parents, teachers, CEOs, and heads of human resources for corporations, institutions or foundations. In short, this work is becoming more relevant and recognized every day!
What if I don’t have any background in the healing arts, body or energy work?
You do not need to have any special healing gifts or talents to learn about energy medicine and experience life-altering positive changes! If you have a desire to understand how energy works, to hold sacred space for yourself or anyone else in your life, then you are qualified.
Ultimately this work will benefit any individual who seeks sovereignty and wholeness for both themselves and the collective.
Our classroom resides on ten acres of sacred waterfront forest on Oyster Bay in Olympia, WA in a 30 foot geodesic dome designed to harmonize with the environment and amplify the energy within.
“The infinite within is ever becoming…”Dr. Randolph Stone, the founder of Polarity Therapy
Polarity Therapy is a holistic healing modality overseen by the nationally accredited American Polarity Therapy Association (APTA). Polarity works with the chakra system elementally (which is based in Ayurveda) to bring balance to body, mind, and soul utilizing body based energy work, energetic nutrition, resonance based communication, sound healing, yoga inspired movement and more.
Polarity is a powerful stand alone system of healing but can also be integrated with other modalities.
You can use these principals to live a better life, build a career in the healing arts, or to empower your existing healing practice.
Energy Medicine is growing in popularity and currently there are an ever increasing number of modalities to study. There are always many paths to choose from.
Why choose polarity?
Polarity is holistic in nature and therefor it appeals to many types of healing artists such as naturopathic doctors, chiropractors, bodyworkers, psychologists, acupuncturists, dancers and embodiment practitioners, teachers, research scientists, yoga enthusiasts, and spiritual seekers of all walks of life.
Polarity can support any modality it accompanies yet it can also stand on its own as a complete healing modality unto itself.
Polarity encompasses so many principals from both east and west, ancient and cutting edge. It is one of the few modern healing arts that is Nationally accredited through the governing body of APTA, the American Polarity Therapy Association which has been overseeing the excellence of its programs and practitioners since the early 1980’s.
If you are looking for a somatic energetic modality that is full of mysticism yet backed by science, that offers board certification, that is holistic, and rigorously upheld by passionate enthusiasts all over the world, then look no further. This is the modality for you!
Image description: Dr. Stone the founding father of Polarity therapy and a sample of two energy drawings from his books.
Originally published by the Colorado School of Energy Studies
BY PIERRE PANNETIER
CA. 1982 – TRANSCRIBED AUDIO LECTURE
BRACKETS INDICATE DISCONTINUITY IN THE TRANSCRIPTION; MEANING NOT KNOWN
The founder of Polarity Therapy is Dr. Stone. By the way Dr. Stone died just this December 9th while living in India. He retired entirely from his teachings of Polarity Therapy in 1973. 1 was his assistant for many years and in 1971 and 1972 he asked me to continue his work and he came to live with me in Santa Ana before he retired in India. Over there he was doing special work for himself especially. He has a living Master and he was doing Meditation all the day long. He has a big attachment for the only son that he had and that son was a big one, was named Polarity Therapy. So, he was in very good hands over there and was taking good care of[].
So, let me tell you about him. Dr. Stone was born in Austria and he came at the age of 13 in America and taught himself English in church and he studied to be a preacher. So, just before becoming a preacher he switched to Medical Science and he was living in Illinois and he was interested all his life in the life energy so there was a new school at that time- called Osteopathy, and that would be the same study as an M.D. After the study of M.D. there was some manipulations which he was very interested in manipulations which means to put yours hands on somebody. And you know that when you’re in the Aura you’re more able to communicate with the person. So, he became a doctor of Osteopathy, and before he was a doctor of Naturopathy. He also was one of the first doctors of Chiropractic.
He found out in both schools that he was practicing that force was being used and not the flow of the life energy. So he could not find any more answers in America and so he went to the Orient, to China and studied Acupuncture but Acupuncture was not so clear for him because of communication barriers with the Chinese. When he was asking questions as to where to put the needle the answer would be vague and he was told this is just where my teacher told me to put it. And this was not enough for him. He needed to know the cause. So, he went to India where he received a lot of help. He studied Ayurvedic Medicine which is the old medicine of India. The record is about 5,000 to 6,000 years back.
And what Polarity Therapy is exactly is a mixture of the old oriental school of healing and all the occidental school of healing, the old and the new. A lot of his students were not ready for that mixture. He was concerned with the total human being and not just-manipulations. But it really is a Philosophy of a Way of Life. That is, what are we doing on this planet. Very few of his students knew his approach to healing. He had his office in Chicago, Illinois for more than 50 years and he took all the cases of orthodox medicine – they went to see him. Now don’t think that, he named himself a healer – this is not true. On the contrary all of his life he said, “I’m not a healer, I am just a channel. This is what we are doing in Polarity Therapy. Being a channel, So he wrote a lot of books which are highly concentrated and in my two week seminars we cover quite a bit but it would take quite a comprehension because Dr. Stone learned of the healing arts in many life times. I don’t know if you believe in reincarnation or not. [It would take] three or four years of study to understand his books.
More Dr. Stone biography notes by Pierre Pannetier
Also Transcribed, but different from above, lecture notes, January 1982
A brief history of Dr. Stone By Pierre Pannetier
Transcribed audio tape lecture given January 1982
Dr. Randoph Stone is the founder of Polarity Therapy. He was born in Austria, February 26, 1890, and in 1903 he immigrated with his father to the United States, where he became a naturalized citizen.
Dr. Stone examined nearly all known systems of natural healing, including Craniopathy and Neuropathy. He earned Doctorate degrees in Chiropractic, Osteopathy and Naturopathy, and took post-graduate courses offered by traditional medical science. His private practice was in Chicago from 1914 until 1972, and throughout this long career, he devoted himself to extensive research into lesser-known systems, necessitating many trips to Europe and to the Orient. From these studies was developed this unique science which he later called Polarity Therapy.
In 1972, Dr. Stone retired from active practice and moved to California, where he continued to teach. In August 1973, he appointed me as his successor, intrusting to me the perpetuation of his life work and the consignment of all his publications. At the age of 83, he retired to India where he lived his remaining days in deep meditation. Dr. Stone left his physical body December 9, 1981.
