Body Talk

About BodyTalk Access

Overview

The BodyTalk Access program was unveiled at the 2005 International BodyTalk Association Member's Conference. The energy was amazing, as professionals from around the world responded to the potential of this revolutionary new program.

BodyTalk Access provides the layperson, family and community with a simple set of energy-based techniques to make health maintenance and the management of daily health challenges accessible. A majority of your day-to-day health and stress-related concerns can very easily be addressed with the BodyTalk Access routine, when done on a regular basis.

Simplification

BodyTalk Access is based on the comprehensive foundation of the BodyTalk System. Several of the most powerful balancing techniques of the BodyTalk System have been adapted for use by the individual in the home, school, or work environment. These five techniques along with the Fast Aid routine, work together as a set to balance the body in very general ways. Even though the balancing is general, the effects are frequently immediately noticeable.

Increase your Resiliency

The wellness routine presented in BodyTalk Access helps to re-establish internal lines of communication within the bodymind. This ultimately helps the individual have more resiliency towards stress and any other factors that can be detrimental to long term health. The Access routine is designed to be practiced as a complete set and can be done once a day or more depending on need.

The first two techniques balance the brain, so that the brain is turned on and communicating appropriately. The next two techniques balance the metabolic processes of the body and the entire immune system, helping the body be more resilient to stress and external forces, such as germs and viruses. The final technique helps to balance posture and the physical structure of the body, thus improving range-of-motion, flexibility and overall coordination of the muscles, tendons and ligaments.

The Fast Aid routine combines two of the above techniques to assist in helping the body recover from all sorts of minor to major injuries by shifting the body out of a state of shock and trauma back into the growth and healing mode. Fast Aid is highly flexible, incredibly fast and can be used anytime or place to assist in the recovery from injuries and trauma.

Learn in One Day, Use for a Lifetime

BodyTalk Access is designed to be used by anyone: layperson, family member, care giver or healthcare provider alike. These five simple techniques can bring about a significant improvement in health and once learned in the one-day Access class, they can be implemented in less than 10 minutes. You will have these powerful tools for health for the rest of your life.

It is our hope that BodyTalk Access will be able to provide a basic level of health maintenance in communities and countries around the world where good healthcare may not be readily available. It is also our hope to reach families and give them options to take their health back into their own hands, literally. To find an Access Training Seminar view the Courses on offer.

Wellness Tools for Everyday

Promote Health, Prevent Disease

In Ben Franklin's words, the phrase "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure" goes a long way to describe the good health and balance that can be found with BodyTalk Access as a part of your daily life. The BodyTalk Access wellness routine helps your body maintain its best energetic balance so that it can maintain good health, thus preventing disease. Being proactive in your health routine is one of the best things you can do for yourself. It's right up there with eating healthfully, getting enough sleep and being physically active.

Easy Stress Management

If you are feeling stressed out by life and work, then using the BodyTalk Access routine will help you recover more fully from the effects that stress has on your nervous system. Stress has a pervasive effect on the body, causing disease such as: hypertension and high blood pressure, digestive disorders, immune system and hormonal imbalances and physical strain in the shoulders and neck. BodyTalk Access quickly and easily helps to reset your nervous system and help you relax more easily.

Quick Injury Response

BodyTalk Access, through its Fast Aid technique, helps the bodymind draw attention to an injury so that the healing process can be jump-started. This very quickly makes the injury stop hurting and throbbing, and can reverse any swelling or bruising right before your eyes. Depending on the nature of the injury, using Fast Aid just a few times could be enough, or continued use for a little while will make dramatic changes to the injury if it is more severe. Following Fast Aid with the full Access routine will further help keep the bodymind in balance to assist in the healing process. (Of course, for serious situations one should always call for emergency help and take all the standard first aid precautions. But BodyTalk Access can be very helpful in bringing the person out of shock and retriggering the body's self-healing capabilities while help is on the way.)

Sustainable Healthcare

Due to the fact that BodyTalk and BodyTalk Access only utilize the natural healing tools already found within us, as well as focused intent, this is a sustainable personal health practice. There are no medications prescribed or given, the techniques are totally non-invasive and they also do not require any outside tools or resources. BodyTalk Access is good for you and good for our planet!

Performance Enhancement

BodyTalk Access works well for the individual performer, as well as the team working together. By using the Access routine either as an individual or as a group, you will notice increased coordination, improved focus and overall better performance, whether you are running a race, playing a game or engaging in the more creative pursuits of music or art.

Integrates with Professional Care

BodyTalk Access is meant to be used in conjunction with your normal health and wellness routine as well as your professional medical care, whatever it is. While BodyTalk Access can help you with many of your daily issues and stress management, BodyTalk Access does not completely replace seeking professional treatment with a Certified BodyTalk Practitioner or your other healthcare providers when warranted.

Education and Empowerment

Family and Community Wellness

BodyTalk Access teaches the family, community and individual easy tools that will significantly impact the overall health and well-being of whomever uses the techniques regularly. Daily use of the BodyTalk Access routine will address many of the daily health issues, headaches, and bumps and bruises of family life.

School Districts and Education Programs

Anyone who attends school, teaches, or works with anyone in a learning environment will find that the BodyTalk Access techniques help improve their mental focus and memory, which ultimately will lead to improved grades and a deeper understanding of the material. Initial studies have also shown lower absenteeism from sick days, improved behavior and an improved feeling of calm and happiness from students and teachers alike. Children naturally LOVE BodyTalk Access and can be taught these techniques themselves, or can be assisted by an adult.

Corporate Wellness

Many Corporations seek to support the work/life balance of their employees, and this is vitally important in these times of rising healthcare costs. The BodyTalk Access program is taught in 6 hours, but can be adapted to suit the needs and time constraints of the individual office or work environment. Once the program is learned, BodyTalk Access can be used to help employees recover from stress, improve their productivity, focus and quality of work, improve safety performance, decrease absenteeism, as well as presenteeism, decrease employee turnover and generally increase employee happiness and wellbeing. The long term benefits of BodyTalk Access in the corporate environment will be decreased healthcare costs both for the employee and the corporation through promoting health and preventing illness.

Non-Profit Outreach

BodyTalk Access is a great program to offer to any non-profit organization, especially the organizations that work with the under-privileged communities. The Access wellness program can give the caregivers of the organization tools to assist in balancing their client's brains and bodies, so that they can function better in their life. Access can also help the many stressed-out and over-worked caregivers directly, so that they can better serve their organization.

Emergency Response and Flight Attendants

BodyTalk Access training is perfect for any first responder, emergency worker, and even flight attendants, as they deal with people experiencing shock and trauma. Having the basic BodyTalk Access skill set will assist in helping individuals recover from shock, so that they can recuperate more quickly. Flight attendants can quickly and easily assist their passengers if there is ever a need. Many in-flight health issues can easily be resolved with the simple, non-invasive BodyTalk Access Fast Aid routine.

Access Wellness Routine

Cortices

The Cortices technique is designed to improve and balance the communication between the two halves of the brain. (Think of it as hitting the reset button on your brain's computer.) This improves the brain's efficiency - thereby improving overall health. Specific immediate effects include improvements in thinking ability, memory and concentration, stress reduction, feeling more physically relaxed, and enhanced general physiological functioning of the body.

Switching

One of the common side effects of stress is the tendency for the mind to go into a "switched" mode, where normal brain coordination is compromised. This can show up as inattentiveness, poor decision-making and confusion, the making of silly mistakes, poor coordination and mood swings. The "switched" person often reverses simple things such as left-and-right or yes-and-no. The Switching technique helps restore normal brain function and will help the individual to manage stress more effectively.

Hydration

The body is 70- to 80- percent water. All physiological processes in the cells, nerves, organs and other structures are dependent upon a good supply of water. Even if someone drinks plenty of water, the body may not be utilizing it well. Very often, the transportation of water across the cell membranes is compromised. The Hydration technique helps to correct the body's ability to fully use the water it has available - thereby greatly improving the efficiency of all physiological processes.

Body Chemistry

This amazing technique is designed to stimulate the immune system of the body into addressing many chronic and acute conditions. Often viruses, bacteria and parasites are not effectively addressed by the body's immune system because of various imbalances in the body. The Body Chemistry technique can correct these imbalances so the body can restore health without the need for drug intervention. This technique also works to help the immune system address allergies, food intolerances and accumulated toxins.

Reciprocals

The integrity of the structure of the body is critical for living a healthy and mobile life. The coordination of the muscles, balance of the muscle tone and the unrestricted flow of energy through the body are all critical to healthy functioning at all levels of the bodymind complex. The Reciprocals technique involves reestablishing the integrity of the structures of the body, and it can have a significant effect on many forms of injuries, arthritis, circulatory issues, coordination patterns, spinal problems and chronic pain.

Fast Aid Techniques

BodyTalk Access also includes an effective first-aid system that is non-invasive, safe and extremely simple. It will resolve simple issues as a stand-alone technique. For serious conditions, it is designed to be used safely until specialized healthcare arrives.

Access Statistics

Join a Growing Community

The BodyTalk Access community is growing faster than ever. Once you have attended an Access class, you have the option to join the IBA at the Access-level Membership, which will put you in touch with all the other Access students from around the world. You are able to participate in the online discussion forum, where you can ask questions, read others' stories or share your own amazing stories of healing that you and your family have experienced.

There is also a weekly email newsletter that is published that features stories, helpful tips or a local BodyTalk Access Trainer and their story as well.

Global BodyTalk Access Technicians

BodyTalk Access is spreading rapidly around the globe. We wanted to share the excitement with you, in these live statistics:Number of Access Trainers:

12

Number of Countries in which Access has been taught:

38

Number of Access Students to Date:

15942

Find an Access Class

BodyTalk Access classes are found throughout South Africa, practically twice a month. Find an Access Course that is most convenient for you and sign up now, your health will change for the better.

AnimalTalk and AnimalTalk Access

Like any other living organism, animals - both domesticated and wild - are vulnerable to stress. As is the case with human beings, exposure to stress can lead to disease and malfunctioning within an animal's body. The understanding that animals deserve their own type of BodyTalk inspired the evolution of AnimalTalk. Practitioners who have been working with BodyTalk for animals, invariably report that animals usually respond to the sessions even more dramatically than humans.

Like BodyTalk, AnimalTalk is designed to re-establish good communication within an animal's body. AnimalTalk supports the resynchronization of the animal's internal systems to provide fluid communication between the various components of the body, thus keeping the body sound and less vulnerable to disease. AnimalTalk, which is more oriented to the animal professional, can be used on domestic animals or on wild animals alike As the sessions are done by "short-distance", there is no hands-on contact with the animal, thus making it safe for the animal and AnimalTalk Practitioner.

AnimalTalk Access, for pet and domestic animal owners, is an easy-to-learn sequence of techniques, based on the original BodyTalk Access program, which can be used by animal owners on their own animals to maintain health and to heal more quickly in a fast aid situation.

PlantTalk

Utilizing the same principles that have made it work so well for people and animals, BodyTalk has evolved to help all kinds of living organisms. Out of the foundation of BodyTalk grew PlantTalk. Like humans, plants need to have improved communication and synchronization within their internal systems as well as between themselves and their environments.

When a plant is healthy, it is naturally more resistant to diseases, drought and insect attacks. PlantTalk has demonstrated amazing results in the health of trees and house plants, and has been shown to increase yields in crops and gardens.

Like BodyTalk, PlantTalk is non-invasive and safe and complements the specific growth requirements of particular plants any time during their growth cycle. PlantTalk can be learned and used by any layperson with basic BodyTalk training. It is currently taught as a component of BodyTalk Founder, John Veltheim's BodyTalk Interactive course. PlantTalk is a great asset to anyone who grows plants, is responsible for land, or wants to help improve any plant and its environment.

EarthTalk

Environmental issues are very high on the BodyTalk agenda. The dynamics between mankind, animals, plants, and minerals is a delicate balance involving complex energetic relationships.

The BodyTalk System already has in place effective procedures for addressing human's, plant's, and animal's health needs. These principles can be applied on specific ecosystems -incrementally- from a garden to a small wetland to whole ecosystems to bring about lasting, ongoing changes. The BodyTalk System is working to develop positive solutions with the potential for playing a significant role in reestablishing a healthy planet.

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