Celebrating 33 years of Alternative Healing Arts
"Release what blocks you from your greatest fulfillment"
Joy Returns to Kripalu Nov 2026
for an Immersive Hands of Light Workshop!
We each possess far greater inner healing potential than we realize. Enter into a supportive community as you deepen your natural healing gifts in this inspiring retreat experience. This immersive training introduces the foundational principles of Brennan Healing Science—a transformative system of hands-on energy healing that integrates spiritual, psychological, and energetic awareness. Through lecture and experiential learning, students will develop high sense perception and understand the human energy field. Discover how to awaken your inner capacity to heal yourself and others.
This is a unique opportunity to learn about healing from Dr. Barbara Brennan's world-renowned best-selling book Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, still considered by many to be the quintessential textbook for training healers. Brennan Healing Science is an enlightening system of energy work that combines hands-on healing techniques with spiritual and psychological processes.
In this retreat, you will:
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Receive an introduction to Barbara Brennan’s healing model.
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Experience grounding techniques and the importance of energy hygiene.
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Expand your intuition with High Sense Perception (HSP).
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Discover powerful energy healing techniques.
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Learn important energy self-care skills and self-healing.
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Gain understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the human energy field and the relationship between energy and dis-ease.
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Learn ethics in energy healing and energetic boundaries.
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Explore each energy level and dimensions, and how your beliefs affect them.
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Strengthen and balance your chakras.
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Develop healthy energy boundaries.
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Connect to guides, higher self, and your deeper soul purpose.
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Return home knowing how to reclaim your latent ability to perceive the human energy field, and sense how energy and consciousness are one and the same within your body and life.
This training is open to beginners, seekers, and experienced healers alike who are drawn to deepen their healing practice and spiritual path.
What to Bring:
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Journal
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Water bottle
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Layers for comfort
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Open heart
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Recommended Reading:
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Barbara Ann Brennan, Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing the Human Energy Field
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Barbara Ann Brennan, Light Emerging: The Journey of Personal Healing
Tuition is $352 USD per person + accommodations
9/25: Friday 3pm - 6pm
9/26: Sat 10am - 5pm
9/27: Sun 10am- 4pm
Cost $320 All classes via Zoom
For more info/payment contact
Joy Adler @ goldenvoice@prodigy.net
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In addition to working one on one with clients, Joy continues to teach in several capacities. As the Wellness and Emotional Growth Instructor at the Center for Natural Wellness in Albany, NY for 25 years, Joy trained massage therapy students in learning more about themselves based on the credo that, "You can only take a client to the places that you yourself have traveled." Joy developed & created a curriculum for professional therapists that includes:
Conscious Communication for self, and working with clients. This provides deep communion, so clients can genuinely feel a therapists care, listening and "attending" skills, and warm presence. This results in them feeling heard, so they can relax and receive. Thus creating a new found ambiance of trust and openness for their healing process. This also assists a therapist in having good conflict/resolution skills for life!
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Ethics/ Boundaries for the Therapeutic Professional
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Manifesting Intention-The Matrix of Professional Practice
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Exploring Emotions, and Body Armoring
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Revisiting Boundaries
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Emotional Release How to successfully navigate a client through an Emotional Release, which is the greatest relief of chronic pain and negative patterns of behavior
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Client's Defenses based on study of Characterizing (The 5 Childhood Wounds)
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Using the Medicine Wheel for Life Balance for the Therapeutic Professional
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Professional Support Systems: Who holds those that hold so many others? What will a professional therapist need for their own support?
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Graduate Support Circle Group Facilitator
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Wellness Team Mentor and Teacher Trainer
Joy also works in private practice as a Process Facilitator/Supervisor/Mentor for those in the helping professions to deepen their effectiveness with clients, and market their businesses.
Kind Words From Kindred Souls...
"Dear Joy,
I cannot begin to thank you for all that you gave me throughout the Energy Diagnostic Class this Fall. It became very evident early how much you love what you teach and how blessed we were to be on the receiving end of your love for humanity. I believe your term,"Yummy in the Tummy' will provide me good remembrances in years to come! Your attitude of acceptance of each of our gifts is very powerful and, as we continue to offer them up to the world, we are sustained in hope. I see everyone as a Child of God and to have this belief reenforced throughout your class sent me home renewed and revitalized - to carry on another day.
Because of your beautiful voice, I entered a dimension of colors of violet and light blue and gold - the colors of God and his royal priesthood. I hope you are given the opportunity to return to Ireland where previously you were accepted in love for your gift of song.
May you be blessed with all good things this coming year and may the Divine continue to lift you up with his power as you bring sustenance to the world, which needs love and hope everyday.
You are a light of joy!
Peace, Sharon
"I must say Joy, and I really want you to know this: I LEARN from you. You're a great teacher, and while I discover things from my own process- especially how to apply it outside of myself, I learn from the things you tell me by way of explanation. I'm fascinated by your input as well as learn from it, and I'm just grateful to have this opportunity which I'm realizing more and more is unique and specific."
- Laura-Michelle Iacovone, Dean of Students, Center for Natural Wellness
"I have been still integrating this most amazing weekend ever! Joy.. Angel.. you are and were such a gift! You held, and I still feel, are holding this beautiful matrix of woven cords of light around our beautiful group of soul family that came together for a weekend that I feel changed me forever. I feel a portal opening and I still feel tethered and connected to source the way I did that weekend. I have been listening to your CD (meditation). I feel the Angels and guides envelope me as I am listening. So much more has happened for me. God love you, Love and light to all of you , my special soul family!"
-Sheryl Infantino
"Hello Joy, This was the most amazing workshop I have ever attended. The knowledge and level of caring was amazing. You are a wonderful model for us all.I was awake most of the night looking back on my life with much greater understanding, it was fascinating to now have a new context and lens to view my experiences. Thank you.
You blessed us in so many ways this weekend. I was honored and inspired by your love and dedication for this group. You were always positive and supportive in helping us risk, stretch and grow. You never had a single criticism, it was always focused on what we were doing well and that was critical to creating safety for us. I suspect that it can be very vulnerable to be in the presence of someone who can read energy and know the truth of our feelings. I never felt vulnerable, always supported and loved. You are amazing and beautiful. Each time I was reminded of your gifts and your love for us, I would consciously send you love and gratitude. I wanted to support what you were doing for us all."
-Marijo Puleo
"Energy Diagnostics was Awesome! So much more than I was expecting! I am especially overwhelmed by how much time you all spend preparing for classes, and making sure that each and every person in the class gets what they need. Every evening was like going on a trip, a journey that would then continue through the week(s) that followed. You were great at reading the mood of the class and going with the flow.
I signed up for the class not really knowing what to expect, just thinking that I might enjoy doing energy work again. I was actually thinking of letting my massage liscense become inactive if I didn't find a continuing education class that really interested me. This was the only class that I came across that gave me a little "turn on buzz", even though I didn't know why at the time. Now I do! I have gotten so much out of this, and am committing to continue the journey. I'm sure that I won't be hanging out my shingle to do this work any time soon, but I will use what I have learned in my "bag of tricks", and continue to work on growing myself. Thank you all so much!! "
-Valerie Goodman
HANDS OF HEALING :
An Article by recent Brennan Workshop Participant, Gulbin Kinacigil
“There is no doubt that Dr. Barbara Ann Brennan is one of the pioneers of Spiritual Healing. Barbara Brennan, who is accepted as one of the world’s most talented healers and teachers created a revolution in human energy field and spiritual healing with her first two books, ‘Hands of Light ‘ and ‘Light Emerging ‘ have been always guiding books for he people dealing with healing in Turkey as well as throughout the world.
I have always been very close to themes of health and illness for more than twenty years as a dentist . And my intuitions and inner voice guided me, in the end, to the point that our main healing power is, within ourselves. The healing education and knowledge I got, and the practical works I did, made me understand and feel that power inside me. The books of Barbara Brennan and the other many precious books on spiritual healing, have been always the books that I have been benefiting from during this process.
So, after being in orrespondencewith the authorities of BBSH, I was guided to participate in their weekend workshop, which was held in NYC, USA, on the 25-26th of October 2008. Our teacher, Joy Adler, is a graduate and former faculty member of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing.
Joy is a very cheerful and lively person. Her assistant, Maureen Devine, has a great heart full of love and compassion like Joy herself. Joy and Maureen worked together in a great collaboration and solidarity especially when Joy was channeling for healing in trance. Joy is a person who is reflecting her high healing knowledge and talent in every minute of her life, as if she is living healing in all means of her life. She is very humble at the same time.
Joy was playing music during healing since she was thinking that music effects the human energy field positively. Joy was sometimes singing and dancing for grounding, and opening her chakras before healing. Then she was channeling a high level of energy during meditation. Joy and Maureen were in a wonderful collaboration during these procedures. We observed that a great energy was flowing through Joy’s hands and filling the whole body and energy field during demonstration healings. I felt that Joy, is one of the living representatives of spiritual healing. She showed and made us experience and feel, how a healing is performed. “
-Gulbin
