What is Polarity Therapy?

Based on Ayurvedic medicine and developed by Dr. Randolph Stone, Polarity Therapy is a comprehensive system for understanding and supporting the human energy system. Within Polarity Therapy, Dr. Stone identifies five basic elements influencing our state of balance or health: earth, fire, air, water and ether.

For example, earth is related to groundedness and being “solid”; fire is related to passion, ambition, action; air is related to our minds and thoughts; water is related to emotions and feelings, and ether is related to space and being free and open.

Because all of the elements are interrelated and influence each other, one's system may become unbalanced if there is a problem with any one or more of these elements. Polarity Therapy interventions support our system’s shift to a state of balance within the elemental forces.

Polarity Therapy includes a set of practices: bodywork, exercise/movement and nutrition:

• During Polarity bodywork, the practitioner contacts certain points in the body with the aim to support the body’s redistribution of energy toward a state of health and balance.
• Polarity exercises/movements direct energy to body parts/centers that may be “blocked,” causing imbalance and discomfort. The exercises promote the free flow of energy throughout the body.
• Polarity nutrition emphasizes the need to eat a diet that is rich in food substances from various sources related to each of the five elements. If there are deficiencies in nutrition related to the five elements, adjustments to the types of foods consumed may be indicated.