What is BioEnergetic Wellness?

BioEnergetic Wellness is a holistic, science-informed approach to health and well-being that focuses on the clear, balanced flow of energy throughout the body’s systems. It integrates a wide range of disciplines, modalities, and techniques designed to support the body, mind, and spirit in achieving optimal wellness.

When the body’s energy systems are balanced, the innate healing potential is activated, enhancing overall health, vitality, and resilience. BioEnergetic Wellness is rooted in principles of self-awareness and self-care, empowering individuals to take an active role in their wellness journey.

Through a combination of hands-on and hands-off techniques, BioEnergetic Wellness supports the alignment of the human biofield (also called the energy field) and the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual systems. This field is a complex network that connects the nervous system, muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and organ systems, all of which respond to both internal and external stressors.

The BioEnergetic Wellness Formula

At CanBeWell, we have refined our approach into the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula, a framework unique to our profession that guides sessions, education, and personal practice. This formula focuses on:

1. Personal Goal Setting and Intention: Aligning the session with the individual’s wellness objectives, addressing physical, emotional, and mental health priorities. Setting the compass to help identify the priority direction for healing and wellness practices.
2. Assessment: Identifying energetic imbalances or blockages using biofeedback techniques such as muscle monitoring, neurolymphatic and neurovascular evaluation, energy field observation, physical awareness in posture, stance, and coordination of movement.
3. Corrective Techniques: Applying specific, non-invasive methods to restore flow and balance. Techniques may include acupressure and meridian line work, massage of neurovascular and neurolymphatic points, and gentle energy-based interventions to support organ and system function. The use of muscle monitoring and biofeedback can provide specific focus, priority corrections, and unique applications for each individual.
4. Post-Assessment: Re-evaluating the body’s response to the session to confirm that imbalances have been corrected or to adjust interventions as needed. As well as provide integrative activities to bring the whole-body into a cohesive healing position.
5. Connection: Empowering the innate healing potential found within each of us, the connection and collaborative opportunities of our sessions engage this potential and help inspire the recalibration of the body enzymes and function for harmony and balance.
6. Intuition: The self-empowering sessions keep the person as the main focus. Education and activities that help them to realize the reason for the signals their body is sharing. Over time, the ability to understand and take action for the signals brings about more opportunities for self-care and well-being.

This systematic approach ensures that each session is tailored to the individual’s needs, maximizing results while fostering awareness and self-care.

What to Expect in a Session

Every session is customized, yet follows a clear process, and can be online or in-person:

• Identify Goals: Discuss health and wellness objectives, addressing the challenges that have led to the appointment. Facilitators will have a client release form to review and sign and may chat before doing any assessment work.
• Initial Assessment: Bioenergetic Feedback identifies stressors, blocks, or imbalances at physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual levels. These may include lingering physical trauma, emotional triggers, or mind-body disconnects. The use of muscle monitoring, postural assessment, and biofeedback about the systems in the body may be reviewed.
• Application of Techniques: Based on the assessment, bioenergetic wellness professionals may use techniques or tools to restore balance, recommend activities for home care, provide homework for continued wellness strategies, and request a follow-up appointment.
• Post-Assessment: Confirm the effects of the session and determine any further steps needed. Gain feedback from the client about what they have experienced and how they may feel changes have happened. Over time, this may reveal itself more distinctly as the body moves differently, thoughts are opened, and patterns have been released or rebuilt.

All techniques are natural, holistic, non-invasive, and require no special clothing. Clients remain fully clothed and are encouraged to be comfortable throughout the session.

Important: BioEnergetic Wellness facilitators support health and wellness but do not diagnose medical conditions or prescribe disease-specific treatments, unless licensed to do so. All facilitators adhere to the CanBeWell Code of Ethics, prioritizing integrity, respect, and the highest standards of professional care.

Origins and Evolution of BioEnergetic Wellness

BioEnergetic Wellness has its roots in Applied Kinesiology, Touch for Health™, Natural BioEnergetics™, Brain Gym™, Therapeutic Touch™, and specialized energy work. Pioneers such as Dr. George Goodheart, Dr. John Thie, Dr. Delores Krieger, Dr. Sheldon Deal, Dr Jimmy Scott, Dr Charles Krebs, Dr James Oschman, Dr Richard Utt, Dr Ian Stubbings, Dr Wayne Topping, and many others contributed techniques that form the foundation of this field.

Over the past decades, these approaches have evolved from isolated techniques into a comprehensive model for supporting the human biofield and body systems. Today, BioEnergetic Wellness encompasses hundreds of modalities worldwide, combining hands-on interventions with advanced understanding of biophysics, biochemistry, quantum energy, physiology, and neuroscience and arts.

Modern research increasingly validates the benefits of this field, exploring the biofield, subtle energy, and the ways energy imbalances influence physical and mental health. BioEnergetic Wellness is both a science and a practice: it integrates traditional wisdom, contemporary research, and practical tools for self-care, community health, and professional development.

Training and Education

CanBeWell is proud to advance BioEnergetic Wellness education through accredited programs in partnership with Akamai University. Students can pursue certificates, continuing education credits, or full degree programs at undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral levels. Our courses include:

Raising BioEnergetic Awareness, Module 1 and 2, co-created by Dr. Michelle Greenwell, CIH BioEW and Natascha Polomski, MSc CIH, provide learners with a structured understanding of the principles, assessment techniques, and applications of BioEnergetic Wellness. The curriculum is designed for professionals and wellness enthusiasts alike, emphasizing both practical skills and the science behind energy-based health practices. This program received the Legacy Leader Award in 2024.

Unwinding Trauma/Building Resiliency, co-created by Dr Michelle Greenwell, CIH BioEW, Tanya Levy, and Colin MacLeod. The program combines the BioEnergetic Wellness Formula with a neuroarts approach to well-being through movement, music, art, and herbs. This program received a Legacy Leader Award in 2024, and leads a program with the Marathon Jam program in North Carolina, USA, Healing through Music and Movement (April 2025, 2026, and 2027).

Why BioEnergetic Wellness Matters

• Activates the body’s innate healing potential
• Reduces stress and energy blockages
• Supports emotional resilience and mental clarity
• Enhances physical function and vitality
• Empowers self-care and wellness awareness

Whether you are seeking holistic support for chronic stress, emotional patterns, physical challenges, or overall health, BioEnergetic Wellness provides a framework for balancing your energy systems, restoring harmony, and building resilience for life.