Electrobics - a programme of self-health and self-knowing
Electrobics is a thorough programme of understanding, exercise and self-discovery about the health of the entire body, with particular emphasis upon the non-physical and unseen part of us - our energy systems. It is a programme that combines exercise, movement, posture, diet, meditation and, most importantly, understandings about how to improve the quality of the energies that we run on. The quality of the food we eat is clearly important to our physical health, but the quality of the energy we intake is as crucial and calls for more regular and specific awareness.
Electrobics - The Meeting of the Undiscovered Self
When we stop to consider it, our lives and each of our actions are determined by energies of one type or another. The process of thinking involves millions and millions of small electrical signals and processes, as does sensing, feeling, moving and speaking. Everything we do and are involves energy, including the signals that keep our heart beating. When our body is short of energy we yawn and, like a vacuum cleaner, we suck in energies from around us, whether it be from another person, a plant or the air so as to replenish the body’s stores. When we have too much energy we fidget, laugh or giggle to excess, play sports, go for a walk or talk endlessly. As David Bodanis says in his book, The Electric Universe, ‘Our entire body works by electricity’ . The question at the heart of any study to do with energy is not solely to do with the quantity of energy we handle, but rather of its quality and nature.
Everything in the world is constituted of electrical and magnetic power, of matter and chemical and mineral compound - but how much more there is to understand the realms of energy and its implication to our lives! We breathe in air every few seconds, but every second we are absorbing electrical energy through our breath, our skin and our senses. And as we breathe out air, so we breathe out energy, which radiates out from every part of us into an electro-magnetic field around us, known commonly as the aura.
In certain conditions it is possible to see parts or the whole of this aura and when we see it we witness a most extraordinary display of vibrant colours that are of a wonderfully iridescent quality. It is as wonderful as the sight of the aurora borealis. Every living body has this kind of energy field around it that sometimes can be partially seen like the glow around a candle cascading and re-appearing every six or seven seconds. In the human case, it is indicative and representative of the kinds of process, thoughts, feelings or states that we have at any time.
The aura has major importance upon the quality of our lives, our relationships and our health and well-being. The aura is a display of what we are at any given time and, more than this, it is the atmosphere within which we live the whole of our lives, held contained by a slightly denser electro-magnetic auric sheath. This atmosphere and its quality is determined and influenced by how we live and by our values, processes and actions. The nature of this environment within our aura is as essential to the quality of our lives and how we think, as fresh air and clean water is to our bodies.
How does Electrobics work?
Electrobics works at many different levels to promote well-being and enhancement throughout our various systems, principally through movement and exercise. The unique research behind it has taken into account dance and movement that has appeared throughout the world at different times, as well as the ways of the natural worlds and the exploration of cause and effects. As an example, all mammals, including ourselves, perform stretching exercises, and at one level this can be understood to release tension in the muscles that have been inactive. However, there is far more to understand in the relationship between stretching, muscle activity and the role of the bone structure in the manufacture and containment of energy.
Further, the more one explores and researches the aura and electro-magnetic fields around and inside our bodies, the more there is to discover about the body’s inner workings and the pathways, levels of radiation and colours within it. Many of the problems we encounter in the areas of our health and personal management can be greatly eased by understanding how the aura can become detrimentally affected by stress, the proximity of machinery, harmful thought processes and so on. Incorporating techniques for clearing debris or clearing channels in the aura can substantially improve energy levels and how we feel.
The first method that Electrobics uses is to provide exercises and movements which have been proven to help clear and clean the electro-magnetic fields, and which work in a similar way to washing ourselves in a bath or shower. Headaches, fatigue, lethargy and dullness of mind can all be symptoms of an unregulated aura. You would be amazed how much difference a few simple exercises undertaken regularly can make; especially if you know why you are doing them and what systems they are working on. The exercises are highly specific in their purpose and technology and take their nature from world dances which makes them very enjoyable to perform.
Further levels of Electrobics involve understanding the relationship between the body and its 
energies and how each affects the other – as an example, the workings of the lymphatic system, the nerves and the blood. These systems are entirely related to our health, well-being, daily performance and vitality. In Electrobics a person is shown ways to monitor these systems and how, as an example, to improve the quality of the iron content of the blood, or to clear the lymphatic system, or to settle the nerves when they become too agitated – all through an understanding of how the energy systems work.
Further aspects of Electrobics
Electrobics is not simply a set of exercises and practices. It derives from a continuing research into the specific relationship between ourselves and our environment. And our environment is not simply our local conditions, but everything that we share this world with, both seen and unseen. This involves understanding ourselves better, discovering how things work and finding out how to live to better effect within the constraints and exigencies of our modern technological age. Exercises and movements can help, but perhaps more important than anything else is how we think, why we do what we do and what qualities we bring to bear within this.
We all seek the times when we can relax and find a moment or two of peace and some stillness – but learning how to maintain oneself with a constant place of quietness within oneself means that you are never far away from a settlement that can be a fortress and a rally point.
Electrobics is a study and application of practical ways to improve living. It begins with cleaning and re-vitalising and extends into more advanced realms to do with the development of harmony between oneself, one’s actions and the reasons why we do what we do.
Courses and Programmes
Available for groups of ten people and over.
A two-day programme which can also be run in one hour sessions over ten weeks. A manual is available for those who have completed this programme.
A three day advanced residential programme.