ThetaHealing Sessions

What is a ThetaHealing session?

A ThetaHealing session takes place while sitting together and talking. It combines intuitive guidance with an expanded state of awareness. ThetaHealing is a method built on tools and techniques that are meant to help us see beyond the obvious, connect to inner knowing, send healing, explore limiting beliefs, and release them.

My journey with ThetaHealing

From the first moment I heard the name ThetaHealing, I felt drawn to study it. The theta state is associated with dreaming, and I had been practicing lucid dreaming since my school years. Dreams were a deep part of my inner life from an early age. I would wake up remembering many of them in vivid detail, and I wrote and spoke about dreaming long before I encountered this method.

The name itself suggested a bridge between the dream state and healing. That immediately spoke to me.

My first ThetaHealing session

I was in my twenties when I went for a session about relationships with Naomi Regev. Very quickly, a belief surfaced: that relationship and career stood in opposition to each other, and that I was meant to work as a healer and needed to begin.

At the time, I was a brand manager in a successful corporation. I had a comfortable life, a good salary, a company car, freedom, and meaningful creative responsibility. But inwardly, I knew I was a healer. I had already completed additional studies in psychology, had been reading palms since I was thirteen, and knew I had much to offer in this field. What I lacked was the ability to make the transition. In that session, the block appeared almost immediately.

What happens in a ThetaHealing session?

Before the session

In the way I work, the session begins before the person arrives.

I connect inwardly to the theta state through a meditation that expands awareness, which is one of the foundations of the method. In that space, where everything is felt as interconnected, I ask that the session truly help, that it bring real value, that it support growth and development, and that I be fully guided and protected throughout the process.

At that stage I often receive an inner image or impression that points to the deeper theme of the meeting.

At the beginning of the session

At the start, I usually listen deeply to the person in front of me: what brought them to me, and what they would like us to work on.

Then, with their consent, I may use a process called a scan.

What is a scan?

Scanning is one of the foundational tools of the method. It involves gently directing awareness toward the consciousness of the person in front of me, or more precisely, toward the subconscious level.

The way I was taught to do this is to enter the theta state and, from that place of connection, ask to scan for the person’s highest good. Then awareness moves very gently inward, almost like music or a falling feather.

In that moment, perception opens. Images, messages, and felt impressions may arise. I usually ask what would be the most helpful way for me to support this person.

Often, this is also the stage where the person themselves begins to sense things, including people who have never experienced intuitive reception before. When what they sense matches what I have received, there is often a moving sense of recognition.

The scan can also bring a healing quality in itself, and often leaves the person with a lighter and more positive inner state.

After the scan

From there, we work with what has come up, usually through one or more of the following techniques.

Digging — exploring conscious and subconscious beliefs

This part involves asking questions. The quality of the questions shapes the whole inquiry and helps us trace the subconscious structure behind blocking or limiting beliefs.

Thought journey

This is another question-based technique that helps track the movement of automatic thought and the way it shapes experience.

At this stage, people are often surprised by what rises in them and by what comes out of their own mouth. This part does not rely on channeling or an altered state. It happens in full wakefulness, and it often reveals meaningful material that we can then work with more directly.

Releasing limiting or blocking beliefs

As Esther Hicks says, “A belief is just a thought you keep thinking.” Our thoughts repeat themselves, and over time they shape us deeply, including at subconscious levels that influence the course of our lives.

This is why it matters to notice whether our thoughts are kind to us, strengthening, and supportive. The direction of thought guides the direction of life, both consciously and unconsciously.

When I work with limiting beliefs, I relate to them like trees with roots and branches.

Every painful belief has a root. That root is what we try to find, because that is where real change begins. Often, what first appears is only a branch, and behind it there is a deeper belief from which it grows.

The path to finding a limiting belief sometimes also passes through its origin: where we learned it, how it has been managing us, and what we would rather live from instead.

Clearing a belief and integrating a new one

Part of the ThetaHealing method involves clearing limiting beliefs and integrating new, more supportive beliefs into both conscious and subconscious awareness.

Over the years, especially after teaching many ThetaHealing workshops, I found it important to add other tools as well—tools that help the new understanding settle not only in the mind, but also through emotion, embodied learning, and the physical body.

So even when I use ThetaHealing, I also draw on additional methods that help a person take what arose within them and carry it into the next stage of their life.

Returning to my own path with ThetaHealing

Right after that first session, the practitioner I had seen told me she felt it was important that I begin treating others, and she invited me to study the basic ThetaHealing course with her. I agreed.

During that course, I witnessed experiences that deeply affected me. Because of what unfolded there, I was then invited to continue on to the advanced course as well.

My early days with ThetaHealing

My first period with ThetaHealing was full of practice and discovery. I even made flyers explaining what ThetaHealing was and a little about me, and took them to a festival where I practiced for five days with many people each day.

Before long, people began booking sessions. The work flowed naturally, and I witnessed striking experiences that left a strong impression on me. I began renting a small space for sessions and continued deepening in the work.

The beginning of the research idea

In the clinic where I rented a room, one of the other rooms was used by Dr. Ronen Brenner, who headed the oncology department at Wolfson Medical Center. He saw people coming in and out and became curious about what I was doing.

I explained briefly, and his eyes lit up. He asked whether any research had been done on the method. I had already looked and knew that nothing had yet been published. He told me that if I wanted to initiate research, he would help, because in oncology there was a great need for meaningful supportive care.

ThetaHealing and cancer

At that time, I had already read everything I could find about ThetaHealing and knew Vianna Stibal’s story of developing the method through her own healing journey.

I took Dr. Brenner’s offer seriously, and that was the beginning of what later became a major research path in my life.

The vision

By then I had already seen things I had not known were possible. I had watched people go through meaningful inner processes, and I believed this method should be accessible to those who needed support. A vision opened in me: that this kind of work might one day become part of recognized supportive care. That was the beginning of the journey.

The research

Dr. Brenner explained that if I wanted to initiate such research, I would need to build a questionnaire and begin collecting data. Together with him and a professor of statistics, we developed the questionnaire.

During that period, I visited the department often. I saw the pain of patients and medical teams up close. I also heard about the atmosphere of pessimism that so often surrounds cancer care, and the daily contact with suffering and loss in oncology departments.

At the same time, I was already helping people in ways that encouraged them to help themselves, and I wanted to bring that possibility into oncology settings as well.

The questionnaire

I spent three years traveling around the country interviewing dozens of people living with cancer, as well as practitioners who worked with them. Some of the stories I gathered were stories of profound inner change, and in some cases of recovery.

These interviews brought me into contact with remarkable people and practitioners, including key figures in the field of complementary healing in Israel. I heard moving, difficult, and often heart-opening stories about illness, resilience, meaning, and in some cases healing.

Roche’s supportive care project

I applied to join a supportive-care project active in oncology departments and went through the admissions process that would allow me both to work directly with patients and to continue developing the research.

In time, I was accepted. My role at first was voluntary, as the research itself also was. Each week I came to Wolfson Medical Center for several hours to assist Dr. Michael Kossonovsky, a neurologist and meditation researcher who taught ancient knowledge through his workshops.

Communicating with organs

Dr. Michael taught patients meditations for communicating with different organs in the body. It was astonishing to see how vividly people experienced each organ: as if it carried its own awareness, feelings, and even relationships with other organs.

When a patient meditated with an organ connected to illness, they would often return deeply moved, sometimes in tears, carrying insights and images that felt highly meaningful to them.

I also saw cases in which these inner processes were accompanied by encouraging medical changes. Watching that left a deep impression on me.

Years later, when I developed the Inner Healing Power approach, I carried some of this meditative work with me into my own practitioner trainings.

Work with cancer cells in a laboratory

Alongside the interviews, workshops, and exploration of healing processes, a close friend, Dr. Amotz Ziv-Av, invited me to expand the research through energetic ThetaHealing work with cancer cells in a laboratory setting at Sheba Medical Center.

That opened a fascinating chapter in the research. Over several years I would come to the lab—or at times work remotely while with Vianna—to direct healing toward petri dishes, which were later sent to external laboratories for analysis. The results were intriguing enough that I later spoke about this work at a medical conference in Japan.

Becoming a teacher of all ThetaHealing courses

A few months into the research, Vianna Stibal came to teach instructor courses in Israel. We met, and I also introduced her to Amotz. She invited me to come study all of the teacher trainings at her school in Idaho over several intensive months, and to work with her on building a self-healing program for cancer patients in hospital settings.

I traveled to study with her and spent three months receiving extensive training in the method, along with additional energetic studies taught there. I felt deeply fortunate. We spent many hours together, and she taught me generously, including subtler aspects of perception and practice that were not part of the classroom curriculum.

Teaching ThetaHealing

In the years that followed, I assisted Vianna in teacher trainings in Israel and abroad, taught many courses myself, created a study group for ThetaHealing, and lectured about my research.

At the same time, I continued receiving her guidance around both the research and the curriculum I was building for hospitals.

Hadassah Ein Kerem — the final stage

The final stage of my research unfolded through the bone marrow transplant immunology department at Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem. After many meetings and attempts, I was given the opportunity to submit a protocol for a human clinical trial to the Helsinki committee.

In practical terms, this meant volunteering many treatment hours with patients undergoing bone marrow transplants while they were being closely monitored.

The aim of the proposed trial was to examine whether ThetaHealing could support transplant outcomes.

The physician overseeing the research process was Professor Reuven Or, an Israel Prize laureate in medicine, who supported my work and respected the vision behind it.

At that same time, Vianna was relocating from Idaho to Montana and invited me to come live there, work from the ThetaHealing offices, and lead the global research of the method within the school.

My connection with Vianna Stibal

My connection with Vianna was close from our first meeting.

She mentored me with great generosity over several years. I sat with her in hotel rooms while people came to see her, and she would ask me to observe carefully what she was doing on the spiritual and energetic levels. It was always fascinating and often moving. She advised me, guided me, and supported my development with real devotion.

Why I left ThetaHealing and stopped the research

What ultimately led me to stop treating and teaching ThetaHealing, and to step away from the research, was the feeling that something essential was missing for me in the technique.

What I felt was missing was emotional work—something more grounded that could support the theta process.

Once I understood that, I also understood that my path was changing. My conviction that this exact method should be brought to everyone, and perhaps even formally subsidized, was no longer as strong.

During those same years I was studying many other paths: Recall Healing, German New Medicine, Kabbalah, shamanism, Focusing, Sedona, and other therapeutic approaches. At the same time, the first seeds of what later became the Inner Healing Power method had already begun to emerge.

ThetaHealing and me today

ThetaHealing, as developed by Vianna, opened important doors for me. Through it I began learning more deeply about Native American healing traditions, the wisdom associated with the Sioux lineage she spoke of, and broader fields such as shamanism and totem work.

Today I still integrate ThetaHealing in my clinic, but my work has grown beyond it. My research expanded into consciousness and into creating initiatives in the field of self-healing. In my clinic I now combine ThetaHealing with additional tools and methods that can support people more fully.

And even now, before every session, I still turn to the theta state as a form of prayer and inner preparation.

In closing

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