Healing Touch is a biofield therapy that is an energy-based approach to health and healing. It uses touch to influence the human energy system, specifically the energy field that surrounds the body, and the energy centers that control the energy flow from the energy field to the physical body. These non-invasive techniques utilise the hands to clear, energise, and balance the human and environmental energy fields thus affecting physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health and healing. It is based on a heart-centered caring relationship in which the practitioner and client come together energetically to facilitate the client's health and healing.
The Australian Foundation for Healing Touch Inc. is a non-profit membership and educational organisation established in 1997 to administer and coordinate the Healing Touch Program in Australia. It is responsible for providing the program within the required curriculum and for encouraging practitioners to work within the Code of Ethics and International Standards of Practice set by HTI.
