Alberto Villodo, a classically trained anthropologist, has spent 25 years studying with the finest Inka medicine men and women, whose "energy medicine" goes back 5,000 years and has been transmitted by oral tradition. Their understanding of healing goes beyond flesh and bone realities to involve spirit and light. Or as he puts it: "Shamans sensed the spaces between things and perceived the luminous strands that animate all life."

Villoldo, author of Dance of the Four Winds and Island of the Sun, offers his re-interpretation of ancient Inka healing practices. He probes the concept of "the Luminous Energy Field," which "contains an archive of all our personal and ancestral memories, all early-life trauma, and even of painful wounds from former lifetimes."

In addition, Villodo gives exercises that enable people to "see" energy and prevent illness. Many of these were developed in training programs offered through the Healing Light Body School. Visit Alberto Villoldo online at www.thefourwinds.com.