BARBARA ANN BRENNAN is a healer, therapist, and scientist who has devoted more than twenty years to research and exploration of the human energy field. Following an advanced degree in atmospheric physics from the University of Wisconsin, she worked as a research scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center. She trained in bioenergetic and core energetic therapy at the Institute for Psychophysical Synthesis and at the Community of the Whole Person in Washington, D.C. She was in the first graduating class of Dr. John Pierrakos’ Institute for the New Age, now known as The Institute of Core Energetics in New York City.

Her first book, Hands of Light, is recognized as one of the primary texts for alternative healing in our time. She is the founder and director of the Barbara Brennan School of Healing in East Hampton, Long Island, where she has developed a four-year certification program in healing science. Her workshops, lectures, and demonstrations have taken her throughout North America and Europe.