by Victoria Lister
It’s interesting to read the words ‘cult‘ and ‘cult leader’ in relation to Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Until recent blog postings by a few detractors, I have not once in my 5+ year association with Serge and Universal Medicine considered myself a ‘cult member’. I have been free to come and go from events and workshops as I please, and free to make up my own mind as to whether I take what Serge presents on board or not. He has neither been the cause of any relationship breakdown (in fact, I have since re-married, and very happily so, in that time) nor separated from my family of origin, whom I love very much.
I am also quite puzzled as to the suggestions some have made regarding the Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) – that it is promoted as a ‘cure for cancer’ or is somehow suspect in terms of the integrity in which it is offered. I have been having regular EBMs for a number of years now and can attest to both their effectiveness and the integrity of the women who provide this service.
To clarify, the Esoteric Breast Massage is only offered for women, by women. Serge himself has neither taught nor demonstrated the technique on anyone – it was, to my understanding, relayed by verbal instruction only in the first instance, and thereafter by female esoteric practitioners of exceptionally high integrity, carefully assessed as to their suitability for the task.
The EBM is not designed or offered as a cure for breast cancer but as a means to re-connect women with a part of themselves they have often ignored or seen as purely functional – a part which in fact holds the key to our loveliness and delicateness as women.
The Esoteric Breast Massage path is one I have joyfully trodden, each session being a step along the road to being a true woman rather than a woman trying to outdo a man – and other women – in a man’s world. As a result, I live very differently now and my breasts, once prone to lumpiness, soreness and hardness have softened and are now pain-free. Yes, in trying to live like a man prior to this I know I was so out of step with myself I was on a fast-track to developing breast cancer – this is something I felt deep inside long before the EBM evolved. Deep down, I knew if something didn’t change about the way I was living, my driven-ness, the harshness in the way I treated my body, my focus on how I did at work and as a socially acceptable ‘attractive’ woman, was a disaster waiting to happen. Through the specific and gentle touch of the Esoteric Breast Massage I have learnt and changed much about myself – changes which my husband and friends and colleagues have also witnessed and celebrated.
Additionally, I have since added Natalie Benhayon’s Esoteric Ovary Massage to my self-care routine – another way in which I have deepened my connection to myself, learning what my body has stored and held on to that might lead me to live in a way that hinders rather than helps myself and others. In this very gentle technique, Natalie simply places her hands on the ovaries (with my clothes on) and feels what is there to be felt from the body. This healing comes with the understanding and intention that I will be able to do this for myself one day. The information that is shared is enormously helpful, and the premise is, as with all modalities taught and offered by Universal Medicine, that the answers to our health and healing are within us, not somewhere outside of us.
Never, ever have I heard Serge Benhayon or Natalie Benhayon or any other accredited esoteric practitioner encourage clients not to seek medical help – in fact, there are numerous recordings of presentations where Serge has praised the virtues of modern medicine. The esoteric healing modalities are always presented as complementary to medicine – I think of them as the ‘missing link’ – and feel such is their efficacy that one day they will become commonplace, with esoteric practitioners working hand-in-hand with mainstream medicos. In fact, we are seeing that future already at the Universal Medicine clinic in Goonellabah, where several practitioners with mainstream qualifications, including a prominent Lung Surgeon and a Doctor of Exercise Physiology, have rooms.
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In conventional massage therapies, breast massages have existed for a long time, and in fact in a lot of body work colleges breast massages are taught in mixed gender classrooms. What I find interesting is that this has never been questioned, whilst Universal Medicine presents breast massage done only by women for women and then this is questioned? So why is it an issue when you bring more respect, courtesy and integrity to a modality as Universal Medicine has done? This to me does not make sense, and I can say this as a remedial massage therapist (from conventional training) and as an Esoteric Massage therapist (from Universal Medicine training) – I have not learned the breast massage and do not perform it, but having recieved it I can certainly share that it is performed with utmost care, respect and integrity and is to me like a sacred ceremony.
When I first went for an Esoteric Breast Massage, I was not quite sure what to expect, but I had a wonderful female practitioner, who was super caring, respectful and very reassuring. It was an incredibly nurturing experience for me to receive and I walked away know that there are true therapies for us as women that really do support us to the core.
The word cult certainly has a negative connotation, and anyone using it for Universal Medicine and those attending sessions and presentations have clearly not investigated things deeper without any predjudice nor bias. Unless you define cult differently and consider that mainstream is one form of cult, alcohol drinkers are another form of cult. smokers are another cult, TV watchers another, excercise people another and the list goes on…It actually gets quite funny when you consider how many cults we have if our definition of a cult is re-defined.
The Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) has offered me so many surprising benefits that I could not have realised the power of this simple modality when I took my first appointment. I honestly had no relationship with my breasts prior, they were there and they felt sore around my period, that’s about it. The EBM not only supported me to reconnect back to and have more awareness and care of my breasts, but it also supported me to heal many things within me around being a woman, about learning to treat myself as precious and with care and tenderness, and to feel my inner qualities as a woman and nurture those to be expressed in the world. The changes for me have been monumental and the EBM sessions will be something I continue to have as part of my ongoing health and wellbeing plan. To be supported so much and so specifically as a woman is pure gold.
Everybody can make a lie and run with it, it is easy – but how many of us can speak the truth and stand by it?
I have never considered myself a cult member either, even though that is now what I and the rest of the Universal Medicine student group are being labelled. It’s ironic that I am now more self-aware, thus free to choose not to follow social norms/expectations/obligations that I am accused of blindly following the pack. Isn’t that the case of the pot calling the kettle black?
Yes it is Fiona, what this makes you realise is how lies and corruption dominate our society. People will follow what is said without truly feeling and discerning for themselves, and so lies abound.
I agree Fiona, I feel more free than I ever have, more open to others from my heart, and more joy than ever before. My life is so rich now and I can’t appreciate Serge and Universal Medicine enough for their contribution to this. There is no compound, no weird practices, and no control over my life, in fact my self worth has grown so much, as has my own self love, that I feel incredibly self empowered. I treasure everything I have been given through Serge and the Ageless Wisdom, and it may be that one day humanity finds these Universal Medicine blog sites and discern the truth for themselves (despite what’s said in the media) by connecting to our real life experiences shared here.
The word ‘cult’ is meant to instil fear and panic and does not apply to the business that is Universal Medicine nor to any of its outstanding and deeply healing modalities.
The esoteric modalities as presented by Universal Medicine are truly complementary health modalities that support people to support themselves and definitely work in partnership and not in opposition to conventional medicine.
Always when I’ve received an Esoteric Breast Massage I’ve felt deeply honoured and respected for the beauty of the woman I am. No words can describe the high level of integrity and care in which I’ve been treated during the session. Having these moments to reflect and connect deeper inside me is something that I’ve missed so much before. So I’m very content for having such an amazing support in my life now.
I feel the same – the touch is always deeply honouring and very respectful of the essence of a woman and the modality itself very confirming of what it is to be a woman who is connected to herself and lives life from within out and not the other way around.
Media uses false information as a weapon of separation and manipulation. Definitely there is a work to be done in look at how we have ended up allowing and accepting such a corrupted stablishment. It’s time to trust in what we feel inside even more than ever before, to get to really know what’s the Truth about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine. Like you Victoria, I’ve always felt deeply supported in each workshop and presentation that I’ve attended and no one has told me what to do in my life. Love the inspiration that I daily receive from the Benhayon family as they are an example of integrity, decency and respect. Qualities really valuable and very needed in this world.
We fight our essence daily – not necessarily trying to outdo men or whatever, but not honouring who we truly are in every movement, in every breath, is a fight, and I totally agree with you, Victoria, it is a disease waiting to manifest physically.
Women who try to outdo men in their own game, need other women to help them to clear the male energy they have said yes to and to resurrect their natural energy of femaleness. It is just common sense.
Yes I have visited many organisations in my sixty odd years on this planet and I can quite clearly say that Universal Medicine is not a cult.
There is no question this approach should be studied just like any other modality. To write off the impact of the changes in lifestyle and the understanding behind the changes is to deny that we can be the change in our lives and that is manipulation on a grand scale.
I am studying public health at the moment. It was very familiar to read about how innovators of things like hand washing and the need for clean water to prevent disease, were largely discredited in their lifetime. The same techniques were used then, slander and muddying of reputation, and fiercely holding onto the dominant theories of the time. Serge and Natalie Benhayon are these same trail blazers in healthcare.
Thanks Fiona for sharing this, wow, hand washing is now considered basic common sense as is clean water, it seems that we as human beings can react to new ideas by stubbornly holding onto and defending beliefs, instead of being open to change and giving things a go. Of great concern in this in modern life is the way the media produces biased reporting to discredit innovators.
The clear fact is Esoteric medicine does not reject conventional medicine. Does conventional medicine do the same? What is truly connection is never rejecting of others.
I have experienced Esoteric Breast Massage and every practitioner I have had are women, they are deeply respectful, caring and professional. I come out of these sessions feeling deeply connected to my body and feeling deeply inspired to nurture and take better care of myself. This is a super supportive and powerful modality that supports women to deeply connect to our body.
Never has a single woman who is a practitioner of the EBM said the Esoteric Breast Massage cures cancer. Of course that doesn’t stop people from making up stories about it, and telling those stories as if they were true.
And sadly once a lie is repeated enough times, then that is all many can remember and then adopt as a truth. We can be too gullible when we accept such lies without question. What is really asked of us all is to feel for ourselves what is true and what is not.
My very first esoteric breast massage (EBM) actually assisted me to reconnect to my cold breasts. I saw them as a hinderance, a commodity and got in the way when I used to jog regularly.
Since then I am beginning to love my breasts, they are not so cold anymore. Never have I seen a male practitioner for an EBM and neither is one trained in this modality, it is a modality trained by women, for women.
As a woman I feel I have a free will and if my choice is to have an EBM then ultimately this decision lies with me, no different to a medical profession that offers me a choice for surgery, ultimately the decision lies with me too. So where is the cult in this?
I have experienced both Esoteric Breast Massage, and Esoteric Ovary Massage, and they have definitely been performed with the greatest respect and care, and through those modalities I have been able to deeply reconnect with myself, and have felt the patterns of behaviour that don’t support me, and change my choices accordingly.
I had the same experience Victoria that I never considered myself in a cult in all the years I have been attending Universal Medicine events. I have never felt so empowered, free or responsible for my own actions before. I also have never heard of Esoteric Breast Massage being touted as a cure for cancer. It has however been the remedy to the neglect, dislike and misuse of my breasts that I was ignorant to until I felt how delicate and lovely they can feel.
Same here Fiona, I have never been associated with a cult and Universal Medicine is definitely not one and in all the years I have been attending Universal Medicine, I too feel deeply empowered, more connected, more loving and more settled in life. Overwhelm and anxiety is becoming a thing of the past as I embrace more self-nurture and self-love. It baffles me how it is possible that anyone would associate the word ‘cult’ with Universal Medicine because it is very, very far from it.
Women’s breasts are often by-and-large objects of men’s sexual desires. They may also be used by women to attract men’s sexual desires. They are a part of a woman’s body that is often physically in the first line of her interactions with the world. It is not too far fetched then to state that as such, they might be particularly sensitive to how a woman (inter)acts. Many women make it about size and shape. But what if they also reveal something of the quality of how a woman stands in the world? What if how they stand in the world has consequences for their bodies? What if the Esoteric Breast Massage has helped not just to clear the unwanted consequences of how women stand in the world, but also to become more aware about themselves, so they can try different ways to be out there that might benefit their overall sense of well-being?
People need to have the right to explore their health care as they see fit without being labelled part of a cult. Although Universal Medicine does support Western Medicine, it should not be imposed that it is the only way to address our health care, because as you say Victoria there is the missing link which to me is Esoteric Medicine, the energetic causes behind our conditions. Thanks to Universal Medicine and their unwavering support of Western Medicine I now seek medical support more regularly, as on a practical level it is a very essential part of self care. However I find the combination of Western Medicine and Esoteric Medicine very supportive, with additional support from natural herbal medicine.
At the time when the media went to town on Universal Medicine, I was only just coming to the work and to all things Universal Medicine. I’d never heard of Esoteric Breast Massage until the media “reported” on it. As with everything I read in the media I had to use my own discernment and it wasn’t hard to see past an agenda and a lack of true reporting. It was quite obvious they were looking to sell a story and that the truth wasn’t at all something they were interested in. Not knowing what an EBM was, I read the newspaper reports and thought their tale of it all was so ridiculous that it sparked my interest even though I was quite nervous at the idea and thought it a bit odd. It took me some time to find a practitioner I wanted to see as there are very few EBM practitioners and even less at that time than there currently are and I’m glad I did. Life as a woman was very different after a series of EBMs – a very welcome kind of different.
Thankyou Nikki McKee. It’s great to hear of someone not being put off by the media coverage of Serge Benhayon and his work and of continuing to pursue one of the healing modalities that he founded. I know how deeply powerful and healing they are and had thought that the bad press would keep people away. I am sorry that I made this misjudgement and encouraged to know that there are people like yourself who can easily see through the lies and propaganda and can benefit, as so many others have done, from these awesome modalities and teachings.
The pull to truth is strong.
My experience with the Esoteric Breast Massage and the Esoteric Ovary Massage is a very positive one. In both modalities I’ve experienced the most exquisite respect and care, which has allowed me to feel my body in a deeper way, bringing to me much more awareness and appreciation about the delicacy of my nature.
I agree, I had no clue I was delicate before I tried these modalities, either physically delicate or emotionally delicate and that being aware of that delicateness was a great strength. Deepening that relationship has meant I am healthier and have less medical problems than with the bombastic way I used to treat my body.
In today’s world it is encouraged to live life from our heads at the expense of our body and it serves us not; the lack of vitality, absenteism and presentism (being at work physically but not truly engaged) speaks volumes – a volume that falls on deaf ears, or so it seems.
Esoteric therapies are a great complement to traditional medicine, and bring a depth of understanding of how we have a great part to play in our own wellbeing.
I have experienced the Esoteric Breast Massage and this has been absolute beneficial in many ways in my life. I have been brought up with the ideal that breasts are functional and for basically two things: future partner and or children. Never did I feel that actually there are mine and that they are super gorgeous and precious, and way more than those ideals ever reached. I received my first Esoteric Breast Massage, where I connected to feeling my breasts by the absolute integer modality Esoteric Breast Massage, practised by a lovely sweet woman (my practitioner) and so did I feel myself for the first time again, my connection to my body & who I was and so I became aware of my breasts and that there they are so much more than those things I believed. Since than I started to build a relationship with myself and the awareness of what I am feeling in my body — and adapting the level of care based on what I feel and need.
It’s interesting where deep tissue massage and other techniques are not questioned to their effectiveness or harm on the body even though they can and do leave clients with bruises and more aches and pains then before treatment. This isn’t a criticism but a look at what we see as normal and what we perceive as strange. Normal in society at this time are any forms of relief. Stressed out, exhausted, constant pain, anxiety, tension, lack of self worth and self loathing there is something in the form of relief to soften it, even just for a night or hour. Whereas modalities that offer a woman a true reflection of where they are at in their bodies and an opportunity to feel it while being held in and with the utmost respect and love are scrutinised and trashed.
If we look at the world today we can see a grand number of illness and disease increasing and increasing.. Hence we need a true form of medicine that is beyond a pill. I have come to Universal Medicine and The Way of The Livingness and had found that there is a healthy way to life by getting to know truly who you are and take care of yourself in full in all areas of life in a deeper way.
It’s funny how quickly we exercise judgement once we so much as sniff something we think might offend us, or to which we are unwilling to maintain an open mind. Actually it’s not funny at all, given the ugly places to which a bigoted attitude can lead.
What is so wrong or strange about women choosing to connect to their bodies? Are we so content with our disconnection from our bodies that we attack and accept attack on those who make a different choice?
Well said Nikki – it is the empowerment that we get from connecting to the body that so many of us avoid and hence in the avoidance we must then choose to put in down in another as their choice – it sounds crazy when we say it this way!
I have known of Universal Medicine for around 9 years and I also had never consider myself afflicted with a cult. I add, I still do not and I am still very much appreciative of all that the organisation brings. It is like being in the playground and someone says, fat, ugly etc and everyone else starts joining in, this is how stinky the idea that Universal Medicine is a cult is, it is playground taunts and the fingers start wagging. I for one will not be taunted at and back down, this organisation does the world a service beyond imagination. I am here to support that and enjoy the wisdom shared at the amazing workshops and presentations.
I really enjoyed reading this, thank you Victoria. If only the media would print the truth, not agenda based profit seeking sensationalism (aka lies). It’s great that these blog sites offer a platform for the truth to still be expressed. As a woman who has benefitted greatly from the EBM (and will continue to do so) I also testify to the integrity of Serge Benhayon and the EBM modality, and his support of Western Medicine. It’s actually because of Serge that I dropped my stubborn resolve to not see the doctor much, I now go regularly and appreciate the many tests, scans and other procedures I have since had. I opened to medicine because Serge on a very practical level explained the importance of medicine as part of self care. From that I realised my beliefs about medicine and pharmaceuticals being “bad” were unfounded, and reflected my own stubbornness to do things on my own and the hard way. Self care makes so much sense and is so logical that embracing medicine like I do now is just basic common sense, but if I hadn’t found Serge I may still have been resistant and at risk health-wise. And, I love both my doctors they are great human beings, and I so deeply appreciate the care they bring into my life. It’s a complete turnaround for me thanks to Serge’s presentations, there are no have-to’s or telling you what to do, just simple common sense from a really beautiful guy, the rest is up to us.
Reading your sharing, I can feel how little care we afford for ourselves in general, pushing our body to fit in, to strive, to survive and consequential exhaustion and depletion, and accepting them as our normal. What Universal Medicine delivers is a deep level of care we have not given ourselves an opportunity for – from all angles. It is exactly what the world need.
I have also found Esoteric Breast Massage to be so very supportive. I can understand from those that have not had it why it might be something to be questioned and approached with hesitation, but when meeting the accredited practitioners and the integrity the modality is held in and carried out by, my hesitation certainly vanished. Perhaps the reason why this modality has been so badly put down is because, we as women, have had such disregard for our bodies and for our breasts by the way we have sexualised them, that to consider them in any other light may seem difficult… and thereby honouring ourselves and this part of our body becomes a challenge.
Five years on and certain sections of the scientific community and the media are still trying to have a field day in terms of putting Esoteric Breast Massage down. It’s a good thing as consumers we can vote with our feet and choose the sessions we know support us regardless of what others think, or their agendas.
Victoria I find this interesting because I studied “Clinical Relaxation Massage” with a reputable business and breast massage was part of my training, with male students massaging women’s breasts. I opted out of that class as it did not feel right to me, but breast massage was simply considered to be another part of the body holding a lot of lymphatic tissue that would benefit from massage. If anything, Serge has actually raised the standards considerably by making sure it’s practiced only by women for women, which I was very grateful for meaning I could access this modality without compromising myself to a male practitioner. So then, why aren’t the media investigating this whole topic and exposing other organisations who train in massage if they truly believe there is something untoward about breast massage? The answer is, breast massage is not new, nor is it weird, and Serge is operating in integrity, but there’s no sensationalist story in that.
Great questions Melinda. And thanks for bringing your knowledge of this area to light as it provides some much needed perspective.
Great comment Melinda, thank you for sharing your experience and I agree, Serge Benhayon brings absolute integrity, respect and honouring of women by setting such a high standard for this modality. Anyone who wants to put this modality down, to me is either misinformed or has a hidden agenda.
It is interesting, we have so many abusive ways how the breasts of a woman are seen and treated and handled, and here we have a modality that truly supports women to connect with their breasts and say no to this abuse and instead of embracing this as a society it gets ridiculed and questioned. I can attest to the healing and supportive qualities of the Esoteric Breast Massage.
If the media truly cared about women and breasts they would stop using images of scantily clad women and clean up their own abuse of the female form. I also find it interesting that the media in general says nothing about the use and abuse of the female body but attacks a modality that truly supports women to have a loving and respectful relationship to their breasts and body.
Yes, we have made the body to be an object that can be used and abused, especially I feel a woman’s body. The advertisement and themes and pictures in magazines we allow nowadays are sexualised, pornographic, violent – simply abusive, and yet we do not see it that way but have made it normal. It is time that we become honest about what is really going on in the world and our lives and allow ourselves to see and feel because only then do we start to see the real impact all that we have made life to be has on us and we will understand and know what we need to do.
Yes, that really gets me. How dare we champion the abuse and disrespect offered to our bodies and when a modality comes along that asks us to nurture ourselves, to deeply care for ourselves and to understand the divinity of the relationship we have with our breasts, to mock it and belittle it making women feel that there is something dirty and wrong with this level of self respect and care. That is just so wrong.
Or / and it shows where our values truly lie. So it is a wake up call to take stock where we are really at and then in all honesty take the steps that are needed.
Whilst modern medicine does an amazing job it does not put much focus on getting to the root cause of illness and disease. This is where Universal Medicine therapies come in and why they so clearly are complementary to medicine. We need both because the rate of illness and disease is on the rise and is fast becoming a tsunami that needs to be addressed.
There is much to appreciate about Universal Medicine healing modalities, and when I read this line, “this healing comes with the understanding and intention that I will be able to do this for myself one day”, my appreciation went to a deeper level.
So many modalities out there come with the consciousness of ‘only I can heal you with my modality’, or ‘there is something wrong with you and I can fix you’. But these don’t, quite the opposite actually. They work on the premise that you are all-knowing, and already everything, there is nothing to fix, just support to let go of ill-behaviours and patterns that stop you from living that.
Breaking down the many myths or opinions on things is always very refreshing. We need not do this in the first place if we had all done our homework. So often we get caught and run off into a story before checking the facts or at the very least doing some research. Here we not only have the facts in an article but the facts are coming straight from the person who experienced it. Why don’t we give much weight to these real life experiences and seemed to be attracted down a road of gossip and drama? It would seem we have a fear or a block when it comes to being ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ When in fact there is no such thing, only the truth. For me ‘right and wrong’ give me a hard time and no matter what I do the ‘wrong’ always seem to overshadow the ‘right’. I have found the easier I go on myself or the more care I take with myself supports me to not be constantly changing what’s wrong and being relieved I was right. It all comes back to the way we live and not just to what we think.
Esoteric Breast Massage is not something I would have considered in a million years if I had not already experienced the power of the other healing modalities that Serge Benhayon has brought through. And it was equally a deep healing through highlighting the many abusive and destructive patterns I had been living and putting this body through.. If it had been something I could have discovered in my 20s, my life and the way I have lived would have been far more honouring and loving, and not only me but my family, friends and the whole world would have been better for it..
Oh I hear you Annie, being introduced to Universal Medicine in my twenties or teenage years and the many modalities that are complementary in every way to medicine would have made a huge impact on my choices, movements and expression as a woman and to all those who were with me.
Yes, Vistoria I can also vouch for what you say for in the 14 years I have been hearing Serge Benhayon present the esoteric healing modalities have always been presented as being complementary to medicine.
It is simple really, we have modern medicine and it does a great job, but it doesn’t and shouldn’t be asked to fix everything. Modern medicine has its limits, so the modalities offered by Universal Medicine that are complementary to medicine can assist to support uncovering the root cause of illness and disease.
A solid sharing. Thanks for this – as it reaffirms the power that is held in all the modalities we are offered. Esoteric Breast Massage brought me back to a deep connection with my body and my breasts.It powerfully connects me to the woman I am and the quality I can bring through as a woman.
Esoteric Medicine and Medicine go beautifully hand in hand and I know from personal experience that through my own engagement with Esoteric Medicine I have engaged with Medicine in a more effective way and found the experience of the two together side by side to be very supportive. It is the future.
It’s really great that so many people have written the truth about their experiences in the face of the absolute lies published in the media about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine and it’s modalities. The media wields much false power but it can only do so if we cower and accept its lies and corruption. Standing up for the truth is something that every human being can do, and we must if we want to create a truly supportive world. Lies never support anyone, only the truth does.
Powerful sharing as personal experiences are the gold we need to hear. Let the truth come from those who truly have experienced Esoteric Breast Massage and let them have their words, not those whom have no experience and lie.
“The EBM is not designed or offered as a cure for breast cancer but as a means to re-connect women with a part of themselves they have often ignored or seen as purely functional – a part which in fact holds the key to our loveliness and delicateness as women.” This is one thing that to me makes the Esoteric Breast Massage so beautiful. Our breast are in the way we currently live often seen pretty much as for sex or feeding our children and for the rest women don’t connect often with their breast. This to me is already a sign of ill health as our breast are a very beautiful part of our body that is to be cherished and held lovingly.
A woman living without hardness is a healing for herself, but also the whole of humanity. I relate with everyone in such a different way since I have been shedding layers of hardness, in how I move, talk, think, get on with life. These women health modalities are incredible, there is not doubt that they change lives and are delivered with the upmost integrity and care.
Universal Medicine does not tell me what to do but supports me to connect to my innermost. Universal Medicine knows the answers to all of my questions lie within me. It also knows that I come to the realisations of truth in my own time and that there is not a need whatsoever to try and interfere with anything different other than to live this knowing. Ultimately Universal Medicine supports me to connect to the wisdom that is forever present within myself and that of the universe.
There is so much on offer from Universal Medicine and Esoteric Breast Massage is one of those incredible offerings. It’s a modality that is much needed in our word today.
There is no doubt that Esoteric Breast Massage supports women immensely. There are so many women who will attest to this that anyone who says otherwise is misinformed.
Esoteric Breast Massage is a very powerful modality that all women could benefit from in my experience. Yes I agree and so needed, ‘The esoteric healing modalities are always presented as complementary to medicine – I think of them as the ‘missing link’ – and feel such is their efficacy that one day they will become commonplace, with esoteric practitioners working hand-in-hand with mainstream medicos. ‘
A great sharing Victoria. Your explanation of your experiences with Universal Medicine and the EBM Practitioners and others such as Natalie Benhayon clarifies much for the person who may not have known what is involved in these practices. I too can vouch for the gentle and loving respect shown to myself when I have experienced these healing practices performed by qualified Women Practitioners.
The Esoteric Breast Massage is such a beautiful modality practiced by women to support me to re-connect to my breasts and therefore to the beautiful woman I am. The sessions can be exposing but I am guided in what I call a safe environment to let go of the ill choices I have been living. Under no circumstances have I ever been told, felt or thought that the EBM was a cure for breast cancer.
These modalities are heaven sent and have been not only a support for many women, but a catalyst for change and coming back to the truth of who they are. That should be the news but it seems we’re not quite ready for that kind of news.
Thank you Victoria for sharing your experience with the Esoteric Breast Massage, blogs such as these are important as your lived ways speaks volumes and drowns out any fabricated lies or stories that are trying to harm and discredit this very beautiful and powerful healing modality.
I have had many Esoteric Breast Massage sessions and welcome each session to feel and reconnect more deeply to the woman I am and to realise what is still in the way of my living all that I am.
To me, the controversy is not actually about the modalities of Universal Medicine but the fact that women are reconnecting back to their inner-most power, authority and grace. When women walk this on earth it calls the men to step into their tenderness and offers a way of being and interacting that is based on sacredness. Potentially, this was of being could change the world, and there are many who are very comfortable with the chaos and horror currently being lived.
Five years on from having written this blog and my involvement with those Universal Medicine therapies that are specifically designed to support women have only deepened, as has my appreciation of them. What is also beautiful to see is the outpouring of activity initiated by other women as a result of their involvement, in the form of events and other projects such as those under the Esoteric Women’s Health banner. As we restore ourselves with the support of these beautiful modalities, so too can we then offer restoration to others.
So many irresponsible lies about Universal Medicine and the modalities it offers is so wreckless given the state of the health of nations. The Esoteric Breast Massage is a profound modality that has supported me to reconnect to the beautiful woman that I am. There is no judgement what I then choose to do with this – whether I nurture this connection or go back to old disregarding patterns. What has been offered is a way of living that provides true well being which absolutely includes western medicine.
Wreckless and irresponsible are the words Karin.
The state of the world’s health systems are poor and one day will collapse. The collaboration of Esoteric Medicine with Medicine will save millions of dollars and correct not only health but many other pillars of life.
When I consider the trajectory my life was on before I was introduced to Universal Medicine and the work of Serge Benhayon I shudder. I was completely ‘normal’ but that ‘normal’ was sending me down a road that could only end up with chronic exhaustion and, I have no doubt a non communicable disease caused by my lifestyle choices.
Likewise, I’d never even considered the word ‘cult’ in association with Serge until it was coined and then paraded out in the press. Years later I sit here and still feel no relationship with the word – my life has improved beyond measure as I have started to live what is taught and I feel blessed to have found such love and integrity. We should all be so lucky.
Its interesting what you say here Victoria about never once feeling like you were in a cult. When I first started attending Universal Medicine presentations and seeing practitioners one thing that really stood out for me was that I was free to come and go totally as I felt to. After a presentation there was no follow up emails, phone calls or letters. There was no pressure at all to buy books or products. I was left to come and go as I felt to. This in it self was something amazing to feel we live in a world where we are bombarded with sales and hype, and here was a place that was free of all that. From the very beginning I could feel the integrity that Universal Medicine was founded on and that Serge Benhayon presented with. Its this integrity that shuts down any possibility that Universal Medicine could be anything close to a cult.
As you say Victoria the answers to our health and healing are within us, and this is what Serge Benhayon encourages, connecting back to the bodies natural impulse
Having had Esoteric Healing Sessions for the past 3 years I can say with authority that no single session has ever been practiced without the highest form of integrity, care and respect. I’m actually endeavouring to practice this level of care and nurturing with myself and it is so inspiring to have the reflection of this care from the practitioners.
Thank you for simply describing what the Esoteric Breast Massage is. A healing technique that supports us to connect to our breasts and in fact our whole body and helps us seeing, feeling and living the beauty that we are. To feel at home in my body is a very precious way of living, something I do not want to miss anymore. A way of living that is forever deepening.
The power of the Universal Medicine healing modalities is not in the modalities themselves but in the opportunity they offer the client to re-empower them to re-claim themselves by living more of who they truly are in life. To me this is far far greater than anyone offering a ‘quick-fix’ or a solution that ‘does it for you’.
Along with what we see within ourselves… the most powerful testimony to what Universal Medicine is offering is when those who know and love us dearly begin to notice and comment on the remarkable changes they have seen in us for the better… countering whatever rumours of harm that are being spread. We are living proof that they are just stories.
What I have learned through the Esoteric Breast Massage and Esoteric Ovary Massage is to treasure my body and lovingly take care of it not just in a functional way but in a deeply nurturing and fulfilling way, which has supported me tremendously in my self-worth as a woman.
I agree Judith – when women are filling themselves from the inside and expressing this outwardly, there is less need for approval from others. We can give everything to ourselves and share this with the world rather than expecting the world to deliver something we are empty of.
Yes, this expectation on the world to deliver is what makes us demanding, critical and needy.
What comes to me as I read this blog is the sense it makes to read the very subtle messages that our bodies present before those messages become gross, in the form of an illness or disease. If we learn to feel the disharmony in our bodies when it first appears and respond to it then, surely we will see far less of these conditions arising. Working proactively with our bodies and hearing their ‘messages’ is surely just common sense.
While my Mum was in the last stages of her life, and undergoing treatment for her cancer the approach developed the other way round. She started with the chemo, and then I gave her a few chakrapuncture treatments… she loved it and we continued these as a support which she often credited with how well she tolerated the treatment. What was beautiful was that I was able to offer and she could receive this support right to the end…
“The EBM is not designed or offered as a cure for breast cancer but as a means to re-connect women with a part of themselves they have often ignored or seen as purely functional – a part which in fact holds the key to our loveliness and delicateness as women.” This statement has to be heard loud and clearly as having been diagnosed and treated for breast cancer at no point was this modality claimed as being ‘my saviour.’ I was receiving Esoteric Breast massages and it was because of this that I was able to take myself to the doctors as I had such a fear of conventional medicine. After the diagnosis I was no longer allowed to receive this modality until I was given the all clear. This confirms the dedication, commitment and integrity any practitioners of the Esoteric Breast Massage hold.
Absolutely Victoria, I have only ever experienced the utmost respect, responsibility, integrity and true care from both Natalie and Serge Benhayon. From seeing Natalie for various modality sessions, to other Universal Medicine practitioners for EBM’s, to attending presentations and retreats with Serge. They are all presented in the most amazing care, support and love for true healing.
The EBM’s are a heavenly gift to allow women to reconnect back to the tenderness and sacredness within. Each woman has a unique relationship with their breasts, but commonly share some ideals of what they are used for in life, the function they carry out. EBM’s bring women back to the feeling and exquisite beauty that our breasts can emanate as our nurturing centers. I have experienced this and my relationship has changed with my breasts along with the symptoms I once had each month with my cycles.
I second your comment about the Esoteric Breast Massage here: “Through the specific and gentle touch of the Esoteric Breast Massage I have learnt and changed much about myself.” Great and very simple summary of the immense support this modality offers women and the exquisite tenderness and absolute integrity it is offered with.
I have never come across a modality that has such integrity. Esoteric Breast Massage is paving the way for women to reconnect to who they truly are. In a world that has lost the plot we have at last a modality that is shining the way forward in regards to breast care.
The Esoteric Breast Massage modality is in its 10th year now I think and still growing in the quality of its practitioners and the support that is offered to and is felt by many, many, many more women.
It speaks for itself with no need for advertising nor attention payed to those who have tried to malign it without having had any experience or understanding of it whatsoever. I personally feel graced and blessed to have the opportunity to have EBM’s and will continue to have them when I have the opportunity.
When we are graced with Natalie’s presence in the UK, I will also book healing sessions with her as I have found every treatment had to be of the utmost benefit. Ovary massage helps to connect me back to my true rhythm as a women and helps to release all sorts of yucky emotions that were doing harm hiding away in my body. Natalie is truly supportive, and whilst being held in that love and support it is easy to surrender and let go of what is not.
The smear campaign against Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine is well thought out and carefully planned. I have studied Clinical Relaxation Massage prior to finding Universal Medicine and they taught breast massage which was performed by male students on female students – this was something I did not participate in as it didn’t feel right to me. Universal Medicine are actually acting with integrity ensuring women are only taken care of by other women, and that the Esoteric Breast Massage Practitioners are the highest quality – this is not just technical expertise but the quality of love and energetic integrity they live to. The smear campaign lies again Esoteric Breast Massage and Universal Medicine are particularly unpleasant because this is both the modality and organisation where women are truly take care of. I look forward to the day where cyber trolls are legally not able to spread such lies, and the media is also held accountable for printing what’s true.
Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) is not something I would have ever imagined going for, but my trust in the integrity of the other esoteric modalities made me give it a go.. and I would say that it was powerfully confirming, respectful and profound in the insights it presented in how I run my body, treat it with harshness and disregard and generally trash it. The EBM was great in raising awareness of how I live, such that now I have the understanding and can make different choices that are far more self-loving and caring. And the different choices have resulted in a huge turnaround in my general health and well-being..
“Never, ever have I heard Serge Benhayon or Natalie Benhayon or any other accredited esoteric practitioner encourage clients not to seek medical help – in fact, there are numerous recordings of presentations where Serge has praised the virtues of modern medicine.” This too has been my experience in listening to presentations by Serge Benhayon and the proof is in the fact that for 20 years prior to attending these events I was very anti conventional medicine and it is through him that I now see and have since experienced the importance of conventional medicine. In my experience it was all the other alternative modalities I was following that were anti conventional medicine.
It is easy to write off something you don’t understand as pseudo-science, or something being a cult. It is much more difficult to be open to the possibility that such things might be true.
Great to re- read your article Victoria. There are so many misconceptions about esoteric breast massage. This beautiful modality has allowed me to beautifully reconnect with myself as a true woman and this deepens with every session.
Thank you for this great blog Victoria – I too could feel that I would be bringing breast cancer to myself if I carried on living in the way I was choosing at the time – the EBM modality has brought me to a place of connection within my body that I cannot deny. An Ovary Massage also revealed what I already knew – our biggest healing can sometimes be re-learning to trust what our body is already alerting us too, to stop ignoring the messages and to honour it’s divine essence in our next choice.
Everything can sound crazy when taken out of context.
Agree Luke – this modality has a deep integrity and potential to raise the awareness in women of how they run their bodies – thus being able to inform their choices going forward.
Makes you rethink the phrase shoot now ask questions later. Maybe the point was because we didn’t want to know the answers to the questions.
I agree Victoria. Universal Medicine is the ‘missing link’ that is complementary to conventional medicine in supporting us to feel and accept responsibility for the part we have to play for our own health and wellbeing. I have been choosing to have EBMs for several years and find I am able to connect to and appreciate deeply the woman I am. I look forward to my sessions and the integrity and care that is offered is beautiful.
This article raises so many great points that expose much which is blatantly and intentionally being warped and misinterpreted to cause unease and drama where there is none. These modalities and Universal Medicine are awesome and are true assets to society. This has been my personal and independent observation for 10 years.
For me as a men it is so liberating to be with true women instead of being with women that try to outdo men. They give me the possibility to be a true man too and then the beauty of the difference in sexes becomes something to celebrate instead of a struggle.
I really love your comment Nico, for I had not before considered that in trying to do everything a man can do that I would have been making men feel less than what they truly were. My need to prove that I was worthy pushed me to do many tasks that my body found difficult to do physically. Also I felt that I needed to be capable and able to support men in many and varied outdoor jobs. You have supported me in being able to let go of this on a deeper level and to be able to allow myself to be the true woman I know I am and know that in so doing I am supporting the men in my life to be all the man they are.
Beautiful Leigh, although in essence we are all the same, in our gender we have a difference in expression that, when each gender is allowed to be lived in its full expression, the two together will make up the whole we all belong to and are returning to.
I was thinking the exact same thing when I came across your comment, its such a pleasure being around women when they are in their true livingness
As i have accepted and lived more of who I am as true woman i have seen the men in my life reconnect to possibility of what it is to be a true man, and it is indeed beautiful, it is as if there is so much more support.
Yes Nicole, it feels that when both genders are fully themselves and live the qualities that corresponds with the gender, men and women are complementary to each other and are naturally capable of supporting each other in human life,
Dear nicolesjardin
This is a beautiful comment, a woman living her light is felt, by everyone, and is naturally a true support to everyone.
Yes absolutely Nicole, even though it is the woman who receives this treatment it is also of benefit to men as they feel the tenderness in a woman and can feel and realise they are this too! Beautiful!
Great insight Nico, when a woman lives fully in herself, it offers the opportunity for others, both men and women to live more true to their natural way and therein the potential for true harmony for all.
I can totally understand why Esoteric Breast Massages may be considered unusual or even strange. As women, most of us have been completely disconnected from this part of our body. It may even be an area of our body that is not even felt, unless of course there is pain or something to bring our attention to it. It makes sense then, as part of us re-connecting to ourselves as women, that we develop an open and loving relationship with our breasts.
Esoteric Breast Massage was something I would never have tried in a million years if it had not been for the trust I had gained in Universal Medicine and its modalities – which have helped transform my health that 35 years in conventional medicine alone had yet failed to do. Through this modality I was made aware of the deep disregard I treated this body with then expected it to function brilliantly in spite of the thrashing I kept metering out to it. Even though it’s not rocket science, and I’m not stupid (so I thought) I was astounded at the response and turnaround in body and health through simple lifestyle changes, choosing to tune in and live from the body’s messages regarding food, sleep, exercise and other aspects of living. EBM’s brought to me a whole new level of awareness of how we can treat ourselves, and now can reap the benefits of a restored vitality and well-being…
So true Annie, it doesn’t take an Einstein to work out that how we treat ourselves via every choice we make determines how we will feel in ourselves, yet how often do we choose anything but what is simple? There is no denying true care once it has been felt, and once felt anything less just isn’t going to measure up.
Victoria what is interesting about your experience with the Esoteric Breast Massage (EBM) is that you place no emphasis on the physical massage aspect of the treatment. You speak only of the deepened relationship with yourself as a woman, and your consequent ability to increasingly live in a way that remains true to what you feel in this deeper connection. It clearly empowered you to live with greater awareness and with the ability to make more self-loving choices.
I know in all the years I used to have (body) massage, what I can recall most is the relief felt during the session for the aches, pains and tightness I felt. I could not say anything more about it than this… looking back, for the many years of sessions I had, I learnt nothing except where I held tension week in, week out, and did not progress beyond this.
What the EBM offers is extraordinary, as is evident by your experience, and to consider it anything less than the deeply healing modality it is for all women, is to misunderstand and misrepresent it in the most intentionally obstructive way.
What you say here Jenny is so true. I had years of Bowen Therapy, that took away the pain and discomfort in my body, but never once did it invite me to look at my life and my way with it. So never once did I address my way of living. In my experience Esoteric Breast Massage does this, the massage supports me to feel my inner beauty as a women. And to reflect on how I am living my life, tenderly offering me the possibility that the inner beauty I feel can be lived each day.
Yes, Victoria, it is so important to share all the absolute benefits that Serge Benhayon is bringing through Universal Medicine. The teachings, workshops, modalities, and all presentations that Serge is presenting is incredible and unique. I have had also Esoteric Breast Massage’s and Ovary Massages, where I got deep healing. Not only at the moment of the session, but the time after, where my livingness has developed into a rhythm that is supportive of myself and others. This I never experienced or lived before in this life. So is Universal Medicine and all its presents very valuable to me, and I would very much recommend it for everyone, as this we all can deeply surrender to and benefit from in truth.
Thank you Victoria for speaking up with the truth on two of the many modalities offered at Universal Medicine. It is a disgrace the name of a business with the highest level of integrity and care for all, can be muddied even if it be only by a pair of trouble-makers disgruntled by the state of their own life.
The other thing I love is the simplicity in which you share what Esoteric Breast Massages bring, as you say it is a very necessary ” means to re-connect women with a part of themselves they have often ignored or seen as purely functional – a part which in fact holds the key to our loveliness and delicateness as women.”
Victoria, you share a lot of great points in your blog, and I absolutely agree with what you say about the EBM and Ovary Massages but the point that stood out for me was how you always knew the way you were living was not right and that you were a disaster waiting to happen. I have felt this too and I know many many with us. We just did not have anything to stop us and this is exactly what the Esoteric Modalities do, they help us stop and change our ways before our bodies will have to.
This is a great blog, hopefully setting the record straight for all those out there that persist in getting their facts wrong or who get mis-informed by not researching truth for themselves.
Great blog, thank you Victoria.
Victoria your experience of Universal Medicine, the Esoteric Breast and Ovary massage mirrors mine. Like you I have found these amazing healing Modalites are the missing key to addressing my health and wellbeing that always sits beside western medicine.
Victoria I agree with every word you have written. The EBM’s and Ovary treatments have given me enormous insight into how I was living was affecting my body. My experience with the practitioners has been one of exquisite care, tenderness and respect that have allowed me to let down the protective guard and the deep self-loathing that was buried in my body to feel the true precious fragility and sweetness of me.
I completely agree. The experience I have had is the same. A support to see that the answers we seek are inside and waiting there patiently for us to have the space to listen! Once I slowed down I heard the very loud conversation my body was having with me!! I slowed down and learnt to listen to that conversation with the support of the esoteric practitioners and Universal Medicine Therapies as well as my own choice and dedication to come back to my natural rhythm.
Esoteric breast massage has awesome potential and the lies and abuse thrown at it and its practioners is unsubstantiated and misleading. Breast massage is already part of general massage techniques offered in training, not necessarily main stream but is is present. It is proven that massaging the lymphatic and vascular areas on the body is deeply beneficial to both men and women. There is noting sexual or ‘strange’ about this practice in supports a healing approach to the whole of the body.
Women all over the world are benefiting from the Esoteric Breast Massage, which makes me wonder what agenda is behind those who dismiss it without knowing anything about it.
I agree Elizabeth, there are many women that I know who benefit immensely from this work.
What I also don’t understand Victoria is why would the media choose to spread rumours and not fill their articles with personal experiences like you have shared from women who have had direct and long term experience of the Esoteric Breast Massage and Ovary Massage? Again, as with all Universal Medicine presentations and modalities one is free to come and go and to choose if this complementary offering along with mainstream medicine is for them or not. To tout any woman who associates herself with Universal Medicine as being a brain washed devote is a mysogynistic attitude I am frankly tired of hearing, making out I am stupid and have no idea what is going on, which in reality is the complete opposite!
Thanks Victoria for sharing your experiences. I have never heard anything presented at Universal Medicine workshops or via practitioners that suggest that their way is the only way. Instead, everyone is urged to consider what is offered and make their own mind up and to know that this is just part (albeit a major part) of the key to overall health and well being. I personally have found the Esoteric Breast Massages to be very beneficial in assisting me to re-connect back to a part of my body that has long been ignored.
An awesome testimony Victoria of the amazing benefits that both you and your family have received as a result of your connection to Universal Medicine. I love the level of detail you have shared here as it offers the reader a greater insight into the truth of some of the Esoteric modalities offered by Universal Medicine trained practitioners. What I also felt was the true healing that you experienced by developing a deeper and more honest relationship with yourself. Thank you for sharing such a beautiful supportive blog, it speaks volumes.
Victoria, your experience here is so similar to mine and I appreciate these modalities and the practitioners of them, so very much, for supporting me to connect back to myself and trust my own inner knowing. No longer dis-empowered but living and loving life to the max.
My experience of Universal Medicine practitioners has always been one where I am encouraged to seek mainstream medical help for physical ailments, and supported to look within for the root underlying causes of these ailments. These two forms of medicine work very well together.
I absolutely agree with you Victoria ”…that the answers to our health and healing are within us, not somewhere outside of us.” To know this truth is super empowering.
Victoria the journalists who already had their story written even before pretending to research it must have loved it when they heard that there was such a thing as breast massage as it would have just fitted in nicely to their pre conceived story. The actual truth of what an Esoteric Breast Massage really is would not have been accessible to their narrowed views. I have only had one Estoteric Breast Massage so far. The reason that I have not yet had another is that the healing benefits that I encountered from just one session are still being deeply felt by me and in truth will last the rest of my life. I will go back for more for sure because they are nothing short of remarkable.
Alexis, What you share here is truly amazing, that just one Esoteric Breast Massage can bring to you a healing that will last a lifetime. The truth of returning to the women we are is so very profound and for me at times surreal, compared to that which I have been living. For the truth of the real woman that I am is one of such tenderness, openness, stillness and a level of understanding that awakens even more understanding each day, yet for much of my life and still some days I am living tense and uptight so it is a constant choice for me to continue to return back to the stillness of the truth that I am, and this is what Esoteric Breast Massage has supported me to feel in my own body. A modality that is so needed in today’s world for all women to have a marker of the truth of the stillness and tenderness that lies within them.
I love your account of your experience of Esoteric Breast Massage and Esoteric Ovary Massage, Victoria. I concur with everything you have written. These two modalities offer every woman a way to re connect with her own body in a deeply intimate and self nurturing manner. Why would anyone ever want to sabotage that?
Makes you wonder….
Conventional Medicine is an essential and fundamental ingredient to help treat disease and illness and to optimise the health of our society. Universal Medicine’s esoteric modalities are complementary to, not instead of Conventional Medicine. Serge Benhayon is very clear about this fact as evidenced by numerous recordings both verbal and written in which he states it and what I have heard first hand at many of his presentations.
It’s amazing to see how one or two people have made accusations about Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine (that are not only lies, but completely opposite to the truth) and certain undiscerning individuals from the press run with these lies, seemingly without checking. Since these lies have been countered many times, as in this blog, those undiscerning individuals have no interest. Is that because they don’t want to admit they made a (huge) mistake, or because they only have an interest in stories that catch people out or put them down? There is so much amazing stuff to tell that has come about because of Universal Medicine, and it is great that lies have inspired so many to tell it… Thank you for sharing your experience Victoria.
What you have shared here Victoria many women (and men) can attest to in the support and benefits that these healing modalities can bring to ones life. Many more people than the few who claim and cry dodgy practices without any real, lived experience of what they are abusing. Having recently had my first Esoteric Breast Massage session I can only speak of praise and appreciation for such a modality being in my life, not because I am in a cult and supporting my own group as it were but because it allowed me a chance to see how I can by my own choices choose to be more supporting of my own health and well-being. When we hold ourselves in a level of regard we choose not to harm ourselves (this level of regard is continuing to evolve, I am far from perfect and perfection only brings stress as I have experienced) When we choose to not harm ourselves we are less likely to need medical assistance, again without perfection as Serge Benhayon has presented being free from illness and disease is not the goal but that our choices can cause unnecessary harm to our bodies – does that not then lighten the load on the medical systems and support all around, not just ourselves?
Thank God for Universal Medicine clinic, thank God for Serge Benhayon! It has been for me too the missing link in healing. Since the first day I walked in for my first session with an Esoteric Practitioner my life has made an about face to where it was headed. I now continue to develop a deeply nurturing and caring relationship with my body, that has benefitted not only the way in which I work as a practitioner but in all I do in the world.
Both these modalites: the Esoteric Breast Massage and the Esoteric Ovary Massage are fabulous and amazing in how they have supported me (and many other women) to feel what is naturally inside me as a women, that is my delicateness and my tenderness, that I had never before been able to feel or access through any other therapy or treatment, and I have searched and tried a lot of things out there. I will continue receiving these modalites which only deepen my relationship with my femaleness and which have given me in the first place the awareness of the sacred, divine and wise woman I am and have always been but had forgotten.
Thanks Victoria! Could it be that the main issue with EBM is precisely that it helps women to become true women and not any longer women trying to outdo men?
I too have experienced the Esoteric Breast Massage and ovary massage and can affirm that the modalities have had a tremendous impact on my health and well-being. Through the sessions and support I have slowly turned around decades of running this tired old body down with incessant nervous energy, anxiousness and subjecting it to constant knocks, hard physical work and activities that it was not designed for. I have finally begun to appreciate that my body is worth taking care of and it has responded, returning to a shape and quality that feels far more true and with a level of wellbeing and vitality that I had not known possible. If I had known as a teenager what I now know, my life would have been lived with far more honouring and respect. I can’t say that I would not have developed the health issues I did, but I can certainly say that since I started caring for myself better, they have all resolved.
Thank you Victoria and Annie, I have witnessed the health improvements of hundreds of Students of The Livingness.
Serge Benhayon always encourages people to see medical advise and treatment where it is required. Having been through breast cancer myself, I chose to do all the Western Medical treatments including surgery, chemotherapy and hormone therapy. I am deeply grateful for what Western Medicine offers. In addition to this, I have also worked with the Esoteric Healing modalities including the Esoteric Breast Massage which have also been a huge support to help me to re connect back to me and has enabled me to see the disconnection that I had been living in the lead up to the breast cancer.
Usually critisism comes from a place of not wanting to know more about what is different to what you hold as a truth, because it might challenge your stand. Rasism works in a similar way, better to hate than getting to know what is different and unknown. Calling something a cult is the same thing, you do it because you don’t know what it is and perhaps you feel that it might challenge what you hold as a truth.
This is true mattsjosefsson. sad but true. How much would we come to know and understand if we stopped being afraid. Remember how much fear and persecution abounded when people dared to say, before being able to prove, that the world was round not flat?
I feel the persecution is still around today in the form of cyberbullying. You’re not necessarily killed as was the case in the past but the aim is to stop the truth from being heard which should be seen as equally harming if not more.
My experience of Esoteric Healing sessions has been an awesome opportunity to connect to me and what I truly feel inside – they have helped me understand myself and life. The practitioners are amazingly gentle and hold such integrity and love. Thank you for sharing the truth of Esoteric Breast Massages’s and other Esoteric modalities.
Thank you Victoria for sharing so beautifully your experience and for standing up to clarify the misinformation that has been erroneously spread. Universal Medicine has provided extraordinary modalities alongside an unwavering love and support for all. Through this, people’s lives have been profoundly enriched after being inspired to choose to connect deeply to themselves and through listening to and caring for their bodies. The results of this have been incredible. I feel blessed and honoured to be associated with such a truly remarkable organisation.
Myself and many people I know share your experience of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the healing modalities they offer. I have always felt free to make my own choices and understand the consequences of these choices. I have never felt imposed on with dogma or rules. It has been up to me to feel and discover from my own body what is true. I have never heard the healing modalities touted as be able to cure cancer, although I have found these sessions to be quite profound. They assist me to become more aware of my body and to make changes in the way I live to support it.
Your experience of Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the healing modalities is one that I and many people I know share. I feel completely free to choose how I live and aware of the consequences of my choices on my health and wellbeing. Not because any one tells me to but because my body knows what is true and what isnt.
Back around 2009, before I even attended any workshop with Universal Medicine I got to know of the high standard and assessment an Esoteric Practitioner has to commit to, to be allowed to offer Esoteric Breast Massages. And I remember even wondering challengingly: “How is it that a group of people who bring through such amazing techniques don’t let them easily spread?” The answer is that only the highest standard of skill and ethics would pass an esoteric assessment.
Thank you, Victoria, for this great article, as timely now as when it was written.
I love the future picture you have painted:
“The esoteric healing modalities are always presented as complementary to medicine – I think of them as the ‘missing link’ – and feel such is their efficacy that one day they will become commonplace, with esoteric practitioners working hand-in-hand with mainstream medicos.”
And that future is coming towards us.
A very informative read, thank you Victoria. I see the cult claims and the sensational and false headlines around Esoteric Breast Massage as a nonsense, designed to sidetrack the simplicity and beauty of what is available to learn from Universal Medicine. That the headlines so clearly do not match the truth, makes it even more obvious that Universal Medicine offers something that is worth taking time in the day to stop and consider fully. Away from the headlines there are so many amazing stories unfolding across the world, like yours Victoria; changes that no cult could ever achieve as they come from the way people are themselves choosing to live.
This is so true Amina. The Esoteric Breast Massage is profound and brings a deep honouring of both the woman within and the body itself. The amazing tenderness and the integrity with which the modality is offered offer an intimacy both with oneself as the client and in the relationship with the practitioner. This has enabled me begin to live this intimacy in other relationships
Thank you Victoria, I like you feel deeply that the esoteric modalities offer to humanity the very needed missing link in our health care. Through the deep connection that I have made with myself, a connection that continues to deepen every day. I now feel very connected to my body. This allows me to feel very quickly if something that I am doing is in any way harming my body. This connection has allowed me to feel and understand that I had been living in total disregard to my body and what it actually needs each and every day to support it. In supporting my body I find that I am way less stressed and am able to achieve much more than ever before. All of this with a feeling of joy inside that is the most gorgeous thing to feel ever.
Victoria, this article is written beautifully, thank you. I, like you also feel that the esoteric modalities are the missing link in our health care. I for one care more deeply for myself since I became involved with Universal Medicine then I did before, and the affects on my body are simply amazing.
The Universal Medicine modalities have and continue to be consistently presented as complementary to mainstream medicine. All the doctors, nurses and other medically trained professionals who find Universal Medicine a great complement to the amazing work they do wouldn’t have anything to do with it if it weren’t.
Thank you Victoria for spelling out the Truth here about Serge Benhayon, Universal Medicine and the modality Esoteric Breast Massage.
I am a strong woman of sound mind and can say with authority that Universal Medicine is not a cult whatsoever in any way.
The Esoteric Breast Massage has never made any claims about curing anything in my experience. I personally have received the benefits which have been life changing to say the least and I would highly recommend it to any woman.
In fact I can say that this supported me through major surgery to remove a tumour.
Too true Amina, and I too look forward to the day when Esoteric Breast massage is part of every woman’s swag of self-care tools.
Both the Esoteric Breast Massage and Esoteric Ovary Massage are extremely valuable and have supported me beyond words. I wish they had been available to me as I began to grow into womanhood…! It is amazing that these modalities are now available for women worldwide – every woman deserves to experience herself in this way.
These modalities have personally helped me so much in my life, I wished they had been round many years ago. One day I would love to be a practitioner offering these modalities especially with my personal experiences.
If only journalists and anyone inquiring about Esoteric Breast Massage and Esoteric Ovary Massage would speak with the women receiving the massage in terms of what it has brought to each women and then speak with the practitioners of these modalities to (who are all women) to what they witness with each women, we would then be hearing the stories of how truly supportive each of these modalities are for women, not the sordid descriptions currently alleged in the media. You only need to look at the photos of women who have benefited from these modalities to see the beauty that is living within each women in every moment of everyday. These modalities are not about treating or curing disease, this is left to medicine – as it should be. With these modalities we are witnessing women transform themselves into the stunning beautiful women that they all are and deserve to be.
Yes indeed, why is it that no woman I know who has had an esoteric breast massage nor the practitioners have been approached to tell their story? I remember one glowing article appearing in a glossy magazine some time before a particular sector of the press painted a very dark false picture of what is a wonderful modality for women … there is an amazing story to tell (many hundreds of stories in fact) and it’s time the truth of these modalities gets out!
I love how you describe Esoteric Breast Massage as a ‘means to re-connect women with a part of themselves they have often ignored or seen as purely functional – a part which in fact holds the key to our loveliness and delicateness as women.’ Thank you Victoria for your beautiful personal account, reflecting to us all that we are much more than our physicality.
Victoria this is so true what you have shared and my own experience with Esoteric Breast Massage and Ovarian massage has been very similar, along with all the other modalities that Universal Medicine offer. It is incredibly strange, as you say, to hear the word ‘cult’ associated with Serge Benhayon and Universal Medicine as in my experience this couldn’t be further away from the truth. It has always been an open space to come and go as you please, not once have I been followed up to get me to attend anything so the imposition of someone calling it a ‘cult’ is insulting. There is over a 1000 people worldwide from all walks of life that are clearly making some amazing changes with the way they live, inspired by the teachings of Universal Medicine – is this not worth looking into and studying rather than labelling it and pushing these people away at arms length saying they are weird and brainless?
Your comment about Universal Medicine as being the missing link needs much greater consideration. Rather then heading off on this dark path of abuse and name calling, the medical establishment would do well to consider the incredible benefits that are being experienced by thousands of people. If they are open to that, then perhaps Universal Medicine could be something that supports the creaking government services that are close to their own bankruptcy?
Great point Simon. In many countries the health and medical system is under enormous strain as people are getting sicker and sicker despite new discoveries in science and medicine. Universal Medicine has something truly supportive, and revolutionary one could say, in the field of true healing and there are, as you have pointed out, thousands of people who are the living evidence of this.
Well said, it’s incredible how much effort people put into blaming others for what they do, instead of appreciating and being open to new modalities offered. Conventional medicine needs support and Universal Medicine brings an amazing understanding and true ways of healing to conventional medicine.
I feel that the esoteric breast massage and the esoteric ovary massage should be part of every woman’s life. I have experienced both for several years now and they have changed my life completely. I never knew what it meant to be a woman, nor did I live as a true woman. I was in a woman’s body but that was about it. I never had any relationship with my breasts and my ovaries were just these ‘things’ that produce eggs and we have them to get pregnant. Through all the sessions I have had, I have deepened the relationship with myself, and learned that both my breasts and my ovaries tell so much about myself, the way I live, my level of stillness and how I am with myself. They are like books and tell me, with every session, something new about myself. Both modalities have been one of the biggest gifts to myself in my life and I will continue receiving them for as long as I live.
Absolutely Mariette those modalities should be available for every woman to use, specifically the young ones who grow up with all those false belief systems about what it means to be a woman and then live their lives from all those harming stereotypes.
It is the best complementary modality ever!!!
Thank you Victoria Lister for writing this post. It is true as I have also experienced the same as you and what is unique about Serge Benhayon is he really does not sell you anything.
He is very pro-medicine and this helped me because I had come from 30 years of spiritual life and was looking for another way to get rid of a tumour in my uterus.
Serge Benhayon and the esoteric healing modalities were what got me through and still continue to support me and my body, to the point where I no longer have deep buried self loathing issues about myself as a woman. This is huge and I never thought I would ever get to say that.
Absolutely – every woman in the world would benefit from these modalities.
Thank you Victoria, you have debunked these myths extremely well, these are profound modalities that I, like many many others, have found to have a hugely positive affect on my body and my life.
I agree with what you share here Victoria. This has been my experience too.
I have received both an esoteric breast massage and an ovary massage, both have very much honoured me as woman and been very respectful. The sessions have been deeply supportive and I have gone on to have a much stronger connection with my own body. This has inspired me to live with more care and gentleness, which supports my daily rhythm and the choices I make about life.
Well said Samantha and I completely agree as that has also been my experience of both of these modalities. They are so supportive to develop a stronger connection with your body and to support women to connect to the innate qualities of a woman.
Thank you Victoria for showing so clearly and simply the truth about the Esoteric Ovary Massage and Esoteric Breast Massage. These modalities have supported many women to deepen their relationships with themselves often bringing all important life style changes and greater health and well-being. I feel really privileged to count myself among them.
Elaine, I too feel privileged to be one of those women. These modalities have supported me so much in my wellbeing.
Thank you Victoria for this very clear account of your experiences of Esoteric Breast Massage and Esoteric Ovary Massage. I too have found the Esoteric Breast Massage a great support in helping ME get in touch with my body. I had tried many other modalities before this as I too could tell I was on a fast track to serious disease and that I had something to do with it. What the Esoteric Breast Massage so beautifully delivers is that it is our lack of connection to the stillness in our bodies that is the cause of these illnesses in our bodies. The Esoteric Breast Massage does not deliver this through words, it is an understanding we can come to from our bodily experiences within the sessions.
So true Shevon. And how interesting it is that we can feel where our body is headed long before we get there.
I love your common sense approach, I have had the same experience with Universal Medicine and I find the esoteric healing modalities are an important and great complement to mainstream medicine.
As was always their intention – to complement, not supplant western medicine.
This is beautiful Mary, I love how you are accepting yourself, your beauty and delicateness, all things womanly. Your comment was a delight to read.
I also have experienced Esoteric Breast Massage and Ovary Massage for myself and can relate to what you write here.
Yes… and I find it strange that others find these techniques strange. What could be more natural than listening deeply to our own bodies?
This is a great article Victoria, very simple and very true.
And still so, more than two and a half years on.