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.
The Truth about Serge Benhayon 
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.
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.
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..
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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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..
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.
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
I agree Elizabeth, there are many women that I know who benefit immensely from this work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.