Jane Sahin

I am a trained Metal Colour Light therapist and member of the Lichtblick Metal Colour Light Association in Schworstadt, Germany (https://www.metallfarblicht.de/de).

My background is in health and social care with children and adults with special needs.  I worked for five years in the nurses’ team at Park Attwood Clinic, offering Anthroposophic residential care and treatments.  In addition, I have six years’ experience in therapeutic storytelling and drama.

Situations that Colour Light may help with

•       Disturbed sleep 

•       Harmonisation of the breathing system

•       Harmonising the heart and blood circulation

•       To build up the life-forces after chemotherapy or operations

•       In conditions of exhaustion

•       Anxiety

•       Lack of orientation

•       Loss

Sessions are once or twice a week.  The first session would be a conversation with the client, with an outline of their history.  Each successive session lasts up to one hour, which includes a short conversation before observing the glass for 5-10 minutes in a darkened space, then a period of rest, followed by a short conversation with the therapist.

The therapeutic qualities of the glass have been created through research and insight into the therapeutic effects of colours and metals in nature and the human being.  In Anthroposophic medicine, metals have an important role, for example, refreshing depleted life forces.

Comment from a Patient:

“It grew over the weeks; I got something out of it each time. It grows on you.  I feel calm when I go away.  I feel I can accept things; it’s like subconsciousness: you see something you need”.

Background

In early 2000, Marianne Altmaier (former leader of Therapeutic Arts for the Medical Section of the Anthropopshical Society) realised that colours arising from the metals in the glassmaking process could become a new form of therapy.  Lucian Turci, a sculptor, joined her and learnt glassmaking.  They set up a studio and proceeded to create various coloured glass panels and also learnt how to engrave them.

After ten years of research, an extensive illustrated book Metallfarblighttherapie by Marianne Altmaier was published, followed by further books on specific metals.  Since then, this therapy has developed and is now practiced in clinics, private hospitals, private practice and curative institutions around the world.  The glasses are made in Schworstadt by the banks of the Rhine in southern Germany, where the three-year therapeutic training also takes place.

Marianne Altmaier wrote in Metallfarblighttherapie:

“The metals are the most spiritual part of external nature which the human being can encounter.  Their qualities mirror for him the forces which are the basis of his inmost being”.

Brochure “The development of Metal colour light”

For further information see the website of the Colour Light foundation. www.metallfarblicht.de