Colour Light Therapy Benefits, Techniques, & Healing Uses
Feb 20, 2026
“Color affects the body and to have figured it out through Colorpuncture is a very great work. And through this work, you can change not the being, but the mind, the emotions and the body. It is good if one is cleansed in this way; then Meditation is very simple.” - Osho
What Is Colour Light Therapy?
Colour Light Therapy, also known as colorpuncture, is a precise healing method that works in a similar way to acupuncture, but without needles. Instead of metal pins, a pen-like light is used, fitted with one of eleven fine glass rods, each emitting a specific colour. These colours are applied deliberately to defined points on the skin that correspond with the body’s energy pathways, much like acupuncture meridians.
Modern research has shown that cells communicate through light and frequency, responding to signals that influence repair. Each colour carries a distinct frequency, and when applied to the body, delivers a clear message that the cells can recognise and transmit through the system.
As these light-based signals are received, areas of imbalance begin to soften and release. The body is then able to recalibrate from within, returning toward its natural state of coherence.
Color Therapy Benefits
- Aligns body, emotions, mind, and spirit
- Calms and regulates the nervous system
- Supports emotional well being and mental clarity
- Activates the body’s natural self-healing response
- Supports physical healing without invasive methods
- Assists the body’s natural detoxification processes
- Helps increase physical energy and aligns the body's energy centers
- Supports hormonal and endocrine balance
- Helps reduce stress response and regulates energy levels
- Reduces physical pain, tension, and inflammation
- Restores balance in immune system function
- Aids recovery from colds, flu, chronic pain, and physical exhaustion
- Can be used for self-healing and daily wellbeing support
- Provides deeper healing through practitioner-guided sessions
- Gently releases stored emotional trauma
- Supports healing from early childhood shock
- Supports healing from sexual trauma (when appropriate)
- Releases imprints from pregnancy, womb life, and birth
- Improves feelings of safety, grounding, and embodiment
- Clears negative imprints from mother and father
- Releases inherited ancestral patterns
- Supports emotional freedom and healthier boundaries
- Addresses emotional and energetic causes of weight gain
- Supports sustainable weight balance and metabolism
- Clears negative past-life imprints
- Helps release recurring life patterns and blocks
- Enhances self-awareness and emotional insight
- Supports embodiment and presence in the body
- Clears energetic imprints that limit personal growth
- Supports spiritual healing and inner purification
- Increases vitality and life-force energy
- Helps align you with your true nature and potential
Our Upcoming Colour Light Therapy Training
The work is rooted in the research of German naturopath Peter Mandel, founder of Esogetic Medicine and creator of Colorpuncture.
During the 1990s, Ma Ananda Sarita trained extensively with Peter Mandel over a seven-year period. During this time, she was appointed Director of the Colorpuncture Department within the Healing Arts wing of Osho’s community, where she went on to teach a two-month advanced Colorpuncture training at the Osho Multiversity. Over the past three decades, she has offered thousands of Colour Light Therapy sessions.
Over time, drawing from her long immersion in meditation, meditative therapy, and holistic healing, Ma Ananda Sarita has integrated Colour Light Therapy with dream work, emotional release, and conscious dialogue. Together with Usha, she has trained practitioners internationally.
Level 1 is a practical, experiential initiation into the medicine of colour and frequency. Participants learn foundational treatments that can be used immediately for personal wellbeing and family care, while also laying the groundwork for deeper professional training.
Training Requirements
- Prerequisite: Purchase of your own Colour Light Therapy set, including the Soul Spirit Colours
- Please bring: An eyeliner pencil
The Colours as Medicine
Spectral Colours
Red, orange, yellow, green, turquoise, blue, and violet
These are the colours most people recognise as the rainbow and are the main colors in the visible spectrum. In practice, these are the colours we turn to when working with the physical body and its immediate regulation.
Warm colours like red, orange, and yellow tend to bring energy in. They’re used when the system feels depleted. Cooler colours like blue, turquoise, and violet have the opposite effect where they help slow things down and settle overstimulation. Green often sits in the middle, helping the body find balance when it’s swung too far in either direction.
Soul–Spirit Colours
Light turquoise, light green, crimson, and rose
Soul-Spirit colours work on a more internal level. They’re used when what’s being worked with is emotional, psychological, or tied to inner conflict rather than physical imbalance.
These colours tend to feel softer in the body, but their impact can be profound. They’re often used when someone feels emotionally stuck or caught in patterns they understand mentally but can’t shift. The work here is less about allowing someone to come back into flow.
Grey Tones and UV Light
Grey tones and UV light are used with the deepest layers of imprinting. This includes patterns formed very early in life, including before birth, as well as influences carried through family lines.
At this level, the colors help release patterns that were never consciously chosen, but that have quietly shaped how someone relates to themselves and the world.
Diagnostic Types in Colour Light Therapy
In Colour Light Therapy, diagnostic types are practical categories used to understand how a person’s system is currently functioning. They describe the state of the body and looks at the nervous system and emotional regulation.
A diagnostic type answers a simple question: Is the system overstimulated, congested, or depleted?
By recognising this overall pattern, the practitioner can choose colours and timing that support the body and its unique diagnostic type. This is essential, because the same treatment that helps one person can destabilise another if their system is in a different state.
Diagnostic types are temporary and changeable. As the body regains balance, a person may move out of one type and into another, or no longer fit any type at all.
The Endocrine Type – An Overstimulated System
The endocrine type describes a system that is running on high alert. The nervous system is overstimulated and the hormonal system is constantly trying to compensate. These individuals often feel restless or emotionally reactive, yet simultaneously exhausted. Sleep is often disturbed, digestion is sensitive, and symptoms tend to fluctuate rather than stay fixed.
Emotionally, there may be difficulty expressing feelings clearly or feeling anchored in the body. Many people in this category are intuitive, sensitive, or mentally active, but struggle with grounding and embodiment.
In Colour Light Therapy, this type requires calming and stabilising treatments. The goal is to slow the system down enough for regulation to return.
The Toxic Type – A Congested System
The toxic type describes a system that is overloaded and unable to clear efficiently. The body is holding on to physical waste and emotional tension. This often appears as frequent infections, lymph congestion, recurring colds, or chronic inflammation.
Emotionally, feelings are often suppressed. Mentally, there can be sluggishness, fogginess, or a sense of being stuck. In Colour Light Therapy, this type is approached through detoxification, lymph movement, and immune support.
The Degenerative Type – A Depleted System
The degenerative type describes a system that has been under strain for a long time and no longer has adequate reserves. Physically, this may show up as deep fatigue, chronic or autoimmune illness, or slow recovery. Emotionally, there is often a protective structure in place, with difficulty accessing feelings or allowing change. Mentally, focus may be limited, and self-connection weakened.
In Colour Light Therapy, this type must be treated slowly and precisely, often beginning with gentle clearing before any rejuvenation. The aim is to rebuild life force without overwhelming an already exhausted system.
Colour Light Therapy Diagnostic Map
| Diagnostic Type | Primary Colours | Body Indicators | Emotional Patterns | Mental Tendencies | Recommended Treatments | Important Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Endocrine Type | Blue & Orange | Sweaty hands, cold feet, restlessness, insomnia, headaches, stomach aches, psychosomatic symptoms | Fear, stress, difficulty expressing emotions, feeling overwhelmed, emotional disconnection, mood swings, PMS | Emotional fluctuation, heightened sensitivity, spiritually oriented individuals who struggle with embodiment | Hormonal balance treatments, cramp and stress release, laterality and polarity balancing | Do not combine hormonal balance treatments with immune rejuvenation or lymph flow rejuvenation on the same day |
| Toxic Type | Yellow & Violet | Frequent colds, bronchitis, infections, fever, lymph reactions, immune weakness | Repressed emotions, particularly fear and anger | Low awareness, sluggishness, lack of motivation, “couch-potato” tendencies | Immune rejuvenation, lymph flow rejuvenation, and all detoxifying or immune-support treatments | Do not combine with hormonal treatments on the same day |
| Degenerative Type | Red & Green | Deep fatigue, sluggishness, exhaustion, headaches, hyperactivity, low cellular oxygenation, systemic conditions such as MS, tumours, cancer, arthritis, autoimmune issues | Unresolved trauma (e.g. mother/father imprints), laterality imbalance, over-giving, inner emptiness, rigidity, emotional protection, resistance to inner work or life change | Excessive focus on others, loss of self-connection, emotional isolation, lack of self-love, emotional numbness (“I feel fine”), difficulty concentrating | Life Force Rejuvenation (never on the same day as lymph rejuvenation). If emotionally or mentally stuck, begin with lymph flow rejuvenation and follow with Life Force Rejuvenation. |
Do not combine with any other treatments on the same day |
Colour Light Therapy Sessions
Within Colour Light Therapy there are many distinct types of treatments, each designed to work with where an imbalance is held and how it was formed. Some treatments stabilise and regulate the system. Others work with early imprinting, unresolved trauma, sexuality, vitality, or inherited patterns.
What follows is an overview of the main treatment series and the kind of work each one is designed to do.
Prenatal Series — 9 Sessions
This series works with patterns formed before conscious memory exists. It begins at conception, continues through the time in the womb, and includes the birth process. These early experiences shape how the body registers safety, stress, trust, and belonging, often influencing adult behaviour without ever being consciously remembered.
The series also works with the Bardo, the transitional, in-between state where unresolved patterns can become fixed and repeat across a lifetime. This series is often chosen when birth was difficult or traumatic, or when a person feels affected by something very early that they cannot name. It can be adapted for children and adults.
Male–Female Balance Series — 9 Sessions
This series addresses the imprints formed through relationship with mother and father. These imprints influence identity, boundaries, authority, intimacy, and the ability to act from one’s own centre instead of from inherited expectation.
The work supports balance between the right and left hemispheres of the brain and has a regulating effect on the hormonal system. People often choose this series when they feel internally divided or caught between opposing tendencies in their life. The focus is on releasing the bodily imprint of those dynamics so the system can reorganise itself.
Sexual Healing Series — 12 Sessions
This series works with how sexual energy is held in the body, particularly where it has become disconnected due to past experiences. It is designed for people experiencing low sexual desire, difficulty with arousal or orgasm, premature ejaculation, numbness, or ongoing tension or anxiety around sexuality. It also supports the healing of sexual trauma where the body has learned to protect itself by disconnecting from sensation.
The sessions do not involve sexual touch or sexual activity. Instead, coloured light is applied to specific points on the body that relate to the nervous system, hormonal regulation, and pelvic energy. The work focuses on calming the body’s threat response and gradually restoring the ability to feel sensation safely.
Weight Awareness Series — 9 Sessions
This series works with weight as an expression of emotional, hormonal, and energetic holding. In many cases, weight functions as protection against loss or unresolved experience.
The work brings unconscious patterns into awareness and allows them to release without forcing behavioural change. As holding softens, the body often no longer needs to maintain excess weight.
Creation Impulse Series — 6–12 Sessions
This series focuses on restoring access to a person’s natural creative and life-directing energy. It is designed for times when someone feels stuck or disconnected from a sense of purpose.
The work uses the individual’s birth date and numerological structure to identify core strengths and areas where life energy has been constrained by conditioning or repeated adaptation to external expectations. Through specific colour light sequences, the nervous system and energetic body are supported in releasing patterns of hesitation, self-suppression, or chronic overthinking.
Freedom From Bondage Series — 3 Sessions
This short, focused series is designed to work with one specific issue that feels repetitive or stuck. The sessions work directly with how the pattern is held in the body and nervous system. Using precise colour light sequences, the underlying charge that keeps the issue active is addressed at its source where the body automatically reacts before conscious choice is available.
Holographic Healing Series — 7 Sessions
This series is designed for individuals living with cancer, those with a strong family history of cancer, or people facing other degenerative conditions. The work addresses conflict patterns held across the layers of the brain and in the solar plexus, which are areas that strongly influence how the body organises itself at a cellular level. Many people experience this series as a profound internal reorientation, often described as letting go of an old way of being and making space for something new. This series works alongside medical treatment and does not replace it.
Transmitter Relay Series — 12 Sessions
This is one of the most comprehensive series offered. It works simultaneously with childhood experience, prenatal and birth imprinting, ancestral memory, past lives, and future orientation.
The series also addresses physical pain and organ imbalance while integrating emotional release, dream work, and hypnosis. The intention is to remove the underlying interference that prevents the system from functioning coherently. This series is often chosen when other work has helped, but something essential still feels unresolved.
Body Relays Series — 6 Sessions
This series can only be undertaken after completing the Transmitter Relay Series. It works specifically with ancestral imprints carried through the bloodline and held within the DNA.
Rather than revisiting personal history, the focus is on releasing inherited patterns that have shaped perception and health across generations. As these layers clear, a more refined and authentic expression of life force becomes available.
FAQ
What is color light therapy?
Color light therapy is an umbrella term for healing approaches that use light from different parts of the color spectrum. In wellness centers and skincare clinics, LED Light Therapy is commonly used, where LED lights, LED devices, or LED masks are applied directly to the skin. These methods often work with red light, blue light, or near-infrared light, and are typically used as a skincare solution for concerns like sun damage, age spots, improving skin health, or stimulating hair follicles and hair growth.
Our approach to Color Light Therapy comes from older Color Therapy traditions and the practice of Colorpuncture within Esogetic Medicine. Coloured light is applied with precision to specific acupuncture and reflex points using glass rods. The intention is to influence how the nervous system, organs, emotions, and long-held patterns organise themselves.
What do different colors of light therapy do?
Different colours of light affect the body in different ways because each colour carries its own wavelengths of light. In many modern approaches, such as red light therapy or treatments using chromotherapy lights, colour is applied broadly to the body or skin. These methods are often used for wound healing, pain relief, boosting cellular energy, supporting collagen production, and improving visible skin rejuvenation or specific skin concerns. They are commonly delivered through LED devices, a home device, or sometimes laser light.
In Colour Light Therapy as we practice it, specific colours are applied to precise points that relate to the nervous system and organ function. Some colours help calm an overstimulated system and support healthy circadian rhythms, which can affect sleep, mood, and various conditions. Other colours support detoxification and immune function, while some are used to gently release emotional or stress-related patterns held in the body.
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