“Your body is your subconscious mind.”
—Dr. Candace Pert, PhD

We hope you will enjoy the resources on this site and get a taste of the power of Inner Theater. It is our pleasure to share with you Free Introductory Teleclasses, Inner Theatre Training Workshops, Guided Audios and Podcasts to assist you in coming into a stronger relationship with yourself. Enormous physical and emotional benefits await us if we only trust and allow our bodies to speak to us in the form of visual imagery. With very little direction, you may be surprised what your body has to show you.

What is Inner Theatre?

In our experience, the Inner Theater process helps empower people to alter their perspective, let go of physical and emotional pain more easily and naturally gain the strength and courage to initiate needed changes. In an Inner Theatre session, privately or 1-to-1 with a skilled practitioner, clients are able to let go of emotional baggage, change their perspective and feel better – often in relatively short period of time.

The Power of Two Streams

Inner Theater brings together two powerful streams from the healing arts, the visual approach of hypnotherapy and the body-centered, mindful “tapping” therapy of EFT (Emotional Freedom Techniques).

The tradition of hypnotherapy has long known the power of our inner imagery. As we move into the right brain and the imagination and allow our issue to take the form of pictures in the inner world, this is a direct line into the deeper mind. Imagery is the language of the subconscious and our own imagery seems to come from a place of deep wisdom.

Once we allow inner imagery a life of its own, we then respond to the images with tapping. EFT is amazingly effective at powerfully moving energy and facilitating healing. As a gentle fingertip tapping is woven seamlessly into the inner experience, we can release negative emotion in a safe way, move things along and support the unfolding of a healing process. The combination of these two methods is very exciting as, over and over, we see deep transformation and unexpected solutions emerging from this work.

Inner Theater changes lives

from Betty Moore-Hafter:

I believe that the great discovery of Inner Theater is that when you respond to personal imagery with tapping, the images change and things transform. We don’t know where they are going, but the deeper mind is at work and something healing is happening. A wonderful feature of Inner Theater is that it frees you from the need to figure things out. We don’t have to know what to do next; the images have a life of their own. As we respond to the images with tapping, it is as if we are facilitating a pure healing process which comes from a very wise part of us. The subconscious holds the roots of our problems and the emotional core of our issues. As we allow the subconscious to work through imagery and we support that process by tapping along, amazing things happen and the whole issue is often transformed. We invite you to read the Inner Theater stories in the Articles section to get an idea of just how creative and fascinating the deeper mind can be. Best of all, people report that the results are deep and lasting.

Another discovery of Inner Theater is how easily people go there. EFT alone seems to stir the deeper mind and often images arise spontaneously. With Inner Theater, we may do a conventional EFT session and simply circle into the imagery from time to time. There are also beautiful frames that we can offer such as the Sacred Space, the Healing Room or the Inner Meeting Place. In those approaches, we may go into the inner world for the entire session. Inner Theater work often becomes inner child healing as the images may lead us to younger parts of ourselves. In order for EFT to flow easily and naturally, we have developed a whole new tapping language of inviting, allowing and responding, which we teach in our Inner Theater Training Workshops. EFT is wonderfully flexible and easy to apply in this new way with our variations on the language.

from Jade Barbee:

I learned from my apprenticeship with EFT Master Sophia Cayer the need to always stay in the moment and to trust my intuition while working with someone; to trust that there is always a “healing doorway” being presented to us, even if it does not seem immediately apparent. Inner Theater grew from this deep trust in a moment by moment EFT approach as well as a highly intentional visual exploration.

Betty Moore-Hafter once told me, “Jade, the work you’re doing is pure inner theater!” Indeed, it has been her encouragement and passion for these methods that has helped me build confidence in trusting a highly systematic, visual approach to using EFT with myself and others. Betty shares my enthusiasm in every way, and has actually been doing a version of what we now call Inner Theater for years. Together we’ve been fine-tuning these techniques, sharing strategies and using Inner Theatre principles daily with our clients and colleagues.

My approach to this work also developed in tandem with the many connections I’ve been making with like-minded colleagues. In fact, since December of ‘08, many skillful and heart-based EFTers and light workers have influenced the work Betty and I have been developing, including Lynne Shaner, Carna Zacharias-Miller, Marian Mills, Loren Fogelman, Deborah Donndelinger, Gwyneth Moss, Karl Dawson, Gillian Wightman, Ingrid Dinter, Kathy Atkinson, Paul Zelizer and Sunday Cote. Many students and friends also contributed, many of whom will be offering articles on this website. Of course, no list is complete without acknowledging the contributions of Gary Craig, EFT originator and creator of the “Movie” and “Tell-the-Story” techniques, both of which contributed mightily to what is becoming known as Inner Theatre.

Imagine…

Imagine standing in a lush forest, surrounded by tall trees. From your vantage point, what do you see? Notice what captures your gaze. Listen for what you hear and tune in to how you feel about being there. As you imagine this scene fully – in whatever way you can, you are reaching out with your inner senses and potentially embarking on your own Inner Theater adventure…