Metal Colored Light Therapy (MCLT) has its history based in Germany where it originated in 2001 as a research project. This impulse has been developing and flourishing ever since its origins at the Lichtblick e.V. Foundation where the third cohort of individuals are now in the process of their 3rd year of training which is also certified by the Medical Section of the Goetheanum.

Marianne Altmaier developed this therapy, through her longing as an anthroposophic art therapist, to find ways that would enable the healing qualities of color to be experienced more intensely through natural sunlight. She was inspired by the large colored glass windows of the Goetheanum building in Dornach, Switzerland and also by those of Chartres Cathedral in France. In various studies, with healthy volunteers and patients, the impact of the metal colored glass was researched, both qualitatively and quantitatively as reported in the book Metallfarblichttherapie "Metal Color Light Therapy" by Marianne Altmaier (Mayer-Verlag, Stuttgart 2010).

The colors of the glass panels come about through the addition of metal oxides or chlorides to the substance of the glass mixture which are produced by Lucien Turci and then potentized through a careful etching process. When placed in front of natural light, the sun light conveys to the observer the qualities of the metals — transformed into color. 

Individuals who experience this therapy report changes and improvement in warmth, sleep, pain levels and overall wellness. Each hour long session becomes a salutogenic pathway towards an inward experience of one’s own soul nature, releasing anxious moods that have often been created by the stresses of our modern day-to-day life. Observing one of these panels rhythmically, on a weekly basis, can result in creating healthy resolutions and positive feelings of confidence in one’s life. Metal color light therapy is also used to provide an important complement to other therapeutic and palliative approaches. 

In Europe this therapy has been used since 2001 in the Filder Clinic and Raphael House in Stuttgart, Germany; the Vidar Klinik in Jarna, Sweden; in the Institute of Curative Education in Burghalde, Germany; and in National Health Service Clinics in the UK.

In America this therapy is now being utilized, for the first time since 2014, in two private practices: one on the East Coast in Standish, Maine where Lisa Edge is working as an anthroposophic art and MCLT therapist. The other  private practice is located in Carbondale, Colorado at the Helios Center where Helena Hurrell also works as an anthroposophic art and MCLT therapist.

Current Practitioner in the US:

Lisa Edge: ledge@fairpoint.net

Helena Hurrell: nurturingarts@comcast.net   www.helioscenter.org

The MCLT website in Germany is:  www.metallfarblicht.de/en

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