Library
Talks, teachings, and tools to support healing, growth, and the expansion of Consciousness.
HEALING RESOURCES FOR HOLISTIC WELLNESS
Healing Doesn’t Stop At The Session
Healing isn’t a final destination — it’s a journey.
This page is a living library of resources to support that process. Whether you're integrating after a session, exploring new ideas, or reconnecting with what comes naturally, these tools are here to help you deepen awareness and stay aligned on your path.
Ben is also available for select speaking and interview opportunities.
Video Teachings & Talks
WHY DID YOU BECOME A BODYTALK INSTRUCTOR?
TESTIMONIAL (STUDENT): PRINCIPLES OF CONSCIOUSNESS
BreakThrough - Why do I feel lost?
BreakThrough - A New Perspective
BodyTalk: The Soul's Journey – Exploring the Mind & 3 Brains
The Bodytalk System - Part 1 - What is BodyTalk?
The Cortices Technique (Self-Application)
Recommended Reading
BodyTalk Access: A New Path to Family and Community Health
by John Veltheim
Beyond Concepts: The Investigation of Who You Are Not
by Esther Veltheim
Who Am I? The Seeker's Guide to Nowhere
by Esther Veltheim
Articles & Interviews
What is PaRama BodyTalk? — Advanced Consciousness-Based Healthcare
This information guide introduces PaRama BodyTalk, the advanced version of the BodyTalk System. PaRama integrates quantum mechanics, mathematics, and philosophy to formulate “programs” that run in the brain’s prefrontal cortex, often while the client sleeps. These formulas address deep-rooted patterns, chronic illnesses, emotional imbalances, and performance challenges. Examples include “defragging” fragmented memory files, reevaluation, integration, and dynamic interactive formulas that adapt in real time. With only a small percentage of practitioners trained at this level, PaRama represents the cutting edge of consciousness-based healthcare
Note: Ben Manalo is the only teacher of PaRama BodyTalk worldwide.
BodyTalk & Menstrual Irregularities — Non-Invasive Support for Cycles
This IBA handout outlines how BodyTalk addresses menstrual irregularities in comfortable, fully clothed sessions by re-establishing communication among the ovaries, pituitary, and adrenals, and by considering consciousness aspects related to the uterus. It also notes Traditional Chinese Medicine insights—especially the Liver’s role in blood movement and the impact of unprocessed anger—and why addressing cellular memory can be supportive in cases like recurrent dysplasia. A concise, client-friendly overview of how BodyTalk considers physiology and psychology together for cycle health.
BodyTalk IS WHOLEHEALTHCARE
WholeHealthcare focuses on addressing the whole-person and their unique story to reveal the true underlying causes of dis-ease.
The beauty of BodyTalk is that it provides insights into the areas of your bodymind that need attention and in what priority and sequence they need to be addressed. BodyTalk helps you to appreciate how disease develops and why it is maintained.
Ultimately, treating symptoms of disease is only a compromise. The real power in healing lies in the discovery of the story behind the symptoms. The BodyTalk System does this naturally for each individual it serves because BodyTalk IS WholeHealthcare.
Can Diagnosis Do More Harm Than Good? — A BodyTalk Perspective
by John Veltheim
In this article, BodyTalk founder Dr. John Veltheim questions the limits of traditional diagnostic models. While diagnosis helps categorize symptoms, it can also reduce complex human experiences into simplistic labels, obscuring the unique entanglements of emotions, environment, and quantum influences that shape health. Veltheim contrasts the reductionist approach with BodyTalk’s holistic, consciousness-based perspective, which honors the bodymind’s innate wisdom and individuality. This resource is essential reading for anyone rethinking how medical labels shape identity and treatment
BodyTalk & Anxiety — A Supportive Mind-Body Approach
This short resource from the International BodyTalk Association explains how BodyTalk supports people experiencing anxiety and chronic stress by working with whole-person patterns—emotions, beliefs, memories, expectations, and environmental triggers that influence nervous-system balance. It highlights BodyTalk’s non-invasive approach and how re-establishing communication in the bodymind can shift both perception and physiology, with real-life testimonials describing improved calm, sleep, and resilience. Use it as a primer for clients who want an accessible overview of how BodyTalk meets anxiety without pathologizing their experience.
JOHN VELTHEIM INTERVIEW
Q: How did you come up with The BodyTalk System? How did you create it and why?
“BodyTalk originated mainly out of personal necessity. After many years in a high-volume clinic in Brisbane, Australia, practicing acupuncture, Chinese medicine, chiropractics and naturopathy, my own health caught up with me. As a result of the long hours I kept in practice, as well as my duties running a college and serving as one of its senior lecturers, my health declined. Ultimately, I was diagnosed as having a very serious illness, a very bad strain of the Epstein-Barr virus, and even was told that I might not live as it had done extensive damage to my…
BodyTalk Distance Sessions — Healing Beyond Time & Space
by Ben Manalo
This article by Ben Manalo explains how distance BodyTalk sessions work and why they are considered just as effective as in-person sessions. It covers what to expect during a remote appointment, the role of tapping and MindScape skills, and the scientific concepts—like quantum entanglement—that make distance work possible. With references to published research and client experience, the resource highlights how sessions can support physical, mental, and emotional well-being even across distance. An excellent primer for clients who are curious about remote healing options
Mind–Body Connection in BodyTalk — The Body’s Story of Healing
This IBA article introduces BodyTalk’s whole-person lens, integrating traditional Chinese medicine and bioenergetic psychology to show how physical functions and psychological themes relate. Using accessible examples (like the knee reflecting willpower/fear dynamics), it illustrates how restoring communication across bodymind systems helps the brain and heart recalibrate toward balance. A great introduction for clients curious about how BodyTalk links symptoms with meaning—without reducing anyone to a label or a single body part.
THE THREE-BRAIN COMPLEX
/Contrary to popular belief, we do not have one brain but three. Each of the body’s brains has unique abilities, but no one brain can operate independently of the other two. Instead the Three Brains function interdependently in a mutually supportive way.
Once we understand that we have a Three Brain Complex and then learn how to support it, our experience of the brain transforms.
Client Resources
Breakthrough Website
International BodyTalk Foundation
A non-profit committed to making BodyTalk accessible to those of all walks of life, regardless of economic standing