Q. Dear Donna: Is your Energy Medicine 5-day Basic Training a repeat of the books and tapes? I am tight on money and am concerned that I will just be getting a rehash of the book and tapes.

A. Yes, it will be a repeat, but something like the way seeing a play is a repeat of reading the script. Seeing work on live participants, practicing with partners with supervision by the teaching assistants, being able to ask questions and get personalized responses, watching the class take the direction of the energies of the participants and their needs, et cetera, gives the workshop many more dimensions than the book and video. And being there informs your intuition in a way that books and tapes just can’t.