BROFMAN FOUNDATION
Practical tools to support healing and self-awareness.
For more than 40 years, tens of thousands of people have been supported around the world.
A complementary approach, connected with your medical care. People are encouraged to stay in touch with their doctor.
Who are we?
The Foundation coordinates the worldwide activities of the teachers and instructors of the Body Mirror System and the Vision Workshop, two methods created by Martin Brofman in 1980.
This website presents their ideas, philosophical concepts, and tools to encourage healing, inner awareness, and autonomy, regardless of beliefs, religion, or social background.
This tools encourage people to think for themselves and to be themselves.
This website presents their ideas, philosophical concepts, and tools to encourage healing, inner awareness, and autonomy, regardless of beliefs, religion, or social background.
This tools encourage people to think for themselves and to be themselves.
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Our Philosophy
We work with the idea that the experience of a symptom — physical, emotional, or mental — can be connected to what a person is experiencing inwardly. In this approach, the body can be seen as a “map”: it provides indications about one’s overall state (body-mind) and about possible adjustments.
In this approach, the healing process is understood as a transformation toward a more natural state of balance. The goal of our teaching is to make this process more understandable and accessible, through tools that are simple, concrete, and easy to pass on.
Our methods connect concepts drawn from Eastern traditions and Western psychology, particularly through the reading of the chakras (energy centers described in the Hindu tradition). People already familiar with these approaches often find greater clarity in them, while those discovering them for the first time can integrate them easily, since the practices are presented in a direct and progressive way.
In all cases, the intention is the same: to help each person take their place in the driver’s seat of their life, come to know themselves better, and develop their own inner resources.
This approach also invites people to explore the inner dimension of existence, with heartfelt values such as empathy, responsibility, sharing, and mutual support.
May this website and this teaching accompany you on your path of self-knowledge and well-being — each at your own pace, according to your story and your choices.
In this approach, the healing process is understood as a transformation toward a more natural state of balance. The goal of our teaching is to make this process more understandable and accessible, through tools that are simple, concrete, and easy to pass on.
Our methods connect concepts drawn from Eastern traditions and Western psychology, particularly through the reading of the chakras (energy centers described in the Hindu tradition). People already familiar with these approaches often find greater clarity in them, while those discovering them for the first time can integrate them easily, since the practices are presented in a direct and progressive way.
In all cases, the intention is the same: to help each person take their place in the driver’s seat of their life, come to know themselves better, and develop their own inner resources.
This approach also invites people to explore the inner dimension of existence, with heartfelt values such as empathy, responsibility, sharing, and mutual support.
May this website and this teaching accompany you on your path of self-knowledge and well-being — each at your own pace, according to your story and your choices.
Who is this tools for?
- For people going through a symptom who wish to explore it differently, alongside their medical care.
- For those who want to learn tools to support others.
- For therapists, healthcare professionals (including doctors), and anyone involved in care — who wish to discover complementary tools.
- For those who wish to return to a clearer vision — in both the literal and the figurative sense.
- For those who wish to explore the inner and spiritual dimension of being, with or without religion.
- For those who want to learn tools to support others.
- For therapists, healthcare professionals (including doctors), and anyone involved in care — who wish to discover complementary tools.
- For those who wish to return to a clearer vision — in both the literal and the figurative sense.
- For those who wish to explore the inner and spiritual dimension of being, with or without religion.
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Who uses our tools?
Our teaching has been practised by people from all walks of life, for symptoms both physical and non-physical, emotional or mental. Some use these tools on themselves, to support their own self-healing.
Others use them with people they work with, and some combine them with their own practices. What they often value is the map: it offers a way of reading the meaning behind symptoms, and this precise feedback helps anchor the work over time. Without it, it's easy to slip back into old patterns.
And some, finally, use our tools for inner knowledge and for their own growth and spiritual development.
Our teaching has been practised by people from all walks of life, for symptoms both physical and non-physical, emotional or mental. Some use these tools on themselves, to support their own self-healing.
Others use them with people they work with, and some combine them with their own practices. What they often value is the map: it offers a way of reading the meaning behind symptoms, and this precise feedback helps anchor the work over time. Without it, it's easy to slip back into old patterns.
And some, finally, use our tools for inner knowledge and for their own growth and spiritual development.
WORKSHOP
Body Mirror courses are available as weekend formats or as 4-day residential intensives. Vision Workshops take place over a weekend.
BODY MIRROR SYSTEM©
WHAT IF EVERYTHING BEGAN IN YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS?
The "Body Mirror" Method was created by Martin Brofman in 1980 following his own experience of healing from terminal cancer, along with his extensive research on consciousness.
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VISION WORKSHOP©
DEDICATED TO YOUR EYES, YOUR VISION, AND A JOURNEY TOWARD CLARITY.
Created by Martin Brofman in 1980, this workshop has been an opportunity for thousands of people around the world to regain clear vision and develop a deeper understanding of themselves.
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THE BOOKS
Find Martin Brofman’s books available on demand in stores and bookstores near you, or online on your usual websites.
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Visual problems are not only due to “mechanical” issues. Our vision is directly connected to our mental attitudes. There are indeed links between the way we are and the way we see, as visual problems reflect our inner tensions. It is therefore possible, through a process of personal transformation, to improve one’s vision.
Throughout this book, Martin Brofman guides you through this inner transformation process, supporting a return to clear vision. Using a range of tools that combine highly effective mental and physical techniques—visualization, deep relaxation, reprogramming of limiting belief systems, hatha yoga eye movements, and more—you will learn to establish new behaviors that make visual functions more efficient.
These many exercises and practical recommendations will help you develop your self-healing energies and use your eyes fully, without fatigue or tension. At the end of the book, you will find a two-month program with three levels of application, along with clear, practical guidance based on a proven technique: autosuggestion.
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In 1975, Martin Brofman was diagnosed with a spinal cord tumor at an incurable stage, and was given only one or two months to live. He was therefore led to undertake a search into the body–mind relationship in order to heal himself. By practicing various techniques such as relaxation, visualization, meditation, and positive affirmations, he succeeded in saving his life. After two months of intensive work and research, Martin was rewarded when doctors told him they “must have made a mistake.” There was no longer any tumor, nor any other symptom.
Healing, ever since this concept has existed, has often been met with misunderstanding, mistrust, and fear. Society has long viewed the healing process as something extraordinary and mysterious, accessible only to shamans or to those with special “gifts,” a privileged connection with God, or some other uncommon trait. In reality, we all possess these abilities, and we are all healers.
The aim of this book is to present healing as a technique of consciousness, a set of tools accessible to anyone who wishes to learn this process. This book is, in fact, a technical work on the process of healing. It brings together concepts drawn from Eastern traditions and Western psychology. Readers familiar with esoteric philosophies will find here a clarification of concepts they already know, while those with no background in these fields will be able to understand and apply the ideas and techniques presented, as they are explained in a very simple and accessible way.
This book contains the ideas, principles, and philosophical concepts that form the Body Mirror system of healing and self-knowledge. May it help you come to know yourself, discover how to heal yourself, and how to help heal others. There is no illness from which someone has not been healed.
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Consciousness is the starting point of every healing process. This was the insight that guided Martin Brofman as early as 1975, when he overcame a cancer diagnosed as incurable. While his doctors had given him only a few months to live, he went on to live 39 more years, which he devoted—out of both conviction and altruism—to sharing his experience.
This work catalogs more than 800 symptoms, associating them with descriptions of their inner causes, their physical manifestations, and the corresponding chakras. Organized as an index for easy reference, it deciphers what a symptom reveals about the individual.
Following Anything Can Be Healed, Martin Brofman deepens his exploration of the body–mind relationship. In his view, the body can be read as a map of consciousness. The purpose of this book is therefore to understand how consciousness can fulfill a healing function, enabling each person to take an active role in restoring their health.
Drawing on Martin Brofman’s research, this comprehensive work also identifies specific personality profiles based on symptoms. Primarily intended for people experiencing illness (acute or chronic), it will also interest those working in helping professions (doctors, therapists, healers, etc.), by fostering a deeper understanding of the interaction dynamics at the heart of the healing process.
Since his passing in 2014, his wife, Annick Brofman, along with other instructors trained by him, have contributed to transmitting his work. This volume was thus published posthumously to complete a body of work already translated into around twenty languages. They continue his work and teach his courses internationally under the auspices of the Brofman Foundation. This Swiss foundation is also involved in gathering information and advancing healing worldwide as a conscious process.