The first thing you see upon opening Dr. Bates’ pioneering 1920 book Perfect Sight Without Glasses is a foreword called “The Fundamental Principle”. Within a few paragraphs, this peculiar eye doctor prompts you, the open-minded reader, to experience “Central Fixation” through an experiential practice he called “flashing”. 126 years later, we now call it “reverse
I spent 10 days in Spain in October 2025 to attend and present at the International Conference of Holistic Vision in Valencia. It was my first time visiting Spain and I was thoroughly impressed with the experience. Throughout the week, I filmed seventeen mini interviews with natural vision educators from all around the world, which
A wonderful group of folks gathered in the Green Mountains of Vermont for a four day retreat at an off-the-grid retreat center called Sky Meadow. Participants were invited to spend as much time as possible without wearing their glasses and without looking at artificial screens, to see how much improvement could occur when good vision
Sadly, my good friend and colleague Esther Joy van der Werf passed away in March 2025 from cancer. I recorded a podcast called “Remembering Esther” where I share this news and reflect on some of the amazing work we got to do together as well as the fun times we got to share over the
Throughout the end of September and beginning of October 2024, three big events took place in New York State. After switching to virtual conferences in both 2020 and 2022, the Association of Vision Educators (AVE) was eager to host their first in-person professional conference in six years, since our last one in Portland, Oregon in
On the eve of the year 2025, I was struck with a vividly clear message. That message was VISIBILITY. To embrace visibility, I have begun a brand new Natural Vision Vlog where I give you a glimpse into the life of a Natural Vision Teacher and provide bite-sized vision improvement tips. Make sure you subscribe
Aloha! Let’s start our new year by learning how Yoga can lead to better eyesight. Yoga helped me improve my vision naturally, and continues to help me in many ways. That’s why I am so passionate about highlighting the overlaps between Yoga and the Bates Method, and why I am thrilled to be leading two
When you commit to leaving your home routines behind to spend several days and nights without your glasses with the intention of healing your eyes, powerful transformations can take place. Before 2020, I was hosting many in-person vision retreats. But then the pandemic forced us indoors and online, so all my vision retreats became temporarily virtual… Now
Five years ago in the summer of 2019, my colleague Barry Auchettl and I were driving from Crater Lake, Oregon to San Francisco, California in the process of filming our documentary Vision 2020: From Eyesight To Insight. Our director Craig Leith was crouching in the backseat to avoid being captured by the cameras mounted on
The Association of Vision Educators (AVE) presents their first ever Natural Vision Improvement Day, happening on Saturday, October 15th, 2022! This all-day event will include seven eye-opening talks and experiences from natural vision experts, and will conclude with an exciting International Vision Teacher Panel Discussion. Speakers include Nathan Oxenfeld, Orit Kruglanski, Claudia Muehlenweg, Dr. Marc Grossman, Ainhoa