How it works
Your body is electric. This much is known.
What science has learned about the body’s own current, what Chinese medicine and Ayurveda mapped in their own terms, what Jonathan does at each level, and why, in his experience, the change lasts.
Every one of your trillions of cells holds a small electrical charge across its membrane, and cells signal constantly to their neighbours. Nerves carry messages as pulses of current, the heart keeps time with its own pacemaker, and the brain works through shifting patterns of electrical activity. None of this is speculation: it is why hospitals record the heart with an ECG and the brain with an EEG.
The body’s current goes further than the nerves. Neighbouring cells pass current to one another through tiny channels, so the cells of the heart contract as one. And it is more than a by-product. In flatworms, researchers have found that cells hold a pattern of voltages that acts as a memory of the body’s shape: change that pattern briefly, and a worm that is cut regrows to a different plan. In living tissue, electricity can carry instructions as well as power.
Even the way the body makes its energy is electrical. Inside almost every cell, mitochondria pump charged particles across a membrane, building up a voltage much as a battery holds one, and draw on it to make the energy the cell runs on. Their output falls with age; science counts this among the hallmarks of ageing.
Two more of those hallmarks concern signal and instruction. Over the years, the signals cells exchange become less well regulated, and the chemical marks that tell each cell which of its genes to read slowly drift. Ageing, in this picture, is partly a loss of power, signal and instruction. Jonathan has his own word for it: lost charge.
This is the level Jonathan’s work is designed to reach: the current every cell runs on, the signals between cells, and the pattern that tells each cell what to be. In his understanding, when the charge is restored, the signals clear and the instructions are read again. In his experience, that is when the body starts to work more as it did in younger years.
The old maps of the body.
More than two thousand years ago, Chinese physicians described the body’s life in their own terms, as qi moving through channels. Their tradition names three treasures: jing, the deep reserve of vitality; qi, the energy that moves us; and shen, the mind and spirit. An emotion held too long, they taught, injures an organ; and ageing is the slow spending of the original qi, which can be conserved and nourished.
Ayurveda gave rejuvenation a branch of its own, rasayana, and holds that worry, grief and anger drain ojas, the essence that sustains life. Jonathan sees the old maps and the new as describing one living body, and his work is built to tend all three treasures: to refill jing, recharge qi and settle shen.
The energy itself.
Medicine knows the body best as chemistry. It is also alive with charge and information, and physics goes further still: since Einstein, matter itself has been understood as a form of energy. As Jonathan sees it, the body’s charge and information make a living field, in which everything you have been through settles: the strain, the old hurts, what you have taken on from others. That field is where he works.
He describes the energy he brings to it in the language of light. The higher the frequency, the more energy each particle of light carries. And purity counts as much as power. A laser is not simply a brighter lamp: its light moves in step and in one direction, so it can be focused finely enough to cut steel. In that analogy, Jonathan’s energy is of a far higher frequency than the body’s own, and pure in the same sense: all of it moves as one, and nothing in it works against you. What he has seen is that the body does not resist it. It rises to meet it.
In his experience, the energy comes through him rather than from his own reserves, so nothing of his tiredness or his history passes to you, and it is as strong in his last session of the day as in his first. He works with many energies, each with its own work. Choosing among them, and placing each one where it is needed in the right order, is the heart of his skill.
Inside a session
Seven levels, from the outside in.
Before he begins, Jonathan reads your field: where the flow is blocked, where the charge runs low, where strain has gathered. Then he works inwards, level by level: he opens, clears, raises, recharges, supports, renews and restores, and at the end he seals. Here is his understanding of each level, beside what science or tradition says about it.
The field
Every body gives off faint fields. The heart’s electrical activity creates a magnetic field that sensitive instruments can record outside the chest, far stronger than the brain’s. Energy-medicine research calls the whole of it the biofield; Chinese medicine speaks of protective qi at the body’s surface.
In Jonathan’s understanding, this is where strain, and what you take on from others, first lands. He clears what does not belong to you and opens the way, so that what follows reaches inside rather than stopping at the surface.
The channels
Chinese medicine maps the body’s energy along channels and points. Science has not found them as a structure of their own, but it has found that connective tissue wraps every muscle and organ in one continuous web, with fluid moving through it.
In Jonathan’s experience, stress, injury and the years leave the channels blocked, and nothing renews where the flow cannot reach. So before he adds anything, he clears every meridian and point at once, with an energy that moves through them like a storm. Clearing comes first, as China’s classical physicians also taught.
Yin and yang
In Chinese medicine, yang is warmth, drive and protection, and yin is substance, rest and repair; both run down with age. Physiology has a pair of its own: the two branches of the autonomic nervous system, one that drives us and one that restores us. How freely the body moves between them shows in tiny variations of the heartbeat, and that freedom narrows over the years.
Jonathan does not balance the two, which would only move what is already there. He raises both, each in its place: yang around the outside of the body, yin within. Where one is weaker, the stronger draws it up.
The current
Nearly every cell runs on two charges, both described above: the one across its membrane that lets it signal, and the one its mitochondria build to make energy.
Here Jonathan’s work is to put charge back into the cells and the signals between them, so that, in his understanding, they conduct freely and communicate clearly again. Not rebalanced: recharged.
![Illustration: mitochondria in an older cell (left) and in a young cell (right).]()
An illustration of mitochondria, the cell’s batteries: with age they tend to become fewer and more broken up (left); in a young cell they are many and connected (right). The hormones
China’s great medical classic, the Neijing, describes life in cycles of seven years for women and eight for men, driven by the kidneys’ qi. A substance it calls tiangui arrives in youth and runs out with age; modern scholars often compare it to the reproductive hormones. Science charts a similar arc: growth hormone, DHEA and the sex hormones all fall as the years pass.
Jonathan does not set out to change any hormone. He supports the body’s own vitality and hormonal rhythm, and lets the body do the rest. In Chinese medicine, all of this belongs to the kidneys, where the essence we are born with is stored.
The cells
Cells renew themselves by breaking down their worn parts and rebuilding, a process called autophagy, whose workings won a Nobel Prize in 2016. It slows with age. Cells and light interact too: living cells give off a faint light of their own, far too weak to see, and red and near-infrared light can change how their mitochondria work.
Jonathan brings the light he describes into every cell, so that tissue grown tired can renew itself from within. It is the order the cells themselves follow: clear, then rebuild.
The pattern
Nearly every cell carries the same genes, and the drifting marks described above decide which ones it reads. In 2020, researchers reported in Nature that old cells in mice still hold a record of their youthful pattern, and that restoring it by gene therapy brought back function: old mice regained some of their sight.
This is the deepest level of all, and for Jonathan the source of rejuvenation. In his understanding, the body has not forgotten how to be young, and the work is designed to remind it.
Then the seal: one energy holds everything in place, and the work is handed to the body, which carries it on by itself. The mind is part of every level, and in the mind and emotions sessions it is the whole focus.
The mind, layer by layer.
In these sessions you lie down for about an hour while Jonathan works without pause, clearing what no longer belongs in your field and raising your energy. You do not need to talk, relive anything or make sense of it. In his understanding, the work happens at the level of energy, beneath the story.
What you carry comes off in layers, so the sessions follow a set sequence, and a layer loosened early may only lift weeks later. And because, as he sees it, each layer is cleared where it began, what is cleared tends to stay cleared, and members find the change keeps building for months.
Why the change can last.
The body defends its settings. Physiologists call it homeostasis. Temperature, blood sugar and many other levels are held where they are, and the body works to bring them back whenever they move. It may be one reason the lift from a holiday fades within weeks: change one thing, and the body tends to pull it back.
In Jonathan’s understanding, the body’s energy works the same way. Lift one or two levels, and the others draw them back down. That is why he works on all seven together, in order, and seals the work in. In his experience, the energy goes on working for five to ten days, and each session starts from where the last one left you. Within three or four months most people settle higher, and the body then tends to hold that as its own.
More than relaxation.
Rest is part of it, and studies have found that deep relaxation alone can change gene activity in blood cells. But many members receive their body sessions in the middle of a working day, with nothing to relax into, and still feel the change, among them people who arrived sceptical.
The same at any distance.
The work is in the field, not in touch. In Jonathan’s experience, distance does not weaken it: a session reaches Shanghai or London as fully as it would the next room.
Physics has its own surprises about distance. Particles that have once interacted can stay linked, so that measuring one tells you at once about the other, however far apart they are. Einstein called it “spooky action at a distance”; the experiments that confirmed it won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2022. The link carries no signal, and Jonathan does not claim a session travels this way. What it does show is that nature is less bound by distance than common sense supposes.
“Science has mapped the body’s electrical life in remarkable detail. It has not studied my work, and I would rather tell you that plainly than claim more. What I can offer is what I have seen in more than a thousand people, and the chance to find out for yourself.”
Jonathan K
Earth at night: NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Suomi NPP VIIRS data from Miguel Román, NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center.