A Diploma on the Wall or an Empty Promise? How to Recognize a Genuine Bioenergy Therapist

Why It’s Getting Harder to Recognize a Genuine Bioenergy Therapist

Bioenergy has recently turned into a real trend. New profiles of people offering “energy cleansing” or “chakra alignment” pop up on social media almost daily, often without any real grounding, training, or mentor behind them. Some of them do it sincerely, but without the necessary knowledge they can do more harm than good, especially when they suggest that someone with a serious health problem postpone treatment by a doctor. Others simply exploit that popularity for quick profit, without any responsibility toward the people who turn to them at their most vulnerable moment.

What to Pay Attention to Before a First Appointment

Before choosing a bioenergy therapist, whether in Zagreb or anywhere in Croatia, it’s worth checking a few things: how long the person has actually been working in the field and whether there’s a public track record of it through media, training, or professional associations, not just through a recently opened social media profile. Who they trained with and whether that training is recognized within the profession. Whether they’re a member of a serious association such as HUPED, the Croatian Association for Natural, Energy, and Spiritual Medicine. And perhaps most importantly, how they talk about their own work. A genuine practitioner never promises a cure in advance or determines when results will appear, because every organism and every case responds differently. Bioenergy should always be understood as a complement, not a replacement, for treatment provided by conventional medicine.

Concrete Signs of a Scam

There are also quite concrete signs by which a scam can be recognized. By the very nature of the work, bioenergy therapy isn’t charged by the minute, gram, or hour, as if it were goods to be measured and packaged. The same goes for remote treatments: a serious bioenergy therapist doesn’t carry them out on people with whom they’ve never had direct, in-person contact before, because the first meeting must always be personal. Anyone who immediately, without a single conversation or prior acquaintance, offers to sell ready-made packages of remote treatments is most often not offering bioenergy therapy but a scam. It is precisely for this distinction, between real work and what is merely called that, that Vlasta Jašćur has advocated her entire career.

An Example from Practice: A Bioenergy Therapist with Almost Four Decades of Experience

When people across Croatia look for a trusted recommendation for bioenergy, the name Vlasta Jašćur regularly comes up as one of the first. She completed her training in 1988 under Zdenko Domančić, one of the best-known healers in this region, and has practiced bioenergy therapy continuously ever since, for 38 years now. Over the course of her career, several newspapers have written about her work, she has appeared on numerous television shows, and people from Croatia and abroad have sought her help, including from Austria, Germany, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States. Today she is registered with HUPED, where, alongside her own practice, she also leads training for future bioenergy therapists, passing knowledge on instead of keeping it to herself.

Over nearly four decades of work, she has worked with a large number of clients, from those with allergies and circulation problems to more demanding cases such as recovery after spinal surgery, where a client, alongside her bioenergy and crystal therapy treatments, managed to walk again. The press at the time also wrote about that case. Still, she herself emphasizes that she never makes promises in advance, since the outcome of treatment depends on each individual case. Read more about her approach on the page about bioenergy therapy in Zagreb.

Check Before You Trust

Interest in bioenergy isn’t a problem in itself; in fact, it shows that people are looking for additional support alongside regular health care. The problem arises when that need is exploited without responsibility. That’s why, before a first appointment, it’s always worth checking who truly stands behind the name, how long that person has been working, where they trained, and what their publicly available track record over the years says about them.