The Naked Eye Podcast: Exploring Natural Alternatives to Glasses, Contacts, and Surgeries

Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld offers monthly Vision Halls for his private vision students as perk of enrolling in one of his online programs or attending one of his live events. This is an excerpt from the special Winter Solstice Meditation taught on December 21st, 2019. To access the second half of this video, to access the entire Vision Hall Archive, and access all future month...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld recaps his recent three week trip through Europe to attend the International Light Association Conference in Pula, Croatia followed by the International Holistic Vision Conference near Frankfurt, Germany. Both of the conferences were filled with amazing speakers by leaders in the fields of light therapy and vision therapy. Listen alo...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld teaches you a strategy to reduce stress, anxiety, and worry, and increase relaxation, clarity, and focus. This breathing technique, often called "Box Breathing" involves inhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, exhaling for 4 seconds, holding for 4 seconds, and repeating. With practice, the number of seconds can be gradually in...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld sits down for a conversation with Barry Auchettl. Barry Auchettl is the founder of Eye Power, the creator of Conversations The Game, and the facilitator of Life Vision Mentoring. He is based in the Gold Coast, Australia and joined Nathan for a week of filming on the West Coast of USA for the new Vision 2020 Documentary. All of these...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld interviews Sara Banta, the owner of Accelerated Health Products. They discuss supplementing with silver and gold, the importance of collagen for the eyes and iodine for the third eye, the benefits of ketogenic diet, and much more!  Sara is a Health Coach and busy mother of three who are now 12, 14 and 16 years old. She completed her...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld, recounts his personal journey from daily dependence on glasses and contacts for myopia and astigmatism for over a decade, to reaching the point of seeing 20/20 without lenses. Take a walk down memory lane starting all the way back when he got his first pair of glasses in elementary school, some of the deeper underlying root causes t...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld, updates you on the rest of his trip in Australia, including adding 4 free vision walks to the end of the trip, his relocation back to Asheville to open the new Integral Eyesight Improvement office, the launch of his new 6 month vision improvement program starting with 2 free webinars on March 27 and April 1 to explain the program an...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld reviews his 2018 and previews his 2019. Then he leads you through an interactive 8 minute palming practice where you get a chance to reflect on your past year and visualize what you want to see in the upcoming year (practice begins at 26:26). Click here to watch the video version of this episode - https://youtu.be/Q8bqTiJVrDA To lear...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld guides you through about a half-dozen holistic vision practices to give you a personal experience of natural vision improvement. Settle in, eliminate all distractions, and follow along for about 45 minutes of: Diaphragmatic Breathing, Sighing, and Yawning Stretching Head, Neck, and Shoulders Reverse Blinking to Cultivate Clear Flashe...

In this episode, Nathan Oxenfeld shares the dates and locations of his outdoor vision walks and indoor vision workshops happening in Seattle, Victoria, Vancouver, and Portland as part of his Pacific Northwest Book Tour. He then gives you a glimpse inside the recent 2018 Association of Vision Educators Conference by introducing you to the presenters and sharing his takeaways from their talks and wo...

In this episode, Nathan Oxenfeld answers some frequently asked questions about the Bates Method of natural vision improvement, including: -What order should I watch your Bates Method 101 videos in? -Should vision practices be done with or without glasses? -Can I wear glasses after I do the practices? -What do I do once my vision improves naturally and my glasses become too strong? -Does natural vi...

In Episode 25 of The Naked Eye Podcast, Nathan Oxenfeld interviews Esther Joy Van Der Werf about the functional causes of astigmatism, and natural ways to reverse it without glasses or contacts. Whether you're trying to get rid of astigmatism or prevent astigmatism in the future, this episode will provide you with several action steps and insights on how to accomplish that. Esther and Nathan also...

In this episode, Nathan Oxenfeld interviews one of his colleagues, Greg Marsh. Listen to learn Greg's personal story of improving his vision using the Bates Method and how he addresses the underlying emotional root causes of vision problems using the Emotional Freedom Technique or EFT. Greg leads Nathan through a demonstration of the EFT tapping technique and shares a handful of powerful case hist...

Nathan Oxenfeld just released the new and improved edition of Give Up Your Glasses For Good: Holistic Eye Care for the 21st Century. You are invited to attend one of his Holistic Vision Improvement Workshops along his one month East Coast book tour in June 2018: 6/3 - Richmond, VA 6/9 - Philadelphia, PA 6/11 - New York City, NY 6/14 - Boston, MA 6/16 - Portland, ME 6/19 - Chester, MA 6/20 - Dougla...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld reads a section of Aldous Huxley's book The Art Of Seeing that explains a handful of simple yet powerful suggestions to transform reading from an activity that tires your eyes into an activity that improves your vision. Every 1-2 sentences, close your eyes for 1-2 seconds and remember the last word and punctuation mark. Every 1-2 pag...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld interviews  Daniel Georgiev , the creator of  Iris , which is a blue light blocking computer software. Daniel lives in Bulgaria and his  Iris  software has been gaining more traction recently. Apple and Android have both added blue-blocking features to all their smartphones and tablets... but what about your laptop or desktop compute...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld reads you the story of Dr. William Bates' own personal experience recounting how he discovered one of the fundamental truths about natural vision improvement: that  memory brings vision . As a conventionally trained ophthalmologist, Dr. Bates was trying all kinds of experiments involving strain, tension, and effort to try and get his...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld gives a preview of some exciting things coming up in 2018 including his next 12 Week Online Group Vision Improvement Course from January 17th-April 11th, the planned release of the new 3rd edition of his book Give Up Your Glasses For Good: Holistic Eye Care for the 21st Century, an East Coast US Book Tour in the summer, a West Coast...

In this episode, Certified Bates Method Teacher, Nathan Oxenfeld answers the simple question - What Is The Bates Method? and proceeds to explain exactly how it is possible that you can retrain your eyes, brain, and mind to see clearly again without using glasses or contacts or getting a laser eye surgery. This idea was suggested to Nathan by a woman he met in one of his free natural vision improve...

In this episode of The Naked Eye Podcast, Nathan reads Doug Marsh's enlightening 5-part article titled  Alternative Myopia Research and Proven Natural Treatment  including: Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Problems with the Excess Near Work Theory Part 3: Problems with the Hereditary Theory Part 4: A Radical Mind-Body Theory for The Cause of Myopia Part 5: A Successful and Empowering Solution to Contr...

In this episode of the Naked Eye Podcast, Nathan interviews Marybetts Sinclair, who is a massage therapist and natural vision improvement teacher from Corvallis, Oregon. Marybetts has been a massage therapist since 1975 and loves exploring the connection between chronic upper body tension and vision problems. Her interest in this began when she noticed that the relaxation she provided people throu...

In this episode, Nathan invites you to think about your vision in terms of the past, the present, and the future. Your past vision refers to your vision history. To clarify your past vision you need to explore your own unique underlying root causes to your vision problem, whether it was physical, mental, or emotional in nature. Your present vision refers to your vision right now. To clarify your p...

In this episode Nathan recaps his experience at the 5-day conference with the Association of Vision Educators at the Peaceful Meadow Retreat Center in Boulder, Colorado in late September 2016. He gives you a peek inside the conference including some of the workshops, speakers, and topics discussed throughout the eye-opening long weekend. Here is the link to see Dr. Elliott B. Forrest's New Model o...

In this episode Nathan interviews Michele Drivon, a practitioner of the Alexander Technique. Michele explains what the Alexander Technique is, how it helped her life, and a little bit about the history of F.M. Alexander. Michele also studied the Bates Method with Nathan so they converse about some of the similarities and differences between the Alexander and Bates approaches to health and wellness...

Nathan Oxenfeld answers several frequently asked questions about natural vision improvement on 10 topics: 1. The role of a vision coach (1:00) 2. The emotional root causes of vision problems (10:25) 3. The role of glasses and contacts (20:56) 4. Computer Vision Syndrome (28:28) 5. The risks of LASIK (35:08) 6. Palming supplements (37:27) 7. Clear flashes and night vision (41:26) 8. The role of rel...