It's time to start planning your visit to Cairns next July for the 3rd Conference on Light & Health, organised by the Australasian Light Association. Registration details are now on the website, including a special-price booking for the venue hotel, the Shangri-La at the Marina. Follow the link below and book your spot! https://australasian-light-association.org/ala-conference-2019/ And … Continue reading Conference registration is open!
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Announcing: ALA Conference 2019
Since our successful event in Adelaide in March 2018, plans have been underway for the Conference on Light & Health in the tropical north of Australia. This is because some very enthusiastic attendees from Cairns at Adelaide 2018 suggested the idea. They felt that so many people in Cairns (and beyond!) would really love to … Continue reading Announcing: ALA Conference 2019
Article: How the marvel of electric light became a global blight to health
This article is from Aeon.co and reprinted with permission. Author: Richard G ‘Bugs’ Stevens is a professor of community medicine and health care in the School of Medicine at the University of Connecticut. Edited by Pam Weintraub Light pollution is often characterised as a soft issue in environmentalism. This perception needs to change. Light at night constitutes a massive … Continue reading Article: How the marvel of electric light became a global blight to health
Book Review: Light Therapies – A Complete Guide to the Healing Power of Light
A REVIEW by Maniisha Bluntschli ‘Light Therapies – The Complete Guide to The Healing Power of Light’ by Anadi Martel Anadi Martel, Canadian physicist, inventor and electronics wiz since his early teens, has authored an outstanding comprehensive book on the topic of light and its effects and applications. Released in English in May 2018, it … Continue reading Book Review: Light Therapies – A Complete Guide to the Healing Power of Light
IDL event in Oslo
Members of our Australasian Light Association team attended several International Day of Light 16 May events in Oslo, Norway. The Keynote Presentation of Dr. Alexander Wunsch - an expert on photobiology - on the hidden dangers of LED lighting. Alexander is physician, researcher and lecturer in light medicine and photobiology with particular interest in light effects and beneficial … Continue reading IDL event in Oslo
ALA Adelaide Memories
What a treat it was to have the ALA Conference on Light & Health in Adelaide during Mad March - the season of Adelaide Festival and the Fringe and many other events. The city was buzzing but within the hive of activity, the peaceful surrounds of the Baha'i Centre of Learning was a haven for … Continue reading ALA Adelaide Memories
Highlights – Adelaide Conference
The 2018 Conference on Light & Health last weekend was a great success! Thank you to all those who attended the event, especially those who travelled far - from Queensland, NSW, Victoria and WA. ALA Chair, Maniisha Bluntschli reports on the highlights ... ALA CONFERENCE REPORT - Adelaide 2018 The recent Australasian Light Association conference … Continue reading Highlights – Adelaide Conference
Meet our presenters
This year we have speakers from across Australia and New Zealand. We have included a range of topics related to light and health to inform and illuminate! 🙂 Here is the list of speakers ... Patricia Benstein Ph.D. Dr Patricia Benstein is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the School of Humanities at The University of … Continue reading Meet our presenters
ALA Adelaide 2018
A very HAPPY NEW YEAR to our ILA/ALA members and friends! Here is the latest news of our upcoming ALA conference in Adelaide. We are offering discounted rates for early bird registrations and payments for the conference. The cost for the two-day programme, including morning/afternoon refreshments is: Full Conference ILA Members: $140 … Continue reading ALA Adelaide 2018
Sydney 2017 – Maniisha Bluntschli
We're pleased to share another presentation filmed at the first Conference on Light and Health held in Sydney last March. Maniisha is an acupuncturist and light therapist from Western Australia and Chair of the ALA. In this presentation, she gives a practical demonstration of various assessment methods useful for light therapy. Maniisha also explains and … Continue reading Sydney 2017 – Maniisha Bluntschli
