Understanding the Energy Body. Beyond the Physical

May 18, 2026

Understanding Energy Body Beyond the Physical

A conversation with Dr. Krisnawan. Co-Founder of UbudCare Wellness, General Practitioner and Pranic Healing Practitioner and Instructor. Dr.Krisna shares his knowledge and experience through talks and workshops at Usada, Bali.

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Dian Dewi

There comes a point in many conversations around health where the discussion starts to move beyond the purely physical. The symptoms are still there, the condition still has a name, but another layer begins to enter the picture.

In this second conversation with Dr. Krisna, we speak more directly about energy. Not in an abstract or overly mystical sense, but as something practical. Something that helps explain how imbalance begins before it fully manifests in the body.

What I find interesting in Dr. Krisna’s approach is that the language of energy is not there to replace medicine, but to deepen our understanding of how conditions form, how the body communicates, and how healing may begin earlier.

Why Energy Matters Now

Q: Why is it increasingly important to educate people about their condition in terms of energy?

Knowing the energy system makes life easier, he explains. Our wellbeing is not only physical. It includes emotional, mental, and energetic layers. Of these, the energy body acts as the underlying structure.

“The energy body is the mold,” he says. “Everything begins there.”

From this perspective, illness does not start in the physical body. It begins as disturbance or imbalance in the energy field, and only later manifests physically. This creates a form of early warning system.

If a person can access and understand this level, intervention can happen earlier. Health can be maintained with less reliance on medication alone, and recovery can be faster and more efficient.

Resistance and Shifting Perception

Q: Do people still resist the idea of energy?

Less than before. Dr. Krisna notes that more people now hold at least a basic awareness of energy concepts. Exposure to ideas through fields such as quantum physics, as well as broader access to information, has shifted perception.

Not everyone has accurate or deep understanding, but openness has increased. “You can approach it from many perspectives,” he says. “People are more ready now.”

Bridging Medical and Energetic Approaches

One of the key points Dr.Krisna returns to… is integration. “When you combine medical and energy approaches, the goal can be achieved faster and more easily.” Rather than replacing conventional medicine, energy work operates alongside it. It offers another layer of intervention, particularly in early stage imbalance.

This integrated approach reflects many traditional systems. Ayurveda, Chinese medicine, and other classical frameworks all describe health in terms of balance, often expressed through principles such as yin and yang, or elemental systems.

Different Systems, Shared Foundations

In our conversation, Dr. Krisna refers to a system of energy healing now practiced by many practitioners around the world. Pranic Healing, as taught by Choa Kok Sui, sits within a much broader field of energetic medicine, though it has its own structure and language.

What I found interesting is that it is less concerned with categorising energy into complicated systems, and more concerned with the condition of the energy itself.

Is it depleted or sufficient?
Congested or flowing?
Balanced or disturbed?

The focus is on restoring function through balance.

There are obvious parallels here with systems such as Chinese medicine and Ayurveda. Chinese medicine speaks through cycles of creation and control. Ayurveda maps constitutions and elemental balance. Pranic Healing approaches the body slightly differently again, but still understands the human system as something living, dynamic, and interconnected.

And interestingly, much of the language correlates quite closely to the biological body itself.

The Chakra as a Functioning Organ

Dr. Krisna explains the chakra system in a very simple way.

“The chakra is like an organ that breathes.”

Rather than seeing chakras as abstract spiritual symbols floating somewhere outside the body, he describes them as functional energetic organs. Each chakra draws in life force, distributes it through pathways such as meridians or nadis, and releases what is no longer needed.

This process is happening continuously.

Energy Body with Dr.Krisna UbudCare Wellness

When the system functions well, energy flows naturally. When it becomes congested or depleted, imbalance begins to affect the related physical organs over time.

For example, the solar plexus chakra relates closely to the stomach. The navel chakra relates to the intestines. Disturbance in these centres may eventually manifest through digestive conditions or chronic imbalance in the gut.

Again, whether someone approaches this literally, symbolically, medically, or energetically almost matters less than the observation itself. The body tends to communicate long before collapse occurs.

Energy Storage and Cultivation

Another interesting part of the conversation was the concept of the dantian, understood in Chinese systems as an energetic reservoir within the body. Practices such as Qi Gong and Tai Chi strengthen this centre and increase the body’s capacity to hold and circulate life force. According to Dr. Krisna, this becomes particularly important in healing work.

A practitioner with stronger internal cultivation can sustain and direct energy more effectively. At the same time, systems such as Pranic Healing also work with external energy, where the practitioner functions more as a channel than the source itself.

The word cultivation kept standing out to me throughout this part of the discussion. Not instant healing. Not performance. Cultivation.

Five Approaches to Healing

Dr. Krisna also outlines five progressive approaches to healing:

Touch and activation
External substances such as herbs, oils, or medicine
Work through meridians or nadis, including acupuncture
Energy-infused techniques, where life force enhances physical methods
Direct energy work, using internal cultivation or external sourcing

Each level builds on the previous one. Even inflammation, something most people immediately try to suppress, is viewed slightly differently in many traditional systems.

“It is a signal,” he explains. “The body is calling for attention. It increases circulation.”

That perspective shifts the conversation quite a bit. Not every symptom is simply malfunction. Sometimes the body is trying to communicate, regulate, or restore balance before things become more serious.

The Benefits of Understanding the Energy Body

What became clearer for me through this conversation was not a rejection of medicine, but a widening of perspective. If imbalance begins earlier, in layers we are not always trained to notice, then it makes sense that healing can also begin earlier.

Perhaps this is one of the more practical aspects of understanding the energy body. It encourages attention before crisis. Listening before collapse.

Not everything needs to reach the level of physical symptom before it is addressed. Perhaps this is where the language of energy becomes useful. Not necessarily as belief, but as another framework for self care, one that becomes available through greater self awareness, attention, and relationship with the body itself.

Dr.Krisna will be sharing more about health and wellness both medical and energetic approaches. Join us for informative programs presented by UbudCare Wellness at Usada Bali.

Upcoming Talks and Workshops June 2026.