If you are over 40 and don't want reading glasses, Martin Sussman has great news. He will be introducing The Read Without Glasses Method. He is co-developer of this method, based on eye exercises originally conceived by Dr. Ray Gottlieb, O.D., Ph.D., F.C.O.V.D., and used successfully in his private practice for three decades.

Practicing some simple-to-learn exercises as little as six minutes a day could help your vision become sharper and your focus clearer, until you can read smaller and smaller print without squinting. Martin Sussman challenges those in the medical community who believe that middle-aged sight, or presbyopia, is the inevitable result of normal aging caused by eye muscles that become weaker and less flexible over time. Like any other part of the body, he says, you can restore the eyes to a more youthful state.

Learn how to recognize the early signs of presbyopia, discover the exercises that flex the six muscles that control convergence (turning the eye inward) as well as flex the fine muscles that control accommodation (focusing at near) and relaxation exercises to aid in divergence (focusing at a distance). Come and find out how you could fend off presbyopia indefinitely, wean yourself from reading glasses, bifocals, or contact lenses, and avoid the risk of eye surgery altogether.

T o start with, Serhii Litvinov will gives us a global view of the present situation of natural vision improvement in Poland and the Czech Republic followed by a presentation on Psychology of space – the relation between distance, direction of looking and psychosomatic medical aspects.

Dr. Sameer Al-Kasab will introduce us to his work on natural vision improvement, exploring what has been introduced by his team-mate Sylvia Lakeland, at the 18 th Conference: in brief, the result of six years of experience in working with more than one thousand five hundred patients in his private clinic.

He will also tell us about his one month vision course and the eight different training visual exercises to achieve good vision improvement, all based on scientific background. “I hope to present the scientific anatomical and physiological facts that support the results of this research that proves the effect of the training exercises in all cases involved”, confirms Dr. Al-Kasab.

For those people who literally hate their glasses and ask for simple ways to see clearly without glasses or to correct squint without operation, this will be an opportunity to achieve real goals in a short time.

How can we keep our eyes relaxed amidst the excess of visual stimuli that occurs daily in our agitated world? A flexible, receptive and relaxed visual structure depends on the balance of the eyes, between both eyes and between parts of the system.

Sylvia Loretta Lakeland regained fully her eyesight after seven years of progressive blindness. Her struggles, losses and gains allowed her to study and build a foundation of knowledge on how to understand and help others with their vision problems.

Never giving up, never complaining, questioning everything all the time and most of all believing that it is always possible to see better, Sylvia Lakeland hopes to create a bond of understanding, awareness and harmony at the Conference, while showing how her experience in Portugal and in Brazil can help others around the world.

Living with full and clear vision is only possible by breaking patterns and routines, choosing new paths, learning and practicing a great variety of exercises, not giving in to boredom and being permanently conscious and aware.

For many people, moving the eyes in various directions is difficult, unpleasant, tiring or even painful. If you want to improve eyesight, you'll need to make eye movements easier. By relaxing the eyes, face, neck, shoulders – and even feet and ankles, you can make eye movements easier, smoother and more pleasant.

Exploring the use of our eyes leads us to the micro-intersections of our functioning, the momentary choices in the use of mind and body that make up our patterns of behaviour.  This talk will describe how vision improvement locates the possibility of change in the inner workings of the organism where our relationship to reality is decided. Out of the blur comes a gradually more direct encounter with private truths and fundamental questions.

Brigitte Cavadias, an Alexander Technique and Bates teacher will be showing us in what ways the Alexander Technique can be applied to the Art of Seeing.

The Alexander Technique is based on a different way of thinking as a preparatory mean to undertake any activity in daily life as well as in any specific professional activity like, for instance sport or performing.

To see is a major part of all our life and while recognizing in what ways it could be applied in the Art of Seeing, Brigitte Cavadias will go into some useful details on the Alexander way of thinking. “ I'll seek to show how we can provide ourselves in our very ordinary life with a space and time of choice which will lead us effortlessly to our true freedom that will include our freedom to see”, emphasizes B. Cavadias.

Meir Schneider, who overcame blindness as a teenager, due to congenital cataracts, and now reads normally and has an unrestricted driver's license, will be talking about Self-Healing, a unique approach that has helped many thousands of people make remarkable gains in health and function with a wide range of conditions and injuries, including poor eyesight.

"Self-healing is a natural phenomenon. The magic is that if we tune in to the body, we can prevent most existing illnesses”, emphasizes Meir Schneider. “And while it teaches us how to listen to our bodies and respond to their needs, we learn how to apply the many tools and techniques that will show us how we can create a more relaxed, balanced use of the body - and the eyes - which can bring about dramatic improvement”.

Let us hear Meir Schneider on the latest approaches on his Self Healing Method, with the most recent understanding of how to improve vision, breaking patterns, building and strengthening neural connections between brain and eyes!