Aura Soma / History

The word Aura comes from the Latin meaning: Light and Soma is the ancient Greek word for body.

Vicky Wall was a remarkable woman and the founder of Aura-Soma. She was born and raised in England in the 1920’s and was the seventh child of a seventh child who grew up within the mystical tradition of the Kabbalah. Her father was a keen herbalist and taught her the healing qualities of living plants from an early age.

Vicky became a practicing chiropodist, pharmacist and herbalist. One night twenty-five years ago, she could not sleep. She was nearly 70, blind and had suffered a recent heart attack. She had been praying for guidance, trying to understand what path her life could now take. Whilst meditating, she received the message, "Go and divide the waters my child!" Vicky was puzzled. "What does that mean? I'm not Moses! I’m blind, so who on earth would I be leading into what promised land?"

Oh the third night of meditating and hearing the same message ‘ Go divide the waters’ she got up went to the room where she still created her herbal lotions and later reported - "other hands had guided her own" - she could see neither the beautiful jewels she had spontaneously and inspirationally created nor their possible intended purpose. Even more bewildering to her was the resonant power she felt emanating from them, as they radiated in the sunlight of the following morning. This was the birth of the Equilibrium bottles we use today.

Vicky took these bottles to holistic fair where she used them to hold up the glass shelves that displayed the various herbal creams and lotions she still made and sold with friends. She found people were drawn the dual coloured bottles. Being physically blind, Vicky Wall's inner sight was still strong and awake, she saw that people where coming to her with the same energy pattern or "aura-colour" as the bottles they were requesting to hold and take away. At first, she did not know what to say to people when they felt the urge to take home and apply the oils on their bodies but she let them requesting that they give her feedback on their effect.

The reports amazed her. Someone reported resolving their depression; another person talked about feeling "worthy" again. Long carried conflicts were solved and miraculous healings happened.

Very soon after the "birth" of her bottles she realised she needed help to find out more about these bottles, and so she invited scientists and experts of colour into her process.

Eventually the Education System of Aura-Soma was created. This Education System is operated by the International Academy of Colour Therapeutics (ASIACT) which is based in Tetford, England where the bottles are still made and the Academy trains new Aura Soma consultants and teachers. It is also where Aura Soma now has the second largest biodynamic farm in Britain.

Teachers, who learned from Vicky or her students, now share the language of colour in 84 countries around the world. Aura-Soma is massively popular in Japan, there are more then 50 teachers in Australia and there are also teachers in all European countries. The internationally accredited courses build on each other so they are accessible and interchangeable across international borders. It is a truly global community.

The knowledge that the bottles share is accessible to all of us as we follow our inner wisdom and choose from 107 Equilibrium bottles the four we are drawn to. By doing this we can discover our true mission and purpose, our gifts and strengths, find out what is challenging us at this time and find guidance on how to overcome these difficulties and move forward with ease and confidence.