About Elyane

Elyane T. Brightlight is a Naturopath, Acupuncturist and Medical Herbalist who has been in practice since 1978. She was originally driven to Natural Medicine because her daughter Sarah kept on being sick with respiratory problems.

Worried about the cycle of sickness-antibiotics-sickness and her daughter getting worse all the time, Elyane looked for some alternatives and ended up studying and practicing natural medicine in the form of naturopathy, herbal medicine, acupuncture and Hemaview analysis.

The combination of years of clinic practice, studies and personal experience led Elyane to write two books: Natural Childcare (1999) and Natural Recovery (2001).

Elyane has degrees in Human Biology and Political Science (UNE, Australia); diplomas and postgraduate diplomas in Naturopathy, Herbal Medicine and Acupuncture. She has a PhD in Acupuncture (MA, Sri Lanka). She has written theses on A Quantum View of Acupuncture (1992), The Pharmacology of Nicotine Addiction (1986) and Stop Smoking Through Acupuncture (1987).

Elyane (born 1948) splits her time between working in Sydney and living with her husband Rupen Honnet (same age), two cats, two dogs, five horses, twenty chooks and an increasing number of cattle on a hundred and twenty wild acres on the Far North Coast.

Elyane loves gardening and her drug of choice is horse riding. Her horses, including Peruvian Pasos and American Saddlebreds, are a joy and challenge in the quest of perfect classical riding and perfect gaited riding. They are good fun anyway!

She has two daughters and two grand children: Ev, 44, mother of Thomas 21 (at university) and Emily 14. Her beloved daughter Sarah died tragically at the age of 31 in 1999.