Aura therapy is a type of New Age healing that detects and treats disease by reading and manipulating a person's aura. According to aura therapists, the aura is an energy field surrounding the body and exhibits signs of physical disease before the body itself exhibits either signs or disease. There is no scientific basis for belief in auras, much less for the validity of aura therapy. Yet, like many other alternative therapies, the popularity of such beliefs continues to grow.