Regina Martino is a geobiologist and bioenergeticist; she has also trained in Chinese energetics, Japanese Reiki and Bach flower therapy, among other things. For more than twenty years she has been researching the human self-healing mechanisms and abilities and has carried out numerous studies with healing stones and crystals. In 2006 Regina Martino founded the Parisian institute "Rayon Magenta" for study and training in geobiology and bioenergetics; in the same year she discovered shungite and its extraordinary abilities. Her original French work "La Shungite - Énergie de vie" was published in April 2011.