A Home for 170 children ranging in age from 2 to 20 years. Where the children wash their own clothes every day. Where the older ones help bathe and clean the younger ones. Where the schooling is done on the same grounds as the Home. Where the children are nurtured and loved beyond measure by their ‘Daddy’ Moses and his wife Sylvie. Where the children are taught the lessons of giving back …… Such is The Childrens’ Garden Home in the Uthiru Suburb of Nairobi.
Lotus Healing Seva Group Kenya was asked to train these orphans in Reiki. As ready as ever, Sevaks Sheela Shah, Srinidhi Rao, Pratima Dutt, Shariffa Keshavji and I, Kamal Tolia took up this task of once more sharing our Love and Light with these young disadvantaged members of our society.
The Reiki Level 1 camp took place on 8th December 2016 at the Home in Uthiru, a suburb of Nairobi. Since the number of children was large, 90, we split them into two groups according to their age. Sheela, assisted by Monica, Shariffa and Pratima taught the 10 – 15 year olds and with Srinidhi’s assistance, I taught the 16 years and over.
At the end of the training many in my group happily reported ‘miraculous’ healings of their headaches, backaches, leg pains. They said that they felt happy ‘all over’. They promised to do the Reiki on themselves every day!
We had also sponsored their lunch of rice with tomatoes, potatoes and carrots, which they ate with relish halfway through the training. Before leaving, we treated them to biscuits and milk which made them happy all over again! Milk is not a part of their daily diet, so it was a pure luxury for them!
Please read on for Sheela’s account of the training of the children in her charge and of the other sevaks’ Srinidhi and Monica. Please also watch the interesting pictures and videos that say it all!
Kamal Tolia
LHSG Founder Member
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It was wonderful to witness how natural the affinity of Reiki to children. My lot of 10 to 15 year olds were a bunch of shy, smart, and cheeky lot that behaved so well through out. Self healing and partner healing exercises were done faultlessly considering a bit of coaxing was needed now and then. The star pupil, hands down, was the house mother’s baby girl. She keenly placed her hands correctly on the Chakras during self healing until she got tired just at the end.
After lunch, the partner healing exercise got off with a bit of challenge finding amicable partners. But partners were made, some not so amicable, and healing commenced. Wonderful healing energies. The hall got so warm with all the healing in spite of the mischief from some of the children.
Half way through this exercise, another young girl joined us saying she had been unaware of our session. Shariffaji got talking to her, explaining quietly what we were doing and without giving a second thought, asked her to try her hand in giving healing by just following what the others were doing. This young girl practiced on Shariffaji, and without getting attuned, exhibited beautiful healing prowess! Yes, the affinity of Reiki to children and vise versa .
My gratitude to Reiki for such amazing healing energies. We wound up our stay distributing milk and biscuits, which the children enjoyed very much. Mr. Moses, the house father, was happy to see the children had learnt an empowering skill and looked forward to the tree planting exercise next week by our very own LHSG.
Sheela Shah
LHSG Member
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When Shariffa ji got all of them to sing the song “I am happy…” it was a great welcome we received. The young adults were very quick to grasp and healed themselves very well. It was a joyous moment when they spoke about how they got healed of their headaches or stomach aches that they had that morning.
Srinidhi Rao
LHSG Member
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The camp on 8/12/16 was at a place we hadn’t been to earlier. No sooner had we entered the premises that Pratima and I were led by a girl called Grace with a very pleasant smile. She guided us towards the school area of the Children’s Garden Home and School. Srinidhi who had earlier visited the premises gave us small tour of the place.
The children, specially the younger lot were very excited by our visit and gave us hugs and wanted to cling on to us. They introduced themselves to us and asked our names. They were obviously not briefed ref the purpose of our visit as none of them knew that there is something called Reiki. Kamal started giving the introduction to Reiki once they were settled on their seats. With the apparent leniency on discipline, new students kept pouring in as the teaching had already begun.
Attunement of about over eighty new Reiki students was a bit of a challenge owing to the space limitations hence some lay on the sheets on the floor while others lay or sat up on the benches. The attunement nonetheless went on very smoothly and the children had had their share of experiences to narrate of it.
They were now divided into two groups. The young adults were trained by Kamal Tolia and Srinidhi Rao while the younger lot were trained by Sheela Shah assisted by Shariffa, Pratima and myself. The children in all their cuteness practiced both self healing as well as partner healing in their mischievous playful manner. We were impressed by the Reiki energy flowing through their innocent hands. At times they got tired and some of them made escape excuses with visits to the toilets and to drink water.
Finally as we parted with them after giving them the cups of milk and biscuits they promised that they would practice Reiki everyday. Most of them said they were happy with our visit and asked us if we would be back soon. Many children tagged along with us holding our hands till we sat in the cars. It was a very fulfilling seva.
Monica Gokaldas
LHSG Founder Member
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Thursday’s are magical day
LHSG makes it a special day
Magical things on that day
Happen within and without
Inner change moves out
How blessed are the givers
Oh yes and the receivers
Love unconditional
Giving unconditional
From the very universe
There is a total immerse
The day at Uthiru was just such a Thursday
There are no words to express the unconditional seva our family does.
All I can say is keep it up.
May your hands receive the energies that flow throughout and your hearts fill with love.
God bless you all
This is so sweet. I love how happy this made the children. Happy all over. Thank you.