LHSG 19th Anniversary Event Seva No. 1

Just behind Mukuru Kenya Outreach Academy, the School that LHSG has been supporting, lies riparian land, through which the Ngong river passes. During the recent excessive flooding, the slum dwellers in this area had to relocate permanently. The place looked deserted, sad and uninteresting …… but not for long! For the Head teacher Enock Nyanyanga and the Deputy head teacher Vincent Muema came up with the suggestion that we plant trees there.

So we all went into action …… Lotus Healing Seva Group International members sponsored 150 trees, and our Mukuru LHS(Y)G children very excitedly planted them all on 20th September! LHSG member Jashu Shah and I helped the children plant 3 trees in the school compound. All done the LHSG Reiki way, including asking forgiveness from Mother Earth and chanting our Hindu Mantras.

The trees planted were Wambugia, Bishops Wood, Australia Flame, Jacaranda, Thika Palm, Nandi Flame, Aloe Africana, Alcalia, Macamia, Mutundu, Mutukuyu.

The children have continued with the after care, watering with Reiki blessed water, and blessing the trees with Reiki, and chanting the mantras.

Many thanks to Enock, Vincent and all the LHSG Mukuru member teachers for carrying out this seva to perfection!

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

Slide show and Video

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Weekly Reiki Healing Seva at Shri Ram Mandir

In keeping with their motto of ‘ever serving’, ‘ever loving’, ‘every giving’, the Kenya chapter of the Lotus Healing Seva Group, extended its warm (literally) loving, Reiki hands in service of the elderly and others at the Shri Ram Mandir hall (Hindu Temple) in Nairobi, Kenya.

The LHSG members, on a rota basis, hold these free healing sessions on Wednesday mornings. This seva which was started in early August 2024, is open to all and sundry. Many have been coming to receive, some come every week! The numbers have been varying between 14 and 24.

We are happy to report that the healing effects have ranged from freedom from aches and pains, from insomnia, from constant visits to the doctors, and … get a hold of this: depression, anxiety, deep fears!

We give thanks to God / Universe, for availing us of this opportunity to stay true to our life purpose and soul purpose of ‘simply giving’.

We would like to give our thanks to the Sri Ram Mandir Chairman Vikas Saini, The Vice Chairman Hitesh Solanki, for generously allowing us the use of their hall, and Shubhjit Kaur the Secretary, for ensuring that the hall is ready for us every week, and taking out photos.

Please do watch the slide show below, which shows the Reiki healing in session over the last month. The second video features many grateful recipients sharing their healing experiences, including the former Chairman of Ram Mandir, Mr Batukbhai Shah ….. they speak in a variety of languages…. Hindi, Sindhi, Gujarati and English!!

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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LHSG Reiki Level 1 Workshop for Sparsh Volunteers.

A Reiki workshop to empower people that volunteer to help other special people!

Sparsh is a centre for special needs adults, mostly with mental health challenges like Down’s Syndrome, cerebral palsy, autism, slow learners . . . I had the special opportunity to train 5 ladies that give up one / two mornings to help these adults do craft work, glue envelopes together, string beads to make place mats, etc …….

The training that took place on two afternoons, Aug 20 and Aug 23, empowered them with the healing power of Reiki. They learned all about chakras and how to do healing on themselves and others. They were quite excited to know they could now help the young adults at Sparsh even more, and at a deeper level.

The class ended with them knowing they could Reiki energise water, food articles, medicines, plants and their pets as well!

So happy were they with Reiki, that they wasted no time in booking the dates for the Reiki Level 2 training a month later!!

I give my sincere gratitude to God and the Universe for giving me this special opportunity to make a difference in the lives of special people, albeit in an indirect way.

This brings to 3358, the number of people Lotus Healing Seva Group has attuned to Reiki Level 1, and 4398 the number of people Lotus Healing Seva Group has attuned to different levels of Reiki, since 2007!

Do watch the video below.

Love and Light to all,

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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Master Usui’s Birthday Celebrations No. 4

A gratitude and giving back celebration …..

Thirty eight LHSG members from around the world from USA to India + LHSG India member Vikram, the Hindu Refugee teacher + 65 LHSG Youth Group Hindu Refugee children in Delhi, India, + LHSG Mukuru, Kenya members Enock Nyanyanga, Vincent Muema + 9 teachers + 93 LHSG Youth Group children of Mukuru Outreach Kenya Academy, Nairobi … all met on google.meet platform on 16th August 2024, to celebrate the birth of our Reiki Master Usui, the founder of Reiki. We call him our ‘Param Guru’ in our Hindu culture!

We sent Reiki to various situations and events in the world, to our Reiki boxes of intentions, set up sacred spaces around each member, blessed the five elements and Mother Earth, asked for forgiveness and forgave …. And …. Reiki blessed our bottles of water with positive wishes, after which we visualized pouring the water over our country and the whole world …

It was also a meeting of gratitude and a giving back celebration ….. I spoke about the 5 Rinns (debts) in Hinduism: 1. Dev Rinn (Debt to God) 2. Pitra Rinn (Debt to your parents and ancestors) 3. Rishi Rinn (Debt to the teachers and Gurus) 4. Nri or Manushya Rinn           (Debt to fellow human beings) 5. Bhuta Rinn (Debt to the flora and fauna, the ecosystem, plants, animals, the 5 elements, Mother Earth)

This was followed by an interactive session of examples of how we can repay these debts. And we realized that, first of all, we must be grateful to and love all the above, because without them, we would not come into existence and continue to exist … which brought us right back to Master Usuis 1st and 5th Prinicple:

Today and every day, I must be grateful  … and … Today and every day, I must show love and respect for every living thing / being.

Many thanks to LHSG Kenya Founder Member Punita Acharya, for sending the link and taking out the pictures and videos, and to all who joined from all over the world … together we can make a difference!

The first video below is of our India Hindu Refugee children members at the meeting, with their LHSG Badges, their Reiki boxes, and bottles of water in front of them ….. do notice how intently they send healing …..

The second video is about the 5 rinns (debts), gratitude and giving back …..

Thank you dear subscribers for staying with Lotus Healing Seva Group …

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

Hindu Refugees Children’s Reiki video

Debts and Giving back

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