Hindu Refugee Children Learn Reiki 1

Our first Reiki training of the year was held on 13th and 15th March. Mamta Advani (LHSG Kenya) and I taught 36 Hindu refugee children in Delhi. It was an online class, carried out with the help of our India member Vikram Lalwani, their teacher.

It was such a pleasure to teach these children aged 10 yrs and over. Even across the wifi, I could pick up their enthusiasm at learning something new! Their eager faces, their total concentration, their willing hands, as they did self-healing and partner healing, were a joy to see!

So now, we have 36 new Reiki healers in the world! These children, from disadvantaged backgrounds, who have so little to begin with, have been enriched with the healing power of Reiki! One more step towards self-empowerment and self-reliance! What a beautiful gift!

Many thanks also go to our LHSG India members Mona Gayatri and Arpita Kundu for sponsoring the snacks of samosas, pattis, grapes and bananas for the children.

Do watch the video below. It is mostly in Hindi, with a few scenes in Gujarati and Sindhi.

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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LHSG 17th Anniversary Seva No. 18

Dear Subrcribers,

It is with great happiness that I announce that LHSG has broken ground in Zanzibar! This is an island off the coast of Tanzania, in the Indian Ocean!

Our dear LHSG Kenya Member Sakina Taki went all out to talk about Reiki to a group of people on the island, and in no time at all, she had 6 people who wanted to be trained in Reiki. Together with this being LHSG’s first in Zanzibar, it was a first for Sakina in another way as well as she had to conduct the session partially in Kiswahili!

Do read on for her account, and do watch the video, the first part of which shows the beautiful venue where the training was carried out.

Thank you for staying with us!

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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Between 15th December and 20th December 6 individuals on the Island of Zanzibar completed reiki level 1

Amina Omar a community leader working with women in her community. She experienced great relaxation while being attuned. Amina mentioned that before the session she had been angry that day and annoyed. After giving herself reiki she felt a deep sense of peace within and kept smiling as she gave herself reiki. She is eager to learn level 2 and can’t wait to start assisting her community after obtaining the gift of reiki

Mwanahawa, a yoga instructor at Wajamama felt a strong emotional healing after giving herself reiki. Hawa flet very emotional and a big force of energy while giving reiki to her sacral chakra, but after completing self-healing she felt calm and happy.

Alice Ayda is an artist who does voluntary work with women in the prisons in USA. She felt herself sway and was filled with happiness while giving her heart chakra reiki. She experienced great relaxation while being attuned.  Ayda felt Reiki energies strongly as she gave her chakras reiki and felt like she was swaying a bit. She also kept smiling while healing herself. She too is eager to learn level 2 and can’t wait to start assisting their communities after obtaining the gift of reiki

Ayda Abdallah a yoga instructor and intuitive healer had felt strong energy from her hand previously and is known to her family and friends to have ‘healing hands’. Learning reiki level 1 has given her a better understanding of how to channel the energy and while being Attuned she saw a burst of colors.

Farah Motani, a nutritionist and yoga instructor in Jambiani (the south of Zanzibar) felt very calm after giving herself reiki and felt strong vibrations while giving her partner reiki.

Yusra who works at Wajamama wellness center learnt reiki level 1 with the aim of helping the women who come to their center with physical and emotional issues. Yusra was excited to be able to assist people in pain after having learnt reiki level 1

All 6 reiki level 1 healers are eager to help their communities and spread reiki healing amongst family and friends.

Sakina Taki

LHSG Kenya Member

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LHSG 17th Anniversary Sev No. 17

One of Lotus Healing Seva Group’s Objectives, raison d’eter, is to spread the awareness of Reiki among all and sundry. This is easier said than done, especially in the corporate world. But this did not deter our brave LHSG Kenya member Imrah Mughal, who went all out to introduce Reiki to her work colleagues in 2 online sessions!

Read on for this brave ladies account of how she overcame challenges as she became an ambassador of Reiki as she reached out to people across the world!

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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Imrah Mughal

LHSG Kenya Member

During our weekly meetings at work, we have 5 minute sessions at the beginning on Mindfulness. For the longest time it has been about Yoga, breathing, and meditation. So I decided to spread awareness of Reiki.

Yesterday, on 14th December, I introduced about 15 of my colleagues to the world of reiki. I shared with them:

  • What is reiki            
  • Its origin
  • How it is practiced – hands on healing and distance healing
  • The chakras and the different organs they are responsible for
  • The benefits of reiki
  • What chakra imbalances look like
  • My own personal journey and experience with reiki
  • The seva that LHSG does
  • And much more

What I was pleased about is that our guest speaker in this meeting has been practicing reiki for 25 years. In as much as my talk was received with a lot of mixed feelings, the guest speaker’s appreciation of reiki sort of validated what I was saying.

The general comments by my colleagues are that in the next session which is going to be on Tuesday 20th Dec 2022 at 12:00pm – 1:00pm they would like a practical session where they can experience reiki.

I had a discussion with Kamal aunty and we agreed to get some of my colleagues to share the issues they needed healing for, so that we, LHSG Kenya group can send them reiki starting from today 14 December 2022 until Tuesday 20 December 2022 and during the practical session they can share their experiences.

Then on the followup session on 2o th Decemeber, I first played 1 min 30 seconds of the heart of reiki video. Then I played another video called 5 minutes reiki to balance your chakras. This was a guided video so they really enjoyed it.

After that they shared they gave their feedback on the Reiki received and what changes they had noticed. I have shred these below.

One person said she didn’t notice any difference. It’s at that point the guest speaker who practices reiki said that long term issues don’t heal overnight and she gave her own example of how it took a while to heal her digestive issues. So that brought the conversation back on a positive note as person F was bringing doubt into the experiences. The rest opted not to give their feedback.

As word goes around about the positive changes already being felt by my colleagues whom we are sending reiki to, the interest is growing. I feel I have set the ball rolling in Copenhagen and it’s only a matter of time that curious minds will seek out and even learn reiki. Gratitude to Kamal aunty for this strategy.I am sure its only a matter of time before other colleagues warm up to the idea of receiving reiki or even learning it

I share here, their issues, (no names, due to confidentiality), and how Reiki healing worked for them.

  1. Person A, 51 years, Copenhagen

Reiki for frozen toes and insomnia.

She sleeps much better now

  1. Person B, 25 years, Copenhagen

Insomnia

After just 1 day of sending Reiki :

Good morning Imrah! I am completely blown over! Wow! Thank you for offering me the reiki opportunity! Last night was the first time in a looong time that I slept through! You’re magical!

  1. Person C, Copenhagen

Eye twitching

Eye twitching has stopped completely!

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LHSG 17th Anniversary Seva No. 16

Our LHSG Australia, Perth, in charge, Rajinderpal Walia, along with Harjyot Sidhu, LHSG Australia member did Reiki healing seva in Kolkata and Amritsar in India. Please read on for Raj’s report and do watch the touching pictures in the video that follows.

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member.

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This year Harjot Sidhu and myself had decided to go and do some seva, consisting of Reiki healing and making donations to the two institutes known as S R.U.M.A. and C.I.N.I. Ruma deals with Palliative care and Cini with Child in Need.

The first two pictures are where the patients are first assessed and then a decision is made if they need to go to the hospice centre.

We spent three days at the Chundangan Hospice, where we managed to give patients healing and on the 4th day all the patients and family members were treated to a lunch of their choice. We also treated the 40 dedicated staff who deal with these patients day and night.

Then we spent one day at the Chittranjan National Cancer Institue where patients are waiting for hours to be seen by the doctors.

We had no words to express the dedication by the founder Director Santanu Chakraborty and his ever smiling wife, right hand partner in all his ventures Meheli. Behind these two are a group of nurses, Trauma management team, cleaners, guards and handy men. We managed to donate some funds collected in Perth for this very worthy cause.

Below are pictures of the day centre, hospital, hospice and home visits.

Harjyot and myself have no words to describe the dedication we saw, it is easy to fund raise for Children and mothers but a very big challenge for Palliative care.

The last two days we spent giving healing to Children, who had gone through Trauma. Here we were restricted on photography due to Confidentiality.

We saw three Shelter homes: 1.For boys from the slums. 2. A shelter home for girls. 3. A shelter home for boys.

It was a real eye opener, to see how these children are rescued and stay in protection, till they are reunited with their parents.

Very grateful for the seva bestowed upon us by our creator.

Many thanks

Rajinderpal Walia

LHSG Perth, Australia in charge.

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