Seva Done By Our Youth Group!

It gives me great pleasure to write this! We have two lovely young girls 14 year old Khushi Samani and 13 year old Arya Joshi, who are Reiki level 2 healers in their own right. As members of LHSG’s Youth Group, they have been volunteering in their school holidays to do Reiki healing seva for cancer patients and their care givers of Faraja Cancer Support Centre. This July and August holidays, they also participated in our Reiki Seva Camp for the residents of the Mukuru Sinai slums and teachers of St Peter’s Special School.

Thank you Khushi and Arya. Thank you for your dedicated service!

Blessings that you continue with this seva bhav (spirit of selfless service) all your life! 

Please read on for their stories …. And do watch the videos!

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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My name is Khushi Samani, I am 14 years old. I have learnt Reiki till level 2 under the guidance of Kamal Aunty and I have been practicing for the past 2 years. During holidays Kamal Aunty gives the opportunity to go to Faraja cancer care center to give Reiki to cancer patients. It is heartbreaking to see people as young as me diagnosed with cancer but it makes me feel happy to give them Reiki and help them fight their battle of cancer. I also got the opportunity to join Kamal Aunty for a Reiki camp at SSD where we got a chance to help the Lotus Healing Seva Group teach parents Reiki. It was amazing to see how determined they were to learn and experience Reiki and brought joy to my heart to be able to teach them. I would like to thank Kamal Aunty and the LHSG for supporting me in this journey and continue to do so.

Khushi Samani

LHS(Y)G Member

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Hari Om!

My Name is Arya Joshi and I am thirteen years old. I have been practicing Reiki for the past two years after finishing level two. My experience has been very emotional. My heart warms up when I help the sick, disabled or even the less privileged. Helping others (seva) in any way makes me happy ? I enjoyed the camp at SSDS temple as its good to share knowledge and empower people. Faraja Centre has been heart breaking at times as it has shown me how much suffering and pain people go through due to cancer. I have become braver due to Reiki and knowing that my little part of doing Reiki might be bringing a little relief to an ill person gives me satisfaction.

I would like to thank Kamal Aunty and the entire team for giving me these opportunities and for always being so supportive.

Arya Joshi

LHS(Y)G Member

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Our 101st Camp and Counting!

LHSG is on the roll! No sooner had we finished our centenary Reiki camp than 5 days later we had the opportunity to teach Reiki to 19 Special Needs children and 1 adult of the Compassionate Hands Home for the menatlly and physically disabled in Ruia, Nairobi. 

The LHSG Sevaks that taught these children were Punita, Karima and Sharanya

Please read on and do watch the videos …

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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Today the 15th of August was a special day for Karima, Sharanya and myself. How privileged were we to attune and teach on Master Usui’s birthday, and also India’s Independence Day. We had the beautiful opportunity to conduct reiki level 1 and level 2 camps simultaneously to the special needs children of Ruai. In total there were 5 children learning level 1 & 15 children learning level 2. These children were between the age of 9 years to 15 years. Despite their disabilities I found that level 2 children were all practicing level 1 twice a week. I was so impressed by their attention span, their grasping ability and the way they were all disciplined.

As the day unfolded, the children grasped and gained all the different ways of sending and giving Reiki healing. The energies were high in the room and these keen and eager innocent little children were super learners.

My gratitude to Karima and Sharanya who assisted me in conducting Reiki level 1. What a fruitful day!

Love and light

Punita Acharya

LHSG Founder Member.

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Reiki 101st camp experience

I am, i enjoyed teaching to these much deprived children, who were enthusiastic to learn. They grasped learning very fast. When they realized that reiki healing can help physically and mentally, they wanted to know more.

After the attunement, 3 of them mentioned visualization of white light. Some felt the warmth. Self Chakra healing was great, partner healing few of them were not focused, Sharanya kept correcting them.

One of the students was feeling nauseated, and one had stomach cramps, after Reiki healing both felt better.

The 5 Reiki principles were understood well, they had question what’s gratitude? I simplified by writing on their handouts “just for today, i will live with the attitude of being thankful” and then it was well understood.

My group was excellent and they were very thankful at the end of the session. In between they kept asking when will they learn level 2?

My personal experience was of being emotional that evening when I went home. I asked the universe to show me a way to be able to give more to well deserving children and that I can do more and more Seva.

I am thankful to the Universe, Master Usui, all Soul sisters, Punita and Sharanya and especially to Kamalji to empower me with this knowledge and enable me to uplift others.

Gratitude, gratitude and gratitude!

Karima Jiwa

LHSG Kenya Member

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LHSG In The News

The Asian Weekly 

Edition 417

Aug 17 – 23, 2018

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A Time To Celebrate!

Celebration is in the air for Lotus Healing Seva Group!

LHSG Africa Group (Kenya, Tanzania, and Zambia) celebrate as they complete a centenary of Reiki training camps in Africa!

The 100th Free Reiki Training camp was held on 10th August 2018 at the Community hall of the Shree Sanatana Dharma Sabha Hindu Temple in Nairobi. The recipients of this training were parents and neighbours of children from Mukuru Sinai slums who we had earlier trained in Reiki Level 1 and teachers and Headmistress of St. Peter’s School for Special Children.

The eager participants arrived (some with their babies!) all ready to learn. The theory and background of Reiki was introduced to them, followed by the attunement and then practical application of healing themselves and others. At the end of it all, they shared their surprise and delight at being completely healed of their aches and pains, their stress and their worries!

As always, it is a joy to be able to touch others’ lives, especially that of the forgotten and downtrodden, the poor and destitute. The LHSG Sevaks that had the privilege of doing this seva were Monica Gokaldas, Lata Kanji, Punita Acharya, Mamta Advani, Pratima Dutt, Bhavna Baga, and I, Kamal Tolia and our LHS(Y)G youth Group memebrs 13 year olds Khushi Samani and Arya Joshi!

God and the Universe continue to bless us with these seva opportunities. We remain grateful!

Our special gratitude goes to the Director Deepak Mediratta of the SSDS temple who so generously allowed us the use of the hall for free and to the manager Mr. Sudhir Vashishta who helped us in all ways, and to Anju Sahni for her interest in our work.

Please continue reading and do watch the videos which tell it all!

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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It seems like yesterday when we commenced our journey as Lotus Healing Seva Group and conducted our first Reiki Camp for 110 members of the society in Nairobi. Humble beginnings that had begun once 8 years ago at the auspicious premises of a Hindu Temple premises have now witnessed our hundredth camp at the same Function Hall. A hundred camps means to me a hundred such days of empowering lives with the beautiful disciple of Reiki Healing.

The camp on 10th August was a fruitful one with the world getting the gift of 62 new healers besides a few babies who also accompanied their mothers. These babies who were initially slightly cranky soon calmed up with the blessed energies of Reiki as they too received the Reiki attunement.

The teachers and parents who attended left the premises by left afternoon all excited and charged up by the Reiki Knowledge, their certificates, the fulfilling morning refreshments, a substantial lunch and afternoon snacks of cookies and cakes with backpacks of goodies.

The group of ten men and women that were practicing partner reiki under my guidance were like perfect healers, each pausing to give Healing and progressing further at their own pace. One man mentioned that he had toothache and his partner asked me if he had to put the hand inside the partner’s mouth and I guided him to the correct way of doing it. The man was happy that the pain had gone after the healing. Another woman called Violet was happy at her leg pain being reduced and the movement had become smoother.

Such moments of seeing the little changes had brought some shift in these slum dwellers lives and empowered them to attend to themselves and others without spending on medication. I feel very grateful to the opportunity of being a sevak at this camp and would also like to extend my gratitude to the management of Shree Sanatan Dharam Sabha.

Monica Gokaldas

LHSG Founder Member

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Our 100th Reiki training camp at SSDS Mandir for the adults from Mukuru slums was excellent! I feel that they will benefit deeply at the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual levels.

Mamta Advani

LHSG Member

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