Kamal Tolia & Lotus Healing Seva Group

There is a place in the Westlands area of Nairobi called ‘Ashram’. It is a home for elderly people, who have no other place to go in their twilight years.

Lotus Healing Seva Group, Kenya, came to know about this place from a friend Kanwaljeet Mahajan, who is also a friend of the Ashram. She asked us to visit the home to give Reiki to the residents of the place. Ever ready to spread Reiki, we took up the invitation, and within 2 weeks Mamta Advani, Monica Gokaldas and I went to the place, to familiarize ourselves with the residents and their needs, leading to us starting a weekly Reiki healing schedule starting in September for the residents, the cook, the care taker, and the house help.

As the weeks went by, they reported feeling better, calmer, lighter, sleeping better, and generally feeling very good. No surprises here! But we also came to realize that they are lonely people. They loved our company. They looked forwards to our visits every week, and chatted with us as we gave them Reiki.

So, Pratima Parihar LHSG Kenya came up with a wonderful idea of bringing some joy in their lives by making their Divali (17^th October) Special. But due to certain issues in our country Kenya, and one of the residents being hospitalized, this event had to be postponed till 1^st November.

The program started with LHSG’s  sevaks Pratima Dutt, Bindi Shah and I giving Reiki to the people. We then played the ‘passing the parcel’ game with them. We were not sure how this would go …. but to our happy surprise, they loved it …… you will see it from the way they participated in the videos ….. When the music stopped, the one with the cushion (parcel) in his / her hand had to sing a song / say a prayer / a joke …… They loved this part too and contributed by singing a bhajan or prayer with sincere devotion!

The next ‘game’ was trying to light as many candles as possible with one matchstick. Each one had a go … and everybody had fun counting loudly each time a candle was lit!

After that we gave them gifts … the men each received ‘a mala’ (prayer beads) and the ladies each a pack of nail polish and lipstick. They were overwhelmed with the gift and very grateful!

A nutritious Indian lunch from a restaurant which had been ordered by LHSG followed next. After serving them, we sat down at the table with them and had  the meal together

On another note, one of the residents, Mansukhbhai had been using Ho’oponopono (taught by to him by Pratima) for the last couple of months between himself and his sons. In the video below, he shares his experience (in Gujarati) of using this Hawaiian Forgiveness Techinique. Please do watch his video …. It will touch your heart as he relates what happened …. note the catch in his voice along with the joy and the accompanying tears (behind the glasses) as he relates how his son and daughter in law called him up after 2 years!

Nutan, the cook also shares her experience in Gujarati of how much positive difference Reiki has made in her life!

Our next plan is to teach all of these lovely people Reiki and to help them plant trees in their compound.

Thank you for reading this post!

Love and Light to all!

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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Video: Games and Lunch

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Video: Mansukhbhai

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video: Nutan

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The 12^th Anniversary Seva celebrations continue with a Reiki Level 2 Training Camp for 38 children aged 8 – 10 years of Sathya Sai School in Uthiru, Nairobi. The school caters to children of the nearby slums. The camp was conducted on 24th October 2017, by LHSG Kenya’s Mamta, assisted by Lata, Yatinder and Priya.

As always, it was a joy to further these sweet innocent children in their Reiki healing journey!

Please read on ……

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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The Reiki 2 camp for 38 students was a great experience! The students were waiting eagerly for us before time and had lovely experiences to share concerning using Reiki in their lives. They had been doing Reiki on themselves and on family members with excellent results! Their parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, soshos (grandmothers) all felt better. One of them said she gave Reiki to her mother as her mother was tired after work and her mother fell asleep after Reiki and felt relaxed and fresh!

I asked them if their grades had improved and 80% of them raised their hands and felt that Reiki has improved their concentration!

Learning distance healing we sent healing to Kenya for a peaceful election and even programmed healing to the election. They were super excited about this and a few of them ran to tell the principal about this after the camp.

The principal told us that a teacher who had learnt Reiki in our previous camp is practicing on herself. He sees lots of changes in her. She is happier and doesn’t complain so much like she did earlier!

All the positive feedback was very encouraging!

The children learnt different forms of distant healing, made their Reiki boxes and learnt the power of group healing!

Priya, Lata, Yatinder and I felt wonderful after this Sewa!

Mamta Advani

LHSG Kenya

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I had lots of pain  in my hip joints and legs since  last  2 days.

As  I started the  attunement, I felt the presence of Sai Baba,  all went  well.  Then  I noticed that  my  pain is less and  by  1pm  the 60%of pain  was  gone  and I felt better. Which means, that even as I was sharing love and light with these youngsters, I was being healed!

It was a great experience  and the hugs  given by girls at the end were so lovely!

Lata Kanji

LHSG Kenya

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I am happy I got an opportunity to do Seva.  When  giving the attunement, Master Usui was with me, holding my hand. Believe me I never felt tired at all.

God bless, Love and Light,

Yatinder K Mann

LHSG Kenya

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It was a wonderful experience of Reiki today and gratitude always to come in touch with such children who make you realize how beautiful and amazing the world is!

Priya Chudhary

LHSG Kenya

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LHSG UK members dis Seva of a different kind, but blended some Reiki in it. They decided to paticipate in feeding the homeless through the feeding programs of The Jalaram Temple in London. they did this on 2 days. Here are teh reports of members Bena LHSG UK and Bhanu LHSG UK. 

This is one post for which there are no photos … you will see why when you read below ….

Thank you for your support!

Love and Light,

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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Before we went on the 17 October I had send a message to the LHSG members to send Reiki to all the people and the volunteers that will be visiting the area on the day to collect food.

We had planned to send Reiki to the food that will be served .

Healing to all to go to them for physical emotional and mental state for one month starting  on 16 October.

The experience of serving the food was very moving as some people who came to receive the food were very humble , very shy and very appreciative that we were doing this for them. Some of them even blessed us for doing this.

This is my experience that is very hard to put into words , as people in this situation was the last thing you expect to happen in London .

What we saw is the tip of the iceberg. We pray this we get strength & motivation to do  more frequently and help out were we can.

Food was vegetables rice, pasta . Samosa’s ,pizza , Parle biscuits small packets tea.

It was an eye opener for me and very emotional experience.

The food was served to about 180.00 people ….. few women and mostly men .

The Sevaks that did this seva were: Bena, Lekha, Savita and Bhanu.

Bena Shah

LHSG UK in Charge

Our gratitude to Savita and Jalaram Temple members for highlighting the plight  of the homeless in Ldn and giving us oportunity to do this seva. We should be thankful for what we have n are much better of then these destitute people who are without shelter and are un employed. We will realise their difficulties once we put our selves in their shoes; the least we could do was to  satisfy the hunger in their bellies. They need more but we are not in that position to provide for everything. We continuously send healing that their plight improves and they do not loose hope.  

Bhanu Shah

LHSG UK

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On Fri. 27th October, Bena, Savita, Bhanu, Seema, Ramesh, Chirag and Savita’s friend Renu, went to distribute food to the homeless at Charing Cross in central London. We joined up with volunteers from Jalaram Mandir who carried the food in large bags from North West london.There were  all adults, male and female; people from London of English origin, Eastern European, Many Africans, and Indian(brown skin) plus from West Indies who are in this country for a long time and are in need of daily meals. We distributed, bananas, bread rolls, pkts of Crisps, tubs of rice pudding , and apples. There were about between 150 to 180  people. We served them from 7pm onwards for one hour. There were 2 other well wisher groups who were also distributing in the same location nr William 4th street. The organisers have to take prior permission for  setting up distribution points on the open streets. This activity was part of our Seva for 12th anniversary celebration. Thanks.

The people who are made homeless is due to different reasons; some are unemployed, some are thrown out by their spouses or partners, some cannot pay rent, and some may have shelter but no money to buy food or a hot cup of coffee. The wife throws out husband because he doesn’t earn enough.!!

These people did not wish to have their photograph taken, so we respected their wishes ….

Bhanu Shah

LHSG UK

Still in the East …. Arpita Kundu LHSG Kolkata, India decided to share her Love and Light with the street children of Kolkata. She bought food / meals for these poor children and followed it with sending Reiki for a few days, to the intentions that they should never be hungry again! Here is her diary …..

Kamal Tolia

LHSG Founder Member

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14^th Oct. Today I came across a street child named Firdous asking for some money, he was very hungry …. I bought him food and sent healing to his back heart chakra for little time, as on the road it is not possible to do it for long…… and his smiling face was my best award

19^th October …. Gave food packets to street children …..sweets and two snacks …. My seva today ….

24^th till 29^th October, Did my last seva … fed 6 street children for 5 days … Raj, Rohit, Munni, Ravi, Rafik, Chotu …all were very happy, and so I am… When I used to see them on the road always, I feel I should do something for them … so our groups anniversary is the best occasion to serve them and thought of this seva … I feel very peaceful and content by feeding them …. If God gives me more opportunity, I will serve … Love and Light

Arpita Kundu

LHSG Kolkata, India

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