Ringing In The New With A Reiki Training Camp!
The year 2017 is upon us! How did we celebrate? By holding our first Reiki training camp of the year with the girls from Hawkers Market Centre. We have been associated with this centre since the last 5 years through their Founder Sharffa Keshavji who is also a Senior Lotus Healing Seva Group, Kenya. Girls from the informal settlements of Nairobi are chosen for a year’s training in Computers, sowing, accounts among other skills at the HMGC.
Every year LHSG trains the new recruits in Reiki 1 and 2. And so it is that on February 8th, Punita, assisted by Shariffa, Grace and Pooja, conducted our first Reiki camp for the year 2017.
Please read on for their account of the camp and do watch the pictures that follow.
Kamal Tolia
Founder Member,
Lotus Healing Seva Group
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Today the 8th of February 2017 was the first Reiki camp for the HMGC GIRLS. It was level 1 with new recruits. There were 12 girls including two other ladies Josephine (a nanny) and Ilaben. Everything was perfectly set and as we started I could see that the girls were very keen to learn Reiki. I explained to them that each chakra has a colour. I explained once and asked them to repeat them, and to my surprise it was done perfectly.
After the attunement I asked if anyone felt anything? They answered with the colors of the chakras…..I thought very receptive!
Self-healing was also done with a lot of patience. They took their time and did it well.
Lunch was a delight for all of them as they enjoyed the burgers, cake and juice very much.
Partner healing took an hour and a half which meant all that was taught was absorbed very well. Each and every participating candidate was very keen on healing their partners. After the session was over, I asked them how each and every one felt? One said she had a stomach ache but after the healing it’s gone. Another said her eyes were hurting, but after the healing the pain disappeared. All said they felt very relaxed.
When the girls were doing Partner healing in the afternoon there was a lot of heat ( Reiki )flowing through their hands. This, I realized when I was feeling their hands!
In the end I asked if they wanted to learn level 2 and the all said YES very keenly.
My gratitude to the universe, Reiki and my Guru Mrs. Kamal Tolia for giving me this opportunity to conduct the camp.
Lots of love and light.
Punita Acharya
Founder Member
Lotus Healing Seva Group
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The day was special to say the least.
The girls were ready and eager to learn. They listened attentively and grasped everything we taught so quickly. They were super receptive to learning Reiki and to using it as a tool in their lives to better themselves; for their own good and for the good of those around them.
During and after the attunement the healing energy in the room was palpable. It was a surreal yet very peaceful and blessed experience for us all.
On a personal level this was my first Reiki camp since learning Reiki level 3B, the Teacher Level. I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to teach. In many ways it felt and still feels like I’ve come full circle. I know now more than ever that Reiki came into my life as a gift to be given.
Love and light
Grace
Member
Lotus Healing Seva Group
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Here are the comments from the girls who said we ‘ elevate ourselves and others’
Now they are ready to be who they truly are so they can reach their potential and work together to shine a light on each other and all the people they will touch during this year at HMGC and at the Faraja Cancer Centre.
Some of the girls walk two hours to get here. They come from Huruma, Korogocho, Kangemi and Deep Sea.
Some live under bridges! All from broken homes.
Shariffa Keshavji
Founder HMGC,
Senior member
Lotus Healing Seva Group
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I t was my first camp on 8th Feb. I had a wonderful experience during the session.
I could feel the atmosphere in the room very positive.I felt very relaxed mentally.
I enjoyed the session and looking forward to next camp.
Thanks
Pooja Tiwari
Member
Lotus Healing Seva Group
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Reiki Stories To Warm Our Hearts!
We share with you 4 lovely Reiki experiences from 3 dedicated Lotus Healing Seva Group members. They gave us a warm fuzzy feeling in our hearts when we heard them … wishing you the same as you read them!
- Nuri Abdul KenyaLHSG
13th November 2017
Please please may I share a miracle that happened to me yesterday. At 4.15 pm a small bird hit our window and fell down (I think he was pretty bruised). I ran
to help, cupped him in my hands and took him outside to lie amongst the grass. I did Reiki on him and even did hoponopono!! I I kept some bread next to
him and prayed that his family would come for him. Suddenly it started to rain very very heavily. I ran down to check on him, and saw he had hurdled himself
and had even moved to the shelter himself on the pebbles that you had energized when you came home. I patted him and wished him his highest good. This
morning I ran down to see if he was ok. He wasn’t there!!! Wow????
- Monica Gokaldas LHSG Kenya Founder Member
4th January 2017
Wishing you all a very blessed 2017. May the year be filled with abundant spiritual energies and growth for all group members.
I am very humbled to share with you all that though we weren’t supposed to go to Faraja today I was called there by Ulveena Darr for someone who needed
help. This elderly Yemeni (by origin) woman was in lot of pain ( liver and pancreatic cancer), unable to breathe well and very uncomfortable as she came to
Faraja Cancer Support Centre. I started doing Reiki and she started with her prayers as she wasn’t fully convinced as to what I did was safe.
Gradually, she was asleep, breathing normal and relaxed. It took me over an hour only for the front part of the body. Then she sat up as she couldn’t sleep
on the stomach. balanced her spine while she sat and I have finished now. She is very happy and I am happy to have got this opportunity for this sudden
seva. She is traveling tomorrow and I am hoping now her journey will be smooth.
Thank you. LNL
- Shalini Srivastava LHSG Kenya
11th January 2017
(Shalini had gone to India for Ayurvedic treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis)
Reiki Story A)
I was in kottakal at Arya vaidya sala for my 21 days treatment for Rhuematoid Arthritis.Here all of us had a regime to follow. Evenings were our yoga
time ,there was big hall where who all wished to practise ,gather ed and a yoga teacher would guides us with breathing n aashans. We all were following
instructions n doing as asked ,i could see from corner of my eye that one of the lady in my row was not doing so and swinging before we could react to what
was happening to her she fainted I just jumped from place , reached her and started giving her reiki before others could run for water etc .she immediately
gained her conscious back and was normal soon , she was thankful and rest started asking as what was I doing (my favourite topic to talk about????) I started
explaining about reiki as how it works n what all we do . So we all landed up having reiki class then yoga class???????? After that incidents, almost every evening I
had little Reiki introduction talks in my room for people visiting me, wanting to know about Reiki!
Gratitude to universe n reiki for giving me more chance do seva and be of some help to others.
Reiki Story B)
Gratitude to the universe for sending more more opportunities to do seva
This time when i was in India for vacation on the flight to Hyderabad from Delhi.It was a 2hrs journey as I sat on my seat ,i noticed my co passenger a Punjabi
lady in her early 70s and i could sense that she was not comfortable so I offered her to use the arm rest between the two seats and be comfortable,she said
she is fine this way as she cannot lift her arm from shoulder and was under lot of pain due to the fall she had a month ago in canada and she was travelling to
to her daughter’s place for treatment . I offered her if it is fine with her to hold her shoulder for few minutes and she agreed as i started giving her reiki
tremendous energy started flowing from my hands n she kept on saying what are you doing i can feel your hands so warm i only smiled n told her that I will
let her know once I’m through .It took me good 15mins to finish and once i was over asked her how was she feeling then. She started lifting her arm inch by
inch and I could see her smile getting wider n wider . She was in real surprise as how this could happen as she was unable to do this before. And then whole
journey went on talking about reiki till we reached our destination . I promised her I’ll send her distance reiki every day and we parted our way with a smile
Thank you to Reiki because of which we are able to bring some smile and relief to the people in pain.
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An Example of Gratitude Reiki Seva
The date was Friday the 13th, 2017. In a normal scenario one would be wary of the date and not venture out at things, but not for me those beliefs. In the second half of December, I had set up my mind to express my gratitude to The Asian Weekly for having published my various write ups sharing news ref LHSG and Sindhi Welfare Society along with my poems under the name Sikiladi.
What better a way to express Gratitude than by giving a session of Hands on Healing to the team of TAW.
I expressed my desire which was welcomed by them and on a mutually decided date of Friday the 13th January at 10 am I was there at their office. After exchanging the pleasantries I commenced on my mission. I started off with Kajal Patel who is very well versed with Reiki and understood my desire pretty well. Gradually I moved on to other members of the team one at a time and the experience was very fulfilling.
To begin with none of the members were willing to share their problems or couldn’t think of any issues that needed attention but as i started off with giving them healing, I found myself asking them questions ref the areas that I felt needed attention. It is not surprising that what they hadn’t thought about but was picked up by me as a problem area was later confirmed by them to be genuine issues. Among those problems that I found hidden were grief, sadness, inability to express themselves, emotional blocks, back and shoulder pains, the feeling of being not loved etc.
I tried my best to help out and have decided to continue sending healing to this additional list of my requests for at least a month. Although all members of the team did not agree to receive the Reiki Healing I spent over 3 hours doing the healings as I wanted the satisfaction of the healer within me to give my best as my gratitude and a seva to begin the year 2017 and it coincided with the Hindu Festival of Lohri. Once again the Universe had planned it well for me to celebrate yet another festival the Reiki way.
I give my thanks to the management team of TAW who permitted me to conduct this session, my Guru Kamal Tolia who has instilled such attributes into me and my loving family who support all such seva breaks I take from my normal routine of work.
Here are some of the reactions I got:
- Kajal Patel : Thank you Monica Ji for a nice healing session. The energies were amazing.
- Nisha Hirani : The healing helped ease the pain mentioned to the healer. I feel energized.
- Ashish Patel : Felt a calm feeling and relaxed feeling with energies.
- Dhruv Shah : (it was his first experience of reiki – he felt back and forward movement inside him and I explained to him that it was Reiki energy moving inside him)I felt comfortable with reiki.
- Namrata Raghwani ( it was her first experience and didn’t know what to expect) I felt very calm and warmth.
- Hussein Jiwa : A warm sensation overcomes you. It was a pleasant experience. Thank You.
- Simon Muli : It was a relaxing moment for me in the midst of all the activities that otherwise keep me preoccupied
Love and Light
Monica Gokaldas
LHSG Founder Member.
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