22nd November – 6th December 2008
Join us for two weeks of healing and nurturing in the foothills of the Himalayas.
AND
Qualify in Usui Reiki Level 1, 2 or Master, or Karuna Reiki® Practitioner or Master
PLUS
Learn how to incorporate knowledge of chakras, sound and mantra
into your Reiki treatments.

The theme of this trip is healing, or wholing. As well as practising Reiki, we’ll be learning about some of the indigenous healing traditions of the Himalayas, including Ayurveda, Tibetan therapies, meditation, singing bowls, shamanism, herbal treatments and yoga and we’ll also have the chance to experience these therapies for ourselves!

Tuition will be available in Usui Reiki at level 1, 2 or Master, and also in Karuna Reiki® at Practitioner or Master level. Please note that if you wish to learn Karuna Reiki®, you need to have done your Usui Reiki Master’s degree a minimum of six months prior to the course in Nepal. There will be ample time for revising the knowledge and skills gained at your current level before progressing on to the next level. 

In addition to Reiki tuition at the level of your choice, we’ll be spending some time looking at different conceptions of the energy body and chakras and how to incorporate this knowledge into your Reiki treatments. We’ll also be learning how to use sound with Reiki in the form of Kotodama, toning and mantra, and how to enhance the scanning process using singing bowls and bells. Sound vibration has been used for millennia in healing as well as in esoteric spiritual practices, so although it’s not familiar to most Westerners, we’ll be following in a well-established tradition. 

In learning to facilitate the healing of others it is of central importance to be developing our own openness – an open mind and an open heart come from being engaged in our own healing process. This enables us to hold the space for others to heal. Therefore, an important part of our experience in Nepal will be doing healing on ourselves as well as receiving healing from others. Everyone collects “stuff” as they go through life and it is hoped that participants will find this trip provides a safe space plus whatever degree of support they might need for their self-healing process at this time.

LATEST NEWS: 
9/6/08: I’ve recently returned from a retreat in America with a Tibetan high Lama from the Yungdrung Bon tradition, Geshe Chongtul Rinpoche. He was teaching the first part of Tsi Dup Yang Bod, which was described as “authentic Tibetan Reiki”. As I understand it, this teaching has never been given to Westerners before, and indeed has not been taught outside the monastic setting before. As I discovered when I got there, this event had attracted a great deal of attention from the Reiki community in America, from the press and even from the Gakkai in Japan, but Rinpoche was true to the spiritual nature of the retreat and outsiders were not given access. Tsi Dup Yang Bod is a spiritual practice which enables the practitioner to facilitate the healing of self and others. There is a great deal of related textual material behind it and Rinpoche and his aides translated parts of the text into English especially for this retreat. The teaching stems from the 7th century CE but because of the Chinese takeover of Tibet and the fleeing of Tibetans across the Himalayas it has come very close to being lost. Chongtul Rinpoche is one of a very few lamas who hold the lineage for Tsi Dup Yang Bod and he has been asked to teach it in the West now to help safeguard its future. Even though we’ve only received the first part of the outer teachings so far, I was amazed when I recognised some of the elements I first learned in Usui Reiki classes in England! Only now we’ve been given access to more information than seems to be present in the Usui Reiki tradition. I have been granted permission to pass on some of this information to my Reiki students.


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