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The three-day international spiritual festival being organised by Life Positive promises to be a cornucopia of fun, healing, knowing, and growing, says Shivi Verma.

With winter on its way out and spring entering our life on cat’s paws, welcome the turn of season by queuing up for invigorating and empowering workshops in the verdant setting of Zorba the Buddha, at Mehrauli Road, Gurugram.

Zorba is an oasis of greenery, peacefulness, and connectedness with nature, in a city filled with the hustle and bustle of honking cars and mega malls. An idyllic place, designed keeping in mind a seeker’s need for serenity, silence, and communion with the self, Zorba will enchant you with its bucolic charms and rural aesthetics brought to life by the finesse of a city-bred artist’s strokes. Combine it with ponds, white ducks, dense, shady trees, cottages, and you have an experience of being in a seeker’s paradise. The Life Positive foundation is organising a three-day mega spiritual festival for the benefit of its readers in such an uplifting environment, to make the experience an unforgettable one. The dates are 16, 17, and 18 March 2018. So book your seats now.

The festival will begin with a keynote address by Sister BK Shivani, which will be followed by a series of fascinating workshops. The second day will conclude with soulful music and chanting under the open skies. The third day An open-for-all stall area will showcase and sell exciting new age products and services meant for enhancing your life.

March 16, 2018

Keynote address by Sister Shivani

Serene as ever, Sister BK Shivani has been a constant presence in the Delhi editions of the Life Positive annual expositions over the years. Serving as the global face of Prajapita Brahma Kumari Ishwariya Vishwa Vidyalaya, Sr. Shivani has travelled throughout India, UK, Asia Pacific, Africa, and the Middle East. She has been invited all across the globe to conduct lectures, workshops, and TV and radio shows on themes such as emotional intelligence, leadership skills, parenting relationships, self-realisation, and the practical technique of Raja Yoga Meditation.

All of 45, Sr. Shivani has become a beacon of profound, practical wisdom that seekers hanker after, since the past 20 years that she has been with this spiritual organisation. She joined the organisation at the age of 25, within a short span after her marriage. Sr. Shivani’s wisdom and penetrating clarity have supported and transformed millions of viewers through her popular TV programme, Awakening with the Brahma Kumaris.

Sr. Shivani holds a degree in Electrical Engineering as a Gold Medalist from Pune University. She has been bestowed with ASSOCHAM’s ‘Woman of the Decade’ award (2014) and is a goodwill ambassador of the World Psychiatry Association.

Vibrational healing by Shruti Nada Poddar

According to yogis, the world originated from sound. Aum is the seed sound from which all other sounds spring forth. As such, sound has a profound impact on the plant, animal, and human kingdom.

Harmonious sounds heal and rejuvenate, while discordant sounds can actually create sickness in people. Using this very premise, Shruti Nada Poddar has designed workshops that use seed sounds to help connect people to their source. Not only do people get deeply absorbed in listening to sounds and ragas, they also report healing at a very deep-rooted level. Shruti Poddar is an educationist, musician, teacher, and an exponent of traditional Indian knowledge systems and philosophy. She is also a psychologist and health consultant, and works for social empowerment and wellness of women, youth, and ethnic communities. She is the pioneer of the sound healing ecosystem called Nada Vibronics. Shruti founded Shruti Foundation in 2006, a charitable trust that has tirelessly worked towards transformative learning and educational paradigms. She is also the founder of SHE (Salute Her Endeavour) Worldwide, a global initiative by women of South Asia.

Time: 2:00 pm–5:30 pm

Understanding karmic cycles through past-life therapy by Dr. Trupti Jayin

Past-life therapy moves beyond the conscious and critical mind space and allows the meditator to enter the deeper dimensions of the mind. It encourages the person to access memories deeply ingrained in the eternal engrams to develop awareness, insight, and perceptiveness, leading to behavioural, emotional, and spiritual transformation. The essence of spirituality is to know the soul or the true Self. In the true state, our consciousness is pure, omniscient, full of vigour, and in infinite bliss. These inherent attributes of the soul are however not experienced by man because he is bound by karma particles or engrams which is called karma-bandhan. In this workshop, we will examine karmas with respect to the following:

Eight types of karma, sthiti or duration, anubhava or intensity, and pradesh or area

The effect of karma can manifest immediately, after a delay, or get aborted. This depends on further actions a person takes. During the day-long workshop, many regressions to access and release the karmic bondages will be done.

Facilitator Dr. Trupti Jayin is a clinical psychologist and occupational therapist from the reputed G.S.Medical College, Mumbai, and a certified past-life therapist/rebirthing expert who has been working for the last three decades in the field of mental health with children, adolescents, and adults. She is known for the famous TV show Raaz Pichhle Janam Ka. She is a trained Gestalt Therapist, NLP Trainer, and EMDR facilitator. She has practised innumerable psychotherapies including dream analysis, art therapy, and movement therapy.

Time: 2:00 pm–5:30 pm

Improving the quality of life with ayurveda by Dr. Partap Chauhan

The magic of ayurveda is manifold. It can treat diseases that are sometimes considered untreatable. By following ayurveda in our daily lives, we can stay disease-free and enjoy our lives.

The workshop will focus on how to imbibe ayurveda in our daily lives by using things that are easily found in every home. Participants will understand the role of diet and lifestyle choices on our health and how ayurveda is useful for treatment as well as disease-prevention. They will learn ayurvedic tips to improve immunity and strength.

Dr. Partap Chauhan, BAMS, is the pioneer of ayurvedic telemedicine. He started the world’s first ayurvedic website, jiva.com, in the year 1995 and was the first to give online consultations to people from all over the world.

Dr. Chauhan is the only ayurvedic doctor to have won the prestigious “World Summit Award” given by the United Nations Organisation, Geneva, for his TeleDoc project designed to help the rural population through the use of technology.

He is the founder of Jiva ayurveda, an ayurvedic company that offers online, telephonic, and personal consultation to patients across the world. Dr. Chauhan runs a popular ayurvedic health show on various television channels and more than 200 million people in India and abroad collectively watch his programme.

Attendees can avail of a special discount coupon for Jiva Products.

All the world’s a stage by Rashi Bunny

Welcome to a healing and transformation workshop using theatre, music, and arts. We are all born actors and dancers. We know how to tap to a beat and express without fear. And then we grow up. We become afraid of speaking and living our truth. It is time we changed this. This experiential workshop can reverse your life totally and irreversibly. It enables you to connect to yourself, release the past, and be courageous. It trains you to learn authentic communication, and balance your EQ, IQ, and SQ. You become empowered to create your own future. The participants unleash their creativity, imagination, leadership skills, and innovative thinking through fun activities, theatre games, storytelling, film snippets, and art meditation. Facilitator Rashi Bunny is an accomplished Indian theatre artist, as well as a serious and committed actor and an innovative director. A founder of Banjara Theatres (known for its innovative, meaningful, and uplifting plays since 2001) and director, Bombay Hatss (products and services to ‘Bring Experiences Alive’ since 2014), Rashi is a transformation facilitator, art counsellor, designer, healer, and a poet. In 2005, she was selected as one of the 50 icons by the Sahara Group and in 2013, Sangeet Natak Akademi, New Delhi, awarded her with the Ustad Bismillah Khan Yuva Puraskar for theatre direction. Her corporate workshops are aimed at creating the next generation of global corporate citizens who can beautifully merge the two seemingly disparate worlds of 'heart' and 'mind' into one. Her impressive list of clients includes IITs, IIM, Auro University, Krishnamurthy and Waldorf Steiner Schools, Google, PwC, Tata companies, Coca-Cola, Ernst and Young, Jindal Steel, Accenture, Crisil, Yudo Korea, and Cairn India.

Day 2

March 17, 2018

Shakti Pravaah by Maitreyi Sulata and Mitr Sut

‘Shakti Pravaah’ is a profound process given and blessed for the current time and age by Divine Friend Dadashreeji (founder, visionary of MaitriBodh Parivaar). ‘Shakti Pravaah’ is a divine intervention, an energy transfer, bringing about the much-needed transformation for the present state of humanity. This is an experiential process wherein one is guided initially through an interactive session, which is followed by guided meditation and then eventually, experiencing the much awaited and profound ‘Shakti Pravaah’ (Since ‘Shakti Pravaah’ is an intense and experiential session it becomes mandatory to register for this workshop beforehand). It is of utmost importance for an individual to be dedicated and focused to actually be able to experience the divine energy and grace for which the soul has been waiting. ‘Shakti Pravaah’ has been medically studied and scientifically validated with tools documenting ‘Brain Changes,’ which will also be revealed during the workshop.

Facilitator Maitreyi Sulata has spent 12 years in close association with Dadashreeji. Initiated at a young age, she has received divine insights, revelations, and life-transforming experiences from her Master. She regularly conducts transformational spiritual sessions, prayers, and meditation sessions, enabling people to re-establish their connection with their ‘inner being’ and rediscover the joy of life. In addition, Maitreyi Sulata has significant experience in design and delivery of programmes for the corporate sector. Dr. Santosh Gupta, MBBS, MD, consultant radiologist, Hinduja hospital, also known as Mitr Sut, has been a student of Vedanta for more than 13 years. His years of seeking culminated into meeting Dadashreeji in January 2013, which became a turning point in his life. Currently, he is studying the effects of meditation and ‘Divine energy transfer’ on the brain, using latest techniques of functional MRI, Brain Perfusion SPECT, and Neuropsychiatry.

Pyramid meditation by Dhara Bhatt

In this workshop participants will learn to harness the power of pyramids by following the special technique of pyramid meditation.

The session will include methods to harness your inner power for increased calmness, clarity, contentment, and eliminate stress, anxiety, and depression.

Participants will experience improved self-confidence and physical, mental, and emotional health. They will learn to expand their awareness, focus, memory, and concentration. Facilitator Prof. Dr. Dhara Bhatt is the co-founder of the revolutionary concepts of energy management in the body, house, and workspaces, such as ‘Live Vastu’, ‘Pyramid Vastu’, ‘Pyramid Yantra’ and ‘Pyramid Healing’ along with her father Jiten Bhatt. She heads the R&D at Jiten Wellness Research. She is the author of more than eight books and her book ‘Pyramid Yantra for Vastu’ has sold more than 100,000 copies. She is a doctor of homoeopathy and has degrees in yoga, naturopathy, and reiki. She travels all over the world to educate, create awareness, and conduct workshops.

Says Pooja Singh, an interior designer, “ I used to have a lot of panic attacks and my work got affected due to it. I have just started doing pyramid meditation and in just two weeks, I am feeling calmer and haven’t had a single panic attack (I usually used to have one in three–five days).

Numerology by Seema Midha

Every number has a divine origin and vibrates at its own cosmic frequency.

The numbers in your date of birth, of your house, vehicle, or mobile phone send out a strong message to the universe and even influence your life path. A lot about your personality can be deciphered by studying the numbers that you have attracted in your life. It is an exciting science which attracts people like a magnet. Here is your chance to learn the magic of numbers from none other than Seema Midha, who is popularly called the ‘Queen of Tarot Cards.’

Dr. Seema Midha is an internationally renowned tarot expert, ace numerologist, healer, author, spiritual teacher, and a life designer. A popular face on TV and a regular columnist in magazines and newspapers, Seema Midha is a consultant to Bollywood celebrities. She has won many awards such as Tarot Queen Award, Indian icon award, Rajiv Gandhi global excellence award, and women entrepreneurship award amongst many others.

Radiant health by Nandini Gulati

Habits are the key to sustained lifestyle change. Once we have incorporated daily habits that support our health, we do not have to try too hard or exert willpower to stay healthy. There are simple strategies for building habits that will support your health goals and lead you to radiant health. In this workshop, you will learn how to incorporate nutrition habits that will heal and support your health.

Takeaways from the workshop:

• Learn a simple yet powerful strategy to build healthy habits

• The three biggest changes you can make towards healthy nutrition

• Learn three healthy alternatives to unhealthy food, namely, milk, oil, and sugar.

Facilitator Nandini Gulati is a health coach, public speaker, and corporate trainer with a unique approach to healthy living. She integrates the natural wisdom of the body with the latest scientific findings about nutrition and lifestyle. Her personal struggle with weight and health issues took her on a remarkable journey of self-discovery and reconnection with her inner self. By making lifestyle changes, she reversed her hypertension, pre-diabetes, and effortlessly shed excess weight. Now, she loves to inspire people to adopt healthy habits by making them easy, tasty, and fun. She regularly writes about her insights and experiences on her blog and on Facebook. She is the co-author of a healthy cookbook released in 2015, Guilt-free Vegan Cookbook.

Colour therapy by Ajay Mishra

Colours do what acupuncture does with needles. Colours emit light that penetrates the skin and directly affects the acupoints, either energising the points that require more energy, or sedating the points that require less energy. We all know that colours affect our moods and vibrations. But that they can be used to facilitate healing is something not everyone is familiar with. In this groundbreaking workshop, participants will learn about the frequencies of colours and how to utilise them to heal diseases. Facilitator Ajay Mishra stumbled upon colour therapy after routine visits to doctors and hospitals failed to heal his mother of a severe stomach pain she had been suffering from for three years. He heard about the Acupressure Research, Training and Treatment Sansthan in Allahabad and was amazed by the recovery of his mother over there. Inspired, he delved more into it and became an exponent of the modality himself. The workshop will cover the following details:

Introduction to acupuncture and acupressure

Concept of colours and their effect

Acupuncture by colours

Demonstrations on the spot

Protocols for common diseases

Ajay Mishra has 20 years of experience in treating people through colour therapy. He treats more than 10,000 people a year. He conducts a live show on Pragya Channel called Call For Care. He also holds certificates in ayurveda, naturopathy, past life regression, reiki, and pranic healing. He is currently working on a book on the concept of colour numerology.

Relationships by Jacqueline Maria Longstaff (Rising in love—Moving from relationshit to relationship)

Relationships are the most baffling and challenging aspects of life. We enter them with the hope of getting support, contentment, and love, and end up getting hurt, disillusioned, or shortchanged. Yet there is no escaping them. We need them as much as we fear them. Relationships have this huge capacity to help us discover our best and worst aspects. This one-day event is for those who wish to be in conscious relationships on the way to awakening. It’s for those who want to move beyond the emotional dramas of falling in love, fear of losing, and projecting light and shadow onto the partner.

The themes include: integration of anima and animus (inner man and woman), rising in love, awareness of the unchanging one who witnesses all the dramas arising and passing in the realm of relationship, and learning how to be in relationships and at the same time realising your true potential without sabotaging your spiritual practice. Jacqueline, a Dutch by birth, has an ashram near the sacred hill Arunachala, India, and travels the world inspiring many through satsangs, meditation retreats, and other programmes.

Since her awakening, Jacqueline has been developing an old vision she had many years ago, a vision of the “Cosmic Airport”—a high vibrational energy field supporting birthing, awakening in life, and a conscious death process. She believes that only when one is deeply anchored in the heart can one reach the fifth dimension of spiritual elevation. She offers teachings, energy transmissions, and meditation to help you reach this state.

Day 3

March 18, 2018

Transgenerational healing by Anuradha Ramesh

We carry the load of not only our karmas but of our ancestors too.

Often difficult to heal, complicated karmic knots involving our forefathers can easily be resolved through transgenerational healing. Here the facilitator uses the group’s energy to call upon the spirits of their ancestors to resolve long pending issues of explanations and forgiveness. Events that took place decades or centuries ago and which affected the bloodline of an individual are resolved in one sitting, releasing both the person and his ancestors. Facilitator Anuradha Ramesh a.k.a. Usha is the founder of Pink Mist Retreat, a centre for personal consultation and self-development, learning, and healing, based in Hyderabad, India. She is also co-founder of Mischkat, a centre for healing-seminars in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. Anuradha has dedicated the last decade of her life to consciousness science, both as a personal consultant and as a teacher, trainer, and coach. She conducts workshops and personal consultation sessions in several countries across the globe including Australia, the United States of America, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Lebanon, and Switzerland. Usha considers Seth, the non-physical energy personality channelled by Jane Roberts as the single largest influence in her personal journey. It has moulded her into a highly motivated, dedicated light-being, who operates in the field of consciousness with ease.

Organic kitchen gardening by Shammi Nanda

Let’s accept that all of us have a little farmer hidden within us waiting and wanting to find expression. Sadly, the lack of land and time in urban spaces often causes this passion to die an early death. However, enthusiasts have found out ways to nurture this interest in cities.

This workshop will talk of the ‘why’ of organic city farming, and the joy of having access to natural foods in a city. It will focus on how to do it by sharing practical processes to start organic gardening. Participants will gain hands-on learning on how to grow food easily and create a kitchen garden at home. Facilitator Shammi Nanda will teach how to build a connection with nature in a spirit of oneness and do only the minimum while letting nature do its own job. Shammi Nanda has been working on sustainable living, healthy food, and organic farming for about ten years. He has a background in filmmaking and was working in Mumbai when he developed breathing issues. He began to explore ways to heal himself with natural and wholesome foods and dove deeply into learning how to grow food himself. His quest led him to travel to different organic farms where he learnt how to do farming with nature, with least intervention. His appreciation for the harmony in natural systems made him look for organic ways of engaging with fellow human beings. This led to his involvement in Nonviolent Communication(NVC) and Sociocracy, a collaborative organisation design system.

Vastu Shastra by Manoj Juyal

The kind of living space we occupy determines our mood and overall well-being. While open, sunlit, roomy, and balanced spaces affect our mood and relationships positively, allowing abundance and prosperity to flow in, architecture that is not in alignment with the elements of nature can have the opposite effect on human lives. Vastu, the ancient Indian science of harmonising the living spaces, has the power to radically transform a person’s life and fortunes. Facilitator Manoj Juyal will focus on the significance of vastu in modern architecture and share effective tips and remedies. Manoj is an erudite scholar of vastu and astrology, based in Delhi. After completing his post-graduation and diploma in French translation, he spent several years in the Himalayas learning the Vedas, astrology, mantra chikitsa, kundalini jagran, chakra sadhana, and aura reading. Upon his return, he started the edification of astrology and vastu and founded ‘Panchtatwa—The Law Of Creation’, an institute where he imparts all the gained knowledge to eager students.

He is also the visiting faculty member of several premiere institutes and universities.

Forgiveness by G. L. Sampoorna

Forgiveness heals old wounds and opens new chapters in life. It liberates an individual from old patterns and brings about peace and healing. The effects of forgiveness are far-reaching and long-lasting.The workshop gives you tools and methods to identify areas that will benefit from forgiveness work. It will integrate the events of your life so that you can be free to move forward. It leads you through simple, deep, and powerful exercises to draw out hidden emotions. You move through layers of awareness and integration, resulting in a state of expansion.

The workshop has emerged from three decades of direct work with clients. The methods used in the workshop are tried and tested.

Dr. G. L. Sampoorna is a pioneer of forgiveness work and research in India. A psychologist with over 30 years of experience, she is a therapist, coach, and trainer. Holding a PhD degree in psychology, she has fine-tuned the work on forgiveness to create rapid, effective, lasting healing.

Sampoorna is also a teacher-trainer of the Heal Your Life courses for India, authorised by Hay House. She also trains NLP master practitioners.

Her work is an amalgamation of conventional, contemporary, and innovative methodology, bringing together the best of the East and the West.

Based in Chennai, she travels all over the world sharing the work she is passionate about.

Disease is impossible by N. K. Sharma

It is a deep-rooted myth that the human body is destined to fall sick. This belief alone has caused people to lose health, happiness, and life prematurely.

In this workshop, N. K. Sharma will share the secret of good health, a sure-shot formula for maintaining health and ensuring longevity by applying certain eternal principles. The workshop will cover these topics: the human body is not designed to become sick; the law of definite cure; original human diet for 100 per cent health; the fallacies of calories, superfood, supplements, calcium, protein, and B12; death—not in the hands of God; long-life is our birthright; vigorous energy is not connected to food; food combination for perfect digestion; and the original root cause of diseases, yet unknown to medical science. Facilitators Dr. N. K. Sharma and his wife Dr. Savita Sharma are founders chairman of the world’s largest reiki organisation, Reiki Healing Foundation. They have trained and transformed millions of people worldwide through their enlightening and empowering workshops, leading them to abundance, a disease-free life, and self-realisation. They are the pioneers of the raw food movement in India and have treated more than 14,000 cancer cases in their 40 years of practice. Their revolutionary book Milk: A Silent Killer and Cereals: The Cause of Human Degeneration have stormed the nutritional world. They have received more than 165 national and international awards for their contribution and have never fallen sick as a family.