Festival of healing
Healing in the hills
Tired of being confined, stressed, and confused? Shivi Verma invites you to take a break and travel with Life Positive to Ramgarh for a week-long festival of healing in the Kumaon valley
Nature has the power to spread balm on our aching minds and hurting souls. In the lap of Mother Nature, we feel restored, healed, and rejuvenated. Knowing this, Life Positive has organised a week-long residential retreat for its readers in Ramgarh, a verdant hill station full of natural bounty, near Nainital in Uttarakhand.
The beauty of Ramgarh lies in its serenity, exquisiteness, and the unobstructed view of the snow-capped Himalayas. Also known as the fruit bowl of Kumaon for its dense orchards of apples, apricots, peaches, and pears, Ramgarh was one of the favourite places of poet Rabindranath Tagore, who penned some of his compositions in this hill town.
We have two, two-day workshops and one, one-day workshop to help our readers heal, learn, and grow while being soothed by the tender touch of loving nature in this beautiful hill station. The three workshops are Emotional Freedom Technique by Dr Mahalakshmi Rajgopal, Tarot Reading by Ma Gyan Suveera, and Family Constellation and Transgenerational Healing by Hitesh Vashishtha and Shubhangi Vashishtha.
Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT) with Dr Mahalakshami Rajgopal (June 10, 2021)
The human body is a mini-miracle in itself. It carries within itself, codes and points which have the power to restore wellness and health within the body. Emotional Freedom Technique is about tapping those points for achieving faster therapeutic results. EFT is a set of tapping exercises aimed to release stress and blockages from a person’s mind and body. The tappings are done on the body’s energy meridian points, mainly on the head and face, to restore the flow of energy in them. The technique is helpful for people suffering from anxiety, depression, chronic pain, stress, and weight loss issues. The results are quick, and the therapy, easy to learn.
Developed by Gary Craig, this is an easily mastered technique that can be performed virtually anywhere. This treatment sprang from the idea that the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system.
The ‘healee’ focusses on the issue being confronted by him and says a few positive affirmations while tapping on the main energy meridians of the body. The results are often spectacular and lead to the restoration of positive feelings and a sense of well-being. EFT has been found effective in treating war veterans and active military personnel suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). In 2013, researchers studied the impact of EFT tapping on veterans with PTSD against those receiving standard care. Within a month, participants receiving EFT coaching sessions had significantly reduced their psychological stress. In addition, more than half of the EFT test group no longer fit the criteria for PTSD.
About the facilitator
Facilitator Mahalakshmi Rajagopal, a holistic wellness professional, energy healer, and trainer with more than 25 years of experience in the mental health space, works intensely in the wellness spectrum. She has published papers in the field of counselling, interventions for children, adolescents, and caregivers in national and international journals. Her book I Am My Own Sunshine is based on her varied experiences with her clients. She has been passionately working to sensitise caregivers to curb child sexual abuse. She was awarded the Social Worker Award in 2017 by the Ambedkar Sports Foundation for her remarkable work in the field of social service. In 2018, she was ranked amongst the top ten counsellors in Delhi by SO Delhi, an online survey.
Mahalakshmi practices EFT extensively. She blends EFT in her counselling sessions, which gives beautiful results while treating trauma and difficult-to-express emotional turmoil. However, she doesn’t stick to any rigid healing forms and blends them according to the need. Her meditation practice has enabled her to develop clairvoyance which helps her guide her clients from a spiritual perspective.
Tarot Reading with Ma Gyan Suveera
(June 11 to June 12, 2021)
Tarot card readings are all a rage in modern times. People are drawn to them to find a deeper meaning to their challenges and life situations, and to seek possible solutions. But mostly, they are consulted to get a glimpse of one’s future. Different kinds of tarot decks fascinate people, and they want to learn the methods through which they are interpreted and analysed. Divination cards have the ability to heighten one’s intuitive powers, clairvoyance, extrasensory perception, and spiritual quotient.
To give a basic understanding of tarot cards and the meaning behind their symbols, Ma Gyan Suveera will be holding a two-day workshop for the readers of Life Positive. The following topics are being covered by her: The tarot tradition and the fundamental circuits of the cards; destiny vs free will; intuition, and psychic powers; the art of framing questions; elemental projections; tapping into the wisdom of each and every card; practical reading sessions; random-pick-verses spread; traditional spreads; creating spreads; kundali spread; karma spread; chakra spread; top-up readings; daily sadhana and energy work for effective and proficient readings.
About the facilitator
Maa Gyaan Suveera, a mystic Himalayan master, is a healer, a gifted yogini, a Vedic astrologer, a psychic reader, and a specialist in life force energy. With more than three and a half decades into her spiritual journey, she has transformed as a beacon of hope to countless people.
She lives in Gular, on the outskirts of Rishikesh. Kirti Hermitage, her ashram, is on the banks of the holy Ganga. People from all parts of the world come to learn different forms of healing, divination, and a string of Indian, Western, and Zen practices at her centre.
Family Constellation and Transgenerational Healing with Hitesh and Shubhangi Vashishtha (June 13 to June 14, 2021)
As humans, there are patterns and traumas that we unconsciously inherit from our ancestors. Family Constellation is an insightful way to become aware of all the family patterns that act as a barrier in our evolution. If there is a pattern of one or more dysfunctions in your family—such as painful relationships between spouses (yours, parents’, or grandparents’), early death of one or both the parents, curses running in the family, repetitive miscarriages and abortions, suicides or murders, severe illnesses, financial problems, adoption, addictions, traumatic deaths or fate of your loved ones, separation from close relations, feeling blocked and unable to move—it could be coming from blocked energy in your family tree. Through family constellation work, the hidden entanglements are corrected in a family tree. Like this, the natural flow of love from our previous generations starts to flow freely into us and the generations after us.
During the workshop, there will be five to seven constellations which will be picked intuitively by the facilitators, which will be followed by group processes, individual processes, and guided meditations and visualisations to heal generational patterns.
About the facilitators
Hitesh and Shubhangi are a seasoned and sought-after couple in the field of mind-body-energy work. They are trained in many alternative healing modalities like past life regression, inner child work, life between lives regression, family constellation, ancestral healing, and rebirthing breathwork, to name a few. With more than 100 workshops under their belt, they have worked together with more than 20,000 people, helping them find balance in their lives.
Hitesh, is the founder of Life Here and Now, a venture aimed to support and coach people through the vicissitudes of life. He is an award-winning coach and the author of the best-selling book Sundaram Speaks—Conversations to Awaken Your Soul’s Wisdom.
Shubhangi is the co-founder of Life Here and Now, a powerful intuitive expert, and co-presenter with Hitesh in workshops focussed on mind-body-energy healing. She is also the force behind Life Here and Now’s social initiatives—A Bowl of Love and Death Midwives.
Both of them are eternally grateful to their teachers, Dr Newton Kondaveti and Dr Lakshmi GV (Founder, Quantum Life University) who have fine-tuned them to live a life of devotion and friendship.