Certified Healer

I am absolutely exhausted!

I spent the past weekend in a rigorous Pranic Healing course. I am now a certified Level I Pranic Healer.

Pranic Healing is an ancient Eastern science and art of healing that utilizes prana, also known as Chi, Ki, Ruah, among others. I took the course because I thought it would be something interesting to take as I complete my pre-requisites for my nursing program. I figured that it would be an opportunity to experience a different way of doing things. I enjoy yoga and I was raised in a family that encouraged mysticism and new age ideas, (which I have spent much of my adult life being skeptical of), but I thought that pranic healing might bring an element of spirituality that I was lacking. I was right.

About a week before my class I receive an email from my instructor. "Namaste," it begins. She goes on to say that we need to bring a spray bottle of isopropyl alcohol and wear comfortable clothing (not silk, as it blocks energy). This should be interesting, I thought.

When I walked into class on Friday night, I wasn't sure what to expect. There were only 11 people in my class. The instructor's son was filling buckets with water and salt. What the heck? She starts out explaining her background and how she came across this technique. She explains what it is. She then says "don't think I'm a crazy lady. I'll give you a demonstration. Be open to it."

She then proceeds to demo pranic healing on one of my classmates with a headache.

It was one of the weirdest things I had ever seen.

I remained skeptical. We practiced scanning the aura. Looking for air and earth prana. Absorbing solar prana. Cleansing, sweeping, energizing. Sometimes I felt nothing. But, more often, I would feel or experience something that truly weirded me out.

Day 2 came along and we expaned upon our practice. We did all sorts of things that I can't even begin to explain to you.

My homework for day 2 was to practice on someone. I experimented on Joe. He made fun of me for taking the class, but later seemed to feel a little bit of what I was doing. I don't know it he was trying to humor me or what, but he definately reacted to things that he didn't even know I was doing.

Day 3 came along and we tied it all together.

Pranic Healing is interesting. Before I went into it, I wasn't sure what to expect. When I first started it, I thought it was a load of crap. Now? I'm thinking there might be a little something there. My instructor hosts free clinics in the Columbus area every Monday from 6:30-9 at the United Methodist Church on North Broadway. If you want more info, ask me. I'm looking forward to practicing my technique there in the near future. I may just even go for my Level II certificate. Who knows?