The Basics - Day 2

I gave a call to my friend and asked her to collect details for the next Pranic Healing workshop. I had kind of threatened her that if she does not do this for me, I will probably break my friendship with her. Today, whenever I am reminded of this incident, I feel somewhat embarrassed but definitely happy too. It was the call of destiny for me; and you know when you are destined to do something, nature in its own style makes a way for it. With the help of my friend, I joined the 2-days workshop on the basics of Pranic Healing.

Clouds Again

Like she had mentioned earlier, our group was also taken to the rooftop and shown the patches of cloud. No doubt the exercise, the question, and the answers were all similar, but I was experiencing it for myself, and that made me happy. When we returned to our class for the next exercise, the instructor said - "You all saw the pranas floating in the sky, outside your body; now it’s time to feel it inside your body. Those who are very sensitive will feel it in an instant and others may have to put in extra effort. Even if it takes you sometime to feel it, give it a try, but with faith and hope".

Feeling the Energy


He asked us to face each other, raise our hands to the chest level, and focus on the center of the palms. "Did you all feel anything?", he asked. Of a batch of 30- 40 students, only one woman said "Yes". On being asked about her experience, she replied "I felt a kind of pressure building between the center of my palms". The trainer smiled. He asked others who could not sense the pressure to rub the center of their palms with their thumb, and pat them to activate the chakras (the energy centers). We did as he instructed, and finally all of us could feel the pressure that he was talking about, a magnetic force. He said, "That’s energy. I'm glad all of you could sense it".

We got so busy exulting in this achievement of ours that we forgot to ask him anything else. The trainer too did not interrupt us for at least five to ten minutes. He let us enjoy that moment to make our journey easy and interesting. After that session, we took a short tea break and returned to delve deeper into the basics of Pranic Healing.

Basics of Pranic Healing - Day 1

The first time I heard about the basics of Pranic Healing was from one of my close friends. There was something special about the two words ‘Pranic’ and ‘Healing’ that got me interested in this alternative therapy. She asked me to join her for a two days workshop, scheduled to be held on the following day at a temple complex. Right at that moment, I could not enroll myself for the basic workshop, but curiosity and a sense of unusual fondness for those two words did not let me focus on my daily chores either.


The Clouds

Later, I decided to call up my friend and ask her about the basics of Pranic Healing. That was perhaps the beginning of my journey into the world of pranic healing and pranic healers (one who practices this art form of healing); a beginning of informal training. I learnt from her that pranic healing is an alternative medical therapy based entirely on the use of energy. She mentioned about the instructor who had come down from Chennai to conduct the workshop. He had taken the students to an open roof and asked them to focus on the patches of clouds visible in the sky. For a second, I thought it was a crazy thing to do. But, when she told me the purpose behind this exercise, I realized that I had missed out on the significance of the exercise..

The trainer asked all of them a question, "Tell me. What do you see up there?". Everyone said it felt like some small white dots were flying before their eyes. He smiled and said "Yes, those white dots or particles are energy." The higher the level of your energy, the denser the mass of those white particles would appear. Post that small exercise, the group was led back to the class. My friend told me how everyone was excited because it was for the first time that they had all experienced something remarkable like that. She was about to tell me the details regarding the next exercise they undertook, but just then the clock struck 12. We wished each other good night and went to sleep. Although that marked the end of informal training for me, I had by then decided to undergo formal training in the basics of Pranic Healing.