What is Body of Light Healing ?
This is a comprehensive program in the Shamanic and Tantrik Healing Arts. The Practitioner Program combines the teachings and practices of the Shamanism of Polynesia, Native America, Cuba and Northern Europe, along with healing and oracular modalities of classical Tantrik Yoga of India and Tibet.
The pith Shamanic and Tantrik Yoga healing practices and teachings you will receive were studied, practiced and applied for 40 years by Tantracarya Dharma Bodhi. Through your study you will integrate the wisdom of these practices, tapping you into your own inner wisdom experienced as the co-emergent fusion of Universal Cycles of Energy with your Individual Cycle of Energy.
You may attend individual modules or enroll with the intention to complete the entire curriculum, thereby attaining certification as a fully trained, authorized and empowered Body of Light Healing Practitioner. Full training, authorization and empowerment are the three essential ingredients for becoming an authentic and capable healer. The Body of Light Healing Practitioner program stands out in this respect, when compared to the abundance of “healing workshops” available in the current marketplace.
Your inner development parallels your development as a healer. As your journey of becoming a healer deepens you will experience steady personal and spiritual development manifesting as ever-increasing Wisdom and Compassion. Also, each phase of your training expands your internal and external worlds, which causes successively greater connections and a reciprocal integration with all of life, both seen and unseen. In this way the healer also becomes the “healed”.
For the next 1-2 years, this program will be made available as individual retreats on specific healing modalities that you can put into use immediately after attending the retreat.
A long- term apprenticeship will be offered once there is a dedicated group of Body of Light Healing Practitioners wishing to be fully trained, authorized and empowered as a Body of Light Healer. This apprenticeship will require 3-5 years of in-depth training prior to graduation. The apprenticeship trainees will meet multiple times per year both online and in-person.
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Body of Light Healing
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Three Phases of Training
PHASE 1
Shaman Priest Training
PHASE 2
Subtle Inner Tantrik Healing Practices
PHASE 3
The Apprenticeship Cohort
PHASE 1 : Shaman Priest Training
(Open to the Public)
This phase of the program gives you a solid grounding in specific shamanic healing systems within a retreat format. Commitment to the apprenticeship program is NOT a pre-requisite to attend Phase One retreats. The Hawai’ian system of Lomi Ha’a Mauli Ola and the Scandanavian system of STAV are the central focus of this phase.
These two public access trainings are the pre-requisites needed to apply for the Apprenticeship Program. The advanced levels of these two healing systems will be taught during the apprenticeship. You will also learn the shamanic aspects that are still in use in Tantrik Yoga of India and Tibet.
Topics:
5 Elements of Healing: Macro & Micro, Elemental Songs & Connection
Sacred Pipe (Prayers of Purification, Gratitude, Connections, Offerings, & Healing)
Discovering your Spirit Song(s) from Lakota, Tsalagi (Cherokee), & Amazon River-Forest Nations.
Lomi Ha’a Mauli Ola – Traditional Hawai’ian Temple Bodywork
Marma Therapy from Tantrik Ayurveda
Tantrik Mantras & Prayers for Healing
Tantrik Puja for Healing
*Pre-requisite: basic proficiency in Tantrik Puja - Level I, which can be learned from an authorized TMY Puja Instructor.
Shamanic Fire Ceremony for Purification and Healing: offerings to displaced/offended spirits/elementals harmonizing the body/energy thus creating a healing context.
Shamanic level of diagnostics: Oracles, Dream Interpretation, Reading “Signs”
PHASE 2 :
Subtle Inner Tantrik Healing Practices
(Open to public to those who have completed the pre-requisites for each retreat)
In Phase Two, you will be taught how to develop learning and working relationships with powerful celestial beings whose sole reason for manifesting is to deliver healing power. You will learn to channel and possibly embody (become temporarily possessed to a degree) a healing deity in order to give healing to your patient. You’ll also be taught how to avoid the negative repercussions that can arise from healing work via displaced or aggravated entities that were causing the illnesses. Therefore, you will also learn the corrective procedures of what are termed “soul retrieval” and “exorcism”.
In Phase Two, you are directly engaging with “subtler” causes of illness (possibly spirits, ghosts, etc.) and healing via conscious allocation of divine force. Because of this, esoteric diagnostics become important in this phase including learning indigenous oracles and specific aspects of Tantrik Astrology.
Topics:
Creating the Healing Deity Relationship through nyasa, bhavana, mantra & puja practice.
Inner Level of Elemental Healing: Learning how to understand and use the 5 elements as subtle nature – lights/hue, sounds, & qualities, subtle disturbance of the elements arising as mental- emotional symptoms, deities of the elements, treatment via subtle Tantrik elemental therapies.
* Suggested pre-requisite: “Healing Mind & Emotions with the 5 Elements of Tantra” (non-mandatory)
Primal Ayurveda, Level II – diagnosis and treatments without physical medicines, basic pulse taking.
*Pre-requisite: “Primal Ayurveda Level I”
Inner Level Tantrik Deity Yoga Puja for healing wherein the apprentice transforms into the deity in order to perform the healing.
*Pre-requisite: “Tantrik Puja for Healing” (offered in Phase One of Body of Light Healing Practitioner program)
Advanced Lomi Ha’a Mauli Ola: Techniques of Journeying Space- Time for deepest level healing via karmic resolution.
*Pre- requisite: Phase One retreat – “Lomi Ha’a Mauli Ola.”
PHASE 3 : The Apprenticeship Cohort
(*Apprenticeship Program by application only)
Siddha Medicine & Vajra Healing
Students desiring to study Phase Three material must have trained in most of the modules offered in Levels One and Two. After a minimum of 2 years completing the Level One and Level Two curriculum, students can apply to join the Apprenticeship Cohort (average length of study is 3-5 years, though some may need more time, this is not for people who are in a hurry because this is not a university course where information is learned and spit back verbatim in order to graduate. A higher level of competency is required of apprentices). The applicant will be assessed for their suitability to join the Apprenticeship Cohort based on their competency in the material of Levels One & Two, etc.
Direct Healing teaches us how to place the patient, their lives, their illness, our healing efforts, our self...all the contributing factors coming to bear on an illness in the proper perspective. You’ll learn to “see” and operate in a new way that converts situational data into cycles of time and energy that are either dissonant or consonant, and how to interact with those cycles for the patient’s, and possibly your, benefit.
The Apprenticeship Cohort will meet regularly online and in person 3 – 4 times per year rotating between the USA, Europe and possibly Brasil. There is no standard period of time spent in the Apprenticeship Cohort. Rather, the apprentices receive the empowerment and authorization to practice as fully qualified Body of Light Healing Practitioners and are imbued with the power to pass on the teachings and practices when Dharma Bodhi, the main teacher of the program, assesses that they proficient in healing and are ready to take on the role of a Body of Light Healing Acarya.
The Sanskrit word Acarya, meaning “lineage holder”, is used as a formal title for the graduates of the Apprenticeship Program. The Body of Light Healing Acaryas will preserve the integrity of, and carry this tradition of spiritual healing into a future wherein the need for its services will be great. The Acaryas take the vow to serve all beings as the prime directive.
*Note: Once the Apprenticeship Cohort has been filled we will most likely be discontinuing the Phase One and Phase Two curriculum.
Topics: (non-comprehensive list)
Subtle Body Pulse Diagnosis
Exorcism
Sexual Healing
Modalities conferring Nondual Essence Transmission for Healing
Public Retreat Descriptions
Lomi Lomi - Level I
You will be learning the system of Lomi Ha'a Mauli Ola (Lomi of the Universal Breath of Healing). This is a very powerful form of physical and psycho-emotional healing from the Lomi lineage, as taught by Hawaiian Kahuna, Abraham Kawai’i. Dharma Bodhi was initiated as the head of the Lomi Lineages by Hono Ele Makua, The Grand Kahuna of all 7 Hawai’ian Islands in 1993.
This 12-day training is the foundation for the whole Body of Light Healing Program. You will leave this training with the healing modality of Lomi Lomi massage and a ritual format that you can put to use right away with patients at home. We will also explore other exercises supportive of the massage, such as dancing, breathwork, prayer, meditation, and Hawaiian chanting.
This is the authentic Lomi Lomi, in its original temple art format.
If you have the aptitude and desire, Lomi Lomi Levels 2 and 3 will be made available in later training phases.
This video shows Dharma Bodhi’s teacher, Hawaiian Kahuna, Abraham Kawai`i, describing the Kahuna principle of Family. It also includes a demonstration of his Temple Bodywork.
STAV
Stav is the ancient Norse system of spiritual-lifestyle cultivation, healing, mysticism, and warriorship. There are six distinct healing systems within Stav, each relating to a different “world”. According to Stav, nine “worlds" create our experience. Dharma Bodhi is one of the four adopted lineage inheritors from the Hafskjold lineage via his Stav master Ivar Hafskjold of Drammen, Norway.
Some of the things you will learn:
• Måt is a type of very deep massage/ bone-setting, similar to Shiatsu in some ways. It affects the deep joint level of the body, increasing circulation, and allowing a person to maintain superior mobility throughout life.
• Megan is a system of hands-on healing. Through a powerful breathing practice, you will supercharge your body with energy and then place your hands on the area of a person who needs healing, in order to transmit that energy.
• There will be teaching transmission given about the power of Healing Energy— from the Norse Gods and Goddesses; and from the breathing practice.
• You will receive a special animal ally, related to a God or Goddess.
• In-depth Rune training, including Rune casting for diagnosis and treatment; and to check prognosis.