Hands-on, the centre began volunteering its services when it first started up in Darjeeling in India. Frans and Bronwen Stiene would travel out to the tea plantation villages and treat the locals, eventually teaching a group of 12 students to set up their own local Reiki clinic on weekends.
Today the centre works in Sydney with groups such Yoga in Daily Life to support children in Africa and India. Yoga in Daily Life raises money for a children's school in Rajasthan (at the Yoga in Daily Life ashram). Regularly students and teachers from the International House of Reiki offer free Reiki treatments to paying clients from the yoga centre and all money raised goes to the school. Due to the effort of groups like the International House of Reiki, Yoga in Daily Life has been able to acquire a bus, jumpers for the children and even a computer for the school. The numbers of children attending the school has risen drastically due to the quality services and education that are being provided.
Supporting Tsering The centre has also supported a Tibetan girl from Darjeeling, India with her living expenses while she studies Literature at Grand Valley State University in Michigan USA. The winner of the 2005 raffle to raise money for her is Robin Haines. Robin won over $900 AU of gifts including a traditional Tibetan thankgka (painting) of Medicine Buddha, two books - Tha Japanese Art of Reiki and The Reiki Sourcebook and a copy of the amazing computer game called Journey to Wild Divine. Tsering will be studying at Uni for four years until 2008.
Here is a photo of a very pleased Robin receiving his thangka, Journey to the Wild Divine game and books!
We are also donating the money earned through our online program enhancing The Three Diamonds to Tsering to help her out in her year at Oxford University.
Tsering is keeping us up to date with her experience of America and the UK (yes, she got a grant to go there too!) you can find out more about it in Tsering's Diary.
Here's an article we wrote a couple of years ago about our friendship with Tsering's family in Darjeeling, India. Tsering's Story
Today the centre works in Sydney with groups such Yoga in Daily Life to support children in Africa and India. Yoga in Daily Life raises money for a children's school in Rajasthan (at the Yoga in Daily Life ashram). Regularly students and teachers from the International House of Reiki offer free Reiki treatments to paying clients from the yoga centre and all money raised goes to the school. Due to the effort of groups like the International House of Reiki, Yoga in Daily Life has been able to acquire a bus, jumpers for the children and even a computer for the school. The numbers of children attending the school has risen drastically due to the quality services and education that are being provided.
