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 and Northern Europe, along with healing and oracular modalities of classical Tantrik Yoga of India and Tibet.

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”.

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.

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.

Body of Light Healing

Three Phases of Training

PROGRAM OVERVIEW

PHASE I

Shaman Priest Training

PHASE 2

Subtle Inner Tantrik Healing Practices

PHASE 3

The Apprenticeship Cohort

PHASE I

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, the Scandinavian system of STAV, and select Native North American methods of healing form the foundation of the healing skills learnt in this first phase of the Body of Light Healing program.

Participation in these three areas of foundational public access trainings listed above, are the pre-requisites for applying to the Apprenticeship Program. The advanced levels of Lomi Ha’a Mauli Ola and STAV healing systems will be taught during the apprenticeship along with the shamanic techniques of healing that are embedded within Indian and Tibetan Tantrik Yoga.

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
Stav- The ancient Norse system of spiritual-lifestyle cultivation, healing, mysticism, and warriorship.
Marma Therapy from Tantrik Ayurveda
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 II

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.

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.”
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.

PHASE III

The Apprenticeship Cohort

(*by application once pre-requisites have been completed)

"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 are 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 the healing of all beings as their prime directive, their main purpose in life.

*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 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.
Ljosgalder & Myrkgalder – learn to use the power of “Light” and “Dark” chanting in healing.
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.

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About the Teacher

Dharma Bodhi studied biochemistry and psychology at Trenton State University from 1980 – 1982, finishing in the top 1% of students in his class while working as a psychotherapy counsellor at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, America’s oldest psychiatric hospital. He then earned his clinical doctorate degree in Chiropractic Health Care and Plain Film Radiography (x-ray) in 1986. That same year he completed post-graduate studies in physical therapy, spinal bio-physics and Japanese acupuncture.

From 1987 – 1996, he owned a multi-disciplinary health clinic in Australia where he worked with the use of mind-body technologies from his Tantrik Yoga and Daoism training plus the Native American shamanism and STAV healing, creating unique healing protocols that were highly effective. During this period of time Dharma also apprenticed with a very talented healer from the native Hawai’ian Kahuna tradition and inherited this rich tradition of healing using the body’s energy and breath.

In 1997 Dharma graduated as an Acarya of Tantrik Yoga after 10 years of training with his Indian masters. During his training he studied the yoga healing method which combines Ayurveda and Tantrik Yoga. His guru was especially knowledgeable in the rare form of Ayurveda practiced by high level yogins called “Siddha Medicine”. This exposure stimulated Dharma to seek out formal training in Ayurveda with Dr. Vasant Lad.

After moving back to the USA in 1996 he traveled to New Mexico to enroll in Dr. Lad’s Ayurvedic Institute. There he completed the 2-year program for licensed health care practitioners. Dharma Bodhi enjoyed a rich learning relationship with Dr. Lad which led to him apprenticing with Dr. Lad in both his city and rural clinics in Pune, India. Dharma also taught Vedic and Tantrik philosophy as a part-time staff member of Dr. Lad’s Ayurvedic Institute in New Mexico during those years.

In 1999 a group of his students invited him to live in the San Francisco, California. A year later Dharma and these students opened Yoga Mandala where Dharma lectured and practiced Ayurvedic medicine for 7 years. During this period he lectured all across the USA on how to integrate yoga and Ayurveda for the best benefits to the practitioner. In December of 2007 he and his family moved to a meditation retreat center he founded in the northern mountains of Thailand.

Over the decades Dharma Bodhi has been an apprentice to many healers of native traditions. This includes training in the Amazon Jungle to become an Ayahuascero, with Kahunas in Hawai’i and with Native American medicine men and women in the USA. His great-grandmother was a Germanic shaman with powerful healing capabilities. Many of his masters have said that her spirit runs strong in Dharma’s veins.

He now lives in Maine, USA with his wife and kids and is developing a second home and teaching center in the mountains of northern Italy on the Suisse border.