A Journey of Light and Colour

I have always had a strong connection with colour. I would often be attracted to a colour according to my mood and would wear that colour for a period of time, after which the need for it would disappear. I always assumed that it meant the inspiration that colour offered was complete for now. I watched my children, having been given the choice and space, being completely clear about colours of their clothes, and bedroom, even bedding. My first real connection with colour as a healing modality was during a session in which the practitioner used a pen light with a choice of 11 slim glass rods of different colours. This was applied to my skin on very precise points, similar to the points of acupuncture. During this session I found myself effortlessly uncovering and releasing the roots of an issue that I had been working on for years. To my amazement, this one session not only revealed the roots but also cleaned the path for me to move forwards in freedom and light. I was astounded and more than a little impressed. I had been working with healing therapies for many years. I had never met anything more profound. I wanted more of this kind of healing. But there was nobody practising this method in the UK. I started organising courses of Colour Light Therapy, inviting teachers from abroad, just so I could receive the treatments and the healing. My life has changed and healed beyond what I ever dreamed possible.

The technique originates from a well-known German Healer, Peter Mandel. With the addition of dialoguing, dream work and emotional release, it is a revolutionary system of colour healing. The coloured light contains powerful healing information that the cells of the body can easily absorb. This natural holistic therapy is based on the belief that physical symptoms are usually the body's way of telling us something. There is an inner longing to deal with life differently; some need for more consciousness about a life pattern. The light can clean psychological and physical issues on a cellular level, going behind the conscious mind and reaching much deeper than mere intellectual understanding. It can produce an effortless resolution of inner tension, which means Colour Light Therapy can be used both to address physical problems and as a tool for spiritual transformation. It can bring light on the path, releasing physical toxins, conditioned ideas and unresolved conflicts.

Here is the story of a client named Rosa. She was undergoing a series of one-hour sessions known as 'Pre-natal Therapy', which releases traumas from the time in the womb and birth. In the session she experienced herself being in her mothers womb. She was able to become aware of her mothers distress over being pregnant yet again, with a toddler and a young baby already there to care for. Rosa relived the sensation of feeling starved for nourishment, as her mother neglected caring for the life growing in her womb by not eating properly. Rosa could strongly relate to the feeling of starving for nourishment and how it had affected her life. She realised that she carried the imprint of never really allowing herself what she needs, physically and psychologically. She would fall into love relationships where basic nourishment was missing, finding herself fighting to be loved and wanted. As the sessions went on, she found her own fragile will to live and be born. Understanding her mothers struggle and her own lack of will to live in that situation, created the space for a deep and lasting healing. It may seem incredible that it is possible to relive the time in the womb, thus understanding the powerful effects this time has in shaping one's life as a whole. But what is even more incredible is to discover that one can erase the negative imprints and re-write the script in more positive terms.

A young woman came to the training. Even though she was radiantly beautiful, her life was being ruined by the fact that she suffered from extreme mood swings, which she was unable to control. In learning to give herself regular hormonal balancing treatments she was able to reach a state of joyous equilibrium, which helped to improve both her relationship and her working ability.

When I teach, I ask people to think of themselves as a house. Cleaning the basement would be having the 9 sessions of the Prenatal series, conception, womb time and birth. It is often good to start the healing here. Moving up the house, you can clean room by room, releasing negative imprints from mother & father, sexual problems, physical imbalances, ancestral programs, unresolved conflicts which may include past lives, and even bringing light into the future. Some of these treatments can also be given to children, helping with learning difficulties and giving children the space to release many things before they become hardened patterns. All the levels of training encompass a wide range of self-healing possibilities. It works. People are able to fulfil their potential and begin resonating in tune with their light essence. They are transformed and the 'colour' comes back into their lives. We have already had 4 successful years of training and are about to enter our 5th.

Charaka has been a therapist and teacher for over twenty years. She has given sessions and taught extensively in the area of Holistic Healing. She is a Reiki Master, and is also trained in Holistic Massage, Reflexology, Indian Head Massage, Ito Thermie and Tachyon. She has an Advanced teaching certificate in Colour Light Therapy, which she has been teaching since 2000. She is a mother of two children. Her students praise her teaching style as being very balanced, offering both professionalism and an enjoyable, loving ambience.