As part of activities marking the official establishment of the West African Pranic Healing Foundation in The Gambia, a day’s free pranic healing session was held at its new office in Bijilo, Western Region .

The session aimed, among other things, to promote healthy living,to minimise the risk of accumulated fats and excess energy in the body and to promote the culture of peace, unity and understanding among people of diverse cultures and backgrounds.

The free pranic healing session, which started at 10:00am and ended at 7:00pm on August 30 brought together hundreds of participants from the government, private sector, the business community and individuals.

Mr Srikanth Jois, pranic healer and trainer, who doubles as the country representative of the West African Pranic Healing Foundation, in an interview with the Daily Observer at the end of the session, expressed happiness over the large turnout.

He said he had been a pranic healer for the past couple of years and has worked in many countries, especially in West Africa and other parts of the world. He spoke about the efficacy of pranic healing.

According to Mr Srikanth Jois, pranic healing is an ancient science of healing the whole physical body based on two laws or principles, the law of self recovery and life force.

“What the pranic healing essentially does is that it enhances the healing process of the body by increasing the life energy on the affected part of the body.  Every peron is surrounded by a luminous energy field called bio-plasmic body or energy body.

 This energy body keeps the physical body healthy and alive.  Therefore any disturbance in the energy body can manifest as an ailment,” he said. On what pranic healing can do for you as an individual Mr Jois said, it heals fever, headache, muscle pain, cough and cold, asthma, liver, kidney ailments, fracture, cancer to name a few.  

“It help you attain inner peace, physical and emotional balance, brings you awareness of the energy world. It could be used to solve family or marital differences and improve relationships at the office and increase performance at work,” he said.

Eva Wagher, a health practitioner who also spoke to the Daily Observer described pranic healing as very effective. According to her, she has been doing pranic healing for quite some time and it has proven to be effective.

For his part, Lamin Camara, pranic healer, trainer and assistant country representative of the West African Pranic Healing Foundation also reiterated comments made by previous speakers in describing the healing as cost effective.