In August, 2006, Rainbow Lotus Productions and the Tibetan Video Archive Project (now a part of the Global Diversity Film Project, both formerly projects of Perception International) teamed with Unknown Sages, a Canadian organization that facilitates Healing Touch volunteer service travel to South and Himalayan Asia, to co-sponsor a holistic health team’s journey to central Tibet to teach Healing Touch and offer treatments to those in need. TVAP project director Debra Denker, a Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor, traveled with three Healing Touch students to Lhasa, Tibet’s capital. There the team presented Healing Touch to the directors of the Mentsikhang---the Hospital of Traditional Tibetan Medicine---and the Tibetan Medical College, where Tibetan doctors study this ancient system.
Debra taught Healing Touch to Tibetan staff members of One H.E.A.R.T., a U.S.-based NGO that conducts outreach and training in safe birthing and maternal-child health care. She was assisted by Tekla Fulton, R.N., founder of Unknown Sages, and by Page Herring, a longtime midwife and fisherman from Alaska. Ugyen Tsewang, a Tibetan born in Sikkim who is studying Healing Touch, contributed his expertise as translator and facilitator. All the team members participated in photo and video documentation of the teaching as well as their travels throughout central Tibet, where they offered treatments to a variety of people ranging from Buddhist nuns to babies to men and women of all ages.
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