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SPRING 2019
healer
HARRY EDWARDS HARRY EDWARDS
the
healingsanctuary healingsanctuary
SPRING 2019 ISSUE 666
A GIFT FOR TELEPHONE Deadline for letters, articles and other contribu-
TOMORROW HEALING tions for the next issue: 23rd April 2019
your healing legacy
CONTENTS
For those unable to visit the
The Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary for Contact Healing, we The passing of a good 4
offer a telephone-based service friend of the sanctuary
Sanctuary is a beacon of which provides a more direct
hope to all, wherever they contact with a healer than our
normal Distant Healing service.
A message from the 6
may be.
Initially this service is available to trustees
Legacies help us to maintain our UK landlines only but we hope
contact and distant healing service to expand that to mobiles and Forthcoming healing 8
and ensure that healing remains international locations in due course. courses
accessible to all who are in need.
Healing over the telephone allows My journey 10
Thank you for considering leaving a direct connection between healer
a gift to the Harry Edwards Healing and recipient and a telephone Spring song 11
Sanctuary. For more information healing follows a similar sequence
please contact us: to the healing we provide to those
who visit the Sanctuary. There is
Through the brush, 12
EMAIL time for talking at the beginning through the pen
info@burrowslea.org.uk and relaxation before the healer
attunes to the healing energies and The Sanctuary shop 13
TELEPHONE commences the formal healing after
01483 202054 which there will usually be time for The journey to thirty paths 21
a little more talk before the session
ADDRESS ends. Naomi’s story 24
Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary,
Burrows Lea, Hook Lane, A telephone healing session costs The HEHS distant healing 26
£15 (a discount of £5 applies for
Shere, Guildford, process
Surrey. GU5 9QG members of Sanctuary Friends).
Telephone 01483 202054 to make An interview with Stephen 28
an appointment. Harris
REGISTERED CHARITY NO: 1098712
Retreats at the Sanctuary 30
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Hello! A belated welcome to the New
Year and to the 2019 Spring Edition of Join us now - become a friend!
In return for your £25 annual subscription you
The Healer. will receive a membership card, a twice yearly
newsletter, a £5 reduction in the charge for
a normal healing appointment in our healing
You will see by the signature at the bottom of this page that The rooms, a 10% reduction in the cost of items
Healer has got a guest editor for this issue. You will also note the purchased from our shop and, from time to time,
invitations to specific events at the sanctuary.
reason for this in the following article.
NAME
It is a daunting task to compile this magazine, even though I have
ADDRESS
done it in the past, but that was well over thirteen years ago.
However, this task has been made a great deal easier by the efforts
of a very talented graphic designer. Laura Newman was already EMAIL
involved in the production of the Healer, having helped with the
Christmas issue. She had done a great deal of the ground work, so Send to:
Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary, Burrows Lea,
all that I had to do, was cross the “T”s and dot the “I”s. Help was Hook Lane, Shere, Guildford, Surrey. GU5 9QG.
also at hand with the Sanctuary Shop, in the form of her mother,
Join online:
whose knowledge of the products assisted immensely. Thank you harryedwardshealingsanctuary.org.uk/friends
Judith. If you are a UK tax payer, please make your donation
under the Gift Aid scheme, which allows us to reclaim
the tax on your donation at no extra cost to you.
We trust that this edition will be to you, our valued readers,
I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of
satisfactory and enjoyable. It has been a team effort, involving every income tax and/or Capital Gains Tax for each
department of The Sanctuary, including the Trustees. We look to tax year (6 April to 5 April) that is at least equal to
the amount of tax that all the charities or Community
maintain this overall team effort as we continue to produce The Amateur Sports Clubs that I dontate to will reclaim
on my gifts for that tax year. I understand that other
Healer magazine. taxes such as VAT and Council Tax do not qualify. I
understand the charity will reclaim 25p of tax on every
£1 that I give on or after 6 April 2015.
We seek to keep you fully advised of the healing, and all the other
services that are offered here at Burrows Lea. I have enjoyed this SIGNED
excursion into print, and whoever follows, I wish them well. DATE
I enclose a cheque for £25 made payable
With best wishes from us all. to HEHS Ltd.
Vincent Hill Charge my credit / debit card.
Guest Editor CARD NO
EXPIRY DATE
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THE PASSING OF A
GOOD FRIEND OF
THE SANCTUARY
In the Christmas Healer magazine For many years Gary had
you will have seen the article undergone quite a few ailments,
by Martin Thomas, our chair but his humour and stoicism had
of Trustees, in which, amongst kept him going through all of these.
many things he alluded to the The worst was severe arthritis
return of Gary Waugh, as editor of which over a period of time, limited
that publication. The Healer has his movements and meant that looked as if they would crash into
been the voice of the Sanctuary he was often in pain but it never oblivion, hauled them back to
for many years, many of which limited his enthusiasm for life. life, so that the letters and emails
were under Gary’s stewardship. could continue to flow out to the
Here was a man who lived life many people who write to us.
It is with a great deal of sadness to the full. He had a vast array The Sanctuary owes him a great
that we have to report the passing of interests, including collecting debt, in respect of this, as indeed
of Gary in December, just days watches, steam and model trains, do all of the hundreds of people
before his 60th Birthday. He is antiquarian books, and an avid who write for Distant Healing, for
and will be much missed by all of involvement with computers. themselves, family, friends and
us here at the Sanctuary, as his He admitted to be ‘somewhat even pets.
involvement has stretched over of a geek’ when it came to the
22 years. His wife Rose and his computing world, but he certainly Few knew that Gary’s father
mother Lynn Farmer were by his knew his stuff. passed at forty years of age,
bedside in the intensive care unit leaving Gary to be brought up by
at the time of his transition into that In his time at the Sanctuary, Gary his mother Lynn, who worked on
spiritual heritage that belongs to managed the IT system and on the Harry Edwards reception for
us all. many occasions, when systems many years and first introduced
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Gary to the Sanctuary. They Gary’s life, his numerous jobs, the
had a close relationship which well-known people he met, and
lasted right up to his passing. on a personal note his love of Real
She should be rightly proud of Ale. Thank you for introducing me
his achievements throughout his to Old Tom! However, what does
career, as I have no doubt he was
of hers’.
shine through is the fact that he
was one of the good guys. bluebells
at the harry edwards healing sanctuary
In 2004 he married Rose, his No doubt that where he is now,
American sweetheart, and they set the computers will be running Bluebells is a friendly,
up home with Lynn in Cranleigh, a smoothly, the trains will be on time, sharing group for
anyone with cancer.
nearby village. You may think that with well-designed timetables,
this was a brave thing to do, for and his love for Rose will be We offer caring
I recall Harry Edwards’ saying to maintained. support, meditation
my wife and I, about an unrelated and visualisation,
subject, ‘two women in the same Cheerio for now Old Friend; see healing, complementary
kitchen is a disaster waiting to you ‘in the morning.’ therapies - and
laughter!
happen’; but in this case it worked
out! Do come and join us at
HARRY EDWARDS
The love that Rose and Gary had
healingsanctuary the Sanctuary on the
first and third Thursday
was unbending, Rose confided in SUPPORT THE morning of each month
me saying ‘I only had to look at and see for yourself.
SANCTUARY BY
him, as he was looking at me, and TEXTING A Contact Carolyn Low
I knew he loved me. No one has DONATION on 01483 203540
ever had that look!’ or email: carolyn.
Simply send HEHS22 £10 graeme@hotmail.co.uk
When Jean and I visited him in (or other amount as below) for more details.
hospital, to give him some healing to 70070 to make a
£10 donation.
help, Gary told us, and I quote,
‘Rose was the best thing that had Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary
Text HEHS22 £2 / £5 / £10 Burrows Lea, Hook Lane, Shere,
ever happened to me.’ to 70070 to donate now Guildford, Surrey, GU5 9QG
Tel: 01483 202054
In a brief article such as this it www.harryedwardshealingsanctuary.org.uk
is hard to impart the full story of Registered Charity No: 1098712
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A MESSAGE FROM
THE TRUSTEES
by Martin Thomas
Welcome back to ‘The Healer’. gathering the potential articles,
formatting them into the copy
It is a pleasure to once again be template and coordinating with the
part of creating a new edition of printers. On Sept 1st in the middle
the magazine, although we so do of all the hubbub, Gary sent us the
so this time, with a heavy heart. following note, which says it all:
As you can see from Vincent Hill’s
introduction, Gary Waugh has “I’ve loved this charity for 30 years
passed on, and his is quite a gap or more and have been aware of
to fill. the place since the age of five,
However long you may need my
We were in a tight spot in the services - even if it’s only long Gary for all your help and for
middle of 2018 when we started enough to get this issue out - this all you have contributed to the
work on the Autumn edition, as has allowed my time with the place Sanctuary over the many years you
at that time, we had no editor. to end on an up-note, for which I were here.
Although Gary had retired from am grateful.”
the Sanctuary earlier in the year, It was mentioned in previous
and was not in good health even Anyway, all went well, and we issues that we would appreciate
then, he agreed to come back and heaved a huge sigh of relief when your feedback, not just about the
organise the whole publication the Autumn edition was finally Healer but about broader issues at
process for us. It is quite a job mailed out to you. So thank you the Sanctuary. We would like the
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to say that it is now available links established with support
every Tuesday in the Sanctuary groups for the terminally ill. Taking
chapel - just mention it when our healing message out to the
booking the appointment. If it community is central to this work.
proves successful, we will look at We have even accepted invitations
extending it to an additional day. to be interviewed on the radio,
and the soundtracks of these will
As our day-to-day activities be posted to our website shortly.
become more stable, we have The Sanctuary is such a calm and
been able to pursue some of secluded place, that it would be all
the many ideas that have been too easy for us to become a little
suggested, including engaging with isolated!
other Healing related organisations.
Reciprocal visits have been Finally, trustees have been asked
organised between healers from what is happening regarding the
Stansted Hall and ourselves, and appointment of new manager to
the good relationships made will run the Sanctuary. The interim
help us to explore the possibility of solution has been for trustees to
combined events in the future. The become more involved in day to
Healing Trust are also starting to day activities, but we are aware
hold their regional meetings at the of the need to appoint a manager
Sanctuary again after a long break, on a permanent basis. We are
and along with this, links have discussing the various options we
been made with their leadership. have, mindful of the need to spend
In both cases, exploring areas of prudently on the one hand, yet
magazine to feel more interactive mutual interest in Healing related explore the many opportunities we
to you, so if you have an article or activities, can only lead to benefits see to raise our profile externally,
letter that you think others would for our patient clients. on the other. Anyway, we will let
be interested in reading, please you know as soon as we are able.
send it in to us. Meanwhile contacts are also being
made with local organisations, to Meanwhile with very best wishes,
I mentioned last time that we explain what the Sanctuary is all
would let you know when we are about. Bookings have been made Martin Thomas
re-introducing ‘donation only’ to give presentations at local WI On behalf of the HEHS trustees
Chair Healing. Well I’m pleased events, at local churches, and
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FORTHCOMING
HEALING COURSES
Foundation Course Harry Edwards Healer Training Course
A one-day course that provides an introduction to This is a two year part-taught, part self-study
spiritual healing, lightly touching on several aspects programme for those who wish to become
and giving an understanding of what is involved in certificated healers. Successful students will be
being a healer. There is a certificate of attendance at awarded the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary
the end of the day. Certificate in Spiritual Healing.
Course Date: Saturday 8th June 2019 Courses date: 13-14 April 2019
Time: 10am - 4.30pm This course is fully booked subject to Foundation attendees booking on the course
Cost: £100
Next Course Commencing: 5-6 October 2019
Book your two-year Healing Course within six Cost: £1300 (Deposit £225)
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This course is mandatory if you wish to proceed on to our
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SECURE YOUR PLACE TODAY
Email: college.secretary@burrowslea.org.uk
Telephone: 07516 974790
Find out more on our website:
www.harryedwardshealingcollege.com
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We can provide overnight accommodation FREE ENTRY!
for the following Healing Training courses,
SPRING FAIR
accommodating people on the Friday and
Saturday evenings.
2019
Saturday 27th April 2019
February - G13 M5 course on 16th and 17th
10:30am - 4:00pm
April - G15 M1 course on 13th and 14th
May - G13 M6 course on 18th and 19th
July - G14 M4 course on 13th and 14th Enjoy a Spring day in the beautiful
Invite to Scottish Country Dance! surroundings of Harry Edwards Healing
November - G14 S/D 16th and 17th Sanctuary and Burrows Lea Country House.
An opportunity to take time to browse the
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many visiting stalls.
January - Course on 18th and 19th
January - Course on 25th and 26th Jewellery - Candles - Gifts - Books -
Essential Oils - Skincare - Therapies
February - Course on 1st and 2nd
and many more...
March - Course on 21st and 22nd
April - Course on 4th and 5th Delicious refreshments available including light
September - Course on 12th and 13th lunches and homemade pastries.
Short taster sessions of healing will be
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available throughout the day.
January - course on 16th and 17th
Accommodation details
• Our charges will be £70 for sharing and £90
for single per night.
• Includes breakfast.
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MY JOURNEY
by daniel lewis
It all started with the dog. I asked him
if he felt any
Woody was a Cavalier King particular hot
Charles spaniel who needed some spots and
sort of treatment for a multitude of he said that
reasons known only to the owners my left knee
of this particular breed. One cap needed
Sunday I decided to be radical and attention. To this
see if healing at Harry Edwards’ day I am waiting
Sanctuary would have any effect for my left knee
at all. cap to give up turning up every Sunday morning
the ghost, but not yet I am pleased for a chat and a healing session.
Naturally I was sceptical but as the to say!
weeks passed I realised that I really In 2016 Woody, remember him?
enjoyed going up to the Sanctuary In 2013 I was seriously ill and it He started it all? Woody developed
every Sunday morning and that lasted about 4 months with a 6 canine anorexia, and was having
the regular healers were becoming month healing period. When I was to be drip fed liquid food through
friends. Woody enjoyed it as well up to going out briefly, there were a syringe in order to keep him
and was as good as gold. It was two things I wanted to do – go to going. On the third week of the
then suggested that I might benefit the pub, and go to the Sanctuary. disorder, I took him up as usual
from a healing session which I Interesting combination. Everyone to the Sanctuary and there was a
thought was highly unlikely as my at both venues were really kind to lady healer I had never met before.
feet are firmly rooted in traditional me and I came to the conclusion I did not tell her what was wrong
medicine. However I did allow my that although I could not totally with the dog, but asked her to
favourite healer to give it a go, and identify what the healing process do a healing session on him for
I have to say I felt much calmer was achieving, clearly it was very me. At the end of the half hour,
and more relaxed after the session. good for me, mentally. So, I kept she said to me that she had a
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his throat, and through the healing
had sought for its clearance. I
thought this was pretty amazing.
SPRING SONG
However, the next day, he started by lucy maud montgomery
to eat again and was restored to
health. Woody died aged 14 and
Hark, I hear a robin calling!
his ashes are buried in the wood
List, the wind is from the south!
to the side of the Sanctuary. That And the orchard-bloom is falling
way, I can say hello to him every Sweet as kisses on the mouth.
Sunday.
In the dreamy vale of beeches
I now have a one year old Cavalier Fair and faint is woven mist,
called Figaro, who really doesn’t and the river’s orient reaches
need any healing, but because Are the palest amethyst.
he is one year old, a very naughty
and boisterous one at that; I am in Every limpid brook is singing
need of the healing! I never realised Of the lure of April days;
how stressful a puppy can be – Every piney glen is ringing
never again! I have to say I do love With the maddest roundelays.
him though...
Come and let us seek together
Springtime lore of daffodils,
I am still working at trying to
Giving to the golden weather
understand how healing works.
Greeting on the sun-warm hills.
But I have to ask the question,
would I still be going up every Ours shall be the moonrise stealing
Sunday morning if I didn’t think it Through the birches ivory-white;
did? Ours shall be the mystic healing
Of the velvet-footed night.
So, however sceptical you are,
give healing a try - you might just Ours shall be the gypsy winding
be converted! Of the path with violets blue,
Ours at last the wizard finding
Of the land where dreams come true.
11THROUGH THE PEN,
THROUGH THE
BRUSH
by felicity medland
From an early age all I ever wanted to do was paint and write and
it was years later that I learned that these were to be my psychic
gifts.
My father wanted me to become involved in his healing work, and
though I accompanied him throughout the war and after to his
These words were given to Harry’s oldest
healing demonstrations I knew that my mediumship lay elsewhere. daughter Felicity just after he left us in 1976 and
The power to heal was never going to be mine. this tapestry is hanging in the Sanctuary Chapel.
My mediumship lay with the pen and the brush. I
remember the time when I told Dad that I could
feel the power motivating the brush and in one of
those magic moments that united us both Dad said
“Haven’t I always told you, if the power is there just
let it flow through” and for me it has.
Through the pen I have been used by those no
longer with us. I have a number of very powerful
and emotional World War 1 poems about a time and
circumstances I never knew.
Through the brush more wonderful things happened
and the evidence is there at Burrows Lea in the
Felicity’s painting hanging in the Dining Room dining room.
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books, cds and other gifts from the sanctuary
A range of CDs
£10.75 each Harry Edwards Meditation CD
Sleep Therapy, Pure Meditation, Music for Pets, Animal Healing Volume 1, £6.25
Animal Healing Volume 2, Sound Medicine Man, Touched by Angels, A step-by-step guide to meditation
Protected by Angels, Natural Anti-Stress, Pure Healing, Pure Calm, by Harry Edwards, which includes
Music for Healing, Journey to the Temple, Music for Relaxation, Tranquility. ‘My Philosophy of Life’.
Guide To The Understanding & Practice Of Harry Edwards by Ramus
Spiritual Healing Branch
£11.25 £10.25
Harry Edwards draws upon his vast healing The biography of the man who
experience and his unparalleled knowledge of rose from humble origins to
spirit science to explain how spiritual healing become the greatest healer of
is accomplished and how those who have modern times. It is told by a
that deep inner yearning to help the sick can healing colleague who knew
develop their own healing potential. him well.
HARDBACK HARDBACK
13The Healing Intelligence Life in Spirit
by Harry Edwards by Harry Edwards
£11.25 £11.25
How the healing processes This unique and absorbing
operates & how people can adventure is the story of
more closely co-operate with John and Mary - both of
the healing purpose. whom have completed their
PAPERBACK
time on earth.
HARDBACK
Spirit Healing
by Harry Edwards Life Around My Father
by Felicity Joan Medland
£10.25
£7.95
This book covers the panorama
of spiritual healing, answering all Felicity Medland is Harry
those inevitable questions which Edwards’ eldest daughter and
arise in the lay mind. this is her latest book about her
remarkable father.
HARDBACK
PAPERBACK
The Power of
Spiritual Healing
by Harry Edwards
£10.25
Harry Edwards
presents the subject The Way of Absent Healing
in plain terms by Harry Edwards
explaining its powers,
its limitations, and its £2.50
processes, and how A very helpful little booklet with
everyone in need can easy to follow explanations for
benefit from it. healers or students.
HARDBACK BOOKLET
14Felicity Medland Art Notelets 3 Burrows Lea Postcards
£2.50 £1.00
A set of 12 luxury notelets featuring Burrows Lea, Stained glass windows
Thirty Paths Collection the beautiful landscape paintings of in the Old Sanctuary & Portrait of
Felicity Medland, daughter of Harry Harry Edwards.
£6.50 each / £22.00 for all 4 Edwards.
Each book contains 30 basic, simple
visualisations, dedicated to all those Supplied with envelopes in an
who are continually seeking that still attractive presentation box.
small voice within, that which is.
BY SUSAN JOHNSON
Read our article on page 23
Burrows Lea Notelets
£2.00
A packet of 12 Notelets and
envelopes. Thinking of You Greetings Card
Set of Three Prayer Cards
3 x Red Rose, 3 x Delphinium, 3 x £1.25
£2.00 Rainbow over the Surrey Downs, Wording inside the card reads
Laminated prayer cards - just the right 3x Water feature in the rose garden of ‘Thinking of you’ accompanied by the
size for your wallet or handbag. Burrows Lea. Harry Edwards Healing Prayer.
15The Sanctuary Silver
Pendant
£35.00
Healing Moments Candle Harry Edwards Healing Bear
£6.50 £10.00
Created especially for the Stands 10.5 inches tall and comes with a blue bow
Sanctuary, this candle is 8” tall and a label which reads:
and scented with aromatherapy The Sanctuary Thimble
Blessed by our healers and sent to you filled with
oils. £1.50 loving prayers and thoughts.
Aromatherapy Inhalers
Mists and Aura £3.99
Sprays
Choose from Calm, Focus
£9.50 Breathe, Allergy Ease, Nausea
Choose from Relief or Protect.
Seasonal, Protect,
And So To Sleep,
Chakra Balance,
Ground and Relax.
16LIMITED STOCK LIMITED STOCK
Loving Angel
Crystal Guardian Angel £6.50
£5.00 Choose from Garnet, Amethyst,
Available in orange, green, purple, blue and pink. Aquamarine, Crystal, Light Amethyst,
Rose, Sapphire, Emerald, Blue
Zircon, Peridot and Topaz.
Fantasy Glass
Dragonfly
LIMITED STOCK Guardian Angel
£10.00 Pin
Hand blown, painted £4.50
in vibrant colours. 24
carat gold accents Choose from
and a Swarovski® Rose, Crystal,
drop. Peridot or Blue
Zircon.
Songbird Suncatcher
Glass Seahorse
£9.00 Rainbow Maker
£10.00
Songbird suncatcher with £9.00
Handmade and a blue and green crystal
painted with a Almond 28mm
cascade, finished with
Swarovski® crystal Crystal Blue AB
a Swarovski® Spectra
and 24 carat gold (Aurora Borealis).
38mm crystal. Supplied
enhancements. with an organza bag.
17Solrox Handheld Crystal Elderberry Syrup
Small - £7.95 £9.95
Medium - £9.95 Delicious anti-viral immune
Solrox Bath Crystals support.
Large - £11.95
£6.95 A potent and tasty
SolRox Ocean Spa Therapy
Restore the natural mineral salt balance and soothe traditional blend of
Crystals are crafted for
away aches and pains, moisturise skin and regenerate Elderberries infused with
use on topical areas of the
the body, balance your chemistry and repair wear and cloves, cinnamon, ginger
body; joint & muscle pain,
tear. Available as fine crystals or chunks. and lemon.
damage to cell tissue & age
related conditions. Dilute to taste as a hot
cup of tea or drizzle over
yoghurt or porridge.
100% Beeswax Candle
Solrox Ocean Spa Lamp
Small £7.00 / Large £12.50
£34.95
Deep rich honey like scent. Wax Melts
SolRox™ Ocean Spa
Olibanum Candle Therapy Crystal Lamp is £4.99
designed for the heating Three melts per pack.
Small £11.50 / Large £20.50
your hands and hand-held
100% natural eco soya wax, essential oils of Choose from lavender or
SolRox™ Crystal.
Frankincense, Benzoin, Cedarwood. lemongrass.
18Marigold and Lavender Healing
Moisturiser
£15.00
This traditional remedy may help
support the healing of minor burns
and wounds and itchy patches.
Contains: Home made base cream, Marigold
& Lavender infused oil, Marigold, Lavender &
Carrot seed essential oils plus Vitamin E.
Frankincense and Rose
Moisturiser
£15.00
Reduce fine wrinkles with the best
North (Winter / Roots) Seasonal Tea
quality botanical scents making this
cream a moisturiser per excellence. Strengthen yourself with a tea created from the bark
Contains: Home made base cream infused and berries of medicinal plants.
with the aromatic water of Rosa damascena
and an essential oil blend including West (Autumn / Bark and Berries) Seasonal Tea
Frankincense, Rose Geranium, Palmarosa &
Vitamin E. Immune system support when it’s needed most.
£9.95 each
Walk in Woods Epsom Bath Salts
Refreshing, decongesting & invigorating.
Contains: Pine, Fir, Lavender, Eucalyptus & Lime.
Moon Epsom Bath Salts
A calming and restorative feminine blend.
Contains: Rose Geranium, Palmarosa, Benzoin, Ylang Ylang & dried rose petals.
Holy Moly Epsom Salts
For meditation or general bliss.
Essential oils: Myrrh, Benzoin, Frankincense & a touch of gold powder.
250g - £6.50 each / 500g - £12.50 each
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20THE JOURNEY TO
THIRTY PATHS
by susan johnson
took three full years and was Over the years I had collected
very intense. There were no such a selection of relaxations and
things as modules, or ‘learn to visualisations, but I could never
teach in ten easy weeks’. This was find what I was looking for.
a comprehensive course which This being a selection of short
I started going to a Yoga class contained, Philosophy, Asanas, visualisations that were good for
in the early eighties as I had Pranayama and Yoga Nidra (or a class situation. It was then I
two small boys and needed the yogic sleep as it is commonly decided to write my own, which
relaxation. I soon became hooked known). I did, first in longhand and then
on Yoga. This was Hatha Yoga typing on an old typewriter.
and I had really great traditional To this day I teach in exactly that
teachers, trained by The British same structure, except I omit the Once you start to write and get
Wheel of Yoga. philosophy and replace it with into a state of visualisation, the
more meditation and mindfulness. words seem to flow and the
Hatha involves most yoga I became a qualified Yoga teacher imagination takes over. I found
styles; it includes the practice in the early nineties and I soon I could conjure up stories quite
of Asanas (yoga positions) and found out that my students looked quickly if given a title, some of my
pranayama (breathing exercises forward to the Yoga Nidra and the meditations have not been thought
and techniques). This prepares the relaxation more than the Asanas. up entirely by me, but have been
mind and body for meditation and developed and progressed from
deeper spiritual practices. The majority of my students are other’s ideas and then adapted
teachers, and sometimes arrive in and tweaked to suit the style I
In those days the Diploma course very stressed state. wanted to create.
21Initially they were all tried and qualified Yoga teacher.
tested on my students for timing
and suitability. A reprint happened straight away,
then an award from The Arts
In 2002 I found a local designer/ Council bought me a computer,
printer, who had an interest in Yoga printer and desk, helping me with
and who was willing to take on the creation of a website and a
my typed manuscript and turn it valued logo. These items and
into a book. We worked together, advice helped to market and sell
something rare today. I gathered my books.
most of the photographs myself
and self-published in September The title, Thirty Paths came from
2002, ordering 500 copies. the idea of the thirty weeks in
the academic year, thus the
To sell them I wrote to Yoga book lasted the teacher for that
teachers throughout the country, whole year. The visualisations
in those days we had a directory were based on colours, chakras,
of Yoga teachers listed in the space, the season’s, nature, the
back of the Spectrum Magazine, sea and elements, short breathing
a delivered quarterly publication. techniques and other influences.
It had all the workshops, classes Then the second book, Thirty
and addresses of teachers, so Paths to Peace used the the elderly. One more publication,
that gave me access to an instant remainder of the visualisations Thirty Paths to Meditate was to
market. from the first book. This publication be my last book, in what has now
was followed by a CD of ten become a companion set of four.
By that December every copy visualisations, which you can listen
had gone! to at home and take yourself on a My vocation as a teacher and
journey, but also connect to, in the writer, took me to France to work,
It was then I realised that class situation. setting up Yoga and therapy
Yoga teachers needed ready sessions within the Eurocamp
written, relaxations, short Two more books came on stream holiday structure; this ran for two
pranayama techniques and Thirty Paths to Silence containing seasons. I also travelled across to
timed visualisations; written in a some visualisations for children, Ireland several times, where the
style that was linked and timed requested by practitioners who teachers and students there just
to a traditional Yoga class, by a worked with special needs and love the books.
22I am now supplying the Harry recognise the boatman as your
Edwards Healing Sanctuary and friend, he is slowly drawing the
The Arthur Findlay College, which oars together as he comes to the
comes as no surprise to me, as lakeshore, he invites you inside the
my mother was a spiritualist. I have boat, you sit down and admire the
always believed in The Angel at my view, the fine day, the crystal clear
shoulder. I am continually grateful water, not a ripple in sight, only the
for my abundance and it never sound of the oars as they skim the
ceases to amaze me how the water.
universe works.
The boat is steady and drifts along.
I have just finished my first All you are aware of is the blue
children’s book The Monkey in of the sky, the blue lake, and the
the Kilt, who finds that sitting sound of the oars skimming the
still and listening to the still small water. Eventually you come to a
voice, takes him on journeys to small island; someone is waiting to
exotic places. I do hope it will do greet you...
just as well as my other books. I
also have another ten Christmas I trust you will enjoy this extract,
visualisations already written, so and indeed the rest of the book!
who knows, maybe a Christmas
Despite being over fifteen years *See the Sanctuary Shop page to order your
book is in the pipeline. My classes copies of Susan Johnson’s books.
old, The Thirty Paths series still remain full as ever, we are all
remain popular. So if you are ageing together, my teachers are
working as a practitioner in the all retired and so I adapt my class
fields of relaxation, meditation and accordingly!
mindfulness, these books could
help you in your class. Massage As a taster, here is a sample of The
and Reiki practitioners in particular, Colour Blue, from Thirty Paths to
like to read a visualisation at the Stillness.
end of a treatment.
You find yourself waiting beside
This has been a labour of love, but a lakeside, it is a warm day, the
at the same time you have to be lake is still and placid, and a small
able to sell and market the books. boat is coming towards you, you
23NAOMI’S STORY
by sue and john deane
Our involvement with the Harry a 10-day old baby in the hope of
Edwards Healing Sanctuary getting healing. We did not know
all began in December 1984 where the Sanctuary was but were
when, following the birth of our redirected from Shere post office.
daughter, we were informed that One of the secretaries arranged
she had a serious hole in her for us to enter the building
heart known as a VSD. We were through the side door and sit in
suddenly in a very deep dark the conservatory which is still very
place. She was only a few days much as it was. The pervading pneumonia, in addition to her
old and a very dear friend gave smell of lilies emanated from the heart problems. Miraculously she
us a copy of the Daily Star, dated corridor next to the Sanctuary survived this bearing in mind that
12 November 1984, which was Chapel and will live with us forever. her lungs were full of fluid. She
published just 8 days before our We were surprised to meet both struggled to breathe and would
daughter was born. In it was a Ray and Joan who took us into the sweat profusely round her head
double page spread about two chapel. As Ray placed his hands and neck. She was unable to
of the most wonderful people on her frail and small body she feed normally and had to be fed
we will ever meet. Ray and Joan flinched as though she had felt by 1mm syringes of milk. The
Branch who were the successors an energy touch her. Her brother cardiologist said to us one day ‘I
to Harry Edwards at Burrows Lea. who was 5 years old at the time do not know what your daughter
was naturally concerned, but was is up to but tell her to keep it up.’
As Spiritualists we were inspired reassured by Ray. From that day We of course knew distant healing
to seek their help and aid the we knew spirit were with us. was being dispensed by Ray
wonderful medical work being Branch from the Sanctuary. We
done by Hammersmith Hospital. Naomi was admitted to were very concerned at the small
Thus, we turned up on a wet Hammersmith hospital when she amount of nourishment Naomi
Wednesday at Burrows Lea with was 5 weeks old, due to bronchial was getting and Sue phoned Ray
24to express our concerns, he went say a word as we would disturb gladly volunteered as chaperones.
to the Sanctuary and carried out her. We believe Spirit through Ray From that time, we progressed
an intercession. On arrival at the Branch supported her through this to being fully badged healers and
Hospital the wonderful Nurse long period of time to ensure that have served at Burrows Lea two
assigned to care for Naomi in the work of the NHS could take Saturdays per month ever since.
our absence was in shock and their part to ensure this little girl
disbelief because Naomi had just would live. We are delighted to tell We know that without the healing
downed a full 8 ounce bottle of you Naomi is now aged 34 and intercessions from Ray and Joan
milk. It never happened before was signed off from the Hospital as our daughters’ story might be
or since but, on that day, Spiritual totally healed at the age of 21. very different. Ray Branch was a
Healing intervened. very special man, and like Harry
During the first 9 months of Edwards, we may not see his like
When Naomi was 9-months-old Naomi’s life she was admitted to again in our lifetime.
the cardiologist decided it was hospital with various problems,
time to operate and she selected a and each time Sue rang Ray
surgeon to whom we are eternally Branch for help. He told her
grateful. Dr Halliday Smith, the that he had left an instruction
Cardiologist, believed Naomi would anytime she rang she must be put
not last another winter so the through to him personally. Ray
operation date was set. We were was an enormous help to us all
aware that Naomi’s heart was no as a family, especially Naomi. The Setting the standard for healing
bigger than a walnut and the hole number of times Sue cried down UK Healers was established in 1999 by healing
big enough to put an adult little the phone to him, and every time organisations that shared an interest in achieving
common standards for the protection of the public,
finger through. We phoned the without exception, he showed maintaining high standards of healing practice.
Sanctuary and Ray said he would such kindness understanding UK Healers is the largest voluntary professional
standards setting accrediting body for the training
be in the Sanctuary throughout and strength. We will always be and practice of spiritual healing organisations in
the UK.
the operation sending distant thankful to this wonderful man.
UK Healers has established standards for:
healing. The cardiologist was on Membership of healer organisations
Training of spiritual healers
hand from 7.00am until 11.00pm We had cause to visit Burrows Code of conduct
Compliance with the law
that day and the Surgeon was Lea in 2006 and met Ray and Assessment and accreditation of healing organisations
Complaints and disciplinary procedures
primed. We were In the Hospital Joan Branch’s colleagues Vincent
Chapel praying for all we were and Jean Hill who we have been
www.ukhealers.info
worth. In the late afternoon, we friends with ever since. The debt Lupton House, Churston Ferrers,
Brixham, Devon TQ5 0LD
were summoned to visit Naomi in we owed to the Sanctuary could Tel: 07743 988 962
intensive care and warned not to not be paid with money so we
25THE HEHS DISTANT
HEALING PROCESS
by vincent hill
Over the seventy two years of transferred as a paper copy
the Sanctuary’s existence Distant (either directly from speaking
Healing, formerly Absent Healing, to client or from answerphone
has been a major part of the message)
healing endeavour.
Direct telephone healing is also
There are six ways in which this available by appointment.
form of healing is carried out, but
primarily after initial contact is All written requests are read by by the healers who then sign them
made by our patients or clients, healers, who at that time seek for off. The replies are then sent to the
the process is the same. healing help to be with that person, clients via email, text or Royal Mail.
and all those for whom they may These individual letters are crafted
Contact can be made by any one be seeking help. Notes are made to bring as much comfort, solace
of the following ways: and these letters and forms, and and reassurance as possible,
are then taken to the typists, so that we may see changes for
1. Letter who scan the individuals healing the better being brought about,
2. Email request into their own confidential although unfortunately we are
3. Website file. This acts as a record of unable to guarantee this. A copy
4. Distant Healing internal forms. progress and a point of reference of the reply is then added to
(entered in a daybook in the for further correspondence. All the individuals computer file to
Chapel) communications are covered by complete the process.
5. Distant Healing forms external the Data Protection Act.
forms (found in HEHS It may surprise people who are
literature, take away, filled in The typists then produce a reply not healers, but are involved in
and returned) from the noted correspondence, this whole letter writing process,
6. Telephone. Messages which in turn are read and checked that they are as much a part of the
26healing endeavour, as the healers Here at the Sanctuary we are often spiritually supported.
themselves. As they put the words informed that, to paraphrase, ‘as Allied to this, The Healing
into the email, text or letter their soon as I finished writing, I felt a Minute takes place at 10am and
compassion for the client also sense of calm and tranquillity’ or 10pm every day. The morning
‘filters’ into the finished text adding ‘there was an easing of the pain’. observance of this is carried out
more positive thoughts, which can in the Chapel, by our volunteer
only be a good thing. Distant Healing is most healers. People worldwide join in
definitely not a poor relation with this, as they do with the night
The composing and writing of to Contact Healing. The many time observance. Healers are not
correspondence to the Sanctuary, tens of thousands, written present for this, but many link
by the healing ‘patients, is also a correspondence that have flowed up in their own homes with the
beneficial process. This sounds out from the Sanctuary, during its Sanctuary and all those, who tune
like an obvious statement, as the 70+ year history give testament to in at that time.
written word conveys the patient’s this, whether the healing request
needs, but the actual act of putting is for the writer, a loved one or a The history of the origins of the
the symptoms, whether physical or friend. Thanks to technology a healing minute are available on our
mental, helps that person to relieve reply can be on a client’s screen website, from an article written by
their anxieties and concerns. As in an instant, which can only be Claire Dixon which was published
the words spill out onto the paper a good thing, as it shows that in the 2013 December copy of the
or screen, it can act like a pressure the healing request has been Healer. It is hoped that in the near
valve on a steam cooker, releasing implemented, and that whoever future a hard copy of this will be
those pent up feelings, which the request was for, that person available from the Sanctuary.
cause undue stress. is not alone and is now being
How to help promote the work of the Sanctuary
We are always looking for ways to let people know about the
Sanctuary and the work we do. Although this can be found on
our website, we know that not everybody has a computer or smart
phone and so we have produced a leaflet giving information about
contact, distant, telephone and animal healing as well as providing all
the contact details needed. If you would like some of these leaflets
to give out to any friends or family who you feel may benefit from out
help, please let us know and we will send you some.
27AN INTERVIEW WITH
STEPHEN HARRIS
head gardener at burrows lea
Continuing our series on the people who staff the Sanctuary.
Born and raised in Guildford, It was his father-in-law, John
Stephen’s senior education was Philips, a volunteer healer at
at Kings College School in the the Sanctuary, who brought his
Surrey town. During his teens and attention to a part-time vacancy
early twenties, he had a variety of as a gardener at Burrows Lea. gardening mentor Monty Don’s TV
jobs, ranging from employment Stephen successfully applied for programmes and books, assists
with The Book People, being a this and has never looked back. him in his work. “I would have to
window cleaner, and working for a say that Monty Don inspires me,
well-known shoe retailer. The latter The position led to a full-time as he’s really easy to listen to, and
being his least favourite job, which post and under the tuition of Paul knows so much!”.
made him realise that he was not Smith, the then senior gardener,
cut out for a ‘desk job’, much Stephen learned many aspects of Having been in the job for five
preferring the outdoors. “I love the trade, from raising seedlings, years, and now attained the Head
being outside” he says, “I am not planting out, hedge trimming and Gardener’s position, Stephen is
an office person”. landscaping. now at one of the busiest times of
the gardening year, Spring. This
Horticulture and gardening were His many gardening books and his is also Stephen’s favourite time,
not at the top of Stephen’s membership of the RHS at Wisley as all the Spring flowers emerge
employment list, despite mowing help to give Stephen insight and from their Winter hibernation,
his Grandparents lawn, as well as ideas, which he can implement including his favourite the Camellia,
working for a cousin who had a at Burrows Lea; this along with “although it does not flower long”,
landscaping business. inspiration he takes from his he states.
28Stephen also likes the Autumn, spend happy times, with Stephen
even though there are a and Hazel, in the gardens and DO YOU
tremendous amount of leaves that grounds of the Sanctuary, as has
need clearing at Burrows Lea, Stephen, tending the plants and
SHOP ON THE
which he does enjoy, surprisingly! enjoying every part of his job. INTERNET?
What would be the task he enjoys Possible exceptions? “Rabbits! If so, you could help The
the most? “I like cutting all the Every plant has to be protected or Sanctuary raise funds!
hedges, it’s my favourite thing to they end up on the wildlife menu!”
do; I like the way that it looks, like
a good, tidy haircut.” He continues, Stephen was asked, at this point Shop online and raise money!
“Keeping the grounds tidy and in your life, what would be the one It’s the easiest way to help raise money for the
with the lovely flowers, is very thing you would like most? He Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary. If you already
shop online with retailers such as Amazon,
rewarding, and the encouraging replied, “To be a good Dad”, what Argos, iTunes, eBay or over 2,000 other well
known stores, then we need you to sign up for
words from the visitors gives you a an admirable sentiment! free to raise money while you shop.
sense of pride in what you do.”
So how does it work?
Stephen enjoys visiting zoos,
You shop directly with the retailer as you would
The job has altered over his seeing the bears and tigers in normally but you sign up to:
five-year tenure, but would he particular, but his special favourite
www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/hehs
recommend gardening as a is the Jaguar. Having memberships
for free and use the links on the easyfundraising
career? “Yes! You have to be at several zoos, he and Hazel visit site to take you to the retailer, then a percentage
reasonably hardy as the weather quite a few, Marwell being the of whatever you spend comes directly to us as
no extra cost to yourself.
can be against you, but if you love most visited. However, Chester
being outside you can overcome is firmly at the top of the list. “It is How much can you raise?
this. Being made Head Gardener exceptional!” Other interests are Spend £100 with M&S online or Amazon and
you raise £2.50 for us. £100 with WHSmith
brings a deal of responsibility, but a surfing, movies and indie rock puts £2.00 in our pocket and so on. Some of
great deal of satisfaction.” music. His favourite bands are the donations can be as much as 15% of your
purchase!
Queens of the Stone Age and
Save money too!
Stephen is married to Hazel and Alkaline Trio.
they are expecting their first child easyfundraising is free to use plus you’ll get
access to hundreds of exclusive discounts and
in February, aptly just before the Stephen is another member of the voucher codes!
Spring. Living locally makes it team, whose enthusiasm makes Please consider supporting The Sanctuary this
easier for Stephen to look after the the patients and guests visits way and ask friends and family to do the same.
It’s an easy way for us to raise much needed
greenhouses and their contents to the Harry Edwards Healing extra funds at no cost to either you or us.
Thank you.
over the weekends, and who Sanctuary at Burrows Lea, a more
knows, little Harris junior may pleasurable experience.
29RETREATS AT THE SANCTUARY
Whether you join us for one of our traditional one or four day healing retreats, or opt to experience
a range of alternative therapies on one of our new wellness retreats, you will have plenty of chance
to relax and unwind in the serenity of the Surrey Hills. Go ahead, pamper yourself!
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1-4 October 16 October
4-7 December 6 November To book onto one of our
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£425 per person £55 per person on 01483 205620 or email
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