Teacher Trainings at The Retreat
Begin Your Reiki Journey…
with Richard Ellis
Meet The Teacher
I am an author of three books on Reiki and a holistic health practitioner. I have trained in various complementary practices including; Master Teacher of Reiki, Clinical Hypnotherapy, NLP, Yin Yoga and Qigong. I run a busy healing and coaching practice incorporating all these disciplines.
My personal healing journey began in the early 1990’s and after a series of powerful energetic experiences and profound awakenings I was led to The Findhorn Foundation in Scotland. It was here I had my first experiences with Reiki, which helped me make sense of what was happening to me and eventually led me to train as a Teacher in Reiki myself.
My time in the Findhorn Foundation and living in community shaped my approach to the courses I went on to teach. I travelled extensively, deepening my understanding of energy work, particularly on the west coast of America and Hawaii. I have particular interest in the chakra system, the nature of disease and the link between the mind and body, which has led me to develop observational techniques in posture analysis and non verbal communication, and I incorporate many of these learnings into my training courses.
I am now firmly rooted in The New Forest and have been dedicated to recreating that sense of community that served me so well in my development years at Findhorn. Having my school at The New Forest Retreat provides a great foundation that allows me to mentor and support Reiki students and practitioners coming through the school.
I am passionate about helping others to achieve their potential and fascinated by Reiki’s capacity to support that process. I love to nurture Reiki’s longing for itself as it flows into the next generation of Reiki practitioners and teachers and watch the transformation that occurs in people’s lives as they walk this journey.
What Is Reiki?
To learn Reiki is to re-awaken spiritually and to embark on a voyage of self discovery and healing. At the Richard Ellis School of Reiki we bring over 30 years of dedicated experience to your training. You can find us in the peaceful surroundings of The Retreat New Forest, a holistic wellbeing centre in the heart of Hampshire. Richard is a founding member of The Retreat New Forest and after years of international travel and teaching is now firmly rooted here.
The Reiki healing method originates in Japan and is a form of hands-on healing that works holistically to bring mind body and spirit into alignment.
“I believe there exists one Supreme Being - the absolute infinite - a dynamic force that governs the world and universe. It is an unseen spiritual power that vibrates and all other powers fade into insignificance beside it. So therefore, it is absolute. This power is unfathomable, immeasurable and being a universal life force, it is incomprehensible to man. Yet, every single living being is receiving its blessings daily, awake or asleep. Different teachers and masters call him The Great Spirit, The Universal Life Force, Life Energy, because when applied it vitalises the whole system. I shall call it “Reiki” because I studied under that expression.”
- Hawayo Takata
Testimonial
‘’I have completed my Reiki 1, 2, Master and Master Teacher training with Richard and not only does he have a wealth of knowledge, but his delivery is exceptional. My journey with Richard has resulted in significant life changing decisions that have transformed me as person.’’
- Karen Wright
Yoga Nidra Teacher Training
With Swami Hamsa Jnanananda
Meet The Teacher…
Swami Hamsa Jnanananda is an official English Holy Person, living
Between India, Internationally & the UK in a devotional life. Her gentleness & sacred presence pervades in her offerings & Training’s. Available exclusively at The Retreat New Forest, in the UK & India.
Swami Hamsa has spent over thirty years in spiritual life, including eighteen years with a Tantrica tradition, ten years of Ashram style living, both in the UK & the Indian Himalayas. Where she built a Yoga Ashram Meditation Facility, next door to HH Dali Lama, who was her neighbour. She took devotional life, full time in 2013 as Sannyas with Swami Nishchalananda, Founder of Mandala Yoga Ashram in Wales. Later was given Diksha Initiation as Swami in 2017 with Bihar School of Yoga India in 2017.
She has spent long retreats in solitude in the Indian jungle, living in a leaf house, developing deep connection with wild leopards and all the abundance of unexpected life there. Born of this experience is a vulnerability & grace that touches everyone she meets. In 2023 Swami Hamsa became "A Worlds First Woman." As a worlds first white female Brahman, given full Brahman rites, at the Holy Water Temple Lake, of Pushkar India. A great honour. She lives part of each year at the Royal Ghat there with the Rajrishi family who were once Gurus to the kings of India.
2023 also saw the publication of her beautiful book, a translation of the ancient Sanskrit text The Baghavad Gita, a Gyana Yoga book, used specifically for illumination & Moksha.
Published in India & available at The Retreat, New Forest in the new year.