Prasad Karmarkar Reiki helps in Reiki trainer donates kidney to apprentice
PUNE: Nandini (44) was detected with a chronic kidney problem in 2012. Besides the lifestyle changes she adopted subsequently, she also enrolled for a three-year Reiki leadership program where she met her trainer Punitha (46). They forged a close bond, which was strengthened last a month when Punitha donated one of her kidneys to Nandini renal failure. "Both my children were small when I was detected with the kidney Representative Image who was battling the end-stage problem. I tried to keep things under control with lifestyle changes and went for Reiki training in 2014," said Nandini, who runs a preschool in Kalyaninagar. As her interest grew in the Japanese technique that promotes healing, Nandini joined the leadership program and met Punitha. "Soon, we were spending a lot of time discussing Reiki and its benefits. We conducted several seminars in Pune while she stayed at my place. We are both from the South, watch the same films, laugh at similar things.....