Holistic healing Bahrain

You’ve joined the gym, given up smoking, been eating barrels of salad and still don’t feel like you’ve got the results you so blatently deserve. Murray Garrard catches up with local holistic guru Lisa Kennedy to see if DNA activation therapy is the key to beginning afresh. Discuss this article

I didn’t recognise Lisa Kennedy when she walked into the lobby of the Ramada Hotel, where we were meeting to talk about her work with the Modern Mystery School. I’d imagined she would turn up enrobed in a witch’s cape, holding a crystal ball and chanting. It seemed almost inconceivable that someone who practises astral travel and DNA activation therapies, both so far off most people’s holistic radars that they might as well be classed as magic, would look in any way regular. So it was with no little surprise that that an attractive, smart and thoroughly conventional looking lady strode through the door and took a seat at my table.

Lisa Kennedy, born in Lancashire, England but raised in Bahrain, was not always a spiritual healer; until a few years ago worked for the British Council in Dubai. After a bout of depression, and sick of anti-depressants, she sought another way to combat the gloom. ‘It was my mum who connected me to a woman here who was a Reiki practitioner and that just started my journey. I was off the anti-depressants in weeks and have never looked back. It was like I had been asleep for the last few years; it was like waking up.’

Reiki led to meditation, and meditation to a whole variety of therapies that most people have never heard of all coming under the umbrella of the Modern Mystery School, a huge global network of spiritual healers spreading light, positive energy and empowerment. ‘It’s about going deeper into the ethos “know thyself”. I am a naturally inquisitive person and [the school’s programmes] help you discover your higher purpose. No one is here for a holiday; we have all come to do something.’

And what Lisa decided she had come to do was to offer Bahrain’s residents Indian head massage, Reiki, DNA Activation and astral travel. ‘We teach age-old techniques that have been handed down from the time of King Solomon. And these are techniques and rituals that you can use in your everyday life.’

Having assessed my family, I realised I had plenty of dysfunctional genes, so it was DNA activation that most interested me. But what exactly is it? ‘We balance the four elements in the body. It sounds a bit Harry Potterish, but we use a crystal tool or a crystal wand, and direct it into 12 points in the head. These are the DNA receptors, the codons of light, and they contain information about who you are, your blueprint if you like. If you infuse those 12 areas with light, it brings a lot of light into the system. You might have heard scientists to talk of junk DNA, and now they are beginning to discover that, hang on, this is not just junk DNA, it is unused DNA.’

Although the technique doesn’t sound all that scientific (who would have thought that the root of your DNA lies in the back of your head?), the intention is that the therapy unleashes your full potential, giving you energy, positivity and a whole new direction, should you need it. Knowing that the proof the of the holistic pudding lies squarely in the eating, I sought out a session.

Lisa Kennedy’s sprawling Adliya pad is the heart of the Modern Mystery School in Bahrain, and is where she performs DNA activations. Crystals, star-studded table runners and tomes on angels, masters of lights and transcendental meditation punctuate the apartment and put it firmly in the new age picture.

The treatment itself starts with a hug. Now, I’m the type of person who avoids any form of audience participation, and once, in Japan, I crossed to the other side of the road when I saw a plethora of bespectacled teenagers waving signs reading ‘Free Hugs!’ But hugging Lisa Kennedy was actually rather nice, and it was she who had to unclasp herself and break free, not the other way round.

Most energy therapies seem to me forms of intense meditation, and while Lisa rebalanced me, I slipped into a state of quiet relaxation. It’s true, the technique doesn’t seem to have any conventional scientific basis, but as Lisa worked around me I did feel the tension behind my knees and across my chest ease.

During the DNA Activation, Lisa lightly pressed her ‘Harry Potterish’ crystal wand onto 12 points at the back of my head, each of which felt rather strange as she did so. I’m not sure that my DNA was necessarily activated in any way (how would you know?), but the treatment did seem to clear my mind and make me feel more awake. Oddly enough, a week and a half later and I’m still felling rather energised, though who knows if this is down to the therapy or the buckets of green tea (a new year’s resolution) that I’m now consuming?

It is very easy to ridicule holistic therapies, and it doesn’t help that the language it is couched in tends to be more complex that nuclear fission. But google the therapy, or talk to Lisa, and you’ll find the testimonials praising it are hard to ignore. Sure, so it might just turn out to be hocus-pocus, but equally it’s not going to do you any harm. And for most people, that’s reason enough to try it.
Lisa Kennedy runs a number of holistic therapy courses, from Indian head massage, to meditation, astral travel and DNA activation. For more information, call Lisa on 36 813 408, email lisajkennedy@hotmail.com.

By Time Out Bahrain staff
Time Out Bahrain, 27 January 2010