Biography of Dr. Paula Horan

Dr. Paula (Laxmi) Horan is an American psychologist who is known worldwide for her numerous books, seminars and retreats on alternative and complimentary therapies, authentic forms of vibrational medicine, integrative body/mind therapeutics and ground-breaking approaches to spirituality and consciousness development.

Born in America, she lived her childhood years in Italy and Germany. Completing her undergraduate studies in sociology and English literature in Britain, she then achieved both her MA (focusing on dance therapy) and her Ph.D. in psychology at San Diego, California. 

From 1992 through 1997, she spent much of her time with her spiritual master Shri H.W.L Poonjaji in India, who gave her the name Laxmi. Shri Poonjaji or ‘Papaji’, as he was affectionately called, was a self realized being who left his body in September 1997. Quickened by his presence, Paula shifted her focus from self-improvement to the self-inquiry that awakens the quiet stillness of awakened presence.  This inspired her to elicit the same joy and freedom in others.

Developing the energizing vehicle of the Core Empowerment Training (CET), a five-day retreat that incorporates Jnana Yoga, the science of cutting through the mind, she has had a worldwide impact. The purpose of Jnana Yoga, is to help people to Realize The Freedom That They Are, by assisting them to experience their own true nature. This is accomplished by overcoming the illusion of ignorance (a mistaken belief in a separate self) by transcending the masks of ego that are sense-dependent and bound by karma. She considers CET her life’s heart work.

During her time with Shri Poonjaji, she developed a great love for India and decided to stay after his transition. Although primarily known as the person who introduced Reiki to India in 1989, she has a comprehensive experience and  keen acumen in many cross-disciplined forms of body/mind and energetic therapeutics. Seeing a need for skilled therapists with conscious presence, she created a modular training curriculum in both eastern and western forms of body/mind treatment in 2001. This lead to the founding of the Taosomatics Institute, an integrative school for consciousness development.  Attracting a core group of students, who are highly skilled and accomplished body/mind therapy trainers, Dr. Horan’s Institute now encompasses a growing sphere of complementary therapy trainings for earnest holistic therapeutic and wellness practitioners.

Dr. Horan is one of the founding members of the Indian Body/Mind Therapy Association, a first for India, which is endeavoring to coalesce therapeutic practitioners into a united whole.

Another factor in Paula's life that inspired her to become an avid researcher on detoxification and rejuvenation therapies is her personal success in treating both a breast and ovarian tumors with a raw food diet and Reiki.

 

Fifteen years ago she also became acquainted with the therapeutic effects and astonishing benefits of oxygen and of its tri-atomic form, ozone, in regard to healing degenerative diseases and also as a restorative rejuvenation therapy. Her knowledge and personal experience in this field has put her at the forefront of the quest for  longevity and for sustaining peak health in an increasingly challenged environment.

Paula's seminars and retreats on an expansive range of wellness subjects and on non- dual awareness are whole-heartedly received, due to her unique ability to communicate complicated concepts in a simple and easy manner. She is well known for her warmth, for her inspirational teaching style and her enduring smile, indicative of the joy she finds in sharing her knowledge—which enliven and motivate her students to manifest the richness inherent in their lives

Laxmi (as she is affectionately called) has appeared on Radio and TV shows in the US, Europe and India. In 1999 she received the Full Circle “Inner Flame Award” from former Prime Minister Shri Gujral for her contribution to disseminating alternative and complimentary methods of healing. The citation also commended her for her grace and grit in adversity.

Her first book, Empowerment through Reiki has been translated into 20 languages. It was followed by Abundance Through Reiki, Core Empowerment Training, Reiki –108 Questions and Answers: Your Dependable Guide For A Lifetime of Reiki Practice,  The Ultimate Reiki Touch,  The Nine Principles of Self-Healing and Heal Yourself With Oxygen. Her eighth book called Fierce Innocence, will be out in late 2010.

Currently she spends some of her time in South India on the coast of the Arabian Sea, where she lives quietly, on a hilly plateau called Cabo de Rama in South Goa, the home of the Taosomatics Institute. In addition, she focuses on writing and on her hobby—water sports.  Part of the year she also lives in Kathmandu, Nepal, where she concentrates on the practices of the Nyingma tradition of Tibetan Buddhism.

Paula welcomes questions and feedback from her readers and students. She can be emailed at laxmihoran09@ yahoo.com. For further updated information about Paula you can also visit www.healyourselfwithoxygen.com, www.taosomatics.net, and www.paulahoran.com .

Summary of Dr. Horan’s Books

The Ultimate Reiki Touch: Initiation and Self-Exploration As Tools for Healing

The most in-depth long-term guide to experiencing Universal Life Force Energy available in book form. The Ultimate Reiki Touch exposes the root cause of stress and all disease and supplies the tools for successful stress management with the help of the Usui System of Natural Healing. Based on the authors 22 years of experience as a Reiki teacher, and her more recent work with the ancient esoteric roots of Reiki, the importance of taking responsibility not only for your own health and well-being, but for your entire life, is emphasized. With instructions for exploring specific themes through spontaneous writing practice and a daily journal that promotes greater self-awareness, the book helps liberate you from the bondage of blaming others or outside circumstances, and empowers you to fully take charge and feel good about yourself and your achievements. The Ultimate Reiki Touch introduces you to a variety of practices that support a quantum leap in the quality of your life. Once set in motion, such a shift provides far greater satisfaction and ease in everyday living, enabling you to thoroughly enjoy the ride, even when the going gets tough.

 

Exploring Reiki: 108 Questions And Answers

Exploring Reiki introduces this increasingly popular form of hands-on healing by answering the 108 most often-asked questions relating to its practice in commonsense, reader-friendly language. It covers all the practical issues a complete beginner would want to know about while still providing an in-depth and all-round presentation. As a result, Exploring Reiki is as helpful to the curious browser who wishes to get first hand information from an experienced practitioner as it is to the experienced initiate with questions about a particular aspect of this subtle art of healing.

 

Abundance Through Reiki: Universal Life Force Energy As Expression Of The Truth That You Are. The 42-day Program To Absolute Fulfillment

A book that goes right to the core of your abundance issues. A timeless jewel, full of insights for the Golden Age of Now. Abundance Through Reiki is a powerful, poetic evocation of true Self and Universal Life Force Energy. At the heart of the book are 42 steps from Core Self to Core Abundance, creating richness within and without. They are presented in detail in the form of two very different, finely tuned 21-day abundance plans, taking you on an exploration of some of your belief patterns, which keep you from experiencing all the things you need or desire in your life.

 

Empowerment Through Reiki

Reiki is a Japanese term which means "universal life energy" -i.e. the energy that lives in all creation, that is inherent to all living beings and that nourishes them and keeps them alive. This book describes exactly how Reiki energy works, the way it can be used and the effects that can be achieved with its help.

 

Dissolving Co-dependency

Co-dependency is one of the most talked about enigmas of our time. It evokes a full spectrum of responses in each of us according to disposition. Most people either acknowledge or deny the extent of their participation in dysfunctional families, addictive behavior, and the unhealthy clinging to old outmoded relationships. Dissolving Co-dependency gives a very in-depth background to the real workings of the human mind. Each chapter is followed by a simple exercise to help the reader assimilate each area of understanding. You are also led step by step to a deeper grasp of your own personal idiosyncrasies which are keeping you stuck in robotic behavior patterns.

 

Core Empowerment

Core Empowerment is a very valuable gift for you from Paula Horan. If you turn this book into a friend and companion and start interacting with it intimately, you will uncover a veritable and vast treasure trove for yourself.

You will experience not only relief from suffering but positive physical and psychological well-being peace happiness and abundance. A kind of spontaneous liberation can occur making you feel refreshed and exhilarated, putting you in direct touch with the power of the heart.

 

Heal Yourself With Oxygen

Full of practical suggestions, this is the first book in India about an oxygen-based approach to healing. Written in simple language, this book gives a detailed overview of the healing properties of oxygen-based approaches to healing and environmental protection in the 21st century. New Book

 

The 9 Principles of Self-Healing-the 40-Day Program to Absolute Wellness: How to Turn Any Healing Crisis Into an Opportunity to Wake Up and Be Free

Paula Horan & Narayan Choyin Dorje

The 9 Principles of Self-Healing provides us with a tool we can effectively use in times of great adversity. Using these principles we can discover for ourselves the best possible remedy to the challenges that each one of us inevitably has.  Understanding these Principles and completing the the 40-Day Program will create self healing and wellness at levels of our Being.

 

Tapes & CDs

Centering Meditation

Centering Meditation is a lush and melodic CD by Paula Horan and Merlin's Magic (Andreas Mock). It has only two tracks. The first track is a spoken word guided meditation backed by subtle space music. The second track is Mock's subtle space music only. Listeners may choose to use this disc in many different modes. It is, obviously, an excellent meditation and introspection disc. Horan's voice and tone are gentle and ambient in and of themselves. Mock's pastoral ambience surrounds her instructions with organic textures and overtones. The resonant qualities tap directly into the body's Chakra centers. Mock is one of the new age community's premier practitioners of this style. Horan is an exceptional and inspirational teacher and holistic new-ager. This smooth CD will appeal to fans of Deuter, Anugama, Jorge Alfano and Jonathan Goldman.

 

The Ultimate Reiki Tapes (4 Audio Tapes)

This excellently produced tape series by Dr. Paula Horan, Reiki Master and American psychologist credited with the early introduction of the Reiki to India, is a deep exploration into to the entire Reiki story.  The Dr. Usui (the progenitor of Reiki in the western world) story is comprehensively covered with enlightening anecdotes and a scientific analysis that only Dr. Horan can provide.  She takes the listener step-by-step through the mindset of Reiki healing, the basic procedures for performing Reiki on other and self-healing with Reiki.  For those interested in foundational underpinning and exploration into this astounding therapeutic discipline, you cannot go wrong by beginning with The Ultimate Reiki tape series by Dr. Paula Horan.