Sankaran Seminar 25–26 April 2009 in Badenweiler

From 25 to 26 April 2009, Rajan Sankaran gave a seminar

Rajan Sankaran seminar in Badenweiler

Rajan Sankaran

A weekend with Rajan Sankaran – it drew over two hundred participants to the Kurhaus in Badenweiler – and thousands missed out.

Sankaran presented four cases to the seminar participants. And all those who at first perhaps still had reservations that discussing cases might not entirely meet expectations, recalling tedious contributions, the majority or even all of the participants were very quickly won over by the entertaining nature of the lecture. With charm and wit Sankaran managed to captivate the audience and present the individual cases in a crime-story fashion.

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Seminar available as an audiobook from October

He showed the way to the core of the case using the examples. It was clearly demonstrated to the participants how Sankaran's case-taking leads clearly and unequivocally to the homeopathic remedy.

The secret of his work lies in that when the patient is brought to the emotional and sensation level, they describe the homeopathic remedy down to the smallest detail. They do this when the therapist completely holds back, remains calm and gives the patient space to express their sensations.

Any kind of interpretation, whether by the therapist or by the patient, never produces a result. This is because the left hemisphere of the brain – the intellect – is indeed perfect at analysis, control and structure, yet it does not reach the level of sensation and feeling. That may be practical for certain things, but it does not help in finding the remedy. For feeling and sensation know no logic. Feeling appears fundamentally paradoxical—and it is. It must even be so, because it has its own laws. If the patient is in the sensation, they are very close to the remedy. The therapist only has to be able to listen, to be able to wait and to be able to let the patient be.

An example:
A female patient with depression described, after she had reached the level of sensation, that she felt as if she were sitting in a trap. She feels helpless, wants to scream, wants to run away, yet she is like paralysed. She says she cannot use her energy, she feels claustrophobic. She is sweating; it is sticky in the trap. She can't get any air. It is completely dark around her.

She does not want this feeling, she does not want to be there, she experiences pain. It is dark like a prison. She sees bars and tries to bend them apart. It doesn't work. In this darkness she sees no doors; there is neither entrance nor exit.

It is all one. The bars come over her, they form by themselves and close over her head. It feels strange. Something presses her down. It is sticky, it is dirty, it is disgusting; she is afraid that the disgusting thing will touch her skin. She cannot endure these bad energies. Something terrible is happening.

Her heart is beating, it races, it flutters. She becomes hot; there are flames around her; she is burning.

So much for the patient's account. And equally the perfect description of the carnivorous plant Drosera. It probably goes without saying that a dose of Drosera significantly improved the patient's condition.

With this one example – the other three shown on DVD were equally impressive – Sankaran illustrated his work. Excursions into the kingdoms and the miasms deepened the explanations and brought further clarity to Sankaran's philosophy.

The author of this article had, immediately after the end of the seminar, the opportunity in her own practice at home to have the same experiences and recommends that everyone signs up for the next Sankaran seminar. It will take place in April 2010 in Badenweiler.

Helga Lütjens
Bargteheide