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Healer
The
The magazine of the Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary
Spring 2021
Board of Trustees HARRY EDWARDS
healingsanctuary
SPRING 2021 ISSUE 674
Deadline for letters, articles and other
contributions for the next issue: 01/04/2021
Healing by
Martin Thomas
Telephone, Skype
Chairperson
and Zoom plus In this issue
Chat Time Sanctuary update 4
The Bygraves Bench 5
Coaching and Counselling 5
Stella Bell Teresa Leyman Healing by telephone, skype or
zoom allows a direct connection My Journey to the Sanctuary 6
between healer and recipient,
following a similar experience to Memories of my Father 8
the healing we provide to those
The Sancturian Challenge 10
who visit the Sanctuary.
Alan Moore Agnes Skelly The Healer - ‘Our Aims’ 12
There is time for talking at the
beginning and relaxation before Memorial Benches 13
the healer attunes to the healing
energies and commences the The Sanctuary Shop 14
formal healing.
Healing Testimonials 20
Sometimes healing is simply Bee-Experience Workshop 21
Alison McWhinnie listening. With this in mind we have
Operations Director introduced Chat Times. If you are The Harry Edwards’ College 22
struggling to cope and need to
hear a friendly voice, or simply have The Rose Garden Pond 24
a chat, please get in touch.
HEHS Ambassador Programme 26
Poetry Competition Results 27
Phil Burnett
Deputy Operations Director How You Can Help 28
Telephone 01483 202054 or email
healingreception@burrowslea.org.uk Stay in Touch with the Sanctuary 29
Registered Charity No: 1098712
to make an appointment.
Retreats at the Sanctuary 30
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Dear Reader,
Welcome to our first edition of the Healer magazine for 2021. The 1st of March heralds Join us now - become a friend!
the start of Spring, when nature wakes up and we marvel at the panoply of flowers
that start blooming throughout the country.
In return for your £25 annual subscription you
will receive the following:
This year in particular they will be more than welcome as it will be twelve months since
we heard words like lockdown, pandemic, social distancing, mutated, unprecedented,
- Membership Card
and the dreaded Covid-19, become the norm in our everyday lives. - Quarterly The Healer Magazine
- £5 reduction on the price of one day retreats
But now, new words are coming to the fore, Oxford/AstraZeneca, roll out, Vaccine, - £15 reduction on the price of four day and five
Pfizer/BioNTech mass vaccination, normality and hope. Like the spring flora and fauna, day retreats
a sense of a brighter future is engendered, as snowdrops, crocus and daffodils poke - 10% reduction in the cost of items purchased
through the gradually warming earth bringing colour and expectation to jaded eyes from our shop
and dulled minds. - Substantial reductions on corporate room hire
at the Sanctuary until 30 September 2021
Words can generate mental pictures, remembered experiences, tastes along with - Electronic update newsletters
other reactions and emotions. They are the flowers that bloom from the screen
or sheet of paper, that can bring sad or good news. In these days of the visual Your Friends Membership runs for 12 months
experiences whether that is a TV programme, a film, or a Zoom connection, words and we will send you a reminder shortly before
are sometimes underrated. However, over the last year people have listened to radios, renewal. You can also give the gift of Sanctuary
read books, written poems and short stories. They have used their minds to create, Friendship to your friends!
and to form in their imagination a personal version of what has been written.
NAME
Here at the Sanctuary, words are so very important, as they form, as they have for 75
years, the core of our healing endeavour. Distant healing intercessions. The letters that ADDRESS
Harry Edwards wrote were that important point of contact with those who write for
healing help, and so it is today.
There are many healers who feel that distant healing is not as fulfilling as contact EMAIL
healing for the client, or indeed for themselves. I find both have the same experience
of fulfilment for both parties. During 2020 we had very little contact healing, and so SIGNED
as in days gone by ‘absent healing’ as it was then known, came to the fore, and the
DATE
written word meant so much to people. Our letters to our clients come from some of
the original texts that Mr Edwards created. Why? Because they are as relevant today I enclose a cheque, payable to HEHS Ltd.
as they were then.
Charge my credit / debit card.
There were many bereavements, family members were no longer there. Loneliness
became more prevalent, but that letter or email was a tangible reminder that here at CARD NO
the Sanctuary, through our prayerful thoughts, now the written word, we were there for
them. They were not alone, as the words were re-read again and again. EXPIRY DATE
So as you look out from your window and see a flower blooming, that with others will SECURITY CODE
make a bunch of colour and hope, think of words being created and a distant healing
Send to:
letter arriving in your home like a bunch of spring flowers to brighten your day. We are Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary, Burrows Lea,
here for you. Hook Lane, Shere, Guildford, Surrey. GU5 9QG.
Vincent Join online:
harryedwardshealingsanctuary.org.uk/friends
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Sanctuary update
The Harry Edwards Trustees
Hello everybody, We can choose to be optimistic instead do now. We trust this will improve the
of living in fear, especially fear of illness. quality of our service to you.
Well here we are again - in a new year We can recall the spiritual laws and
but how much further forward! spiritual truths: the continuity of life, The restoration of the rose-garden pond
communication across the divide, the is a continuing slowly but surely through
Do you remember George Harrison’s power of thought, and of course, the the winter months. Our co-sponsored
famous studio album and song ‘All reality of spiritual healing. healer at Barnstaple NHS Hospital is
things must pass’?, echoing the words managing to continue to provide healing,
of Harry Edwards, ‘All things will pass’. So let’s project those thoughts outwards although not on the wards.
How true that is, and worth reminding and send healing to all those who
ourselves of, especially if we start to have been directly affected, and for More of our staff have been furloughed
get weighed down by the negativity us to commit to living more balanced, through the lockdown. We have had to
of the daily news. We can choose to sustainable and grounded lives in the reschedule all of our activities, including
distance ourselves from it, and to take future. our College courses, and defer the
a broader perspective on our lives. How resumption of contact healing once
fortunate are we compared to previous again. However, well done to everybody
Let’s learn what this experience
generations? For them, epidemics of for continuing to do your respective jobs
is trying to teach us - we are
untreatable and often fatal illnesses was empowered in this respect. in these difficult and stressful times.
the norm rather than the exception, yet Finally, let’s remember that the six best
somehow they managed to carry on, doctors in the world are all free; Doctors,
and feed and educate their families and Meanwhile back at the Sanctuary, we’re Sunlight, Rest, Exercise, Diet, Self-
live rewarding lives. doing our best to maintain our core confidence and Friend, and that God
activities; distant healing, our social loves you!
Let’s also remember that Nature doesn’t media presence, and answering the
know we’re in a lockdown, and the warm phones. Talking of which, we are starting Stay bright everyone, and all the best
weather will be here in no time at all. a new service which will ensure that all until next time.
Already there are signs of Spring in our our incoming calls are answered by a
gardens and woodlands with the bulbs receptionist, rather than them having to Martin,
starting to show. go to answerphone, as they sometimes on behalf of the trustees.
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New Coaching
The Bygraves Bench and Counselling
We wanna tell you a story...
Service
Max was great all round entertainer
Currently we are living in challenging
comedian, singer, actor, variety
and unprecedented times with many
performer and sometime quiz show
needing various types of support.
host. He made twenty Royal Variety
Performance appearances and was
HEHS would like to announce a further
awarded an OBE. Max made many
way in which we are endeavouring
recordings and was renowned for his
to support those who need it by
“Singalong a Max” Albums, as well as
Max and Blossom Bygraves facilitating a range of counselling and
singles such as “You Need Hands”,
coaching services through professional
“You’re a Pink Tooth Brush” and
friends of the Sanctuary.
In the autumn of last year the probably his most well-known release
Sanctuary was approached by Maxine “Tulips from Amsterdam”. He was also
This small group of professionals are
and Anthony Bygraves two of Max well known for the famous catchphrase
fully qualified and accredited in their
and Blossom Bygraves children to “I Wanna Tell You A Story”.
discipline. All run their own practice
place a commemorative Lutyens style
and are aware of spiritual healing so
wooden bench on Cherry Tree Walk, Here you can see the bench in situ
clients can feel at ease discussing
which was readily agreed to. with it accompanying table. There will
such things if relevant. Kindly our
be flowers planted around it with, yes
professional friends are offering their
The introduction came through one you’ve guessed it, tulips!
services and time for a donation which
of our Sanctuary healers Sue Murphy,
will go to the Sanctuary to help support
who had a conversations with one
all the work we do.
of our trustees, Teresa Leyman,
which then lead to a whole raft of
As from February 1st we have been
exchanges between the four, resulting
able to offer counselling, bereavement
in the installation of the bench on the
counselling and coaching for a
refurbished Cherry Tree Walk. A true
donation to the Sanctuary per session
Blossoming of an idea!
and for a limited time. To find out more
and book please contact our reception
Watch a wonderful video on YouTube of Max and Blossom’s 67th wedding anniversary: team on 01483 202054 or email:-
https://youtu.be/Zz7TryM0ET0
healingreception@burrowslea.org.uk
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My Journey to the Sanctuary
By Alison McWhinnie, Operations Director
I have been asked to write about their own and indeed she never needed surrounding me. Invariably I could later
my introduction to healing and my dialysis! She remained in the High track this back to the same time distant
subsequent journey to the Sanctuary. Dependency Unit for a week and was healing was being sent to me as the
then moved to a Cardiac Unit for two carer. Time and time again, different
In 2005 my Mother was rushed to weeks before being fit enough to go consultants would look at test results
hospital unexpectedly after routine blood home. and say that the results were more
tests had picked up that her level of stable than expected and not possible
potassium was dangerously high and with just the treatment they were giving.
This was our first experience of
likely to cause her heart to stop. She was What else were we doing? When I told
healing and led us to becoming
in Resus when I arrived at the hospital visitors to the Sanctuary. them, their reply was to continue doing
and stayed there for ten hours until the what we were doing because it was
early hours of the morning while the clinically proven to be working from the
medical team worked hard to achieve a My Mother passed over in 2018 and with test results.
stable heartbeat. mature age had developed a number
of chronic conditions. When I took a I know first- hand the difference healing
She was then transferred to the High break from working in 2014 to become can make, even with conditions that
Dependency Unit. The next morning her carer, she had accumulated 12 can’t be cured but can be made more
I bumped into Anthony, one of my consultants over 4 hospitals. Our weeks stable.
neighbours. Both Anthony and his became full of medical tests and hospital
wife Sue are healers, having trained at appointments intermingled with spates My career experience has included
the Sanctuary. Anthony offered distant of 999 calls and emergency hospital commercial, facilities and HR across
healing which we readily accepted. My admissions. Throughout this time I would several sectors including retail, small
Mother had suffered acute renal failure ask for healing. business set up, charity, venue and
and I was told she would need dialysis. event management. Whilst I was a carer
However, to the medical team’s surprise There were times as I sat by the hospital I took on several board appointments
her kidneys started to work again on bed where I could feel supportive energy in areas I am interested in. By and large
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This was my first experience of
witnessing agonal breathing and hypoxic
jerks. Sitting in the back of an ambulance
hearing a paramedic radioing in asking
colleagues to make a priority call to the
hospital with an estimated time of arrival
on behalf of your loved one – is just
chilling.
Bluebells is a friendly,
This is my story. But so many
sharing group for anyone
thousands of Carers will have
similar stories to tell. with cancer.
We offer caring support,
My heart just goes out to them. So how meditation and visualisation,
we can help and support carers more at healing, complementary
the Sanctuary? therapies - and laughter!
I know from my time as a carer that it Do come and join us at the
board meetings could be fitted around is not always easy to be free to attend Sanctuary on the first and
the hospital diary. I became a Trustee meetings in person – sometimes you third Thursday morning of
of the Sanctuary in 2017 and then a don’t want to leave the person you each month and see for
Non-Executive Director of Burrows Lea are looking after at home alone. There yourself.
Country House Ltd in 2018. I started my are also times when it is important to
current role as Operations Director on keep the phone line clear when you are Contact Carolyn Low on
1st May 2019. Later that year I started expecting a call from a consultant. One 01483 203540 or email:
my training to become a healer. possibility could include carer and healer carolyn.graeme@hotmail.co.uk
support meetings via zoom as part of our for more details.
Caring for carers is just so important. portfolio of support.
It can be such a stressful role. For me
If you are a carer I would love to hear Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary
personally, dealing with sudden medical
Burrows Lea, Hook Lane, Shere,
emergencies was my stress point, with from you to help us shape this project.
Guildford, Surrey, GU5 9QG
successfully delivering first aid for a Please do email me so we can build up Tel: 01483 202054
cardiac arrest being one of the most our support for carers: www.harryedwardshealingsanctuary.org.uk
Registered Charity No: 1098712
nerve-wracking moments. alison.mcwhinnie@burrowslea.org.uk
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Memories of my father
By HEHS Patron Felicity Medland
We are delighted to share with you published the accounts of a healing After a healing demonstration had come
this original piece from our new demonstration. to an end it was always difficult to get
Patron, Harry Edwards’ daughter away as so many people tried to stop
Felicity Medland. It was always important at a healing Dad leaving, wanting him to carry on.
demonstration to select from the
She is not only an accomplished artist, audience people who had disabilities How could we have foreseen in those
as you can see in the picture with that could be seen to have physically early years that one day Dad would walk
her painting that is displayed in the disappeared. I remember Dad holding on the stage of the Royal Albert Hall
Sanctuary but is also a wonderful poet up the folds of a coat that had covered and face a standing ovation from that
and writer. Written just for the Healer a curvature of the spine or as famously large audience and then give a healing
magazine as well as for the new Virtual published the folds of skin after a goitre demonstration that surpassed all others.
Healing Circle audience, Felicity shares had been removed. People who had
her memories of attending healing been assisted to walk onto a platform In today’s world living with the pandemic,
demonstrations with her father. walking off unaided. Witnessing these I can hear Dad saying as he did so often,
events when the healing flowed with ‘all things must come to an end and this
such ease it was possible to feel this too must pass.’
“I have attended so many healing remarkable power in the air around
demonstrations with my father from us, which was so much a part of the
the earliest days in south west London healer himself who used it with so much More of Felicity’s memories can be read
before and during WWII when he was confidence and surety. in her book “ Life around my father Harry
becoming known as a healer. Those Edwards” which can be purchased from
were the days when we travelled through our shop [see page 00]. We are thrilled
London’s ‘ blackout’ to small church As Dad always said to would be that Felicity is our patron and excited
healers, ‘if the power is there
halls which were always packed. It was to share that she will write an article for
just put out your hands and let
during the time he started to become it flow.’ each of our editions of The Healer this
well known, when Sunday papers year to celebrate our 75th anniversary.
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Felicity with her two sons, Mark and Tim, in
front of her painting displayed at the Sanctuary.
9The double seventy-five
sancturian challenge
March is the start of our Double Seventy-Five Sancturian Challenge as we announced in the Christmas
edition of the Healer. Have you chosen your Sancturian to Sponsor over the 75-mile course?
Julia Poyntz Teresa Leyman Phil Burnett
Events Trustee Deputy Operations
Director
Sue Smith Alan Moore Vincent Hill
Healing Office Trustee Editor
If none of these lythe, honed athletes appeal to you, in the other charity’s funds are not what they were. This is one way
sponsor form where it says “I would like to sponsor” just put in which we can hopefully add to our income, so that the
ANON and we will allocate your sponsorship to one of our Sanctuary can continue its healing mission as Harry Edwards
participants. As some of our Sancturians have done, why not would have wanted.
get you friends and families involved, by clubbing together to
add to the total.
Use the sponsorship form to the right or download from
This is a fun event, but it has a serious side, as the Sanctuary our website (photocopies of the form are also acceptable):
has all but been closed to visitors for the best part of a year.
However, although our healing endeavour has continued via
Zoom, Social Media sites, emails and letters, as with many www.harryedwardshealingsanctuary.org.uk/sponsored-walk
10The double seventy-five sancturian challenge
Sponsorship form
Your Information
I wish to pay by:
YOUR NAME: Cheque Credit / debit card.
ADDRESS: CARD NO:
EXPIRY DATE:
SECURITY CODE:
POST CODE: Please make cheques payable to HEHS Ltd.
Donation cheques should be made out to HEHS Ltd.
TELEPHONE: Please select this box if you would would like us to claim
Gift Aid on your donation, at no extra cost to you.
EMAIL: I confirm that I am a UK Income or Capital Gains taxpayer. I
have read this statement and want the charity or Community
Amateur Sports Club (CASC) named above to reclaim tax on
Sponsorship Information the donation detailed on this page. I understand that if I pay
less Income Tax / or Capital Gains tax in the current tax year
than the amount of Gift Aid claimed on all of my donations it is
I WOULD LIKE my responsibility to pay any difference. I understand the charity
TO SPONSOR: will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that I have given.
Remember: You must provide your full name, home address,
postcode & selected the Gift Aid box above for the charity or
AMOUNT PER MILE: CASC to claim tax back on your donation.
OR Registered Charity No: 1098712
SINGLE DONATION AMOUNT:
11The Healer - ‘Our Aims’
By Harry Edwards
The following is an extract from subject by presenting it internationally.
the first ever edition of the Healer Spiritual healing is not concerned only
magazine published in 1953. with the healing of bodies but with the
removing of disharmonies from the inner-
We are pleased to present this first self—or soul. These two directives are
number of the Healer to you, and we definitely connected. Harry Edwards
hope you will like it.
Indeed it is acknowledged that is so much to learn about spiritual
We shall do our best to make The Healer the healing of the inner self is healing—there is so little that we know
of greater importance than the
a friendly sort of magazine; one that you definitely—that we have an immense
healing of the physical body.
will look forward to receiving and to keep field of conjecture and possibility to
for itself. We will try not to be stodgy, explore.
highfaluting or dull. The Healer will therefore devote special
attention to bringing the many aspects of We shall not assume that any statement
Our policy will be to make known to spiritual philosophy before its readers to or opinion is truth unless it can be
as large a public as we can the great help them to appreciate the implications demonstrated in all reasonable ways that
benefits which can be achieved through that arise from and are implicit in the it is indeed a truth.
spiritual healing. This presentation will truths that govern spiritual healing.
cover all healing activities irrespective It will be one of our tasks to seek wider
of sectional interests. We can all learn Acrimony will be avoided, and while our recognition of the work of spiritual
from one another. Spiritual healing is now articles will be frank and outspoken, we healers by the Government and the
recognized and practised internationally, shall endeavour to present all points of medical profession. We are working
and we can only render justice to this view fairly and without prejudice. There towards the ideal of co-operation
12between orthodox medicine and spiritual
BURROWS LEA MEMORIAL BENCHES
healing.
We shall try to influence the Church (all
denominations) to recognize and practise
spiritual healing to a greater extent. We
shall present the full details of our own
work in this ministry, and the testimony of
Keep the memory of your loved one close with one of these beautiful
those patients who have regained health Amburana wood benches, engraved with words of your choice.
and relief through its help.
The Harry Edwards Healing depending on whether engraving
It will be our aim to be of service to all Sanctuary is pleased to is required. You can obtain a leaflet
healers and the general public in every announce the launch of it and order form by sending a C5
way we can. Burrows Lea Memorial Benches. stamped self- addressed envelope
to Burrows Lea Benches etc. or
This initiative stems from the visit our website.
So far no real effort has been made, in people who have requested
any country, to publish a journal for the benches to be placed in the If you know someone who is
combined interest of both lay-man and grounds of Burrows Lea, in thinking of purchasing a bench,
memory of a loved one, who has or that you would like to gift to
healer. Yet we believe there is a real and entered that spiritual heritage that them, then if so please think of our
urgent need for such a publication, and is accessible to us all. All profits benches, for we would be happy to
we hope we may receive the inspiration will go to supporting the healing assist in supplying one of these to
endeavour at the Sanctuary. you or a friend.
and guidance to do it well.
These well designed, fine grained, Our benches are not only for
We want this magazine to be your sustainable wooden bench come in memorial use, but what better way
magazine. We shall welcome letters, various styles and sizes. Some will to start a life together. Celebrate
be delivered pre-assembled or as a your wedding day with one of the
opinions, articles, queries, and, of
very easily assembled flat pack. In Sanctuary’s benches with your
course, criticism—and we are human most cases just four bolts and the names carved on the bench as
enough to enjoy, though not to seek, job is done! memory of that special day.
words of praise when they are merited.
Initially, we are able to offer five Returning from your honeymoon,
different styles as our standard to sit in the garden and sip a
These are but some of our motives in range, but other styles will be celebratory glass of champagne,
producing the Healer and we promise we available, so if there is anything that sitting side by side recollecting the
you would particularly like please happy day. Alternatively what about
shall do our utmost to carry them out,
do mention it, as we may well be a companion set, with linking table,
faithfully and well, in service to the spirit able to supply it. Delivery will be or if you really want to push the
and to humanity. 7-14 days from receipt of order boat out, a luxurious swing seat.
13thesanctuaryshop
A selection of books by Harry Edwards
wherever you are, we’re here for you
Gary’s
Cat Stories
By Gary Waugh
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Gary’s Cat Stories
£10.00
2021 C A L ENDA R
A comic cornucopia of
75th ANNIVERSARY
cat stories and other
2021 Calendar witticisms from the late
UK only - £5.00 incl p&p Gary Waugh, previous
editor of The Healer.
Overseas - £9.50 incl p&p
The Understanding & Practice Of Spiritual Healing £11.25
The Healing Intelligence £11.25
Harry Edwards
Spirit Healing £10.25 Ramus Branch
Life In Spirit £11.25 £10.25
The Power Of Spiritual Healing £10.25 The biography of the man who rose from
The Way of Absent Healing Booklet £2.50 humble origins to become the greatest healer
of modern times. It tells of his life, his struggle
The Mediumship of Arnold Clare £11.50
with the authorities, the influences on his
The Mediumship of Jack Webber £9.50 views about healing, the demonstrations and
his private personality.
HARDBACK
Harry Edwards Meditation CD
£6.25 A range of CDs
A transcription of a series of recordings £10.75 each
made by the great healer, Harry Edwards,
including: My philosophy of life and Harry Pure Meditation, Animal Healing Volume 2,
Edwards speaks. You will find it a truly Touched by Angels, Protected by Angels,
unique experience under his spoken Music for Healing, Music for Relaxation,
guidance. Holistic Healing and Pure Tranquility.
14Thirty Paths Collection
Susan Johnson
£6.50 each
£22.00 for all 4
Each book contains 30
basic, simple visualisations.
Felicity Medland Art
- Thirty Paths to Stillness
Notelets
- Thirty Paths To Peace
£2.50
- Thirty Paths To Silence
12 luxury notelets
- Thirty Paths To Meditate
featuring the beautiful
landscape paintings of
Felicity Medland.
Life Around My Father
Felicity Joan Medland
£7.95
Felicity chronicles her father’s
life from his early life as a
printer in South London
through to discovering his
healing abilities as an army
3 Burrows Lea £1.00
officer in WW1.
Postcards
PAPERBACK
Healing in a Hospital A Song for Demeter
Sandy Edwards Richard Kemble
Set of 3 Prayer Cards
£11.00 £9.95
£2.00
Despite having no sign of a A Song for Demeter
Just the right size for
natural ability, Sandy Edwards follows Richard on his soul
your wallet or handbag.
trained to be a spiritual healer search and reveals mystery
with a non-religious UK teachings usually hidden from
Sanctuary Heart Card charity. public view.
UK only - £2.00 incl p&p PAPERBACK PAPERBACK
Overseas - £3.00 incl p&p
125mm x 125mm card
This is just a small selection of what we sell, to view more
Message inside reads please visit our online shop:
‘Sending support and
healing thoughts to you at https://www.harryedwardshealingsanctuary.org.uk/shop 12 Burrows Lea £2.00
this time of year ‘ Notelets
15SALE! SPECIAL OFFER!
Hands Around £5.00
the World Mug
SALE!
The Sanctuary Honey Pure Beeswax Wraps
Tea Time Bargain Bundle Runny - £7.50 £12.50
£11.00 Cutcomb - £8.00 1 Large (40x30cm)
Perfect for all tea lovers (and coffee A jar of delicious Sanctuary 1 Medium (30x30cm)
drinkers too!) this pack contains: honey available in a 1 Small (20x20cm)
two options of runny or
- Hands Around the World Mug cutcomb. Reusable for up to a year,
- Harry Edwards Prayer Mug Environmentally friendly
Harry Edwards £5.00 - The Sanctuary Tea Towel Jar size: 340g / 12oz alternative to cling film.
Prayer Mug
SALE!
A commemorative jigsaw
is being commissioned
to celebrate the 75th
anniversary of the
Sanctuary!
The puzzle will feature four
scenes from the Sanctuary
and grounds, with a
The Sanctuary £4.00 portrait of Harry Edwards.
Tea Towel It will be 1000 pieces in
colour, measuring 48 x 69
cm and priced at around
£18.60 plus p&p. The first
Beeswax Candle
50 produced, will come
Harry Edwards Healing Bear £4.50 with a numbered certificate
of authenticity, which will
£12.00 be signed by a member of
Our healing bear stands 10.5 inches tall. the Board of Trustees.
The label reads:
‘Blessed by our healers and sent to you We will be posting the
filled with loving prayers and thoughts.’ Calling all Dissectologists design on our website
The Sanctuary £1.00 shortly. Pre-order to get
Thimble Unsuitable for children under 36 months. one of the first certificated
50 made.
16Swarovski Thank Crystal Angel Crystal Guardian
You Rainbow Wing Heart Angel Hanging Crystal Guardian Angel
£14.00 £8.00 £12.00 £5.00
Made With Genuine Swarovski Spectra Crystals. Angel measures
3 x 3cm approx, Total length including silver thread for hanging is
approx 10cm. Available in orange, green, purple, blue or pink
The Sanctuary
Healing Moments
Candle
28mm Almond 20mm Crystal Tree of Life with £6.50
Rainbow Maker Cascade Ball Chakra Crystals Created especially
£9.00 £21.00 £24.00 for the Sanctuary
and not available
anywhere else, this
candle is 8’’ tall
and scented with Pewter Inspirational
aromatherapy oils. Bookmarks
Ideal as a focus for £6.50
meditation.
Handmade in the UK.
- Tree of Life motif
- Angel motif
Large Bamboo
Floral Windchime
£15.00
Natural Rose
Swarovski Crystal Fantasy Hanging Suncatcher Quartz Tealight Lovely ethically
Holder sourced bamboo
£12.00 windchime with
£16.00
Tree of Life - Barn Owl on Moon - Angel Wing Heart - Guardian Angel - hibiscus flower
Crystal Fantasy Butterfly pattern.
17thesanctuarygarden
As an exciting addition to 2021 we are thrilled to introduce to you our new range of garden furniture!
On this page you will find just a small selection of what we will be offering, you can view more on our online shop:
https://www.harryedwardshealingsanctuary.org.uk/shop
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19Healing testimonials
These are actual letters that the Sanctuary has received, telling
us off the improvements that have transpired after Distant
Healing has commenced, or during it. We have edited some
areas, due to the length of the text.
Years ago, while I was completely bedridden unable to sit up, write with a pen,
hold a cup of tea - and never expected to recover (l was 36 and am now 74),
I received healing from the Sanctuary and made a full recovery from a serious
spinal injury. I have a grown son (46 years old) who fully recovered at 18 with
your intervention from Tourette Syndrome. - DA
Setting the standard for healing It took a couple of weeks since the surgery to receive the biopsy reports back
UK Healers was established in 1999 by
and we were nervously awaiting to hear from the surgeon. So even though the
healing organisations that shared an interest Inain tilinour was a sigmoid adenocarcinoma, the 42 lymph glands and other
in achieving common standards for the
protection of the public, maintaining high material from small intestine, including appendix removed, all came back as
standards of healing practice.
cancer-free! - LP
UK Healers is the largest voluntary
professional standards setting accrediting
body for the training and practice of
spiritual healing organisations in the UK.
A quick update on Mrs G she has had all her results back and there is no
UK Healers has established standards for:
Membership of healer organisations cancer anywhere thank goodness, some lesions on her kidneys but not
Training of spiritual healers unusual for a lady of her age. Great news and she is so grateful to you all for
Code of conduct
Compliance with the law your help as am I. - SG
Assessment and accreditation of healing
organisations
Complaints and disciplinary procedures
www.ukhealers.info Hello, I have a good report for you .
Lupton House, Churston Ferrers, Brixham,
Devon TQ5 0LD - Tel: 07743 988 962 As you know , I’ve been to consult a doctor last August 22nd.
My GIST [Gastrointestinal stromal tumours] was disappeared. - HO
2075th
Anniversary
The Sanctuary will have been Bee-Experience Workshop!
at Burrows Lea for 75 years
this September. In Plan A 10am on Sunday 6th June
we had hoped to organise a Burrows Lea Country House, Hook
monthly event at Burrows Lea Lane, Shere, Surrey GU5 9QG · Life as a honeybee
during 2021 to celebrate this and showing and describing the
special anniversary. Tickets different sections of abeehive (empty).
£30 per person through Eventbrite
Unfortunately, at the time of writing, (a small processing charge will be incurred) Then we all put our bee-suits on and
this is not possible during the first we go and open a beehive with live
quarter due to the pandemic. So, for https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ honeybees.
now, we are holding all our events, bee-experience-workshop-
covering a range of topics, both paid registration-134534479249 We will make our way through the top
and free, online. If you would like to to the brood chamber, look at worker
be notified of future events, do sign This fascinating talk lasts bees, drones and perhaps even the
up to our monthly newsletter via our approximately one and a half hours. queen herself. Participants will be able
webpage. to hold frames with honey and frames
30 to 40 minutes introductory talk with honeybees.
In April we are due to receive our own about:
bees at the Sanctuary and very much
hope to be able to hold the following · Honeybees Children aged 6 or above are welcome, but
June event. · The environment need to be accompanied by a paying adult too.
21Congratulations to our students!
We are so proud of our Group 14 and 15 college students Here you can see them receiving their diplomas
who, despite the difficulties of Covid, were able to continue virtually, thanks to Tracy and Alan Moore who
to their final assessment and pass the 2 Year Healer training conducted the student panels via Zoom.
course in November 2020.
Top to bottom, left to right: Mark Pillans, Tania Galvani, Philip Martyn, Top to bottom, left to right: Beverley Lucas, Jennifer Spellar, Jane Mars,
Kamila Gladys, Carole McGilvery, Paul Cronje-Jarvis Meurig Tiley, Keiko Koizumi, Olga Sumner
22Forthcoming healing
courses
Harry Edwards Healer Training Course Harry Edwards Healer Training
Foundation Day Comprehensive Midweek Course
This is a two year part-taught, part self-
A one-day course that provides an study programme for those who wish to For those with further to travel, this
introduction to spiritual healing and gives become certificated healers. is a comprehensive two year course
an understanding of what is involved in presented on four separate weeks
being a healer. 2021 course dates commencing: (Monday evening to Friday).
Saturday 26th & Sunday 27th June
2021 course dates: Saturday 16th & Sunday 17th October 2021 course dates commencing:
Saturday 24th April (fully booked) Monday 12th July
Saturday 8th May Cost: £1,800
Saturday 10th July (Non-refundable deposit £400) Cost: £2,675
Saturday 11th September (Non-refundable deposit £425)
Includes refreshments and a light
Time: 10am - 4.30pm Cost: £100 vegetarian lunch on module weekends. Includes the course, accommodation
and meals.
Includes refreshments and a light Completion of the Foundation Course
vegetarian lunch. first is mandatory.
Mandatory if you wish to proceed on Enquire about our lovely onsite accommodation which may be available during your course
to the two-year Healing Course.
Harry Edwards Healer Know Thyself Training Course The Harry Edwards Conversion Course
The 1-Year Healer Know Thyself Training Course is designed This year long course is for those who have qualified in similar
to explore and deepen personal and spiritual understanding healer training (minimum requirements) and would like to
of self and spiritual journey. To participate on this course, the train as a Harry Edwards Healer. Please contact the College
student must have completed a 2 year spiritual healing course Administrator for further details.
recognised by the Harry Edwards Healing College.
2021 course dates commencing:
Cost: £795 | COMING SOON Saturday 2nd & Sunday 3rd October
SECURE YOUR PLACE TODAY
Email: college.administrator@burrowslea.org.uk / Telephone: 07706 027141 / Website: www.harryedwardshealingcollege.com
23The Rose Garden Pond
The Rose Garden Pond is currently awful news that Keith my husband had
being refurbished as leaks had bowel cancer. He had the operation to
become quite bad, necessitating remove the tumour and over the next
frequent top ups, the fish were three years had subsequent courses of
struggling and many of the plants chemotherapy, blood transfusions etc. to
have been relocated until the help keep him alive. The last six months
works are complete. The pond and of his life were not happy ones, as he
fountain play an important role in suffered various reactions to different
adding peace and tranquillity to the drugs. During all this time Jean and her Keith and Stella Bell
Sanctuary grounds. Distant Healing Team, and the Special
Intercession Team, kept both Keith and along with him for the day trip (to
Unfortunately, rectifying these problems me in their thoughts. The other Trustees go shopping!!) but I did go to watch the
is proving to be very costly therefore, and all the staff helped me too. Each healing. As we left, Ted took my hand
we are actively fundraising to pay for time I asked for help, it came with distant and said, “I know you will look after him”.
the costs. One of our stalwart Trustees, healing and supportive emails and At the time we thought this was quite
Stella Bell, was first to offer financial help. phone calls. Keith suffered very little pain funny, as we were both married to others
This is her story: throughout his illness and passed over and we were all good friends!
peacefully in July.
Shortly after that I read an article about
When the costings for the substantial As time went by, I had been wondering the NFSH (now the Healing Trust) and
renovation of the all-important Rose how I could commemorate my life with took it back for Keith to read, as he was
Garden Pond came in, I suggested to my late husband, Keith, as healing becoming more interested in Spiritual
the other Trustees that a fund-raising brought us together originally. Forty years Healing. He then joined the NFSH, I
effort, to help raise money towards the ago Keith read a book by Ted Fricker joined the year after, and we started the
many thousands this would cost, was – a healer who practiced in London’s Carlisle Healing Centre. We were both
implemented. I said I would be happy to West End and counted many royals and regional officers and then Keith was
donate something towards this. celebrities amongst his clients. Keith had made the National Vice-Chair of the
Going back to before Christmas in suffered for years with a bad back and NFSH. I was made National Treasurer
December 2016 we were given the booked an appointment with Ted. I went and then President of NFSH. For many
24years, that Charity took over our lives.
Sometime after Keith’s wife had passed
over, he and I moved in together, getting
married in 1999. Our healing continued
for many years being a very large part of
our lives. With Keith’s support, I became
a Trustee at Harry Edwards Healing
Sanctuary, but I still have clients coming
to me for healing.
So, I made the decision to set the ball
rolling by donating a significant sum to
start the Rose Garden Pond Restoration
Fund in Keith’s memory, so we can
restore this pond to its former glory!!
I’m delighted to be informed that
a plaque will be placed nearby to
commemorate Keith.
Please donate if you can – any amount
you can afford, small or large will make a
difference to the fund and help to bring
this important part of the Sanctuary back
to its formal glory! If you would like to
donate you can do so via our website
or by calling us on 01483 202054 if you
wish to pay by credit card. Payments
by cheque can be sent to us at The
Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary,
Burrows Lea, Hook Lane, Shere, Surrey
GU5 9QG. Please indicate that you
would like the funds to go to the pond
refurbishment.
25HEHS Ambassador
Programme
The Sanctuary is pleased to share the We are delighted to announce that Linda
launch of a new pilot initiative – the Sewell has accepted to be one our
HEHS Ambassador Programme. first ambassadors. Linda is an HEHS
Linda Sewell
healer, having trained at the college and
The trustees have been thinking about volunteered for over a decade. She is
creating this type of programme to help also our celebrant at the Sanctuary and over the years. Currently, Vincent is the
to support the Sanctuary grow further. officiates many of our weddings, naming editor of The Healer and a non-executive
There are a few people at the Sanctuary ceremonies and funerals. In addition, director of the trading company as well
who are already doing this role to some Linda has developed and run Cygnus as a HEHS healer. During lockdown he
extent and there is room to develop the cafe by herself with great success since has provided great support to the healing
concept. An HEHS ambassador may 2015. office and continues to do so in replying
help the Sanctuary in various ways by to requests for healing.
sharing more widely all that we offer or This year, despite the challenges Linda
by providing a service. has worked hard to deliver Cygnus Vincent created the concept of the
Cafe online and several special events Special Healing Intercessions. Having
In addition, offering advice to and and services to ensure our community grown up at Burrows Lea, Vincent is a
guidance in a particular way depending is supported and connected. This has very valuable link to Mr Edwards himself
on the ambassador’s field of expertise. meant that, at a time when we were and can sometimes offer guidance us
We thought this month was a good time physically closing our doors, our virtual on how Mr Edwards might think about
to start this pilot so to help us shape this doors were wide open, so that our things.
up as we approach the Harry Edwards community actually grew and remained
Healing Sanctuary’s 75th Anniversary. connected in new ways.
Our thanks go to Linda and
Our hope is that this programme will
Vincent for all that you do for the
evolve in time and that we will have more Our other recruit is Vincent Hill, has Sanctuary.
Ambassadors as time evolves. supported the Sanctuary in many ways
26Poetry competition results
Here are the results of the Sanctuary’s THERE’S A RIOT IN THE QUIET
Poetry Competition, and to all those who
entered, we send our thanks. There’s a riot in the quiet if you step into my yard,
If you’re near it you can hear it if you listen very hard.
We had three independent judges, who were
given the entries to pursue, and independently The leaves of the trees softly whisper to the breeze
they came up with their favourites. Amazingly And the flowers are all humming with the coming of the bees.
two of the judges picked two poems that
were the same, which made the final overall I hear the sound of love in the cooing of the dove
decision relatively straightforward. We have As he sings a song of wooing to the one that he does love.
published the winning poem and the others
will appear in the Healer magazine in future The grass is slowly growing and soon it will need mowing,
issues. We will also be using some of the other It’s waving and it’s bending in the breezes that are blowing.
entrants’ poems in due course.
There’s a river of black ants flowing in a wavy line
Lifting and shifting nestwards all the titbits that they find.
First place (£100)
There is a Riot in the Quiet, by Montgomery Kelly The caterpillars don’t need sneakers as they inch along the plants.
If it wasn’t for the holes you wouldn’t see them at a glance.
Second place (£50)
Autumn, by Sylvia Browning There’s a splatter and a splash as a bird dips in the bath
When he fluffs and puffs his feathers out – it’s hard not to laugh.
Third place (£25)
Ode to Aging, by Christine Oakes Now the sky has gone to grey and there might be rain they say,
It will add some drumming as it passes on its way.
Highly commended (£10 M&S voucher)
Sea Friend, by Vivien Steels There’s a riot in the quiet if you step into my yard,
If you’re near it you can hear it if you listen very hard.
Highly commended (£10 M&S voucher)
A Special Place, by Edwina Burton Montgomery Kelly
27How you can help
There’s a variety of ways you can show your support
to The Harry Edwards Healing Sanctuary.
Registered Charity No: 1098712
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28Stay in touch with the Sanctuary
Wherever you are, we are here for you!
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29Retreats at the Sanctuary
Join us for for a one, four or five day healing retreat. You will have plenty of chances to
relax and unwind in the serenity of the Surrey Hills. Go ahead, pamper yourself!
Single Day Retreats Four Day Retreats Five Day Retreats
Dates for 2021 Dates for 2021 Dates for 2021
24th March 9th - 12th March 7th - 11th June
21st April 13th - 16th April 25th - 29th October
19th May 11th - 14th May
16th June 6th - 9th July £525
Single Occupancy
21st July 14th - 17th September
18th August £775
Double Occupancy
22nd September £425
Single Occupancy
13th October
3rd November £625
Double Occupancy
Christmas Retreat 2021
£55 per person 30th Nov - 3rd Dec
To book please give us a call on 01483 205620 or email enquiries@burrowslea.org.uk
Do get in touch if you would like to organise your own retreat.
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31Your Wedding Day
Your dream wedding with amazing views of quintessentially English countryside is offered at Burrows Lea
Country House. Nestled in some of Surrey’s most idyllic countryside, making it the perfect venue for a
beautiful English country wedding.
Having your wedding at Burrows Lea means you can have both your ceremony and reception in one
location. Our in-house chapel is fully licenced to hold wedding ceremonies, offering couples the chance to
tailor a service that suits them. It is non-denominational, so we can cater for all beliefs and expectations.
Our on-site registrar will work with you to create your perfect ceremony.
A wonderful sweeping driveway leads you up to the entrance of Burrows Lea, an imposing manor house
set on a hillside overlooking the stunning views of the countryside. From the fabulous formal rose garden
to the wooded hollow and tree-lined walkways, the gardens are immaculately kept. During April and May
be enchanted by the spectacular bluebell woodland, which is magical.
Burrows Lea provides everything you would ever need or want for a picture-perfect English country
wedding. Let our passionate and approachable team, who have an abundance of experience in ensuring
that every detail is taken care of, help you make this a most memorable day.
For more information call 01483 205620 or email
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