In the early 60s, Fred Sailor, a Californian, set off on a spiritual quest to India. He was trained in various techniques by several spiritual masters and took the name Satchamar.
After more than twenty years of practice in India, he returned to the United States, in Santa Monica, and set up a meditation and spiritual discussion group, constituted by a core of around thirty people from a wide variety of backgrounds and professions. They met regularly and called their gatherings ‘Sessions of Light’.
Satchamar regularly received information from the higher planes. In February 1991, he channelled a method of energy healing called ‘healing by angelic light’. The group practised this powerful and complex healing technique for several weeks. One of the students, Michael-David Lawrience, asked Satchamar if there was not a simpler way of using this energy.
On 15 May 1991, Satchamar channelled a simple and complete healing technique, using six very specific hand positions called ‘Lahochi’. This method was transmitted to him by the Master Lahochi, an ascended Master also known as Lao Tzu. Lahochi, therefore, shares the values of Taoism.
The practice of Lahochi developed within the group. Among them was an acupuncturist who quickly noticed that combining Lahochi with acupuncture (and other forms of traditional Chinese medicine) considerably increased the benefits and results obtained. This is because Lahochi acts principally on the physical body and the etheric body – the body on which the meridians used during a Chinese medicine treatment are based.
Satchamar soon communicated to the group that it was time to share this energy throughout the world in order to encourage the development of a higher spiritual consciousness for humanity. Some members of the group began to teach Lahochi to many health professionals. They received very good feedback.
In 1992, Satchamar and his wife Alla moved to New Mexico to set up a spiritual retreat centre. Following this move, members of the group set up the ‘Lahochi Institute’. Among them was Elizabeth Chandler Patric, a certified yoga teacher and meditation master, who wrote the very first Lahochi manual. This enabled to make this teaching known to as many people as possible.
Elizabeth moved to Quebec and introduced a Reiki master, Jean Cornudet, to Lahochi. Jean translated the manual into French. It was through him that the Lahochi teachings arrived in France.
