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Born on August 19, 1951 in Torrington, Connecticut,  Nicholas Tyner Packard lived with his family in Ben Avon, PA, graduating from Avonworth and the University of Pittsburgh where he earned his BA in Philosophy and an MA in International Affairs and Public Administration. After graduation, he joined the Peace Corps which led him to his life’s work of educating and healing. Although his work took him away from Pittsburgh, he remained throughout his life a loyal Pitt and Pirate fan.

In late 1982, Nicholas left the US. He’d been working as a playwright in New York and was invited to take his skills to Rome, supplementing his writing for the theatre with writing for the nascent pharmaceutical industry. At this time he was enjoying considerable success both creatively and materially, living the ‘dolce vita’ in a beautiful village outside Rome. But inside he was feeling empty and disillusioned by both theatre and pharmaceuticals and, drawn by an inner calling for something deeper, he left in 1989 for India.

For the next 10 years he lived and travelled in the mountains of India. This was a time of deep meditation and extraordinary personal transformation. Vedic astrologers had predicted he would be a renowned healer, but Nicholas dismissed their predictions. At the end of this period, in 1999 while he was in Dharamsala, North India (home of the Dalai Lama)  he met Yi-Ching Tung  who became his devoted friend and interpreter in the next years.

At the start of the 21st century his search for meaning and understanding took him to the mountainous regions of China - first to Shandong Province (birthplace of Confucius) where he taught English literature and then to Jinan where he set up an English Business Management School. In 2001 he moved to Sichuan province to teach tourism, business management, philosophy and English at Southwest Jiaotong University. By now a Professor he became renowned for teaching Chinese philosophy and culture, bringing the wisdom of the ancients back to the Chinese people. At this time he also made a deep study of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Feng Shui and submitted to rigorous training in Qi Gong and Tai Chi with Grand Masters of these arts. Recognising his dedication, he became known as Master Nicholas Packard.

From 2007 he overcame his initial reluctance and officially accepted the title of healer and began to give healing sessions and talks on spiritual matters in Thailand, China, India, Oman, the Philippines and Bhutan.  He travelled constantly, dedicating his life to helping those who were sick, and became renowned as a healer and teacher, working solely for donations, greatly loved for his fearless passionate spirit and his phenomenal healing power. He became especially sought after by the Maharajahs and Maharanis of India and by the royal family of Bhutan, where he planned to create a healing centre in an ancient temple he was given for the purpose. The Bhutanese honoured him by calling him Lama, which means spiritual teacher.

His mission now spread to Europe and also back to Florida in the US, where he worked in St Petersburg. In 2016 he began healing in Stroud, in the south west of England where people flocked to him for healing and guidance, and to hear his talks. Drawing on his love of the Tao and the I Ching, he would talk until late in the evening on themes such as The Way of Harmony and Balance and The Unity of Consciousness. In 2017 his brilliant book Riding the Dark Horse and the Fall of Man was published, now available as an audio book.

But it was for his remarkable healing sessions that he was most known.  Using a combination of numerology, acupressure and Tibetan Tantric Healing, he would work tirelessly with each patient, devotedly showing people their true life path, by helping to remove what was in the way at all levels. With his immense heart forces he gave all that he had and more - and thus changed the course of people’s lives all over the world.

Nicholas passed peacefully away at the age of 69, in Naples, Florida on February 15th 2021.