Intuitive Animal
Usui Reiki

About Intuitive Reiki for Animals 

Reiki is the Japanese word for the spiritual life force energy found in all sentient beings. Clients come in all shapes and sizes: from a poorly bee, to a stranded whale!

WHICH SPECIES DO  YOU HELP?
I love to connect with all species. I do not view certain species as 'vermin.'
 

• Your pets, foster pets, sheltered pets

• Livestock/farm animals

• Zoo and sanctuary residents

• Wildlife visitors and casualties 

• Wild birds - from pigeons to peregrines

• Aquatics

• Insects, reptiles and amphibians

HOW MANY SESSIONS WILL MY PET NEED?
 

Varies from client to client. Frequency will be determined by

• Your pet's progress after each session - any change in symptoms. Stabilization of symptoms. 

• Your budget

• Animals require several days rest in-between Reiki and other health care modalities e.g. hydrotherapy, acupuncture, physiotherapy, treadmill exercise. Plus rest days before and after agility and pre-show training. 

• Allowing time for Herxheimer reactions to fully resolve. If the patient experiences a healing detox reaction for 48hrs after the Reiki, this is due to toxins and emotions from past trauma mobilising via the elimination pathways. It can make pets feel more tired for a few days and increase toileting. If your pet already has chronic fatigue, digestive troubles including bouts of diarrhoea, then we need to be mindful of exacerbating this, due to herx, and plan longer gaps between sessions. 
  Please read further information about Herx reactions below. 
  
  **If your pet is currently already receiving other forms of health care, please share which types via email.

I will never advise weekly sessions when not needed. If I intuit longer gaps are needed, I will add this to the feedback report.
I appreciate how many pawrents will 'go without' things in order to meet their beloved pet's healthcare costs and to help provide a better quality of life after injury, operations, and during old age. 

Meta approach to animal care.
The meta approach is where a practitioner acknowledges and supports a multi-disciplinary approach to the patient's health goals. The practitioner would never expect the pet carer to 'only' use Reiki. They would be supportive of the primary caretaker exploring all possible avenues, including standard veterinary care, to ensure the best possible outcome for the patient's health and quality of life.

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Here are some of the many ways energy healing can help all forms of life:
 

- Calming. Reduces anxiety
- Help reduce pain levels
- Optimize biological functions 
- Optimize anatomical functions
- Helps release the emotional and mental impact of past trauma 

- Release the stress from perceived responsibility, or from discordant energy within the home environment
- Release emotions absorbed from the owners field; useful for difficult times like family divorce 
- Ease and soothe the emotional pain of bereavement
- Can help rescued and fostered pets integrate into new surroundings
- Can potentially reduce the requirement/dosage for pharmaceutical or herbal medications, therefore reducing your pet's medical bills.
- Reiki can be used as part of a broader program of health care, it is complimentary and can be used alongside veterinarian care. Please consult your vet if you are concerned about contraindications for your pet. 
- Distant Reiki is helpful for emergency situations to help bring calm and optimize biological functions where accidents, poisonings and emotional traumas occur. Distant Reiki is more intuitive and offers psychic insights. 

Energy healing is gentle, profound, respectful and deeply relaxing. The healing process that follows is gradual. Let's be realistic; real change takes time and does not arrive with a loud phone notification. Caretakers often report how relaxed their pet seems immediately after the session, and how restricted mobility has eased. You may find your pet or wildlife casualty looking deep into your eyes and exchanging one of those heart-to-heart moments where you just 'know' they are saying
"I love you. Thank you for the Reiki, Mum, Dad." 

WHAT HAPPENS DURING A SESSION? How do you work?

During a session I will be 'holding the space' energetically for the client, rather than 'giving' a treatment. I only approach for hands-on connection if I sense the animal wishes to proceed to a closer connection. I use this approach for distant healing sessions too. Distant healing actually allows more of an opportunity to work hands-on and for a full 60-80 minutes where necessary and for full body scans. Animals have agency and I respect their boundaries and energetic field by sitting quietly with them, not too close, in a meditative and mindful state.
Often the animal will telepathically direct me to a specific organ, limb, muscle, joint, or an invisible energy centre called a 'chakra.' There are 8 or 9 major chakras, 21 minor sensory chakras, and 6 bud chakras located in the paws and ears. The animals instruction to me will either be heard as a word or sentence, or I will feel the location within my own body: a distinct twinge, pain or ripple in a certain muscle, gums or teeth suddenly aching, itchy ears.

I work from the head downwards, to the distal point of the hind area. I include the chakras, the limbs, the major joints, paws, ears, tail and any organs or muscles, tendons and joints I am instructed to move to. Often my own paws/palms will sense 'hungry points' that seem to absorb more energy than others. 

I work intuitively and will follow directions from my SGT Spiritual Guide Team. For example, they could mention a specific biological function within the physiology that needs rebalancing and optimizing. I could hear succinct information such as "dysbiosis" "flora" - and I would then delve deeper and ask for confirmation that I have understood there is dysbiosis in the gut and we are balancing this area and the levels of each bacteria. The intention would then be to enhance the quality and proliferation of friendly bacteria in the gut, if it is for the highest and best interests for the health of that patient. 

 

Your pet or wildlife patient may let you know when they have absorbed enough energy for today. They may rise to their feet and wander off for a drink and return for more. They may bark softly, place their head on your arm for comfort. They may stretch and pandiculate to somatically release energy. Animals typically relax into a deep state of slumber. 
 

AFTER THE SESSION

Please aim to postpone long walks until your pet has fully recovered from the session. Drinking plenty of fresh water aids detoxification, and the excretion of toxins and emotions that are ready for release.

When you receive your feedback report I will list the areas that absorbed the most healing energy, or that were drawn to my attention. I may also list the input from my Guide Team where relevant and appropriate to do so. It is important to understand that energy healing not only helps with ongoing health issues and the impact of past trauma, but it also serves to address the health of each chakra, and the biological and anatomical functions. An optimization process can begin and continues over subsequent sessions. The list of areas and biological functions mentioned in your feedback report, highlight areas that are being 'optimized'. From a few cells to an entire organ. If an organ is listed is does not necessarily mean there is illness there; but some degree of sub-optimal energy and balance.
Disease is a state of 'dis-ease', disharmony. A reiki treatment is not sweeping for mines, but where energetic anomalies are found, the Reiki energy will seek to re-dress the imbalance of energy. 

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IMPORTANT INFORMATION ON HERXHEIMER REACTIONS AFTER REIKI

Similar to humans, pets can experience a 'healing detox' or 'Herxheimer reaction' to energy healing in the 24-48 hours after a session. This common reaction is a natural phenomenon, and a temporary inflammatory response and detoxification process, where the body releases stored toxins that have been mobilised. The patient may feel under-par for 24-48hrs. The symptoms may be a headache, an increase in bowel movements or urinary elimination, sinus symptoms, an increase in body temperature. Needing to rest and sleep after Reiki, is a common reaction. I would recommend not to schedule Reiki before a social event, visitors arriving, a swim or walk. Your pet will typically want to snuggle and rest in a quiet room.

Reiki healing can also potentially mobilise trapped emotions and patients, including animals, can experience an emotional release and 'emotional detox' or 'spiritual detox' after Energy Healing. This detox will pass swiftly for animals, because unlike humans, they don't have the need to analyse the emotions releasing.
 

At the time of booking/or the day before your session, it is worth bearing in mind the detox reaction and whether or not it would be wise to delay Reiki, if your pet has incontinence, or vomiting and diarrhoea. Please wait until those specific symptoms have completely resolved and then we can reschedule your session. Seek advice from your licensed veterinarian. Diarrhoea and vomiting can cause a loss of essential electrolytes, including sodium, potassium and chloride, which can lead to low blood pressure, and subsequently your pet may feel faint and be at risk of weakness and collapse. Other essential nutrients are lost during persistent and recurring diarrhoea and vomiting. Hypothetically, if your pet were to experience an Herxheimer reaction and their body eliminated release through the bowel, this could put undue pressure on the already overactive bowel function. Animal acupuncture and acupressure can help to reduce diarrhoea symptoms. Speak to your vet if symptoms are recurring and persistent.

As a caring and responsible practitioner, I feel it is wise to be cautious and not assume a pet will 'never' have a detox reaction. If your pet has been prescribed pharmaceutical medications, hypothetically, the animal could find themselves detoxing ingredients. If your pet has experienced trauma in their past; emotions linking back to the past can potentially mobilise for release; not necessarily in the first few sessions. Think of the onion analogy and layers peeling. 

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In the event that your pet does experience a healing 'release', they can feel reassured when they intuit that you understand what is happening. Tell them it will ease and pass soon, and encourage them to drink more water. Having an awareness of detox reactions enables pet caretakers to react with calm support, and pets can feel this. They may need extra reassurance and comforts, like their favourite soft toy to snuggle with. ​