What if the key to a deeper bond with your pet lies in an ancient practice of energy healing? On this episode of Ready Set Reiki, we welcome Elaine McCarty, also known as the Animal Reiki Lady, who shares her transformative journey from corporate professional to a passionate animal Reiki master and animal chaplain. Discover how her initial skepticism towards Reiki gave way to a heartfelt commitment, inspired by the need to support a family member with multiple sclerosis.
Elaine enlightens us on misconceptions surrounding Reiki, especially in the realm of animal care, and explains its growing acceptance as a holistic practice thanks to influencers like Dr. Oz and platforms like TikTok. She dives into her role as an animal chaplain, offering interspecies faith and spirituality, and supporting pets and their families through end-of-life care. Elaine also provides valuable advice for selecting a compassionate and skilled Reiki practitioner, sharing personal stories of her work with senior and special needs pets.
Thinking about starting an animal Reiki business? Elaine shares invaluable insights on building a social media presence, volunteering at local animal shelters, and gradually transitioning to professional sessions. Learn about her "Peaceful Crossings" course, designed to train practitioners to support pets and their owners during the poignant end-of-life stages. Don't miss this heartwarming and informative discussion that offers a roadmap for both aspiring Reiki practitioners and pet lovers seeking holistic care for their furry companions.
Affectionately known as the Animal Reiki Lady, Elaine McCarty is dedicated to fostering profound connections between humans and animals. As an Animal Reiki Master and Animal Chaplain, she embodies a reverence for all living things, striving to enhance the well-being of all species.
Through her on-demand, virtual, and in-person courses, Elaine empowers others to deepen their understanding of the human-animal bond through the transformative practice of Reiki. She is also the author of several digital publications, offering unique insights into the profound healing potential of Animal Reiki.
In her private practice, Elaine focuses on providing compassionate end-of-life care for beloved animal companions, offering comfort and support to both pets and their families. You can also join Elaine on her weekly YouTube livestream, where she shares messages of hope and healing for those navigating the journey of pet loss.
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Speaker 1 (00:10):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is Ready Set Reiki a podcast about Reiki, the
universal energy life force,from the curious beginner to the
seasoned master teacher,welcoming all systems, all
lineages and all levels.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, we refer toourselves as guides rather than
hosts, as we two are traveling,supporting each other and
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learning on this Reiki journeyas well.
And with that said, I am yourfirst guide, tracy Seawright.
And I am your second guide,karina Berkabin, and today we
have a wonderful guest here, andthat is Elaine McCarty,
affectionately known as theanimal Reiki lady, she is
dedicated to fostering profoundconnections between humans and
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animals.
As an animal Reiki master andanimal chaplain, she embodies a
reverence of all living things,striving to enhance the
well-being of all species.
Through her on-demand virtualand in-person courses, Elaine
empowers others to deepen theirunderstanding of the
human-animal bond through thetransformation practice of Reiki
(01:36):
.
She is also the author ofseveral digital publications
offering unique insights intothe profound healing potential
of animal Reiki.
In her private practice, herfocus lies in providing
compassion, end-of-life care forbeloved animal companions,
offering comfort and support toboth pets and their family.
You can also join her on herweekly YouTube live stream,
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where she shares messages ofhope and healing for those
navigating the journey of loss.
Elaine, welcome to Ready SetReiki.
Hello, Thank you for having meWonderful, so let's dive right
in.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Okay, I'm not sure how far back you want to go, but
I'll just give you like alittle brief.
I'm originally fromPhiladelphia, I spent 20 years
in Wisconsin and I now reside inthe beautiful state of Colorado
myself, my husband and, at themoment, just one special needs
dog, a beautiful dog named Gypsy.
At any point in time, though, Iusually have two, three or more
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beautiful animals sharing ourhome.
I'm a self-described corporatedropout.
Before it became popular,before it became the in thing to
do with the great resignation,I walked away from my corporate
job.
I knew that I had to find a wayto work with animals, and so I
went from being the HR lady tothe animal Reiki lady, and
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that's why I say affectionatelythe animal Reiki lady.
It was one of my co-workers whodubbed that name, and then, at
the same time that I left my job, I also I went all in.
I sold my house, we bought anRV and we became full-time RVers
for almost four years.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh, wonderful, wonderful.
I love that Wonderful.
So when did healing, when didthe Reiki, the energy work come
into your life?
Would you say that you?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
found Reiki, or Reiki found you.
Oh, reiki absolutely found me.
I had never heard of it beforeand it wasn't until I was, and
revealing some of my age.
But it was about a dozen yearsago.
I was in my fifties and I had afamily member who was diagnosed
with MS and I wanted to find away to help her.
And I just happened to betalking about it to someone who
said you should look into Reiki.
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It's a wonderful way to sharesome energy healing with a
person with chronic illness, andI'll tell you right then, as
soon as the words energy healingcame out of her mouth, I
internally rolled my eyes.
I was the total skeptic.
But after the first session Iunderstood the power behind
energy healing, and behind Reikispecifically, and then I knew I
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had to share it with animals.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Beautiful.
I love that.
So our next question is you hadmentioned in your bio that you
are an animal chaplain.
Well, tell us what that's about.
What does an animal chaplain do?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That's a great question because most people
have not heard.
Does an animal chaplain do?
That's a great question becausemost people have not heard of
an animal chaplain before.
And if I can give you a littlebit of context and you being
from the Reiki background andany of our other Reiki
practitioners listening, when Ifirst began to practice Reiki
and I wanted to teach it andpractice it, I was doing it in
different states and I happenedto be in Florida and someone
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advised me that in the state ofFlorida we are not welcome to
touch another person unless weare licensed massage therapists
or ordained ministers.
So I was not a licensed massagetherapist, I wasn't licensed in
any particular practice and Iwent about the process of
becoming an ordained minister.
And for many of you who may knowthis, you might have heard it
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from friends or family whodecide that they want to lead a
officiate a wedding ceremony ora baptism or a funeral, and
that's the route that they go.
But I decided to go all in andI wanted to actually say that I
was a minister.
And then I discovered throughand someone whose book I'll
recommend if we have thatopportunity during the podcast
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is Sarah Bowen, who is also ananimal chaplain and introduced
me to that whole world, andreally what we do is practice I
guess I would call itinterspecies, faith and
spirituality and we recognizethat every living thing has a
soul, including Mother Earth.
For me personally, I use myanimal chaplainship to support
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people and their animalcompanions as they're
approaching end of life, Whetherit's just helping them make
difficult decisions ornavigating the anticipation of
the loss and then comfort aftertheir pet has crossed.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Right Very good and it's interesting you know, the
landscape of Reiki is changing,where we're having states that
are requiring that now and youjust found a different way if
you know, massage doesn'tresonate with you to go that way
as a chaplain.
So that's some good advice forour curious beginners who are
beginning this journey that thismay be things to come.
So just be aware you know outthere if legislation comes up.
So reikiorg does a very goodjob at keeping ahead of you know
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that information that comes outas states are bringing things
up for legislation and regardingReiki.
So, yeah, thank you for walkingus through that process.
So when did you feel called tobe an animal healer?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Almost right away.
I knew all my life that I theonly way I know to phrase it is
I wanted to work with animals.
I knew all my life and I wasgoing to go to school for
zoology or marine biology oroceanography and I was talked
out of it.
I let myself be talked out ofit and even my guidance
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counselor, when I suggested thatI wanted to be a veterinarian,
advised me that I probablywasn't smart enough to get into
veterinary school.
Now, this was back in the 70s,so it's all good, I found a way
to overcome it.
It took me 50 years but I did.
But I knew as soon as I beganpracticing Reiki my first
session with traditional Reikiand humans I knew that there had
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to be a way to share it withanimals and I went about finding
a teacher because I thought Iasked my own animal Reiki.
I asked my Reiki master howwould I go about practicing with
animals?
And she said to me you just doit.
Reiki is Reiki.
And I agree.
I couldn't agree more.
Reiki is this beautiful, loving, universal healing energy and
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everybody has access to it.
But when I tried and I share thestory of a puppy my very first
animal client was a puppy maybe12 weeks old, who had a small
deformity, and his human askedif I would work with a puppy.
And here's me trying to hold asquirming puppy in my lap,
thinking that I had to use handpositions, thinking that I had
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to do all of the things that Iwas taught for a human, and it
just didn't work.
I even tried putting a littlepuppy in a playpen.
I thought maybe that would workand it didn't.
So I went about finding ateacher who could show me some
techniques for working withanimals and I just let it go
from there.
I began practicing, takingevery course I could possibly
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get my hands on, and now Ipractice with pets and wildlife
and at zoos animals who'veexperienced trauma.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Right, right, and I always explain it to people.
As you know, you're going tomedical school, but then you
want a specialty, you want tospecialize in pediatrics or
oncology, and so that's howthey're able to frame it a
little bit better.
So, karina and I, ourbackground is elementary
teachers, but I frame it as youknow what I want to teach high
school Do I want to be aprofessor in college, so you
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want to get that specialty.
So, like I taught preschoolright, kindergarten, you know
first grade versus the older,you know students.
So I tell people, if you reallywant to go in deep with it, get
the specialty.
Take that animal because it isdifferent.
You know you would do Reikizones or Reiki bubble or Reiki
trails, different techniques, sothat you know the animal has
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that freedom.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
And that's exactly the way that I frame it as well.
I use it a little bit differentexample.
I did use a medical example,but 100% you know you're not,
you're not going to go to adermatologist to learn how to
deliver a baby.
But 100%.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You know you're not.
You're not going to go to adermatologist to learn how to
deliver a baby.
Right, Very good, Right, Allright.
So what is one thing working asan animal Reiki master, healer,
teacher, animal chaplain taughtyou?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh, okay, so that would be well that we humans
have nothing on animals.
That would be, my outrightanswer Animals are sentient
beings, they are on their ownjourney, with their own
preferences and their ownchoices and their own lives, and
that all animals have souls.
That they have souls andthey're amazing teachers and
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amazing healers and they havetaught me everything I know.
Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I love that.
I love that.
Yes, amazing.
They are what a gift.
They are what a gift.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So what is a common misconception about your work?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Common misconception about my work About Reiki in
general, I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It can be anything in your experience.
This is all of you that youincorporate what has your
journey in rather healing aswell, you know, with the reiki
animals.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, I'll start out by saying, as I kind of
mentioned earlier, I was theoriginal skeptic.
I did not.
I just didn't understand howpowerful it was to be able to
connect with our own souls andour own energies and be able to
offer this kind of healingmodality.
So I think the thing that comesthrough the most from other
people about misconceptions isthat it's not real, that Reiki
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is mumbo jumbo, hippy dippy Icall it hairy fairy because I
work with animals and I thinkthat's the biggest misconception
is that it's not real and it'snot until people see it in
action that they recognizethere's power behind it.
But I do think and you can tellme if you agree or not, I think
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that more and more people arebecoming open to this as people
are turning to holistic care fortheir overall health, like
places like the Mayo Clinic andthe Cleveland Clinic and there
used to be just a little shortlist of hospitals that
incorporated holistic modalitiesinto their recovery and into
their integrated health systems,but now there are so many of
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them that we could have pages oflists of hospitals like that.
So as people are turningtowards holistic care, they're
beginning to understand that weshould be offering that to our
animals as well, that our petsare experiencing the same kinds
of things that we are, so weshould be offering them holistic
care, and I've gotten off thetopic of misconceptions, I'm
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sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You're right there.
It's more open to it now.
I mean thanks to TikTok.
Tiktok has opened the doors onit, where my kids know exactly
what Reiki is, and there's evena dog on there who pulls tarot
cards.
He's blind and his mom.
I got all my cards yeah, he'sgot he.
His mom puts the cards out andhe sniffs the card.
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And it's Horace, yeah, he andhe does out and he sniffs the
card.
And it's Horace, yeah, he andhe does.
She reads the cards for himbecause he's blind.
So this is normalizingsomething that was kind of
hidden years ago, made itmainstream, and you know, dr Oz,
with his wife, is a Reikimaster and so he would bring her
in during surgery, so that kindof started getting it out there
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as well.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
So, yeah, Now if we could just break through the
barriers and I know that it'sgoing to happen little by little
.
With traditional veterinarymedicine, there's still some
pushback, which I understand,and I believe that Reiki for
animals is truly part ofholistic care, that we need our
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medical care, we needprofessionals who understand how
to care for the physical andmedical needs of our animal
companions, but that there'salso a spiritual and energetic
need that is not being fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Sure, sure and even caregiver fatigue.
To give animal Reiki for that,for those caregivers, those
zookeepers, the veterinarians.
I mean, my daughter works at azoo in Pittsburgh and you know
dealing with animals it's tiring.
You know she is so empathic andpassionate and loves the
animals and you know gettingworn out by the time she comes
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home.
You know to give her thatenergy as well.
So it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Absolutely yeah.
Yeah, so did I answer thequestion well enough about
misconceptions?
You did you absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So what is something you wish your younger self knew
about your current profession?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh, about my current profession.
Oh well, I could probably saythis for not just my profession
but for my life, not just myprofession but for my life Not
to wait, not to wait and not tolet anybody get in my way.
Like I would go back and tellmy younger self that there's
nothing to be afraid of, thereis absolutely nothing to be
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afraid of, and you should notlet anyone stand in the way of
your dreams.
I would tell her that you haveyour dreams for a reason you
were dreams.
I would tell her that you haveyour dreams for a reason you
were.
You have this feeling that youwant to work with animals.
You need to honor that.
You need to go for it and don'tlet anybody stand in your way.
Go after your dreams.
And um and I think thatprobably is not just to my
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younger self, but to anybody'syounger self out there who wants
to hear that there's nothing tobe afraid of and don't let
anybody stand in the way of yourdreams practitioner, energy
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healer or worker.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
When your cup needs full, what do you look for?
And if you do not get anytreatments, on yourself what
qualities do you strive for inyour practice?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Okay, that's another great question.
If I am looking for myself, oreven I have gone to other
practitioners to care for my ownanimal companions.
There is sometimes somethingthere, when you have such a
close relationship with theanimals that you share your home
with 24-7, that sometimes Iliked having somebody else come
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in to offer Reiki sessions to mydogs.
And what I looked forspecifically is someone who was
going to let's see what's thebest way to phrase this honor
them as individuals.
Who is going to, um, see what'sthe best way to phrase this?
Honor them as individual, whois going to respect them for who
they are?
Because I I at the time I hadthree special needs to three
seniors One of them was actuallyspecial needs and I want a
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Reiki practitioner who is goingto meet them on their terms, who
will understand that Winstonwas deaf, to meet them on their
terms, who will understand thatWinston was deaf, that he didn't
like to have his feet touched.
That would just simplyunderstand them as individuals
and everybody, I think everybodyjust wants to be seen, heard
and accepted for who they are,and our animal companions are
that way as well.
(16:34):
And let's see.
I'll use one more example, ifthat's okay, I have one more
story I would like to shareabout Jake.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
This helps it when people, when you give examples,
that's, that's great.
Yep, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Got it.
The example is of Jake, so what?
One of the things that I do ismedical fostering is what I call
it for people who are whoseanimal companions have some type
of surgery or illness for whichthey are not capable.
It's usually senior citizens,but they're not capable of
offering the rehabilitation care.
So I've had dogs with strokes.
Jake happens to be an example ofone who was an amputation and
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he was a senior dog, 13 yearsold, and had his right shoulder
amputated, had his leg amputatedfrom the right shoulder down,
and when he came to me that wasthe same day of the surgery.
It was a.
He had the surgery and cameright to my home and,
interestingly enough, it is thesame day that my husband had an
amputation surgery and to seethe two of them together.
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But what the reason that I thatI mentioned?
That is because my husband, whois now fully functional,
demands that people see him forwho he is.
He does not want to be seen assomeone who had an amputation.
And I felt that same thing fromJake that Jake did not know he
had an amputation.
Jake did not know that he nowhad any ability that was not as
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normal as any other animal.
He had no concept of that.
That's a very human thing thatwe understand.
No concept of that.
That's a very human thing thatwe understand.
So he wanted to be treated asif he were himself, for who he
was, whether or not he had theamputation.
And that is one of thequalities that I would look for
when we approach animals toapproach them on their terms and
see everything as perfect, allas well.
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Everything is perfect, and I amsimply sharing with you
beautiful, loving, healingenergy of Reiki to use for your
highest good, however fits yourneeds.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Beautiful.
Yeah, thank you for sharingthat.
That was a great example.
So what advice would you givesomeone who was just entering
this profession, who is going tobe specializing with animal
Reiki?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Okay, and we started to talk about this already and
that is the fact that you wouldwant to find a teacher who
specializes in animal Reiki.
We mentioned the fact thatReiki is Reiki, which I kind of
get that pushback every once ina while that why are you
practicing animal Reiki?
Reiki is Reiki and it is Reikiis beautiful, loving, healing
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energy accessible to everyone.
But we are animals.
All have different needs.
They have much different needs.
It's a true specialty becausewe are not going to place our
hands on a lion.
We are not going to place ourhands on a wild horse who's been
wrangled by the BLM and is nowso scared and unsure of anything
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in their life.
We're not going to place ourhands on a pit bull who's been
used as bait.
So animals who've beentraumatized, animals in the wild
, animals at zoos, they're notanimals where we are going to
use traditional Reiki techniques.
We're going to use very specialtechniques and it's going to be
unique, not just for themselvesas individuals.
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It could be for their speciesand it could be for their
situation.
So we want to be able to accessa whole different toolkit when
we start to work with thoseanimals.
And again, that's where I wasgoing to use my little physical
medicine thing.
We're not going to go to adermatologist to learn how to
deliver a baby.
We really want to becomespecialized at it.
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And then the other thing Iwould add is practice, practice
and more practice.
The more you work withdifferent animal clients of all
different species in alldifferent situations, the more
you're going to be able to craftwhat you need to do to work
with all kinds of animals.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Right, right, right, yeah.
Just keep practicing, and alsoremember that consent too.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So give them the opportunity, yeah absolutely,
and that is a foundation ofReiki, and it's one of the
questions that I also get askeda lot is how do you ask
permission of an animal?
And in my mind, I invite them.
When I sit down to practice,whether it's in person or
distance, I invite them to joinme in the space and they will
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generally give you a sign thatthey're accepting or not
accepting.
They'll either walk away orthey will be.
They'll give you very obvioussigns that they've accepted and
are willing to have a sessionwith you.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Right, right and always kind of give them a
choice.
That's why, like the-.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Always a choice.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
The zones or the bubble, someplace where they can
, they come to you.
I always say the animal's theboss.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
The animal's the boss in the session.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yep, I let them guide me always.
Absolutely so what books do yourecommend?
I have a couple books that I amvery fond of, specifically for
animal Reiki.
I will recommend the book frommy animal Reiki teacher and her
name is Kathleen Prasad and thebook is Everything Animal Reiki.
Now she's got a number ofpublications, but of all of them
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, that's the one I wouldrecommend the most Everything
Animal Reiki publications.
But of all of them, that's theone I would recommend the most
Everything animal Reiki.
And it does a really nice job, areally thorough job, of
introducing the fact thatanimals are meant to guide us,
that they are sentient beings,that they've got preferences,
that they are teachers, thatthey're healers and that one of
the best ways that we canconnect with them is through
that quiet meditation space.
And as soon as I use the wordmeditation, so many people get
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they kind of sometimesinternally, a lot of times
externally, roll their eyes atthe thought of meditating with
an animal.
And I don't mean that you haveto sit on a pillow and chant and
put your fingers in it.
It's just simply accessing aspace where you let all of your
external things go.
Nothing else matters right now.
When I sit with an animal, theonly thing that matters is them.
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This is a time that I devote tothem, and when you can quiet
your mind like that and openyour heart, they walk right
through the door and they loveto share that space.
So that's one of the firstbooks I would recommend.
Everything Animal Reiki.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Wonderful wonderful.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
The next book I would recommend is a book called
Sacred Sendoffs, and the authorof that book is Sarah Bowen, and
she's also an animal chaplain.
She's the first person who Iwas ever introduced to who
described themselves as ananimal chaplain, who describe
themselves as an animal chaplain.
That's when the light bulb wentoff in my mind that what I do
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when I work with animals at endof life is chaplaincy.
It's that pastoral care.
So she does a lovely job oftalking about all species in all
situations, from animals whoare in factory farms to animals
that are in zoos, to wildlife,to everyone.
And Sacred Sendoffs is about howwe honor animals who are
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transitioning from this life tothe next.
And then one more book that Iwould recommend is the Bright
Haven Guide to Animal Hospice.
That is a book by Gail Pope,who ran a I think that she has
retired now formerly retired butshe ran a hospice sanctuary for
animals where it was all abouthospice care right up to the end
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of life and there was noassistance at end of life.
It was how to nurture an animalnaturally through their end of
life, and she has some beautifulinsights, not just and it's not
saying one way or the other, asan animal approaches end of
life.
That one way is better thananother, but she offers some
beautiful insights for animalsand what they experience as they
are transitioning.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Beautiful.
Thank you for that.
Thank you, sure.
And you also are an author ofseveral digital publications,
are you not?
Yes, yes, I am.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yep, I love to write.
In fact, if I could spend allday long, if there were like two
days to every day, I wouldspend it with the animals, and I
would also be writing aboutthem too.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Sure.
So where can our listeners findyour digital publications?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
They are all digital and I don't have them on any, so
they're not going to be foundon sites like Amazon, but on my
website I have links to them all.
There's a link for one of thedigital publications is take the
stress out of visiting the vet.
So that's for your averageperson who wants some help, who
wants some assistance when they,from the moment that they pick
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up the phone and their dog,realizes that they have just
made a veterinary appointment tothe, to the cat, that you have
to put into the carrier toactually get to the vet.
So how do you navigate throughall that?
But anyway.
So my website is the best placeto get access to all the
publications.
Beautiful beautiful.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
My two Cavalier King Charles have a vet appointment
today, so I'm going to have toput that up.
Oh, definitely yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Well, you know, my Winston was a King Charles.
He was the special needs dogand he actually loved going to
the vet.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think they're okay.
I've talked them through it.
I let them know as soon as Imade the appointment.
Yeah, so it's interesting thatyou said as soon as they hear
the appointment made.
So I said hey, boys, we'regoing, we're going on Thursday.
So they know, they absolutelyknow, absolutely know.
So what other modalities do youoffer?
Do you offer classes, events,trainings?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yep, so I have a couple things.
The first one if people wouldlike to find me on YouTube,
everything is under the AnimalReiki Lady, so it's
animalreikiladycom as my website.
All my tags on social media andon YouTube are AnimalReikiLady
and Reiki.
We spell R-E-I-K-I.
That comes up frequently thatit gets misspelled.
My YouTube channel is devotedto people who are navigating pet
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loss, so we primarily talkabout how to anticipatory grief,
how we manage through that whenwe receive the bad news that
there's a terminal healthcondition or even if our dogs or
cats or other animals that livewith us are seniors.
So that's the YouTube channelwhere I do a series of videos
and we meet every Monday live.
It's live stream on YouTube sothat we can all talk and share
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stories.
The other place is all oversocial media.
Oh, what other services, right?
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I lost track of the question.
You got it.
It's all part of it.
Keep going, I got it.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I offer on demand, so there are classes that you can
just take at your own pace ifthat's what you'd like to do.
Reiki, I find, is much it'seasier to learn, either online
or in person, when you havesomeone that you can ask
questions to and talk to, andthen you can go out and practice
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and then come back.
So my I have online virtualclasses that we do via zoom, and
then I also do in-personclasses and I offer them at
sanctuaries here in Colorado andalso one in Florida, and I
offer them all year long.
So my website again is the bestplace to go to get the most
recent access to differentclasses, whether you want to
attend an event, a live event,at one of the sanctuaries In
Colorado it's the Mini MisfitsAnimal Sanctuary and in Florida
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it's the Three Sevenths AnimalSanctuary and I'm there at least
at each of those sanctuaries atleast two or three times every
year holding classes.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Wonderful.
Well, thank you, elaine, theAnimal Reiki lady, so much for
coming on this journey with me.
This ends our part of thejourney together and I'm going
to pass you over to my co guide,karina.
She also has two special guestswith her, comet and Ozzy.
So they're going to ask youthree social media questions.
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So I get questions fromlisteners and I narrow it down
to three questions mediaquestions.
So I get questions fromlisteners and I narrow it down
to three questions, and she hasthem just for you.
So Okay, hi Karina and hi Cosmo.
Hi.
Ozzie.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
We're so excited to talk with you.
We've learned so much today andthank you so much for all that
you're doing for the animals.
Thank you so much.
I had so many.
I was so close to tears so manytimes in all of your stories.
They were just so touching.
So a question of mine is likehow did you establish a social
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media presence?
Like, what did that look likefor you whenever you started?
Okay, it was.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I will tell you and this is for anybody who wants to
do this I will offer thisadvice Just start doing it.
When I go back and look at myvery first videos it was videos
on Facebook.
That's how I started I justshake my head and cringe because
there, but I had to at leaststart somewhere.
And then it gets easier andeasier the more you do it.
So I would pick one, onemodality.
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So whatever you like if youlike Twitter, if you like
Instagram, if you like Facebookjust pick one and then start
putting yourself out there andstart just talking about it.
And that is how it started andit evolved.
It naturally evolved.
I didn't do anything special, Ididn't take any special classes.
I just let it evolve until Iwas so comfortable with video
like this, let it evolve until Iwas so comfortable with video
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like this is here that I wasable to start the YouTube
channel and then reach morepeople.
I remember thinking to myselfthat if I want to reach more
animals than just my littlehometown, I've got to get out
there and start talking about it, and that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Wow, that's amazing.
That's amazing.
Thank you so much for that.
I love that.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Just start just start , press the little button that
says record and pick a topicthat you want to talk about and
think about it, your favoriteanimal, or tell a little story.
And there I read a statisticand I can't remember where it is
that in the average in the US,about 78% of all households in
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the US have pets and that it'slike almost it's over double
what people how many people havechildren in their homes.
The point is that more peoplehave pets than children in their
homes.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Wow, my gosh, that's insane.
I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's a crazy number like that.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Wow, okay, so my biggest.
I'm actually right now I'mtransitioning from full-time
teacher of 24 years into thiswellness space, so I am, I'm
seeing challenges.
So my question to you is, atthe beginning, like when you
left that really great, securebread and butter job and then
(30:47):
you started into this, like I'mjust going to start, you know
cause, like my husband's, likeoh, you're just going to give
people and animals Reiki, okay,like that's going to pay the
bills.
What challenges did you have tocome going to?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
pay the bills.
What challenges did you have toface?
Same challenge my entire family, from my parents to my sisters,
to my husband, to my kids, wentyou're going to do what?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
That's right, so please tell us how you overcame
that.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Okay.
So I won't lie, I'm going totell you it's going to take a
little bit of hard work andyou're going to have to work at
it every single day.
But the first thing to do wouldbe start to establish a social
media presence so that you getsome authority behind you.
You become an authority becauseyou're speaking about it.
You're talking about it.
People start to know who youare and the way the universe
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works is I call it theuniverse's algorithm.
More and more people andanimals who are aligned with you
will be drawn to you.
So that's the spiritualcomponent of starting your
business.
From a practical perspective,what I would recommend doing is
going right to your local animalshelter I have yet to hear of
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an animal shelter that says noto someone who asks if they can
practice Reiki with the animalsand then you start practicing
there regularly.
You just go there as avolunteer.
You start to share Reiki.
The energy starts to shift, andthen what I did when I first
worked with a humane society waswe would offer a complimentary
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Reiki session as part of theadoption package.
So we would offer the Reikisession as part of the adoption
package, so that the would um.
We would offer the Reiki sessionas part of the adoption package
and so that the animal couldadjust.
It's going to take a period ofadjustment up to six months from
the time that an animal isadopted from a shelter to the
home.
And then, as we establishedthose relationships, then more
and more um complimentarysessions became paid sessions
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and then it becomes word ofmouth.
I barely needed to do any typeof self-promotion because it
became word of mouth.
People would start to spreadthe word and then it evolved
from there and then, of course,if you want to teach, then that
you can.
You can put that out there aswell.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Right, I want to do it all.
I want to teach too.
I definitely want to teach too,are you?
Yeah, so thank you so much.
I love this.
This is so amazing.
My next question is like youare full of amazing ideas and
gifts and light.
I can see that and I can feelthat.
What are you working on now?
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What can we expect from you inthe next year or two?
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Okay.
So what I'm working on now isactually just going to start now
.
I know that at the, at there'sany point in time, people may be
drawn to this video, so itcould be five years from now.
Even so, hopefully by then thiswill be a well established
program.
But as an animal chaplain and asan animal Reiki master, my
practice seemed to naturallyevolve.
It was not intentional, but itnaturally seemed to evolve to be
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working with animals who wereapproaching end of life and I.
During that time period I alsoI took a part time job.
I initially called it a bridgejob, so, going back to the part
of offering this as a becomingthis, making this a part of my
vocation, I called it a bridgejob, that I was going to need a
little part-time job to helpends meet.
And I took a job working at apet funeral home and it became
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the best experience of my lifebecause what I realized was that
, working with people at theirmost vulnerable moments, I had
the emotional capacity to do so.
I had the spiritual, emotionalcapacity and then Reiki behind
me.
I was able to help people andtheir animal companions and my
practice began to focus solelyon animals reaching end of life,
(34:29):
and what also evolved was anetwork, a network of mobile
veterinarians, a network of petafterlife care, a network of
social workers who worked withgrief and I'm now able to.
I put together a course forReiki practitioners in
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particular, but it can be.
You don't have to be a Reikipractitioner for becoming an end
of life doula for animals soyou would, from you can.
It starts with just offeringsupport after receiving a
terminal diagnosis or, if youranimal companions is aging and a
senior and approaching end oflife, to offering everything.
(35:10):
So I teach where do you build anetwork?
How do you build a network?
How can you become a resourcefor all the people in your local
community to help them be thesupport that their animal
companion needs as they approachend of life?
So it's called PeacefulCrossings and it doesn't now.
This is putting a time thing onit, but the very first course
(35:33):
is being offered.
This month starts for PeacefulCrossings and we'll see where it
goes from there, because Ireally think that there's nobody
out there offering this type ofsupport to people as their
animals approach end of life.
I know that my parents, myin-laws and my parents both
planned for their end of life,but nobody thinks about it for
their pets.
And then all of a sudden,they're faced at a at a time
(35:56):
when they're so emotionallyvulnerable to having to make the
most difficult decisions.
Sorry, that was long.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Absolutely beautiful.
Oh my gosh, that is amazing.
Wow, Thank you for sharing.
I'm so excited for you and Ilove that also that I picked up
that bridge, the bridge job,that like something that might
work for my husband, like justto give him that, like hey,
while I'm building this business, I'm also going to be doing
(36:25):
this little thing, but it has tobe like for me, like I want to
find it in a either either as areceptionist at a vet clinic or
whatever it can be.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Anything.
Even even animal shelters havepaid positions that are
part-time.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Oh, I love this.
I am so grateful to meet youand thank you so much for all
that you've shared today.
Do you have anything else thatyou'd like to share with us that
our listeners would appreciatelearning about, hearing about?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I am going to offer one more thing that I thought we
might talk about at some pointduring the conversation, but I
think that it's a question thatcomes up from people a lot, and
that's a question like how doyou know what kind of what?
Like how many sessions wouldyou offer an animal?
How do you know when an animalneeds a Reiki session?
How do you figure all thatthing, all those things out?
(37:14):
And it came to me over time andI think that it may be a
question that comes up frompeople, even from Reiki
practitioners who want to workwith animals, like just how do
you know how many sessions togive, or how do you know how
long a session is supposed tolast with an animal?
These are like practicalquestions that might come up.
Is that okay for me to?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I'd love to know, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Okay, I'm gonna say that it does depend on the
animals but over.
I've been doing this now solelypracticing with animals, for
seven years as a as my primaryfocus, and what I have learned
I've been able to create like ageneral guide that I offer to my
students.
That has for general things.
Here's the number of sessionsif there's a surgery.
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Here's the number of sessions Iwould do if they are moving
into a new.
Here's the number of sessionsif there's a surgery.
Here's the number of sessions Iwould do if they are moving
into a new home.
Here's the number of sessions Iwould do if they're going
through anxiety or grief.
But it's all in general.
So I'll give you a generalexample.
And as you begin to practice,more and more people will
recognize this with the moreanimals that they work with.
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But, for example, willrecognize this with the more
animals that they work with.
But, for example, after asurgery or before a surgery, I
might offer six Reiki sessionsand I would do one before the
surgery, one during the surgeryand then four back to back, so
four days right in a row aftersurgery.
So it assists an animal to beprepared, because they don't
understand Humans.
We can say you're going to havea surgery, we're going to give
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you a shot.
You're going to feel drowsy.
You're going to animals, tothem, that it's.
It's just a state of confusion.
They don't understand what'sabout to happen.
So, a Reiki session before tokeep them calm and stress-free,
a Reiki session during in whichI just focus on sharing
beautiful healing energy forwhatever needs to be healed.
And then the four right afterare meant to help the recovery,
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meant to help them recoverquicker, easier, with a little
bit less pain.
So it is going to depend oneach situation, but then some of
them are such common sense likeone session is all you're going
to need during fireworks, ifit's the 4th of July, I sit down
, I become the woman whereeverybody brings their dogs and
they all sit with me and we allshare Reiki for the evening and
that's all we need to do.
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And then, for example, like anend of life which has become my
practice as often as thosebeautiful souls desire, there is
no limit, there is no right orwrong, you're not going to get
it wrong, you're not going to doit too much, you're not going
to offer too many sessions andyour intuition is going to start
to guide you with that.
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Most sessions themselves last 10to 30 minutes.
And animals.
They're not going to be likepeople.
They're not going to lay on amassage table and listen to the
soft music and listen to thebells gong in the background as
you place your hands on them.
They need to be able to movefreely in their environment, to
sit down and lay down and sleepif that's what they want, to
come into your lap if that'swhat they want.
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But I found that cats are theshortest.
They seem to be Reiki mastersall on their own, and 10 minutes
, about 10 minutes, is all youcan expect for a cat to be
patient enough.
And then they're going to say Igot this, but thank you, and
then dogs, dogs could go onforever.
They don't seem to know the atthe end.
So I usually end a sessionafter about 30 minutes with dogs
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.
But I wanted to get that inthere just in case, because
people may wonder what do you doLike?
How do you even know how longyou're supposed to share Reiki?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Right, that is so amazing.
I love it, I love it, I love it.
I could talk to you all day,tracy, back to you, what would
you like to ask?
And yes, I love it.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Love everything.
Thank you so much.
One more question I'd like toask is why do you feel it's
important to offer animal Reikiin the animal's home or location
?
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Okay, that actually is a.
That's a question we shouldfollow up with because we want
to be able to let them becomfortable.
We can and I still am workingon a way to start offering Reiki
at veterinary clinics, but it'sthe same thing.
They are just as stressed outas they get when you put them in
the car, when you put them in acrate.
It's a stressful situation.
So it's much easier to offer ontheir terms, in their location,
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where they're comfortable, theycan lay down and, if they
choose not to, if they choose todecline which is their choice
that they have a space that theycan get up and walk away.
That you're not forcing them tostay in an enclosed room for
something that they're not opento receive.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Very good, thank you.
Thank you, elaine, so much forjoining us on this journey.
It has been wonderful and soinformative, so thank you again.
So I want to thank ourlisteners and if you are
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where there is an offering of avariety of yoga classes, yoga
trainings, reiki and Reikitrainings.
So I'm Tracy C Wright and thishas been Ready Set Reiki.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
This is Ready Set Reiki a podcast about Reiki, the
universal energy life force,from the curious beginner to the
seasoned master teacher,welcoming all systems, all
lineages and all levels.
Reiki is a journey and not adestination, and on this Ready
Set Reiki journey, we refer toourselves as guides rather than
hosts, as we two are traveling,supporting each other and
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learning on this Reiki journeyas well.
And with that said, I am yourfirst guide, tracy Seawright.
And I am your second guide,karina Berkabin, and today we
have a wonderful guest here, andthat is Elaine McCarty,
affectionately known as theanimal Reiki lady, she is
dedicated to fostering profoundconnections between humans and
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animals.
As an animal Reiki master andanimal chaplain, she embodies a
reverence of all living things,striving to enhance the
well-being of all species.
Through her on-demand virtualand in-person courses, Elaine
empowers others to deepen theirunderstanding of the
human-animal bond through thetransformation practice of Reiki
(01:36):
.
She is also the author ofseveral digital publications
offering unique insights intothe profound healing potential
of animal Reiki.
In her private practice, herfocus lies in providing
compassion, end-of-life care forbeloved animal companions,
offering comfort and support toboth pets and their family.
You can also join her on herweekly YouTube live stream,
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where she shares messages ofhope and healing for those
navigating the journey of loss.
Elaine, welcome to Ready SetReiki.
Hello, Thank you for having meWonderful, so let's dive right
in.
So tell us a little bit aboutyourself.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Okay, I'm not sure how far back you want to go, but
I'll just give you like alittle brief.
I'm originally fromPhiladelphia, I spent 20 years
in Wisconsin and I now reside inthe beautiful state of Colorado
myself, my husband and, at themoment, just one special needs
dog, a beautiful dog named Gypsy.
At any point in time, though, Iusually have two, three or more
(02:37):
beautiful animals sharing ourhome.
I'm a self-described corporatedropout.
Before it became popular,before it became the in thing to
do with the great resignation,I walked away from my corporate
job.
I knew that I had to find a wayto work with animals, and so I
went from being the HR lady tothe animal Reiki lady, and
(02:59):
that's why I say affectionatelythe animal Reiki lady.
It was one of my co-workers whodubbed that name, and then, at
the same time that I left my job, I also I went all in.
I sold my house, we bought anRV and we became full-time RVers
for almost four years.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Oh, wonderful, wonderful.
I love that Wonderful.
So when did healing, when didthe Reiki, the energy work come
into your life?
Would you say that you?
Speaker 4 (03:25):
found Reiki, or Reiki found you.
Oh, reiki absolutely found me.
I had never heard of it beforeand it wasn't until I was, and
revealing some of my age.
But it was about a dozen yearsago.
I was in my fifties and I had afamily member who was diagnosed
with MS and I wanted to find away to help her.
And I just happened to betalking about it to someone who
said you should look into Reiki.
(03:47):
It's a wonderful way to sharesome energy healing with a
person with chronic illness, andI'll tell you right then, as
soon as the words energy healingcame out of her mouth, I
internally rolled my eyes.
I was the total skeptic.
But after the first session Iunderstood the power behind
energy healing, and behind Reikispecifically, and then I knew I
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had to share it with animals.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Beautiful.
I love that.
So our next question is you hadmentioned in your bio that you
are an animal chaplain.
Well, tell us what that's about.
What does an animal chaplain do?
Speaker 4 (04:23):
That's a great question because most people
have not heard.
Does an animal chaplain do?
That's a great question becausemost people have not heard of
an animal chaplain before.
And if I can give you a littlebit of context and you being
from the Reiki background andany of our other Reiki
practitioners listening, when Ifirst began to practice Reiki
and I wanted to teach it andpractice it, I was doing it in
different states and I happenedto be in Florida and someone
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advised me that in the state ofFlorida we are not welcome to
touch another person unless weare licensed massage therapists
or ordained ministers.
So I was not a licensed massagetherapist, I wasn't licensed in
any particular practice and Iwent about the process of
becoming an ordained minister.
And for many of you who may knowthis, you might have heard it
(05:07):
from friends or family whodecide that they want to lead a
officiate a wedding ceremony ora baptism or a funeral, and
that's the route that they go.
But I decided to go all in andI wanted to actually say that I
was a minister.
And then I discovered throughand someone whose book I'll
recommend if we have thatopportunity during the podcast
(05:28):
is Sarah Bowen, who is also ananimal chaplain and introduced
me to that whole world, andreally what we do is practice I
guess I would call itinterspecies, faith and
spirituality and we recognizethat every living thing has a
soul, including Mother Earth.
For me personally, I use myanimal chaplainship to support
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people and their animalcompanions as they're
approaching end of life, Whetherit's just helping them make
difficult decisions ornavigating the anticipation of
the loss and then comfort aftertheir pet has crossed.
Speaker 2 (06:09):
Right Very good and it's interesting you know, the
landscape of Reiki is changing,where we're having states that
are requiring that now and youjust found a different way if
you know, massage doesn'tresonate with you to go that way
as a chaplain.
So that's some good advice forour curious beginners who are
beginning this journey that thismay be things to come.
So just be aware you know outthere if legislation comes up.
So reikiorg does a very goodjob at keeping ahead of you know
(06:34):
that information that comes outas states are bringing things
up for legislation and regardingReiki.
So, yeah, thank you for walkingus through that process.
So when did you feel called tobe an animal healer?
Speaker 4 (06:49):
Almost right away.
I knew all my life that I theonly way I know to phrase it is
I wanted to work with animals.
I knew all my life and I wasgoing to go to school for
zoology or marine biology oroceanography and I was talked
out of it.
I let myself be talked out ofit and even my guidance
(07:12):
counselor, when I suggested thatI wanted to be a veterinarian,
advised me that I probablywasn't smart enough to get into
veterinary school.
Now, this was back in the 70s,so it's all good, I found a way
to overcome it.
It took me 50 years but I did.
But I knew as soon as I beganpracticing Reiki my first
session with traditional Reikiand humans I knew that there had
(07:36):
to be a way to share it withanimals and I went about finding
a teacher because I thought Iasked my own animal Reiki.
I asked my Reiki master howwould I go about practicing with
animals?
And she said to me you just doit.
Reiki is Reiki.
And I agree.
I couldn't agree more.
Reiki is this beautiful, loving, universal healing energy and
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everybody has access to it.
But when I tried and I share thestory of a puppy my very first
animal client was a puppy maybe12 weeks old, who had a small
deformity, and his human askedif I would work with a puppy.
And here's me trying to hold asquirming puppy in my lap,
thinking that I had to use handpositions, thinking that I had
(08:18):
to do all of the things that Iwas taught for a human, and it
just didn't work.
I even tried putting a littlepuppy in a playpen.
I thought maybe that would workand it didn't.
So I went about finding ateacher who could show me some
techniques for working withanimals and I just let it go
from there.
I began practicing, takingevery course I could possibly
(08:41):
get my hands on, and now Ipractice with pets and wildlife
and at zoos animals who'veexperienced trauma.
It's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Right, right, and I always explain it to people.
As you know, you're going tomedical school, but then you
want a specialty, you want tospecialize in pediatrics or
oncology, and so that's howthey're able to frame it a
little bit better.
So, karina and I, ourbackground is elementary
teachers, but I frame it as youknow what I want to teach high
school Do I want to be aprofessor in college, so you
(09:11):
want to get that specialty.
So, like I taught preschoolright, kindergarten, you know
first grade versus the older,you know students.
So I tell people, if you reallywant to go in deep with it, get
the specialty.
Take that animal because it isdifferent.
You know you would do Reikizones or Reiki bubble or Reiki
trails, different techniques, sothat you know the animal has
(09:33):
that freedom.
Speaker 4 (09:34):
And that's exactly the way that I frame it as well.
I use it a little bit differentexample.
I did use a medical example,but 100% you know you're not,
you're not going to go to adermatologist to learn how to
deliver a baby.
But 100%.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
You know you're not.
You're not going to go to adermatologist to learn how to
deliver a baby.
Right, Very good, Right, Allright.
So what is one thing working asan animal Reiki master, healer,
teacher, animal chaplain taughtyou?
Speaker 4 (09:58):
Oh, okay, so that would be well that we humans
have nothing on animals.
That would be, my outrightanswer Animals are sentient
beings, they are on their ownjourney, with their own
preferences and their ownchoices and their own lives, and
that all animals have souls.
That they have souls andthey're amazing teachers and
(10:21):
amazing healers and they havetaught me everything I know.
Oh.
Speaker 2 (10:26):
I love that.
I love that.
Yes, amazing.
They are what a gift.
They are what a gift.
Speaker 4 (10:32):
Yes.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
So what is a common misconception about your work?
Speaker 4 (10:37):
Common misconception about my work About Reiki in
general, I guess.
Speaker 2 (10:42):
It can be anything in your experience.
This is all of you that youincorporate what has your
journey in rather healing aswell, you know, with the reiki
animals.
Speaker 4 (10:52):
Well, I'll start out by saying, as I kind of
mentioned earlier, I was theoriginal skeptic.
I did not.
I just didn't understand howpowerful it was to be able to
connect with our own souls andour own energies and be able to
offer this kind of healingmodality.
So I think the thing that comesthrough the most from other
people about misconceptions isthat it's not real, that Reiki
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is mumbo jumbo, hippy dippy Icall it hairy fairy because I
work with animals and I thinkthat's the biggest misconception
is that it's not real and it'snot until people see it in
action that they recognizethere's power behind it.
But I do think and you can tellme if you agree or not, I think
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that more and more people arebecoming open to this as people
are turning to holistic care fortheir overall health, like
places like the Mayo Clinic andthe Cleveland Clinic and there
used to be just a little shortlist of hospitals that
incorporated holistic modalitiesinto their recovery and into
their integrated health systems,but now there are so many of
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them that we could have pages oflists of hospitals like that.
So as people are turningtowards holistic care, they're
beginning to understand that weshould be offering that to our
animals as well, that our petsare experiencing the same kinds
of things that we are, so weshould be offering them holistic
care, and I've gotten off thetopic of misconceptions, I'm
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sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
You're right there.
It's more open to it now.
I mean thanks to TikTok.
Tiktok has opened the doors onit, where my kids know exactly
what Reiki is, and there's evena dog on there who pulls tarot
cards.
He's blind and his mom.
I got all my cards yeah, he'sgot he.
His mom puts the cards out andhe sniffs the card.
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And it's Horace, yeah, he andhe does out and he sniffs the
card.
And it's Horace, yeah, he andhe does.
She reads the cards for himbecause he's blind.
So this is normalizingsomething that was kind of
hidden years ago, made itmainstream, and you know, dr Oz,
with his wife, is a Reikimaster and so he would bring her
in during surgery, so that kindof started getting it out there
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as well.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
So, yeah, Now if we could just break through the
barriers and I know that it'sgoing to happen little by little
.
With traditional veterinarymedicine, there's still some
pushback, which I understand,and I believe that Reiki for
animals is truly part ofholistic care, that we need our
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medical care, we needprofessionals who understand how
to care for the physical andmedical needs of our animal
companions, but that there'salso a spiritual and energetic
need that is not being fulfilled.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Sure, sure and even caregiver fatigue.
To give animal Reiki for that,for those caregivers, those
zookeepers, the veterinarians.
I mean, my daughter works at azoo in Pittsburgh and you know
dealing with animals it's tiring.
You know she is so empathic andpassionate and loves the
animals and you know gettingworn out by the time she comes
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home.
You know to give her thatenergy as well.
So it's beautiful.
Speaker 4 (14:03):
Absolutely yeah.
Yeah, so did I answer thequestion well enough about
misconceptions?
You did you absolutely did.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
So what is something you wish your younger self knew
about your current profession?
Speaker 4 (14:15):
Oh, about my current profession.
Oh well, I could probably saythis for not just my profession
but for my life, not just myprofession but for my life Not
to wait, not to wait and not tolet anybody get in my way.
Like I would go back and tellmy younger self that there's
nothing to be afraid of, thereis absolutely nothing to be
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afraid of, and you should notlet anyone stand in the way of
your dreams.
I would tell her that you haveyour dreams for a reason you
were dreams.
I would tell her that you haveyour dreams for a reason you
were.
You have this feeling that youwant to work with animals.
You need to honor that.
You need to go for it and don'tlet anybody stand in your way.
Go after your dreams.
And um and I think thatprobably is not just to my
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younger self, but to anybody'syounger self out there who wants
to hear that there's nothing tobe afraid of and don't let
anybody stand in the way of yourdreams practitioner, energy
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healer or worker.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
When your cup needs full, what do you look for?
And if you do not get anytreatments, on yourself what
qualities do you strive for inyour practice?
Speaker 4 (15:29):
Okay, that's another great question.
If I am looking for myself, oreven I have gone to other
practitioners to care for my ownanimal companions.
There is sometimes somethingthere, when you have such a
close relationship with theanimals that you share your home
with 24-7, that sometimes Iliked having somebody else come
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in to offer Reiki sessions to mydogs.
And what I looked forspecifically is someone who was
going to let's see what's thebest way to phrase this honor
them as individuals.
Who is going to, um, see what'sthe best way to phrase this?
Honor them as individual, whois going to respect them for who
they are?
Because I I at the time I hadthree special needs to three
seniors One of them was actuallyspecial needs and I want a
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Reiki practitioner who is goingto meet them on their terms, who
will understand that Winstonwas deaf, to meet them on their
terms, who will understand thatWinston was deaf, that he didn't
like to have his feet touched.
That would just simplyunderstand them as individuals
and everybody, I think everybodyjust wants to be seen, heard
and accepted for who they are,and our animal companions are
that way as well.
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And let's see.
I'll use one more example, ifthat's okay, I have one more
story I would like to shareabout Jake.
Speaker 2 (16:38):
This helps it when people, when you give examples,
that's, that's great.
Yep, okay.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Got it.
The example is of Jake, so what?
One of the things that I do ismedical fostering is what I call
it for people who are whoseanimal companions have some type
of surgery or illness for whichthey are not capable.
It's usually senior citizens,but they're not capable of
offering the rehabilitation care.
So I've had dogs with strokes.
Jake happens to be an example ofone who was an amputation and
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he was a senior dog, 13 yearsold, and had his right shoulder
amputated, had his leg amputatedfrom the right shoulder down,
and when he came to me that wasthe same day of the surgery.
It was a.
He had the surgery and cameright to my home and,
interestingly enough, it is thesame day that my husband had an
amputation surgery and to seethe two of them together.
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But what the reason that I thatI mentioned?
That is because my husband, whois now fully functional,
demands that people see him forwho he is.
He does not want to be seen assomeone who had an amputation.
And I felt that same thing fromJake that Jake did not know he
had an amputation.
Jake did not know that he nowhad any ability that was not as
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normal as any other animal.
He had no concept of that.
That's a very human thing thatwe understand.
No concept of that.
That's a very human thing thatwe understand.
So he wanted to be treated asif he were himself, for who he
was, whether or not he had theamputation.
And that is one of thequalities that I would look for
when we approach animals toapproach them on their terms and
see everything as perfect, allas well.
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Everything is perfect, and I amsimply sharing with you
beautiful, loving, healingenergy of Reiki to use for your
highest good, however fits yourneeds.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Beautiful.
Yeah, thank you for sharingthat.
That was a great example.
So what advice would you givesomeone who was just entering
this profession, who is going tobe specializing with animal
Reiki?
Speaker 4 (18:40):
Okay, and we started to talk about this already and
that is the fact that you wouldwant to find a teacher who
specializes in animal Reiki.
We mentioned the fact thatReiki is Reiki, which I kind of
get that pushback every once ina while that why are you
practicing animal Reiki?
Reiki is Reiki and it is Reikiis beautiful, loving, healing
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energy accessible to everyone.
But we are animals.
All have different needs.
They have much different needs.
It's a true specialty becausewe are not going to place our
hands on a lion.
We are not going to place ourhands on a wild horse who's been
wrangled by the BLM and is nowso scared and unsure of anything
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in their life.
We're not going to place ourhands on a pit bull who's been
used as bait.
So animals who've beentraumatized, animals in the wild
, animals at zoos, they're notanimals where we are going to
use traditional Reiki techniques.
We're going to use very specialtechniques and it's going to be
unique, not just for themselvesas individuals.
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It could be for their speciesand it could be for their
situation.
So we want to be able to accessa whole different toolkit when
we start to work with thoseanimals.
And again, that's where I wasgoing to use my little physical
medicine thing.
We're not going to go to adermatologist to learn how to
deliver a baby.
We really want to becomespecialized at it.
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And then the other thing Iwould add is practice, practice
and more practice.
The more you work withdifferent animal clients of all
different species in alldifferent situations, the more
you're going to be able to craftwhat you need to do to work
with all kinds of animals.
Speaker 2 (20:24):
Right, right, right, yeah.
Just keep practicing, and alsoremember that consent too.
Speaker 4 (20:29):
So give them the opportunity, yeah absolutely,
and that is a foundation ofReiki, and it's one of the
questions that I also get askeda lot is how do you ask
permission of an animal?
And in my mind, I invite them.
When I sit down to practice,whether it's in person or
distance, I invite them to joinme in the space and they will
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generally give you a sign thatthey're accepting or not
accepting.
They'll either walk away orthey will be.
They'll give you very obvioussigns that they've accepted and
are willing to have a sessionwith you.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
Right, right and always kind of give them a
choice.
That's why, like the-.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
Always a choice.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
The zones or the bubble, someplace where they can
, they come to you.
I always say the animal's theboss.
Speaker 4 (21:13):
Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
The animal's the boss in the session.
Speaker 4 (21:16):
Yep, I let them guide me always.
Absolutely so what books do yourecommend?
I have a couple books that I amvery fond of, specifically for
animal Reiki.
I will recommend the book frommy animal Reiki teacher and her
name is Kathleen Prasad and thebook is Everything Animal Reiki.
Now she's got a number ofpublications, but of all of them
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, that's the one I wouldrecommend the most Everything
Animal Reiki publications.
But of all of them, that's theone I would recommend the most
Everything animal Reiki.
And it does a really nice job, areally thorough job, of
introducing the fact thatanimals are meant to guide us,
that they are sentient beings,that they've got preferences,
that they are teachers, thatthey're healers and that one of
the best ways that we canconnect with them is through
that quiet meditation space.
And as soon as I use the wordmeditation, so many people get
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they kind of sometimesinternally, a lot of times
externally, roll their eyes atthe thought of meditating with
an animal.
And I don't mean that you haveto sit on a pillow and chant and
put your fingers in it.
It's just simply accessing aspace where you let all of your
external things go.
Nothing else matters right now.
When I sit with an animal, theonly thing that matters is them.
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This is a time that I devote tothem, and when you can quiet
your mind like that and openyour heart, they walk right
through the door and they loveto share that space.
So that's one of the firstbooks I would recommend.
Everything Animal Reiki.
Speaker 2 (22:39):
Wonderful wonderful.
Speaker 4 (22:42):
The next book I would recommend is a book called
Sacred Sendoffs, and the authorof that book is Sarah Bowen, and
she's also an animal chaplain.
She's the first person who Iwas ever introduced to who
described themselves as ananimal chaplain, who describe
themselves as an animal chaplain.
That's when the light bulb wentoff in my mind that what I do
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when I work with animals at endof life is chaplaincy.
It's that pastoral care.
So she does a lovely job oftalking about all species in all
situations, from animals whoare in factory farms to animals
that are in zoos, to wildlife,to everyone.
And Sacred Sendoffs is about howwe honor animals who are
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transitioning from this life tothe next.
And then one more book that Iwould recommend is the Bright
Haven Guide to Animal Hospice.
That is a book by Gail Pope,who ran a I think that she has
retired now formerly retired butshe ran a hospice sanctuary for
animals where it was all abouthospice care right up to the end
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of life and there was noassistance at end of life.
It was how to nurture an animalnaturally through their end of
life, and she has some beautifulinsights, not just and it's not
saying one way or the other, asan animal approaches end of
life.
That one way is better thananother, but she offers some
beautiful insights for animalsand what they experience as they
are transitioning.
Speaker 2 (24:08):
Beautiful.
Thank you for that.
Thank you, sure.
And you also are an author ofseveral digital publications,
are you not?
Yes, yes, I am.
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Yep, I love to write.
In fact, if I could spend allday long, if there were like two
days to every day, I wouldspend it with the animals, and I
would also be writing aboutthem too.
Speaker 2 (24:26):
Sure.
So where can our listeners findyour digital publications?
Speaker 4 (24:33):
They are all digital and I don't have them on any, so
they're not going to be foundon sites like Amazon, but on my
website I have links to them all.
There's a link for one of thedigital publications is take the
stress out of visiting the vet.
So that's for your averageperson who wants some help, who
wants some assistance when they,from the moment that they pick
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up the phone and their dog,realizes that they have just
made a veterinary appointment tothe, to the cat, that you have
to put into the carrier toactually get to the vet.
So how do you navigate throughall that?
But anyway.
So my website is the best placeto get access to all the
publications.
Beautiful beautiful.
Speaker 2 (25:08):
My two Cavalier King Charles have a vet appointment
today, so I'm going to have toput that up.
Oh, definitely yeah.
Speaker 4 (25:16):
Well, you know, my Winston was a King Charles.
He was the special needs dogand he actually loved going to
the vet.
Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I think they're okay.
I've talked them through it.
I let them know as soon as Imade the appointment.
Yeah, so it's interesting thatyou said as soon as they hear
the appointment made.
So I said hey, boys, we'regoing, we're going on Thursday.
So they know, they absolutelyknow, absolutely know.
So what other modalities do youoffer?
Do you offer classes, events,trainings?
Speaker 4 (25:46):
Yep, so I have a couple things.
The first one if people wouldlike to find me on YouTube,
everything is under the AnimalReiki Lady, so it's
animalreikiladycom as my website.
All my tags on social media andon YouTube are AnimalReikiLady
and Reiki.
We spell R-E-I-K-I.
That comes up frequently thatit gets misspelled.
My YouTube channel is devotedto people who are navigating pet
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loss, so we primarily talkabout how to anticipatory grief,
how we manage through that whenwe receive the bad news that
there's a terminal healthcondition or even if our dogs or
cats or other animals that livewith us are seniors.
So that's the YouTube channelwhere I do a series of videos
and we meet every Monday live.
It's live stream on YouTube sothat we can all talk and share
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stories.
The other place is all oversocial media.
Oh, what other services, right?
I'm sorry.
Speaker 2 (26:39):
I lost track of the question.
You got it.
It's all part of it.
Keep going, I got it.
Speaker 4 (26:43):
I offer on demand, so there are classes that you can
just take at your own pace ifthat's what you'd like to do.
Reiki, I find, is much it'seasier to learn, either online
or in person, when you havesomeone that you can ask
questions to and talk to, andthen you can go out and practice
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and then come back.
So my I have online virtualclasses that we do via zoom, and
then I also do in-personclasses and I offer them at
sanctuaries here in Colorado andalso one in Florida, and I
offer them all year long.
So my website again is the bestplace to go to get the most
recent access to differentclasses, whether you want to
attend an event, a live event,at one of the sanctuaries In
Colorado it's the Mini MisfitsAnimal Sanctuary and in Florida
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it's the Three Sevenths AnimalSanctuary and I'm there at least
at each of those sanctuaries atleast two or three times every
year holding classes.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Wonderful.
Well, thank you, elaine, theAnimal Reiki lady, so much for
coming on this journey with me.
This ends our part of thejourney together and I'm going
to pass you over to my co guide,karina.
She also has two special guestswith her, comet and Ozzy.
So they're going to ask youthree social media questions.
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So I get questions fromlisteners and I narrow it down
to three questions mediaquestions.
So I get questions fromlisteners and I narrow it down
to three questions, and she hasthem just for you.
So Okay, hi Karina and hi Cosmo.
Hi.
Ozzie.
Speaker 3 (28:09):
We're so excited to talk with you.
We've learned so much today andthank you so much for all that
you're doing for the animals.
Thank you so much.
I had so many.
I was so close to tears so manytimes in all of your stories.
They were just so touching.
So a question of mine is likehow did you establish a social
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media presence?
Like, what did that look likefor you whenever you started?
Okay, it was.
Speaker 4 (28:37):
I will tell you and this is for anybody who wants to
do this I will offer thisadvice Just start doing it.
When I go back and look at myvery first videos it was videos
on Facebook.
That's how I started I justshake my head and cringe because
there, but I had to at leaststart somewhere.
And then it gets easier andeasier the more you do it.
So I would pick one, onemodality.
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So whatever you like if youlike Twitter, if you like
Instagram, if you like Facebookjust pick one and then start
putting yourself out there andstart just talking about it.
And that is how it started andit evolved.
It naturally evolved.
I didn't do anything special, Ididn't take any special classes.
I just let it evolve until Iwas so comfortable with video
like this, let it evolve until Iwas so comfortable with video
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like this is here that I wasable to start the YouTube
channel and then reach morepeople.
I remember thinking to myselfthat if I want to reach more
animals than just my littlehometown, I've got to get out
there and start talking about it, and that's what I did.
Speaker 3 (29:36):
Wow, that's amazing.
That's amazing.
Thank you so much for that.
I love that.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Just start just start , press the little button that
says record and pick a topicthat you want to talk about and
think about it, your favoriteanimal, or tell a little story.
And there I read a statisticand I can't remember where it is
that in the average in the US,about 78% of all households in
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the US have pets and that it'slike almost it's over double
what people how many people havechildren in their homes.
The point is that more peoplehave pets than children in their
homes.
Speaker 3 (30:16):
Wow, my gosh, that's insane.
I had no idea.
Speaker 4 (30:19):
It's a crazy number like that.
Speaker 3 (30:24):
Wow, okay, so my biggest.
I'm actually right now I'mtransitioning from full-time
teacher of 24 years into thiswellness space, so I am, I'm
seeing challenges.
So my question to you is, atthe beginning, like when you
left that really great, securebread and butter job and then
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you started into this, like I'mjust going to start, you know
cause, like my husband's, likeoh, you're just going to give
people and animals Reiki, okay,like that's going to pay the
bills.
What challenges did you have tocome going to?
Speaker 4 (30:59):
pay the bills.
What challenges did you have toface?
Same challenge my entire family, from my parents to my sisters,
to my husband, to my kids, wentyou're going to do what?
Speaker 3 (31:07):
That's right, so please tell us how you overcame
that.
Speaker 4 (31:11):
Okay.
So I won't lie, I'm going totell you it's going to take a
little bit of hard work andyou're going to have to work at
it every single day.
But the first thing to do wouldbe start to establish a social
media presence so that you getsome authority behind you.
You become an authority becauseyou're speaking about it.
You're talking about it.
People start to know who youare and the way the universe
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works is I call it theuniverse's algorithm.
More and more people andanimals who are aligned with you
will be drawn to you.
So that's the spiritualcomponent of starting your
business.
From a practical perspective,what I would recommend doing is
going right to your local animalshelter I have yet to hear of
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an animal shelter that says noto someone who asks if they can
practice Reiki with the animalsand then you start practicing
there regularly.
You just go there as avolunteer.
You start to share Reiki.
The energy starts to shift, andthen what I did when I first
worked with a humane society waswe would offer a complimentary
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Reiki session as part of theadoption package.
So we would offer the Reikisession as part of the adoption
package, so that the would um.
We would offer the Reiki sessionas part of the adoption package
and so that the animal couldadjust.
It's going to take a period ofadjustment up to six months from
the time that an animal isadopted from a shelter to the
home.
And then, as we establishedthose relationships, then more
and more um complimentarysessions became paid sessions
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and then it becomes word ofmouth.
I barely needed to do any typeof self-promotion because it
became word of mouth.
People would start to spreadthe word and then it evolved
from there and then, of course,if you want to teach, then that
you can.
You can put that out there aswell.
Speaker 3 (32:56):
Right, I want to do it all.
I want to teach too.
I definitely want to teach too,are you?
Yeah, so thank you so much.
I love this.
This is so amazing.
My next question is like youare full of amazing ideas and
gifts and light.
I can see that and I can feelthat.
What are you working on now?
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What can we expect from you inthe next year or two?
Speaker 4 (33:20):
Okay.
So what I'm working on now isactually just going to start now
.
I know that at the, at there'sany point in time, people may be
drawn to this video, so itcould be five years from now.
Even so, hopefully by then thiswill be a well established
program.
But as an animal chaplain and asan animal Reiki master, my
practice seemed to naturallyevolve.
It was not intentional, but itnaturally seemed to evolve to be
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working with animals who wereapproaching end of life and I.
During that time period I alsoI took a part time job.
I initially called it a bridgejob, so, going back to the part
of offering this as a becomingthis, making this a part of my
vocation, I called it a bridgejob, that I was going to need a
little part-time job to helpends meet.
And I took a job working at apet funeral home and it became
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the best experience of my lifebecause what I realized was that
, working with people at theirmost vulnerable moments, I had
the emotional capacity to do so.
I had the spiritual, emotionalcapacity and then Reiki behind
me.
I was able to help people andtheir animal companions and my
practice began to focus solelyon animals reaching end of life,
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and what also evolved was anetwork, a network of mobile
veterinarians, a network of petafterlife care, a network of
social workers who worked withgrief and I'm now able to.
I put together a course forReiki practitioners in
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particular, but it can be.
You don't have to be a Reikipractitioner for becoming an end
of life doula for animals soyou would, from you can.
It starts with just offeringsupport after receiving a
terminal diagnosis or, if youranimal companions is aging and a
senior and approaching end oflife, to offering everything.
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So I teach where do you build anetwork?
How do you build a network?
How can you become a resourcefor all the people in your local
community to help them be thesupport that their animal
companion needs as they approachend of life?
So it's called PeacefulCrossings and it doesn't now.
This is putting a time thing onit, but the very first course
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is being offered.
This month starts for PeacefulCrossings and we'll see where it
goes from there, because Ireally think that there's nobody
out there offering this type ofsupport to people as their
animals approach end of life.
I know that my parents, myin-laws and my parents both
planned for their end of life,but nobody thinks about it for
their pets.
And then all of a sudden,they're faced at a at a time
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when they're so emotionallyvulnerable to having to make the
most difficult decisions.
Sorry, that was long.
Speaker 3 (36:04):
Absolutely beautiful.
Oh my gosh, that is amazing.
Wow, Thank you for sharing.
I'm so excited for you and Ilove that also that I picked up
that bridge, the bridge job,that like something that might
work for my husband, like justto give him that, like hey,
while I'm building this business, I'm also going to be doing
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this little thing, but it has tobe like for me, like I want to
find it in a either either as areceptionist at a vet clinic or
whatever it can be.
Speaker 4 (36:35):
Anything.
Even even animal shelters havepaid positions that are
part-time.
Speaker 3 (36:39):
Oh, I love this.
I am so grateful to meet youand thank you so much for all
that you've shared today.
Do you have anything else thatyou'd like to share with us that
our listeners would appreciatelearning about, hearing about?
Speaker 4 (36:53):
I am going to offer one more thing that I thought we
might talk about at some pointduring the conversation, but I
think that it's a question thatcomes up from people a lot, and
that's a question like how doyou know what kind of what?
Like how many sessions wouldyou offer an animal?
How do you know when an animalneeds a Reiki session?
How do you figure all thatthing, all those things out?
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And it came to me over time andI think that it may be a
question that comes up frompeople, even from Reiki
practitioners who want to workwith animals, like just how do
you know how many sessions togive, or how do you know how
long a session is supposed tolast with an animal?
These are like practicalquestions that might come up.
Is that okay for me to?
Speaker 3 (37:31):
I'd love to know, yeah.
Speaker 4 (37:33):
Okay, I'm gonna say that it does depend on the
animals but over.
I've been doing this now solelypracticing with animals, for
seven years as a as my primaryfocus, and what I have learned
I've been able to create like ageneral guide that I offer to my
students.
That has for general things.
Here's the number of sessionsif there's a surgery.
(37:54):
Here's the number of sessions Iwould do if they are moving
into a new.
Here's the number of sessionsif there's a surgery.
Here's the number of sessions Iwould do if they are moving
into a new home.
Here's the number of sessions Iwould do if they're going
through anxiety or grief.
But it's all in general.
So I'll give you a generalexample.
And as you begin to practice,more and more people will
recognize this with the moreanimals that they work with.
(38:15):
But, for example, willrecognize this with the more
animals that they work with.
But, for example, after asurgery or before a surgery, I
might offer six Reiki sessionsand I would do one before the
surgery, one during the surgeryand then four back to back, so
four days right in a row aftersurgery.
So it assists an animal to beprepared, because they don't
understand Humans.
We can say you're going to havea surgery, we're going to give
(38:36):
you a shot.
You're going to feel drowsy.
You're going to animals, tothem, that it's.
It's just a state of confusion.
They don't understand what'sabout to happen.
So, a Reiki session before tokeep them calm and stress-free,
a Reiki session during in whichI just focus on sharing
beautiful healing energy forwhatever needs to be healed.
And then the four right afterare meant to help the recovery,
(38:57):
meant to help them recoverquicker, easier, with a little
bit less pain.
So it is going to depend oneach situation, but then some of
them are such common sense likeone session is all you're going
to need during fireworks, ifit's the 4th of July, I sit down
, I become the woman whereeverybody brings their dogs and
they all sit with me and we allshare Reiki for the evening and
that's all we need to do.
(39:17):
And then, for example, like anend of life which has become my
practice as often as thosebeautiful souls desire, there is
no limit, there is no right orwrong, you're not going to get
it wrong, you're not going to doit too much, you're not going
to offer too many sessions andyour intuition is going to start
to guide you with that.
(39:39):
Most sessions themselves last 10to 30 minutes.
And animals.
They're not going to be likepeople.
They're not going to lay on amassage table and listen to the
soft music and listen to thebells gong in the background as
you place your hands on them.
They need to be able to movefreely in their environment, to
sit down and lay down and sleepif that's what they want, to
come into your lap if that'swhat they want.
(39:59):
But I found that cats are theshortest.
They seem to be Reiki mastersall on their own, and 10 minutes
, about 10 minutes, is all youcan expect for a cat to be
patient enough.
And then they're going to say Igot this, but thank you, and
then dogs, dogs could go onforever.
They don't seem to know the atthe end.
So I usually end a sessionafter about 30 minutes with dogs
(40:21):
.
But I wanted to get that inthere just in case, because
people may wonder what do you doLike?
How do you even know how longyou're supposed to share Reiki?
Speaker 3 (40:30):
Right, that is so amazing.
I love it, I love it, I love it.
I could talk to you all day,tracy, back to you, what would
you like to ask?
And yes, I love it.
Thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (40:46):
Love everything.
Thank you so much.
One more question I'd like toask is why do you feel it's
important to offer animal Reikiin the animal's home or location
?
Speaker 4 (41:01):
Okay, that actually is a.
That's a question we shouldfollow up with because we want
to be able to let them becomfortable.
We can and I still am workingon a way to start offering Reiki
at veterinary clinics, but it'sthe same thing.
They are just as stressed outas they get when you put them in
the car, when you put them in acrate.
It's a stressful situation.
So it's much easier to offer ontheir terms, in their location,
(41:25):
where they're comfortable, theycan lay down and, if they
choose not to, if they choose todecline which is their choice
that they have a space that theycan get up and walk away.
That you're not forcing them tostay in an enclosed room for
something that they're not opento receive.
Speaker 2 (41:40):
Very good, thank you.
Thank you, elaine, so much forjoining us on this journey.
It has been wonderful and soinformative, so thank you again.
So I want to thank ourlisteners and if you are
interested in having yourquestion featured on the show,
reach out at wwwreadysetreikicom.
And if you are interested inhaving your question featured on
the show, reach out atwwwreadysetreikicom.
And if you're interested, checkout Feather Sister Wellness,
(42:00):
where there is an offering of avariety of yoga classes, yoga
trainings, reiki and Reikitrainings.
So I'm Tracy C Wright and thishas been Ready Set Reiki.
Thank you.
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