November 6, 2022 • 60 mins
Reiki Basics Series: Two years ago, when the "Reiki from the Farm™ podcast" began, we dove right into Reiki topics. But sometimes, it is difficult to explain the basics of Reiki to others. This podcast series will help ensure that you know the basics about Reiki and can explain them to others. Please refer people, too.
What is special about Animal Reiki? Do I need a specific class to work with animals, or can I use what I already have? What should I expect from the class? If you have ever wondered about any of these things, join Pam and Karen as they walk you through the ins and outs of ICRT Animal Reiki.
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On this week's podcast, I amtalking with Karen Caig again
about our Reiki Basics series.
And this week our topic isAnimal Reiki and we're going to
try to answer a lot of thequestions you might have about
animal Reiki.
Do I need a special Reiki?
Can't I just use the Reikienergy I have?
What is the I C R T Animal Reikiclass all about and so on.
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And we're going to leave youwith a beautiful heartbeat of
the earth meditation so that youcan really experience the energy
yourself.
Karen, I'm so glad you're herewith me and.
I know you say this is yourfavorite.
This is and I had a really goodteacher, Thank you.
This is, But yeah.
Animal Reiki is my favorite to,to teach It is so wonderfully
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healing, and quite often we takeanimal Reiki because of our
animals, because we're animallovers and some of us don't even
wanna take the human Reikibecause it's, we just wanna get
straight to the animals.
And and yet what surprising,what surprised me the most about
this course was how much ithelps humans.
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Because humans, of course areanimals.
And even in taking the courseand creating the course, being a
creator of the course, but justbeing exposed to the energy and
the experiences, how much Ihealed.
So I don't know if you foundthat too, but Oh, yes.
And I've told students in class,I said if you're like me, I said
I took the class because Iwanted to help animals.
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And you get into it and you go,Oh, this is the animals helping
us.
Yes, it flips right back on us,doesn't it?
So it's the animals helping us.
Guys, before we begin, I justwanna let you know some of the
things we have coming up on thefarm in December, I have six
days of animal classes.
I've got a level one and twoclass followed by an animal
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communica on a Thursday, Friday,the beginning of December.
I have animal communication onthe weekend, and then Monday,
Tuesday is animal Reiki.
And so if you really wanna, ifyou really love animals and
haven't begun, Reiki journeyyet.
Sign up for all six days andyou'll really be immersed.
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Or maybe you just wanna pick andchoose.
Would love to have you join usin January.
I have a full lineup of classesin the Eastern Time zone.
They're all online.
And in February, or sorry, MarchI will be live and in person in
Australia with five days of theReiki.
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Membership association classes,which is the sui level one and
two and master's class.
And so for those of you who mayhave learned online, but I
realize the Australian ReikiAssociation prefers in person
classes.
Come on and join me for those.
And then I'm also going to beteaching Animal Reiki one and
two.
So I'd love to have you join usfor those in April, the full
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lineup of classes again.
And in May I'll be in New Yorkteaching Animal Reiki one and
two at the Northeast ReikiRetreat.
Lots of choices.
Please sign up for ournewsletter.
There's a link in the podcastnotes and you can just have
clickable links of all theclasses.
Karen, you've got some greatstuff coming up as.
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I do, I have regular Zui, HolyFire, One and Two and Master
every month.
And then Animal Reiki online.
I teach all my classes onlineevery month, this month.
And I don't know if this podcastwill be out in time, but I am
teaching Animal Reiki Master onHong Kong evening time.
So can check my website forthat.
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And if you live I have beengetting a lot of students from
Asia.
I'm a former English is a secondlanguage teacher, and I had a
woman from Korea, she stayed upall night to take Animal Reiki
one and two.
And the English, her English waslimited it was a little
difficult, but we used throughGoogle Translate and then, me
helping her, we were able to getthrough class.
Yeah, contact me if you wouldlike me to offer.
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I do those more on demand.
I get up really early and teachso that people can take them in
the evening.
I love that.
Karen and I actually taught anAsian student this summer as
well, and just with GoogleTranslate I've taught several of
course, but but with, sorry,Google Translate.
Oh yeah.
He said Google Translator.
My phone said one moment, that.
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Thank you.
But with the translationsoftware, actually the class was
beautiful and it was stunningand know it, it took us a little
longer, but it's all fine.
I forgot to mention Karen inNovember, I will be doing some
talks at the equine affair inMassachusetts and would love to
have people join me there.
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And also in November earlyNovember, I'll be speaking at,
in, at a Brazilian Reikiconference.
So if you're in Brazil yeah, I'mlooking for, I'll be talking
about the Reiki business bookand just the, some of the ins
and outs and of having a Reikibusiness and why you might like
to do that.
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So I'm really so many greatopportunities.
So lovely that we can be inperson again now and you,
although some of those areonline opportun opportunities,
so lovely.
We can do both, isn't it Yeah,absolutely it is.
So guys, just before we beginOne of the things I'd like to
let you know about the AnimalReiki course, the I C R T Animal
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Reiki course, is that it has itsown energy.
And I'm gonna talk to you alittle bit about the history
because that came as a bit of asurprise to us.
And so I'd just like to inviteyou to close your eyes and bring
your hands in Gassho and justactivate your own Reiki energy.
And Karen and I will send youwith the distance symbol, the
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animal Reiki energy, so that youcan just feel it in your space
and around you as we go aheadthrough this podcast and talk
about this podcast.
And you can just get a littlemore familiar with it and see if
it's an energy that you enjoy ormaybe want to learn more about.
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So just breathe in the energyand feel it all around you.
And I'm also going to ask thedivine animal Kingdom to
surround you as you listen tothe podcast so that you can just
get to know them and get to havea feel for this system.
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And whenever you're ready, youcan open your eyes, but we're
going to invite the energy toassist you with your perception
and your listening and today sothat you can feel into the
energy and get a real sense.
So to start with, I think I'dlike to just start with a
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history and then Karen, I'd loveto get your impressions about
the animal Reiki.
I'm very blessed.
I got a nudge to create ananimal Reiki course during, in
2016 during a holy fire.
You Suey Reiki master class thatI was taking with William ran
the same time.
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I got a nudge to become an I C RT licensed teacher.
And while I I wasn't as keen onbecoming an I C R T licensed
teacher, which is funny becauseit's one of the best things I've
ever done.
As soon as the energy nudged meand asked me to create an animal
Reiki course, I said yes.
And I think it's the first timeever that I didn't argue.
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The guidance that Reiki gave me.
and I just had written severalarticles about how we worked
with Reiki and animals here onthe farm.
And from some of the responsesthat I had gotten from people, I
realized, wow, I guess we have alot more animals to work with.
And I guess maybe we've takenthings a little further with
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Reiki and animals than somepeople have.
So it occurred to me that maybewe did need to put some of these
experiences down on paper andhelp people understand some of
the potential and what waspossible with animals.
Shortly after I got that nudgefrom the Reiki energy though,
William Rand said, maybe an houror two later in class, by the
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way, the I C R T is creating ananimal Reiki class and.
Colleen Benelli is in charge ofthat, and I thought gosh, what's
the sense of me creatingsomething that if Colleen
Benelli is going createsomething, I'll just wait for
what the I C R T producesbecause I have just such a
positive opinion of anythingthat the I C R T produces.
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It's always very professionaland well done and very complete
and very well researched.
So I didn't see the sense ofcreating something myself, but
something caused me to reach outto Colleen and say, By the way,
would you like any help withthat?
And she said she would.
However, they, she and SueStrong had been working with the
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energy almost every week forquite some time, since I think
2015 when William first askedher to create the course and the
energy kept saying it wasn'tready.
And that was terriblyfrustrating for them.
They're very get it done, kindof people.
Like I am.
And so they, it was veryfrustrating, but Colleen said
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yes, they would like hel thehelp and but the energy was
still saying it wasn't ready.
So we talked instead about how Iwould apply for the licensed
teacher program.
And as short as I got acceptedfor the licensed teacher
program, I was assigned Colleenas my mentor, which I was just
thrilled with.
I would've taken any of thelicensed teachers because
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they're all just suchexceptional people.
And I don't know.
Their vibration is just in sucha beautiful place, their
professionalism, everything.
But when I did get Colleen, Iwas very excited.
I knew we had a lot in common,and in fact I felt like I hit
the jackpot.
She, I was a horse girl.
She was a horse girl.
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We both loved animals and justhad an awful lot in common.
We're both very ambitious, butboth very, Immersed in the Reiki
energy and love loving it.
Both very earth based, spendinga lot of time outdoors and with
the earth.
So it was a really good fit forme.
And it wasn't until January of2019 that the energy said it was
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ready.
So together with Robin Bonelli,myself, Sue Strong and Colleen,
we met for four full days andjust listened to the energy and
we really thought we werecreating a course of you.
Here's how you use the Reikienergy you already have with
animals.
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But what we did was we listenedand we listened to our inner
perceptions of what the energywas.
Trying to say and what theanimals wanted from us.
And of course at first westarted off with, here's how we
help the animals and we wannahelp the animals.
And it wasn't very long beforethe animals turned the tides and
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said, And here's how we helpyou.
This is gonna be an exchange.
This isn't you dominating orhelping us.
Every time you help us.
We're helping you.
This is a true and properexchange of blessings between
us.
And one of the things that wewere made aware of that needed
to heal was the belief indominion over animals.
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Animals in showed us that there,and I we already knew they were
sentient beings with anincredible intelligence, but the
animals showed us how they wouldguide the session and we could
Open our perceptions so that wecould listen to them.
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And allow them to guide what wewere doing.
They showed us that we needed toheal that belief in dominion
over and so that we could becomepart of the animal kingdom here
on Earth.
And there were these beautiful,enlightened beings known as the
divine animal Kingdom.
The same beings that are aroundeach and every one of you right
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now, who really led us.
They are the ascended masters ofthe animal kingdom.
They are the equivalent of theascended masters or the brothers
and sisters of the light.
And in fact, there are humans.
In the divine animal kingdom,enlightened beings because the
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human is an animal.
And even us with what we thoughtwas a fairly enlightened
perspective, we kept losingtrack of that.
And we kept saying, and theanimals and the energy would
stop us and say, And the humanis an animal.
And so I think a couple ofthings surprised us about this.
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First of all, And we realized atone point, wait, we're not
working with the same energy,the same Reiki energy we started
out with, This is its ownfrequency.
And so we began feeling intothat and asking questions.
And we heard, yes, this was afrequency that wanted to come to
the earth to heal the animals,including the human animals.
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And not only would it heal theanimals, but it could be used to
for plants and rocks and treesand just everything in
existence.
The earth, the stars, all of it.
And so it was just, it'sprobably been one of the most
incredible experiences of mylife.
It took a full year of listeningbecause we would get information
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and then it would stop, and thenit would start and stop.
And so it was really a truly adevelopmental process where we
had to let the energy and thedivine animal kingdom lead us
through it.
All, we could not proceed at ourown pace.
We had to work at the pace ofthe energy and it was absolutely
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fascinating.
And then having the opportunityto teach the class, probably,
I've been asked sometimes,what's the thing that surprises
me the most about this courseand about this energy and the
thing that surprised me the mostand a lot of the and the other
authors have shared that itsurprised them as well, is how
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much we heal ourselves in theclass.
And it's important that we healthings like grief and shame and
blame and guilt and all of thosethings as an animal lover that
you experience in order to be aclear and proper channel for the
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animal Reiki energy for theanimals, including.
The human animal.
And it also surprised me thatthe animal Reiki began coming
into my sessions with humansthat I was already doing and
really dramatically changedthose sessions so that they
became more efficient and moreeffective.
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So Karen, that's like just aquick history on it that I
wanted to share with peoplebecause it, it was just such a
fascinating process of listeningand perceiving what.
The animals wanted, what theenergy was, what it was here for
and in addition to a differentenergy, the ener, the animal,
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divine animal kingdom and theenergy itself brought new
techniques that really listenedto the animals' wants and needs
and desires, and allow them tobe the one that guide the
session.
It, they brought So muchinformation and so I just love
teaching the class.
Karen, why don't you tell us alittle bit about the class and
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what you love about it?
Oh I remember when it was comingthrough and I was in the
program.
I started I guess around thesame time, but we kept asking,
Is it ready?
Is it ready?
Is it ready?
And we look back yet, is itready?
Is it.
And I tell my students, I said,now where we are now, I look
back and I go, Oh, it wasn'tready because Reiki was getting
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ready.
We didn't know what was coming.
We didn't know Covid was coming.
And we had that shift in theenergy where it changed to, to
harmonize more with thetechnology, which would enable
us to teach online.
And you know what?
I think that it all goestogether.
It's really.
Energy and I think of animalReiki not just as the
techniques, but I think of it asa different energy.
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And it's part to me of ourevolution.
And it's an interestingevolution because it's not just
moving forward, it's partlygoing back to our animal.
And this in the positive senseto our animalistic roots.
of our nature of being on earth,part of earth of, I think of
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primitive peoples and howconnected they were to the
earth.
And a lot of what we teach,especially in the master level
is like returning to.
Those skills that we'veforgotten are opening our
awareness.
And the other thing about thisclass that I love is that it's
in that opening.
It's opening up to me is likethe most, most expansive, It's
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opening up skills I didn't knowI had.
It's right because it'sawareness it's there.
It was lying dormant.
And this energy is helping toit's not an animal communication
course.
No, it's a separate thing, butit is helping me I would say
open to everything, not justanimals, but open to the earth.
There's a earth, I would sayit's very elemental.
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It really connects me to earth,to air, to water, to fire, to, I
mean like those elements ofbeing here on earth, being
human, and I think that the holyfire energy started that.
With our healing of our ego.
Not like we gotta get outtahere.
This place is terrible By thetime we started teaching it, I
really, after going through thepandemic, and I was getting to
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the point of what is the matterwith people I, what is wrong
with us?
And what we talk about a lot inthe classes, compassion fatigue.
That's what has happened to us.
Yes.
We are worn out.
From caring.
And so what happens in, it's aform of ptsd, compassion
fatigue, it's actually aclinical diagnosis.
And so we are.
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trying to heal that.
And animal lovers especially, Ithink suffer because we are
sensitive and we arecompassionate people.
And one of my favorite parts ofthe class is the animal Grief
healing meditation.
And I do that actually in classa lot.
If I've got students who.
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I had an animal that they'velost recently, and sometimes
it's like years and they'restill torn up about us.
Oh yes.
We haven't healed it because wewere talking in the last class I
had, when your mother dies oryour father dies, everyone
understands that and they go ofcourse that's your parent, but
there's still, if you lose yourdog or your cat, it's not your
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parent.
And there's still a little bitof I shouldn't be feeling this
much grief over a dog I had for10 years.
This is silly.
I shouldn't feel this.
I shouldn't feel that.
And so we stuff it and of coursewhen we stuff those feelings it
causes problems.
So I think the animal Reiki forthat alone is worth, healing.
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Those things.
And also, So I always did not,may be jumping ahead about how
is it different from regularReiki, Can't I just take a
class?
And just, and yes you can useon, you can regular Reiki
because that's what we did foryears.
That's how we gave experienceand that's what we thought we
were creating.
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So you can use regular Reiki,but I find that more animals are
open to this particularfrequency and the wild animals.
So yeah, the last year I've keptclose contact with the students.
So what are you experiencing?
And so many of them report andI'm sure you're aware too, of
like dear, they're not afraid ofme.
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Yesterday there was a littlebird, Pam.
It came this close to me and Ithought, I think I'm gonna put
bird seed in my hand and Ibelieve a bird will come and eat
outta my hand.
I think they will, squirrels.
It does something to me.
And I know animals just, theydon't today I was passing a
flock of pigeons and they didn'teven I just, I activated animal
Reiki.
They didn't move.
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Yeah.
And I was so close to them andthey didn't move.
It's crazy.
I know.
These students are like, This isnuts.
I'm like, I know.
But maybe it shouldn't be.
It really is returning us tothat state of I am part of all
of this.
I am, I belong here.
One of the things it did for mepersonally, Karen, is it really
made me feel part of the earthand part of my daily life.
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And part of the, I think I, Ididn't even realize I was
separate from it because I wasdoing Reiki with animals.
I was, and I'm an animalcommunicator and teaching animal
communication and animals are ahuge part of my life.
And so I didn't, probably I, Iwas really open and I didn't
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realize I was still separatefrom the animals.
And then when that separationwas healed and lifted, oh my
gosh, it just made living myeveryday life so much more
comfortable being here on theearth, so comfortable.
And I didn't even realize theseparation existed and probably
nobody would have seenseparation in me just because of
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the way we do things with thehorses and so on.
I didn't see it, that's forsure.
And when that was released.
And another thing is a lot ofanimal lovers, including myself
can sometimes struggle with overempathy, where we take on the
burdens of others and we.
Sometimes just almost feel toomuch in situations.
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And I loved when that there's aspecific energy, there's a
specific exercise in the course,and I usually do it twice on
both days of the level one andtwo class that heals shame,
blame, guilt, grief, compassionfatigue, and over empathy.
And there's a whole section ofthe manual on that.
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And I have to say that when myown compassion fatigue was
released, because we all get Isay a little bit weary from the
ways and worries of the world.
Yes.
And when my over empathy washealed, I've been able to be in
the world in a much.
A more comfortable and healthyway.
I don't know, did you noticeanything around that?
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Yes.
Yeah, it's really when you werespeaking, one of my students,
and I can't remember whatexactly she said now, but she
said, I didn't know that I hadall of that tension in there.
I thought I was fine.
And she said it was during thatthe healing, compassion,
fatigue, Yes.
Experience.
She said during that I realizedall this, that I'd been
carrying, and for me itmanifested as a deep ground.
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which people have been followingme for a while, like I'm pretty
flighty and I really neededthat.
But it's that earth energy thatthe animals connect to and many,
I use this in my people clsessions as well.
And okay.
For example, my brother, cuz Iwas doing regular sessions on
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him every Monday night for along time and I didn't tell him
that I was using the animalReiki.
But we finished the session andwe did, I do distance sessions
only.
We were on the phone and I said,Okay, I'm finished.
How you feel?
He goes, I said, what?
He said, I feel like I can'tpick my arms up off.
I'm so relaxed.
Wow.
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And I said, Oh.
I said, Okay.
I used the animal Reiki energyon me.
And he said, Wow.
Yeah.
He said, he was just like, hesaid, I just feel like I'm just
like stuck to the bed.
I'm like, good.
Because that, I think that'swhat we need.
Cuz we're so everything in, inthe world right now, of course.
Why the world peace?
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I look back and I see ah, it'sshifted for the technology and
then it shifted into the animaland then it shifted into the
world peace.
It's helping us get through thistransition, I think, that we're
going through, but it, and weneed to be grounded Yes.
To get through this and getwhere we're going.
I, yeah, that's lovely.
A lovely energy for that.
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There was nothing I was gonnasay, but it's left me I'm sure.
I, I'm sorry.
No.
I was, it was just in responseto what you were saying and I
was thinking was it about thegrounding So true.
I, people relaxing?
I think so.
Just that, that release of thattension that like you're, your
students said that I didn't evenknow that was there.
Yeah I agree with thatcompletely.
But one of the messages thatcame through from the animals,
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each of the species hadsomething specific.
To say to us about their purposewith us and why they choose to
connect with us.
I've always wondered that, Isaid, from the beginning, my
very first article in 2013, Ithink I wrote that I jump fences
on my horses that are higherthan the fences on our property,
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or I used to.
And I haven't, I haven't jumpedfor a while cuz I just don't
wanna injure my horses joints.
They're getting older.
I thought, what makes thesehorses stay inside these fences
when they don't need me?
They eat grass.
There's grass all around us.
They could be out of the fencesall the time.
And I even, my fences are betternow.
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But for a while I had a friendvisit once and she said, Your
fences are really more of asuggestion, aren't they, And I
said, Yeah, but for, my horseschoose to stay home.
And I'm grateful.
But it made me wonder, whatmakes those horses stay with me
when they could jump out easily?
And sometimes the grass in ourpasture is all used up and next
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door there's beautiful grass.
Why do they stay?
What makes the dogs stay withus?
They don't need me to survive.
They could be on their own.
What makes the cats come in andchoose to be with us?
They, my, I had two cats that ona farm you couldn't.
Keep, You can't keep cats in ona farm.
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Their door is open much of thetime and people are coming and
going and and they weretremendous hunters, which I
actually appreciated themkeeping the mouse population in
our old farmhouse down a littlebit, even though it broke my
heart every time they did killhim out.
I know.
And yet, why did they stay withus?
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Why did the chickens and some ofmy birds that I had out there
were turkeys and Guinea hensthat had flight and I had wild
turkeys.
And why did they choose to comeinto the pen every night cuz
they were allowed to be loose?
All of my animals are allowed tobe loose.
I even have free range horsesthat mow the lawn at times.
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Why do they stay?
And I realized we asked thatquestion, why do our animals
stay with us?
And the answer is because, theycame here to be with us.
They, we have sole contractswith each other and one of the
things that the animals said is,if we could but recognize our
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beauty, one of the things theyshowed us is that as humans, we
so often believe ourselves to beflawed.
We believe that, in originalsin, and we believe that there's
something wrong with us rightfrom the very beginning.
And the animal said, You'rebeautiful and if you could but
recognize your beauty, you wouldcreate your life from a place of
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beauty.
But because you believeyourselves to be destructive,
that is sometimes where youcreate your life from.
And our outer world is alwaysgonna resemble our inner, if our
belief system says we.
there's something wrong with us.
We're sinners we're, flawed,then we're going to create a
life that is flawed.
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But if we could really seeourselves, they said, If you
could just see yourselves theway we see you, you would create
a beautiful life for yourself.
And I have to admit more thanany other energy so far, Reiki
has profoundly changed my life.
But the animal Reiki has reallyallowed me to step into a life
that is beautiful and where Ican recognize my beauty.
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And I no longer define myself asflawed and destructive.
And the dogs said in particularuntil you can see how amazing
you.
I'm gonna, we're gonna hold thatimage for you, Aww.
In, in a piece that I channeledon what the animals want you to
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know.
Every animal said that they werein our life for a purpose.
The horses, for instance, loveto see us step into our power.
The birds wanna see us soar andbecome all that we can be.
The cats want us to learn torest because we're so busy,
we're such busy animals, andthey want us to slow down a
little and enjoy life and that'stheir purpose.
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And the dog said, Until you canrecognize your beauty, will hold
that image for you, that imagethat your creator has of you
until you can see it yourself.
And the wild animals said thatthey wanted us to see our, the
be fascinated with theirdiversity and or the exotic
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animals and the wild animalssaid they wanted to inspire us.
And every.
Every species had something thatthey wanted for us.
And so it really did become atrue exchange, Karen, didn't it?
And we may start off on thisjourney with the intention of
helping the animals, but theanimals turn around and help us
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right back.
Yes.
And we also teach to do asession with the, if it's a
relationship, you, it's acaregiver and the and an animal
that a lot of times you have todo the session for both.
I've done sessions where,especially dogs, it seems you
Try to tap in with the dog andSo would you like Reiki?
And I get the feeling they'relike, Oh no, she needs it.
Give it to her.
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She really needs it.
She is so stressed.
And sometimes you have to startwith the caregiver, and because
there, as you said, like a soulcontract, that we have
relationships with our animals.
And people are a lot of I'm thesame way.
I'll spend more money onsomething, on getting my cat's
teeth cleaned and probably putoff my own teeth clean, and we
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all do that.
Exactly.
And that's as a Reikipractitioner, you'll, you may
find, that the caregivers likethat.
My dog is so stressed, Pleasecan you help my dog?
You get in there and you go Oh,there's just absorbing all your
stress As an animalcommunicator, you know what's
really funny is that a lot oftimes people will book an animal
communication session for theiranimal.
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And there's often a healthproblem or an issue that they
wanna get to the bottom of.
And the animal shows me likethat it's either sharing a
health issue from the caregiverand we say caregiver instead of
owner.
Because owner is very dominionoriented and that it's really in
our, truly in our relationshipwith our animals, it's very much
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of an exchange and The animalwill often say if the caretaker,
that look it, it's sharing theburden of the caretaker, but the
care, and I used to think it wasvery one-sided that the animals
took on our burdens and theanimals said, No, it's the
caretaker also takes on ourburdens.
They said it's a true and properexchange, but.
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One of the things the animalsshowed us is how quick we are to
blame humans or the human hat.
And they showed that for me, I'mvery much of an animal lover.
I'm animals first.
And they showed me like, and thehuman is an animal and
therefore, and that was a bigepiphany for me when I first got
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the master level energy.
Cause I didn't really love beingaround humans.
I felt much more comfortablebeing around animals.
It's just, I've been an animallover all my life.
And animals got me and theydidn't judge me.
And they I don't know.
We just always got each otherand.
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And I had this epiphany afterlearning my Reiki masters.
Wait a minute, People areanimals and I love animals,
therefore, I must love people.
And I remember just that hugewave of love washing over me and
recognizing that I did lovepeople.
And even still so many of us doparticipate in human shaming and
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blaming, It's all over the news.
And and I found that healed inthis course that I began looking
at people very differently.
even than I was after thisclass.
So I don't know.
What are some other things aboutthe class Karen?
No, I think my cat is knowingoutside.
Can we keep for a second?
You go ahead and I'll be rightback.
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Talk about there are two thingsthat came to mind where you were
talking.
One is that it it helps withbalance of nature.
Like when I said nature is sohard, but it helps me understand
the cycles and relationshipsmore.
That's true.
And then the other one I wasgoing to say, what you were
talking about, so many peoplesay, I don't wanna do people
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Reiki, I wanna do just animalReiki, just like what you were
saying.
And you'll gimme just a second.
Cause I think that he has jumpedoff the porch and he's yelling
at the front door.
That's fine.
Talk about the, how the courseis set up and they say, I don't
wanna take Reiki one and twobefore Animal Reiki.
I was like there's so much.
And so I explain why you have tohave Reiki one and two but gets
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confusing because of the do youhave to wait?
Yeah.
But you could address that.
Absolutely.
Let's see how I Do you go getIt's Simba, isn't it?
But it's outside?
No, it's Sam jumping to jump offthe porch.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
Yeah, I think I hear you aboutthat.
You go grab Sam and I'llAbsolutely.
Speaking of ownership, yes.
They say dogs have owners andcats have staff.
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I am a staff I had a cat oncewhen I learned to communicate
who said that you called me hisservant and I said, I am not
your servant.
And he said, Really?
You open and close doors for me.
You bring me my food.
You even pick.
My waste.
Do you really think you're notmy servant?
And I said, Oh, I guess you havea point You go grab him.
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And I'll go and I'll go aheadand answer those.
Karen.
So yeah, actually that was a bigquestion.
We thought that when we wereputting this together, it was
just gonna be how to use theReiki you already have with
animals.
But then we realized it was muchbigger.
But from the beginning, theenergy, the animal Reiki energy
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said that a person does need tohave level one and two Reiki
from any lineage.
It can be from any lineagebefore studying animal Reiki.
And there were a few reasons wedidn't really understand it at
first.
So of course we asked the energyto explain it to us, and there
were a few reasons.
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One reason is that You havesymbols and the animal Reiki
said that it was going to blendwith the human Reiki symbols we
already have.
But the other reason is, and wethought it was gonna be a one
day course or something shorter,and it just kept evolving until
there was so much to it thatthere's not time to explain all
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of the, how to work with energy.
Anything about the yasuisymbols, there's not time to go
into that.
So it is really important thatyou have a level one and two
Reiki from any lineage beforeyou.
I C R T, Animal Reiki and you'llhave a better, and you can take
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them back to back.
I like if you do the six days inDecember, you can do level one
and two Thursday, Friday, andyou can do animal Reiki Monday,
Tuesday, or even if the animalReiki was Saturday, Sunday.
And people who've done it thatway, it's worked well.
I've had some students who'vedone that.
One of the other reasons thatit's really important to have a
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background in the human Reiki,aside from the experience and
the knowledge however, is thatyou're very seldom going to be
working with animals who don'thave caretakers.
And one of the really neataspects That came through in
some of our techniques are thatyou can do Reiki with the
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animals and you can do acombined session with the animal
and the caretaker.
And that's actually, in a lot ofcases, that's the most helpful
type of session.
The animals quite often bringtheir caretakers to the session
because they want them to getReiki and they want them to get
help because of course we shareeach other's burdens and the
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animal.
Them to get help because theycare about the caretaker.
And incidentally, when I, now,my sessions are usually a
combination of animalcommunication, animal Reiki, and
human Reiki, because almostalways the animal wants a
combined session.
And I'm very fortunate that thehumans that can, that reach out
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to me are almost always happyfor that.
They say, Do you charge more?
I'm like, No, it's the same costit's taking me the same amount
of time.
And you can have all three inone session if you want, but
when A caretaker would come andthe animal would say we're
sharing a burden.
They which often, not all thetime, but often enough that
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turned up in a session that andyou'll probably notice that if
you have digestive issues, youranimal might have digestive
issues and so on.
And so people would say, Pleasetell my animal to stop taking on
my issues or my symptoms.
And I would.
ever get an animal who wouldsay, Okay, they all said no.
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If she, if she or he wants me tostop having this issue, I need
them to look after themselves.
I am not going to stop sharingthe burden.
We have a soul contract to gothrough this life together.
That's why I don't jump thefence.
That's why I come in at night orcome in after I'm done getting
my fresh air for cats and dogsand chickens and turkeys and
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Guinea hens and so on.
Is that we have this contractto, to be together.
So anyway, hopefully thatanswers that and about the
structure.
And then a lot of people think,wait, now I've taken animal
Reiki level one and two becausewith.
Human courses in our lineage.
You take level one and two Reikiand you wait at least six months
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before taking masters.
People think that applies foranimal Reiki as well, but it
doesn't.
If you're already at the masterlevel, you can actually take
five days of animal Reiki rightin a row and do your level one
and two in masters all at thesame time, if you wish.
And again, that's a masters fromany lineage.
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So you don't have to havestudied with holy fire.
You don't get holy fire.
When you take animal Reiki, youget the animal Reiki energy and
symbol.
And that energy and symbol wasinspired by Holy Fire and we,
and the Holy Fire helped usunderstand it and develop it,
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but it is its own Holy fire isits own energy.
If you want to get Holy fire,you need to take a holy fire
class.
But the Holy Fire did bring inthis energy.
So the way it works is if you'relevel one and two from any
lineage, you can take level oneand two animal Reiki.
If you already have a master'sand you've taken I C R.
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Animal Reiki level one and two,you can go ahead and do the
master's class.
There's not really a waitingperiod between the courses.
Was that clear, Karen, or wasthat Yeah, I think so.
And and I do encourage many ofmy students who they take Reiki
one and two, not everyone iscalled to do Reiki Master even,
but no, some people they finishReiki two and they're like, Oh
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my gosh, this is amazing and Ican't wait to take Reiki master.
And that's all they couldconceivably just go the very
next day and take animal Reikione and two if they wanted to.
But yes, say I'll usually willencourage them like, play with
this energy.
You have to wait six monthsbefore the master work with the
energy before you can takemaster.
So in.
While you're waiting andexperimenting, take animal Reiki
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because that opens up anotherdimension of it's, I'm not doing
well with my, it gives anotherfrequency for you to work with.
It does, and that's a reallygreat thing to do while you're
waiting for your masters.
And a lot of people don'tunderstand, why they need to
wait six months before theMasters.
But really you can tell if astudent hasn't been at least six
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months with level one and two,they're usually not ready for
the shift that the master classbrings because it's a big shift.
And so you're right, animalReiki one and two as you're
waiting is a great way tocontinue to evolve and develop
with Reiki.
You had some other things,Karen, that you suggested and I
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got caught on explaining the.
Classes.
And I can't recall oh, it wasthat just how it flows and how
it's structured.
It's structured.
Like our holy fire classes, wehave right off the bat we,
there's a, the garden offorgiveness and animal Reiki
women.
Yes.
Two in animal Reiki.
One it.
Part of the class is likehealing and clearing and working
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through issues, of grief,compassion, fatigue, imbalance,
empathy, all of these thingsthat you really need to heal.
And then getting the animalReiki energy, developing
different skills to work withanimals.
We really emphasize in animalone and two, the three
priorities of animal Reiki,which are safety consent.
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And observation.
Observation.
Thank you, I should know that.
I know.
How many times have I writtenthat?
So we one of the bigdifferences, especially for
Reiki masters who come in andstart the animal Reiki I was
really accustomed to doespecially doing distance
sessions.
I was accustom to doing Reikiwith my eyes closed and I was
really tuning into things andpicking up stuff that I hadn't
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developing that third eye andmore.
And and then animal Reiki iskeep your eyes open.
Yeah.
That's an adjustment for somepeople, and you might be doing,
you might be doing sessions invery busy environments and you
have to be able to get into thatfocus Reiki space even when
there's lots going on aroundyou.
Yes.
And even distance sessions,which I really prefer for the
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animals because they're in theirown home.
They, and I'm, but I'm observingthe animal to see or, and the
caregiver sometimes has to helpcuz we let them, we it's Reiki
in motion.
The animals get to move around.
We don't, and they get to guidethe session.
Like we're not deciding what.
They receive, they decide and welisten to them.
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And so that's part of thelesson.
First thing is looking,observing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that it really, even ifyou're not gonna practice animal
Reiki every, I think everyoneshould take animal Reiki.
I said it's my favorite class.
But just for the skills that ithelps you develop.
Like you said, people areanimals too.
I can take the skills that I'mteaching in animal Reiki and
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apply them to an office.
Yes.
And your ability to be.
Aware of things that arehappening and and reading people
and, it's just, I, okay, so I,maybe a little biased, but I
think it's the best class thatwe offer at the ict, really.
She does classes seriously.
It helps you in so many areas ofyour life, healing and how you
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move in the world and how youget through life.
For me, it was just radicallychanging, life changing.
It really was for me too.
And just, I love it.
And I'm just trying to think ifthere was any, if there was any
questions that we didn't answer.
Is there anything else about theclass that you can think of that
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people might like to know?
Oh, you said about the animalsliking the energy.
And I noticed when I used YasuiReiki with animals, there was a
very small percentage of animalswho were a bit sensitive to it,
and they didn't always love it.
And Though even those animalsare like, bring it on with
animal Reiki.
Yes.
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I, we very seldom, I used to getno once in a while because of
course you always ask the animalfor their consent and you also
don't work on an animal withouttheir caregiver's consent.
And that's one of the, one ofthe three priorities, Karen.
Telling us about and keepingsafety in mind and in order to
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keep safety, it's observation.
And so we really work to try toheighten your connection with
your inner awareness so that youcan hear it and listen to it
better and sense it and withyour senses to expand them.
And and then there's.
Those other techniques that weuse with animal Reiki, but even
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those animals that were a littletoo sensitive for the sui Reiki
are usually very open to theanimal Reiki I found.
And I think my students say thattheir favorite part of class is
when we do the live cans.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So we use Oh, I love the oneuntil they hibernate.
They're about to hiate, butthere's a wildlife camera in
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Alaska that's focused right onthis little waterfall.
And all the bears are therecatching salmon.
It's the cat, My K A t m a.
I kept my anyway.
But it's amazing how.
Sometimes they're just sittingthere in the water and they're
watching, but they'll start,Someone will say I'm focused on
this bear.
And they'll say, Oh, I feel it.
Okay.
I feel like it's okay.
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And I'm feeling it pulling frommy hands.
And then you'll see the bear onetime, cuz I don't have a life.
This is what I do for fun.
It's I know, let's go givebreakages and penguins at the
San Diego Zoo.
Just for fun.
But anyway, you'll, during classyou'll see you'll feel it in
your hands and then you'll seethe bear go, They bears are
notorious.
It seems like they're sniffing,like what is, They feel it.
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And then it's like they'retrying to pick up like, what?
And one time I had a bear justturn around and look what?
At the camera.
I've had that happen.
Remember in one class an eaglecame over and looked in the
camera like, What is that, thatI'm feeling?
Yeah.
So that's usually their favoritepart of class.
And.
Go to the different live campsuntil we find somebody like hey
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I've had chickens do that atthat, what is it?
Flying skunk farm chickens.
Oh.
And then they'll, they come upand they'll just up in the camp
It's so neat, isn't it?
Wait, what am I feeling?
They give the consent, but thenthey really seem to like the
energy or the free.
It's amazing.
And when I took your class, oneof the, when you put us into
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breakout sessions Yep.
And.
My partner was on a farm and shejust carried her laptop out and
I was sending, there were someducks and then this goat came
up, and then he just stopped.
Yeah.
Just right in front of thecamera.
Just and I thought, Oh, he'staking it too, yeah.
And it works so quickly.
And then you feel, What's soweird to me with the animal
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Reiki, is I feel it in my hands.
Yeah.
And then as soon as I feel it,like to diminish.
The animal, it's almost okay,thanks.
And then they just move on.
they do bizarre.
They really do.
It doesn't take anywhere near aslong, It's not uncommon for a
session to only be 10 minutesand yet, but you let the animal
decide and they'll let you knowwhen they're done.
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And, but one of my favoritethings to do is just create a
Reiki bubble and see if animalscome in it.
And some don't.
Some ignore it.
And they're like, Yeah, no, I'mbusy today.
And, but a lot of animals willcome over into the bubble and we
give them enough room that theycan say no if they want, or you
always ask the consent.
But if you're in a space with alot of animals, it's okay to
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make a bubble that.
Allow them to come into it ifthey wish and not if they don't
wish.
As long as the caretaker is allright with that, but, oh, it's
just a fantastic energy, isn'tit, Karen?
It really is So that has helpedmy evolution too, in like truly
understanding energy that, whenwe started teaching online that
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helped.
I were like, Okay, yeah, this isamazing.
I'm, there really truly is nosuch thing as distance in time
or space, and then the animals,because they, I'm not
brainwashing them or anything.
It's just really validating tome that I can see how they
respond and I'm not even there.
And somehow they understand it'scoming.
Like from that camera or, Yeah.
It's just bizarre Oh, I know.
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And sometimes they'll will, theywill look right at the camera
quite often.
And it's too obvious to miss,they, Yeah.
I just love, So that's helped meunderstand that even more
deeply, how truly interconnectedwe all are on this whole earth.
Oh, we are.
And it's interesting because youtalked about connecting with our
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human nature, and I thought, Ididn't realize I had any hangups
about that until that it, at themaster level, we really work on
the inner awareness and skillbuilding with just learning how
to sense things in this in thesame way that animals do and
just reactivating that withinus, that sensitivity, that
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heightened sensitivity to helpus with our observations and I
can remember that at the animalrake a master level.
It's really connecting with yourhuman nature.
And I had a hard time with thatat first, and I remember saying
to Colleen when the words camethrough for the ignition, I was
like, Wow, I didn't realize Istill had some resistance to
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being human.
And I didn't realize it at all.
But it showed up.
And then once that settled in,what a, I don't know.
It just, it brought so muchbeauty and even, and I must say
it brought abundance to my life.
I, so much of the abundance thatI've been experiencing recently
I feel has been from animalReiki.
And what the earth has shown meis that there's enough.
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There's no need.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Or scarcity.
There's enough for everyone.
And look at how the wild animalsand that's one of the things the
wild animals said.
We know that the earth isabundant enough for us and that
we don't need to work all of thetime.
And that enough.
And could you imagine if youcould put that amount of trust
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in your life that you willalways have enough?
What would, how would thatchange things for you?
I'm working on it.
Yeah.
It has changed.
That's a big part of the change.
I'm glad you brought that up, isthat's, I think that
groundedness in the sense ofcalm I have is tied to that.
working on that scarcitymentality and trust and.
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Yeah.
The earth is It provides,there's everything we need.
It has everything we need.
I can grow enough in a littleplot of land out there to, to
feed, to really feed us for alittle while.
I used to do it.
We just forgot.
I was just, I'm reallyinterested in foraging.
Cause I live in the wilds ofArkansas and and I do know some
plants that you can eat.
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Yep.
You, us looking around, likeduring the Great Depression, oh
my gosh, my grandparents weregrowing.
They went out and they just,stuff grows wild that we can eat
this nutritious, just but that'scoming back to the fact that we
are animals.
In this, We are part of thisearth and we were designed, I'm
not talking about our spirit orour soul.
I'm talking about our bodies.
We are designed to live here.
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Yeah.
Just like the animals.
And we just have to come backinto alignment with that.
And that's what an, that's thegift of animal Reiki to me, is
coming back into alignment withthat.
I love that Karen and I lovethat word alignment.
I feel that the animal Reikireally does bring us into a
powerful alignment with theearth and with our life.
With that in mind, what about ifI lead the, our list for the
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earth meditation?
Perfect.
Okay.
Guys, this is the heartbeat ofthe earth meditation from our
animal Reiki I invite you toclose your eyes and take some
deep breath.
and place your hands on yourheart, feeling your Reiki
energy, including the animalReiki energy flowing through
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your hands and into your heart.
And the light of Reiki and thelight of the earth and the light
of the divine beings, and thelight of creation surrounds you
and it fills your breath.
And as you breathe in the light,it travels in on your breath and
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fills your body with lightcausing the light within you to
wake up and be revealed in you.
You remember your love, yourhigher consciousness, and your
pure heart.
You can see them now and thelight of the earth is revealed
in you as you remember that yourbody is made of the earth to
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give your spirit life andbreath.
and the light of the divine isrevealed in you as you remember
that your spirit is made of thelight of the divine, but you are
here in your life to be human.
The light of creation and thelight of your body are one light
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within you.
Your divine nature is present inyour human nature, and you
remember your beautiful spirit,your life force.
It is here in your body and inyour life in this moment in
time.
Listen now to the heartbeat ofthe earth and the heartbeat of
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the waters and all life in thewaters.
You can hear the heartbeat ofthe animals and the trees and
the birds in the trees.
You can hear the heartbeat ofcreation in the four winds.
And in the cycles and rhythm ofthe moon and the sun, and the
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rhythm of the stars in the nightsky, the planets and our solar
system, and the heartbeat of theMilky Way, the galaxies, and the
universe, the heartbeat ofcreation.
They all beat in the same rhythmas your own heart feel, your
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body align with the heartbeatand the rhythms and the cycles
of the earth, and the heartbeatand rhythm and cycles of
creation.
One heartbeat, one light, onebreath.
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right now, in this moment intime, in your daily life, the
power of love at the core of thephysical world, the light of
pure consciousness becoming allthings.
You bring this awareness nowinto your body that you are like
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all life on earth, part of theanimal kingdom.
Everything here lives in therhythms and the cycles of this
beautiful creation, the earth.
So bring your awareness to yourbody now and listen here, your
heart beating in your body, inyour life today, in the same
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rhythm as the heartbeat of theearth and all of creation.
And let's breathe into thismoment.
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Hold on.
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And just feeling the alignmentwith the heartbeat of the earth.
When you feel ready to come backinto the room, slowly open your
eyes, bringing your awareness toyour heartbeat, like the
heartbeat of the animals and alllife on earth.
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Aho.
Awesome.
We are all one.
Namaste.
Karen, I just wanna thank youfor being here with us to talk
about Animal Reiki this week.
And I'd like to thank thelisteners if you'd like to learn
more.
Feel free to reach out to Karenor I.
Our contact information is onthe website and we're both
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offering classes online and someclasses in person as well.
Next summer I'll be offering awhale class in Campobello in
July, August and September,level one and two.
And in September I'll also offera masterclass where we can go
out and see the whales.
In fact, we often see the whalesfrom the living room window.
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They tend to join class.
Please join us if you enjoy thisenergy.
If you'd like to evolve in yourReiki.
And thank you so much for thebeautiful light that you're
spreading on the earth today,the animals.
Thank you as well.
Did you wanna say anything,Karen?
Thank you so much for having me,and thank you for being a part
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of bringing this energy through.
I appreciate you so much, Blessyou.
Thank you Namaste, everyone.
See you next week.
On this week's podcast, I amtalking with Karen Caig again
about our Reiki Basics series.
And this week our topic isAnimal Reiki and we're going to
try to answer a lot of thequestions you might have about
animal Reiki.
Do I need a special Reiki?
Can't I just use the Reikienergy I have?
What is the I C R T Animal Reikiclass all about and so on.
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And we're going to leave youwith a beautiful heartbeat of
the earth meditation so that youcan really experience the energy
yourself.
Karen, I'm so glad you're herewith me and.
I know you say this is yourfavorite.
This is and I had a really goodteacher, Thank you.
This is, But yeah.
Animal Reiki is my favorite to,to teach It is so wonderfully
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healing, and quite often we takeanimal Reiki because of our
animals, because we're animallovers and some of us don't even
wanna take the human Reikibecause it's, we just wanna get
straight to the animals.
And and yet what surprising,what surprised me the most about
this course was how much ithelps humans.
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Because humans, of course areanimals.
And even in taking the courseand creating the course, being a
creator of the course, but justbeing exposed to the energy and
the experiences, how much Ihealed.
So I don't know if you foundthat too, but Oh, yes.
And I've told students in class,I said if you're like me, I said
I took the class because Iwanted to help animals.
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And you get into it and you go,Oh, this is the animals helping
us.
Yes, it flips right back on us,doesn't it?
So it's the animals helping us.
Guys, before we begin, I justwanna let you know some of the
things we have coming up on thefarm in December, I have six
days of animal classes.
I've got a level one and twoclass followed by an animal
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communica on a Thursday, Friday,the beginning of December.
I have animal communication onthe weekend, and then Monday,
Tuesday is animal Reiki.
And so if you really wanna, ifyou really love animals and
haven't begun, Reiki journeyyet.
Sign up for all six days andyou'll really be immersed.
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Or maybe you just wanna pick andchoose.
Would love to have you join usin January.
I have a full lineup of classesin the Eastern Time zone.
They're all online.
And in February, or sorry, MarchI will be live and in person in
Australia with five days of theReiki.
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Membership association classes,which is the sui level one and
two and master's class.
And so for those of you who mayhave learned online, but I
realize the Australian ReikiAssociation prefers in person
classes.
Come on and join me for those.
And then I'm also going to beteaching Animal Reiki one and
two.
So I'd love to have you join usfor those in April, the full
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lineup of classes again.
And in May I'll be in New Yorkteaching Animal Reiki one and
two at the Northeast ReikiRetreat.
Lots of choices.
Please sign up for ournewsletter.
There's a link in the podcastnotes and you can just have
clickable links of all theclasses.
Karen, you've got some greatstuff coming up as.
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I do, I have regular Zui, HolyFire, One and Two and Master
every month.
And then Animal Reiki online.
I teach all my classes onlineevery month, this month.
And I don't know if this podcastwill be out in time, but I am
teaching Animal Reiki Master onHong Kong evening time.
So can check my website forthat.
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And if you live I have beengetting a lot of students from
Asia.
I'm a former English is a secondlanguage teacher, and I had a
woman from Korea, she stayed upall night to take Animal Reiki
one and two.
And the English, her English waslimited it was a little
difficult, but we used throughGoogle Translate and then, me
helping her, we were able to getthrough class.
Yeah, contact me if you wouldlike me to offer.
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I do those more on demand.
I get up really early and teachso that people can take them in
the evening.
I love that.
Karen and I actually taught anAsian student this summer as
well, and just with GoogleTranslate I've taught several of
course, but but with, sorry,Google Translate.
Oh yeah.
He said Google Translator.
My phone said one moment, that.
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Thank you.
But with the translationsoftware, actually the class was
beautiful and it was stunningand know it, it took us a little
longer, but it's all fine.
I forgot to mention Karen inNovember, I will be doing some
talks at the equine affair inMassachusetts and would love to
have people join me there.
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And also in November earlyNovember, I'll be speaking at,
in, at a Brazilian Reikiconference.
So if you're in Brazil yeah, I'mlooking for, I'll be talking
about the Reiki business bookand just the, some of the ins
and outs and of having a Reikibusiness and why you might like
to do that.
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So I'm really so many greatopportunities.
So lovely that we can be inperson again now and you,
although some of those areonline opportun opportunities,
so lovely.
We can do both, isn't it Yeah,absolutely it is.
So guys, just before we beginOne of the things I'd like to
let you know about the AnimalReiki course, the I C R T Animal
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Reiki course, is that it has itsown energy.
And I'm gonna talk to you alittle bit about the history
because that came as a bit of asurprise to us.
And so I'd just like to inviteyou to close your eyes and bring
your hands in Gassho and justactivate your own Reiki energy.
And Karen and I will send youwith the distance symbol, the
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animal Reiki energy, so that youcan just feel it in your space
and around you as we go aheadthrough this podcast and talk
about this podcast.
And you can just get a littlemore familiar with it and see if
it's an energy that you enjoy ormaybe want to learn more about.
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So just breathe in the energyand feel it all around you.
And I'm also going to ask thedivine animal Kingdom to
surround you as you listen tothe podcast so that you can just
get to know them and get to havea feel for this system.
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And whenever you're ready, youcan open your eyes, but we're
going to invite the energy toassist you with your perception
and your listening and today sothat you can feel into the
energy and get a real sense.
So to start with, I think I'dlike to just start with a
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history and then Karen, I'd loveto get your impressions about
the animal Reiki.
I'm very blessed.
I got a nudge to create ananimal Reiki course during, in
2016 during a holy fire.
You Suey Reiki master class thatI was taking with William ran
the same time.
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I got a nudge to become an I C RT licensed teacher.
And while I I wasn't as keen onbecoming an I C R T licensed
teacher, which is funny becauseit's one of the best things I've
ever done.
As soon as the energy nudged meand asked me to create an animal
Reiki course, I said yes.
And I think it's the first timeever that I didn't argue.
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The guidance that Reiki gave me.
and I just had written severalarticles about how we worked
with Reiki and animals here onthe farm.
And from some of the responsesthat I had gotten from people, I
realized, wow, I guess we have alot more animals to work with.
And I guess maybe we've takenthings a little further with
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Reiki and animals than somepeople have.
So it occurred to me that maybewe did need to put some of these
experiences down on paper andhelp people understand some of
the potential and what waspossible with animals.
Shortly after I got that nudgefrom the Reiki energy though,
William Rand said, maybe an houror two later in class, by the
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way, the I C R T is creating ananimal Reiki class and.
Colleen Benelli is in charge ofthat, and I thought gosh, what's
the sense of me creatingsomething that if Colleen
Benelli is going createsomething, I'll just wait for
what the I C R T producesbecause I have just such a
positive opinion of anythingthat the I C R T produces.
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It's always very professionaland well done and very complete
and very well researched.
So I didn't see the sense ofcreating something myself, but
something caused me to reach outto Colleen and say, By the way,
would you like any help withthat?
And she said she would.
However, they, she and SueStrong had been working with the
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energy almost every week forquite some time, since I think
2015 when William first askedher to create the course and the
energy kept saying it wasn'tready.
And that was terriblyfrustrating for them.
They're very get it done, kindof people.
Like I am.
And so they, it was veryfrustrating, but Colleen said
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yes, they would like hel thehelp and but the energy was
still saying it wasn't ready.
So we talked instead about how Iwould apply for the licensed
teacher program.
And as short as I got acceptedfor the licensed teacher
program, I was assigned Colleenas my mentor, which I was just
thrilled with.
I would've taken any of thelicensed teachers because
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they're all just suchexceptional people.
And I don't know.
Their vibration is just in sucha beautiful place, their
professionalism, everything.
But when I did get Colleen, Iwas very excited.
I knew we had a lot in common,and in fact I felt like I hit
the jackpot.
She, I was a horse girl.
She was a horse girl.
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We both loved animals and justhad an awful lot in common.
We're both very ambitious, butboth very, Immersed in the Reiki
energy and love loving it.
Both very earth based, spendinga lot of time outdoors and with
the earth.
So it was a really good fit forme.
And it wasn't until January of2019 that the energy said it was
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ready.
So together with Robin Bonelli,myself, Sue Strong and Colleen,
we met for four full days andjust listened to the energy and
we really thought we werecreating a course of you.
Here's how you use the Reikienergy you already have with
animals.
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But what we did was we listenedand we listened to our inner
perceptions of what the energywas.
Trying to say and what theanimals wanted from us.
And of course at first westarted off with, here's how we
help the animals and we wannahelp the animals.
And it wasn't very long beforethe animals turned the tides and
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said, And here's how we helpyou.
This is gonna be an exchange.
This isn't you dominating orhelping us.
Every time you help us.
We're helping you.
This is a true and properexchange of blessings between
us.
And one of the things that wewere made aware of that needed
to heal was the belief indominion over animals.
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Animals in showed us that there,and I we already knew they were
sentient beings with anincredible intelligence, but the
animals showed us how they wouldguide the session and we could
Open our perceptions so that wecould listen to them.
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And allow them to guide what wewere doing.
They showed us that we needed toheal that belief in dominion
over and so that we could becomepart of the animal kingdom here
on Earth.
And there were these beautiful,enlightened beings known as the
divine animal Kingdom.
The same beings that are aroundeach and every one of you right
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now, who really led us.
They are the ascended masters ofthe animal kingdom.
They are the equivalent of theascended masters or the brothers
and sisters of the light.
And in fact, there are humans.
In the divine animal kingdom,enlightened beings because the
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human is an animal.
And even us with what we thoughtwas a fairly enlightened
perspective, we kept losingtrack of that.
And we kept saying, and theanimals and the energy would
stop us and say, And the humanis an animal.
And so I think a couple ofthings surprised us about this.
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First of all, And we realized atone point, wait, we're not
working with the same energy,the same Reiki energy we started
out with, This is its ownfrequency.
And so we began feeling intothat and asking questions.
And we heard, yes, this was afrequency that wanted to come to
the earth to heal the animals,including the human animals.
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And not only would it heal theanimals, but it could be used to
for plants and rocks and treesand just everything in
existence.
The earth, the stars, all of it.
And so it was just, it'sprobably been one of the most
incredible experiences of mylife.
It took a full year of listeningbecause we would get information
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and then it would stop, and thenit would start and stop.
And so it was really a truly adevelopmental process where we
had to let the energy and thedivine animal kingdom lead us
through it.
All, we could not proceed at ourown pace.
We had to work at the pace ofthe energy and it was absolutely
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fascinating.
And then having the opportunityto teach the class, probably,
I've been asked sometimes,what's the thing that surprises
me the most about this courseand about this energy and the
thing that surprised me the mostand a lot of the and the other
authors have shared that itsurprised them as well, is how
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much we heal ourselves in theclass.
And it's important that we healthings like grief and shame and
blame and guilt and all of thosethings as an animal lover that
you experience in order to be aclear and proper channel for the
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animal Reiki energy for theanimals, including.
The human animal.
And it also surprised me thatthe animal Reiki began coming
into my sessions with humansthat I was already doing and
really dramatically changedthose sessions so that they
became more efficient and moreeffective.
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So Karen, that's like just aquick history on it that I
wanted to share with peoplebecause it, it was just such a
fascinating process of listeningand perceiving what.
The animals wanted, what theenergy was, what it was here for
and in addition to a differentenergy, the ener, the animal,
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divine animal kingdom and theenergy itself brought new
techniques that really listenedto the animals' wants and needs
and desires, and allow them tobe the one that guide the
session.
It, they brought So muchinformation and so I just love
teaching the class.
Karen, why don't you tell us alittle bit about the class and
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what you love about it?
Oh I remember when it was comingthrough and I was in the
program.
I started I guess around thesame time, but we kept asking,
Is it ready?
Is it ready?
Is it ready?
And we look back yet, is itready?
Is it.
And I tell my students, I said,now where we are now, I look
back and I go, Oh, it wasn'tready because Reiki was getting
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ready.
We didn't know what was coming.
We didn't know Covid was coming.
And we had that shift in theenergy where it changed to, to
harmonize more with thetechnology, which would enable
us to teach online.
And you know what?
I think that it all goestogether.
It's really.
Energy and I think of animalReiki not just as the
techniques, but I think of it asa different energy.
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And it's part to me of ourevolution.
And it's an interestingevolution because it's not just
moving forward, it's partlygoing back to our animal.
And this in the positive senseto our animalistic roots.
of our nature of being on earth,part of earth of, I think of
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primitive peoples and howconnected they were to the
earth.
And a lot of what we teach,especially in the master level
is like returning to.
Those skills that we'veforgotten are opening our
awareness.
And the other thing about thisclass that I love is that it's
in that opening.
It's opening up to me is likethe most, most expansive, It's
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opening up skills I didn't knowI had.
It's right because it'sawareness it's there.
It was lying dormant.
And this energy is helping toit's not an animal communication
course.
No, it's a separate thing, butit is helping me I would say
open to everything, not justanimals, but open to the earth.
There's a earth, I would sayit's very elemental.
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It really connects me to earth,to air, to water, to fire, to, I
mean like those elements ofbeing here on earth, being
human, and I think that the holyfire energy started that.
With our healing of our ego.
Not like we gotta get outtahere.
This place is terrible By thetime we started teaching it, I
really, after going through thepandemic, and I was getting to
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the point of what is the matterwith people I, what is wrong
with us?
And what we talk about a lot inthe classes, compassion fatigue.
That's what has happened to us.
Yes.
We are worn out.
From caring.
And so what happens in, it's aform of ptsd, compassion
fatigue, it's actually aclinical diagnosis.
And so we are.
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trying to heal that.
And animal lovers especially, Ithink suffer because we are
sensitive and we arecompassionate people.
And one of my favorite parts ofthe class is the animal Grief
healing meditation.
And I do that actually in classa lot.
If I've got students who.
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I had an animal that they'velost recently, and sometimes
it's like years and they'restill torn up about us.
Oh yes.
We haven't healed it because wewere talking in the last class I
had, when your mother dies oryour father dies, everyone
understands that and they go ofcourse that's your parent, but
there's still, if you lose yourdog or your cat, it's not your
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parent.
And there's still a little bitof I shouldn't be feeling this
much grief over a dog I had for10 years.
This is silly.
I shouldn't feel this.
I shouldn't feel that.
And so we stuff it and of coursewhen we stuff those feelings it
causes problems.
So I think the animal Reiki forthat alone is worth, healing.
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Those things.
And also, So I always did not,may be jumping ahead about how
is it different from regularReiki, Can't I just take a
class?
And just, and yes you can useon, you can regular Reiki
because that's what we did foryears.
That's how we gave experienceand that's what we thought we
were creating.
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So you can use regular Reiki,but I find that more animals are
open to this particularfrequency and the wild animals.
So yeah, the last year I've keptclose contact with the students.
So what are you experiencing?
And so many of them report andI'm sure you're aware too, of
like dear, they're not afraid ofme.
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Yesterday there was a littlebird, Pam.
It came this close to me and Ithought, I think I'm gonna put
bird seed in my hand and Ibelieve a bird will come and eat
outta my hand.
I think they will, squirrels.
It does something to me.
And I know animals just, theydon't today I was passing a
flock of pigeons and they didn'teven I just, I activated animal
Reiki.
They didn't move.
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Yeah.
And I was so close to them andthey didn't move.
It's crazy.
I know.
These students are like, This isnuts.
I'm like, I know.
But maybe it shouldn't be.
It really is returning us tothat state of I am part of all
of this.
I am, I belong here.
One of the things it did for mepersonally, Karen, is it really
made me feel part of the earthand part of my daily life.
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And part of the, I think I, Ididn't even realize I was
separate from it because I wasdoing Reiki with animals.
I was, and I'm an animalcommunicator and teaching animal
communication and animals are ahuge part of my life.
And so I didn't, probably I, Iwas really open and I didn't
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realize I was still separatefrom the animals.
And then when that separationwas healed and lifted, oh my
gosh, it just made living myeveryday life so much more
comfortable being here on theearth, so comfortable.
And I didn't even realize theseparation existed and probably
nobody would have seenseparation in me just because of
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the way we do things with thehorses and so on.
I didn't see it, that's forsure.
And when that was released.
And another thing is a lot ofanimal lovers, including myself
can sometimes struggle with overempathy, where we take on the
burdens of others and we.
Sometimes just almost feel toomuch in situations.
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And I loved when that there's aspecific energy, there's a
specific exercise in the course,and I usually do it twice on
both days of the level one andtwo class that heals shame,
blame, guilt, grief, compassionfatigue, and over empathy.
And there's a whole section ofthe manual on that.
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And I have to say that when myown compassion fatigue was
released, because we all get Isay a little bit weary from the
ways and worries of the world.
Yes.
And when my over empathy washealed, I've been able to be in
the world in a much.
A more comfortable and healthyway.
I don't know, did you noticeanything around that?
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Yes.
Yeah, it's really when you werespeaking, one of my students,
and I can't remember whatexactly she said now, but she
said, I didn't know that I hadall of that tension in there.
I thought I was fine.
And she said it was during thatthe healing, compassion,
fatigue, Yes.
Experience.
She said during that I realizedall this, that I'd been
carrying, and for me itmanifested as a deep ground.
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which people have been followingme for a while, like I'm pretty
flighty and I really neededthat.
But it's that earth energy thatthe animals connect to and many,
I use this in my people clsessions as well.
And okay.
For example, my brother, cuz Iwas doing regular sessions on
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him every Monday night for along time and I didn't tell him
that I was using the animalReiki.
But we finished the session andwe did, I do distance sessions
only.
We were on the phone and I said,Okay, I'm finished.
How you feel?
He goes, I said, what?
He said, I feel like I can'tpick my arms up off.
I'm so relaxed.
Wow.
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And I said, Oh.
I said, Okay.
I used the animal Reiki energyon me.
And he said, Wow.
Yeah.
He said, he was just like, hesaid, I just feel like I'm just
like stuck to the bed.
I'm like, good.
Because that, I think that'swhat we need.
Cuz we're so everything in, inthe world right now, of course.
Why the world peace?
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I look back and I see ah, it'sshifted for the technology and
then it shifted into the animaland then it shifted into the
world peace.
It's helping us get through thistransition, I think, that we're
going through, but it, and weneed to be grounded Yes.
To get through this and getwhere we're going.
I, yeah, that's lovely.
A lovely energy for that.
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There was nothing I was gonnasay, but it's left me I'm sure.
I, I'm sorry.
No.
I was, it was just in responseto what you were saying and I
was thinking was it about thegrounding So true.
I, people relaxing?
I think so.
Just that, that release of thattension that like you're, your
students said that I didn't evenknow that was there.
Yeah I agree with thatcompletely.
But one of the messages thatcame through from the animals,
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each of the species hadsomething specific.
To say to us about their purposewith us and why they choose to
connect with us.
I've always wondered that, Isaid, from the beginning, my
very first article in 2013, Ithink I wrote that I jump fences
on my horses that are higherthan the fences on our property,
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or I used to.
And I haven't, I haven't jumpedfor a while cuz I just don't
wanna injure my horses joints.
They're getting older.
I thought, what makes thesehorses stay inside these fences
when they don't need me?
They eat grass.
There's grass all around us.
They could be out of the fencesall the time.
And I even, my fences are betternow.
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But for a while I had a friendvisit once and she said, Your
fences are really more of asuggestion, aren't they, And I
said, Yeah, but for, my horseschoose to stay home.
And I'm grateful.
But it made me wonder, whatmakes those horses stay with me
when they could jump out easily?
And sometimes the grass in ourpasture is all used up and next
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door there's beautiful grass.
Why do they stay?
What makes the dogs stay withus?
They don't need me to survive.
They could be on their own.
What makes the cats come in andchoose to be with us?
They, my, I had two cats that ona farm you couldn't.
Keep, You can't keep cats in ona farm.
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Their door is open much of thetime and people are coming and
going and and they weretremendous hunters, which I
actually appreciated themkeeping the mouse population in
our old farmhouse down a littlebit, even though it broke my
heart every time they did killhim out.
I know.
And yet, why did they stay withus?
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Why did the chickens and some ofmy birds that I had out there
were turkeys and Guinea hensthat had flight and I had wild
turkeys.
And why did they choose to comeinto the pen every night cuz
they were allowed to be loose?
All of my animals are allowed tobe loose.
I even have free range horsesthat mow the lawn at times.
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Why do they stay?
And I realized we asked thatquestion, why do our animals
stay with us?
And the answer is because, theycame here to be with us.
They, we have sole contractswith each other and one of the
things that the animals said is,if we could but recognize our
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beauty, one of the things theyshowed us is that as humans, we
so often believe ourselves to beflawed.
We believe that, in originalsin, and we believe that there's
something wrong with us rightfrom the very beginning.
And the animal said, You'rebeautiful and if you could but
recognize your beauty, you wouldcreate your life from a place of
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beauty.
But because you believeyourselves to be destructive,
that is sometimes where youcreate your life from.
And our outer world is alwaysgonna resemble our inner, if our
belief system says we.
there's something wrong with us.
We're sinners we're, flawed,then we're going to create a
life that is flawed.
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But if we could really seeourselves, they said, If you
could just see yourselves theway we see you, you would create
a beautiful life for yourself.
And I have to admit more thanany other energy so far, Reiki
has profoundly changed my life.
But the animal Reiki has reallyallowed me to step into a life
that is beautiful and where Ican recognize my beauty.
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And I no longer define myself asflawed and destructive.
And the dogs said in particularuntil you can see how amazing
you.
I'm gonna, we're gonna hold thatimage for you, Aww.
In, in a piece that I channeledon what the animals want you to
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know.
Every animal said that they werein our life for a purpose.
The horses, for instance, loveto see us step into our power.
The birds wanna see us soar andbecome all that we can be.
The cats want us to learn torest because we're so busy,
we're such busy animals, andthey want us to slow down a
little and enjoy life and that'stheir purpose.
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And the dog said, Until you canrecognize your beauty, will hold
that image for you, that imagethat your creator has of you
until you can see it yourself.
And the wild animals said thatthey wanted us to see our, the
be fascinated with theirdiversity and or the exotic
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animals and the wild animalssaid they wanted to inspire us.
And every.
Every species had something thatthey wanted for us.
And so it really did become atrue exchange, Karen, didn't it?
And we may start off on thisjourney with the intention of
helping the animals, but theanimals turn around and help us
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right back.
Yes.
And we also teach to do asession with the, if it's a
relationship, you, it's acaregiver and the and an animal
that a lot of times you have todo the session for both.
I've done sessions where,especially dogs, it seems you
Try to tap in with the dog andSo would you like Reiki?
And I get the feeling they'relike, Oh no, she needs it.
Give it to her.
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She really needs it.
She is so stressed.
And sometimes you have to startwith the caregiver, and because
there, as you said, like a soulcontract, that we have
relationships with our animals.
And people are a lot of I'm thesame way.
I'll spend more money onsomething, on getting my cat's
teeth cleaned and probably putoff my own teeth clean, and we
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all do that.
Exactly.
And that's as a Reikipractitioner, you'll, you may
find, that the caregivers likethat.
My dog is so stressed, Pleasecan you help my dog?
You get in there and you go Oh,there's just absorbing all your
stress As an animalcommunicator, you know what's
really funny is that a lot oftimes people will book an animal
communication session for theiranimal.
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And there's often a healthproblem or an issue that they
wanna get to the bottom of.
And the animal shows me likethat it's either sharing a
health issue from the caregiverand we say caregiver instead of
owner.
Because owner is very dominionoriented and that it's really in
our, truly in our relationshipwith our animals, it's very much
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of an exchange and The animalwill often say if the caretaker,
that look it, it's sharing theburden of the caretaker, but the
care, and I used to think it wasvery one-sided that the animals
took on our burdens and theanimals said, No, it's the
caretaker also takes on ourburdens.
They said it's a true and properexchange, but.
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One of the things the animalsshowed us is how quick we are to
blame humans or the human hat.
And they showed that for me, I'mvery much of an animal lover.
I'm animals first.
And they showed me like, and thehuman is an animal and
therefore, and that was a bigepiphany for me when I first got
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the master level energy.
Cause I didn't really love beingaround humans.
I felt much more comfortablebeing around animals.
It's just, I've been an animallover all my life.
And animals got me and theydidn't judge me.
And they I don't know.
We just always got each otherand.
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And I had this epiphany afterlearning my Reiki masters.
Wait a minute, People areanimals and I love animals,
therefore, I must love people.
And I remember just that hugewave of love washing over me and
recognizing that I did lovepeople.
And even still so many of us doparticipate in human shaming and
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blaming, It's all over the news.
And and I found that healed inthis course that I began looking
at people very differently.
even than I was after thisclass.
So I don't know.
What are some other things aboutthe class Karen?
No, I think my cat is knowingoutside.
Can we keep for a second?
You go ahead and I'll be rightback.
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Talk about there are two thingsthat came to mind where you were
talking.
One is that it it helps withbalance of nature.
Like when I said nature is sohard, but it helps me understand
the cycles and relationshipsmore.
That's true.
And then the other one I wasgoing to say, what you were
talking about, so many peoplesay, I don't wanna do people
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Reiki, I wanna do just animalReiki, just like what you were
saying.
And you'll gimme just a second.
Cause I think that he has jumpedoff the porch and he's yelling
at the front door.
That's fine.
Talk about the, how the courseis set up and they say, I don't
wanna take Reiki one and twobefore Animal Reiki.
I was like there's so much.
And so I explain why you have tohave Reiki one and two but gets
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confusing because of the do youhave to wait?
Yeah.
But you could address that.
Absolutely.
Let's see how I Do you go getIt's Simba, isn't it?
But it's outside?
No, it's Sam jumping to jump offthe porch.
Oh my goodness.
Okay.
Yeah, I think I hear you aboutthat.
You go grab Sam and I'llAbsolutely.
Speaking of ownership, yes.
They say dogs have owners andcats have staff.
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I am a staff I had a cat oncewhen I learned to communicate
who said that you called me hisservant and I said, I am not
your servant.
And he said, Really?
You open and close doors for me.
You bring me my food.
You even pick.
My waste.
Do you really think you're notmy servant?
And I said, Oh, I guess you havea point You go grab him.
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And I'll go and I'll go aheadand answer those.
Karen.
So yeah, actually that was a bigquestion.
We thought that when we wereputting this together, it was
just gonna be how to use theReiki you already have with
animals.
But then we realized it was muchbigger.
But from the beginning, theenergy, the animal Reiki energy
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said that a person does need tohave level one and two Reiki
from any lineage.
It can be from any lineagebefore studying animal Reiki.
And there were a few reasons wedidn't really understand it at
first.
So of course we asked the energyto explain it to us, and there
were a few reasons.
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One reason is that You havesymbols and the animal Reiki
said that it was going to blendwith the human Reiki symbols we
already have.
But the other reason is, and wethought it was gonna be a one
day course or something shorter,and it just kept evolving until
there was so much to it thatthere's not time to explain all
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of the, how to work with energy.
Anything about the yasuisymbols, there's not time to go
into that.
So it is really important thatyou have a level one and two
Reiki from any lineage beforeyou.
I C R T, Animal Reiki and you'llhave a better, and you can take
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them back to back.
I like if you do the six days inDecember, you can do level one
and two Thursday, Friday, andyou can do animal Reiki Monday,
Tuesday, or even if the animalReiki was Saturday, Sunday.
And people who've done it thatway, it's worked well.
I've had some students who'vedone that.
One of the other reasons thatit's really important to have a
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background in the human Reiki,aside from the experience and
the knowledge however, is thatyou're very seldom going to be
working with animals who don'thave caretakers.
And one of the really neataspects That came through in
some of our techniques are thatyou can do Reiki with the
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animals and you can do acombined session with the animal
and the caretaker.
And that's actually, in a lot ofcases, that's the most helpful
type of session.
The animals quite often bringtheir caretakers to the session
because they want them to getReiki and they want them to get
help because of course we shareeach other's burdens and the
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animal.
Them to get help because theycare about the caretaker.
And incidentally, when I, now,my sessions are usually a
combination of animalcommunication, animal Reiki, and
human Reiki, because almostalways the animal wants a
combined session.
And I'm very fortunate that thehumans that can, that reach out
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to me are almost always happyfor that.
They say, Do you charge more?
I'm like, No, it's the same costit's taking me the same amount
of time.
And you can have all three inone session if you want, but
when A caretaker would come andthe animal would say we're
sharing a burden.
They which often, not all thetime, but often enough that
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turned up in a session that andyou'll probably notice that if
you have digestive issues, youranimal might have digestive
issues and so on.
And so people would say, Pleasetell my animal to stop taking on
my issues or my symptoms.
And I would.
ever get an animal who wouldsay, Okay, they all said no.
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If she, if she or he wants me tostop having this issue, I need
them to look after themselves.
I am not going to stop sharingthe burden.
We have a soul contract to gothrough this life together.
That's why I don't jump thefence.
That's why I come in at night orcome in after I'm done getting
my fresh air for cats and dogsand chickens and turkeys and
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Guinea hens and so on.
Is that we have this contractto, to be together.
So anyway, hopefully thatanswers that and about the
structure.
And then a lot of people think,wait, now I've taken animal
Reiki level one and two becausewith.
Human courses in our lineage.
You take level one and two Reikiand you wait at least six months
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before taking masters.
People think that applies foranimal Reiki as well, but it
doesn't.
If you're already at the masterlevel, you can actually take
five days of animal Reiki rightin a row and do your level one
and two in masters all at thesame time, if you wish.
And again, that's a masters fromany lineage.
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So you don't have to havestudied with holy fire.
You don't get holy fire.
When you take animal Reiki, youget the animal Reiki energy and
symbol.
And that energy and symbol wasinspired by Holy Fire and we,
and the Holy Fire helped usunderstand it and develop it,
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but it is its own Holy fire isits own energy.
If you want to get Holy fire,you need to take a holy fire
class.
But the Holy Fire did bring inthis energy.
So the way it works is if you'relevel one and two from any
lineage, you can take level oneand two animal Reiki.
If you already have a master'sand you've taken I C R.
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Animal Reiki level one and two,you can go ahead and do the
master's class.
There's not really a waitingperiod between the courses.
Was that clear, Karen, or wasthat Yeah, I think so.
And and I do encourage many ofmy students who they take Reiki
one and two, not everyone iscalled to do Reiki Master even,
but no, some people they finishReiki two and they're like, Oh
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my gosh, this is amazing and Ican't wait to take Reiki master.
And that's all they couldconceivably just go the very
next day and take animal Reikione and two if they wanted to.
But yes, say I'll usually willencourage them like, play with
this energy.
You have to wait six monthsbefore the master work with the
energy before you can takemaster.
So in.
While you're waiting andexperimenting, take animal Reiki
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because that opens up anotherdimension of it's, I'm not doing
well with my, it gives anotherfrequency for you to work with.
It does, and that's a reallygreat thing to do while you're
waiting for your masters.
And a lot of people don'tunderstand, why they need to
wait six months before theMasters.
But really you can tell if astudent hasn't been at least six
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months with level one and two,they're usually not ready for
the shift that the master classbrings because it's a big shift.
And so you're right, animalReiki one and two as you're
waiting is a great way tocontinue to evolve and develop
with Reiki.
You had some other things,Karen, that you suggested and I
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got caught on explaining the.
Classes.
And I can't recall oh, it wasthat just how it flows and how
it's structured.
It's structured.
Like our holy fire classes, wehave right off the bat we,
there's a, the garden offorgiveness and animal Reiki
women.
Yes.
Two in animal Reiki.
One it.
Part of the class is likehealing and clearing and working
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through issues, of grief,compassion, fatigue, imbalance,
empathy, all of these thingsthat you really need to heal.
And then getting the animalReiki energy, developing
different skills to work withanimals.
We really emphasize in animalone and two, the three
priorities of animal Reiki,which are safety consent.
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And observation.
Observation.
Thank you, I should know that.
I know.
How many times have I writtenthat?
So we one of the bigdifferences, especially for
Reiki masters who come in andstart the animal Reiki I was
really accustomed to doespecially doing distance
sessions.
I was accustom to doing Reikiwith my eyes closed and I was
really tuning into things andpicking up stuff that I hadn't
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developing that third eye andmore.
And and then animal Reiki iskeep your eyes open.
Yeah.
That's an adjustment for somepeople, and you might be doing,
you might be doing sessions invery busy environments and you
have to be able to get into thatfocus Reiki space even when
there's lots going on aroundyou.
Yes.
And even distance sessions,which I really prefer for the
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animals because they're in theirown home.
They, and I'm, but I'm observingthe animal to see or, and the
caregiver sometimes has to helpcuz we let them, we it's Reiki
in motion.
The animals get to move around.
We don't, and they get to guidethe session.
Like we're not deciding what.
They receive, they decide and welisten to them.
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And so that's part of thelesson.
First thing is looking,observing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
So that it really, even ifyou're not gonna practice animal
Reiki every, I think everyoneshould take animal Reiki.
I said it's my favorite class.
But just for the skills that ithelps you develop.
Like you said, people areanimals too.
I can take the skills that I'mteaching in animal Reiki and
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apply them to an office.
Yes.
And your ability to be.
Aware of things that arehappening and and reading people
and, it's just, I, okay, so I,maybe a little biased, but I
think it's the best class thatwe offer at the ict, really.
She does classes seriously.
It helps you in so many areas ofyour life, healing and how you
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move in the world and how youget through life.
For me, it was just radicallychanging, life changing.
It really was for me too.
And just, I love it.
And I'm just trying to think ifthere was any, if there was any
questions that we didn't answer.
Is there anything else about theclass that you can think of that
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people might like to know?
Oh, you said about the animalsliking the energy.
And I noticed when I used YasuiReiki with animals, there was a
very small percentage of animalswho were a bit sensitive to it,
and they didn't always love it.
And Though even those animalsare like, bring it on with
animal Reiki.
Yes.
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I, we very seldom, I used to getno once in a while because of
course you always ask the animalfor their consent and you also
don't work on an animal withouttheir caregiver's consent.
And that's one of the, one ofthe three priorities, Karen.
Telling us about and keepingsafety in mind and in order to
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keep safety, it's observation.
And so we really work to try toheighten your connection with
your inner awareness so that youcan hear it and listen to it
better and sense it and withyour senses to expand them.
And and then there's.
Those other techniques that weuse with animal Reiki, but even
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those animals that were a littletoo sensitive for the sui Reiki
are usually very open to theanimal Reiki I found.
And I think my students say thattheir favorite part of class is
when we do the live cans.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
So we use Oh, I love the oneuntil they hibernate.
They're about to hiate, butthere's a wildlife camera in
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Alaska that's focused right onthis little waterfall.
And all the bears are therecatching salmon.
It's the cat, My K A t m a.
I kept my anyway.
But it's amazing how.
Sometimes they're just sittingthere in the water and they're
watching, but they'll start,Someone will say I'm focused on
this bear.
And they'll say, Oh, I feel it.
Okay.
I feel like it's okay.
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And I'm feeling it pulling frommy hands.
And then you'll see the bear onetime, cuz I don't have a life.
This is what I do for fun.
It's I know, let's go givebreakages and penguins at the
San Diego Zoo.
Just for fun.
But anyway, you'll, during classyou'll see you'll feel it in
your hands and then you'll seethe bear go, They bears are
notorious.
It seems like they're sniffing,like what is, They feel it.
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And then it's like they'retrying to pick up like, what?
And one time I had a bear justturn around and look what?
At the camera.
I've had that happen.
Remember in one class an eaglecame over and looked in the
camera like, What is that, thatI'm feeling?
Yeah.
So that's usually their favoritepart of class.
And.
Go to the different live campsuntil we find somebody like hey
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I've had chickens do that atthat, what is it?
Flying skunk farm chickens.
Oh.
And then they'll, they come upand they'll just up in the camp
It's so neat, isn't it?
Wait, what am I feeling?
They give the consent, but thenthey really seem to like the
energy or the free.
It's amazing.
And when I took your class, oneof the, when you put us into
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breakout sessions Yep.
And.
My partner was on a farm and shejust carried her laptop out and
I was sending, there were someducks and then this goat came
up, and then he just stopped.
Yeah.
Just right in front of thecamera.
Just and I thought, Oh, he'staking it too, yeah.
And it works so quickly.
And then you feel, What's soweird to me with the animal
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Reiki, is I feel it in my hands.
Yeah.
And then as soon as I feel it,like to diminish.
The animal, it's almost okay,thanks.
And then they just move on.
they do bizarre.
They really do.
It doesn't take anywhere near aslong, It's not uncommon for a
session to only be 10 minutesand yet, but you let the animal
decide and they'll let you knowwhen they're done.
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And, but one of my favoritethings to do is just create a
Reiki bubble and see if animalscome in it.
And some don't.
Some ignore it.
And they're like, Yeah, no, I'mbusy today.
And, but a lot of animals willcome over into the bubble and we
give them enough room that theycan say no if they want, or you
always ask the consent.
But if you're in a space with alot of animals, it's okay to
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make a bubble that.
Allow them to come into it ifthey wish and not if they don't
wish.
As long as the caretaker is allright with that, but, oh, it's
just a fantastic energy, isn'tit, Karen?
It really is So that has helpedmy evolution too, in like truly
understanding energy that, whenwe started teaching online that
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helped.
I were like, Okay, yeah, this isamazing.
I'm, there really truly is nosuch thing as distance in time
or space, and then the animals,because they, I'm not
brainwashing them or anything.
It's just really validating tome that I can see how they
respond and I'm not even there.
And somehow they understand it'scoming.
Like from that camera or, Yeah.
It's just bizarre Oh, I know.
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And sometimes they'll will, theywill look right at the camera
quite often.
And it's too obvious to miss,they, Yeah.
I just love, So that's helped meunderstand that even more
deeply, how truly interconnectedwe all are on this whole earth.
Oh, we are.
And it's interesting because youtalked about connecting with our
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human nature, and I thought, Ididn't realize I had any hangups
about that until that it, at themaster level, we really work on
the inner awareness and skillbuilding with just learning how
to sense things in this in thesame way that animals do and
just reactivating that withinus, that sensitivity, that
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heightened sensitivity to helpus with our observations and I
can remember that at the animalrake a master level.
It's really connecting with yourhuman nature.
And I had a hard time with thatat first, and I remember saying
to Colleen when the words camethrough for the ignition, I was
like, Wow, I didn't realize Istill had some resistance to
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being human.
And I didn't realize it at all.
But it showed up.
And then once that settled in,what a, I don't know.
It just, it brought so muchbeauty and even, and I must say
it brought abundance to my life.
I, so much of the abundance thatI've been experiencing recently
I feel has been from animalReiki.
And what the earth has shown meis that there's enough.
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There's no need.
I'm glad you brought that up.
Or scarcity.
There's enough for everyone.
And look at how the wild animalsand that's one of the things the
wild animals said.
We know that the earth isabundant enough for us and that
we don't need to work all of thetime.
And that enough.
And could you imagine if youcould put that amount of trust
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in your life that you willalways have enough?
What would, how would thatchange things for you?
I'm working on it.
Yeah.
It has changed.
That's a big part of the change.
I'm glad you brought that up, isthat's, I think that
groundedness in the sense ofcalm I have is tied to that.
working on that scarcitymentality and trust and.
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Yeah.
The earth is It provides,there's everything we need.
It has everything we need.
I can grow enough in a littleplot of land out there to, to
feed, to really feed us for alittle while.
I used to do it.
We just forgot.
I was just, I'm reallyinterested in foraging.
Cause I live in the wilds ofArkansas and and I do know some
plants that you can eat.
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Yep.
You, us looking around, likeduring the Great Depression, oh
my gosh, my grandparents weregrowing.
They went out and they just,stuff grows wild that we can eat
this nutritious, just but that'scoming back to the fact that we
are animals.
In this, We are part of thisearth and we were designed, I'm
not talking about our spirit orour soul.
I'm talking about our bodies.
We are designed to live here.
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Yeah.
Just like the animals.
And we just have to come backinto alignment with that.
And that's what an, that's thegift of animal Reiki to me, is
coming back into alignment withthat.
I love that Karen and I lovethat word alignment.
I feel that the animal Reikireally does bring us into a
powerful alignment with theearth and with our life.
With that in mind, what about ifI lead the, our list for the
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earth meditation?
Perfect.
Okay.
Guys, this is the heartbeat ofthe earth meditation from our
animal Reiki I invite you toclose your eyes and take some
deep breath.
and place your hands on yourheart, feeling your Reiki
energy, including the animalReiki energy flowing through
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your hands and into your heart.
And the light of Reiki and thelight of the earth and the light
of the divine beings, and thelight of creation surrounds you
and it fills your breath.
And as you breathe in the light,it travels in on your breath and
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fills your body with lightcausing the light within you to
wake up and be revealed in you.
You remember your love, yourhigher consciousness, and your
pure heart.
You can see them now and thelight of the earth is revealed
in you as you remember that yourbody is made of the earth to
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give your spirit life andbreath.
and the light of the divine isrevealed in you as you remember
that your spirit is made of thelight of the divine, but you are
here in your life to be human.
The light of creation and thelight of your body are one light
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within you.
Your divine nature is present inyour human nature, and you
remember your beautiful spirit,your life force.
It is here in your body and inyour life in this moment in
time.
Listen now to the heartbeat ofthe earth and the heartbeat of
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the waters and all life in thewaters.
You can hear the heartbeat ofthe animals and the trees and
the birds in the trees.
You can hear the heartbeat ofcreation in the four winds.
And in the cycles and rhythm ofthe moon and the sun, and the
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rhythm of the stars in the nightsky, the planets and our solar
system, and the heartbeat of theMilky Way, the galaxies, and the
universe, the heartbeat ofcreation.
They all beat in the same rhythmas your own heart feel, your
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body align with the heartbeatand the rhythms and the cycles
of the earth, and the heartbeatand rhythm and cycles of
creation.
One heartbeat, one light, onebreath.
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right now, in this moment intime, in your daily life, the
power of love at the core of thephysical world, the light of
pure consciousness becoming allthings.
You bring this awareness nowinto your body that you are like
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all life on earth, part of theanimal kingdom.
Everything here lives in therhythms and the cycles of this
beautiful creation, the earth.
So bring your awareness to yourbody now and listen here, your
heart beating in your body, inyour life today, in the same
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rhythm as the heartbeat of theearth and all of creation.
And let's breathe into thismoment.
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Hold on.
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And just feeling the alignmentwith the heartbeat of the earth.
When you feel ready to come backinto the room, slowly open your
eyes, bringing your awareness toyour heartbeat, like the
heartbeat of the animals and alllife on earth.
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Aho.
Awesome.
We are all one.
Namaste.
Karen, I just wanna thank youfor being here with us to talk
about Animal Reiki this week.
And I'd like to thank thelisteners if you'd like to learn
more.
Feel free to reach out to Karenor I.
Our contact information is onthe website and we're both
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offering classes online and someclasses in person as well.
Next summer I'll be offering awhale class in Campobello in
July, August and September,level one and two.
And in September I'll also offera masterclass where we can go
out and see the whales.
In fact, we often see the whalesfrom the living room window.
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They tend to join class.
Please join us if you enjoy thisenergy.
If you'd like to evolve in yourReiki.
And thank you so much for thebeautiful light that you're
spreading on the earth today,the animals.
Thank you as well.
Did you wanna say anything,Karen?
Thank you so much for having me,and thank you for being a part
(01:00:03):
of bringing this energy through.
I appreciate you so much, Blessyou.
Thank you Namaste, everyone.
See you next week.
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