HOW MY ANIMAL HEALING WORK BEGAN.
WHAT CONDITIONS CAN BE TREATED?
TECHNIQUES AND MODALITIES THAT I USE
THE HUMAN CONNECTION
WHAT HAPPENS DURING AN ANIMAL HEALING SESSION?
How my Animal Healing work began.
I started out doing healing work with people only. Initially it all began with Reiki, then Shamanic Journeys where added, soon becoming my main tool to offer for healing work. Later I expanded by learning hypnosis, hoping to enable my clients to access their own inner wisdom, and healing potential. Other aspects and tools for healing were included over time, enabling me to use a wide range of approaches, and to choose whatever would be most appropriate for the individual client.
During the summer of 2003 a friend of mine approached me to do healing work on her horse, Baily. Baily had been adopted. He had been a race horse, injured his knees on the race track, and then been sold to a woman who had kept him in a stall without daylight for five years. Now his knees were swollen and hurting so badly he could hardly limp. The vet announced he would be lame for the rest of his life.
At first I didn’t think I would be able to do much for him, but when I started the work I was surprised and delighted to find that I was getting answers to questions I was asking, and responses to changes I was offering. I was to my excitement able to have a dialogue on a deep soul level with the animal, and could also find and release the experiences that had created patterns and beliefs that had caused the knee to decline in functioning. And it was thrilling to see how quickly Baily responded to the treatments. After two sessions the swelling had already gone down and he could use a light trot again. Today, two years afterwards, he is running and galloping as if he had never been disabled in his life.
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Baily
What conditions can be treated?
Since then I have worked with many other horses, dogs, cats and even birds. We have addressed organ malfunctions, digestive imbalances, chronic health conditions, old injuries, many different behavioral problems, issues of fear, boosted competition performance, and assisted in the dying process. Some animals and conditions respond very quickly, others need a few more sessions, and changes unfold over a longer period of time. Each animal offers a new and unique experience, and thus the work is continually evolving.
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Velvet
Techniques and modalities that I use.
I use almost all the “human” healing techniques that I know, and I work with whatever feels right in the moment. Most of the time that includes Reiki; Somatic Healing: through color healing, using the “Golden Sun” process, or activating the animal’s “Inner Healer”; and Shamanic Healing :by returning a vital soul part.
Reiki
Reiki was discovered by Mikao Usui, a Japanese Christian priest who lived at the turn of the last century. It was brought into the west through Hawai in 1937 Reiki is a hands-on healing modality that taps into a universal healing energy, guiding it through the hands into another body - animal or human, and works with symbols in the advanced degrees as well.
Somatic Healing
Somatic Healing is a specialized discipline within Hypnosis. In working with animals I ask to see the affected area in the color that reflects the present energy, injury, pain or other health condition. Normally this is what clients see in their bodies themselves. The color then can be adjusted or exchanged with a healing color. This often is accompanied by an emotional experience.
The “Golden Sun” is another visualized process within Somatic Healing that connects the animal both to the earth energies as well as to the sun energy in a healing and cleansing balance.
The Inner Healer
The Inner Healer is really an image of the inner healing potential. It also is used in Somatic Healing. For humans this mostly looks like a protective being that has access to the ailing inside of our body. For animals the Inner Healer most often shows up as a whole flock of healing fairies, which can enter the body in order to remove, repair, and renew whatever necessary.
Shamanic Healing
Using the Shamanic healing approach I am able to look for a younger “soul part” of the animal from a time when it was still fully healthy and emotionally balanced. The soul part appears with a story about what happened at the time and what experiences or treatments caused this particular vital soul essence to disconnect. Retrieving a soul part for the animal reconnects them back to the life force they had available at that time.
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Frankie
A fascinating aspect of this work has been the discovery that many animals have energetically taken on or absorbed imbalances from the lives of their owner. Which means that their illness seems to have been fed by the problems their human partner has been facing. And on the flip side I have also encountered the cause of an illness as the inability to truly serve their owner, the sense that they are useless, that has made them ill.
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Andy
What happens during an animal healing session?
I start with a thorough intake.
After our part of talking is done, the ensuing session happens silently. If the animal can sit, or stand next to me to be touched: that is great, but physical touch is not necessary after the initial connection is established. I mostly begin to tune in to the animal using the Reiki symbols, after that everything follows in a completely intuitive manner. So, while I communicate with the animal and offer certain shifts through the various modalities, I don’t talk, unless something shows up that is unusual, or doesn’t make sense to me. Depending on what the owner wants me to accomplish, or find answers for, the session will continue for as long as necessary. Often more questions, or issues become apparent in the course of the session, which we honor again as feels necessary.
Usually an hour will be sufficient to cover everything, rarely have I had a session for over an hour and a half.
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