Healing Animals With Reiki presented by Susan E. Hutcheson, Reiki Master
Susan has extensive experience with all types of domestic animals and feral cats. She uses distant Reiki on larger or wild animals. Here are some tips and highlights of this hour and a quarter class. First she gave out a useful chart and booklist regarding treatment of a cat, dog and horse. Her philosophy is "All healing expands global consciousness. Healing is not in the action it is in the intention. Reiki turbo charges the healing." She was able to give specifics in describing a healing session with domestic animals accompanied by wonderful slides of the animals receiving their sessions. She expressed that the ritual of healing is a meaningful pattern to you, and you should find a comfortable way of working. How long to treat? Feel the energy rise and fall and learn to move your hands accordingly. Reiki is most helpful when you understand the anatomy and can apply it specifically. The positions for treating animals correspond to the seven major chakras as in humans, although location is described according to the anatomy of the animal:
crown ~ just behind the ears
brow ~ forehead, above the eyes
throat ~ below the jaw
heart ~ between the front legs; also between the shoulder blades
solar plexus ~ below the end of the ribcage
sacral ~ between the back legs
root ~ base of spine where the tail comes out
extra chakra tip of the tail
She also emphasized that there are many acupuncture points that respond well to Reiki, one example being in cats the three-point hold of crown and behind each ear responds well to light massage. Animals respond to the unconditional love of Reiki. You ask their permission by putting one hand on your heart and with the other hand send Reiki out to them and wait for their response.
Other suggestions: She highly recommends using healing music CDs. She has been using them in animal shelters to calm frightened animals with great success. Cats carry fear and security issues in the sacral area. Treat the base and tip of the tail. Flat fur in animals equals distress; fluffy fur equals happy.
Other chakra points are under the paws of cats and dogs and under the hooves of horses. With horses she also recommends treating all major joints. For traumatic deaths, give Reiki and ask for guidance to safety. Keep a healing book with names and pictures of animals who are lost or distressed from, for instance, West Nile virus or hoof and mouth disease (all those slaughtered animals); healing for animals in shelters who are euthanized; asking for intention that animals in shelters find a matching person.
Reiki Botanica: Combining Reiki and Aromatherapy for Personal and Planetary Healing presented by Debra Szporluk, Reiki Master.
Debra is a Reiki Botanica teacher and Director of Esoterica Aromatica, a home-study course exploring the spiritual dimensions of Aromatherapy. She has spent the last seven years building the Reiki and Aromatherapy systems together. She feels it combines the celestial energy of Reiki with earth plant energy. She provided a wonderful description of the Reiki ancestry through Dr. Usui, who researched and studied ancient texts, but received Reiki through his own intuition and meditation. Usui was "gifted" the Reiki energy, as anyone can be, but the attunement process condenses the energy-receiving process. She feel Reiki is "celestial" energy as Usui received it through the brow, and when you are giving Reiki you feel it most in the flow through the upper chakras.
According to Debra, botanicals connect us to the plant, earth energy. Earth energies then balance the celestial Reiki energy. She then delved into the history of anointing (essential) oils and their sacred use from early religious practices to modern times. She discussed safety dilution of essential oils (one or two drops of essential oil in a teaspoon of carrier oil, such as olive, grape seed, sweet almond or jojoba). She then discussed which parts of the plant are used and why: roots, stems, leaves, flower petals; and how the essential oil is extracted: cold extraction, steam distillation, solvent extraction, advanced vacuuming, or enfleurage. She described how to do a patch test (on a tthumb-sized area, apply diluted essential oil, cover with a bandaid, wait 24 hours) to determine the safety of an oil for you. Then she gave us a treat by passing around several essential oils as she described their function according to the chakras.
Anoint the body location in a clockwise motion:
~ Hands to increase energy flow
~ Crown ~ frankincense ~ invokes divine protection, deepens the breath, slows us down
~ Brow ~ lavender, clary sage ~ cleans, opens, heightens visualizing, dreaming, creativity
~ Throat ~ lemongrass ~ speak up, make conversation / eucalyptus ~ clears anger, negativity
~ Heart ~ palma rosa ~ opens the heart; allows grieving, emotional release,
breathe through painful experience / melissa (lemonbalm) ~ warms the heart, sympathy,
compassion, calms strong emotion
~ Solar plexus ~ juniperberry ~ protection, improves aura strength / lime ~ change will, happiness
~ Navel ~ ylang ylang ~ releases energy blocked at this level, playful, relieves frustration
~ Feet ~ root vertiver ~ deepen tranquility, temple of your being
She closed with a meditation using sandalwood and meditating on giving thanks back to the sandalwood tree.
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