Healing Hearts. Restoring trust. One rescue at a time.
Help your cherished animal companions to feel safe, calm and connected.
Calming energy healing sessions, gentle animal reiki, mindful presence, and meditations for rescued pets, ex-racehorses, and every brave and courageous soul in between. At Elaine Bowler Animal Reiki, we understand that rescued animals carry unique stories and, often, lingering anxieties. Our mission is to provide a sacred sanctuary of healing for both you and your cherished companion. Healing Through Connection, creating moments of Mindfulness and Meditation, Tools to Deepen Your Bond. Utilizing the gentle practice of Reiki energy healing, we offer a calming presence that helps soothe and balance the energy of your rescued pet or horse. Our tranquil energy healing sessions are designed to foster trust, alleviate stress, and promote overall well-being. We incorporate mindfulness techniques and guided meditations tailored to the needs of your animals, creating a peaceful, calm, environment that encourages relaxation and emotional healing. From calming meditation journals, to educational materials, explore our selection of tools and resources aimed at strengthening the connection between you and your cherished companion. We provide support every step of the way. Begin Your Healing Journey Embark on a path of mutual healing and understanding. Contact us today to learn more about our services and how we can assist you and your rescued animals in achieving balance, harmony and peace.
Creating peaceful calm
Imagine the first time your rescued dog sighed in relief, or the moment when your off-the-track mare finally dropped her head and deeply breathed. These are the moments that I live for.
I'm Lainey, an accredited Reiki Master Teacher, and a certified Equine & Animal Reiki Practitioner, based in Ballarat, Victoria. I am a life long animal ally, who specialises in restoring trust and balance to animals with a history of trauma.
With a Certificate III in Animal Studies, specialised training in Equine and Animal Energy Healing, and over 20 years of experience in the animal rescue industry, I am dedicated to supporting the emotional healing & well-being of rescued pets and horses, and their human guardians and care-givers.
My passion lies in empowering pet owner, guardians, & care-givers, to connect deeply with their animal companions through mindfulness and meditation.
Sessions combine Reiki energy, mindfulness techniques, and species-specific meditations so your companion can release stress, anxiety and rediscover joy.
By integrating Reiki and holistic practices, I aim to create a harmonious and calm environment where both you and your pet can thrive.
I also offer a range of resources, workshops, guided meditations, and downloadable meditation workbook & pdf's, which are designed to empower you with the tools and knowledge to create a loving, compassionate, safe space to promote a gentle calmness and reduce anxiety.
Whether you're seeling to alleviate stress in a new foster or newly adopted pet, or deepen your bond with a a long-time animal companion, I am here to guide you on this journey of healing and connection.
Why Rescue Owners Love Animal Reiki
Rescue animals often arrive with deep-seated stress, yet gentle heart-centred practices like Reiki, mindfulness, and guided human-animal meditations consistently help them settle, trust and thrive.
Recent reports highlight a surge in rescue adoptions, alongside scientific and practitioner evidence that energy work and calm human presence help to lower cortisol, improve heart-rate variability, and accelerate emotional recovery in dogs, cats, and horses.
Hyper-vigilence, pacing, or barking, jaw clenching?
Reiki reduces sympathetic-nervous-system arousal; lowering stress-related behaviours and cortisol.
Fear of touch or grooming?
Creating a hands-off 'Reiki space' demonstrates not only a respect for consent and autonomy but also provides a choice of distance or close proximity to rebuild trust.
Separation Anxiety?
Guided owner-pet meditations synchronise heart rhythyms, calming & improving emotional co-regulation.
Rescue horse trauma?
Trailering, racing, horse auctions, abuse...
Equine-guided mindfulness, energy healing, calming sounds or music therapy, encourages relaxation and bonding.
What is Reiki?
Reiki is universal Life force energy, which connects and flows through all living things. It is a Japanese system of stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes healing.
Reiki translates from 2 Japanese words; rei meaning a higher power, or source, and ki meaning energy, also known as chi or prana.
It is a complete holistic system of well-being, incorporating mindfulness, meditation, breath-work, and Ki energy healing.
Usui Reiki was discovered in the early 1900's by Mikao Usui, a Japanese Buddhist monk.
Reiki is is not just for people; it’s also perfect for animals too.
What is animal reiki?
Animal reiki is practiced in such a way that each session is tailored to the individual needs of the animal. In an animal reiki session, the animal leads the session and treatments are usually shorter than those for people.
How does an animal reiki session unfold?
Animal Reiki sessions can be given in-person or remotely. Both methods are effective, as Reiki transcends time and space. Animal Reiki sessions are generally shorter than sessions for people.
In in-person sessions, the practitioner generally travels to meet the animal client.
For remote sessions, the animal client remains in their own space, and can move around freely, while the session is completed over the phone, online or off technology.
Receive a Pre-session Calming Plan, a brief audio meditation to practice with your animal, priming you both for ease.
Mindful Arrival
We settle into a quiet observation; no forced touch, just shared breathing and presence.
Energy Flow
No expectations, just an All is Well, silent energetic communication. Seeking consent, I channel Reiki to the situation & environment for the highest good. This allows your companion the choice to either approach or soak in the garden or field from a distance.
How many sessions are needed?
Reiki sessions are most effective when given on a regular basis, especially if your pet is new to Reiki, or if they're dealing with a chronic imbalance, as the positive effects of Reiki are cumulative and build over time.
But even one Reiki session can help bring your pet you into a peaceful, calm & relaxed state.
Is animal reiki safe?
Animal Reiki can safely complement any medical treatment your pet is already receiving.
Reiki is not a substitute for medical/veterinary treatment & Animal Reiki practitioners do not diagnose or prescribe any form of treatment.
It is recommended that you consult a veterinarian for any symptoms that your pet may have.
Reiki as a holistic complementary therapy gently restores calm, energy flow & balance, releasing tension.
Trauma & long term emotional imbalances may require several sessions to assist in treating the original source of stagnant energy.
Benefits of Reiki
Reduces stress & anxiety
Improves recovery from injury, surgery & trauma
Reduces inflammation
Assists with physical comfort in aging, injured or ill animals
May assist with behavioral problems
Supports veterinary care
Provides a renewed sense of purpose
Increases life force vitality
Provides spiritual comfort and emotional support for both human care-givers and animals to ease the process for end-of-life transitions.
All species, human and animal alike, can benefit from reiki treatments, regardless of age or physical condition.
About Lainey
As a child, Lainey discovered she had many intuitive gifts, was able to communicate telepathically with animals & had the ability to see, hear & connect with the Spirits of loved one who had passsed over.
With a thirst for learning all things spiritual and esoteric, she has spent many years learning, studying and developing her gifts.
Lainey has a passion for Reiki healing, and is also an experienced Intuitive animal communicator. Lainey also volunteered for many years in various animal rescues as a volunteer foster carer, caring for many rabbits, dogs, cats & horses.
Learning to ride from a young age, Lainey's first true passion has always been horses, and the importance of honouring these sentient spirits with the reverance they deserve, committed to creating genuine gentle & trusting relationships with our gentle equine companions.
Lainey understands the deep connection between our own health & well-being, and that of our animal companions. Lainey attended workshop to learn about Meditation & Animal Reiki for Shelter Animals.
Adopting a deaf bull terrier mix was a wonderful adventure in adulting. Together, we navigated difficulties of training and eventually developed a unique method of communication based on a deeply intuitive and spiritual sacred bond. Lainey found confidence to further develop her intuition, psychic gifts & animal communication skills over the next few years, while continuing to volunteer as a carer in the animal rescue industry, helping many more animals to recover and find forever homes. Each beautiful sentient spirit, blossoming with the gentle healing Reiki energy, to find their special human guardian, in their own way.
7 Years ago after winning a mediumship reading which was profoundly life changing, Lainey returned to study Reiki, once again. Upon meeting her new Reiki Master Teacher Sue, Lainey discovered that both had originally came from Scotland & immigrated to Australia. Both had lived in the same town, the exact same house, and both shared the same bedroom at different times. Reiki had orchestrated a magickal synchronicity, and given Lainey a sign to embrace her true potential, aligning with her intuitive spiritual gifts on a healing path to help others. How amazing that 35 years later, on the opposite side of the world, Lainey was guided to meet her future Reiki Master teacher who also happens to be an Animal Reiki Practitioner, Spiritual Medium, & Life Coach! Not surprisingly, both have remained very close friends & colleagues.
After studying various methods of energy healing, Lainey returned to further refine her energy healing techniques specialising in Animal and Equine Reiki therapy supporting rescue, rehabilliation and recovery.
Over the last 5 years, Lainey has spent thousands of hours working with rescue animals including horses. sharing the gentle energy healing of Reiki to help animals and their human care-givers, to relax, to heal, find joy, and deepen their heart-soul connections.
Lainey currently volunteers her time as a Director on the Board of Reiki Australia, the leading Professional Reiki Membership association, and volunteers time offering Distant Reiki treatments for foster animals, rescued animals & their guardians.
After returning to her homeland of Scotland last year during a family visit, Lainey spent time with a herd of wild spanish mustangs, for an Equine Reiki professional development day. It was a beautiful & peaceful experience, sharing their sacred space, practicing animal communication & tuning into their wisdom as divine sentient beings.
It truly was a mesmorising and profoundly life-changing experience to cherish.
Lainey now hopes to teach Reiki to many more people, providing the tools to begin building a more respectful sacred connection with themselves and to help them deepen their heart-soul bond with their animal companions & their other furry-family members.
Sovereign sentient beings; embracing a joyful life of balance, harmony, and peace.
Healing Hearts, Restoring Trust. One Rescue at a time.
Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One rescue at a time!
Testimonials from our satisfied customers
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