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, and their humans! At Elaine Bowler Reiki, we understand that rescued animals carry unique stories and, often, long term imbalances indicate 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, and Restorative Reiki energy healing treatments for people and their animals. Utilising the gentle practice of Japanese 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 journey to harmony and well-being and 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. Reiki blessings, Lainey x
Tranquil energy healing sessions to calm the mind, relax the body and nurture the soul.
Reiki sessions, Workshops, Online Classes
Discover a serene escape for your beloved animals through the skilled hands of Elaine Bowler, offering exceptional Reiki services. Specialising in Distance Reiki Treatments & gentle guided meditations; Lainey brings tranquility and healing energy to both you and your cherished companions, providing everyone with a peaceful and rejuvenating experience. Feel the benefits of the experience of a soothing guided meditation to release stress and worry, while the restorative healing energy of Reiki soothes and replenishes your senses. Be empowered to continue a self-care meditation ritual at home with your animals to achieve a deeper heart-soul connection & inner peace.
Just Breathe - Mindful Meditation with Animals
Equilibrium - Kokoro interconnectedness and delicate harmony and balance, between the emotions, mind, body and spirit, and others.
Join our exciting & informative well-being workshops to learn techniques to support and maintain you and your animal's energetic harmony, and deepen your heart-soul connection shared.
Learn proven Japanese based mindfulness & meditation techniques, to soothe, calm and nurture.
Find a sense of balance and be empoered to create your own personal self-care routine and home.
ND friendly, Age 16+, suitable for beginners and all animal lovers or humans that are adopted or owned by their pets and animals.
Practice the foundational Japanese Reiki meditations also taught in Shoden First Degree by Reiki Masters.
Animal-Led best practice animal reiki techniques. SARA- Shelter Animal Reiki Association.
Receive a 30+ page booklet 'Mindful Meditation & Intro to Animal Reiki' to journal your practice and progress at home with your own animals.
Equine / Animal Reiki Healing Sessions
Revitalising gentle, calming energy healing for people and their pets, promoting relaxation and overall health.
Experience gentle energy healing to support you and your horse's physical, mental, and emotional well-being.
The gentle calming energy of Reiki soothes the spirit, calms, the mind, releases tension and provides opportunity to continue to buid deeper trusting partnerships between animals and their chosen human companions.
Each individual healing session is personally tailored specifically to address each clients unique needs and preferences.
A brief discovery call prior to your scheduled appointment time, allows opportunity for discussion and address any questions that you may have to ensure client satisfaction.
Providing a convenient mobile onsite service within the Ballarat area and Distance sessions remotely online can be easily accessed by everyone.
Mindful Mondays Meditation class Online
Kickstart your self-care routine with our 1-hour well-being meditation Online classes
Held weekly during school terms every Monday 7 - 8pm. Bookings essential. Suitable for beginners, Age 16+.
Learn proven Japanese Reiki Meditation techniques, Ki breathwork, traditional exercises to increase personal power, release tension, and restore energy balance.
Receive a complementary pdf. - Intro to Animal Reiki Mindfulness & Meditation booklet with pages to journal your progress.
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 calms and reduces sympathetic-nervous-system arousal; lowering stress-related behaviours and cortisol.
This restores energy balance reducing the fight, flight, freeze, fawn response, down grading to a lower rest and digest state, optimal for healing.
When animals sense calm presence; the higher vibrational balanced energy reassures their senses, all is well.
Please consult Professional Veterinary & Animal Behaviourist advise for anxiety behaviour related issues, to rule out any underlying medical issues which may contribute cause for stress-behaviour.
Fear of touch or grooming?
Horses are highly sensitive beings.
Horses need to feel honoured, respected as Sovereign sentient Spirits, in partnership with human beings.
Does your horse show dislike and dis-interest to treatments, farrier, dental, or equine massage?
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 trusting relationships.
Reiki treatments for both animal and human help reduce tension and stress, facillitating trusting respectful interactions, providing ideal opportunities for deeper bonding.
Separation Anxiety?
Guided owner-pet meditations synchronise heart rhythyms, calming & improving emotional co-regulation.
Creating a short routine such as regular mindful moments, of gentle breath and positive reassurance to relax after exercise. These simple techniques support the facillitation of deeper Heart-Soul bonding and honours the unique spiritual & emotional connections, between species.
Rescue horse trauma?
Trailering, racing, horse auctions, abuse...
Reiki Equine Energy healing treatment can Help you and your horse!
Equine-guided mindfulness, energy healing, calming sounds or music therapy, encourages relaxation and bonding.
Gentle Animal-Led mindful moments of shared presence, and intentional ki breath work creates a sacred heart-soul bond, facilliating deep relaxation and healing of mind, spirit and body together.
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.
Anam-Cara = the celtic word for soul friend. That word describes the divinely sacred, Heart-to-Heart Soul-bond connection with another sentient being, often an animal.
When I was growing up, sitting in silence with animals provided a safe haven where I could unmask. sharing breath and mindful presence feel totally at peace, be authentic and loved unconditionally without ridicule.
My first best friend was Jura, an amazingly intelligent border collie who followed me everywhere, up ladders, and down slides,.
That unique, energetic Heart-Soul invisible bond connecting my heart to hers, invoked silent whipsers inside my mind. I just knew things instinctively that I could not explain to anyone.
One sensitive, sentient spirit, speaking telepathically to my mind through Heart-speak. I began to 'see flashes of pictures' in my minds-eye, usually from an animals perspective. Gradually, I began to develop the ability to see, hear & connect with the Spirits of loved one who had passsed over.
This ignited a passion to study all things esoteric, a life-long path of study, honing my skills, gifts, techniques to serve humanity and sharing the beautiful gift of Reiki energy healing with the world, to help others heal, animals and humans alike.
"Reiki is love, Love is wholeness, Wholeness is balance, Balance is freedom dis-ease." -Sensai Mikao Usui, founder of Usui Reiki
I discovered Reiki as a meditation practice in the early 2000's after attending an Open Day in the magnificently tranquil and serene sanctuary of flower gardens, withn the grounds of the Tibbetan Temple & Monastery, with one my dogs during a Tibbetan ceremonial animal blessing.
A few years later, I again encountered animal Reiki again, when I began volunteering for an animal rescue. One of the Vet Nurses was a Reiki master-teacher, who taught Shoden, 1st degree Reiki energy healing & I received my first attunement. When my beloved dog Geisha was diagnosed with cancer, Reiki treatments were instrumental in supporting vet treatments and medications, and together, she out-lived the terminal time-frame diagnosis by 3 full years! I believe in Reiki!
When I became an In-home foster-rehab-carer, Reiki meditations were an essential tool in helping nervous animals to calm down, and decompress from their rescue experience.
Animal-led trauma informed methods were very beneficial to supporting nervous and scared animals who had found themselves in care, to soothe and calm, providing gentle comfort. I found that practicing the Animal-led Reiki meditations created a gentle atmosphere of tranquility, which allows tension to disapate. Many foster animals would begin slowly relax, dozing off to snore and eventually fall into a deep sleep where deep relaxation activates healing.
After many years of volunteering in animal rescue in shelters and providing rehab-foster-care, I wanted to obtain official training and accreditation returning to study at TAFE, and in 2018, proudly completed Certificate III in Animal Studies- ACM30122.
I returned to complete further training and studies in Usui Reiki Ryoho; Shoden 2020, Okuden 2021 and in 2023, I completed Shinpiden - Shihan Master Teacher training. In 2024, I also completed further accreditation in Animal & Equine Reiki techniques.
In 2022, after completeing necessary steps to comply with all requirements starting up a registered business and licensed Holistic Healthcare Service, I also joined Reiki Australia as a practitioner in the professional membership category, and then obtained Accredited Reiki Treatment Practitioner status in 2023 with Reiki Australia, and listed in their Practitioner directory.
In 2023, I was also invited to join the Board of Reiki Australia as a Director on the board. I am grateful to be nominated and to proudly accept the duties, upholding ethical standards, and to be part of an amazing team of Reiki professionals leading our community forward as Leaders in the highest standards of professional holistic well-being treatments.
In 2023, I also volunteered providing Reiki treatments at Grampians Health, Ballarat. (formerly commonly known as the Ballarat Base Hospital) For a 3-month period, every week, I volunteered for 3-4 hours, providing professional Reiki treatments within the hospital, to oncology patients as part of their Medical health-care treatment plan.
Many clients who attended specifically for Reiki treatments, travelled long distances to access professional Reiki treatments within the BRICC - Ballarat Regional Integrative Cancer Care Centre. All complementary treatment supporting patients well-being are entirely community operated and also relies on public funding by donations.
Many of my personal Reiki clients completed personal well-being score before and after their chosen holistic treatment. Many clients registered for a waiting list for Reiki treatments and offered to complete a survey regarding their well-being prior to treatment, and afterwards. Anonymous surveys results showed that most rated feeling only a 1 or 2, prior to treatment. After receieving their allocated Reiki treatments, most clients then reported a rating of improvement 4/5 or 5/5 afterwards.
In 2024, I travelled to the UK to visit a family member in hospital in Scotland, in the ICU ward. I was permitted into ICU, at any time to offer Reiki healing to my family member, to aid in their healing and recovery. While speaking to the head nurse about the importance and growing trend of Reiki in hospitals in UK; the family member awoke from their induced coma! I may be a little bit biased but, my family member survived, awoke and made a full recovery! To me, that is absolute proof that the healing power of Reiki truly works!
Reiki in hospitals in the UK is considered an essential part of bedside care and recovery for patients, and is now currently offered in over 20 hospitals across the UK, and many more Nursing Homes and Residential Care units.
While in Scotland, I also made time for some relaxation and spent a day with Equine Reiki Scotland having a professional training day, sharing sacred space with the Medicine Pony Tribe, and the WIld Spanish Mustangs. It was a truly divine magickal experience, which will remain with me forever. I am unable to put into words the magestic wisdom shared by these truly sentient, wise and sage teachers.
After further training in 2023 & 2024 in Equine Reiki and many more Horse animal-client case studies; my application with the ETAA; the Equine Therapies Association of Australia, was approved in 2025. I am proudly an accredited equine Reiki practitioner and listed in the ETAA directory..
I am also proudly a Community member of SARA - Shelter Animal Reiki Association, and regularly attend their monthly animal reiki workshops and coaching sessions, to ensure my Reiki techniques and energy healing skills remain current and up-to date with the current standards for Animal Reiki Practitioners Best Practices in Animal Rescues & Shelters.
Stress and anxiety cause so much illness and dis-ease within the body. Healing with animals has been instrumental in helping me navigate my own personal mental health battles including a very late diagnosis of Neurodiversity.
My personal Self-Reiki practice is my go-to tool for stress release and grounding in the present. Reiki helps stop racing thoughts and helps me to combat sensory and emotional overload related due to overstimulation. So from a NeuroDiverse perspective, a personal self-reiki practice can be a helpful tool to assist in emotional regulation.
Teaching proven and effective Japanese relaxation techniques can be immensley helpful for self-care, in the constant battle for positive mental health; Reiki mindfulness techniques and Ki breathwork can help reduce stress.
Reiki is a complete holistic system of relaxation and well-being that incorporates mindful meditation, Ki breath work and energy healing as the tools for improvement of mind, body and spirit.
Our animal companions love to sit with us, sharing space together, the purest of love unconditionally.
They offer compassionate non-judgement, loyalty and respect. They love to meditate with us, in the gentle nourishing energy of Reiki.
These divine sentient creatures have much to teach us about living fully present in the moment. Sit in silence with animals, and they shall show you the way to your heart.
Animal Reiki combines my favourite things; animals and energy healing practices! Being of service to help others is very important to me as is creating a Reiki community and sense of belonging.
Empowering others with tools and techniques to support their own personal well-being journey for peace and happiness, helps create ripples outwards to uplift others.
Kindness and compassion creates community and connections, making the world a brighter place for everyone.
If you are intrigued about Reiki, improving well-being or supporting your animal companions, then I believe you were guided here for a reason. Allow me to guide you back to harmony and balance. The power Lies within you. I offer a completely obligation free, complementary discovery call to all potential clients who may wish to ask questions, be informed and make positive choices as co-contributers as partners in achieveing a more balance outlook, filled with moments of happiness and inner peace.
Reiki ignites the spark, which re-awakens the Divine Sovereignty and activates the innate healing power deep within your Soul. The healing possibilities are endless.
Reiki energy healing is considered by many as the Divine Light which connects us to ourselves, to the universe, and to each other. A healer holds a sacred space for healing. You hold the power within You.
Are you ready to step forward and embrace your true authentic power? Let's connect soon. Sovereignty & Serenity awaits.
Shine Brightly Be-You-tiful Souls, with Big Reiki Blessings, All my Love, Lainey x
Healing Hearts, Restoring Trust, One Breath at a time. One rescue at a time.
Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One rescue at a time!
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