Helping you and your cherished animal companions to feel safe, balanced, calm, and connected. And Yes! horses Are family too!

🌿 Elaine (Lainey) Bowler

Reiki Master Teacher | Equine & Animal Reiki Practitioner Registered Member of the following professional organisations— Equine Therapies Association of Australia (ETAA) | International Institute of Complementary Therapists (IICT) | Shelter Animal Reiki Association (SARA)  | Certificate III Animal Studies | Ballarat, Victoria
 
 
 
There is a particular kind of stillness that happens when you sit beside an animal who trusts you. A softening. A breath that slows without you even trying. A quiet knowing that you are, in this moment, exactly where you are meant to be.
 
That stillness is where Lainey Bowler's life and practice began — and it is what she has dedicated herself to sharing with others.
 
A Life Woven with Animals and Energy
Lainey's relationship with animals has been lifelong, deep, and unshakeable. Long before any formal training, she spent years volunteering in animal rescue and rehabilitation — fostering animals who had experienced trauma, fear, and the loss of trust, and learning in the most direct way possible that healing is not something you do to a being. It is something you create the conditions for, gently and patiently, through presence, consistency, and love.
 
It was through this work — and through her own daily Reiki self-practice and meditation — that Lainey began to notice something. When she sat quietly beside her own animals, hands warm and breath slow, something shifted in them. They settled. They leaned in. They exhaled. And so did she.
 
"My animals have always been my most honest teachers," she reflects. "They don't care about your credentials. They only respond to your energy — to whether you are truly present, or just pretending to be."
 
From Presence to Practice
It started informally — friends asking Lainey to come and sit with their horses. Animals that were anxious, reactive, or simply carrying a heaviness their owners couldn't name. Lainey would arrive, breathe, settle into the space, and allow her calm Reiki presence to do what it has always done — create a field of safety that the horse could choose to step into, or not.
 
They almost always stepped in.
 
Recognising that this gift deserved a formal foundation, Lainey completed her Certificate III in Animal Studies, deepening her understanding of animal behaviour, welfare, and the human-animal bond. She then pursued specialised training in Equine and Animal Reiki — learning the nuanced art of working energetically with horses and animals, understanding how they give and receive energy differently to humans, and how to hold a session that is always led by the animal's own wisdom and consent.
 
She is a proud registered practitioner member of the Equine Therapies Association of Australia (ETAA) — a recognition of her commitment to professional, ethical, and evidence-informed practice in the equine-assisted wellness space.
 
Reiki as a Way of Life
Lainey is a fully qualified Reiki Master Teacher in the Usui tradition — trained not only to offer Reiki to others, but to teach, attune, and empower new practitioners to carry this beautiful system forward.
 
For Lainey, Reiki is not a therapy she practises during business hours. It is a way of being in the world. Her mornings begin with Gassho meditation and Joshin Kokyu Ho breathwork. Her self-practice is woven into the daily rhythms of life with her animals. The five Reiki precepts — the Gokai — are not words on a wall but a living compass she returns to each day, especially on the hard ones.
 
This daily commitment to her own healing is, she believes, the most important thing she brings to her work with others.
 
"The practitioner's role is to hold space — nothing more, nothing less. I am not the healer. You are. My job is simply to create the conditions where your own healing can begin, and then to give you the tools to keep going long after our session ends."
 
Empowering Others to Heal
Whether working one-on-one with a person and their animal, offering Equine Reiki in a paddock, facilitating a group breathwork session, or teaching someone to meditate beside their horse for the first time — Lainey's approach is always the same:
 
Meet people exactly where they are. Offer tools, not prescriptions. Trust the process. Trust the animal. Trust the person sitting in front of you.
 
She is particularly passionate about making Reiki and energy healing accessible to those who have found conventional support difficult to navigate — those living with C-PTSD, trauma, anxiety, or neurodivergence — and about the profound, science-backed power of the human-animal bond as a pathway to nervous system regulation and lasting well-being.
 
"Horses have been healing humans for thousands of years. They don't need us to be fixed or ready or brave. They only need us to be honest — with them, and with ourselves. And from that honesty, everything else becomes possible."
 
 
 
Qualifications & Memberships:
 
Reiki Master Teacher — Usui Reiki tradition
Certified Equine & Animal Reiki Practitioner
Registered Member — Equine Therapies Association of Australia (ETAA)
Certificate III in Animal Studies
Specialised training in Equine and Animal Reiki
Extensive background in animal rescue, rehabilitation and foster care
 
 
 
Elaine Bowler Reiki

📧 [email protected]

📞 0425 778 292

📍 Ballarat, Victoria — onsite & remote consultations

🌐 City of Ballarat & surrounding areas
 
Equine & Animal Reiki · Human Reiki · Breathwork · Mindfulness · Distance Healing