Kokoro: Heart-Soul-Mind Connection. Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One breath at a time.
Elaine Bowler Reiki
Usui Reiki Practitioner & Master Teacher | Equine & Animal Reiki Practitioner | Energy Healing for people & their pets | Intuitive Animal Communication | End-of-Life Pet Practitioner | Palliative & Hospice | Home-Visits | Onsite | Distance | Online | Meditation | Reiki Workshops | Lainey Bowler is a certified Equine and Animal Reiki Practitioner dedicated to serving animals and their humans. A spiritual seeker, deeply committed to serving people and animals. Lainey's calling & purpose, her life's work is dedicated to guiding you and your animals, back to your sovereignty and serenity — a sanctuary of calm balance and peace within. You are invited to be guided with your animals as teachers, on a journey back to your true authentic self, and rediscover your own light. For you and your beloved horse, and your cherished animals — together. You want the very best for your horse, your rescue, your soul companion. But more than that, you know they are a sentient being with feelings. You respect them. You honour them. You see them as their own magnificent self. I work with unique people like you — those who believe in the emotional and psychic connection, the deep soul bond that defies explanation. You sense telepathy. You know when something's off. And you fear losing that relationship because nothing else compares. I empower you to sit in your heart space and focus on those loving moments — creating a bucket list of special adventures, living each day to the fullest together, now. I honour animals as our teachers and our equals. They are sentient beings with their own wisdom, their own journey, their own right to exist and thrive. When we approach them with this reverence, we ascend together — into deeper consciousness, deeper connection, and a bond that transcends the everyday. Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One Breath at a Time.
Your Animal Chose You — Let's Discover Why
Energy is your animal's first language, and I'm here to help you speak it — creating compassionate connections and a heart-led soul bond that honours you both.
Whatever the stage of your journey — holistic wellbeing, mindful meditation, Ki breath, energy healing — what you want to achieve is less stress and anxiety, better health, and the space to relax your way with your animals, and I can help you.
As a Shihan (Reiki Master Teacher), certified Equine & Animal Reiki Practitioner, I offer gentle Reiki energy healing, animal communication, guided meditation, and bespoke wellbeing support to bring about emotional, mental, and physical healing to your animal's life and yours.
Through Kokoro, the Japanese concept of unity of mind-heart-soul, you'll discover sovereignty and serenity — deeper, more meaningful relationships with your animals as healing partners.
Healing begins with presence — yours — and together we'll create a sanctuary of peace where your sacred connection can flourish.
Your Animal's First Language Is Energy. Imagine stepping into a world where words fall away and what remains is pure feeling. That's the world your animal already lives in. It's their first language — energy. And you can learn to speak it too.
Horses, especially, are exquisitely sensitive creatures. They feel everything — your mood, your tension, the pain you're carrying in your own body.
And when your horse or rescue animal acts out, shuts down, or seems unreachable, they're not being difficult. They're communicating. They're showing you something the only way they know how.
That's what I help with — on so many levels.
What Is Reiki? — The Key to a Balanced Life With Your Animals
Reiki is far more than a hands-on healing modality. It is a complete holistic system originating in Japan — a gentle, heart-centred practice rooted in mindfulness, meditation, and the quiet art of presence.
At its heart, Reiki restores the natural flow of life-force energy through the body, bringing deep relaxation, reducing stress and anxiety, and supporting your body's own ability to heal.
Think of it as discovering the secrets of energy healing — the key to a balanced life with your animals. And the beautiful truth? Reiki is not just for your animals. It's for you too.
For your calm. Your mental health. Your ability to reduce stress and find peace within yourself — so you can show up fully present for the ones you love.
For animals, Reiki is especially beautiful. There is no handling, no restraint, no pressure. Just a calm, loving invitation. Animals choose how they receive — from across the paddock, from a distance, or nestled quietly beside you. It is their choice, always.
Imagine the two of you, healing together. How beautiful is that?
Holistic Well being for You & Your Pets
Healing together, One Breath at a Time.
I begin by asking gentle questions. What's happening in your life right now? How might stress be interfering with your peace — the calm sanctuary you and your animal deserve? Because here's the truth: your energy shapes your home. When you're carrying tension, rushing, overwhelmed — your animal absorbs it. Together, we create a space where that heaviness can lift.
Equine Reiki Energy Rejuvenation
Restore your horse's well-being through gentle Reiki treatments. I visit your location to offer soothing energy healing restoring harmony and balance within the body.
This service supports recovery, stress relief, and enhances the emotional, mental and soul bond between you and your horse.
Equine & animal Reiki — onsite and remote consultations, at your animal's pace, in their safe space.
Canine Harmony Healing
Promote balance and wellness in your dog through intuitive Reiki techniques and energy alignment.
Stress reduction, Anxiety relief, Shelter stress decompression. Reiki energy healing treatments safely complement veterinary care.
Animal Reiki — at your animal's pace, in their safe space. Home visits and remotes sessions available.
Feline Peaceful Presence
I provide gentle nourishing energy healing sessions for cats to encourage relaxation, calm and balance.
This service helps them decompress, creating a peaceful environment and deepening the bond with their humans.
Home visits & remote sessions available.
Remote / Distant Reiki Sessions
Reiki is the universal energy that flows through and also connects all living things. Lainey offers distant Reiki healing to support both you and your animal's well-being.
Reiki for people — chronic health management, pain, stress, anxiety, palliative and hospice care
Through these sessions, she helps animals and their humans to relax, release stress, and restore energy balance in a comfortable environment. Enhancing deeper heart-soul bonds.
End-of-Life Practitioner - Pet Death Doula
Advance Care Directives, Ceremony, Ritual.
I provide compassionate guidance and emotional support for you and your pet, navigating quality of life after life-limiting diagnosis, and during their final journey. Together, we create a peaceful environment, ensuring comfort and dignity for your cherished and beloved animal companions, and support you through grief of pet loss.
Shoden - Usui Reiki 1st degree
Learn the foundations of Japanese Usui Reiki in this first-degree course. A complete holistic modality for relaxation which promotes healing on many levels through mindful meditation, Ki breath, and energy healing.
Discover how to channel energy for self-healing and help others, including your animal companions.
Ideal for animal lovers, beginners seeking balance and connection.
Meditation & Mindfulness for People
Mindfulness & meditation — learn to centre your energy so your animal feels your calm. Convenient online sessions where you can relax in the comfort of your own safe space.
Intuitive Animal Communication
Animal communication — an intuitive telepathic session where Lainey connects with your animal on an energetic, emotional and spritual level, listening deeply to what your companion is sharing their feelings, physical sensations and persectives.
Healing Harmony for Animals. Your Energy & Theirs Are Intertwined
Here's something many people don't realise: your chronic health, your stress, your anxiety — your animal often carries it too. They absorb your energy. When you're out of balance, they feel it. And when they're struggling, your heart aches with them. The two of you are beautifully, deeply intertwined.
When stress, trauma, or anxiety builds up, energy becomes stagnant in the body. Over time, this stagnation settles into the chakras — the energy centres governing your organs and your animal's too. What begins as blocked energy can eventually result in dis-ease.
Reiki gently restores balance and harmony to that energy flow. It's not magic — it's a tender, gradual release. Trauma, especially for rescue animals and horses who've been bought and sold, takes time to unravel.
But with patience and presence, the body softens. The energy moves. Healing begins.
That's why Reiki is the perfect complement to your existing treatment plan.
It works gently, side by side with whatever medical or therapeutic care you're already receiving. For you and your animal.
I offer onsite Reiki in Ballarat and the surrounding areas — coming to your home means both of you can receive healing in the space where you feel safest.
Whether it's for chronic health management, pain management, palliative and hospice support, or simply for self-care and deep wellbeing, Reiki meets you exactly where you are.
Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One Breath at a Time.
Sovereign Sentient Beings — Over 25 Years With Rescue Animals
For more than 25 years, I've volunteered in animal rescue and rehabilitation — sitting quietly beside frightened, traumatised animals who didn't yet know they were safe. Horses, dogs, creatures of all kinds — each one teaching me that healing doesn't begin with doing. It begins with being. I learned early that a quiet presence, a steady heartbeat, and calm, grounded energy are more powerful than any technique. When you ask nothing of an animal — when you simply sit, breathe, and offer safety through your energy — trust begins to build. The scared animal exhales. The tense body softens. They feel seen, not pressured. This is the foundation of everything I do and everything I teach. Quiet presence. Calm energy. Deep trust.
Explore Our Animal Reiki Experiences
Listening Beyond the Behaviour
With over 25 years in animal rescue and rehabilitation, I've sat beside countless traumatised, frightened animals.
Horses who've been bought and sold, passed from owner to owner.
Rescue animals recovering from experiences we can only imagine, slowly learning to trust and bond again with their humans.
Sometimes that bond needs bridging. Reiki bridges the gap.
When an animal has been through too much, their energy contracts.
They protect themselves. They shut down.
Behind every behaviour — the spooking, the withdrawal, the reactivity — is a message. They're not broken. They're communicating.
Reiki creates a quiet, sacred space where your animal feels safe enough to be heard and where you learn to trust what they're telling you.
It takes time. There is no rushing this work.
But gently, tenderly, the trauma of their experience begins to release — and the beautiful being they truly are starts to shine through.
What I Offer
I begin by asking gentle questions. What's happening in your life right now?
How might stress be interfering with your peace — the calm sanctuary you and your animal deserve?
Because here's the truth: your energy shapes your home.
When you're carrying tension, rushing, overwhelmed — your animal absorbs it.
Together, we create a space where that heaviness can lift.
Gentle Reiki energy healing — for you and your animal, restoring balance and flow
Guided meditations — learning to centre yourself so your animal feels your calm
Bespoke, tailored wellbeing — every session designed around where you both are right now
Gentle moments woven through the day — small, nourishing practices that reduce stress and anxiety, promote relaxation, and bring calm back into your life
Ebooks & guided journals — practical exercises to support your self-healing journey at home, rooted in the Reiki principle "just for today," so you can dedicate time to your own progress and deepen your practice alongside your animals
This is not about grand gestures.
It's about the quiet, sacred moments.
A breath taken together. A pause shared.
A calm that ripples through your home.
A sustainable life-changing practice to balance, harmony and inner peace.
Kokoro — Heart-Soul-Mind Connection
My signature program, Kokoro, is a gentle guided journey back to self — for you and your beloved animal. Rooted in Japanese Usui Reiki, it is a complete holistic system of wellbeing incorporating Ki breath, mindfulness, meditation, and the cultivation of zazen life. This is satori in practice: enlightenment, healing, and calm balance through living and breathing — not as concepts, but as daily, embodied experience.
Kokoro is ideal for:
Those who are unsure about Reiki and complete beginners alike
Those who took a weekend course and still feel unsure how to practise
Those who missed the essential Japanese meditations foundational to true Reiki practice
Those who want to develop their personal Ki through breath and self-care, so they feel empowered and confident to continue their personal practice — and share it with their animals
This is not theory. This is practice. A way of being.
I am now opening for students. As a Shihan Teacher, I guide you at your own pace, in your own time — because this journey belongs to you.
Kokoro weaves together two paths, which can be taken together or separately:
Shoden Reiki Level One — Your foundation. A comprehensive journey into Japanese Usui Reiki, including a 3-hour online workshop, two immersive in-person attunement days in Ballarat (one week apart, limited to 4 students), and 3 months of supported self-care practice with weekly coaching calls, guided meditations, a full Shoden manual, a 21-day cleanse, and certification upon completion. This journey always begins with you.
3-Month Self-Care Journey for You & Your Animals — For those who want to deepen their practice alongside their animals, this ongoing support weaves mindful self-care into daily life, helping you stay grounded, centred, and connected.
For students who have completed Shoden training, Animal Reiki Level One will also be offered as a separate, in-depth course — taking your practice further into the beautiful world of healing alongside your animal companions.
Full details of Shoden Reiki Level One and Animal Reiki Level One available on their dedicated pages.
To support you along the way, I also offer a collection of ebooks with practical journaling exercises — so you can continue your practice at home, reflect on your progress, and dedicate yourself each day to the gentle unfolding of your own healing journey, together with your animals. Just for today.
