Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One breath at a time.
Equilibrium - Sovereignty & Serene
When the Trailer Door Opens Again: What I Wish My Human Knew - Horse wisdom Energy Is Everything Let's begin here. Because everything begins here. Thoughts. Feelings. Emotions. All of it is energy — vibrating at different frequencies, travelling beyond the boundaries of your body, rippling out into the world around you. Your frustration is energy. Your love is energy. The words you mutter under your breath as you walk toward the paddock — she's so headstrong, he's having a PMS day, this one is untrainable, so feisty today — every single one of those thoughts carries energy. And every single one of those energies is released into the universe. Your animals feel it. They have always felt it. The psychic connection between animals and humans is not a new idea. It has been understood for centuries by cultures around the world who connect deeply with animals, who honour the power animal guide, who know that the animal who walks beside you through life is not random. There is a reason. A purpose. A shared path unfolding. So let me ask you gently: when you think about your horse — your dog, your cat, your rescue — what energy are you sending? What words are you carrying? And are you ready — truly ready — to begin the deep work of self-reflection, to release the conditioning that tells you your animal is a problem to be managed, and to start connecting from a place of healing, of presence, of intentional love? Because here is the truth that changes everything: the energy you bring to the connection is a direct ripple of the energy you carried through your day. The stress. The rush. The argument. The to-do list. All of it walks with you through the gate and into your sanctuary at home — the one place that should be refuge for both of you. This is why spiritual energy hygiene is not a luxury. It is essential. Especially when working with animals.
Hello, I'm Lainey, I am a Reiki Master Teacher, and also an Equine & Animal Reiki energy healing practitioner for people and their pets. Specialising in supporting rescued/adopted animals to recover from trauma, learn to trust again, and to begin to live happy and fulfilling lives with their new families.
For over 20 years, I have walked beside animals who arrived broken — not because they were born that way, but because humans had failed them.
I have sat in the mud beside horses pulled from neglect, held the lead of dogs who had never known a gentle hand, and watched rescue animals learn, slowly, that trust is possible again.
This is not a career I chose.
It is a calling that chose me.
With a background of over 20 years volunteering in animal rescue, formal training with a nationally recognised TAFE Certificate 3 Animal Studies, and further specialised Equine & Reiki training, I am deeply committed to supporting rescue animals and horses, and their chosen humans, to develop a calm, trusting, and respectful Heart-Soul connections.
Animals respond positively to Reiki energy healing and meditation.
I teach open-minded people how to relax and connect deeply with their animals, how to communicate with them, through the use of Japanese Reiki energy healing, moment by moment, breath by breath.
Healing Hearts, Restoring Trust. One Breath at a Time.
Sometimes the Universe Chooses for You
Here is something I want you to consider: sometimes you did not choose your animal. Not in the way you think.
The universe has a way of orchestrating things — of placing a particular animal in a particular paddock, at a particular moment, in front of a particular human — that is far too precise to be coincidence.
Maybe you came looking for one horse and left with another. Maybe a friend called about a rescue needing a home.
Maybe a photo caught your eye and something stirred in your chest you could not name. A gut feeling. A quiet knowing. A pull you could not explain. And there they were.
I believe animals choose us as much as we choose them. I believe souls recognise each other across lifetimes.
I believe your chosen animal — whether orchestrated by the universe or felt in the deepest part of your gut — arrived with reason and purpose.
Your work together is not accidental. It is sacred. The question is not whether you chose them.
The question is: are you ready to begin?
Your Horse Is Your Mirror
Horses are mirrors. They reflect back to us the energy we bring — not to judge us, but to teach us.
When your horse is restless, ask yourself: am I restless? When your horse withdraws, ask: have I been fully present? When your horse resists, ask: am I arriving with openness, or with a predetermined agenda I have not even examined?
You cannot pretend. From ten metres away, your horse has already read every frequency you are broadcasting.
The tension in your shoulders. The scattered quality of your breath. The weight of the day still clinging to your field. They know.
So before you enter their space, pause. Breathe. Ground yourself. Clear your energy. Not as a ritual to perfect, but as a moment of returning — to yourself, to stillness, to presence.
Arrive without agenda. Arrive with the perspective of entering into an equal partnership. You are not here to do something to this being. You are here to be with this being.
And that changes everything.
Spend time learning to listen to the energy of the horse. Not their behaviour. Not what they are doing. What they are. The quality of their stillness. The weight of their gaze. The subtle shift of weight from one hoof to another. This is their language. And it has been waiting for you to quiet yourself enough to hear it.
And if you aren't sure where to start, perhaps that is why you are here, now. It is time. I can help you both.
Wisdom of the horse: Where These Words Actually Come From
Before we go further, I want you to know something. What follows is not theory. It is not something I read in a book and decided sounded beautiful.
These words are a gathering of voices — horses who have spoken to me across years of work and life and love.
Some spoke during my Equine Reiki training, when I was learning to quiet myself enough to hear.
Others spoke decades ago, when I was young and working as a trail ride instructor, long before I understood what I was receiving.
Some were horses saved by friends from the sale yards and auctions — horses who had seen the worst of what humans can be and still, somehow, chose to trust again.
Others were rescued brumbies, wild and wary, teaching me that trust is not won in a day but in a thousand small, patient moments.
Some were horses in foster-evidence cases, held in limbo while the world decided their fate — horses who had been evidence, not beings, and who taught me about grace under the most heartbreaking circumstances.
And then there are the ones who suffered at the hands of their trainers, handlers, and owners. Especially the ex-racers.
I have worked with ex-racehorses who should never have been ridden before the age of four — their bones simply not yet formed, their bodies pushed too hard too young — because they were treated not as sentient beings but as machines.
I have seen what happens when a horse is sent away for training in the pretence of ethical horsemanship, only to return in far worse shape than when they left.
I think of one ex-racer, recently, whose owner discovered — too late — that a trainer had used an electric prod on her horse. The owner did not know. She had trusted. And her horse came back wounded in ways that will take years to unravel.
Please. If you are considering sending your horse away to be trained, pause. Work together. Have faith in your own abilities. Grab a training book from the library.
Contact a vet who encourages liberty training.
Some of the most talented trainers I know work purely from Liberty, heart-centred Equus — where they encourage a bonded partnership, where the horse is given a choice to participate, to work, to train.
And you know what? Some horses love the work. Given the choice, they show up. They offer themselves freely. And that is a gift no amount of force can ever replicate.
I will never forget watching a horse begin his dressage routine to the music playing in my car before I had even driven up the driveway. How he heard the beat, I do not know.
He moved to the beat — his entire routine, flowing from memory, from joy, from partnership. But he moved perfectly insync to the tempo of the music.
Watching a horse perform his full dressage routine to Eminem's Lose Yourself was a moment I will carry forever.
And when he finished the routine, he turned to look directly at me, making energetic connection, confirmation of happiness and joy. He turned away, and as he cantered away towards the gate, he did a tiny buck and skip, pure joy in his movement, uninhibited. Truth be told, I wish my dash cam was angled to record it.
I almost expected him to click his hooves in a flourish: if he did, I would not have been surprised one bit!
Not because he was commanded. Because he wanted to.
This is what is possible. Trusting partnership. Equals. This is what the horses have been trying to tell us.
Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One Rescue at a Time.
Empowering Wellness Through Reiki, Energy Healing and Breath
The Energy Centres of Trust: Brachial Chakra and the Heart
When an animal has been passed from home to home, from shelter to foster to uncertain future, the energetic body holds that story as deeply as memory does.
The chakras — our subtle energy centres — are intimately connected to the organs and systems of the physical body.
Imbalances in these centres do not stay contained; they ripple outward, affecting health, behaviour, and the ability to feel safe.
Two energy centres are especially tender in animals who have known too many goodbyes, too many harsh hands, too many moments where safety was stolen.
The brachial chakra, located along the spine between the shoulder blades, governs the ability to connect, to receive love, and to feel safe in relationship.
When this centre is wounded — from rough handling, from inhumane treatment, from years of being treated as a thing rather than a being — an animal may withdraw. Brace. Struggle to let a human near.
The brachial chakra becomes stagnant, partially blocked, energy is unable to flow freely. This is not defiance. This is protection. The brachial chakra is the doorway to trust, and it cannot be forced open. It must be invited.
The heart centre holds the deepest questions: Am I loved? Am I truly seen? Am I safe to love in return? An animal whose heart centre has closed is not cold or difficult.
They are guarding something sacred. They are waiting — sometimes for years — for a human who will not rush them.
These centres heal not through pressure, but through presence. Through compassionate connection.
Through quiet space together, without agenda. Through a human who takes time to slowly allow connection to unfold through heart-soul breath — shared sacred presence that asks nothing and offers everything.
The Breath: Your Body's Ancient Key to Healing
Let's breathe together.
Your body has a built-in reset button — and it is activated by the simplest thing you do every moment of your life. Your breath.
When you breathe deeply, with intention — a slow inhale, a pause, a longer exhale, another pause — you are doing something scientifically proven and anciently understood.
You are downgrading your nervous system from the high-alert states of fight, flight, freeze, and fawn, down into rest and digest state. This is not a metaphor. This is biology.
The sympathetic nervous system — your body's accelerator, always scanning for threat — begins to quiet.
The parasympathetic nervous system — your body's brake, the calm that restores and repairs — comes back online. This is the reset of the vagus nerve: the great bidirectional highway between brain and body, between your nervous system and your animal's felt sense of you.
This is the very reason Eastern cultures have practised meditation, mindfulness, and conscious breathwork for thousands of years.
They knew what science now confirms: the breath is the key to activating your self-healing ability.
When you breathe deeply and consciously, you increase the flow of Ki — life force energy — through your body.
The same energy is known as Chi in Chinese tradition, Prana in yogic philosophy. It moves. It restores. It heals.
And here is what makes this so powerful for you and your animal: you do this together. You breathe. They feel it.
Your regulated nervous system speaks directly to theirs. No words. No commands. Just presence. Just breath. Just the quiet invitation to come down from high alert and to regulate and rest.
When You Are Ready: Reiki Energy Healing for You Both
And when you are ready — when the breath has become familiar, when the quiet has become a shared language —
Reiki, the life force energy which connects and flows through all living things, can help you to create more moments of intentionally slowing down, to invite peaceful calm into your life.
Reiki energy healing can begin to assist you and your beloved sentient animal companion, together. For the highest good of the pack, the herd, the household.
Reiki is a complete system of holistic well-being; Ki breath, Mindfulness, Meditation and Energy healing.
Reiki energy healing does no harm. This is its foundation. It is gentle, intelligent life force energy — Ki — that flows where it is needed, never overpowering, never forcing.
It helps to release stress that has been held in the body for years. It restores balance and equilibrium.
It brings energy slowly and gently back into alignment — across all layers: the emotional, the mental, the spiritual, the physical.
Reiki complements and deepens what the breath has already begun. The breath opens the door. Reiki walks through it — steady, warm, compassionate.
When we feel safe, we can begin to heal. Slowly. Through our trauma. Together.
This is not about fixing anyone.
It is about creating the conditions where healing can happen naturally.
Where the nervous system can settle. Where the heart can open.
Where trust can be rebuilt, not through effort, but through presence.
Where Ki flows freely again.
One breath at a time.
The Big Sigh. The Softening. The Choice.
Something sacred happens when a human stops trying to fix us and simply stays with us instead.
Maybe you have seen it: the moment a horse finally lowers their head and lets out a long, trembling exhale.
The tension in the neck softening. The jaw loosening. The eyes — those windows to the soul — shifting from guarded to curious. To open.
This is not a small thing. This is a release.
A letting go of years of bracing, of waiting for the next rough hand, the next conflicting signal, the next human who does not see.
And sometimes, alongside this release, something even more profound occurs: the animal realises they have a choice.
A liberty choice.
For perhaps the first time, they are not being asked to perform or comply.
They are being invited. And they get to decide whether to step closer or stay still. Whether to engage with healing on their own terms.
This is the heart of what I do.
Not fixing. Not training.
Holding space — steady, warm, sacred space — where an animal can finally choose.
And I empower human handlers to begin to listen to heart-speak.
Horses Speak. The Question Is: Are We Listening?
I have heard animals speak since I was a child.
For years I thought I was losing my mind — hearing their thoughts, their quiet observations, their gentle corrections.
It was not until a near-death experience at age thirty that these abilities awakened fully, sharpened into something I could no longer dismiss.
I spent years after that developing my techniques, refining my practice, learning to trust what I had always known.
During Reiki healing sessions, and meditation sessions, sometimes animals communicate.
They share what they have held. They release what they no longer need to carry.
And I translate — carefully, tenderly — so that the human beside them can finally understand what their animal has been trying to say, sometimes for a lifetime.
This is not magic. It is connection at a higher frequency.
And it is available to anyone willing to learn the language of the heart.
I am a practicing animal communicator, and offer intuitive psychometry readings. I am a practicing Animal Communicator and can provide sessions for both the living and animals on the spirit realm remotely through the use of photographs.
Please not I do not offer readings for Missing or Lost Pets Readings. Thank you for your understanding.
A Quiet Plea from the Herd
Hello, can you see us. Look into our eyes, for they are the way to uncovering the wisdom of the soul.
Slowly. We have been waiting for you. Humans are busy Doing. Not "being"
We are waiting for more humans to raise their vibration. To stop rushing. To stop speaking in commands and start listening in heart-speak.
We are sovereign, sentient beings who want to develop unique heart-soul connections with our humans — but we cannot do it alone.
We need you to meet us where we are.
Not where you wish we were.
Learn our language. It is not spoken in words.
It is spoken in breath, in energy, in the soft flicker of an ear, in the weight shift of a body leaning ever so slightly toward you.
It is spoken in the long exhale that says, I am beginning to feel safe with you.
Spend time with us. Bring your tea, bring your quiet, bring your willingness to simply be.
Walk the paddocks together. Let us explore the arena on our own terms, sniffing the new buckets, investigating the unfamiliar shapes.
Let us choose to approach you. Offer a choice and wait.
Let us assess the question, to read your energy, and honour our choices. To walk away or to choose to stay.
We have been waiting for humans who understand that the greatest gift they can offer is their quiet, open-hearted presence.
No agenda. No timeline. Just a heart willing to listen.
Healing Hearts. Restoring Trust. One Breath at a time.
Enhance Your Animal's Wellbeing
Bringing Harmony Home When I work with people and their animals, I am not just working with the animal. I am working with the home, the herd, the pack — the whole web of relationships that shape daily life. Imbalance in one member affects everyone. Restoring harmony means helping humans learn to listen with their hearts. To speak the quiet language their animals already know. To create a home where every being feels safe, seen, and loved — not despite their imperfections, but because of them. When we feel safe, we can begin to heal. Together. Through our trauma. One breath at a time. Your animal is not a problem to be solved. Your animal is a sovereign, sentient being who may well have been sent to you by forces far wiser than coincidence. Waiting to be understood. Waiting to be seen. Waiting, perhaps for a very long time, for you. I have spent over twenty years in animal rescue and rehabilitation. I have worked with animals who have been through more than most humans could bear — horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, wildlife, the surrendered and the forgotten. What I have learned is this: no animal is beyond trust. No heart is too damaged to open again. But trust is rebuilt slowly. Gently. With no demands. It happens in the quiet moments. A shared breath. A softening around the eyes. An animal who finally lowers their guard and sighs. The big sigh. The release. The moment they realise they have a choice — and they choose you. Perhaps the universe orchestrated this. Perhaps your souls recognised each other long before your eyes met. Honour that. Honour the gift of being chosen by a being who has every reason to close their heart, and is choosing — breath by breath — to open it again. This is the work. Not fixing. Not training. Being with. Holding space. Sovereign and serene. Healing hearts. Restoring trust. One breath, one heartbeat at a time.