Seven Animals, Seven Chakras
pic by NOAA's National Ocean Service
Want to know more about the amazing new healing system, “Seven Animals, Seven Chakras”? You might like to visit my Seven Animals site, which is solely devoted to this healing.
Today’s post was about a communication I had with a humpback whale in Tonga late last year, as part of my research for this healing. You can read more about what she had to say about the world at www.sevenanimals.com.
Animal Massage Course this Sunday
Our Animal Massage course is being run this Sunday, 7th March 2010, in Alderley, Brisbane.
The massage workshop covers the principles of a good massage, types of massage (e.g. effleurage, petrisage etc.), canine anatomy, techniques for small animals, hands-on practice on dogs, contraindications, and case studies.
The course is aimed at those people who wish to take a first step into animal massage, either as a way of treating their pets, or to explore the beginning of a new career.
$150, includes comprehensive take-home manual and certificate upon completion.
Run by Lucy Gabrielle and Eileen McLean (Natural Animal Care). Email if you would like a registration form, want more information, or have questions. 
Seven Animals, Seven Chakras
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I am very excited to announce my totally unique, all new workshop called Seven Animals, Seven Chakras. This is a world first!
The chakras are energetic centres in the body that form the windows in and out of the aura and physical bodies. The chakras are an integral part of our well being and healing. But did you know that certain animals embody the spirit (or essence) of each of the seven major bodily chakras?
Many people know about the chakras, but few of us can see or feel them. The animals that embody the essence of each chakra are tangible, living, breathing access points for us to connect with and heal our chakras and our bodies and lives as a whole.
We have so much to learn from the animal kingdom. Everything in life is reflected (or mirrored) back to us, over and over again. And this is what is happening with the animals that embody the essence of each chakra.
I have researched this and put together a comprehensive healing philosophy for you to fully embrace all aspects of yourself, being guided by the animals that are here to help us.
I will be presenting one-day courses in Brisbane and the Gold Coast this year, to present this world first information! I hope you can join me. This is a must for anyone on a journey of personal and spiritual development, and animal and nature lovers.
Half Price Reiki this Weekend
Learn to heal your pets!!
Eileen McLean (Natural Animal Care), and Lucy Gabrielle (author, Your Animal’s Oracle) are offering members of Charlie’s Angels Horse Rescue Inc. the opportunity to attend their Animal Reiki workshop this weekend for half price.
The course is on Saturday and Sunday, 13th and 14th of February, 9.30am to 5.00pm at Alderley, Brisbane.
The course covers Usui Reiki I (for people and animals) and Animal Reiki I (to assist you to treat your pets). Usui Reiki is a powerful, natural system of healing from the Japanese tradition.
The course costs $200 for the weekend, including comprehensive take-home manuals, morning and afternoon tea.
Charlie’s Angels members may bring a friend for FREE (or split the cost and pay half price).
Email Lucy at lucygabrielle@live.com.au or Eileen at eileen@naturalanimalcare.com for more information.
To become a member of Charlie’s Angels Horse Rescue Inc., go to http://charliesangels.org.au/memberships/ One year’s membership costs just $40.
Animal Healing Workshops, Melbourne and Perth
Eileen and I are excited to announce that we are seeking expressions of interest from people interested in attending our Intuitive Animal Healing workshop in Melbourne or Perth.
We are holding a variety of natural animal healing workshops in Brisbane each month in 2010, but we are regularly asked to travel outside of Brisbane. So now’s your chance!
The Intuitive Animal Healing course is designed to give you a comprehensive toolkit of healing methods to begin using on your loved one immediatly. We cover animal nature, massage, hands-on healing, crystals, food as medicine, energy medicine (homeopathy and essences), soul-to-soul connection (communication), and colour, sound and aroma therpay. This course will give you a bumper manual of techniques to take home and hands-on experience.
If you would like to attend a course in Melbourne or Perth, Australia, or would like to host and help coordinate a course, then please email me at lucygabrielle@live.com.au.
Does Reiki have limitations?
I offer a free Reiki healing service for animals and today I sent out some healing to a horse with pain in her hindquarters. In the process of that treatment, I got some messages that the horse needed some physical assistance, and suggested that the horse’s person consider Bowen therapy. The horse’s person was grateful for the healing, but wanted to know why I would recommend Bowen therapy. Isn’t Reiki enough, she wondered. Does Reiki have limitations? I thought that was a fantastic question, so wanted to take some time to write about it.
Reiki always works for the highest good and that means that we can’t control the outcome. It’s the hardest thing, I think, when we’re learning to work with energy, to learn to “let go and let God”. In other words, we have to trust that the energy is going where it needs to go, which many find difficult because we are such an “outcomes” based society.
In the case of the horse with the pain in her hindquarters, the healing will be assisting her mental and emotional self to deal with the pain and restriction, and if there are emotional components to her injury the Reiki will help to clear these in order for physical healing to occur. One of the greatest things that I think Reiki does is pain relief, and so I’m sure that she will benefit from Reiki.
The reality is that all situations benefit from Reiki but we can’t ‘order’ the type of healing we need. So, yes, Reiki might be sufficient to heal the situation on its own. But if the situation required another form of treatment to get the fastest, easiest result, then Reiki might prompt us to do that, or create a situation in which we suddenly meet someone who can help us further. And yes, Reiki will enhance the overall effect of any other treatment that is occurring at the same time. For example, in the case of western medicines, that might mean helping the body to cope with side effects.
The beauty of Reiki is that there are absolutely NO limitations!!! There is not any situation, person or animal that wouldn’t benefit from Reiki–it’s just that we can’t always know beforehand what that benefit might be.
To give you an example of another kind, I have a number of physical challenges in this life, and this time last year, they had escalated to a point where I just felt that I had hit rock bottom. Through the Reiki, I received very strong messages to go to WA and swim with the dolphins for healing therapy. So off I went, expecting a miraculous event (“praise the lord, I can walk again” type of result). On the second day of swimming with the wild dolphins, I had an intense, magical connection with a dolphin and I knew I had received a ‘dolphin attunement’.
But when I returned home, all I could do was cry. I cried and cried and cried (releasing, intiated by the dolphins), and then I tore a ligament in my wrist. I went to see my (wonderful and very open) doctor about the wrist, and burst into tears. He suggested I tried a medication that was commonly prescribed for people with chronic pain. I was reluctant, of course (I always go for everything natural first) but I’ve also come to understand that there are no absolutes, that there are no ‘wrong’ medicines or ‘right’ medicines, but it’s up to us to find what is best for us at any given time.
So, I started the medication and went back to see him in a week’s time, during which he had come up with a plan for me to go and start a new form of therapy that worked on myofascial realignment in the body, retraining nerve pathways in order to relieve pain. Long story short, one year on I have improved 100%. For the first time in about five years, I feel like I can cope with daily life, my body is fairly stable, and I’m significantly pain reduced. The point is that I DID get my miracle, it just wasn’t the sort that I was expecting.
So, again, the Reiki always works, sometimes just by itself, and sometimes by prompting us to venture into the modality or to meet the person who can help us the most.
You might also like to read these posts on Reiki:
http://lucygabrielle.com/2009/11/23/which-level-of-reiki-gives-the-best-quality/
http://lucygabrielle.com/2009/10/27/which-reiki-is-right-for-you/
Fair Go for Cane Toads
Today, a Facebook friend posted a picture of a cane toad saying she thought they were cute. Many comments quickly followed of people exuding hatred of toads.
Personally, I have great sympathy for cane toads. It’s not their fault that they are in Australia. Ill-thought out plans to introduce a species from another country led to the ‘disaster’ that is toads. The toads were introduced to eat the ‘cane beetle’ in Northern Queensland. But they didn’t eat them. Instead, they bred rapidly and adapted to their new home easily.
A few years ago, I wrote a two-part geography book series called Australia’s Invaders. In it, I tracked thirty species of animals and plants, both aquatic and land-based, that were introduced pests of this country. And as I researched each species, I grew sicker and sicker at writing over and over again that these species were deliberately introduced by men, mostly the English. (Some have been accidental introductions, but the majority were deliberate.)
Here’s a section from my author’s note in the book:
“Animals classified as pests in this country deserve to be treated with respect and humaneness while simultaneously upholding the rights of our native species. ‘Pest’ species are native to someone else’s country… These animals, which may experience protection in their native country (just as we protect native species), have the same biology and senses in this country and, therefore, feel the same levels of pain and suffering regardless of the country in which they reside… Pest species do need to be managed… but we have choices about the way we do this.”
The reality is that land clearing is the number one killer of wildlife in this country–not cats, not dogs, not toads. It is people that need to be managed, not the unfortunate animals that suffer because of their actions.
Much more often than I would like, I hear people boasting about the way they hit toads with golf clubs or spray them with Dettol to kill them. These are both inhumane actions against an animal that is not so dissimilar to a frog, and yet most wouldn’t even think about doing that to a frog because we have defined frogs as “good” and toads as “bad”.
Logically, you cannot get rid of toads. They breed too quickly and are just too hardy. The only way we will get rid of them now is to take genetic action to remove their ability to breed. There’s no point in killing the toad in your backyard. There are dozens more waiting to replace it.
So if you are one of those people who likes to kill toads, ask yourself why. Is it because you fear them? Is it because you have been conditioned to believe they are ugly? Is it because you enjoy violence? You cannot get rid of the toad population, so why do it?
All animals are sentient beings and deserve to be treated with respect. Moreover, turn the focus back on yourself and humankind and ask the question, ‘How can we do our best to caretake these animals that we have put in such danger?”
Usui Reiki I and Animal Reiki I, February Course, Brisbane
pic by Kevin H
My inbox has been jumping this morning with enquiries and registrations for our 2010 workshops in animal healing. We have Reiki, massage, a bumper sized “Intuitive Animal Healing” course (covering more than 8 types of healing you can do at home with your animal), a bumper sized animal homeopathy course, and the very unique and special “Seven Animals, Seven Chakras”, which shows you how you can heal yourself with the help of the animals.
We’re kicking off our workshops in February with Reiki I and Animal Reiki I. This is a very popular course, one we’ve run many times over the past couple of years, and is always such a beautiful weekend. We get just as much out of it as the participants do!
This is a two-day course held at Eileen’s home in Alderley, Brisbane. We deliberately keep the cost of this course low because, more than any other course, we see it as service to the world that everyone should have access to Reiki. The cost for the two days is just $200. The cost includes comprehensive take-home manuals, morning and afternoon tea, and animal volunteers. We also offer a scholarship space each course for those in genuine financial difficulty, so please let us know if that is you.
We’re taking registrations now, so if you are interested in any of the courses, you can email me at lucygabrielle@live.com.
We look forward to sharing the healing journey with this year.
It’s Chicken Food for Thought
Raising chickens can be a wonderful experience. We love our girls. They all have names and they will be “Ladies of Leisure” long after they have finished laying. And raising chickens yourself can alleviate many of the cruelty issues associated with egg production, provided your chooks are getting to roam freely (at least part of the time).
But even then, there are some difficult questions to be answered. For me, one of most challenging questions has been “what do I feed my chickens?”
When I first got the chickens, I did a lot of research into raising them vegetarian and organic. But the reality is that it is exceptionally difficult to do this. To raise them organic, you need to source a comprehensive range of organic grains and mix the feed yourself. You probably have to do that by going to an organic supermarket, and there isn’t one of those for less than two and a half hours drive from here. Of course, then all the kitchen scraps would also have to be certified organic, and the ground they walk on (and the grass they eat) would also have to be certified organic. When you start looking at it this way, you can see why certified organic eggs cost so much to buy!
So having given up sourcing each individual grain and vitamin supplement yourself, you’re then left with pre-mixed feeds. And this is where raising your chickens vegetarian becomes tricky.
Almost all pre-mixed mash and layer pellets contain restricted animal protein (RAM). If you check the ingredients on the back of the bag of feed, they’ll refer to this as “protein meal”. If you go to the website, they may refer to it as “meat meal”. But I have not found one that specifies exactly what type of meat is in the RAM. But it was feeding RAM to cattle that caused the Mad Cow Disease outbreak in the UK. (Cattle were fed infected sheep’s brains.)
What we do know is that RAM is made up of other animals, including bones, blood, feathers and placental tissues. From what animals? It definitely includes chicken (male chicks are minced just after birth) and fish, but if I had to extrapolate I would also say mammals such as sheep and cattle (and maybe horses?).
I have been feeding my chickens grains, but they leave half of it behind and have lost some feathers and looking a bit shabby. I do believe they aren’t getting enough protein and that a layer pellet would probably help this. Chickens need protein. And if given the right opportunities, will source it from worms, bugs, moths etc. I have no problem eating eggs from chickens that have been eating worms, bugs and moths because that is part of their natural diet. I certainly DO have a problem eating eggs from chickens that have been fed RAM.
And if you’re eating eggs off the shelf in a supermarket or out of restaurants, then you are eating RAM.
Sadly, buying “vegetarian” eggs won’t help you avoid the cruelty done to chickens in the mass production of eggs. They are most likely still cage chickens that are simply fed vegetarian food. And they are all killed at the end of their laying life.
I am not saying all of this to shame you, guilt you or upset you. I am saying this to allow you to be aware and to be a conscious eater. Know what you’re eating. Then love it or leave it, the choice is yours. But know what it is.
Meanwhile, I am still searching for vegetarian layer pellets and I will get it shipped from interstate if I have to. If you own chickens and want to do the same, go and see your local produce and ask them to stock vegetarian pellets. If enough people do it then they will have to listen.
My Christmas Wish List for the Animals of the World
Here’s my Christmas Wish List for the animals of the world.
- An end to horse racing and horse slaughter in this country.
- Compulsory regulation, registration and microchipping of horses.
- Peace, unconditional love and freedom for all sentient beings.
- An end to bear farming, bear baiting, dancing bears and bears for entertainment across the world.
- Peace and safety for the whales and dolphins world wide.
- An increase in consciousness in humanity to take respect for, care of, and stewardship of animals and the environment.
- Every political leader in the world to take responsibility for carbon emissions and to ensure the survival of our environment for all.
- An end to dog fighting, cock fighting, fish fighting and all other so-called ’sports’ that result in the injury, trauma, suffering and death of animals.
- An end to poaching of animals like rhinos, tigers and orangutans.
- A union of the spiritual selves of humans and animals.
- Security for the polar bears’ future.
- Horse and dog owners to understand that there are kinder, more effective, and non-violent ways of training and managing your animal and to embrace these techniques and to show others how to do it.
- An increased awareness and desire from humans to hear and learn from the animals’ messages and teachings.
- Safety for all from bushfires, floods, earthquakes and droughts.
- Care and protection of cats.
- Land and trees secured for wildlife, especially koalas.
- Compassion for ethical and cruelty-free methods for managing ‘pest’ species.
- A cure for the cancer that is harming the Tassie Devils.
- Effective, ethical, cruelty-free farming practices for all animals involved in food production.
- Peace. Love. Harmony. Joy. Compassion.
This is my wish.
What’s yours?
