How reiki helps your animals 

What is reiki? You may have heard about it being used on people, but it’s great for animals too. As I say, remember WE are animals, so if something is good for us it’s also the same for them! But how does it work? Is it true reiki helps your animal? 

  Vicki Draper is a holistic animal healer and animal communicator and she’ll talk about this on this episode. She shares her personal and client experiences using reiki to help with their pets. 

 In this episode you’ll  

• Hear tips from Vicki on working with your animals 
• Learn about resources for further education  

About Vicki:

With decades of experience healing animals and highly regarded as modern-day holistic, natural animal healer, and communicator, Vicki Draper is a licensed massage therapist, certified acupressurist, Reiki Master/Teacher, craniosacral therapist, and Amazon bestselling multi-book author. She promotes animal healing worldwide addressing wellness during every stage of an animal’s life. Whether you’re struggling with a cat, dog, or horse’s mental, emotional, behavioral, or physical health, Vicki’s techniques provide healing and support. Learn all about Vicki on her website at healingyouranimal.com.

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The tip I'd love to share is your animals don't take 'em for granted.

You know, they know more than you think they know and.

The more you tell them, the happier they'll be.

And what I mean by that is if you're gonna be gone traveling, show them and

tell them before the suitcase comes out.

Hello and welcome to the Connectedness Podcast.

Just as you might have guessed, I talk about connection and connectedness

on this podcast, our connection with everything in the world around us.

Whether you see it or not, we're all connected, and it doesn't matter if it's

our dog, our cat, our God, our body.

And I'll also talk about some more.

Abstract connections like our career or our land, our community, our emotions,

your body life is all about connection.

So the sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can have an

easier, more meaningful life.

I will talk about these connections through different lenses.

Things like synchronicities and coincidences are just.

Everyday little bits of magic and miracles that we, we usually dismiss.

It's really important that we pay attention to all of this so we can

live an easier, more meaningful life.

So welcome to the show.

I'm your host, Karen Cleveland.

Hello.

Welcome back everyone.

So as part of my Animal Connection series, I am super excited to introduce

you today to someone I've known for several years and really admire.

She is a promoter of animal healing worldwide, globally.

Vicki Draper is a holistic animal healer, animal communicator, and a

licensed massage therapist certified Acupressurist Reiki master teacher,

cranio sacral therapist, as well as being a bestselling Amazon author.

Welcome to the show, Vicki.

I'm so excited to have you.

Thank you, Karen.

It's great to be here.

I know you've been working with animals for many years and people and animals,

but I don't know how it all got started.

Why don't you tell the listeners and I a little bit about your

journey into where you are now?

Yeah.

I discovered I am a natural born healer and animal communicator, and it

wasn't until later in life I discovered this because it was just who I was.

But when I was 11 years old, I had a kitten that Diag got

diagnosed with distemper and was like, he's not gonna live.

That's what the vet said.

You know?

It's just yeah.

And as a child, I really wasn't sure, you know, what that was,

but I didn't want it, right.

Yeah.

So it's so I did what was natural to me, and I can remember the

connection with McKinney and we're there this loving, healing connection.

Now, I now know what.

That was, but, and it was like white light came in, time stood still.

We just had this connection.

I put the kitty down and then I went on about my business.

Didn't think anything about it yet.

My, couldn't live many more healthy years.

Wow.

And it wasn't until later I was looking back on it that I realized, oh, I was

tapping into healing energy, you know?

With my training, I got, you know, I had language for it,

and it's oh yeah, my kitty lit.

That's what I wanted.

As a child, I didn't think anything about it.

That Right.

You know, we, and we think everyone else does the same thing.

Right.

Or we don't know that it's different.

Right, right.

I was like, oh, yay.

You know?

And I was, came from small town America, so didn't really have,

there wasn't a good animal.

Focused at that time.

So I didn't have any mentors guiding me in the animal realm

that I was so natural with.

And so I went off and studied computers in college.

Yeah.

Cause I had very analytical brain math, science, physics you know, all of that.

And so I worked in IT corporate for over 15 years, programming

computers and various things.

In the IT world and my heart just kept withering my head.

You know, it's just like my soul.

This isn't where I'm supposed to be, right?

But no career tests were showing up to put me where I'm doing, you

know, to do what I'm doing now.

And I'm like, I don't know.

So I was on a hike and I found this heart shaped rock nature always speaks to me.

And the top half.

Was white and sparkly.

The bottom half was dull and gray.

And I knew I was at a choice point.

I could stay and let my heart just keep continuing and

fully be gray and dull, or I.

Could leave and do something different and have my heart sparkly

and light right within that week.

I went in and tried my resignation in.

Oh my goodness.

I clue what I was gonna do because at that point I'd been trying to figure

it out, and it turned out on the side I was studying occu pressure.

For people just because it was fun.

I like loving learning about health in the body and all of that.

So when that came about, I'm like, okay, I'm gonna open a practice for people.

You know, I really want animals.

I don't know how it's gonna happen, but for now I'm not doing computers anymore.

I, you know, so I opened my practice for people within a month.

There was a woman, Susan, on my table, and she had a dog, Jake, and she said, if this

works for me, it will work for my dog.

Jake.

Jake was a golden lab, yellow lab and was having seizures, and the cranial sacral

work is a great modality to support seizures, and I said, yes it will.

She brought Jake to me that just opened the floodgate, okay, for

getting the animals into my life.

Wow.

Thank you Susan.

Exactly.

So thank you universe.

Cause I took the big leap going, I know, you know, leaving the nice

cushy job going, I don't know what I'm doing, but I know it's not

that Cause yeah, I had to trust.

I had to trust.

That is a big leap.

You must have had some fear let me ask you, have you

ever regretted that decision?

No.

Yeah, I have not.

It's been a little bumpy.

It was little bumpy at the beginning cause I was used to this nice big

salary and then just starting with business and, but you know, no.

Yeah.

Your heart and soul are much happier, aren't they?

Yeah.

Cuz I am doing what I'm supposed to be doing.

Yeah.

And so therefore, Yeah, my heart and soul are very happy.

Nice.

Nice.

So after Susan's dog, then you started incorporating animals into your practice?

Yes.

And then shortly after that too we were in my husband at the time and

I were in California at the time.

And that's where I had studied at the Occu Pressure Institute of Berkeley.

And then we moved back to the Seattle area and at that time they were making, that's

when they just were putting into law animal massage as a licensed profession.

Oh, right.

So in on the ground floor of, oh wow.

The licensing of the, you know, the certifications a legal.

You know, licensed profession.

And then I helped certify some of the following certification classes.

So I've been on the forefront of the animal healing industry with.

Get license and certifications.

Yeah.

And went and studied with the tall grass, the people that write the

books on animal occu pressure.

Right.

And so I was the first in the United States to get the large

and small animal certifications for occu pressure for animals.

Okay.

All right.

Yeah.

Almost first in the world.

There was one class in England that happened before our class, so you

know, but on the forefront yet again.

And so it's just been fun.

Like I said, I've never really looked back after taking that leap.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's fantastic.

And so now I know that you know, COVID has had a big impact on everything.

Do you still see animals in person or is everything on Zoom these days?

Or how does that work?

Right now it's all on Zoom.

I, the, I was working out of a vet clinic and the, for five years where

people could bring them to me and he retired and so then I went with another

vet clinic, but they've decided not to work on Saturdays and I was giving one

or two Saturdays for the in-person, cuz my Zoom clients that the week are full.

You know, it's, there's a big demand for the zoom.

Okay.

Client.

So right now I am looking for a place to do in-person because

Yes, I like having that option.

Yeah.

But I, during Covid I did give up house calls cause traffic is, The nightmare.

And so I'm stressed when I show up.

And that's not conducive to a good healing session.

No, it's sure not, is it?

Yeah.

And this anywhere that there's traffic, just, you know, going

five miles can take a long time.

So it might get cost prohibitive too just in the time involved.

Yeah.

So the good thing about Zoom is I can support people anywhere.

And they're animals.

You know, so I do have clients in other countries, other states and then even it

works great for cats, cause cats don't like to travel, so they don't like to go

in person, you know, so it, that defeats the purpose to have them bring them in.

You know, zoom has lots of benefits of doing it through Zoom.

So I've never actually had a cranio sacral appointment before.

I have a general idea of it.

Can that be done from Zoom?

What?

Isn't there some.

Oh, okay.

Alright.

Yes, because I have done it so many times in person, I have the energetic

template to then apply to the animals.

Oh, I see.

You know, because, Yeah.

So then cause with reiki and having distance healing it's

you know, we're connected with the energy as we're in person.

Yeah.

And so the results, so yes, I get good physical things.

The things that you think, oh, we have to be in person for, can have

really good results with Zoom.

I, I don't know if this is gonna be possible for people that don't

even understand what Reiki is or energy healing is, or, yes.

Ca can you give a, you know, the, a fairly short explanation of that?

Oh, of reiki?

Of reiki?

Yeah.

Or any kind of the energy healing that you do.

Okay.

Yes.

Reiki is a spiritual energy.

It's we may have all heard it's for It's universal energy, it's key

In Japan, it's prana in India, you know, it's all the same energy.

We're talking about source light.

It's the oneness, the all in all.

And so then the reiki, you get attunements from a master, and

then you're able to then do reiki.

It just, it opens the channels for additional healing capacity running.

Through you cuz you're a conduit.

It's a higher wisdom doing the work.

Wow.

Okay.

And so I would love to give an example of a physical healing that was over Zoom

because it you can't argue with results.

You're right.

Right.

And I know, even though I came from Compu because I came from

computers and everything, and I know if you'd have told me.

You know, 40 years ago, I what I'm doing now, you know?

Right.

No way.

Right.

So I wanna share.

Yeah.

So I had a client cock Spaniel Sampson, whose guardians who lived,

they lived in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, and he had fallen off

the bed and had gotten paralyzed.

Oh.

And so they had gone to the vet, no noticeable results.

They had even taken him to acupuncture.

Which is a great modality.

It's, it didn't, just didn't get results.

He didn't respond.

So she was desperate and contacted me.

We did a session, and after his first session, I could feel lots of shifts

happening, and I said, after all the sessions, obviously you'll wanna

take 'em out to go potty because it flushes things that we want.

You know, they'll usually have to pee right after the session.

And at that time they were having to hold him up because he

couldn't stand on his hi legs.

And so within five minutes after the session, when they took

him out, he stood on his own.

Wow.

You know?

Yeah.

And then a few more sessions, we had him back fully walking.

Wow.

Yeah.

And so that really instilled in me as okay, you know, the physical.

There, there's no limits.

Right, right.

Absolutely No limits at all.

And I understand there was an experience with one of your cats or both of your

cats with some reiki and grooming.

Yes.

I always support my kitties with reiki before going and you know, let

it work, hold while they're there.

And the one time I forgot, Spirit came back, nicked three places.

Oh no.

And I'm like, okay.

And so that lesson learned right now.

And so then this last grooming we had last week I ended up being the handler.

They ne anyways, I was in the grooming room with 'em and I was holding.

Felt spirit and sapphire as their bellies were getting shaved.

They had their bellies had to be shaved as their long hair

and they get mats if we don't.

Plus for summer it's a little bit cooler for them and they just melted.

In my arms.

By me doing the reiki and so they didn't care as loud buzzing razor, you know?

Yeah.

They just melted and I'm like, okay, this is now what we're gonna

be doing every grooming time.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I bet it was traumatic for 'em other times.

Yeah.

Or maybe less so with the reiki but to have you doing it as it

was going on holding them, right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It was.

It was so palpable.

I'm like, okay, lesson learned, and this is what's so nice or fun to me about being

a reiki master is, even though I've been doing it for years, I still keep learning.

You know, still keep finding applications to yeah.

That really make a difference.

Yeah.

That's fantastic.

And the learning really.

Should probably never stop.

So I know that you're also an animal communicator.

Do you incorporate it into some of your healing sessions or is it a

totally separate thing that you do?

No, it's incorporated.

Yeah, my sessions they're custom.

So it depends, you know, the tools that come forward are

what's needed best at that time.

Yeah.

And so that includes the communication and if there's questions, people wanna

know You know, happy to answer those.

At the same time, sometimes the animals won't wait toward the end of the

session because if they're like really depleted or really having an issue

that we're working with, they wanna just lay back and take it and absorb

it and then they're ready to talk.

Right, right.

For the listeners out there that, you know, whether they are familiar with this

or not, is there anything that they they should know if their animal needs some.

Something or any tips for them to either look for or that they can do at home, you

know, to help settle an animal or to just get them through till they get to a vet or

to, oh, see, that's why I wrote my books.

Okay.

Let's talk about your books.

Awesome.

All three of these books.

Spark full of, there's no holds barred with my private practice techniques.

I do techniques I teach in classes and how to help their animals do different things.

Okay, so the first book is great if you're having behavioral issues with your

animals and if you have multiple animals.

You aren't getting along, and if there's a lot of anxiety,

there's a chapter uncommon.

These are like, like beginner books, or at least the first one is okay, they all are.

I've written them.

Yes, that beginners and even children, I love supporting children, so I've

written them from beginner's mind.

Nice.

Nice.

You know, they're taking compliment complicated.

There can be complicated processes.

I've simpled them, simplified them down.

Some people don't have to go do all these hours of training that I had to

do to, you know, have them be effective.

Okay.

And right.

So it combines pressure, it combines massage, it combines animal communication.

And even working with the chakras, which come reiki is a big part

of working with the chakras.

And my third book is all about balancing your pets chakras.

It's healthy, free, and harmonious spelling your pets chakras.

And you can be a beginner and you don't have to have reiki to do it.

Reiki will enhance it.

But I've written it for anybody that's interested in helping their pet.

Okay with be, with being better.

And so the second book is Heart to Heart, how you can Heal Your

Animal through all stages of life.

And so it takes you on the span whether you're new to getting an animal or

whether whatever, where phase you have your animal in there, you know,

there's information all the way through.

And so there's a wellness chapter, like I said, a wellness routine to do.

For keeping your animals healthy.

That, okay.

The second book, it's Work, BA with Massage and Some Pressure.

The third book, it's a whole chakra balancing routine.

Okay.

And how you balance 'em, because your chakra system is its own system.

And so it's another tool, another way that we can help balance our animals and pets.

So and go ahead.

Oh, I was just gonna say, it would be ideal to read these at

the beginning of your pet's life.

Right.

Instead of waiting until there's an issue.

That is true.

However, they, the second book, when there's issues, it tells you

what you can do to support common issues and even, you know, severe

issues even working with the vet.

Oh, fantastic.

You know, so I love and they don't have to be read in a particular order.

They're standalone yet.

They tie together because, The common theme is helping your animal, you

know, live your, be their best.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And so you wanna tip?

Okay.

Sorry.

So you've got the book full of lots of tips.

Okay.

The tip I'd love to share is your animals don't take 'em for granted.

You know, they know more than you think they know and.

The more you tell them, the happier they'll be.

And what I mean by that is if you're gonna be gone traveling, show them and

tell them before the suitcase comes out.

You may, you probably teach this yourself.

And so animals, you can't just say, I'm gonna be gone a day or two days.

They don't understand what that is.

So you can show them with blink.

Because the eye closed this night, the eye open is daylight.

So you show 'em how many blinks until you're gone, show them leaving

you, leaving with your suitcase.

And also you wanna tell them where they're gonna be, if they're gonna

be at home, who's taking care of 'em.

And it may sound silly to you, but they really.

I wanna know they are much more settled if they know the details.

Yeah.

And then you show them how many nights till you're coming back in

and it's important you show them coming back in with your suitcase

and they know and so then they can be calm and I don't wanna say calm.

They can be calm and confident because they know you're coming back.

Yeah.

They say and they know again.

And so again, it's very important if your travel plans change to remember

to connect with your pets and tell them because they, they're literal and if

you don't come back when you say they're gonna be all upset and you know, they're

gonna have a harder time with Right.

Awesome.

Yeah, that's fantastic.

Thank you.

It is important.

I always say, talk to your animals.

Talk out loud to your animals.

You know, if that's what you have to do in order to communicate with them.

Because they do understand they, they don't, people might think the cats are

not acknowledging it sometimes, but that doesn't mean they don't get it.

And who is the cat that we see every now and then cross the screen.

Spirit.

He's sitting here, right here.

I know.

He has signed up to be my helper, so he's actually on the cover of my second book.

Oh, he is nice.

Yeah, right there with me.

Ah, fantastic.

Yeah.

And so Spirit is one of the teacher helpers, huh?

Yeah, he is.

He's very cute.

Yeah.

I was impressed though that he.

He was just sitting to the side.

He was helping that way today.

Yeah.

Nice.

So I understand and this is time sensitive, so people listening to

this you know, a after a certain point this won't be relevant, but you have

a reiki class, of course, you probably might always have something coming up.

So you have a reiki class coming up, right?

Do you wanna talk about that for a minute?

I do.

It starts June 27th.

It is on Zoom, so matter where you live.

You can participate and if you're really wanting to yeah, learn with

your animals, then this is the class, the way I teach, it's people really

wanting to learn with the animals.

We do cover the people, but it's heavily animal focused and it's.

Reiki one and two.

It starts June 27th and it's weekly through September 12th.

And then you'll be reiki level one and two certified with lots

of experience and confidence.

And this, as Karen said, yes, I do have things going on.

And so if you miss it and you're interested in the

Reiki class still check back.

I'll be offering it again.

Yeah.

And then the way to.

Do we wanna share where to go?

It's you can share it now.

We'll ask again later, but yeah, go ahead.

Oh, cool.

Okay.

Was that healing your animal.com?

Just go to my website and you'll see class and advance.

. So what would a person, , what can I expect though?

If I take the class, what will I come away with?

You know, what's the if say, I or my animal don't have an urgent health need.

How can it still benefit us?

It's a great wellness tool, be it can help you just keeping promoting health

because our cha is, our energy fields are being bombarded all the time.

And so the healthier we keep 'em, just keep 'em moving and balance the

healthier we and our animals are.

So with the reiki, it's really two for one because you are

getting, it's a great self care.

Yeah.

Tool and technique, and you're getting how to help your animals with it.

And not even just your animals, how to help all your relatives, your

significant other, you know, it's, you just get the, your world opens.

And so yeah, Reiki one is hands-on techniques.

Reiki two is where it opens up to where you learn to do the distance work.

And so that's very beneficial.

Like when you're animals in an emergency or even when you're traveling, you

can connect in and there's just.

A lot of things that you just change the way you can live your daily life.

Enhance it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

For both of your animals, friends and family always benefit from

these kind of classes, don't they?

Because yes, we like to practice.

That's right.

Cause there's, yeah.

Practice.

Cuz that's what we then discuss and that's how we learn together.

And yes.

. Yeah.

It's good.

There's so much evidence these days about healing like this

and documented, you know, cases.

Plus of course, your own case studies that you've shared with us today.

So you said your website is healing your animal.com?

Yes.

Okay.

And anything else that's going on in the world that you wanna share or you want

people to know about, you know, when it comes to them and their animals and

the energy of the house or anything?

The first thing I do with my clients is ask if they've cleared their

house recently, because, ah, you know, you want to keep your pets.

You may not see the energy, but your pets definitely feel it, and you do

on some level, but your pets feel it more that is another good tip to it

is, yeah, to, yeah, that's very good.

Because it makes a big difference.

Maybe I knew that was your first tip to, or a question for people

because I don't normally ask a question like that, but Yeah.

The house has, you know, things change and.

The animals know and we don't realize how much it affects

them sometimes yeah, absolutely.

And yeah, I do cover that in my first book cuz that's where

some of the behaviors, Yeah.

Help really calm some of the behaviors just by clearing your house.

Yeah, that's an amazing tip.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And your bricks are on Amazon?

They are.

The best way to find them is on healing your animal.com.

Okay.

Okay.

Because.

You can go, you can click to go to Amazon, or if you want your autograph

copy, you can get it there too.

But it's easy.

It's easy.

That way it's easy to find nice and healing animal.

And then either click the link to Amazon or get an autograph copy and

more information about your classes also on healing your animal.com.

Yes.

I have a classes, events tab.

So it has classes that I teach Okay.

On there.

And yes, that's where you can find.

Perfect, like all of that information.

And then there's products tab that you can then have, see the books, and then

have my online and healing essences.

That's a whole nother conversation.

So anyway, isn't it?

Okay, so here's the deal.

This is my passion.

I love empowering the pet and guardians with their pets health.

So that's where I have lots of tools and ways to support you.

In addition to private healing sessions.

Wonderful.

Thank you for sharing all your not all your knowledge, but thank

you for sharing some of your knowledge, your wisdom with us.

It's been wonderful to talk to you and and yeah, thank you for being here.

And I just wanna say to my listeners, thank you and we will connect later.

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