Kathleen Prasad
is the world’s pioneer and leading educator in the profession of Animal Reiki, teaching energy healing for spiritually-minded animal advocates.

The Let Animals Lead® method is not just a unique, animal-guided approach to Reiki for animals, it’s also a gentle path to help humans live with more balance, peace and happiness with animals in the world.

Here at Animal Reiki Source, you’ve come to the world’s leading resource of all things Animal Reiki:

New to Animal Reiki? CLICK HERE for Level 1 Online Certification or HERE for an on-demand course study in meditating with animals .

Already trained in Reiki? CLICK HERE for the online Animal Reiki Workshop or HERE for an on-demand course study in the foundational teachings of this method.

Kathleen teaches animal lovers how to create peace and wellbeing through her energy healing courses. There’s no greater healing power than our mindful, compassionate presence.

Kathleen’s books The Let Animals Lead® Method of Animal Reiki Meditation Journal, The Let Animals Lead® 21-Day Meditation Challenge, Healing Virtues, Reiki for Dogs and Heart to Heart with Horses are empowering, innovative and deeply healing guides to creating soul-aligning relationships with animals. See all Kathleen’s books HERE.

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Latest Articles

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Practitioner-Led or Animal-Led Animal Reiki?

It’s been really interesting to watch the evolution of Reiki for animals over the past 23 years. When I first started, there was no one specializing in this area, and I was simply taught “Reiki is Reiki and you can use it on everyone and everything.” That was how I first began, but very soon it was clear to me that the methods I had learned for humans were …
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Which Approach Will You Use For Animal Reiki?

Today, I want to share an answer I posted on a FB group for Animal Reiki. The question was:Is Animal Reiki a specific line of Reiki or is it just any Reiki used for animals? Here is my answer, and please feel free to share: Thank you for asking this question, because it is perhaps the most important one we would ever ask. There are two approaches used in Reiki practice …
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Helping Senior Animals Plus the Dakota Scholarship

I just create a very special June Animal Reiki Talk! Please CLICK HERE to listen to the recording – this month’s topic: Helping Senior Animals with Animal Reiki Using the 6 Pillars of the Let Animals Lead® method as a guide, I share what animals have shown me about the best ways Animal Reiki can create a supportive, stable, safe spiritual space for our fur kids in their golden years …
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Meet My Teachers

Since I was a little girl, I always had a joy for teaching. I guess my first memorable teaching experience was helping my sister Charlotte tie her shoe. She was about 4 and I was about 8. And that was quite a challenge since I am left-handed and she is right-handed! We did it though (and I guess that was the start of never walking away from an …
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Transcendence Through Compassion

For me, the most powerful indicator of success in our Animal Reiki practice is the presence of compassion in our lives. It also is the central component of every teaching we learn, and the most powerful healing we can ever offer another being. Compassion is our essence and when we cultivate it, we often feel like we’re “coming home” to our true self. In order to fully embody compassion …
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How Light Heals

“If there is light in the soul, there will be beauty in the person. If there is beauty in the person, there will be harmony in the house. If there is harmony in the house, there will be order in the nation. If there is order in the nation, there will be peace in the world.”~Chinese Proverb One of the central teachings in the Let Animals Lead® method is …
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