See animals with fresh eyes and a positive view with an evening session certification course in Level 1 of Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki!
September lessons released beginning on Monday, September 25, 2023. The Level 1 Let Animals Lead® online course runs for 8 weeks with live sessions on Wednesdays (from 6-7 PM Pacific time), beginning October 4th and running until November 15th.
PLEASE NOTE: Payment plans are available if you contact Kathleen at [email protected]
Here’s how Let Animals Lead® training will benefit you:
- Create a more mindful relationship with your animals!
- Embrace dark, challenging moments with compassion.
- Ease the suffering of animals you love, while staying respectful of their agency (choices) and independence.
- Practice mindfulness of the gifts your animals give you each and every day!
It can be so challenging to support our animals when they are suffering (and to stay calm and balanced while supporting them)!
It’s much easier to get through dark and challenging moments with compassion once we have learned the principals and practices of Animal Reiki. It’s also easier to ease the suffering of animals you love, while staying respectful of their agency and independence. This Level 1 Animal Reiki course will teach you how to practice mindfulness with the gifts your animals give you each and every day!
It can be so challenging to support our animals when they are suffering (and to stay calm and balanced while supporting them)!
Introduction to the Let Animals Lead® Method Level 1
Kathleen Prasad—who founded Animal Reiki 25 years ago—has used Animal Reiki to heal from breast cancer,—twice—as well as support countless animals through life and death moments. These experiences have given her a unique perspective on the role of Animal Reiki in healing.
Kathleen has done all the trials and tribulations of discovering how animals attend to their own healing with the support and love of humans so that we can be successful in partnering with them in their healing journey. Not only did we learn how to be with the animals but how to be with ourselves in a focused and intentional way. My life will never be the same nor will my animal companions.
This 8-week, in-depth online Animal Reiki certification course will positively transform your bond with animals and the way they connect with you!
Kathleen’s vast experience as the world’s pioneer and leader in the Animal Reiki profession, having taught over 150 Level 1 Animal Reiki classes over the past 25 years—in various shelters and sanctuaries around world and online—makes her uniquely qualified to teach you an Animal Reiki method that will truly change your life! You won’t find Kathleen’s Let Animals Lead® method anywhere else (unless you train in person with one of her teachers)!
The format of her lessons and the videos she provides are very insightful. I recommend this class to anyone who wants to learn how to create a healing space for animals so that they can begin their healing journey. You will learn that animals have much to teach us as well and if we open our minds and connect, the healing process is profound. As a Reiki practitioner for people, this also enhanced my practice, building on the foundation I had started. Now my practice has expanded to helping not only people, but people and their animals.
What you’ll learn in Level 1 of Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki:
- How and why the Let Animals Lead® method of Animal Reiki is different than traditional human Reiki and other Animal Reiki methods, how and why it evolved, and why these differences make it the best and most ethical practice Animal Reiki method in existence.
- Traditional Shoden (Level 1) Japanese Reiki practices and how to modify them so that animals are given the choice whether they want to step into the healing space and lead the meditation sessions.
- When and how to ethically use physical contact during an Animal Reiki session, as well as hands-on protocol for humans.
- The importance of seeing the animal’s perfection (and not what’s “wrong” with it or what has happened to it in the past) during Animal Reiki sessions, and why this shift in view is pivotal in developing trusting connections between you and animals.
- The 3 energy centers and how to develop them to ensure gentle, animal-led meditations.
- An overview of the Animal Reiki Practitioner Code of Ethics and why these ethics are a crucial foundation to your practice.
- The difference between holding space for an animal and “doing” an energy treatment “to” an animal, and why this distinction matters.
What you’ll receive in Level 1 of Let Animals Lead® Animal Reiki:
- Eight weekly video teachings, guided meditations and written supplemental materials to support each week’s lesson.
- Two months free membership to Kathleen’s highly engaging Let Animals Lead® Community on Mighty Networks (a place to meet other students of the LAL® Method and to learn from practitioners and teachers from all over the world).
- Seven hour-long live sessions via webinar, recorded in both video and audio formats. Each meeting includes a virtual Reiju and Q&A from students. These live meetings are your opportunity to submit questions and receive personal feedback and coaching from Kathleen.
- A gorgeous and practical 250-page manual/workbook filled with inspiring, interactive teachings
- Daily practice assignments and weekly homework to guide your journey.
- A free copy of Kathleen’s e-book, Healing Virtues: Transforming Your Practice Through the Animal Reiki Code of Ethics
- A beautiful certificate to show your accomplishment and official certification. This certificate serves as a prerequisite to Kathleen’s Level 2 Animal Reiki courses.
- An official Seal of Certification showing your status as a Let Animals Lead Practitioner (for use on professional materials and in online spaces).
- An invitation to join SARA (Shelter Animal Reiki Association) as a Practitioner member.
Requirements to take this Animal Reiki certification course:
- Students will need to be able to participate live at scheduled times. Attendance is required at 6 of 7 sessions to receive certification. You must be able to connect via video (preferably) or audio on the webinar platform Zoom.
- Students must turn in (via email to Kathleen) weekly homework assignments as well as questions for the live calls. Students will need to be able to download and open video and pdf documents in order to watch and read the weekly lessons and assignments.
- Students must have animals to practice with daily. A variety of animals is preferable (ask neighbors and friends to support you!), but 1 or 2 of your own, at the very minimum, is needed.
- Students must commit to 10–20 minutes/day minimum of daily meditation practice during the course. The main purpose of this requirement is to help you experience the teachings in a personal way, thus giving you the foundation you need to build a lifelong Animal Reiki practice. With dedication and commitment, Animal Reiki can heal and transform your life, as well as the lives of the animals you love!
Healing Experience Testimonial from a Level 1 Let Animals Lead® Student:
” I just wanted to share this while it is still so fresh. I have been dealing with some significant chronic pain in my neck/shoulder area. It has been getting increasingly worse over the last several weeks.
Anyway, after the meditation/Reiju during class today, I sat up and noticed that the pain had all but left that region! I was so surprised by this feeling (or lack thereof) that I had to move my head from side to side to make sure this was real! I also noticed that after doing the hara breathing this ball of uneasiness in my gut was no longer weighing me down either! Just an overwhelming sense of calm and peacefulness.
The pain isn’t completely gone but on a scale of 1-10 it was a 15! Now it’s 2-3! I am truly blessed to be able to attend your class and so grateful that you even offer it!“
The only other place you’ll find opportunities to learn Kathleen’s Let Animals Lead® method is in person with one of her LAL® certified teachers!
Level 1 Let Animals Lead®: $439 USD
Discounts for this course are available for:
- Members of the Canadian Reiki Association
- Full-time staff of shelters and sanctuaries.
- Level 3 LAL® students who want to resit for a discount
Please email us at [email protected] to get discount code.
Animal Reiki Source is approved by the International Association of Animal Massage & Bodywork/Association of Canine Water Therapy as an Approved Educational Provider. Contact Kathleen if you want to earn 10 CEU for this course.
Animal Reiki Source is also approved by the National Board of Certification for Animal Accupressure & Massage as an Approved Educational Provider. Contact Kathleen if you want to earn 15 Hours of CE for this course.
Jennifer L. –
I found Kathleen to be a wonderful teacher and guide to learning Let Animals Lead. She created this Animal Reiki technique from her decades of study and experience with energy healing and Human Reiki. The revelation and evolution of Let Animals Lead was strengthened by from her own personal journey of healing with her own animals.
If you love animals and can feel a connection in your soul to animals this class is for you. Learning how to connect and be mindful with your innermost self is what will strengthen your connection and ability to give space to the animals to start heal.
Practice Practice Practice.
Thank you Kathleen
Trish Schenk –
I honestly cannot say enough about the level 1 course. I took this with the intention of finding greater connection with animals through a form of Reiki that seemed to make more sense than the traditional Reiki used with people, but it has brought me so much more. Through this course, I have not only learned more about animals but myself, as well. The daily meditations have brought greater awareness to my own feelings and emotions and how I respond to them. An eight-week course allows students to become completely immersed in the process. Kathleen is an amazing teacher who is so generous with her time and knowledge, and she has designed an online community that is positive and supportive. We all have the ability – and responsibility – to share our light with humans and animals alike.
Alaina Sigler, Animal Chaplain –
The wonder of this course cannot be understated. With consistency and a grounding in oneness with all beings, Kathleen’s Let Animals Lead level one course offers many beautiful and compassionate ways to connect with the more-than-human world. The safety, joy, and freedom of others are dependent on work such as what Kathleen offers in this course. Love and light are always within us, learn how to reach them by enrolling.
Phyllis N. –
The Let Animals Lead Level 1 Animal Reiki online course was an enlightening and spiritual experience. It teaches you that by practicing mindful meditation with your animals, the human animal bond can create magic. It does not have to become a business if that is not your intent, but instead creates a new way of walking through this world. Highly recommended.