animal reiki classes - the let animals lead®️ method

Level 1 Animal Reiki

Practitioner Certification

Are you passionate about helping animals? Interested in learning meditation to support all creatures great and small?

This class will certify you in Level 1 Animal Reiki in the Let Animals Lead®️ method. The Let Animals Lead®️ method of Animal Reiki encourages animals' agency and was created by Kathleen Prasad. This method sees animals as spiritual healers and teachers, emphasizing the virtues of humility, integrity, compassion, and gratitude in its practitioners. This unique method also uses an approach that gives animals the same consideration in comfort and preferences during Reiki sessions as human beings.   

Prerequisites: None except a love for and desire to support animals!

Date and Times: March 2026

Location: Elizabeth City, NC

What you'll learn:

All the foundational teachings for the Let Animals Lead®️ method, including:

• The traditional Japanese meaning of Reiki and how it relates to the healing of self and others
• The traditional practices of Joshin Kokyu Ho and Seishin Toitsu, and how to use them with animals
• The Reiki Precepts and meditations for working with them with animals
• Hands-on Reiki self-treatment and how to incorporate animals into these sessions
• Best ethics for sharing Reiki with animals
• Reiki chair sessions for people
• Techniques for grounding, expansion, and connection to help you become an animal magnet to even the most sensitive animals!
• A philosophy of "being" Reiki "with" your animals rather than "doing" Reiki "to" them.

What you'll receive:

• Six life-changing class meetings with inspirational animal teachers
• An extensive and in-depth professional manual to guide your journey
• A beautiful certificate to show your professional training
• An invitation to join the Let Animals Lead®️ Community and SARA (Shelter Animal Reiki Association) as a Practitioner member.

This in-person class will be taught over six consecutive weeks, with one class meeting per week. Each week's class meeting will last two hours, totaling twelve course hours.

Level 2 Animal Reiki

Practitioner Certification, Professional

This class focuses on the deeper meditative and esoteric uses of Reiki, with an emphasis on promoting kindness to animals and advocacy for their choices, preferences, and happiness. This class will certify you in Level 2 Animal Reiki, the professional level in the Let Animals Lead®️ method created by Kathleen Prasad.

Practitioners and teachers of the Let Animals Lead®️ method realize that connecting with animals through Reiki meditation transforms the human/animal relationship on this planet by awakening the compassion in our hearts. One of the primary goals of our practice is to live kinder, happier lives, especially in our relationships with other species.

Prerequisites: Must have trained in Animal Reiki 1 from Paula Ford or Kathleen Prasad

Date and Times: June 2026

Location: Elizabeth City, NC

What you'll learn:

All the foundational teachings for the Let Animals Lead®️ method, including:

• The Hatsurei Ho with Animals
• Meditations for working with the Reiki Precepts and animals
• Best ethics for sharing Reiki with animals
• The Japanese teachings on the first three Reiki symbols and mantras
• How to work with animals and the symbols and mantras
• How to chant the mantras for self-healing and for facilitating healing for animals
• Techniques for grounding, expansion, and connection to help you become an animal magnet to even the most sensitive animals!

What you'll receive:

• Four three-hour life-changing class meetings with inspirational animal teachers
• An extensive and in-depth professional manual to guide your journey
• A beautiful certificate to show your professional training
• An invitation to join SARA (Shelter Animal Reiki Association) as a Practitioner member

This in-person class will be taught over six consecutive weeks, with one class meeting per week. Each week's class meeting will last two hours, totaling twelve course hours.

Level 3 Animal Reiki

Teacher Certification, Professional

This class focuses on taking your Animal Reiki practice deeper, emphasizing living and being Animal Reiki for animals in your life. This class will certify you in Level 3 Animal Reiki, the professional Teacher level in the Let Animals Lead®️ method created by Kathleen Prasad.

Do you want to delve into the transformative healing practices of Level 3 Animal Reiki? Teachers of the Let Animals Lead®️ method embody Animal Reiki in the world to benefit animals and those who desire to follow this same path toward learning to teach Let Animals Lead®️ method Animal Reiki classes.

Prerequisites: Must have trained in Animal Reiki Level 1 and Animal Reiki Level 2 from Paula Ford or Kathleen Prasad

Dates and Times: August 2026

Location: Elizabeth City, NC

What you'll learn:

All the foundational teachings for the Let Animals Lead®️ method, including:

• The Sun and Moon Animal meditation
• Meditations for working with the Reiki Precepts and animals
• Best ethics for sharing Reiki with animals
• Review and more profound teachings on the first three Reiki symbols and mantras
• The Japanese teachings on the fourth Reiki symbol and mantra
• The Three Animals meditation and the role of totem animals
• Reijus and how to give reijus to support your students
• Suggested class structures and outlines for teaching your own classes

What you'll receive:

• Six three-hour life-changing class meetings with inspirational animal teachers
• An extensive and in-depth professional manual to guide your journey
• A beautiful certificate to show your professional training 
• An invitation to join SARA (Shelter Animal Reiki Association) as a Teacher member.

This in-person class will be taught over six consecutive weeks, with one class meeting per week. Each week's class meeting will last three hours, totaling eighteen course hours.

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