Elaine Bowler Reiki

18/09/2026

Spring is definitely here. A recent visitor at the clinic!! 2 Days old! 🐣🐣 love the varied experiences of my work! 🐣🥰😍🫶

10/09/2026

Rescued this little gecko today from inside the local community hub centre, from being trodden on. 🦎

He happily climbed onto my hand for some healing.🦎💖🙌

He was released back outside into the gardens & promptly scurried away to hide with the family. 🦎🦎🦎🌱☘️

08/09/2026

Today I'm thinking about the gap between safe and soft.

It's a distinction most people don't make until they're standing in a paddock with a horse who trusts the routine but won't close the last metre.

Or sitting on the kitchen floor with a rescue animal who eats well, sleeps well, but won't fully let go.

Safe is one thing — the body registers it eventually.

Soft is another. Soft is what happens when the nervous system stops negotiating entirely and decides, finally, that there's nothing left to scan for.

I watched a horse make half of that decision this morning.
She rested her muzzle on my arm like she'd done it a hundred times before — and she has, lately — but today she let her weight follow.

Just an inch.
Just enough that I felt the shift through my own body before I saw it in hers.

That's the threshold that doesn't get celebrated enough.
Not the breakthrough. The settling.

The moment the body says, alright, maybe this safe thing is permanent and I can stop bracing now.

This is what I do. I hold space while animals — and their humans — inch toward soft.

I don't chase it. I don't timetable it.
just bring the most regulated nervous system I can into the room (or the paddock) and let my gentle warm, healing energy speak to the souls in need of healing.

I teach the remembrance of the life of the breath, activating the parasympathetic response of safety. Breathe together in harmony.

A subtle gentle offering. An invitation to partner in balancing and calming energetic space, and complete control in an animal-led equine reiki session.

If your animal is safe but still not quite soft — or if that's you, midweek, shoulders somewhere near your ears — this is your permission to let it take the time it takes.

The light's coming back slowly. So is the trust. 🌿

📩 Reiki for people, horses, and companion animals — sessions in Wendouree and Ballarat, and surrounding areas.

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06/09/2026

The grey mare met me at the gate before I'd even called her name. No fanfare.
No urgency. Just that slow, deliberate walk across silver grass that says I've been waiting, but not in a hurry.

Today I spent time thinking of the many horses who were my teachers; and taught me the thing I still build on in every single session : that trust is never demanded.
Energy speaks clearly. Equuis. Calm Presence. Gentleness. Trust.

It's offered. Quietly. Repeatedly. The moment she knew she was safe in sanctuary.

I thought of each rescue horses saved from the yard sales and auctions, many in loving homes recovering from their horrific experiences from many years ago. One in particular Caramilk, a mare and her foal saved from the sales auctions. She was safe, she was calm, she released tension and trauma. speaking gently— not because I'd done anything clever, but because I'd shown her, over hours, days and weeks, that my presence wasn't going to cost her anything.

Gentle breath, just calm presence, soothing energy reassures safety; when nothing is asked and nothing is expected. Through gentle energy healing, and working with her human care-giver, her vagus nerve reset allowed the para-sympathetic response.

The quality of being that says there's nothing to perform here, nothing to fix, nothing to earn.

When I sit with a rescue animal — whether it's a horse still braced from years of handling that asked too much, or a dog whose nervous system is still scanning for the catch — I'm not imposing calm on them.

I'm offering a nervous system that's already in rest-digest mode and letting theirs borrow the blueprint. The shift from fight-flight-freeze into something softer doesn't come from technique. It comes from sharing space long enough, without agenda, that bracing stops making sense.

Some of you are heading into the weekend with animals who are still holding something back — and maybe you are too. The invitation isn't to try harder. It's to be more present.

To trust that every unhurried moment you offer is another mark in the column marked safe. Wherever you are this Saturday — paddock, living room, or kitchen floor — may you find one moment of shared stillness.

The kind that doesn't announce itself. The kind that just settles. 🍂

06/09/2026

Honouring Grief Before a Rainbow Bridge - Animal Communication Reading: Why We Wait Three Months
As an End-of-Life Practitioner, Pet & Animal Death Doula, animal communicator, and spiritualist, I am often asked the question that sits at the heart of every pet-loss inquiry: "Are they safe? Are they happy?"
It is a question born of love, and I understand why it is asked. When a beloved companion passes — especially suddenly, or through the difficult decision of euthanasia — the humans left behind are searching for one thing above all else: reassurance that their friend is okay.
And yet, the most loving answer I can give is sometimes the one that asks us to wait.
The Gift of Peace
I want to begin here, gently: if you made the heartbreaking decision to let your companion go, you gave them the gift of peace. In my experience, animals do not hold onto the tragic circumstances of their passing. They do not want you to punish yourself with guilt. They simply move into the light, whole and restored.
This is where the imagery of the Rainbow Bridge poem holds such comfort. The poem speaks of a place where our companions' earthly bodies — vehicles that had broken down, grown tired, or carried them only so far — are made whole again. They are free. They are happy. And they wait there, in health and peace, until you are reunited again.
Why I Recommend Waiting Three Months
You may notice that I gently recommend allowing around three months before seeking a Mediumship or animal communication reading. This is not a delay born of distance or reluctance — it is an act of care.
In the first thirty days, our companions are often still close, supporting their humans through the initial shock and acceptance of loss. But as someone who honours the grieving process itself, I believe the most important work in those early weeks is not about reaching toward the afterlife, but about being fully present here, with your grief.
The early stages of loss are sacred. They deserve to be felt, not bypassed. A reading offered too soon can sometimes risk turning grief into a search for answers that the heart is not yet ready to hear.
As a practitioner, I hold one principle above all: I will not exploit grief. I remain impartial in those first tender months, not because I doubt what I understand about the transition of energy into the afterlife, but because honouring your process matters more than offering my insights.
There will be a time when a reading feels right — for you, for your companion, and for the connection you share. That time is not measured by a calendar so much as by a quiet readiness that arrives in its own season.
What I Can Offer Now
If your heart feels called to something gentle in the meantime, I offer a one-hour online distance healing session — a shared heart-soul healing focused on pet loss, grief, and finding acceptance in your heart. There is no rush and no expectation; it is simply here if and when it feels right.
I also hold a Rainbow Bridge Healing Circle each month — a free-flowing, compassionate online gathering for anyone navigating pet loss and grief. It is a sacred space to be witnessed, to breathe, and to share, in the company of others who understand. Sometimes the most healing thing we can do is simply sit alongside our grief, together.
Until You Are Reunited
To anyone reading this through tears: please be gentle with yourself. Your companion is safe. They are happy. They are whole. And they are waiting.
Until then, honour your grief as the love it truly is — and know that the bond you share is not broken, only changed.
With deep compassion and grace,
Lainey Bowler #

01/09/2026

Learning to trust again, one breath at a time.

When a horse comes to a new owner, something quiet begins.

You learn each other's rhythms, quirks, and soft places.

You discover personalities the way you would a new friend — slowly, and with presence.

In those early days, gentle presence and mindful breath speak louder than any instruction.

They tell a horse the words its heart has been waiting to hear:
You are safe. You belong here.

So often, a horse's brachial chakra is left unbalanced — carried out of rough experiences it never chose.

Rehoming, leasing, changing hands again and again. These choices by humans can negatively impact the sensitive sentient beings,, majestic horses.

A horse doesn't understand what it "did wrong" when it was simply moved on. It only feels the leaving.

And so deep trust issues often surface as behaviour issues.

If your horse has been vet-checked and something still feels unsettled, perhaps it's time to explore an energetic reset with Equine Reiki — offered especially for rehomed horses, leased horses, and horses with incomplete histories.

Sessions are available onsite in Ballarat & surrounds, or remotely across Australia via distance healing.

Let's show them what trusting human partnership looks like. If you are ready to discover the personality beneath the communicating behaviour, reach out.

Through Kokoro heart–soul bonds, one breath at a time — healing hearts, and restoring trust.

Personally tailored Equine Reiki energy healing sessions for people and their horses: your energy is intertwined.

Your horse doesn't need to earn belonging. It already belongs. 🐎💛

Distance Equine healing sessions remotely online anywhere in the world 🌎

Onsite home-visits within Ballarat, Smythesdale, Snake Valley, surrounds.

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31/08/2026

28/08/2026

The author of the Rainbow Bridge poem is Edna Clyne-Rekhy, authored it after her beloved dog Major died.

A Man From Arizona Finally Found The Author Of The Famous 'Rainbow Bridge' Poem: 82-Year-Old Edna Clyne-Rekhy https://share.google/HywlGPJpnStLAq8EU

82-year-old Edna Clyne-Rekhy had no idea that the poem, Rainbow Bridge, she wrote over 60 years ago to honor her dog had brought comfort to so many others.