Kachina Canine Wellness

25/02/2026

Join me LIVE on Saturday 28th February at 7pm UK time where I will be sharing with you the sacred medicine that is your animal friend's transition and our sacred grief, what our animal friends have to share about their transition and the importance of ceremony in these turbulent spaces when transition and grief call.

When we recall how grief is an ally and the activation that your animal friend is gifting you from their transition, we can soften the edges and consider how these two challenges are also deeply sacred invitations for our soul work.

We cannot bypass grief and we cannot think ourselves out of it. The thinking mind does not know the landscape where grief resides nor the language it speaks. It is a language of soul and a landscape of sacred, that the soul knows well. To speak to both transition and grief and really meet it requires ceremony.

We know how to do ceremony. We are ceremonial beings by nature.

At the end of this live, there will be space for questions and I will also be sharing the various offerings I have for you when in this space with your animal friend, when with your grief work and when wanting to be in ceremony.

You can register to attend here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TQXKda7VSQ60QCIzfQdnlA

23/02/2026

Thank you Bex Essex for having me as a guest on her podcast, A Crystal Clear Mind.

You can listen to it here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GurZulizMRc&rco=1

In it, I share the deep soul work our animal companions invite us into. We journey into the idea that our animal friends are not “just pets,” but sacred beings — living expressions of source consciousness — here to guide us back to ourselves.

Through stories of wolves, wildness, grief, ceremony, and the heartbreak of transition, I share how our deepest sorrow is actually our soul calling us home, the wild place that we know so well and that our animal friends are.

We talk about the layers of the human experience — the social masks, the painful shadow work, and the soul beneath it all — and how our animal companions lovingly hold up a mirror to our deepest wounds and greatest truth.

This conversation will gently challenge the way you see death, grief, love, and your own body.

It reframes the loss of a beloved animal not as something to “get over,” but as a sacred opening of the heart.

If you’ve ever felt seen by an animal in a way no human has seen you, if you’ve ever grieved a pet and wondered why it cut so deeply, if you feel a longing you can’t quite name then this episode is your invitation back to sacred ground.

Enjoy! ❤❤🐶🐶

In this profoundly moving episode, I sit down with Dr Isla Fishburn, spiritual ecologist, soul activist, and shamanic practitioner, to explore the deep soul ...

21/02/2026

Never mind Romancing the Stone, what about romancing your soul?

This is what our animal friends are leading us back to - romancing our wild soul and un-domesticating ourselves.

We are so busy trying to domesticate our animal friends, just like we have been domesticated and taught to behave, that we miss or can’t hear their message that is to un-domesticate ourselves and return to our wild soul, just like they live from and are leading us back to.

The soul can never be destroyed, controlled or tamed and it is this place of soul, of sacred that our animal friends live from. They have so much to show us and remind us of who we are and all we are connected to. It is this longing that we feel, a longing to romance our soul back to self and our connection with all that is sacred.

Our animal friends are aspects of nature consciousness, of source consciousness, and so are we. Our animal friends speak the language of our soul and what our soul recognises; one of consciousness, for they have not left this sacred ground where the soul resides and understands the language of sacred in the flight of an owl, the gust of the wind, the song of the water, the rhythm of the land and call of an ancestor. Our animal friends continue to live with the unseen landscapes of sacred whilst in the physical - to them they are not separate.

Your animal friend speaks the language that your soul recognises - that of nature, of colour, of sound, of unseen. Neither they nor your soul understand the language of your thinking mind - that of belief systems, labels, attachments, control and limitations.

Your animal friend is asking you to romance your soul and frequent this place of sacred you know so well - that of consciousness, more than human and more than physical.

They ask you to do so in the ways they show in your life and, even more powerfully so, when they transition out of physical form. Their transition and your grief is sacred medicine - a sacred act calling you back to this landscape of soul.

You cannot bypass grief. You cannot go around it but have to go through it, where we are romancing with grief, where we are romancing with soul and feeling the romance we are in of the sacred, unseen landscapes of consciousness. This is the place where grief resides. This is the place that your soul knows and where both speak the same language. Grief is an invitation for soul work and your animal friend knows and wants this for you - they want you to stop hurting and start loving at the level they feel - that of source consciousness.

To know grief, to be with grief, we have to romance it and allow it to lead us to dance with it in the landscape it resides. Grief does not speak or know the language or landscape of the thinking mind, so we cannot think our way out of grief. Grief knows the language of soul and soul knows the sacred landscape of grief - they are old friends and allies. In order to get there we have to romance our soul and allow our soul to romance our grief.

Your animal friend knows this. Whilst they have much to share about their transition, how to honour it and make it sacred, their transition is also a medicine bundle leading you to dance in the landscapes of soul, of sacred, of consciousness through your sacred grief.

Animals do speak our language and we speak theirs - the language of sacred soul and the soul work they invite us to explore so that we can un-domesticate ourselves and return to the terrain we know so well; of sacred, of soul and of infinite consciousness.

Our animal friends are messengers of consciousness speaking to our soul and asking us to step in to the sacred landscape of soul, of unseen and of more than human.

They are asking us to romance ourselves home, where love, transition and grief all sit at the same table, are given the same welcome, are held in the same light and are all seen as sacred.

Their transition is a sacred act to romance your soul home through dancing with your sacred grief and entering your soul work by visiting the landscapes of sacred - a place where they, your soul and grief reside.

Want to know more - I'm here to support you through this sacred landscape of your animal's sacred transition, your sacred grief and soul work.

20/02/2026

I need your help!

In the ways I support you and your animal friend through their sacred transition and your sacred grief, I am deeply hearing the call to create Sacred Grief ceremonies.

Who'd be interested in attending and, if so, would it be most suitable for you for these to be held online or in person?

Whilst there is something extremely powerful about ceremonies happening in together in community in person, I realise this may not be possible given geographic location, time, finances etc.
I've held and been part of ceremonies online before and they still work in incredible ways!

So, let me know.

I will also be holding specific ceremonies to be with your sacred grief by way of sweat lodge, vision quest or fire ceremony and these will have to be in person only, but I am also curious to know who would like to attend other sacred grief ceremonies and in what form of online or in person.

17/02/2026

When your animal friend transitions, it can be one of the most powerful healing experiences for you.

Sounds impossible, right?

It is one of the most painful experiences - it is supposed to be. But, it can be one of the most powerful - it is supposed to be.

This is what I experienced when Tunkasila transitioned and the power of honouring her transition and my grief as both sacred and in ceremony.

Together, we created a ceremony for her, for myself and how I was to continue in this ceremony for my grief.

You see, their transition and our grief is both sacred and it is medicine.

The challenge is that sacred does not speak to our thinking mind, so we cannot think our way out of grief, but we can enter sacred with it.

Our animal friends do not care when they transition. They do not care about age, about being in a body or being out of it - they do not need to be in a body to be alive. They tell me this allll the time.

In fact, when they are out of a body they have so much more freedom to show up for us, support us, guide us and be with us through infinite consciousness.

Here they stand as both spirit guide and ancestor enticing us back to sacred ground, from which we once knew and lived from.

Beyond the body, the name and what out thinking minds see and limit our animal friends as, they are something much bigger, much greater that they come in to our life for - both in their physical life and even more so when they transition back to being non-physical form.

Our animal friends are expressions of source consciousness - pure love without limits and a being that does not live from limits of the thinking mind. They live from the unlimited place of soul span and of sacred.

What they ask is to be seen as sacred and the unlimited love that they hold as a message for us to love ourselves unconditionally. What they show in how they are is a message to our soul, of the hurts we carry, the sorrows we feel and the deep griefs we know - starting with the deep grief of our soul longing to be loved and connected with sacred again.

This is where their transition can be one of the most powerful healing experiences for you and the sacred medicine it offers.

To sit in ceremony and honour your animal as sacred, to know how to honour their transition and what they welcome to be honoured when they transition, to be in ceremony with your grief and enter sacred ground - the landscape in which grief resides - and enter soul work through the transition of your animal friend, is one of the most profound, intimate and powerful healing experiences your animal friend offers you.

Transition and grief require to be met at the margins of sacred and ceremony - it is the language that both know and the language that speaks to your soul.

Their transition is more than what the thinking mind can know, what we are told and what we hold on to.

I explore your animal friends transition and your grief with you.

If you are curious to understand of these ways and how I can support, I am giving a free live talk on Saturday 28th February.

Comment with a "🌟" and I will send you the link.

16/02/2026

Your animal friend's transition is sacred medicine, it's just that it may not feel like it because we are no longer told how to honour, hold and be with their transition.

Their transition is to be honoured in ceremony and so is our grief.

Their transition is a sacred act for us so that we can enter a sacred space of our hurts from the heart break felt - we are heart broken so we can be heart open.

We cannot think our way out of their transition - it is sacred and the thinking mind does not know the landscape of sacred, but the body and soul do.

We can get trapped in the thinking mind that tells us about our animal friend's transition and here we can get trapped in the grief.

But their transition and our grief is the medicine - it is not just the grief we feel from their transition but an opportunity to simply feel and be with all the grief. Our animal friends know we are hurting, not just from their transition, but from all the hurts we carry that we have not given attention to but that we keep held within us.

Our animal friends do not want us to carry these hurts or the hurts we put on to ourselves. They see transition in a very different light knowing that they do not need to be in a body to be alive.

Yet, they know their transition can be deep sacred medicine for you when you know how to be with it in this way.

The grief we feel that the thinking mind will make you believe is from your animal friend's transition, is not just grief from this. Yes, we are to grieve and grieve in a certain way with ceremony, but the grief the thinking mind assigns to an animal's transition is not just that - it is an opening to all the sorrows of the heart, of all the unresolved griefs we carry. Not just from the transition of other loved ones, but the griefs we carry from being excluded, shamed, denied, judged, abused, oppressed, unloved, feeling guilty...and...and...and.

It's from all the pains we have experienced in this life, all the pains carried from past lives, ancestors, land, the collective.

Then, the grief we feel from our animal friend's transition is more - the fear of not being in control, the shame or guilt we feel, the fear of the love we may never get again, the loss of ceremony that the grief asks for.

It sounds crazy to the thinking mind, but their transition is our healing. Our animal friends live from sacred and speak to our sacred mind, the soul, They do not speak to our thinking mind or care what we think. As sacred, they know what our soul is ready for and what they want us to explore when their transition comes.

They simply want us to live from sacred ground and be with them as pure expressions of source consciousness as unconditional love.

On Saturday February 28th at 7pm UK time I will be giving a free live talk about this, how you can tend to your sacred grief through your animal friend's transition and how they are leading you back to being sacred. You can register to attend here:

https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/TQXKda7VSQ60QCIzfQdnlA

I am also holding a ceremony where we can tend to our sacred grief and honour our animal friends in ceremony.

We are grief and death illiterate but our animal friends are not. They wish for us to stop hurting and to remember these ways of sacred, of ceremony and of consciousness. One way they do so is through the sacred medicine of their transition.

15/02/2026

There are so many voices in the animal industry and so many desires to "do the right thing" for our animal friends.

The one thing that gets unnoticed most of the time is how we focus so intently on how a dog should behave, what a dog is doing, what we don't like, how we want them to be or how we are with them.

Our animal friends are very patient. They know we are hurting in ways that we know and do not know and that these hurts placed in to us we inadvertently place on to our animal friend.

The belief systems we carry about ourselves, our life, who we are. The guilt, shame, grief, embarrassment. The strict rules, oppression or fitting in to be liked and what is expected.

We can't help ourselves but alllllll these things we place on our animal friends.

All the while they are patiently waiting for the penny to drop and for us to realise how we can see, be with and witness the hurts we carry that we put on to them.

They are expressions of love unlimited. To them, they are perfect and so are you.

All they ask is that you love yourself unconditionally, drop the belief systems that limit and hurt you and that you place on them, and see yourself and your animal friend in your true existence of sacred soul consciousness.

This is a long walk and our animal friends know this. When we begin to really notice and be with our hurts, the turmoil of our belief systems and how we unknowingly place these on to them, we can then see how our animal friends are absolutely fine in who they are and how we can start to love ourselves in the same way to know that we are absolutely fine in who we are.

Here, the pressure we place on our animal friends, ourselves and the expectations, control and oppression to conform under a particular belief system are dissolved and you and your animal friend have a completely different existence - one of recognition, one of unconditional love, one of communion and connection at the highest level.

When you see your animal friend - see that they are unconditional love asking you to notice the hurts you carry from the belief systems you were given or made.

They do not carry these belief systems. They do not carry any belief systems, but in the control, frustration, expectation, impatience, what we want or what we do to get them to "behave" or conform, there within lies a hurt and belief system that happened to us.

They ask that we look at this, through how we are with them and what they are doing, and to do our best to come back to them with unconditional love for yourself.

This is where it begins.

They are sacred and so are we.

They are pure sources of unconditional love and can never not be. We once were and to truly know, exist, be and understand your animal friend and yourself, they are constantly sharing with you to simply love yourself without limits, hurts or belief systems.

14/02/2026

What better gift to give yourself this Valentines Day than a symbol from the one you love and who loves you unconditionally - your animal friends!

If you would like to receive the sacred symbol of your animal friend, whether they are in body or have transitioned, and how you can be with their symbol, their consciousness and work with it then I am taking bookings for these.

You can choose black and white or colour.

I really value the sacred of these symbols so don’t share other symbols on socials, but I don’t mind sharing the sacred symbol of Manitou and the sacred symbol of Lelou so you can see what a sacred symbol may look like.

These are great for gifts, to hang up and frame, to journey, dream and meditate with, to use as healing by drawing it over your animal friend or over their food or water…how you can be with their sacred symbol is endless.

💜🐶🌟🌟🐶💜

13/02/2026

When our animal friend transitions, not only are we grieving them, we are also grieving a deep memory that we feel from their transition. This is the deep soul grief we are reminded of and feel from having being separated from soul and sacred. It is what the grief feels like and is - a deep calling and ask from the grief itself to reconnect with soul and its knowing of its eternal connection with the more than human and more than physical realms.

The terrain of sacred and soul is the only place that truly and intimately knows the medicine and landscape of transition and grief in the way it truly is, and that our animals know and are trying lead us to through their transition.

To them, our animal friends exist from this place of soul, of soul span and the cosmological terrain of sacred - they have never left this terrain, only we have.

We cannot think our way out of grief for sacred does not speak to the thinking mind nor does the thinking mind understand it or know of its ways. We have to feel our way in to it, as if we were blind, and be guided by its contours, shapes, sounds and textures as it leads us through the darkness from our sacred body, adding light for us to see as we move through this terrain.

Here, we meet its medicine and all that is waiting for us there - over and over again. We are not supposed to enter this place just once and we are not supposed to enter it willingly. Yet, enter it we must, numerous times. Each time we do so, we receive clarity, wisdom, knowing, familiarity, medicine and gifts to reconnect more and more with soul, sacred and soften our grief all the while lead by the hand that transition and grief lovingly offer us to be our eyes and safely take us through the dark terrain.

As a medicine teacher of sacred transition and sacred grief, I feel, know and hear how our animal friends are sharing with us to return to this natural place of sacred by returning to our natural place of soul. This is what they so willingly invite in their transition and how they ask for their transition to be held in honour, in ceremony and in sacred.

We have forgotten the sacred medicine that is transition and grief, but our souls have not and neither have our animal friends, which is why their transition has to be explored as an initiation, soul work and deep honouring through ceremony. It is the ceremony they ask for and the ceremony our soul calls for.

I am able to share this with you through 1-1s, teachings and ceremonies that explore various offerings relating to sacred transition, grief, ceremony and soul work that are held within a strong space of connection, compassion and consciousness.

My focus is one of a non-judgemental, sacred holder who guides and supports the sacred transition of an animal friend (or human) in order to facilitate a sacred honouring, held in ceremony and support in to the unseen world as well as the soul work and ceremony a guardian is initiated in to from this transition.

Let’s hear and sing together the true voice that is transition and grief back on to our tongues and in to our hearts.

Lets welcome transition and grief as the sacred medicine path they invite us on to.

Let us meet, know of and remember the soul and sacred that we are and are part of, so that we can recognise what transition and grief offer us when they arrive at our door and how they are also part of sacred that we can welcome once again with open arms and hearts as the old friends that they have always been.

We have just forgotten our long lasting soul friendship with grief and transition, but it has not, and neither have our animal friends. Both want you, ask you and need you to keep venturing back to soul, collecting more and more of it each time they call upon you in this way.

12/02/2026

Peek-a-boo!

Your animal friend is in your life as a guide to pull you back to sacred, to soul and explore your soul work.

They have nothing but unconditional love for you so can never and will never judge you, shame you or make you feel less than magnificent.

They are bringing you down from the thinking mind and in to the sacred mind, that of feeling, of body, of heart - the place where we can enter our soul work.

As Tunkasila shares, they are the elixir to our spiritual amnesia and medicine for our soul, leading us back to being rooted, connected and woven in to the landscapes of the cosmological ground we are part of and to source consciousness.

Their own consciousness is bigger, wider and deeper than what we think and tell ourselves they are capable of, but as expressions of source consciousness their wisdom is infinite and beyond the animal we give a name and label to (they do not live from labels).

They come not only so you can know of love without limits, but bring you back in to contact with who you and they truly are - bring you back to contact with soul and sacred, both in their life and in their transition, which is also a continuation of your soul work they lead you in to.

We have to do our soul work, we are being asked to do our soul work. Your animal friend is in your life so that you can feel safe and trust enough to do so.

11/02/2026

When your animal friend transitions would you like to know how to honour them and what they would like as a sacred ceremony to support them in transitioning from the world of physical and seen to the world of non physical and unseen.

When your animal friend transitions, would you like to know how to recognise, honour and be with your grief in a sacred way and the medicine it offers you, guided by your animal friend?

What questions would you have about this or what soul stop you from exploring such deep, sacred and soul work?

Your animal friend is more than fine with their transition but asks to be honoured when this take comes. They invite you to step on to the path that is sacred medicine when their transition comes and what your sacred grief is trying to show you and lead you in to.

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