Live a happier, healthier and more peaceful life with your animals through the Let Animals Lead® method, created by founder, Kathleen Prasad!
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You’ll find a clear and easy path to peace and wholeness with animals, even in difficult moments. Home of the Let Animals Lead® Method of Animal Reiki
Animal Reiki Source provides a unique healing and educational program that combines Japanese Reiki meditation practices with teachings about the sensitivities, preferences and wisdom of our animal teachers. Creator of the Let Animals Lead® method and President of Shelter Animal Reiki Association, Kathleen Prasad, founder of Animal Reiki Source, is the global pioneer and leader in the profession of Animal Reiki. Due to the simplicity and profound effectiveness of the Let Animals Lead® method, thousands of students from all over the world have incorporated these techniques into their lives with great healing success. Many shelters and sanctuaries have also adopted this method as a way to bring peace and comfort to the animals in their care. The Let Animals Lead® method offers simple meditation techniques that anyone can do, that help us to open our hearts to animals as teachers and healers. When we live our life in this open and present way, animals, who are so pure and sensitive, feel it, are drawn to us and want to share with us and support us. A beautiful, peaceful, compassionate space that honors and allows animals to lead their own healing process: this is the Let Animals Lead® method in action.
02/25/2026
Presence plays an important role in our Animal Reiki practice.
When you show up with body, mind and heart presence, animals feel safe to connect with you—in their own way, and on their own time. 🙏
02/12/2026
How do animals let us know they're receptive to Reiki? 💭
The latest episode of Animal Reiki Talk is a deep dive on this topic and asks perhaps an even more important question: How do you create an energetically safe environment for animals so they want to connect in the Reiki space?
🐾 Catch up and watch it here:
How do animals let us know they're receptive to Reiki? Before we can understand truly answer this question, we have to dig deeper and ask: Have we created an...
02/11/2026
How we show up matters when we're opening the Reiki space to share it with animals. 🐾
Your calm, peaceful presence opens the door for them to choose to connect from a safe place.
This month, let your presence be a quiet gift. 🙏
02/06/2026
This month, we explore presence as the foundation of Animal Reiki.
Presence is not something we do—it’s something we embody. 🙏
When we soften our bodies, quiet our minds, and open our hearts, we create a space where animals feel safe enough to choose connection.
February invites us to practice not worrying, to trust stillness, and to meet animals with gentle awareness—just as Deer does. 🦌
02/03/2026
February 5th marks the 10th anniversary of World Animal Reiki Day. 🌎 💛
To mark this beautiful milestone, the Shelter Animal Reiki Association is hosting an online retreat: ✨ Compassion in Action: Awakening the Heart of Animal Reiki ✨
It's happening...
🐾 Saturday February 7th from 9:30 am to 2:00 pm PT
🐾 Sunday, February 8th from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm PT
And 50% of all proceeds will directly support the rescued animals of The CARE Foundation.
February also brings World Animal Reiki Day 🌏 🙏✨🐾 - we're looking forward to celebrating inside our compassionate Animal Reiki community.
Which event are you looking forward to this month?
01/23/2026
Owl teaches us that wisdom does not come from doing more, but from listening more deeply. 🦉
In stillness, animals speak. In patience, trust grows.
May we allow Owl to guide us back to quiet presence, honoring animal choice, subtle communication, and the wisdom that arises when we soften and wait. 🙏
01/15/2026
Did you catch our first Animal Reiki Talk of the year? 🙏
Enter 2026 with this Gentle Guide to Receiving Animal Wisdom:
What is Animal Reiki? It is a practice of presence and deep listening. It's a way of quieting ourselves so we can receive wisdom directly from animals.When w...
01/14/2026
Owl reminds us that true wisdom doesn’t rush to explain or correct. 💛
In quiet observation and patient presence, listening becomes possible.
This month, may we soften, slow down, and listen with our whole hearts. 🙏
Level 1 of the Let Animals Lead® method is now open in our self-paced format, inviting you to begin your Animal Reiki journey in a way that honors your rhythm, your life, and your location.
Learn in your own time from anywhere in the world while being held inside a supportive, compassionate community that’s growing and thriving together.
This is an invitation into gentle presence, deeper listening, and a way of being with animals that can quietly open doors—within yourself, your relationships, and your sense of connection with all life.
If you’ve been feeling the nudge that this is the year to begin…
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Meditate with animals for a happier and more peaceful life!
Hi, I’m Kathleen Prasad, and I’m so glad you’re here! Even though I’ve been pioneering the field of Animal Reiki for over 22 years, have taught thousands of animal lovers this sacred healing art, written multiple books on the subject, authored the Code of Ethics for the profession and have created the world’s first and only nonprofit dedicated to helping rescued animals with Reiki, I’m also a California girl, wife and mother to a teenager, dog and a horse. I’ve faced breast cancer twice in the past several years and am passionate about the ability of Animal Reiki to guide us through even the most difficult and dark times with courage and grace.
What is Animal Reiki? The Let Animals Lead® method of Animal Reiki teaches animal-guided healing through meditation. This unique perspective on healing helps humans support animals with peaceful acceptance, and through the letting go of judgment, worries, the need to fix and the need to control outcome. It’s also a powerful tool for self-healing!
Animal Reiki Source® is my teaching academy and home to my Let Animals Lead® method of Animal Reiki.
I’ve created the Let Animals Lead® method not just as a bold new approach to Animal Reiki, but also as a model for holistic healing that is animal-led and supports living with compassion and loving-kindness in the world. This method has its foundation in my human-focused Reiki training but uses a different and unique animal-centric approach where animals guide the sessions by their preferences and choices and are honored as spiritual teachers.
Shelter Animal Reiki Association (SARA) is my philanthropic, heart project and nonprofit organization, bringing the peaceful power of the Let Animals Lead® method to rescued animals and their caregivers around the world.
I’m here to help and serve, and so are you! Our planet desperately needs humans with a more compassionate perspective toward animals and nature. Whether your goal is help animals through meditation or to be an Animal Reiki practitioner or teacher, training with me will give you the tools you need to be the change you want to see in the world, for animals!
I can’t wait to be a part of your healing journey with animals! What are you waiting for? Join a class and learn the Let Animals Lead® method today!