Reiki, Energy Healing, and Why I Finally Created This Course

When I first started working with horses professionally, I focused almost entirely on the physical body.

Bits. Muscle tension. Posture. TMJ restriction. Nervous system patterns. Compensation. Pain. Biomechanics.

That was the world I trusted because it was tangible.

If a horse was bracing through the neck, I could feel it.
If the poll was restricted, I could see the effects ripple through the body.
If a horse was emotionally shut down, anxious, explosive, or disconnected, I could usually trace it back to pain, stress, or chronic tension somewhere in the system.

But over the years, something kept happening during sessions that I could not ignore.

Some horses would release physically before I had even fully touched them.
Others would completely change emotionally once their nervous system felt safe enough to let go.
Some horses carried grief so deeply in their bodies that traditional bodywork alone did not fully reach it.
And some horses simply responded to quiet presence, intention, and energetic work in ways that changed how I viewed healing entirely.

That is what eventually led me to Reiki and energy healing.

Not because I stopped believing in science.
Not because I stopped caring about anatomy or biomechanics.
But because I realized healing is often bigger than one single modality.

Over the last several years, I have worked with thousands of horses through bodywork, bit fitting, nervous system regulation, and energy work. I have seen horses overcome emotional shutdown, fear responses, chronic guarding patterns, grief, anxiety, and trauma responses that had been living in the body for years.

And no, I do not believe Reiki is “magic.”
I do not believe it replaces veterinary care.
I do not believe energy healing should be used instead of diagnostics, rehabilitation, or proper medical treatment.

What I do believe is this:

The nervous system matters.

The emotional state of the horse matters.

The energy we bring into a session matters.

And horses are incredibly sensitive beings that respond deeply to safety, regulation, intention, and connection.

Many people hear the phrase “energy healing” and immediately picture something mystical or impossible to explain. But in practice, much of this work overlaps with concepts we already understand through science and observation.

Stress changes the body.
Trauma changes the body.
Chronic tension changes the body.
Fear changes breathing patterns, posture, muscle tone, digestion, movement, and behavior.

Horses do not separate the emotional body from the physical body nearly as much as humans try to.

You can often feel it during a session.

The horse that suddenly exhales for the first time in twenty minutes.
The horse that finally drops its neck after years of guarding.
The horse that stops dissociating and begins interacting again.
The horse that physically softens once it feels safe enough to do so.

That is why my approach has become so focused on the nervous system.

Reiki, for me, is less about “performing healing” and more about creating an environment where healing can finally happen.

Sometimes that means supporting relaxation.
Sometimes that means helping the horse process stress.
Sometimes that means simply holding space without forcing an outcome.
And sometimes it means recognizing that emotional trauma can absolutely live in the body physically.

Over time, clients began asking me the same questions over and over again:

“How are you getting these releases?”
“How do horses respond this way from a distance?”
“How do you combine bodywork with energy work?”
“How can I learn this too?”

For a long time, I hesitated to create a course because I did not want it to feel exaggerated or unrealistic.

I did not want to teach “love and light” spirituality without grounding it in ethics, observation, and real-world application.

I wanted something practical.

Something that respected both intuition and anatomy.
Something that emphasized consent, nervous system regulation, observation skills, and emotional awareness.
Something that acknowledged the physical horse while also leaving room for the deeper connection many of us experience with them.

So after years of practice, study, and working hands-on with thousands of horses, I finally created my Equine Reiki Certification Course.

This course is not about convincing people to abandon science.
It is about expanding the conversation around healing.

Inside the course, I teach the foundations of Reiki and energy work while also discussing topics like:

• nervous system regulation

• emotional tension patterns

• grounding

• energetic boundaries

• distance Reiki

• observation skills

• ethics

• integrating Reiki alongside veterinary and bodywork care

• how trauma can manifest physically and emotionally

• horse consent and body language

• animal communication and intuitive development

Most importantly, I teach students how to slow down and truly observe the horse in front of them.

Because sometimes healing starts the moment a horse finally feels heard.

The truth is, the horses changed my perspective long before I ever decided to teach this work publicly.

They are the reason this course exists.

And whether someone comes into the course deeply spiritual, highly skeptical, or somewhere in the middle, my goal remains the same:
to help people better understand the horse as a whole being, not just a physical body to fix.

If you are curious about Reiki, energy healing, or nervous system-based healing work with horses, I hope this course gives you a grounded and approachable place to start.

You do not have to choose between science and intuition.
Some of the most powerful healing work happens when both are allowed to exist together.

You can find the class HERE

It has over 100 lessons, and we meet regularly for a check-in and questions.