Sandra Maitland is a SARA Practitioner based in Penticton, British Columbia. She works full-time as manager of a senior activity centre but spends her spare time offering Animal Reiki to clients’ pets and volunteering at Critteraid Animal Sanctuary in Summerland, BC. Sandra has worked closely with rescue goats but loves all kinds of animals. She has owned horses, dogs, cats and other animals, including a pet duck. She enjoys spending time in the country.
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Tamara Grodzicky
Tamara Grodzicky is a SARA practitioner trained in the Let Animals Lead® method of Animal Reiki and is based in the South Shore region of Montreal, Québec (Canada). Ever since she was a small child, Tamara loved and worshipped animals and nature. She recently decided to pursue this passion through the devoted study of Animal Reiki (levels 1 and 2), which she offers to shelter animals as a volunteer at the Canadian Society for the Protection of Animals, to her own animals, and also to the many wild animals that often visit her house. Aside from taking care of her three teenagers, her husband, three cats and one dog, as well as her patients (she has been practicing medicine as a rheumatologist for the past twenty years), she is a fervent advocate of animal welfare. Tamara has found her full vocation in life: to help not only people, but animals and nature as well. She is available for in person or distant treatments of Animal Reiki.
Melody Gray
Melody Gray is a SARA practitioner based in Parksville, BC. She spends her time working and volunteering as an Animal Reiki/Reiki practitioner and Foot Reflexologist. She provides in person and mobile Reiki services in and around the Vancouver Island area. She enjoys spending time with her husband, children and grandchildren, and of course her very active Belgian Malinios. Born and raised on Vancouver Island allows plenty of opportunity to explore the great outdoors, hiking and camping.
Sandra Ferguson
Sandra Ferguson is a SARA Animal Reiki Practitioner. From a young age Sandra could be found with a cat in her arms and a dog trailing along while at her Grandparent’s farm on Manitoulin Island. Sandra is pictured with a client Lynus, although he is deaf and blind he has reached a ripe old age and continues to enjoy a good quality of life. She lives in Lively, Ontario, Canada with her partner and their three fur babies in a rural setting. These days she volunteers at local cat and dog shelters offering Reiki to sheltered and fostered cats and dogs as well as a variety of wild birds and animals that inhabit the natural areas surrounding her home. She offers in-person and distance Reiki sessions for animals, adults and children.
Julie Blaquiere
Julie’s Reiki journey began a few years ago and quickly became an important part of her life. She observed many of her own changes as well as with her dog Marley who was a rescue. She instantly knew Animal Reiki was something she was interested in pursuing. Finding the “Let the Animal Lead®” method was truly meant to be.
She enjoys volunteering at the local shelter and offering Reiki to the animals of the Restigouche county SPCA on a weekly basis. Spreading awareness about the healing that can happen when we are stepping into a space of peace and calm. Julie is recently certified as a Reiki practitioner with the CRA (Canadian Reiki Association). She offers Reiki sessions for people and pets in person.
Her only son is now an adult, She lives on her dream land near the water with her partner and two dogs Tayzer and Marley.
Teresa Montalbo
Teresa’s journey into Reiki and yoga with animal companions began when she noticed how much her soul dog, Gracie, loved their yoga and meditation sessions. When Gracie ruptured her back knee ligament, Reiki was the last support they tried, but the first with visible effects! This paw-some discovery led Teresa to explore how these practices benefit both humans and their animal companions.
Inspired by her soul dog, Gracie, Teresa started a local Bring Your Dog to Yoga Class to benefit shelters and rescues near and far – feeding shelters for the day, sponsoring kennels, and causes. Teresa offers Reiki for humans and animals, in person and by distance. Teresa volunteers weekly at the Niagara SPCA as part of Gracie’s legacy.
Teresa’s partner is also an animal lover and they live in Niagara Falls, Canada. Their fur kids are Luna (Doggo Project) and Cosmo (Saving South Paws). Cosmo loves being her assistant Reiki teacher (and the snacks!)
Johanne Fraser
Johanne is a SARA practitioner and teacher and is based in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Reiki and mindfulness has been a natural path for Johanne as she has been practising yoga and meditation for years.
All the dogs that Johanne has been blessed to be graced with in her life have been rescued from shelters and in rescuing animals, those animals have rescued her. In Johanne’s spare time, she volunteers with an animal farm sanctuary where she cares for many different animals. This work brings her much joy and peace as the animals in the sanctuary are well taken care of and they are given the space to be and the freedom to live as they should.
Her love for animals naturally led her to Kathleen Prasad’s method of “Let the Animals Lead” and she looks forward to teaching and spreading this method as she believes it is a way to inner peace for both human and animal.
Johanne offers Reiki to both humans and animals and also teaches Usui Shiki Ryoho Reiki for humans and is registered with the Canadian Reiki Association as a human/animal practitioner and teacher.
Monique McMillan
Monique McMillan is an Animal Reiki Teacher/Practitioner. Today, horses are her newest passion and she feels right at home at the horse facility where she is learning to ride. Monique is a volunteer at the North Bay Humane Society where she offers Reiki to the shelter animals on a weekly basis. She lives in North Bay, Ontario, Canada with her husband and two fur children, Samurai and Chloe.
Ashley Humphrey
Ashley Humphrey (Ash) is an SARA Animal Reiki Practitioner based in Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada. Ash volunteers at the Nanaimo branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA). The SPCA is a non-profit Society and the Nanaimo Branch is a member of SARA with seven active Practitioners. Ash’s contribution to rescued animals at the SPCA is by offering Reiki to them and by being a member of the Fund-Raising Committee for the Nanaimo Branch. Ash travelled all over the world during his working career and vacations. One of his favorite places is the Canadian Arctic where he spent many years working on ice breaking ships. He had the privilege of seeing many Polar Bears in their natural habitat. Home for Ash is Nanaimo on Beautiful Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. He is blessed to share his life with his wonderful wife Trellis.