Recommended Links
Special Friends
- www.anaflora.com Anaflora makes flower essences and essence formulas especially for the challenges that affect animals. Sharon Callahan is the founder of Anaflora, an internationally recognized animal communicator, and a leading pioneer in the use of flower essences in the treatment of animals. See especially Sharon 's articles, “The Care and Feeding of an Animal Soul” and “When a Beloved Friend Dies or is Dying.”
- www.oaklandzoo.org
The Oakland Zoo is nestled in the rolling hills of 525-acre Knowland Park in Oakland off Highway 580 and is home to more than 440 native and exotic animals.The Oakland Zoo is a non-profit organization, managed by the East Bay Zoological Society, and offers a variety of on-site and mobile education programs for children and adults, including Zoo School, Zoomobile, ZooCamp, lectures, and trainings.
- www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/animalservices/ Berkeley
Animal Care Services is the city of Berkeley (CA) animal shelter;
it is a wonderful place to volunteer and a great place to adopt
an animal.
- www.elephants.com The
Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tennessee is the nation's
only natural habitat sanctuary for elephants, developed specifically
for endangered African and Asian elephants.
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www.scwildliferescue.org
Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue. a private, non-profit organization, has been dedicated to the rescue, rehabilitation, and release of injured and orphaned wildlife and to promoting understanding and appreciation of wildlife through their Educational Outreach Program for over 20 years ago.
- www.saveabunny.comThe San Francisco/Marin County branch of the national, non-profit House Rabbit Society. Save-A-Bunny rescues rabbits from shelters and other situations, providing loving care, traditional and alternative healing, and assistance in finding loving new homes. They also have an extensive public education program.
- www.nycprc.org New York City Pigeon Rescue Central provides information on how to assist pigeons with the challenges that affect them in urban living, support from a community of people involved in pigeon rescue, and general education about the life of pigeons.
- www.campcamelot.net Camp Camelot is a center for healing and education for children with special needs,
including a range of traditonal and alternative therapies, a therapeutic riding program and other animal-assisted therapies.
- www.photo.lynnesite.com Lynne Glazer is an award-winning equine photographer, who supplied some of the photos of horses and other animals for this site. Her work has appeared in Equus, Arabian Horse World, Los Angeles Times, Animal Watch, Endurance News, California Riding , and in Peggy Cummings' book, Connected Groundwork.
- www.reikicentereastbay.com Meg Siddheshwari Sullivan, founder of the Reiki Center of the East Bay, has been a Reiki master since 1991. She gives treatments to people, teaches Reiki classes, and offers a low fee Reiki clinic, a Reiki exchange, and occasional related workshops at her Center in Oakland. This is an excellent source for treatments for people and training in using Reiki with people.
- www.toshasilver.com Tosha Silver has over 20 years of experience in guiding people to develop the skills they need for self transformation and empowerment. She offers teleclasses, workshops, seminars, and private telephone consultations.
Animal Publications:
- www.AnimalWellnessMagazine.com Animal
Wellness Magazine promotes the health and welfare of
animals through articles on alternative, natural, and integrative
health care modalities and natural animal products, services,
and accessories.
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Equine Wellness Magazine promotes the health and welfare of horses through articles on alternative, natural, and integrative health care modalities and natural horse products, services, and accessories.
- www.paws4rescue.com Paws
4 Rescue Magazine is an English magazine, focusing on
a variety of animal species and on the issues and work of
rescue centers around the world. Many current articles are
available to view in full and the site includes an extensive
links page.
- www.ReikiMagazine.com Reiki
Magazine International exists to develop the worldwide
Reiki community, to provide a forum for ideas and opinions,
and to support all Reiki students and masters. It is not
affiliated with any organization.
Reiki Training & Organizations:
- www.iarp.org The
International Association of Reiki Professionals is the professional
association of the global Reiki community, dedicated to providing
a forum for support and professional, personal and spiritual
growth. IARP provides advocacy on issues of importance to Reiki
professionals and benefits to members, including Professional
and General Liability Insurance. This site offers a directory of teachers and practitioners and is a good place
to find a Reiki teacher or practitioner in the U.S. or abroad.
- www.reikialliance.com The
Reiki Alliance is an international community of Reiki Masters
of the Usui System of Reiki Healing Usui Shiki Ryoho. They
teach and practice the Usui System of Reiki by maintaining
the time-honored form passed through the direct spiritual lineage
of Usui, Hayashi, Takata, and Furumoto. This site offers a directory of teachers and practitioners and is a good place
to find a Reiki teacher or practitioner of Reiki in the U.S. or abroad.
- www.animalreikisource.com Offers a wide variety of structured programs for learning about Animal Reiki, including correspondence courses and teleclasses, and a directory of Animal Reiki practitioners in the U.S. and abroad.
Caring For a Dying Animal
- www.anaflora.com This site has an excellent and very moving section on grieving, the process of death, and what can be done to help a beloved companion facing his transition, called Grieving the Loss of a Loved Animal. See especially the page, "When a Beloved Friend Dies or is Dying."
- www.blessingthebridge.com This site accompanies the book, Blessing the Bridge: What Animals Teach Us About Death, Dying, and the Beyond. The author, Rita Reynolds, has many beautiful stories and information from her experience providing hospice care to animals at her sanctuary in Virginia and to many other animals as well.
- www.animalsandtheafterlife.com This site accompanies the beautiful and inspiring book, Animals and the Afterlife, by Kim Sheridan.
- aahabv.org/Hospice.htm This is the hospice care page of the site of the American Association of Human-Animal Bond Veterinarians. It is geared toward veterinarians and provides useful information about the end of life and what can be done to assist at this stage from the veterinary point of view.
Directories of Holistic Care Providers
- www.alternativesforanimals.com This site offers a directory of veterinarians and other practitioners offering alternative and complementary therapies for animals.
- www.ahvma.org This is the web site of the American Holistic Veterinary Medical Association, which includes a directory of veterinarians offering holistic therapies.
- www.aava.org This is the web site of the American Academy of Veterinary Acupuncture, which includes a directory of licensed veterinarians who have completed approved courses in acupuncture and/or traditional Chinese medicine.
- www.avcadoctors.com This is the web site of the American Veterinary Chiropractic Association, which includes a directory of licensed chiropractors and veterinarians certified in animal chiropractic by AVCA.
- www.theavh.org This is the web site of the Academy of Veterinary Homeopathy, which includes a directory of veterinarians who have been certified as homeopaths by AVH and others who have agreed to practice homeopathy according to the Academy's standards.
Reiki Research
- www.pamelamilesreiki.com Pamela Miles is a Reiki practitioner and researcher, specializing in natural healing, and the author of several well-known papers on Reiki research. She offers many resources about Reiki and especially about research on Reiki.
- www.nih.gov This is the site of the National Institutes of Health (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services). Entering Reiki in the search function will produce a list of current research on Reiki, including clinical trials using Reiki.
- www.magma.ca/~peterz/links.html This is the site of the Ontario Reiki Programme Centre, which has a list with links to research
articles and studies.
- home.deds.nl/~reiki/engindex.html This site lists research on Reiki and similar healing modalities with nice summaries of the research findings. Links to other research sites.
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