Sammy Thompson - Animal, Human & Nature Therapies

Animal side…. Human side…. Nature side

For more than 16 years I have been in service to the world through my work in animal communication, vibrational and holistic wellness and healing, and through what would be known as shamanic work. I am on ongoing student, studying, researching, and delving deep in order to understand life, the universe and how everything interacts with each other.

My areas of specialty cover all aspects of animal communication and health, including lost and missing animals; animals in relocation; animals with behaviour issues; rescue and rehabilitation; medical intuition; trauma release and all other aspects of animal communication.
For more than 8 years I have been working with Big Cat rescue sanctuaries, and international big cat rescue organisations, supporting and helping the big cats understand the process of relocation, and supporting them with the transitional and settling in phases when they reach their sanctuary, as well as supporting big cats in sanctuaries to have a voice and support their health.
I have worked with feral cat colonies, domestic animal shelters, farmyard rescue, equines and many other animals species.
I have been teaching animal communication practices on a monthly / quarterly basis as part of a volunteer excursion programme at a big cat rescue sanctuary, as well as teaching online and privately.

I am a reiki energy practioner and teacher and have extended my healing modalities into areas such as vibration and sound healing; trauma and emotional charting and repatterning; nervous system attunement; and many other modalities that I have developed and bring into my practice to work as a medical intuitive, helping identify discomfort and pain in animals, and to work with lost and missing animals.

I work with humans in the areas of vibrational alignment; reiki healing; emotional charting and reprogramming; mentoring and teaching. My work with humans is focused on empowering them with the tools they need to heal themselves.

I am deeply aligned with earth and nature, working with the earth's magnetic grid through a deep connection with standing stone circles and sensitive to the interaction of the earth with solar and cosmic rays through the electromagnetic field. I bring this awareness through to working with spaces on earth to clear negative and stuck energy, bring humans and animals into alignment with earth energies.

I am based near Baardskeerdersbos.

The earth is my guide; animals my teachers; and nature is my compass.

I bring an intuitive approach to each and every interaction, being and session that I am invited to be involved with.

Having animals and nature as my guides and teachers has taught me to work with integrity, intuition, and for the highest good, and I bring these qualities to my healing modalities.

I approach each session, client, ceremony, and space, in a way that sets myself aside, and lets me be open to what is best for each space, place, being, and circumstance.

This allows me to bring the best of each modality in my toolbox, to best serve and help the client, or space, in the way that best serves the highest needs of that moment, the space, the being I am working with.

I work internationally, and donations can be made via Paypal for international clients.

Many of the animals I am asked to communicate with are struggling with either health, behavioural or emotional issues, and mostly all of them have a connection to an underlying emotional pattern, just like us humans. Animals are emotional beings, just as we humans are. There are many scientists, professors and researchers studying and mapping the emotions in animals, so it is no longer considered wrong or incorrect to acknowledge emotion in an animal. (For just one of many researchers and info on this, look into Dr. Marc Bekoff’s work, www.marcbekoff.com).

Now as a human, it is often quite difficult to identify our own emotions, especially when a situation triggers a fear or anxiety. “Why are you feeling anxious?” can be difficult to answer. So, too with animals.

Over the years I have extended the work I do with animals beyond just “talking” and communicating with them, (as they sometimes don’t know why they either feel the way they do, or act the way they do), to include different modalities and techniques to help me understand the animal, their perspective, and their emotions better.

Being that we are more than just physical matter, we are all just a mass of vibrating frequencies pulsating at different wavelengths, the modalities I work with are mostly “energy healing modalities”. Our physical body is vibration slowed down to become physical matter, and so health issues at a physical level often have a cause in the higher vibrating emotional and mental levels.

In addition to reiki energy healing (an ancient healing technique rediscovered in Japan in 1920’s), I also work with muscle testing, (which is a method of bypassing the conscious controlling mind, accessing the subconscious mind and then working direct with the underlying subconscious mind), kinesiology and vibrational modalities and therapies (such as the frequencies of colour healing, sound healing, fragrance etc.), and I work with these interchangeably and varyingly, intuitively guided by what will be of most assistance to the animal and the situation.

Animals teach us that we are not just physical beings, we humans are the only species that limit ourselves to what our physical senses can inform us… and “prove” to us. Animals work across distance, time and space, through the heart and through energy, and it is on this basis that animal telepathic communication works, as well as healing across time and space.

In using a combination of the modalities I mentioned, in addition to the communication and physical healing, I also identify underlying emotional blockages, fears and anxieties, and use a variety of modalities to help gain deeper understanding, and to help realise, release and shift these blockages and emotional traumas within the animal, to the degree which they are ready to release an old, stuck pattern or emotion. I then identify a range of modalities and tools that can be used by the human, at home, to help the animal shift in the physical environment.

I work from a photograph, or face-to-face.

Animal Communication

Offering assistance in the following areas: (please see blogs for more detailed discussion on animal communication and each of the areas listed below)

Behaviour issues or problems – to help gain an understanding of the animal’s perspective, reasons for the behaviour, assist with new behaviour training etc.
Preparation for a change in their situation/environment – e.g. moving house; introducing a new human or animal to the home; going on holiday; humans going on holiday without animal; trip to the vet; renovating the home etc. etc.
Dealing with loss of a human or animal
Lost/missing animals
Animals in transition and end-of-life support – finding out whether they wish to cross over with assistance or not; preparing them for crossing over
Rescues / injured/traumatised animals – help to calm, help them to understand, help them to release "stuck" emotional patterning or trauma
Healing from injury – help them to understand, explain the process of healing
Newly adopted introduction and settling

Reiki Healing

Not just for healing physical injuries, the following are suggestions of areas where reiki can be of assistance: (please see blogs for more detailed discussion on reiki healing for animals)

Healing from surgery, injury, illness
Grief and the process of mourning
Rescues, traumatised and abused animals
Wild animals
Animals in transit
Anxiety, Reactivity

Mentoring and Guidance

I offer mentoring and guidance sessions and assistance to new animal communicators, reiki practitioners and those who work in energy healing with animals. Through skype/zoom sessions, one on one, and practical hands-on with animals in shelter, havens or at home, I offer my knowledge, and applicable experience to helping you gain confidence, deepen your understanding, and enhance your skills.

Workshops and Courses

I offer workshops in animal communication and Usui Reiki with a focus on animals and nature. I also offer reiki practice days through the animal haven.

I work intuitively and will bring to each session from my toolbox of modalities, what will best serve the goal / intention and highest good of the client with which I am working.

1. Reiki Healing

Reiki is an energy healing modality, a soft-touch healing therapy that has many benefits, the most commonly reported benefit being relief from pain, and a deep sense of calm and relaxation that lasts for up to several days after each session.

Not just for healing physical injuries, the following are suggestions of areas where reiki can be of assistance:

Healing from surgery, injury, illness
Grief and the process of mourning
Anxiety, Reactivity
Stress
Depression, sadness, lack of purpose, confusion in life

A session typically lasts between an hour and an hour and a half.

2. Vibrational Alignment Sessions

Our human body is the result of a complex interaction between what we create in our thoughts and what we feel which our body reflects back to us in pain, ill health, anxiety, fatigue etc. etc.

The points of connection that link the mental, emotional, and spiritual layers with our physical body are the chakras. Recognised in many ancient healing traditions that pre-date our modern western medicine approach, chakras are perceived as wheels of energy at various points in the body, and will reflect physical imbalance and blocked or stuck energy, by being overactive, underactive, or out of harmony in some way with the rest of the physical being. Energy is frequency, and the frequency at which our physical body vibrates, determines the level of health and higher vibration we are able to access and channel through our body.

A vibrational alignment session focuses on bringing the physical body into harmony and alignment with the mental, emotional and spiritual bodies and supports in clearing blockages in the physical body, allowing easier access to higher dimensional aspects of your being. Clearing the energy paths into and through your body will allow you to bring these higher aspects of self into the physical body which in turn will influence your physical reality.

During a session, I will connect intuitively and vibrationally to the chakra system of your body, and through the use of a variety of vibrational tools I will lay out a healing support grid anchored by the chakra centres. The foundation tools for each attunement session will be linked via a set of crystal vibrational pyramids; and will include but not be limited to, colour, sound, sacred geometry, light language, and a connection to the earth and nature through plant and tree vibrational essences.

It is a profoundly supportive and multi-dimensional alignment experience, yet subtle and attuned to what you and your physical body are able to process at this point in time of your earth experience.

A detailed report will be sent after each session, set out by chakra centre, allowing you to meditate on the messages and images and so bring yourself further into harmonic resonance with the alignment session.

3. Nature-based therapies

Sessions of healing, guidance and support that are held within natural surroundings, at places of power, where I will facilitate a connection with nature… be it tree, sea, cave or rock. The sessions will be done at the client’s own pace, and will take the form of either a conscious awareness walk, guided meditation, ceremony of release or of gratitude, reiki healing, or others as intuitively guided by the needs of the client and the natural space which is chosen.

4. Platbos Forest Tree Essences and Platbos Ancient Forest Tree Mists

Platbos Forest is South Africa's southernmost indigenous forest, laying near Gansbaai in the Oververg region of the Western Cape.

The steward of the forest, Melissa Krige, developed a range of tree essences and ancient forest tree mists that are vibrational remedies.

These sessions are offered to help the client select the vibration remedy most beneficial to their needs and path forward. Assisting with the setting of the intention most suitable, and then selecting the essence and/or ancient forest tree mist most suitable to support that intention. Using intuition and pendulum dowsing, the mists and essences can be selected individually or as a group, depending on what is most beneficial and for the highest good of the client. This can also be done when selecting these essences and mists as gifts, the mist or essence will be chosen based on the photograph or name of the recipient.

5. Oracle Card Readings

Guidance sessions using oracle cards, where the client’s own guides and higher self are invited to bring messages through the tools of the cards for healing, clarity, guidance and support.

A variety of spreads are used, all selected intuitively and based on the client’s needs, and the guidance given. Each session lasts from 45 minutes to 1hr30.

6. Guided Meditations

Personalised guided meditations that are individually written and recorded to assist the client. These meditations are recorded whilst in meditation, attuned to your vibration, as well as to the intention I create with you as an intended outcome or goal for the recording.

Some examples of the types of guided meditations are as follows:

Healing inner child
Meeting and working with spirit guide, power animal etc.
Healing the past
Healing generational karma and trauma through dna healing
Creating and using an inner healing sanctuary
Journeying for guidance
Connecting with those who have crossed over (animal and human)
Relaxation, connecting, grounding etc.

The meditations are written and recorded whilst I am in meditation, connected to the client’s guides and to my own guides, and working with vibration to bring healing frequencies through the guided meditation to work with the client on all layers and levels of being simultaneously.Each meditation takes approximately 6 – 8 hours to create.

7. Dream Interpretation

Entering a meditative space to connect with the client’s guides and using intuition to suggest interpretations of the dream to help the client unpack the symbolism, and find meaning and messages within the dream.

8. Personalised Healing and Retreat Days

The personalised healing and retreat days are high vibrational, energy shifting and healing experiences, where, as the client, you will be guided into and through reflection, awareness, releasing, letting go and healing of individual emotions, beliefs and/or situations. The retreat days will take place in beautiful and pristine areas of nature, where the power of nature will link to the power of the healing modalities to bring you, the client, inner peace and balance. As facilitator during these days, I will ensure the pace and vibration of the experiences are matched to your pace and current circumstances.

9. Mentoring and Guidance Sessions

For animal communicators, energy healers and shamanic practitioners, I offer mentoring and guidance sessions to help you grow and develop your skills and talents. These sessions will help you identify your blocks and self-defeating beliefs, perspectives and self-imposed limitations, and I will offer guidance, practice, tools and techniques to help you take steps onwards and upwards and help you become the communicator and healer you are passionate about becoming. Via skype sessions or in person.

10. Workshops and Courses

I offer workshops in the following:

Usui Reiki, Level 1 to Master/Advanced. One day workshops
Shamanic practices, including the Munay Ki, and the 13th rite, the Rite of the Womb, and how to bring shamanic practice into your daily life. Workshops vary in duration, please contact me for more details.
Nature medicine; Connecting with trees in a forest setting; Connecting with Nature. Workshops vary from several hours to day-long, please contact me for more details.
Meditation workshops. Workshops vary from several hours to day-long, please contact me for more details.
Inner Peace – Outer Calm – a workshop teaching practical, easy to use, and incorporate tools to find inner peace in a stressful world. A two-day retreat/workshop.
How to develop your intuition using oracle cards, muscle testing, pendulum dowsing, and more

The prices are set according to venue, duration and cost:

All of nature has consciousness and is intelligent, it is just that our human form of communication (language) does not allow us to understand or comprehend this.

In person, via skype, or through guided meditation, I help you connect more deeply with nature, and help you find healing, solace and guidance through connecting with nature. Your special place and plant / tree / nature spot could be either in your garden, or in an untouched part of nature you know.

Working intuitively and in harmony with your desires, the following are some of the ways that your connection with nature can be deepened:

1. Healing with plant or nature ally

I help you identify and connect with a plant, stone, tree or nature ally within your environment... garden or nearby public space. Through guided meditation, dowsing using a pendulum, and intuitive work, I help you connect with your ally and discover the best way to work with your ally (e.g. wear it, bathe in it, use it in a lotion or drink it...)

2. Healing with Platbos Forest Tree Essences and Platbos Ancient Forest Tree Mists

Platbos Forest is South Africa's southernmost indigenous forest, situated near Gansbaai in the Oververg region of the Western Cape.

The forest steward of Platbos Foret, Melissa Krige, developed a range of tree essences and ancient forest tree mists that are vibrational remedies.

These sessions are offered to help the client select the vibration remedy most beneficial to their needs and path forward. Assisting with setting of the intention most suitable, and then selecting the essence and / or ancient forest tree mist most suitable to supporting that intention. Using intuition and pendulum dowsing, the mists and essences can be selected individually or as a group, depending on what is most beneficial and for the highest good of the client. This can also be done when selecting these essences and mists as gifts, the mist or essence will be chosen based on photograph or name of the recipient.

3. Guided mindfulness walks and vibrational healing experiences in nature

Through incorporating various modalities, such as grounding, earthing, forest bathing, mindfulness, meditative and vibrational awareness, the mindfulness walks take place in a variety of natural settings, including pristine fynbos, ancient caves, beaches, waterfalls etc. The setting, intention and type of walk is determined by your needs and wishes and level of fitness, and I act as facilitator and guide helping you to find inner peace, open yourself to the healing power of nature, and to experience a shift in awareness and connection with nature.

Length of time varies according to the nature spot chosen.

4. Guided meditations towards reconnecting with nature

Guided meditations that are normally incorporated into the workshops and courses, that are designed to help you connect with yourself at a deeper level as a part of nature, or to help you connect with a teacher tree, or nature elemental. These meditations can be personally designed and recorded for personal ongoing use.

The pre-recorded meditations are recorded while in meditation, incorporating harmonics and attunement to a frequency and vibration that resonates with an intended outcome, e.g. healing, awareness, awakening. These are general meditations that anyone can use.

The personalised recordings are recorded while in meditation, specifically attuned to your name vibration, and to an agreed upon intention that I create with you.

The unique-to-you meditations are created from scratch for you, designed and written after discussion with and specifically set around your power place, focusing on connecting you with your personal plant ally, teacher tree, helping elemental energies, or nature spot, recorded whilst I am in a meditative space, harmonising with your vibration, and the frequency of the intention I create with you. These meditations take 6-8 hours to craft.

5. House clearings

The flow of energy through our lives and surroundings is important for health and harmony. Sometimes energy gets stuck or sluggish within our environment. Our houses are often boxes built without thought or consideration of the natural flow of energy, and arguments, worries and anxieties can build up within a space. Sick building syndrome is a term used when humans start to develop illness when spending time within a particular space, and clearing the energetic space can help.

House clearing works on a vibrational level, clearing up stagnant pools of energy, and working to lift the vibration and energy of an environment, bringing lightness, flow and healing to the space, and the beings who dwell within the space.

6. Land and environment energy balancing and clearing

Human activity and human construction can block natural lines of energy that flow through the surface of the earth, and can lead to blockages in life, business, health and relationships.

Land and environment balancing and clearing uses several different modalities to identify and mitigate any blockages in the land or environment surrounding a dwelling, business, project etc.

7. Ceremonies

Ceremonies are specifically designed conscious activities, undertaken in a specific way to meet an intention. The ceremonies offered here are designed to help humans bring themselves into partnership and harmony with the land they live on and /or work on, and are designed to raise awareness and gratitude, and connect the humans to the land, to nature and to an awareness of their spatial relation to both elements and directions within that space.

8. Workshops

I offer nature-related workshops in the following areas:

* How to connect with nature and with elements of nature.

* How to find yourself through meditation and mindfulness in nature

* Ceremony - what it is, how to create it and how to perform it

Public workshops are advertised through my facebook page, to the mailing list, and the venue's marketing channels.

Workshops offered:

* "Hearing Animals" Animal Communication workshop

* How to work with missing animals (for experienced communicators) - Workshop

* Reiki Energy Healing... Usui Level 1 to Teacher - Workshops

* Reiki for animals and nature - Workshop

* Workshops on meditation; beginning and deepening the practice

* Workshops on connecting with spirit guides

* Connecting with the wisdom and guidance of nature - a meditation and practical experience workshop

* Connecting with the wisdom of trees workshop

* Munay ki course

* Rite of the womb (13th rite) workshop

* Ceremonies specifically designed to deepen connection, gratitude and awareness

* Mentoring these practices within students

* Workshop intensives - a combination of any or all of the above held over several days

* One-on-one or small group retreat days to assist with personal growth and transformation

Please email send me an email to be placed on my mailing list, or to find out about attending a workshop or organising a workshop, walk, experience etc.

Sammy Thompson - Animal, Human & Nature Therapies

Connection and healing therapies