Africa, War & Soul Star Awakening

In this deeply personal and timely Reiki Share, we’ll share the magic of our recent journey to Africa — the Cradle of Humanity — and the profound spiritual teachings received directly from the animals.

From giraffes forming a semicircle at sunrise…
To elephants whispering “friend”…
To lions, explaining the sacred responsibility of being a predator…

The wild offered a radical reframe of power, instinct, community, and what it truly means to lead.

The prey animals revealed that they are not helpless victims. They told us they could take on predators if they chose — and sometimes they do. But they also understand the sacred role predators play in keeping herds healthy and preventing complacency.

The predators shared the heavy burden of their responsibility — that leadership is not dominance, but stewardship.

We take these lessons and transition into what is happening in our world — conflict in the Middle East, political polarization, the global swing toward authoritarianism — and asks:

What if outer wars mirror inner conflict?
What if victim mentality keeps us disempowered?
What if disturbance is an invitation to awaken?

This episode explores:

• The spiritual ecology of predator and prey
• Leadership and instinct
• Manufactured fear vs. embodied sovereignty
• Astrology and collective upheaval
• World Peace energy
• Releasing victim consciousness

And concludes with a powerful Reiki meditation to:

• Heal inner conflict
• Reclaim sovereignty
• Send love to those suffering
• Anchor peace in the collective field

This is not about bypassing pain.
It is about remembering our power within community.

And that we are never helpless when we have Reiki.

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Pam Allen-LeBlanc is a scientist, businesswoman, and Licensed Reiki Master Teacher (LRMT) with the International Center for Reiki Training.

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Transcript

Speaker 0:07

Hi, and welcome to the Reiki from the Farm Podcast, brought to you by me, Pam Allen LeBla from Hidden Brook Farm. I am a scientist, a businesswoman, and a licensed Reiki master teacher with the International Center for Reiki training. Each week in this podcast, you'll be entertained as you learn about a wide variety of relevant Reiki topics helping you become a more knowledgeable and effective Reiki practitioner. We caution you though this podcast may also dramatically improve your life. And we are so happy that you're here.

Pam 0:56

So welcome everyone to this month's Reiki share, this week's podcast. We have a pretty big topic tonight. We're going to be talking about our trip in Africa and sharing a few pictures about that. So if you're listening to this and not watching it on YouTube, go ahead over to our YouTube channel. Just search for Reiki from the farm, or Pam Allen LeBla, and you'll find it. And listen, while you're over there, can you do me a favor and just hit and subscribe. It would really, I would really appreciate that and go ahead and have a look at some of the incredible animals that we saw. But we've got a lot to cover tonight because not only are we going to share that and are we going to share what the animals taught us and share a little bit about our experiences. And I've got a couple of the people from the trip who've joined us this evening. And this is unscripted. I have no idea what they're going to say, but I'm gonna ask them a few questions to, to share with you as well from their perspective. How it was. But also we're going to have a look at just everything that's going on in the world today and how, what we've learned there, what we've learned through the horses and some of the leadership from the horses. Just how that can be applied right now and how we can use Reiki with all of the energetic and emotional disturbances that we're experiencing. Everything from war to non-confidence in leadership to just plain con conflict and the fact that there is a lot of conflict happening in the world right now. And some of it I think is deliberate. I think that as we're distracted with this, as we're focused on our positions on things we're not paying attention to other things that are maybe. Even more important or potentially. So we're just gonna talk about how we can get outside of that. And a lot of information is coming through. Probably going to continue on in the next podcast because to be honest, I only got back a few days ago from Africa, and it's, the experience was so incredible and so surreal that it hasn't all integrated yet. And I'm looking over at Tessa right now who's nodding her head like, yeah, we were just talking about that. And Liz, I don't know if you're feeling the same way, but, so before we begin, I'd just like to let you know though about some of the things that we have coming up at the farm. And the first thing I want to let you know about is the fact that I've, we've had to cancel the, hit the healthcare Reiki class that we had intended to hold at the end of March in Connecticut. Unfortunately, Tracy fell and broke her elbow, and so that's just made it not possible to to continue on and that she's doing okay. But we just realized that there was a lot happening for her. There's actually a lot happening for me as well right now. And so we have canceled that class. I'm going to have a look at the June class, but keep an eye on the newsletter. The, around all of the classes and I'll, I will let you know if the June class is still a go. I think at this point it looks like it will be. And in that same vein in March, the end of the month, we have our two business classes coming up that I'm going to be teaching with my daughter. So you're going to have two MBAs for the price of one. We want to use our MBAs to help you. We realize that we are very fortunate to have been able to get a master's in business administration. We are both very fortunate to have gained a lot of business skills working in the business world, even prior to doing Reiki for both of us. And so we just. We just wanna put that to work for you, to save you some time, save you some money, save you some effort, point you in some directions. The first course is start your business and it's going to be focused around the Reiki business book. The second course is Grow Your Business Now for people who already have an active business and a website who are ready to grow their businesses. So it's going to be more focused around marketing. Now there it may be at the moment we're planning to go ahead at the end of the month. We are going to have to change the structure a little bit. I've had my dad's in the hospital and so I've had to be spending most of my extra spare time with that. And that's, looks like it's going to be continuing. So we may just be changing the structure a bit in the sense that we'll send the reading material, instead of sending it ahead of the course, we'll send it a day or two after the class. And that structure I think is going to work better for everybody anyway. And depending on how things go it may be p. We may have to just postpone it by a month or so, but again, keep an eye on the newsletter and anybody who is registered, I'll be getting in touch with you and just making sure that the new dates work and so on. And if they don't, you can have a refund if we do have to reschedule. But at the moment I'm gonna make every attempt to keep it on track for the timing that we have.'cause I'm really excited to help people grow their businesses. At this time, I think the world needs Reiki more than ever. In April, I have all of my animal communication classes, level one and two, level three, professional practitioner and master teacher. And that is being offered online in. Also at the end of the month, I will have a Reiki level one and two class, followed by a Reiki masterclass, which are both online and in person at the farm. So if anybody wants an in-person class this is the time to do that in early May. That's followed by animal Reiki one and two, that is both online and in person over a weekend. And then a ma animal Reiki master training that is only online over four evenings. And then after that we'll be moving into our August classes, which will be on Campobello, which is exciting. So I wanted to welcome you all and just. Share the fact that we're going to be talking this evening about some of the global unrest, the Middle East conflict, the political polarization just the fact that everything feels really uneasy right now. And why is that? Something that's really interesting, if you wanna dive in a little bit to the astrology around it, there is an incredible amount of things happening astrologically. In fact the theme right now as Pluto moves into Aquarius is that power is being rewritten. And I think that's what we're experiencing. That's what we're seeing. We're firmly now into a long Pluto in Aquarius cycle. It began recently. It's gonna last for years. Pluto governs power control, corruption, hidden systems, and it's about destruction and rebirth. So that, just to put into context what's happening, and I am by no means an expert on astrology, but whenever there are things happening in the world that I don't understand I follow an astrologer that Kara got me aligned with Elizabeth Peru and I look to astrology to help understand it a little bit. Now, if we look at what's happening with Pluto governing power control, corruption, hidden systems, destruction and rebirth, Aquarius governs technology, the collective social systems. Revolution and decentralization. So what does that mean? Old power structures are being exposed, and let's face it, the old power structures were not working anymore. Governments, institutions, media and financial systems are now under pressure. Technology, meanwhile is reshaping who holds power and also the collective is waking up, but it's not harmonious. The waking up isn't always comfortable for everyone. It's, we're not necessarily in harmony. We're finding ourselves on both sides of the duality, which creates polarization. It can create extremism, rapid ideological shifts, and an us versus them energy. And in fact, when I asked the people who are here in person what they needed help with before we started the share, it was like, how do I talk about this? How do I be in this without choosing sides and or without appearing to choose sides? So just stepping out of that polarization and that us versus them energy. It's important for us to understand though, this isn't random chaos. It is chaos, don't get me wrong. But it's not random chaos. It's actually related to transformation Now. We're also looking at dissolution versus discernment. This strong Pisces energy that's happening right now, Pisces governs illusions, spiritual awakening, collective emotion, compassion, escapism, and martyrdom. Now, the shadow of that is something that we're gonna talk about quite a bit this evening. Victim consciousness is something that the animals of Africa really had a lot to say about. It's, the other parts of the shadow are confusion, propaganda, emotional overwhelm, and spiritual bypassing, which is something that I've just recently had to look up. But in a way I guess spiritual bypassing is something that I've witnessed from the beginning. I always used to joke about people who kept their eyes closed and their fingers in their ears and said la. There's only light. There's only light. There's only light. If there's only light, there wouldn't be anything for us to do with there now. We came to a world that was a world of duality where there's both light and dark. There's both love and hate, or love and fear. So these are all, this is the shadow of Pisces. So what's happening is that a lot of us are feeling emotionally saturated. We're disillusioned with the leadership, and that showed up in the chat earlier. We are longing for something to believe in, and we are being pulled whether we like it or not, toward extremes. So there's a battle going on between illusion and clarity, victimhood and sovereignty, and escapism and embodiment. And today we're going to talk about how Reiki can bring us back into our own sovereignty and release that victim mentality. Now, as those things are happening, we're also in an eclipse season. And so we're in this window right now of eclipses. And what happens in eclipses is that things accelerate. Eclipses are going to expose what's hidden, speed up. Our timelines trigger these collective turning points that we're in, and they're going to bring karmic themes to the surface. This often goes along with leadership shift, leadership shifts, escalations in war, or war escalations, political shocks, and sudden public awakenings. We are, we're seeing all of this right now, you guys, and so eclipses don't cause these events. They just reveal what was already unstable. And so the word that I've been using, the words that's been showing up in with the horses and with the card deck that we're creating on leadership, the word is disturbance. So what we're experiencing right now is this big disturbance. And so astrologically disturbance right now is exposure plus acceleration. So what's already happening, and then the fact that it's being accelerated. And with that in mind. I really wanted to dive into a topic that I talked about several months ago now when I was discussing Cal Newport's work and book around, is the right wing surge real or is it manufactured? And he really pointed us to the fact that there is a group of people who benefit from this movement toward the right wing. And a lot of it is actually manufactured and it's, it preys on our psychology, that we want to belong to a group. So if we believe that group feels or thinks a certain way, we will set aside. Our own opinion in order to go with group think more often because we are psychologically hardwired to get along. And now the animals in Africa talk to us a lot about that too, and the importance of community and what can be accomplished with community. So that makes sense. Astrologically we're feeling disoriented, economically threatened, spiritually disconnected distrustful of institutions. So we're looking for things like certainty, authority, clear answers, strong leadership that showed up. This is our nervous systems way of surviving. It's important to remember that whenever power is consolidated without wisdom, fear. Can become weaponized. So we are watching right now what's happening is a global nervous system response. It's a struggle around the narrative and it's a test of the integrity of the leadership. So is there any wonder, we're all feeling the way that we are? And then you've heard me talk sometimes, so there's a lot of themes coming together tonight. You've heard me talk about how our inner world always resembles our outer world. So with that in mind, we are seeing war happening in our outer world. That outer conflict is often mirroring any inner fragmentation or inner conflict that we may have. So right now, as a collective. Here's what we're wrestling with. We're wrestling with power, truth, identity, belonging. And so astrology talks about two ways that we can handle this, two options through integration or polarization. These are the options. So I really believe that Reiki can help us integrate this change so that we don't have to step into the duality. In fact a word or an expression came up when I was talking with Tessa earlier. It really clearly showed up. It clearly showed up for this podcast in the world, but not of it. And I thought I think I wanna understand a little bit more what does that mean in the world, but not of it? So I'm gonna, I'm gonna swing back to that, but I do wanna talk about the fact that, again, what's going on is not random. It's not a collapse. This is evolution and the pressure that can occur with evolution in infect. In an earlier session that I had today, the energy was talking about how pressure strengthens things. So just like a predator, the pressure of the predator keeps herds alert and healthy. This moment in time is forcing us to clarify our own values, step into our community, be strong in community together to figure out what healthy leadership looks like for us. And you know what? If it's not available, maybe to provide it. And it's also inviting us to release the victim mentality and step into conscious power, and we're gonna swing back to those themes as well. This feels really intense right now because a whole lot of big cycles are all overlapping. Power is restructuring. We don't trust our institutions any longer to lead us. Technology is undergoing a huge revolution. Spiritually. We're disillusioned. There's an instability in leadership in a lot of areas, and then there's global conflict. So there's a lot going on all at once. It's easy when that happens to ask okay, who's the enemy? And there's no greater way to bring people together than to, no easier way I should say, than to have a common enemy. We've seen that in the past. It's a strategy that has been used throughout different political cycles. But instead of looking at that in Reiki, we, I think what we need to go to is can we hold our center during a disturbance? Now I wanna swing back and talk to you a little bit about our trip in Africa and just some of the messages that we received there. They were absolutely it was absolutely. Astounding. Actually, and while I do that I've got a couple of folks here with me this evening who were in Africa, who Liz and Tessa. And unfortunately the other two who were with us couldn't make it this evening, but I just wanted to check in with them first, and then I'll show a few pictures and talk to you about my perspective. And just ask and I'll swing the camera around or to Tessa and just ask, so Tessa what was your favorite part? What, what really stood out to you about our time together in Africa?

gues 21:18

The animals.

Pam 21:19

The animals.

gues 21:19

The animals. I just, I had a sense of just, even though I wasn't from there, I'm not. You just felt like you belonged, even if you weren't from there.

Pam 21:29

Yeah.

gues 21:29

That was immediate, that feeling as soon as I arrived yeah. I never, I felt safe and surrounded and, but then the animals were just beyond what I ever imagined it would be.

Pam 21:44

They were for me too. We were completely among them.

gues 21:47

Yeah. Yeah.

Pam 21:48

We were walking beside them.

gues 21:50

Yeah. Just standing there and watching them walk by us and

Pam 21:53

Yeah.

gues 21:54

All around us and Yeah. I just, and not once felt like unsafe or feared because they were like, feet away from you.

Pam 22:05

Yeah.

gues 22:05

Nothing.

Pam 22:06

Yeah. Couldn't believe it. We were about six feet away from wildebeest at one point. Yeah. I was like, can't believe I'm six feet away from wildebeest. Yeah. And they were just lovely.

gues 22:16

Yeah.

Pam 22:16

They were so gentle and the people were so gentle.

gues 22:19

Yeah.

Pam 22:21

And lovely as well. And in fact, it makes me think that we had asked one of the ladies who was doing the cooking for us, or the lady who was doing the cooking for us, how do you feel about us being here in your country to see the animals? And she said, it makes me happy.

gues 22:37

Yeah.

Pam 22:37

When you are happy, I'm happy.

gues 22:41

Yeah.

Pam 22:41

And just that, that, yeah, it was very peaceful.

gues 22:46

Yeah.

Pam 22:46

Very just a way of being that was just in incredible. I agree. Thank you Jessa. Liz, what about you? Is there anything you'd like to share? What stood out for you and what did you enjoy the most? Are you able to unmute?

guest 23:00

Yes. As you guys know, since you were there, but I had that my special, zebra moment. Yes. When the Zebra came right up to my feet I was managed to take a picture of my, the tips of my shoes and the hooves of the Zebra to show how close it was to me. And remember it, it got down on what I call the stinks position. And then it like did its submission role, it rolled like an animal would.

Pam 23:32

Yeah.

guest 23:32

In submission. And that was really, for me, that was really special and profound. And like you and Tessa had just said, the fact that when we were on s doing the safari, they would come so close to the vehicle. I was really surprised. And just in a gentle way, like you said, they just stood there. And just locked eyes with all of us. And and I think you had said that Brian said that was not normal.

Pam 24:01

Our guide said that Yeah. Was not normal.

guest 24:06

And he said that I felt like he was even impressed with, even though he was the guy because he was, remember he was taking pictures himself, like

Pam 24:13

he was taking

guest 24:14

pictures.

Pam 24:15

He couldn't believe it. Close.

guest 24:16

Yeah. So that was really, I have a couple pictures. I have real, I have the picture of the first morning we went it was right after Sunrise and I have the picture of the sunrise. The elephant and then Mount Kilimanjaro in the background. And it's a very beautiful picture. And then remember the following morning we went and we had the, I call it the giraffe Stonehenge, remember how they arranged themselves. Oh my gosh. Yeah.

Pam 24:48

Unreal.

guest 24:48

So I have a picture of that, of the sunrise and then the giraffes don't hunch. But it was funny'cause I do have a picture of the beforehand where the giraffes were just walking and eating normally. And then I had the last photo of when they did that formation and they're all facing us.

Pam 25:08

Yeah. They made that

guest 25:10

so

Pam 25:11

and faced us. Yeah.

guest 25:13

Yeah. And it was, yeah, they stopped eating and just were staring. And but, and like you said too, the people of Kenya were so kind and so genuine. And they seemed much happier than what we are in the States. I like in you, I didn't feel, I wasn't, I didn't feel unsafe at all. I felt comfortable no matter where we were. And so I'm very thankful I went. Thank you.

Pam 25:39

Thank you, Liz. I'm thankful that you went as well. And I saw a question from Michelle in the chat. She was wondering if we all had animal Reiki. In fact we did. That was one of the things we did. We did two Reiki classes over there. And one person was taking them for the first time. Most people were reviewing them or maybe taking one of the classes for the first time. But we did a Reiki level one and two class on our first two day, two and a half days there. And then we followed that up with an animal Reiki class. And the animal Reiki class was incredible because we went over to a horse sanctuary for the first half of the day. And then the second class we went to a game preserve called Nevada. And Lake Nasha on Lake Nasha, and we actually had a hippo curfew. We had to be in back to the farmhouse. We were living amongst the animals. They were right there. They were on our lawn. And we, so we went for a walk on our first evening there, and there were vervet monkeys and. Wildebeests and heartbeats and giraffes and what else am I missing? Tessa, there were more animals than that. There were just impalas and there were animals. So many birds and animals in the tree, and they were just all around us. And we could hear later that night, we heard hyenas, but there really weren't a lot of prey animals there. And you could just or predators. Sorry. They were all what we would consider prey animals and zebras. Oh yes. There were zebras everywhere and. And I couldn't believe, as we walked and this was after we had done our first day of animal Reiki. So everybody had, everybody in the group had animal Reiki, how close it we could get to the animals. And they weren't really frightened of us at all. It was just amazing. We were walking and then these giraffes just walked by. However, we did have a 6:30 PM curfew because that's when the hippos come out of the water and when the hippos come out, the water, they will kill you. And they can run 35 kilometers an hour over a sustained difference. And I can't run 30 kilometers an hour under any distance. So we went we were. We knew that at six 30 we had to get back to the farmhouse because as it was getting dark, they would be be coming out of the water. It was just incredible. And in fact, as we did our attunement on the second day we did it there at we arrived supper time about, about supper time, and had an opportunity to go for the walk and come back in time for the hippo curfew and have dinner together and did a little bit more class that evening. And then the following day we took the morning some of us went over to a place called Hell's Gate, and we saw even more animals and we gathered arm loads of obsidian because it was everywhere there. It was used in the gravel, the obsidian was. And we actually had a baboon get up and pee on our vehicle as we were there. And once again, just all kinds of beautiful animals, a few different animals. We started seeing warthogs there and the water buffalo. And I'm just trying to think. I think I, there were and there were baboons there, there weren't baboons on Nevada, so it was just just wonderful to visit this traditional Messiah. Homeland and get more, learn more about their customs. And then the folks that stayed back went for a, another walk on the property. And later that morning I guess we get up quite early for that, around five or six, something like that. Later that morning, we took a boat and we got up close and personal with the hippos, which was quite lovely. And then we went over to an island where there was a oh, Heather, are you here? I didn't realize you were here. I'm gonna, I'm gonna call you on here in a minute. I didn't see you come in. We got onto this island and there were zebras and. Gelles and ostrich that walked along with us. And the zebras, when Liz was talking about the zebras one went, there were three that went right over to her and Christie, and then one laid down and rolled right beside Liz. And really for any animal to show their belly, but especially an equine species. And this is just something I know as a horse person, like for them to roll near you, they have to feel very safe and comfortable. So it was just an incredible experience. And then later as we did the second attunement. On the front porch. I know I had my eyes closed during the attunement, and when I opened them, the three giraffes were right there. And they, up until then, they had been going around the edges of the property, but they were right there on the other side of our veranda. And I was like, oh my gosh. Okay. Clearly they're taking part in this attunement. And later that evening, as we continued the class after dinner, we were doing another experience. They showed up on the lawn again, and they, Tessa noticed, they actually the big male ducked his head down, looked in the window at us and made eye contact with us. And then later the following morning, Christie was leaving at 5:00 AM they were laying on the lawn. Beside our house, beside her truck. She grabbed a picture of one of them. And then when we went to leave after breakfast later that morning they blocked the road, wanted to say goodbye to us and just let us know that they received the Reiki and that they were going to be using it in the, to, in the management of that game park and in bringing harmony to the game park. It was just absolutely incredible. And we weren't even on safari yet. Heather, I didn't realize you were here. I'm glad you put something in the chat. Oh yeah. The one that was looking in the house. I wonder if you would share what really stood out to you and what your favorite part was of the. Are you able to unmute and share?

guest 33:05

Hi everyone. Yes. That was one of my favorite parts about the trip, so I wanted to throw it in the chat to make sure someone mentioned it. It was truly remarkable looking up and seeing this giraffe right there. Another really powerful part was when we got to the safari, how many hours later? Three and a half hours later.

Pam 33:27

Yeah.

guest 33:29

The other giraffe knew who you were because of the giraffe from the previous place.

Pam 33:35

Yeah. It's so funny. He said, oh, you're the giraffe lady. Yeah.

guest 33:40

Yeah.

Pam 33:41

I was already told about you.

guest 33:43

Yes. That was truly incredible. It I would have to say that the. Sense of calm and peace that was there, that I felt on that land was just remarkable. The way the sun, when the sun rose over the, or just behind the mountain there, it was just really beautiful. It lent so much majesty, I feel like to that area. But there was one time in particular I felt the elephant. There was one elephant that came close to the truck and she looked at the truck and she looked at all of us, and then she walked to the front corner of the truck, the front left corner, and then. To the front right corner and the, to the side of the truck on the right hand side. She intentionally walked around each portion of the truck looking at us intently. And there was just a really beautiful exchange there. I was moved to tears by that, that feeling that I got from being that close to her. And I think one of the best parts was if I would ask a question, Pam would get an answer from, Liz mentioned that Giraffe Stone Hge. I think that's a great a great image there. Love that. And then later we saw three of the giraffe and I had this thought about them being late and they said, what is time?

Pam 35:11

Yeah, the other giraffes had formed that beautiful Stonehenge semi-circle. And Heather was, and they were the only giraffes that weren't. And how many giraffes were there, you guys? 11, or I think I counted 13. Or

guest 35:26

in my photo, there's 12.

Pam 35:28

There's 12 in your photo, Liz. And they made this beautiful semicircle, and then later we found three giraffes that weren't part of that. Whereas all, normally we would only see a few giraffes together like a family. And so seeing all 12 or 13 together was really something on the horizon. In the sunrise. It was like a postcard or a calendar or something. And so then. When we when we saw those three. Yeah. Heather, you said you guys are late for the meeting. They went, what is time?

guest 36:06

That's right. Yeah, that's right. So there I've taken Pam's animal communication courses as well and had some exchanges. And it was just truly remarkable to be able to have those encounters. And I just think it was a remarkable ride. I just don't have the words, but it was truly wonderful. Thank you.

Pam 36:33

Oh my gosh. You're so welcome. And Heather was actually planning to head to Cairo afterward, but when the war broke out, that plan had to change. And yeah. May

guest 36:47

I,

Pam 36:48

yeah, go ahead.

guest 36:48

May I share one more thing? Stay a little bit longer than everyone else in Nairobi. And when it came time for my flight, I shared a van with a gentleman who was flying to South Sudan, and he just said the most beautiful things because he was going to lead a group of a medical staff. And he said he tries to do his best to lead with kindness and to set that example and to show up early and to do the work as quickly as possible with integrity that he has. And I just thought. That was really beautiful to hear. And I, it just reminded me as you were speaking earlier about leadership, that leadership can be out there,

Pam 37:34

and it doesn't mean that you, like, when I say leadership, one of the things that we're working through leadership that the horses taught us, and with the horse card deck, I'm gonna talk about a few things that have shown up there too. It doesn't mean you have to be, the supreme leader or anything like that, it's just where in your life can you provide that leadership, and there are always opportunities. There are always opportunities for leadership. So I love that. Thank you. That was a really lovely addition, Heather. Guys, I'm going to try to when are we going again, Joan? I think I'd love to go again next year because it is true by adding Reiki to the trip. Who was it that said, I think it was you, Heather, that said it gave it just the right amount of structure so that there was a bit of structure and there was that camaraderie with. People who want to make a difference in the world. And then there were the animals and it was just amazing and remarkable. So I'm hoping we can do it again next year, but I'm gonna give Christie a few weeks to recover from, she, there was a lot for her to do as to get ready for us and get the meals planned. And you could, you just, you could just imagine how complicated our diets were. So only eats fish to, can't eat fish to vegetarian, to only, it was no gluten. That's me. It was complicated. But she is we have discussed the potential of going like to South Africa next year. And I know I spoke with William Rand yesterday about. And he was really blown away and said that he had always wanted to go to Africa and he'd be happy to join us if we went again. So we'll have to see what unfolds there. But it was just it really was absolutely astounding. So I do wanna and we did go on to Safari. Let me see. I believe I can show you a few photos of some of the animals that we saw. And Donna says she's gonna start saving now. That's a very good idea, Donna. Because safaris are not inexpensive, but they're really great. So this is the first day we met some giraffes at a giraffe sanctuary, and it turns out there's three different types of giraffes. There's the messiah giraffe, and the oh wait. Reticulated Giraffe. Giraffe. And then the Rothschild Ross Rothchild Rothschild giraffe. And the rothchild giraffe is the one in this picture. And they were critically endangered. So when they needed to be relocated from different areas for farmland and so on, there was a group that began bringing them in and working to preserve them and allow them to breed. And so this first picture with the giraffe, with the tongue stuck out, we were able to feed these giraffes. But as we fed them, we had to watch out for Headbutts. So I'm just gonna let the photos scroll through a little bit, or I think I am, maybe this is not, there we go. This is Zeus who wanted to come in the house all the time. This is our carrots. Some of the food was amazing. Now my husband put this together, so he had to include the food. And pictures of flowers. Here's the wildebeests that we saw up close and personal, along with the little gazelle and Impalas. This is the Swamp and the he beast. The vervet monkeys that were all around the zebras, we were so close to them. This is one of the horses from the Sanctuary, and this was our visit to the Sanctuary. Once again, the. Trees. And this was Hell's Gate Elsa's Gate. These were some of the beautiful rock formations. And here's a wild giraffe, some baboons. Before they were peeing on our car, this was going out in the boats and hear the hippos, some of the birds that we got to see cormorants just like we have at home. But we saw a lot of different birds as well. And this is just our photo over on the island honeybee. Here's some hippos laying down close enough to us, the zebra at the picnic table, and some more hippos. When we were on the island, we did have to be careful of the zebras. This was the giraffe on our lawn. And five in the morning. These are some baboons, giving a piggyback to the babies and some more giraffes. These are the giraffes outside of our porch that I was telling you about. And a beautiful elephant, some gorgeous photos. We all shared our photos. This is Mount Kilimanjaro, some, an elephant herd who were probably shedding their teeth and some zebras. And this is the tiniest baby elephant that we saw. She was so sweet. And there she is, nursing from her mama. This is a reticulated giraffe, another beautiful elephant and a hyena that was just laying on the road until we interrupted her. And this is a black rhinoceros. They tend to be a little more aggressive and a warthog. They are on their knees to eat. And these are the lions that we saw the last day. Some water buffalo. The lions, again, were right beside the car. And I'll tell you a little bit about them. And the meals were absolutely legendary everywhere that we went. So that was just a quick run through of the of the animals. Oh, sorry, not Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya. Thank you, Heather. That was correct. So Mount Kenya and it was absolutely beautiful. So when we went on safari, yes, an elephant came over and she just really locked eyes with us. We had a beautiful communication. And I'll tell my husband, Donna, thank you for the pictures. And. What was really clear was that I was to take a photo of the animal, like one it was usually one animal. When I teach animal communication, I talk about how one animal will come forward to speak on behalf of a group. And so I was to take a photo of each animal, and they knew I was overwhelmed with being that close to them. And just with how much we had seen and how much we experienced, I couldn't even write in my journal. There was just it, there were no words for what was happening. And they just said, just take our photo for now. And we talked about a few things, but then they said, we'll talk later and they showed me very clearly, that I was to attempt to draw them or capture their likeness from the photo and then sit down and have a fuller conversation with them. And so it did start with that beautiful elephant who probably stayed with us. Close to 15 minutes, something like that. And it went on with just all of the beautiful animals. And I think next we came to a rhinoceros and I asked if she could come closer to the vehicle so that we could see her closer. And she said, no, actually I can't, because if I go closer to the vehicle, it will trigger my charge instinct. And then immediately after that, our guide said That is a black rhino. They're very aggressive. And so it was amazing. And Lynn says that the animals are so beautiful and that she can see the joy in all of us. It was really astounding. And we were really brought up close and personal to the fact that the rhinos for quite a while were poached and hunted for their horns. And there was actually a rhinoceros graveyard, or it wasn't really agra it was a graveyard actually. It was a rhinoceros graveyard because so many had been poached. And, but several years ago Kenya brought in a the only time I ever saw. A gun was as we were at Hell's Gate National Park. And there, there was a ranger there with an Uzi and our guide explained to us that, it's that they had give, been given permission to shoot, to kill poachers. And as soon as that happened, then the poaching stopped. But until then, they lost a lot of rhinoceros. They lost some elephants and different animals that, for profit. But we did see amazing animals and on, and they had a lot of information for us too. The one animal that we saw so many things. The warthogs the photo of the warthog. You may have noticed that it's on its knees to eat. Our guide said that warthog is the only animal that prays while it's eat, while it eats. Just the animals were absolutely astounding. And the one animal we hadn't seen. On the last day until the last day was the lions. And our guide was really determined. And so sure enough, we saw some lions at a watering a stream. We saw four, and I was shown that we were gonna see four lions. And the picture I saw was, it looked like four lioness to me. But as a matter of fact, as we got really up close and personal with these lions we saw, one was a juve was like not a juvenile male, but a young enough male that he didn't have his main yet he was he appeared as a female to me in that picture. But I saw we were going to see four lions, and we did see four lions at the end. Unfortunately, there was a different vehicle than ours that wasn't really obeying the rules and they he chased the lions down. A little bit and caused them to stop in an area. And when that van left, we were able to pull up and we were right beside these two lions that you saw in the photo. And they were panting, they were obviously quite stressed. So in our vehicle, we all activated animal Reiki for them. And almost like within minutes they flopped down and went to sleep beside the vehicle. It was like we were right there and we couldn't believe, especially the male. He just, he went boneless almost like he just, he flopped right down. And we stayed there for quite a while, just amazed at the proximity, giving animal Reiki to these beautiful animals. And then a zebra, I think made a little whoop sound. In the bushes over to our left. And and I think it is illegal, Andrea, we are going to report them. Liz got the license plate and everything, so we're going to report them. And as soon as that zebra made the whoop sound all four lions heads came up and then they stocked off into the bush and they showed me exactly the picture that I had seen the day before. Only from a different angle. I, in the picture that they showed me was as if I was. I was there and they were coming toward me, and instead they were going away from us. So it was incredible, but one really profound, that elephant from the first day she really has stayed with me and she's really explained a lot of things to me. She she came in front of our tents later that evening, or not that evening, the following evening, and she wanted me to know that it was the same elephant there because there were seven elephants, but she stayed and it was dark, so it couldn't really see her very well. But Janice called me out and we stayed there for probably close to a half an hour with her. She kept saying friend, so that I would understand that she was, and she stayed there. The other elephants went down from different, a different place for grass. She stayed exactly with us and had a beautiful conversation. So it was amazing. So guys, what did we learn? What did they teach us? That's that's where I wanna go next because there were some really profound messages for us. One of the things that they, that I really wanted to understand was about the predator and prey relationship. And so I asked them about it and. They let me know that the prey animals let me know that no, you believe we're victims. You are looking at this through a lens and a belief of victimhood. We are not victims. We know we understand the circle of life. If we choose, we can come together as a community. And I was actually speaking to a very small antelope the Impalas, I believe it was. And they let me know that with our horns, if and if we choose, we can chase off any predator, even a lion. But we know that the lions. Keep our herd healthy. They make it so that we don't starve, that we don't overgrow the space that we're in. And they were like, we are not victims. And sometimes we do choose to work together in community. And sometimes we are aware that, that it's meant to be a different outcome. So they really encouraged me to let go of victim mentality for myself, but also as a lens that I view things through. And they showed that in our, in what's happening in our world today, that if any one of us chose to come together in community that there is no, no regime, no political force or will, no army that could overcome that. That unification, that, that unification consciousness. So that was really interesting and profound. And in fact, we had an opportunity to witness it. We had frightened a hyena. We didn't see the hyena, but we had, gone past it in our vehicle and it, and taken it away from its prey. It actually, or prey. Usually hyenas are the scavengers. So it was probably cleaning up a lion, an older lion kill. Apparently the lions will eat on a kill for three or four days or until it's gone, but then if it starts to smell, they move on and that's when the hyenas move in. And so we startled this hyena away from its prey and it started running across the savanna and we ran into it later on. As we drove, and our guide was very ethical. He, in fact, that was a big part of what we wanted with with what we were doing was that ethics and sustainability. And so as we were driving on the roads later on we came across the same hyena. He had loped across the fields and met us at another place. And he was loping toward these two warthogs. And I know a hyena, they're pretty big and they could be a predator. And I was thinking, oh dear, and I hope the warthogs don't have babies. The warthogs were separate. They came together and chased that hyena off. Now they're not, warthogs are not very big, but, and they just formed a community of two and they literally chased that hyena away, which was just absolutely amazing. And so they let us know that they weren't victims, that they could unite to resist unhealthy leadership that we as humans can unite to resist unhealthy leadership. We're starting to see that in different areas and pockets of the world and that this culling can keep the herds healthy. They let us know that. This is just nature. This isn't evil. And even instinct that happens within that is not evil. It's just, it's natural. And they also let me know that the attacks prevented complacency. And what it did was ensure that we appreciate our lives. And they said, when we survive an attack, when we outrun it, we, they said it can be boring. And when that happens, it's dramatic, it's exciting, and then we appreciate the boredom and so on. So they let us know that tension that it creates can be somewhat healthy. And they also. Later on, I thought, okay, let me talk about, let me talk to the predators. I am, I'm understanding from the aspect of the prey animals. Now I wonder from the side of the predator. And so I wound up speaking to a lion, a female lion. And she let me know that it's an enormous responsibility to be a predator, that it was her job to maintain the balance of the ecosystem. And she took that really seriously. And at the same time, she did not see herself as better than the prey animals. In fact the predators were in smaller groups. She actually even let me know that. Gosh, it would be nice to be able to eat grass and survive and and not to have to hunt and not to have to do what she did. So that was just a really interesting way of looking at things and it caused me to wonder like, what if nature understands leadership better than we do? Because there was a lot going on there. Now talking about, Heather having to shift her travel due to the war, the conflict that's happening right now in the Middle East, the political shifts, the right wing movements. One of the things I want each of us to do is question, is to remain curious and question is this real? Is this organic or is this manufactured? Are people looking for something to believe in? Where have we lost trust? Have we lost trust in ourselves? Just question what is happening and what's going on. And it's becoming more and more difficult because we've got ai, we've got, all kinds of made up news and news that has agendas and so on. So what if we looked at it all though, having rejected the victim consciousness? If we think about the animal lens, the prey don't collapse into helplessness. They're strategic. They stay alert, but not hysterical. Their nervous systems are aware. They're not in a state of constantly being heightened and they understand the need for balance in the ecosystem. So instead of victim mentality, I would call what they do more of an empowered awareness. They follow instinct rather than react reactivity. And they look for true leadership versus dominance or dominance based leadership. So there's an awful lot that I think that we can learn from that. And so one of the things that came through was the word of the world in the world, but not of it. And so there's this old spiritual phrase that says, we are meant to be in the world, but not of it. And what if that means that? We participate in life. We care about what's happening. We show up for our communities, but we refuse to let the chaos that surrounds us to define us. We won't allow fear to hijack our nervous system. We don't allow the collective drama to become our identity. I really feel that's what the animals were telling us. I think that they exhibited it beautifully. They live fully in the ecosystem, but they are not psychologically trapped by it. So what if we could do the same thing? What if we could step out of that? They respond to life, but they don't become victims of it. So with these things in mind, I would like to move into. A meditation that can, with Reiki that can help us do exactly that. And so I'm just gonna invite everyone to go ahead and what we're go looking at is moving from disturbance to sovereignty today. So I am just gonna invite you now to go ahead and activate Reiki drawing whatever symbols that you wish to have with you here today. And then take a deep breath and just allowing your body to settle. And tonight we begin our meditation in Africa. Was my intention to bring you. They're with us. This is the cradle of humanity. This is where Homo Sapien our species began. I invite you to imagine that you're standing on the savanna with us. The air is warm, and the earth is steady and solid. Beneath your feet, below your feet, there is an earth star chakra. It's a few feet below your feet in the earth, and it's anchoring you deeply into the soil. You feel supported and you're not alone. In this age of disturbance, a herd gathers. We're all here. This herd is calm. They're alert, but they're present. They're not panicked. They haven't collapsed. There is no victim energy here. Just awareness and as you to gather together with this beautiful herd of Reiki practitioners. Notice a predator moving toward us across the horizon. There's no hatred here. There's instinct, there's a role, there's a responsibility feel into this truth. Life is relational, not hierarchical, relational. We are in relationship. With ourselves and with each other, with our lives, and with the earth, and with all life on earth. So bring your awareness now to your own inner predator and prey. Where do you feel hunted? Where do you feel defensive? Where do you feel a need to dominate? I invite you to place your hands on your heart now and invite Reiki to flow and say to yourself, I release victim consciousness. I release the need to dominate. I return to sovereign presence. Now. I invite you to imagine a beautiful light above your head. This is your soul star, a chakra that leads to the stellar gateway. You may notice a beautiful flame. You may notice the color of the energy. This soul star connects us to our higher wisdom through the soul star. The heavenly energies flow through beautiful golden light. Just feel the energy of peace move through you, pouring down through you, through your mind, your throat, your heart, your solar plexus, your root chakra, and all the way down and into the earth. You become a bridge between heaven and earth and feel the beautiful energy of the earth move up through your earth Star, through all of your chakras in your central left and right channels, and go up through your soul, star and into the heavens. Feel yourself firmly connected to the earth and the heavens, the divinity that exists in both. Feel the peace in this moment in time in your body, your mind, your soul, your spirit, and your emotions. Allow your nervous system to quiet and rest. All is well. Now we invite the peace that we feel inwardly to extend outward. We send it to those who are in conflict, those who are in fear. We send it to those who are in power and to those who are suffering and we're sending them Reiki. Not to rescue them, but to help them remember. Remember their sovereignty, their shared humanity to remember community, the importance of community. And now we say to ourselves, may I be steady, may we remember, and may peace begin within. And we'll just breathe here together for a few moments before we close. Collectively, we send Reiki to peace on Earth and we say, may the followers of all the world's religions and spiritual paths work together to create peace among all people on Earth. I. Feel the peace settle into your heart and take up a home there remaining. Know that even amidst the chaos, even amidst the disturbances, you can always return to this space, this peace, this moment in time. Take a deep breath and when you feel ready, you can gently return and remember that the animals don't waste any energy and resentment. They act according to instinct, responsibility, and community. I wonder what would happen if we did the same. Thank you so much for being here with me this evening. Or if you're listening later, I hope that you can take this piece into your world and whenever you get a moment, stop and send peace to the conflicts that are happening in the world and any conflicts that show up within you. I think together as a community, we've got this. There is big change happening right now, but we can all navigate it and in the end it will probably be positive. And so we are not helpless, we're not victims. There's always something we can do. We can always send Reiki. Thank you so much for the beautiful light that you're spreading in the world. I look forward to seeing you next time. Namaste.