As I communicate often with the spirit of those who have left their bodies, I long to share with those who are grieving and feel left behind the awesome feelings, sensations and awareness I experience from those who take flight from the body. It is not what many people may anticipate; guilt, regret, blame, what-ifs. It is quite the opposite generally, as I connect to the Soul level consciousness, which is filled with tremendous expansion, deep understanding, great awareness and light-heartedness, even bliss.

Actually this topic was specifically requested by my Mom, who transitioned a few short months ago. My mother’s Spirit was very communicative and present for me immediately after she left her body. This was quite unusual, as she had been very sick and on lots of medication at the time.

Lag Time for Clarity
Normally in this circumstance I need to wait for a week or more before there is clarity and the ability to communicate from the new bigger perspective. It is rare that a person or animal can pop out of one dimension (physical) and be instantly clear and present on the spiritual plane.

This happened once before with a man who was surfing, and died from a heart attack on the board as he paddled to shore. He was very spiritually focused for many years, and he was able to describe getting up from the surfboard, and walking through a kind of clear jelly-like membrane and voila! He was fully conscious on the other side. He too was quite ecstatic and able to clearly converse about it shortly after his physical death.

Generally it seems to take some time for souls to gather up the energies and regroup in a very different dimension. Only when a being (animal or human ) is quite advanced and aware spiritually do I feel that they are able to orient immediately and share their expanded awareness and spiritual experience. I usually ask clients to wait a few weeks to have a session for this reason.

Cosmic Cruise
Not my MOM—she was raring to go, chatting me up night and day about the Bliss of not being bound to an aging ailing body. She was ECSTATIC and wanted to tell me all about it. I felt like she was experiencing a Cosmic Cruise, able to travel anywhere in the universe instantly with just a thought. She was having a ball!

The first conversation I had with her the day after she passed I asked her to describe what she was experiencing. She related immediately; “you know how I so enjoyed the gorgeous tropical sunsets every evening here in FL?” Losing her eyesight made her extremely grateful for the beauty she was still able to observe each day. “Well, all I have to do now, is THINK of the sunset, and I AM THE SUNSET!!” she crooned excitedly, like a child at their first amusement park. I could feel tingles of joy.

Mom wasn’t close to finished bubbling. “And you, I just think of you, and I can MERGE right into you!” Indeed, I could feel her energy merging with mine as we spoke. By the way, this part is not common or necessary for communicating with Spirit, but does sometimes happen –only with my permission now.

She was delighted with her new abilities and perspectives that opened up to her. She was, as many of us who are left behind try to find solace in, Blissful and FREE.

Animals Spirits are Blissful too
I have experienced this overwhelming joy with so many souls, but one of the first ones really stands out. Pooh Bear, who I dubbed the Buddha Kitty, left his body at the vet’s office and within moments my client called me, quite distraught of course. She wanted to connect with her best friend.

At first I had trouble “finding” him. It took longer than usual and when I mentioned my difficulty connecting, I finally felt him, laughing at me. Pooh Bear said distinctly “ You can’t find me because you are not looking Big enough!” In fact, I had attempted to connect with his rather small kitty body as I had done many times before to send him healing energy. But this time I had to widen my scope, and eventually I cast my energy radar to the width of the whole room, and then I felt him. His energy was HUGE!

The next thing that happened has been life-altering for me. I couldn’t find words to describe the waves and waves of joy, freedom, and ecstacy flowing from him and through me. I knew my client was too sad at the moment to take all this in, yet I so wanted to share my experience.

With this intention, I quickly grabbed a quartz crystal nearby and asked Pooh’s spirit to fill this crystal with his awesome radiant essence, so she could perhaps feel some of what I was tapping into. Quarts crystals are extremely dense and are known for their ability to register and amplify frequencies. I shipped the energized crystal to her, with the instructions to open it when she was ready. I had no idea then what she might feel.

Several weeks later I heard from Pooh Bear’s mom that she opened the golden cloth pouch and removed the crystal, held it and burst out crying. She could instantly feel Pooh Bear’s unique Presence. Since this time I have offered to energize crystals with the essence of the departed souls, and share their unique messages, with the intention that others can access the enormous ecstatic energy and awareness that is available when Spirit takes flight from form.

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Kumari Mullin is a Reiki Master, Animal Communicator, Intuitive Coach, Author, Speaker, attorney and equestrian. She specializes in energetic solutions for pets and their people. For the past 23 years she studied and lived with internationally acclaimed meditation masters, spiritual teachers and healers including Penelope Smith, the pioneer of interspecies telepathic communication. Kumari has helped thousands of people and their animal friends internationally including doctors, veterinarians, trainers, holistic practitioners, rescue organizations and zoos achieve extraordinary transformations. Visit www.KumariHealing.com for FREE articles and healing tips!

TRANSITIONS: A Time of Increased Intuition and Spiritual Gift
PART III : How Life Force Leaves the Body

While I prefer to teach about how energy healing has been successful at restoring bodily functions (aka life), I thought it might be helpful to share my observations of what happens during transitions. As an intuitive energy healer I have a unique perspective to describe what I sense during these often confusing times. Hopefully it will guide and support those of you who go through this yourself, and wish to be more aware of the subtle clues.

When I offer Reiki to someone who is ill, at times I have noticed that the life force, or prana, or subtle energy that permeates the body, is not flowing in certain areas. After a session of applying Reiki, generally the flow returns. Except when it doesn’t. This is often a sign that transition is happening and the life force has begun to release from the body.

I first noticed this when I was giving Reiki to a dear grandmotherly friend of the family. She had fallen ill and my mom asked if I would help. When I applied Reiki, I noticed there was no energy flowing at all from her root chakra at the base of the spine down her legs. Instead I felt a huge channel of energy connecting to the center of her body and flowing upward.

I applied Reiki for more than an hour and her flow did not change. Instinctively, I knew her life force had withdrawn from her feet on up to her belly, and also noticed her kidneys had shut down.

Without revealing my concern about her dying, I made sure she saw her doctor and she was admitted to a hospital immediately. It took them weeks to diagnose that she had kidney failure. I visited her often and she requested Reiki each time, as it seemed to be her only comfort as her body shut down. Even my mom, who was not into Reiki at the time, could see the tightness in her face relax as she drifted off in relief.

It was such a clear demonstration of what happens to the prana in the body during transition that it helped me to identify this process in others. This same experience has borne out many times to give me a heads up that a person’s or animal’s spirit is preparing to leave what one spiritual master referred to as “central jail” (aka the body).

Feet First
My spiritual teacher taught that the life force will make its final exit out the head or crown chakra in a “good death”. I have observed this many times in the AIDS hospice and in my practice — prana always seems to loosen its grip starting from the feet and releasing upward till it exits out the head.

Another way I have experienced transition cues is the inability to ground someone’s energy into the Earth. I once was treating a man long-distance who had lapsed into a coma. I tried many times to connect his root chakra with his grounding cord to help him to pull up some Earth energy into the lower part of his body. No matter how many times I visualized his grounding cord, it would not seem to stay connected to the Earth. He transitioned that evening.

When mom was in the hospital we gave her Reiki several times. At first I noticed that her life force was not flowing much below her lower belly around the second chakra. The next day Western medicine was giving us very mixed reports, as some indicators were improving even while others looked worse. However, when I checked again her energy was removed up to the solar plexus or third chakra.

The following day she had difficulty breathing, and when my partner and I applied Reiki we both felt her energy had released all the way to her throat. She transitioned very shortly after this experience.

Even so, some of her organ systems seemed to be improving so the doctors continued to treat her, and of course we all were hoping for a turnaround. Many times there is a burst of energy right before transition and it fools us all. The prana collects for one final hurrah as it takes energy to exit the physical form, and it is often mistaken for a physical improvement.

Animals demonstrate similar transition processes
Animals also have life force flowing throughout their bodies and it also takes a similar path as they transition. Sometimes I have treated pets that are having difficulty in their hind end. Most often it is a structural issue, when joints and musculature is weakening. However, there are occasions when none of the joint supplements seem to be working. This can be because the life force is leaving the body starting with disconnecting from the hind end. It may take months for the prana to leave completely, or it can be much quicker.

Helps to Prepare Us
Often both animals and people sense this shift and begin preparing long before anyone else realizes. My mom had many prophetic comments that she was leaving soon now that we look back over the past several months and compare notes.

My mom maintained a great sense of humor, and expressed a boatload of gratitude as she anticipated her Finale in form. By the time my entire family had gathered at the hospital, she was quite exhausted and deteriorating rapidly. When the final family members arrived, my two young nephews from Atlanta, she perked up briefly for their visit.

Then she whispered hoarsely something unintelligible. I moved closer but still couldn’t decipher it. I placed my ear to her lips and finally understood what were to be Mom’s last words: “Say goodnight Gracie!”

PS… Don’t despair! Coming next: Transitions Part IV: Taking Flight. Mom and others describe the Bliss of the Spirit Journey.

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Kumari Mullin is a Reiki Master, Animal Communicator, Intuitive Coach, Author, Speaker, attorney and equestrian. She specializes in energetic solutions for pets and their people. For the past 23 years she studied and lived with internationally acclaimed meditation masters, spiritual teachers and healers including Penelope Smith, the pioneer of interspecies telepathic communication. Kumari has helped thousands of people and their animal friends internationally including doctors, veterinarians, trainers, holistic practitioners, rescue organizations and zoos achieve extraordinary transformations. Visit www.KumariHealing.com for FREE articles and healing tips!

The Great White Heron definitely caught my attention. After the ambulance rushed my mom to the emergency room at 3am, the next morning she was admitted. I decided to return home to shower and bring back some clothes for mom. Just as I was leaving the parking lot, the gleaming white giant flew over my car straight toward the hospital, so low the enormous wingspan looked like it wouldn’t clear the building. It was very odd also because locally I usually only see Blue Herons and much smaller egrets.

Courageously, I inquired “what is your message for me?” The ominous response came immediately: “I am coming to take her Home”. Nearly every day during the week my mom was hospitalized, very large birds appeared very close and behaved in unusual ways so I was certain to notice. Different birds, same message.

A few days later when I returned home from the hospital with my brother, two hawks were behaving so strangely that we both paused awhile to observe. My brother surmised they might have a nest, as they repeatedly flew over my house in a circle and landed again and again in the same dead pine tree. But there was no nest.

Dreading the answer, I once again asked the hawks for the message: “We are coming to take her Home”. I kept this to myself, hoping I may be misinterpreting. I even went so far as to think it could mean “home” to her house. But deep down I knew better.

Working as an energy healer and running an AIDS hospice, I have been present at more than my share of transitions, or physical deaths. And I have picked up quite a lot of subtle clues which until now I have not shared. When my mom left her body recently, I was keenly aware of the signs and portents I received, as I had experienced so many similar events.

Helps you to Prepare and Make Appropriate Decisions

Even though I did not like the message, the bird visitations were helping me to prepare and be more aware of what was happening. So when her doctor told me mom was well enough to “go home” after 3 days, I remembered the birds’ messages. I pleaded with him to reconsider as I feared she really was too sick to be alone. Gratefully the doctor agreed to keep her hospitalized another day, and overnight her health tanked. A few days later she transitioned.

Animals as Spirit Guides and Messengers

In Native American traditions, animals have “medicine” or gifts and teachings for us. Hawk is the “messenger of the gods” and often appears to get us to “observe, tune in and listen”.

This was not the first time I had encountered hawks and owls participating in the process of transition, for animals and humans alike. Many of my clients would share similar strange appearances while a loved one was very ill. For many days one kitty in Atlanta had several hawks holding vigil perched on lawn furniture right outside her favorite window. Another woman had multiple unusual owl appearances the entire time her cat was transitioning.

One hawk encounter was so dramatic it surprised even me. The day after one of my animal communication workshops a student called revealing a true horror show when she returned home. Her husband attempted to shoot her and gratefully she got away; however, he did succeed in killing himself!

At that exact moment, a large hawk swooped down to ground level and sped straight toward me! Only in the final two feet did he shoot skyward, narrowly avoiding crashing into my office window. In each case it seemed the birds were somehow involved in escorting the spirits to the other side.

The powerful and dramatic Presence and messages from the birds gave me and my clients a sense of peace and protection under some of the cruelest of circumstances. The birds unusual appearances truly supported us to let go of the physical form and feel more connection and greater trust in the ever-unfolding divine plan.

Copyright Kumari Inc. 2011 All Rights Reserved.

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Kumari Mullin is a Reiki Master, Animal Communicator, Intuitive Coach, Author, Speaker, attorney and equestrian. She specializes in energetic solutions for pets and their people. For the past 23 years she studied and lived with internationally acclaimed meditation masters, spiritual teachers and healers including Penelope Smith, the pioneer of interspecies telepathic communication. Kumari has helped thousands of people and their animal friends internationally including doctors, veterinarians, trainers, holistic practitioners, rescue organizations and zoos achieve extraordinary transformations. Visit www.KumariHealing.com for FREE articles and healing tips!

My good friend, Dr. Masaru Emoto, world renown Water Crystal Expert, is asking for our help in praying for the waters of Japan

Please take a moment to read the request below. My wish is that we all take time to do our part in the healing process for this precious resource.

By Masaru Emoto
Please send your prayers of love and gratitude to water at the nuclear plants in Fukushima, Japan.

By the massive earthquakes of Magnitude 9 and surreal massive tsunamis, more than 10,000 people are still missing, even now. It has been 16 days already since the disaster happened. What makes it worse is that water at the reactors of Fukushima Nuclear Plants started to leak, and it’s contaminating the ocean, air and water molecule of surrounding areas.

Human wisdom has not been able to do much to solve the problem, but we are only trying to cool down the anger of radioactive materials in the reactors by discharging water to them.

Is there really nothing else to do?

I think there is. During over twenty year research of hado measuring and water crystal photographic technology, I have been witnessing that water can turn positive when it receives pure vibration of human prayer no matter how far away it is.

Energy formula of Albert Einstein, E=MC2 really means that Energy = number of people and the square of people’s consciousness.

Now is the time to understand the true meaning. Let us all join the prayer ceremony as fellow citizens of the planet earth. I would like to ask all people, not just in Japan, but all around the world to please help us to find a way out the crisis of this planet!!

The Prayer procedure is as follows.

Name of ceremony:
“Let’s send our thoughts of love and gratitude to all water in the nuclear plants in Fukushima”

Day and Time:
March 31st, 2011 (Thursday)
12:00 noon in each time zone

Please say the following phrase:
“The water of Fukushima Nuclear Plant, we are sorry to make you suffer. Please forgive us. We thank you, and we love you.”

Please say it aloud or in your mind. Repeat it three times as you put your hands together in a prayer position. Please offer your sincere prayer.

Thank you very much from my heart.

With love and gratitude,
Masaru Emoto

After Suki, my teacher in doggie clothes, transitioned, my sister offered me a puppy, Nyoman. Everyone said she was a perfect match for me, and we did share an amazing connection. But I did not feel a complete “yes”. One day I was cuddling with Nyoman wrapped around the top of my head, and I began to ask if she was supposed to come live with me. I asked all the normal questions: “Is it in our highest and best good? Yes. “Will we have a great life together?” Yes. “Does she want to be with us?” Yes. I was stumped as I felt 99% “yes” on all levels, yet there was something not quite right. Finally I asked the $64,000 dollar question: “Will I fulfill my Soul Purpose if I take this puppy now?” “NO” came the answer loud and clear.

This is where I felt the hesitation. While on most levels it was a wonderful choice, it would be a distraction to fulfilling what I had set out to accomplish now on a Soul level. I felt that it was time to truly dedicate myself to my recently revealed mission of being: 1) a clear channel inspiring awareness and compassion on a global scale through exploring the human/animal spiritual connection; 2) a catalyst for global ascension through conscious vibrational healing.

While others may balance these two duties skillfully, I have a tendency to be a completely devoted, insanely present doggie mommy and relegate my other duties to the bottom of the list. I always semi-joked that I would like to come back next life as my dog!

Asking More Precisely Speeds Healing
In an animal communication workshop, I was demonstrating on a horse how I combine energy healing with telepathy. The horse did not release his back pain until the second day when we hit on a more precise question about why he was holding this pain. A past trauma surfaced, and we were able to feel his emotions for a bit and then he was able to easily release his stiffness.

I recently listened to an audio from my mentor, the pioneer in inter-species telepathic communication, Penelope Smith. She reminded me of a question I always asked my human clients to help them understand why they may be “choosing” to experience a certain negative situation from a spiritual perspective.

Penelope asked a very fearful cat who had a wound that the cat kept scratching open “what problem is this solving to have a wound not healing?” The cat thought about it and remembered long ago that she decided that if she were ugly enough, people and animals would stay away from her. With this new understanding uncovered, the cat had a complete turn-around, healing up very quickly and becoming very affectionate!

I have seen this phenomenon very often with pets and people. When we begin to consciously be aware of how an injury or illness may have benefited us, we then can re-evaluate and more consciously re-choose.

A 10 year old girl was visiting my family with her mother, an old friend who was touring the house with my mom. The daughter began complaining of pain in her injured leg. She had broken a bone playing baseball and had recently gotten her cast removed.

I offered some Reiki healing and she accepted, though quite skeptical. Normally children and animals are much quicker than adults to allow the healing energy to balance them. But this child had no energy flowing in her leg, and I suspected she was totally blocking the healing on some level. So I had to get creative to find a way to help a child understand why she may be holding on to the pain without creating any blame.

I remembered when I was 15, I fell off my horse and broke my elbow, and went to a prom with a cast. I kinda liked the attention I got from everyone as they lined up to sign my cast. So I got her to talk about how all the boys would sign her cast and draw funny things, and her eyes lit up retelling the stories. I asked if she enjoyed all the attention she had received with a cast, and she emphatically replied “YES”! Then I asked her how much she liked playing baseball, and she beamed. She was a very talented athlete and enjoyed it immensely. But her injury had benched her for months.

Then came the $64,000 question: “Are you ready to let go of the attention you are getting for being injured, and once again enjoy the attention you receive and the fun you have playing baseball?” She honestly considered this for a few moments, and then decided that yes, she would prefer the positive attention she got from her athletics.

Instantly the energy began flowing through her whole leg, and within seconds she excitedly declared “the pain is gone! She ran after her mom delighted to tell her of the “miracle” that her knee didn’t hurt anymore!

Benefits of Natural Disasters?
In the same light, I began contemplating the earthquake and tsunami and resulting radioactive threat in Japan. I decided to employ the same tactic and ask “What problem are these disasters solving for Mother Earth?”

I lit some sage, walked barefoot around our property, and received this message:

“The Grand Entrance to the New Dimension has been unfurled. Mother Earth is freeing herself of old “straight-jackets” or structures that have been inappropriately containing her.

You can send positive energies to ones who have crossed over. When you raise your vibration it helps them to come out of the chaos and confusion and go to their destiny as Spirit. To embrace the light and the love that is surrounding them and welcoming them Home to who they truly are.”

Restoring Ecosystems: Love is the Answer – Again
Synchronistically, I came across this excerpt from Penelope Smith in Species Link Journal, from the dolphins’ response to a question about how to restore ecosystems:

“The only thing that will restore the ocean and Earth to purity is the balm (vibration) of pure love…it is not the technologies of men that will save the oceans, but the energy of love brought to bear on the situation. Within this love, the proper actions and mechanical devices, minerals, herbs will be created that change the impurities magnetic alignment so that they are removed from toxic emanation and are realigned as nutrients for the Earth.

The vibration and halo of love emanation that you spread will enlighten all beings, so that all act in harmony and peace. This will bring the alignment necessary to restore the purity of the environment, which all the inventions of humans without the love could not do. We are here to help you to remember and to return that Oneness that is in your memory, and is our true nature.” (Excerpt from “The Cetacean/Human Evolution of Being, Summer/Autumn issue 1997)

International Women’s Day marks the celebration of women across the globe. It also marks the launch of the inspirational and moving book, Empowering Transformations for Women ~ True Stories of Purpose, Faith and Action to Guide You Through Your Ever-Unfolding Personal and Professional Life. This empowering new anthology book by Powerful You! Publishing ($19.95, ISBN 978-1-4507-5908-3) is a collection of stories by 40 women from various backgrounds.

The authors share their individual stories of transformation through adversity, self-discovery and spiritual awakening. The stories reveal the authors’ less-than-ideal circumstances and emotional struggles—including loss, divorce, abuse, neglect, lack of connection, self-esteem issues and more—to their current state of being, which is one of empowerment, joy and self-love.

Kumari shares her unique journey from civil rights attorney to Reiki Master Healer and animal intuitive. The authors chose to tell their stories as a way to assist and provide hope and direction for other women who may be experiencing similar situations in their lives: The idea being that if the authors have made changes that work for them, others can too.

“The authors of this book dug deep into their hearts to provide truthful accounts of their journey through some pretty tough and touching circumstances. They are strong women and they deserve the peace of mind and freedom they now enjoy.” says Sue Urda, one of the compilers and authors of the book.

The anthology book is compiled by Sue Urda and Kathy Fyler, Co-Founders of Powerful You! Inc., a connections company designed for business, personal and spiritual growth.

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In grade school my teachers taught that animals had no soul and therefore were inferior beings. It didn’t make sense to me then, and certainly does not ring true now. In fact, my experience is quite the opposite.

I have found animals to be amazing teachers in general, for demonstrating qualities humans could certainly aspire to, such as: unconditional love, light-heartedness, patience, persistence, and forgiveness. These are qualities that most of my clients would say their pets possess in abundance. But it doesn’t end there.

Author Penelope Smith observes that “animals can teach us about our own true nature, since most of them always know and never disconnect from awareness of themselves as eternal spirit functioning within the whole web of life.” I would have to agree. I have witnessed animals who are clearly Spiritual Teachers, serving to show us more evolved ways of being better humans.

I spent over two decades studying with renowned Spiritual Masters. Then I began to notice how certain animals were assuming the same roles, teaching us how to meditate, how to be fully present no matter what is happening, how to release old energies and patterns instantly, and how to do advanced and profound healings.

Animals as Meditation Masters
A client called me years ago about her cat who was diagnosed with cancer with very little time left. I sent Reiki and he had instant relief from many of the discomforts of the cancer. There was a sense of completion with his human, as he saw her through a very challenging time. But now he was a bit despondent as he was waiting to die. He needed another purpose.

So we talked about what he could focus on now and the cat showed me that he was a powerful and skilled meditator. His person confessed to being a bit stuck in this area, as she would get to a certain place of emptiness, and would become afraid. I suggested that the cat could become her Meditation Teacher with whatever time he had remaining…he became elated and got to work immediately.

Her “Buddha Kitty” then proceeded to support her by first going to different states of consciousness, having me describe them and hold the space, and then his person would more easily access them. Her fear diminished with each session.

Animals as Master Healers
I once asked my puppy Suki who she was in that little doggy body and she communicated that she was a “healer” but she wanted to be somewhat incognito and work unconventionally. I attuned her to Reiki early on, and made the mistake of initiating her paws. Suki proceeded to use her paws and “punch” people at times in their solar plexus, and just as I was about to scold her, people reported that she shifted major blockages they had been unable to release!

When Suki was very near transitioning, I was very sad as she had a huge open tumor on her shoulder. I curled up with her on the couch in my office one night. Suki immediately filled the room with a blanket of enveloping energy that was so thick I felt like I was in the Divine Womb, and all my fear and sadness melted away. Suki explained telepathically that I should not just treat the body with healing energy, but fill the room with it too so that people and animals would feel safe and be able to more easily release their limitations.

“Be Here Now”
Much of human misery stems from the fact that we are most often living in the past or the future, rarely in the present moment. Animals are incredibly able to demonstrate this ability to be fully present.

People often call me to find out if their animals are in pain. Though animals feel all types of pain, they often are not experiencing it the way humans are because they are not obsessing mentally about it. They have the ability to be fully in each moment. So one moment they are perhaps aware of their body and its discomforts, and the next they are watching a bird, and so fully in that moment that there is little or no pain experience.

So if you have been secretly wondering if your Snoopy is a Sage or Shaman, if Buddy the Beagle is a Buddha, or Lucky the cat is a Lightworker, you may be on to something. Don’t let the fur or feathers fool you! There are some pretty awesome spiritual adepts masquerading in animal garb. And I would love to hear your Teacher Tails :)

A powerful and free tool is now available for women seeking personal development assistance and spiritual freedom. It is the Empowering Transformations Telesummit, designed for personal growth, business development and spiritual enlightenment.

The Telesummit, which features co-author Kumari Mullin (www.KumariHealing.com), is an interview format and consists of 40 expert and novice speakers sharing 20 hours of practical tools, tips and secrets that they have learned through their years of life and business experience. The speakers are all authors in the new book, Empowering Transformations for Women available through Amazon on March 8th.

Speaker topics include: removing blocks to success, relationship advice, moving past dieting, public speaking secrets, beyond business success, tips for energy management, divorce strategies, toxic overload, moving from pain to pleasure, animals and their stories, family dynamics, finding inner strength and so much more. Each interview is 30 minutes.

The Telesummit takes place over four days: February 28th, and March 1st, 2nd and 3rd. Presentation times are 12:00 – 2:30pm and 7:00 – 9:30pm EST each day (This is ten 30-minute sessions per day). There is no charge to attend.

“We are grateful to present these incredible authors and speakers, because they are real women who share their personal journeys for the benefit and growth of others,” says Sue Urda, Interviewer and Co-Founder of Powerful You! Inc. “We are honored to know them and happy that the lives of other women will be less stressful and more fulfilling because of the information we share in this Telesummit.”

The Empowering Transformations Telesummit is the second in a series of business and personal development seminars presented by Powerful You! Women’s Network. Additional series will be presented throughout the coming year.

The Telesummit is presented by Sue Urda and Kathy Fyler, Co-Founders of Powerful You! Inc., a connections company to enhance business, personal and spiritual growth.

To register for the Telesummit and to purchase the book visit www.etfwomen.com. Those who purchase the book on March 8th through the website will receive 50+ inspirational and useful bonus gifts. The book is also available on Amazon.com.

This is not just a special “gift to the few”. Kumari has successfully taught hundreds of people to tune into their animals on a telepathic level and to apply energy healing techniques. Dr. Gerald Buchoff, Past President of American Holistic Veterinary Association attests: “Kumari is the best teacher I’ve met in preparing a person for animal communication. Her workshop opened me wide to the reality of my strong and unresolved (until now!) connection to my deceased best friend who happened to be a golden retriever.”

Join Kumari and 100 experts from around the globe including Braco from Croatia, Viktoras Kulvinskas from Lithuania, Rai Ratan from India, Sean David Morton, James Capers and Dr Joel Wallach from California. Experience transformational workshops on Personal Growth, Metaphysics, Holistic Wellness, Zen, Reiki, Angels, Visionary Art and Handcrafts, Feng Shui, Crystals and Jewelry, Intuitive Counselors, Health Products, Acupuncture, Yoga, Raw Food, Skin Care, Energy Treatments, Massage and Environmental resources. Nine events are happening simultaneously, and two yoga classes every hour and half.

The highly-anticipated NewLife Expo’s goal is to assist you in reaching the healthiest maximum potential in mind, body, spirit by offering fun experiential presentations, while offering a large vendor shopping area with over 75 conscious and healthy products and services.

Braco from Croatia will be transforming your energy hourly with his famous Gazing Sessions. You can attune your vibration to the Ancient Crystal Skulls, Pancho and Mustang. Hourly children’s programs include yoga, puppet shows, arts and crafts, drumming and dancing.

Kumari will offer discounted individual animal communication and energy healing sessions at her booth throughout the two-day Expo for only $45. She will also lead two experiential presentations at the Expo that are free with general admission:

Saturday, February 19, 2011
Animal Healing Techniques
12:00 pm – Room 318

Sunday, February 20, 2011
5 Keys to Successful Animal Communication
6:00 pm – Room 302

So take a weekend out of your ordinary life and enjoy an extraordinary world of possibilities. NEWLIFE Yoga and Raw Food Expo will be at Broward County Convention Center, 1950 Eisenhower Blvd in Ft Lauderdale, FL. Expo hours are 10 am to 8 pm Saturday and Sunday, Feb 19 & 20. Day Passes are $15 at the door; a 2 -Day Pass is $25 at door; Workshops and Special Events are $20 at the door. For more info on the Expo visit www.NewLifeExpo.com or call 561-897-0900.

Kumari Mullin is a Reiki Master, Intuitive Healer, author, Counselor and Animal Communicator. She has been practicing and teaching intuitive and energy healing with animals and humans since 1991. Her passion for unveiling the deeply spiritual connection between humans and animals evokes the mystical from the mundane. Her clients include doctors, veterinarians, Olympians, trainers, holistic practitioners, rescue organizations and she has taught at the International Polo Club and Atlanta Zoo.

Many of my Reiki students are professional bodyworkers and massage therapists. Reiki is a lovely complement to massage, both for the recipient and the practitioner. I highly recommend that students incorporate Reiki into their massage therapy sessions as both the practitioners and their clients have reported immediate and noticeable results.

Even seasoned healers experience huge shifts from Reiki attunements. One highly successful therapist, Stephanie Andersen LMT reported: “I am a hands-on healer and massage therapist for 13 years and after your Reiki I seminar, there is a noticeable bumping up of what I feel in my hands, and how my clients are responding to the sessions. In the first week, one regular client who had her painful arm in a sling after an injury, commented the next day, ‘It’s unbelievable. The magic you have is just phenomenal. I woke up today with good range of motion, my pain level is at a one, and I have not had to use a sling. It’s like night and day, from yesterday to today.’ Thank you for a wonderful, rewarding seminar! This Reiki flow of love and healing heals me as well, and it fills me with a quiet joy as I do it.”

Not only is Reiki effective for the client, it speeds up the healing response and is beneficial to helping the massage therapist recharge. Massage therapist without the support of Reiki can often become injured and frustrated.

Several years ago massage and holistic health veteran Jan O’Han, LMT, owner of Positive Change Health Center in FL had this experience: “I was ready to quit my massage practice after 22 years, due to increasing pain in my elbow. Kumari suggested I take a Reiki class, and that it may help shift the space I am working from. After the first day of Reiki Level I class, I practiced on my 11 year old daughter, who immediately commented on the heat coming from my hands. As I worked on her a bit longer, I noticed a huge shift. For 22 years of massage practice, I had always felt like I was working hard to produce a release; that it was my energy directly that had to move things through the recipients’ body. For the first time, I felt that there was something (energy) moving through me, not coming from me, which was supporting the release. What a relief!” PS I have not quit yet!”

Similarly, in a recent article from Massage Mag.com, author Patty Nuovo, LMT, expresses beautifully:

“Reiki is a natural method of healing and self-improvement that can benefit everyone. It has shown to be effective in helping illnesses and maladies, and also works in conjunction with other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.”

A recent article published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, titled “Effects of Reiki on Autonomic Activity Early After Acute Coronary Syndrome,” by Rachel S.C. Friedman, Matthew M. Burg, Pamela Miles, Forrester Lee and Rachel Lampert, stated: “In the above study, published in one of the most prestigious peer-reviewed conventional medical journals, patients who received a 20-minute Reiki treatment within three days after suffering a heart attack showed improved mood and heart rate variability (HRV).”

The ability to use Reiki is not taught in the usual sense, but is transferred to the student during a Reiki class. This ability is passed on during an “attunement” given by a Reiki Master and allows the student to tap into an unlimited supply of life-force energy to improve one’s health and enhance quality of life. Hence, the name rei is life force and ki is energy.

What sets Reiki apart from other touch therapies is the attunement process. During attunements, there are various stages of energy amplification, which is why Reiki is divided into three levels. Because each level of Reiki increases a person’s vibratory rate, it is good to allow a sufficient period of time in order to adjust to the higher vibration and the sloughing off of the old patterns before progressing to the next level of Reiki. The attunements affect each individual differently, depending upon that person’s vibratory rate at the time of the attunements.

If you have already spent time on your inner wellness, personal growth and expanding your awareness, the attunements will provide a quantum leap in your personal and spiritual growth. However, the expansion of energy will be relative to the level you start from; therefore, you will never receive more than you can handle.

Reiki goes beyond the level of gross physiology and conventional medicine. It is able to access the power available at the quantum level of existence, which is much greater than that found at the grosser levels. We are all energetic beings vibrating at a level which manifests as physical density. However, since our true essence is energy, then we continually have energy running through us.

Deepak Chopra has helped people understand how Reiki truly works through his explanation of quantum healing. The difference between a person attuned to Reiki and one who is not can be easily explained: A laser and a flashlight both utilize light; however, the laser takes the same light, and by organizing it into a coherent quantum vibration, boosts its power enough to cut through steel. Someone who is not attuned to Reiki is like the flashlight whose band of light is much more spread out, and a person attuned to Reiki is like the laser.” (Reprinted from Massage Mag.com, 1/3/2011 “Reiki and the Massage Therapist”)

Who is ready to upgrade their flashlight to a laser?