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HTA session & essential oils made him kick up his heels!
Sharing a moment toward the end of a HTA session. When he returned to the pasture, he rolled, rubbed his back, got up on feet, shook himself all over twice, then kicked up his heels. Literally!Wanda Buckner, Ed.D., CHTP, HTAP, Reiki Mstr
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Trudie was scared and hadn't been loved
She’d had a hard life. You could see it on her face. When I took hold of her leash and spoke to her, she froze and looked at the ground. She put up no resistance as I picked her up and loaded her into my car. Now, Trudie, my newest foster dog, was on her way to yet another home…mine.
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Indy was rescued by Table Mountain Animal Shelter
Indy came to us when he was six months old and was rescued from Table Mountain Animal Shelter. He was the perfect dog from day one. We never had him on a leash, he walked beside us when we rode our horses, went camping with us, and went with me to all my client appointments. He stole my heart the moment I saw him in his cage, and he never gave it back.
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Dr. Brooke Ferguson
I first learned about Carol Komitor’s Healing Touch for Animals® (HTA) classes about four years ago and had no reservations about following my heart and traveling to Colorado on several occassions to learn about something new and exciting. Since this time, I have been greatly rewarded with numerous deeply meaningful healing experiences. The most profound was when my twin sister told me her cat, Chessie, was losing weight and not eating well. I was hoping it was hyperthyroidism but had in my mind renal failure, diabetes, cancer or heart disease as other causes. When her bloodwork came back, I had never seen anything worse in my seven years of practice. Her kidney enzymes were higher than any I’d ever seen and she was clinically severely depressed and dehydrated.
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Rusty had separation anxiety whenever we left home
I met Nancy and her then, four month old German shepherd named Rusty, two years ago shortly after Nancy adopted him from a local Humane Society. Nancy told me at the time of Rusty’s first Healing Touch session, that her home was his fourth home since he was born. She described him as a normal, energetic puppy. Then about one month later, a family member was whisked away by ambulance to the hospital, and Rusty was left alone for the first time in his new home. He began showing signs of separation anxiety. It was at this time that Nancy contacted me for assistance with his emotional issues. I recommended a special blend of English Flower Essences for Rusty, along with providing two Healing Touch sessions over a course of three weeks.
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Fiona has started eating and has gained over one half pound.
I discovered Fiona at our Animal Shelter in March, 2008 – since we foster regularly for the shelter I had made a trip up there to see about her. The staff had been talking to me as she was not doing well. Her owners had allowed her to be abused at a drunken party (her whiskers were burned off on both sides of her face). Then they abandoned her to the shelter. Fiona is 10 and was not eating at the shelter so she came home to my husband and myself and 29 other precious cats and kittens.
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After surgery, Feather's energy came back quickly and she soon wanted more freedom.
Feather is a lovely, shy cat. She was born under a trailer in the desert and knew only the outside until we adopted her and her sister at 7 weeks of age. She has lived with at least 2 dogs, her sister and 2 moms in the same house for 11 years now. She is very attached to her home and prefers the indoor life. If all the doors were open, Feather would stay in the house and probably try to keep the dogs from coming back in.
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Carol Komitor has given Willie and me a wonderful gift of understanding that I believe we both longed for but didn't know how to achieve.
Willie is a 6 year old Black and Tan American Coon Hound. He was found in the mountains of North Georgia five years ago by some friends of mine. He was dragging a severely crushed back leg, had broken ribs, many open sores and was almost a skeleton. The vet who examined him said it had been several months since he was injured. She was unable to save his leg and so it was amputated. The day after the surgery, he came to live with me.
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Carol Komitor demonstrates on Rocky at a Muskegon HTA workshop
My Shetland Sheepdog, Rocky, and I have been attending HTA classes in Muskegon, MI, since 1997. Shortly prior to that year, Rocky had been diagnosed with a Sinus Bradycardia (slow heart rate) of unknown origin by Michigan State University. A normal heart rate for a dog Rocky’s size is between 80-120 beat per minute. Rocky’s heart rate was consistently a mere 50-60 beats per minute. Trials of medications both by injection and pill to stimulate a higher heart rate failed. I was told that Rocky’s condition had the potential to escalate to fainting episodes or sudden heart failure. The only treatment option, should fainting episodes occur, was surgical pacemaker implantation.
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"HTA therapy is, I believe, the absolute best choice of treatment for the terminally ill to provide peace, wholeness, and readiness for completion."
Garfunckel was diagnosed by MRI with an inoperable brain tumor. She had lost vision in one eye and was slowly losing sight in the other. The trips to the vet during diagnosis made her very unhappy. At this particular period in her life, she would become upset as soon as she was placed in the car. Her only option for veterinary treatment was Colorado State University, School of Veterinary Medicine for radiation therapy, where she would have had to stay over for days at a time. Garfunckel clearly did not want the trips or the time away from home.
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Chance is fully recuperated, and back to her loving, playful self.
I was very excited to be learning Healing Touch for Animals® (HTA), and eager to start using the techniques that I learned. I got my first call just days after completing the HTA courses in Dewy, Arizona.
Chance, a black lab, jumped out of a pick up truck, at 45 mph. She was rushed to the vet, with some very serious injuries. Her prognosis was not good. She had a lot of damage to her back end, and not knowing if there was any internal bleeding, was not expected to survive. The vet did all he could to mend and repair her, but there was a doubt that she would have control of her bowels again. Two days later she was released from the vet to go home to heal, though she was not totally out of danger.
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Raven, Appie, and Henry the Horses
When the Humane Society and our local veterinarian came to inspect and weigh the boys, they were overwhelmed by the change.
Raven, a black Paso Fino, Appie, an Appaloosa, and Henry, whose origin is unknown, came to me because no one wanted them or could take three stallions. They came from a place where two of them were in a sea of mud with nine other horses. Raven, was never let out of his stall in the barn and he was seen eating the manure in the stall because that was all there was to eat.
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After Healing Touch, Patrick was bright eyed, steady on his feet, and more like his own sweet self.
I volunteer energy work on a horse farm near my home in Nova Scotia. One of the farm’s mandates is to provide care for horses in transition. This may take the form of rest, rehabilitation, retraining or simply allowing them a safe space to pass over. In the summer of 2003, there had been four, unexpected deaths in close succession; including the loss of a two day old foal. These deaths had left all involved feeling rather weary and discouraged. I was at a low ebb when I arrived for the level 3 HTA in Denver in August but soon felt re-energized surrounded by the good people and new learning at the clinic.
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We had a happy ending to a very scary situation.
Our 11-month-old colt, Knobby, got colic. He was lying down on his side, and wouldn’t get up. Of course, no one can get a 500 lb horse up if he doesn’t want to…
We called two vets and a friend we thought might have some Bantamine on hand. This happened at 5:30 p.m. No one was answering, so I started in on energy work. I did magnetic Clearing, modulated energy on his belly, and even did some etheric Clearing.
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Ote' responded easily to the Healing Touch work and was back to full training in 6-8 weeks with no soreness.
I would like to share with you a wonderful healing success. I first met Lil Ote’ when he was a two-year-old gelding, bred to be a competition cutting horse. His personality was light-hearted and joyful. He was eager to learn and eager to please. He also carried a sassy, playful teen-age presence that made a person instantly like him.
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Kathy Veder's "magic hands" have helped two of her thoroughbreds in the last year.
Flirty McGuerty is a 9-year-old thoroughbred mare. She has foaled three times but has always been extremely difficult to get in foal. In the spring of 2002, she gave birth to a beautiful filly. She had no problems with the birthing process.
Cathy Jacob of Crosswind Farm in Okeana, Ohio told me they had planned to breed Flirty McGuerty in her nine-day heat cycle. She did not have a nine-day heat cycle. They put her on Regimate and checked in 14-18 days. Nothing. They tried Prostaglandin. Nothing. They did everything possible to stimulate Flirty McGuerty but she did not cooperate.