Sound Healing with Animals

Sound Healing with Lambs - Gill Evans

As a farmers wife I have responsibility for watering and feeding the animals. Ever since I trained in Sound Healing and Reiki I have set up a hospital area in one of my sheds.

We have some lambs that are born unable to walk; this condition is called sway back, due to a lack of copper during their time in the womb. It is awful to see. They are unable to use their legs and their balance is non-existent. No medicine from the vet is of any use, so we had to put them down.

It is an awful thing to say but life on the farm is very hard sometimes, tears always flow when situations like this happen.

About two years ago I said to my husband, why don't I try some healing on the lambs and see what happens. Anything is worth a try he said, not really thinking that the healing would work.

I said give me a week to see what happens. I spent about half an hour a day in the pen with the lamb and its mother, sitting on a bucket.

I held the lamb over my knees and started sounding. The lamb went very still and very relaxed. I can always picture the look of trust the lamb gave me, that tugged at my heartstrings even further.

I use the power of sound intuitively. I concentrated on its base chakra and spine. I even sang a beautiful melody to the lamb at one stage in the healing.

It took a week of sounding with improvements every day. By the end of the week the lamb could stand on its feet with quite a few wobbles with my support.

My husband went to check the lamb one day and shouted. "Gill you will have to come and see this."

The lamb was up on his own in the pen and taking a few steps. My husband could not believe it and had never seen anything like it before. I just smiled with my heart full of joy and love.

He was the first of many to be healed with sound and all sway back lambs are healed now. There are also other animals on the farm that are sung to with amazing effects.

What a beautiful thing it is, the power of sound.

Gill Evans - Llanfair Caereinion

Sound Healing with Seals - Amy Morgan

I live on an island called Shetland in the very North of Scotland. These isles are full of wildlife, including seals, otters, and a variety of seabirds and migrating birds. Up until the late 1980s there was nowhere on the island to treat injured or sick wild animals. Due to the fact that fishing is one of the main industries, seals in particular are seen as pests and nothing was being done to protect them.

My mum started looking after seals and otters in 1988 after we found an abandoned baby common seal on the beach outside our house. Word spreads fast in Shetland and after this incident people started to ring up and bring seals and other animals to us to look after.

In 1993, when the Braer oil tanker ran aground on the south coast of Shetland we were inundated with injured and oil covered animals. At this time we had very basic facilities to care for the animals but this incident brought awareness of the need for a wildlife sanctuary in the isles, and we were made a charity- the Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary.

In order to help fund the sanctuary my mum turned our house, a 400 year old building which was originally a pub into a vegetarian and vegan café and restaurant where people pay by donation.

Volunteers come to help with the café, sanctuary and gardens in the summer months and we have also held storytelling nights, tai chi, shamanic and natural healing workshops.

We try to use natural and holistic methods in treating the animals as much as possible as they are wild creatures and respond well to natural healing and a lot can be learned from working with them in this way.

It was an experience working with a seal that inspired me to learn more about sound healing. In December 2005, Isis, an adult grey seal arrived at the sanctuary. She had been found on the road in a village 30 miles away and had been badly injured by a boat, resulting in her being blind.

Due to the distress that she was in, and the extent of her injuries it was really difficult for us to handle her as she was very ferocious and we were unsure if she would survive.

In an attempt to calm her down, I sat next to her and started to sing to her, making mainly low sounds. Within ten minutes, she was much calmer and more relaxed, making it easier for us to care for her. Eventually her injuries healed, and although she was now blind, she was healthy and we were able to release her back to the wild.

Since this experience, I have practiced toning with other seals, particularly babies that have been abandoned and they respond extremely well to the sounds. It seems to have a really soothing effect on them, perhaps similar to the sound of their mother, as seals often sound like they are singing themselves.

I hope to continue to practice and learn how to use sound healing in this way as I feel it is a very powerful, effective and organic way of promoting an individual's own abilities to heal and be well, both in animals and humans.

For more information please contact Amy Morgan at :- Hillswick Wildlife Sanctuary, Hillswick, Shetland, ZE2 9RW.