By Sheila Marina, Planet of Peace Energy Healing
The dog was circling in the hallway when I arrived.
She was one year old — a puppy gifted to her owner as a retirement present by a loving son who meant well. The dog mom had been looking forward to this chapter of her life — afternoon tea with a nearby neighbour who had become a good friend, plans to travel together, the earned stillness of a life well lived. She had always had dogs. Her family loved dogs. She welcomed this one with open arms.
The puppy had been separated from her mother very young — perhaps too young to be fully weaned. And she had never settled into the home. She stayed far away — down the hall, up the stairs. Always alert. Always watching. Never quite arriving in the space where her person was.
They loved each other. And they could not quite find each other.
When I began the session, the dog was circling in the hallway — restless, watchful, keeping her distance. Within a few short moments, she walked over and lay down comfortably at my feet.
I sat down on the floor with her. We began.
Through the Body Code, we identified multiple active trapped emotions — many of them rooted in the earliest weeks of her life, the period of separation from her mother, the transition into a new home with unfamiliar sounds and smells and rhythms. Each emotion was identified and released, one by one, with the same precision and gentleness applied to every human session.
Then we released the emotion of fear.
The dog let out an audible sigh — a full, slow exhale — and her body softened further into the floor.
That sigh is something I have witnessed many times in sessions with animals. It is the body’s way of announcing that something has shifted. It is involuntary, unperformed, and unmistakable. The nervous system, no longer bracing against something it has been holding, finally lets go.
After completing the dog’s session, I turned my attention to the dog mom. She had been sitting quietly through the session, watching her animal settle in a way she had never seen before. I offered to release several active emotions for her as well — because the emotional field of a household is shared, and what the animal carries is often connected to what the person carries.
When I said goodbye, the two of them were sitting comfortably together in the family living room. The dog was resting. The dog mom was at ease. The distance that had defined their first year together had, in the space of one session, begun to close.
Animals do not have the cognitive framework to process emotional experiences the way humans do. They cannot name what they feel. They cannot reflect on a difficult period and decide to move past it. They cannot tell you what happened to them before they arrived in your home.
What they can do — with extraordinary sensitivity — is absorb the emotional frequencies present in their environment and hold them in their bodies.
A rescue animal carries the imprint of wherever it was before you. The fear of those early days. The confusion of sudden change. The absence of the mother, the littermates, the first familiar smells. These experiences lodge in the animal’s nervous system as trapped emotional energy, and they express themselves as the behaviours that concern you most: anxiety, reactivity, withdrawal, aggression, an inability to settle, a watchfulness that never fully relaxes.
Animals who have been with their families since birth carry something different — and equally significant. They absorb the emotional field of the household. A period of conflict between partners. A season of financial stress. A family member’s grief. A move. A loss. The animal takes in what is present in the energetic environment and holds it — faithfully, uncomplainingly, often at the cost of their own wellbeing.
This is why a pet’s behaviour often shifts when the household shifts. A dog who became anxious during a difficult period may remain anxious long after the period has passed — because the trapped emotion was installed and never cleared. The household moved on. The animal’s body did not.
I want to share a second story — because honesty about what energy healing can and cannot do matters as much as celebrating what it can.
A large rescue Pitbull with a genetic seizure disorder was brought to my Bowmanville office for five consecutive weekly sessions. This beautiful dog was on multiple medications administered four times daily. The seizures were frequent and distressing for the entire family.
In each session, the dog explored the entire office before settling — and then we sat together on the floor and worked. We found and released several trapped emotions still active from as early as four months old — the age at which, the owners believed, the puppy had been in a home with many children where treatment was less than gentle. We identified and corrected cranial misalignments still present from that early period. The subconscious confirmed the emotions were cleared and the misalignments realigned.
After the first session, the seizures stopped for an entire week. Then they resumed — at a slower rate initially, and eventually returning to their prior frequency.
The emotional healing was real. The early trauma was genuinely addressed. And the genetic biological component of the seizure disorder was beyond the reach of energetic work.
I share this because your animal deserves a practitioner who will tell you the truth. Energy healing can release trapped emotions, clear energetic imbalances, and address the emotional roots of behavioural and physical patterns. It can transform an anxious animal into a settled one, a reactive animal into a calm one, a withdrawn animal into one who finally comes close. What it cannot do is rewrite genetic biology.
The owners brought flowers on the last day, along with a generous tip for the effort. They understood what had been genuinely accomplished and what remained beyond the work. That honesty — between practitioner and client — is something I value more than any outcome.
Sessions for animals follow the same principles as sessions for people — the Emotion Code and Body Code systems, muscle testing, the body’s own intelligence guiding the work.
In person: The animal comes to my office in Bowmanville, or I make a home visit. The pet’s comfort comes first — they are free to explore, to settle at their own pace, to be exactly as they are. Many animals relax remarkably quickly once the session begins. Their sensitivity to energetic work is often greater than a human’s.
Via Zoom: The session is conducted on the animal’s behalf, without the pet being present on camera. I connect with the animal’s energy field remotely — distance changes nothing in this work — and the session is recorded so you can watch every step. Many pet owners find the recording itself deeply moving, as it reveals what their animal has been holding in language they can finally understand.
Every session — in person and via Zoom — is accompanied by a detailed written report documenting everything found and everything released. Many clients bring this report to their veterinarian, and the conversation that follows often opens new avenues of understanding between conventional and energetic care.
Sessions for animals follow the same principles as sessions for people — the Emotion Code and Body Code systems, muscle testing, the body’s own intelligence guiding the work.
In person: The animal comes to my office in Bowmanville, or I make a home visit. The pet’s comfort comes first — they are free to explore, to settle at their own pace, to be exactly as they are. Many animals relax remarkably quickly once the session begins. Their sensitivity to energetic work is often greater than a human’s.
Via Zoom: The session is conducted on the animal’s behalf, without the pet being present on camera. I connect with the animal’s energy field remotely — distance changes nothing in this work — and the session is recorded so you can watch every step. Many pet owners find the recording itself deeply moving, as it reveals what their animal has been holding in language they can finally understand.
Every session — in person and via Zoom — is accompanied by a detailed written report documenting everything found and everything released. Many clients bring this report to their veterinarian, and the conversation that follows often opens new avenues of understanding between conventional and energetic care.
If your animal has been showing signs of anxiety, reactivity, withdrawal, or a behavioural shift that you sense is connected to something deeper — energy healing offers a way to follow their body’s intelligence to the source.
For more on how trapped emotions affect the nervous system — in animals and in people — my article How Trapped Emotions Disrupt the Nervous System — And What You Can Do to Heal explores the mechanism in depth.
Sessions for pets are available in person in Bowmanville and worldwide via Zoom.
Your pet cannot tell you what they are carrying. Their body can. And it has been waiting — patiently, faithfully, as animals do — for someone to ask.
Sheila Marina is the founder of Planet of Peace Energy Healing and a certified Emotion Code, Body Code, and Belief Code Practitioner with over 35 years of experience. She sees clients in person in Bowmanville and Toronto, and worldwide via Zoom. planetofpeace.org
