Paws & Claws
Classes & Workshops
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Basic Course—How to Communicate with Animals |
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Would You Like to Host A Workshop?
— Host attends at no charge |
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Advanced Training Program Level 1—Going Deeper |
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Advanced Level 2—Spirit/Essence Development:
The 7 Levels of Human Consciousness |
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Crossing the Rainbow Bridge—Grief Support Enhancement Course |
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The Spirits of Nature—A two-hour session by appointment only |
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Totem Power Animal Retrieval Session—A three-hour session by appointment only |
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One-on-One Workshop/Study/Mentor Program |
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Sacred Path Readings |
Why Learn to Communicate with Animals?
Beings bloom when you consider them intelligent and capable, and they respond to you by opening up and communicating sincerely and intimately with you. Respect engenders respect.
Animals, human or non-human, flourish in a safe, receptive, growth-oriented environment, which you can provide by your presence.
Be willing and able to accept their viewpoints as valid, even if different from your own.
Not only do animals think, feel, understand, and communicate, but increased harmony between humans and other species is everyone's birthright.
Intelligence, according to Webster's dictionary, is the ability to learn or understand from experience or the ability to respond quickly and successfully to a new situation.
Imagination and trust are key elements in telepathic communication. The word imagine comes from “imago” (image or likeness) and means “to make a mental image of, form an idea or notion of, conceive in the mind.”
Without the ability to imagine, a person would not be able to proceed with a plan of action or perceive others’ communication.
Purpose: be sure each of your animal friends has, knows, and fulfills a purpose. Beings who consciously choose to become companion animals do so to love, serve, and enjoy their human companions the best way they can.
Basic Course
How to Communicate with Animals
Part 1 — Introduction to the essentials of telepathic communication with animals. This is a process of discovery. As you remove your blocks to communication with animals, you will discover a deeper level of communication. You will enjoy practicing meditation techniques and exercises which increase your awareness and understanding of animals, making you more receptive to telepathic communication. Discover how to experience the animal’s viewpoints and how to expand on the telepathic communication with animals you have already experienced in the past.
You do not need to bring an animal companion to this session.
For Part 2 bring an animal companion or friend on a leash or in a carrier only if the animal is comfortable in strange surroundings and not a distraction to others. You will be able to work with other animals, so you are not obliged to bring your own. Animal energy and wild animals are abundantly available also.
Click here to view our Workshop Schedule and Enrollment Form. Print it, fill it out, and mail it with payment to Paws & Claws, PO Box 2525, Vista, CA 92085-2525. Or E-mail us or call Kim Patrick at Paws & Claws, 760-533-0778, for additional information about reservations, enrollment information, and payment requirements.
Please review the Basic Course Payment and Cancellation Policies before enrolling in this class.
Advanced Training Program Level 1
Going Deeper
The Basic Course opens the door to the world of direct interspecies communication. Each course of the Advanced Training program is a quantum leap in awareness, understanding, spiritual growth, communication skill, and connection with all life.
Be enriched by Gina’s multifaceted experience with animals and wisdom gleaned from her experiences at Macchu Picchu, Peru and Lake Titicaca, Bolivia; Initiations, Energy & Ceremonial work in the sacred sites of the Yucatan with Mayan Shaman and Record Keeper, Hunbatz Men; a one-year journey in a 24-foot motor home with her own animal companions (three cats and a miniature dachshund); and intensive studies with master Animal Communications Specialist and author Penelope Smith. Meet each member of Gina’s animal family and learn from these amazing beings. Focus on your problems, strengths, and goals. You will not only advance in your perceptions and in interspecies communication skills, but you will gain deeper access to your true nature—finding your center and singing your song to the world.
Participation is limited to a small number of people, so your questions and difficulties will be individually addressed.
Going Deeper
(3 days, 4 hours each day)
Prerequisites: Basic Course and books (Animal Talk by Penelope Smith; Journey into Nature, a Spiritual Journey by Michael J. Rhodes; and Animal-Speak by Ted Andrews; continued practice of workshop skills.
Recommended: Orientation to principles and practices of shamanism; Shamanic Healing with the Medicine Wheel by Marie-Lu Lorler; orientation to Color and Light therapy, Hands of Light by Barbara Ann Brennan.
Call for a list of items to bring to the workshop for your use, comfort, and convenience.
Click here to view our Workshop Schedule and Enrollment Form. Print it, fill it out, and mail it with payment to Paws & Claws, PO Box 2525, Vista, CA 92085-2525. Or E-mail us or call Kim Patrick at Paws & Claws, 760-533-0778, for additional information about reservations, enrollment information, and payment requirements.
Please review the Advanced Workshop Payment and Cancellation Policies before enrolling in this class.
Advanced Level 2
Spirit/Essence Development: The 7 Levels of Human Consciousness
—Gary Zukav
The Seven Levels of Human Consciousness & how that relates to communication with animals, other species, and the sacred energy sites around the globe. We will explore the frequencies and magnetics of Mother Earth present inside of all Sacred Sites, and learn how the animals remain attuned to them naturally. Learn how the animals seem to know in advance of earthquakes and other natural shifts.
The deep rewards of living with reverence. We will examine the Mayan & Incan cultures and the ways in which those cultures utilized animals as their teachers. Experience the power which lay dormant within the seed of intention.
The workings of the hierarchy of the Universe, that exists without top or bottom, with which animals are reverently attuned. You will learn how to apply the hierarchy in your communion with life, that results from a deep understanding through perception. You will be taught methods wherein you become attuned to access Universal Laws, to assist you with your expansion of awareness and communication with all species.
Other information once taught in the Sacred Mystery Schools; Ways to discover how to bridge the gaps in-between dimensions easily, to help keep the creative spirit/essence alive for Mother Earth, the plants and the animals, by learning how to honor and respect things that you cannot yet see. According to the animals; This is the meaning of Deep Reverence, and vital to the preservation of many species on the planet, and to the Mother Earth. Understand that, as we heal our own issues of ignorance, abuse and pain, we are actually helping to heal the planet, and all of Life on Earth.
Prerequisite: Completion of Animal Communication/ Basic & Advanced level 1 courses, as taught by Gina Palmer, Animal Communication Specialist
Call for a list of items to bring to the workshop for your use, comfort, and convenience.
Click here to view our Workshop Schedule and Enrollment Form. Print it, fill it out, and mail it with payment to Paws & Claws, PO Box 2525, Vista, CA 92085-2525. Or E-mail us or call Kim Patrick at Paws & Claws, 760-533-0778, for additional information about reservations, enrollment information, and payment requirements.
Please review the Advanced Workshop Payment and Cancellation Policies before enrolling in this class.
Crossing the Rainbow Bridge
Grief Support Enhancement Course
"There is a place this side of Heaven called Rainbow Bridge.
This is where our beloved animal companions go when they die. At Rainbow Bridge
there are meadows and hills where all of our special friends can run and play together. There is plenty of food,
water, shade and sunshine and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All of the animals who have been ill or old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made
whole and strong, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by.
The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing;
they miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind..
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. Her/his eyes are bright and intent; Her/his eager body begins to quiver. S/he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, her/his legs carrying her/him faster and faster. You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again.
The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your friend, so long gone from your life, but never absent from your heart.
Then you cross the Rainbow Bridge together."
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During my many years of providing animal communication counseling sessions, none have struck me as profoundly as those involving the death transition of a beloved animal companion.
The grief process associated with losing our animal friend or after assisting them through a period of ill health or old age into death, has evoked anguish in my human clients, beyond what they feel they can bare alone. Many people suffer agonizing feelings of greater loss from the death of their animal, than from that of their own human relatives and friends.
The love, devotion and intimacy shared between animal and human is truly a remarkable bond. The shadow side of that bond sometimes reveals itself, at the time of their death. I have sat with numerous clients who report the experience as terrifying, frightening, intimidating, and overwhelming some, and for others .. Death is an unimaginable void.
Recovering from the grief of loss of an animal can sometimes be made manageable, when we allow another to share our pain. Deliverance out from under love's shadow is a journey waiting for each one of us who must survive our animal's passing.
This course is designed to:
Address the special kind of pain of loss when a beloved animal passes from body into spirit
Provide you with compassionate understanding of the shadow
feelings associated with loving and losing an animal to death and/or old age
Offer insight into why the pain associated with losing an
animal is different than any other kind of loss
Present a compassionate forum wherein you are invited to
share your unique expression of your experience of loss
Explore avenues for resolution of your feelings of loss and
separateness from your animal, who has passed over the Rainbow Bridge
Restore your ability to remain open to receiving messages
from your animal while in spirit, and to love again
This course invites anyone wishing to process through an experience from the loss of a beloved animal, either after the animal has passed over, or during the death transition.
Any meaning within the experience is yours to perceive. Feelings associated with your experience are yours to share within an environment of love, compassion and understanding.
Grief is not a shadow, nor does it contain darkness without your consent. Loss is grief's doorway, through which our love can draw us out beyond our own pre-set boundaries. Our feelings beg us; 'Would we be willing to perceive that which loss masks'? Your answer lays claim to your experience of survival over grief.
Here, may love's potency restore in your spirit, that which life itself sometimes restrains.
The course invites you to step through a veil, unleashing opportunity to meet the one who has waited a lifetime to merge with the authentic you... your animal!
As you affirm continued love for your animal beyond life, you learn that death has no license over love's potency.
The course is designed for compassionate One-On-One support in person with Gina and her animals, at the sanctuary in Vista. No on-site at your location, or group attendance reservations are offered, without specific request.
Call for a list of items to bring to the workshop for your use, comfort, and convenience.
Please review the Advanced Workshop Payment and Cancellation Policies before enrolling in this class.
The Spirits of Nature
2-hour session by appointment only
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Click here to view our Workshop Schedule and Enrollment Form. Print it, fill it out, and mail it with payment to Paws & Claws, PO Box 2525, Vista, CA 92085-2525. Or E-mail us or call Kim Patrick at Paws & Claws, 760-533-0778, for additional information about reservations, enrollment information, and payment requirements.
Please review the Miscellaneous Classes Payment and Cancellation Policies before enrolling in this class.
Totem Power Animal Retrieval
3-hour individual private session, by appointment only
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Click here to view ourWorkshop Schedule and Enrollment Form. Print it, fill it out, and mail it with payment to Paws & Claws, PO Box 2525, Vista, CA 92085-2525. Or E-mail us or call Kim Patrick at Paws & Claws, 760-533-0778, for additional information about reservations, enrollment information, and payment requirements.
Please review the Miscellaneous Classes Payment and Cancellation Policies before enrolling in this class.
One-on-One Workshop/Study/Mentor Program One-on-One Mentoring courses are an individually designed course of study tailored to your specific topic of interest or area of animal communication with Gina. Mentoring fees are charged per hour and are arranged by appointment only. One-on-One mentoring is an excellent program to learn and to deepen your skills at your own speed, and in your own time frame. Gina's mentorship students seem to excel in developing their communication skills at a rapid rate in phenomenal ways!"
Sacred Path Readings Sacred Path readings require two hours of on-site time at Gina's location and can be an extension to the Totem Power Animal Retrieval Session. A Sacred Path reading is a divination tool that mirrors a Native American Medicine Walk. Medicine is anything that aids the seeker in feeling connected and in harmony with nature and all of life. The reading is focused toward integration of mind/body/spirit. It can provide answers to personal challenges or problems. We perform various methods for pathways to change which can help:
- Balance the male/female aspects of self
- Understand, identify and discover allies to overview the balancing of your energy
- Gain insight to view the life lessons you have created and impact of how you are handling those lessons
- Heal if you are feeling at odds with your environment or aspects of the self
- Find inner knowing and proper perspective
- Protect you from fear, doubt, anxiety, uncertainty
Click here to view our Workshop Schedule and Enrollment Form. Print it, fill it out, and mail it with payment to Paws & Claws, PO Box 2525, Vista, CA 92085. Or E-mail us or call Kim Patrick at Paws & Claws, 760-533-0778, for additional information about reservations, enrollment information, and payment requirements.
Please review the Miscellaneous Classes Payment and Cancellation Policies before enrolling in this class.
How to Host a Workshop
Hosting a How to Communicate with Animals workshop is easy and fun.
The workshop usually takes place on both a Saturday and a Sunday from noon to 5PM. If you have a group of people who prefer other days this can be arranged.
The cost of the Basic Course must be paid in advance to hold their space. I usually need ten people to hold a workshop, but the number varies depending on the location. If I'm required to travel across the country, we may need more.
The person hosting the workshop attends at no charge, in exchange for the following:
An appropriate place to hold the workshop. This can be a large
room in a residence that can accommodate 10-20 participants and some animals on the second day. If the group gets too
large for the space, the host/hostess may need to find another place such as a meeting hall, classroom or park building.
Ideally this space could be had at no charge, but if you are unable to locate an inexpensive spot, the cost can be
negotiable.
Refreshments for the break. Simple snacks like cheese and
crackers, trail mix and tea or juice works fine.
Promote the workshop by talking to people, contacting groups and
hanging flyers. Once you get 5 people to commit to the workshop, I'll schedule the class, post it on my web site and
send information to my mail list (twice a year). In areas where I don't have many clients, the hostess will have to fill
the workshop through promotion.
I will provide flyers and I am happy to provide a no-charge
lecture the night before (to paid participants), and any radio, newspaper and TV interviews that you might arrange.
If you are interested in hosting, please call me at 760-533-0778 and we can talk further. Most workshops are scheduled at least six months in advance to allow for promotion. Call Gina for prices and details of hosting Advanced Level Courses, and other classes in your area.