Reiki Lungta

22/12/2025

Thank you everyone for your fantastic support, it has been an absolute pleasure and a privilege to work with wonderful people and animals this year.

Best wishes for the festive season
Tanya x

17/12/2025

There are spaces still available for this Saturday 😀

Reiki for Riders Clinic

Hi everyone, the final Reiki for Riders clinic for 2025 is on

Saturday 20 December

The theme for this clinic is

Energize

At this time of year our energy levels can feel quite depleted, so why not take some well-earned time out to relax and replenish your energy.

The one-to-one sessions are £45, which is a special Hayfield saving of £5

To find out more or to book a session, please get in touch through messenger.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

14/12/2025

Reiki for Stress

This weekend for the first time in a good while I found myself in a stress cycle through a combination of a generally busier than normal week and then taking on a bit too much at the weekend resulting in my feeling like I was running to keep up with not enough hours in the day.

In my case totally self-inflicted and once I realised and took time to stop I was able to press the reset button, and I have also had some time to reflect on the effects of stress.

Whether it is the stress we place upon ourselves, as in my case, or the stress placed upon us by others, it is an insidious thing, so we don’t generally feel its detrimental effects immediately.

Our chakras are the energy centres which we all have within our bodies, and these centres radiate nurturing energy towards our physical, emotional and spiritual selves, and so they are intrinsically linked to our wellbeing.

Stress depletes our bodies energy centres and without taking proper time to rest and recover this energy, our body is not able to function as well as it should do and consequently over time our physical, mental and emotional selves are adversely affected.

Within our lives we all do stress sprints at some time or other whether it is to meet a deadline or to just squeeze those extra things into our day. It is however important to recognise that we can’t just keep sprinting all the time, we need to take the time to rest and recover.

I have found Reiki to be a wonderful antidote to stress and when I connect with Reiki and look at my own chakras it is always fascinating. When I am feeling great, the colours within my chakras are beautiful and they shine brightly radiating wonderful energy throughout my body and conversely when I am tired these same colours can appear quite dull.

I am very fortunate in that while self-treating with Reiki I can watch as the colours within my chakras gradually begin to brighten before shining brightly once again.

When my chakras are shining brightly and radiating lovely nurturing energy towards my body, I feel physically better and I find that I physically move better. This is not only great for general day to day life, but it is also for the physicality of horse riding.

Additionally, I find I am more centred within myself, I feel better, I think better and I consequently find that solutions to problems seem to present themselves more easily.

Reiki is a wonderful supportive therapy and even taking time out once a month for a Reiki energy top up is an extremely worthwhile use of valuable time and I would recommend it to anybody.

So be kind to yourself and whether it is treating yourself to a Reiki session or something else, take some time to put your feet up and take a well-earned rest because you never know when life’s next sprint might be required.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

07/12/2025

Reiki for Riders Clinic

Hi everyone, the final Reiki for Riders clinic for 2025 is on

Saturday 20 December

The theme for this clinic is

Energize

At this time of year our energy levels can feel quite depleted, so why not take some well-earned time out to relax and replenish your energy.

The one-to-one sessions are £45, which is a special Hayfield saving of £5

To find out more or to book a session, please get in touch through messenger.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

23/11/2025

Calm and Supportive Energy for the Thinkers and the Worriers

Having a dog who is a thinker and a worrier is very interesting from an energetic perspective and Finlay our beautiful springer spaniel has certainly been an excellent teacher.

When a dog or other animal goes into worry mode it can sometimes be quite difficult not to be pulled into that worry energy cycle along with them and this is because it is very natural for us to react with worry if we think that something is not right with our animals.

Over time I have found that if Finlay tells me that he is worried about something and I react with worry I am in fact reaffirming to him that he is quite right to be worried and we end up in a downward worry energy spiral that is not very good for either of us.

It is in fact much more productive to maintain a calm neutral energy while working out what Finlay is telling me and then considering how I can best support him.

An easy example is when we are on a walk and Finlay comes back to tell me that someone is walking towards us, and to ask if this is okay. This works very well since I can verbally tell Finlay, “Yes, I think they are friends,” and “It is okay,” and when I do this, I can convey to him the feeling of looking forward to meeting up with nice friends. Or if it is not okay, I can pop him on the lead, and we are then ‘holding hands.’

This is a lovely way of sharing reassuring and supportive energy with Finlay, and we all know the feeling of looking forward to meeting up with nice people and animals that we like to spend time with.

Sometimes it does not take much of a change to cause Finlay to have a loss of confidence and a good example of this was when we changed our car.

Finlay was always very enthusiastic about jumping into the old car to go for his walks but when faced with a new car he turned around and instead decided to go and lie on the couch which to him felt like the safer place to be. So we ‘held hands’ for that one too, while I thought about and conveyed the feeling and anticipation of going for a fun walk.

Sometimes it is also great just to laugh at a challenge, or situation since this is a lovely way of lifting the energy around us and our animals. Laughter really can be the best medicine, and it certainly worked well when Finlay decided that the couch was a safer place to be than the strange new car.

Finlay is a beautiful kind, patient and intelligent boy, I love seeing the world through his eyes and he has certainly taught me the benefits of working with and sharing lovely calm supportive energy around him.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

19/11/2025

Fun in the snow this afternoon ⛄

12/11/2025

Limited Places Still Available

The next Reiki for Riders clinic at Hayfield, Aberdeen is on

Saturday 22 November and the theme for this clinic is

Balance

When we feel balanced within ourselves our riding experience as well as life in general just feels better.

Reiki is a lovely way of taking some well-earned time out to relax and rebalance our energy.

The one-to-one sessions are £45, which is a special Hayfield saving of £5

There are limited places available, so if you would like more information or you would like to book a session, please get in touch through messenger.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

05/11/2025

The next Reiki for Riders clinic is on

Saturday 22 November

and the theme for this clinic is

Balance

When we feel balanced within ourselves our riding experience as well as life in general just feels better.

Reiki is a lovely way of taking some well-earned time out to relax and rebalance our energy.

The one-to-one sessions are £45, which is a special Hayfield saving of £5

There are limited places available, so if you would like more information or you would like to book a session, please get in touch through messenger.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

26/10/2025

The Power of Positive Mental Energy

I have previously written about the wonderful effects of thinking and speaking about our animals positively and how this can lift and direct lovely positive energy, not only towards our animals, but also towards ourselves and any challenges that we might face together.

I love to give the example of the end of my riding lesson when my coach says, “Tell me something that went well.” This is an excellent way of helping to focus positive energy, not only towards myself but also towards my equine partner no matter how things went during our lesson together.

When we look at this within the broader context of our lives we must first realise and accept that life is not simple and that one of the certainties of our lives is that we will face challenges, some huge and seemingly insurmountable, while others may be small and more easily resolved.

The challenges that we face are all part of the wonderful fabric of our growth and self-development within this plain and since each of us walks a different path our overall life experience will always ultimately be unique to us.

When things are going well it is quite easy to enjoy bouncing along delighting in the moment and relishing the wonderful positive energy that surrounds us.

The great challenge always comes when things are not going so well, and it is during these times that it is most important to be kind to ourselves since this will help to nurture and support us while we are working our way through the messier more difficult parts of our lives.

As well as this, taking time to think of a positive, even if it is only a tiny one will help to lift our mental energy and shine that tiny candle of light into what might otherwise feel like or be quite a dark situation.

By keeping that tiny candle of mental positivity lit it will quietly nurture and support us until we feel more able to light that second candle, then the third and so on.

“Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

What an excellent saying this is and it really makes me smile, especially since it comes a from piece of children’s fiction, I am sure all Harry Potter fans will recognise it.

And I suppose I am taking the long way round in saying that it is just as important to nurture our positive mental energy, as our physical energy, and a wonderful way of doing this is by finding a way of looking for the positives within life even if this can be difficult at times.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

19/10/2025

A huge thank you to Caroline and Lorna, the new therapy room at Hayfield Riding Club, Aberdeen is wonderful and I feel very privileged to have been the first to use it.

What a lovely quiet and peaceful space it was for yesterday's Reiki for Riders clinic.

I am very much looking forward to returning for the next clinic on Saturday 22 November

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master

12/10/2025

12/10/2025

Reiki for Riders Clinic -

There are still some places available for the clinic on

Saturday 18 October

at Hayfield Riding Club, Aberdeen

the theme for this clinic is

Feeling Great

Give me a shout on messenger if you would like more information or you would like to book a place.

Tanya Leiper
Reiki Master