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Resonant Pet & Tuning Forks: The Donkey Story

Updated: Jul 7

Frequency Medicine has many forms. I have personally found frequency-specific microcurrent to top them all, and when we can apply specific frequencies to a Pulsed Electromagnetic Field (PEMF) or choose tuning forks that resonate at specific Hertz, the delivery method is much easier for our four-legged beloveds, as I'll share in the Resonant Pet story below. There is also an important difference between PEMF and frequency-specific PEMF, which you can learn more about here.

 

TUNING FORKS FOR DONKEYS AND HORSES

I'd done an amazing first level tuning forks training called Equine Frequency Balancing earlier this year, but when I met an amazing practitioner, Cat Cantor, who has been using forks with humans, animals, and horses for much longer than I, I thought it would be a great learning opportunity to invite her out to the farm and observe her work. Cat is trained in Acutonics, a different school of tuning fork trainings, which typically pairs two forks rather than using one at a time. This dual-frequency approach resonated with me, as this is how I work professionally with dual-channel frequency generators as a Doctor of Physical Therapy in my clinical practice.




It just so happened that the youngest of the three donkeys here on the farm began having challenges with urination about the same time I asked that she come by.


This donkey, one of three rescues here on the farm whom I call Frito Bandito, has always been more than a little timid around people to begin with. His mom, who is now 30 years old, has the opposite personality: she's like a giant teddy bear and immediately approached the forks, letting Cat place the forks near to and directly onto her body, while Frito's dad stayed even farther away.


Frito stood a few feet to the other side of his mom, and when approached, Frito stepped away. He was curious, but not exactly sure he wanted to be so close. So Cat used Mom as a surrogate, treating points for the urinary system, the spleen, enhancing drainage, and more, as Frito stood where he felt comfortable, about six feet away.


It's important to understand that these equines really know how to self-regulate around the frequency inputs, and it's essentially important to honor their safety and comfort levels. If we were to put a halter on the donkey, corner him, and deliver the treatment session, he would feel stressed and trapped, and likely wouldn't benefit nearly as much from the treatment as he did. Allowing him to regulate the distance between him and the forks gives him control and safety, and allows him to integrate more effectively with the inputs. This is the exact same principle I use in RoundPen Sessions, where horses are free to come and go close to or far away from the PEMF field while I'm treating the person in the center of the roundpen. I can't stress this important point enough: learning to slow down and honor the boundaries and needs of our equine partners sets both of us up for a far more positive experience and more efficient, effective frequency healing.


When she shifted her focus directly back to Frito, he turned away, walked around the fence, through the gate, but then circled back to the fence so he could face her. He wanted the treatment, just needed a safety barrier between the forks and him.


Acutonics Practitioner honoring a donkey's boundaries while she delivers a tuning forks session to her client.

Cat treated at a distance. Notice in the image above: Frito has an ear forward, is standing at a distance he feels comfortable with behind the fence, and is engaged in the process.


She addressed some meridian lines with the tuning forks that resonated with planet Pluto as well as others that were meant to facilitate flow, release of stagnation, and other aspects to address the genitourinary system. Not long after, Frito peed, then pooped, then peed, then pooped again, then peed again throughout the 30 minute session!

Miniature donkey processing next to a barn after a tuning fork session

He seemed to know when he was complete. He lowered his head, licked and chewed, his eyes softened, and he walked further away to stand next to the shed to process the changes happening in his body. His many responses indicated to us that it was a very successful tuning forks session!


Cat moved on to address one of the other horses, a white mare who had a mild lameness on the hind end, and when she finished up and got ready to leave, none of us could believe what happened next.


Frito, who had been standing next to the barn about 20 yards away, walked through the gate, and straight up to Cat to stand to face her as if to say thank you. It nearly brought me to tears! This donkey never approaches people (unless maybe you're feeding him a treat, and even then, he won't eat out of your hand), and yet here he was, and it genuinely seemed he felt much better, and understood that the forks had helped him.


A shy donkey approaches his tuning fork practitioner to thank her after a session, while another donkey and a dog stand by in the distance.

Above: the special moment when Frito came through to "thank" his Acutonics Practitioner, Cat, as she was preparing to leave.

 

THE NEXT DAY


The next morning, I fed the horses and donkeys and was doing my daily mucking. Completely out of character, Frito walked right up to my side. He let me scratch his back and when I went back to mucking, he followed me around for about ten minutes before returning to eat his hay with his mom and dad. This was totally unusual. I assumed he wanted more tuning fork work, and since I had the 528 Hz fork in my car, I figured I'd get it out after I was done mucking again.


By the time I'd finished mucking and had my fork out, the donkeys were in the far end of their field and the white mare caught my attention. She had also had her first tuning fork session the day prior to this photo, and at that time she made it clear she didn't want much to do with it (she cow-kicked when we were merely talking about a spot at her sacrum ... and she walked away from the forks only to be treated from a distance, and not for long). The distance treatment yesterday was still sufficient; Cat proceeded gently until we got a lick and chew, then called it good for the day.

Donkeys walk in from a distant field while their herd-mate, a white mare, receives a tuning fork session

Today however, as soon as I struck the fork (I was standing a healthy 20 feet away because of the cow-kick message we received yesterday), she marched straight up to me, turned around so that her right sacroiliac joint was pointing at the fork, and practically said outloud, "Put it right here, please!" I didn't get close enough to place the fork on her body, but the oscillations of the tuning forks are sufficient to make changes without touching tissues, so I kept striking the fork and pointing it toward her SI joint.


As soon as the donkeys heard the forks, all three of them marched in from the distant field and gathered around me ... even shy Frito who received his first session yesterday, who never approaches (unless coaxed with a treat) came straight over and stood next to his mom. Not long after, he side-stepped so close that I could eventually place the fork directly onto his back!



To me, this demonstrates that the forks are incredibly helpful and the donkeys and horses know it. They continue to teach me so much about the incredible power of these gentle healing tools. We don't have to coax them with treats or food in order to offer the treatment. They understand, when given a chance and given control over their sense of safety, that this modality is truly healing and helpful.


And dare I say ... I truly believe that Frito's personality has changed since his forks session. He will now approach not only me while I'm feeding and mucking to get pets and scratches, but also new people he hasn't met, and his ears are forward more than they are back these days, he seems engaged and curious.


Frito, normally a shy donkey, makes friends with a visitor to the farm and comes close enough to receive scratches and pets while his mom and dad, older donkeys, stand nearby.

This simple form of sound healing is so profound. I'm grateful to have been introduced to it and am so looking forward to learning and sharing much, much more.



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