Ruth Hatten - Sahaja Animal Healing

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Ruth Hatten - Sahaja Animal Healing Holistic Animal Care Mentor. Naturopathy, Nutrition, Plant Medicine, Energy & Spirituality. When I was 11, I made the decision to stop eating my friends.

As anyone who knows me will tell you, my number one passion in life is animals. If I could surround myself with animals and just be with them, forsaking all others (well, most others - I'd keep a handful of my closest people nearby) I would be like a pig in mud.
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I have loved animals since I was a little girl. Growing up with cats and dogs helped to instill in me a great love for our furry frie

nds. I became vegetarian. 16 years later, I took the big step of going 100% plant based, forsaking all animal products. As an animal lover, it seems nonsensical to eat them. How can I love one and eat another?
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Through the journey that is my present life, I have moulded an existence that capitilises on skills and experiences I have gathered along the way to help animals.
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* I use my knowledge of plant-based living to mentor others in their exploration of this lifestyle. This is done through my business .
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* I use my qualifications as a lawyer and experience in practising animal law to assist with legislative change, policy improvements and education. This is done through my collaboration with a number of organisations including Voiceless, The Animal Law Institute, the Centre for Compassionate Conservation and the Australian Animal Protection Law Journal. I am often called on to speak at animal rights rallies and events. You can find out more at https://www.ruthhatten.com/advocacy and https://www.ruthhatten.com/news.
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* I use my qualifications as an animal nutritionist and massage therapist to directly assist cats and dogs with natural remedies for disease prevention and achieving optimum health. This is done through my business Sahaja Animal Healing.
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Overall, it's all about the animals for me. To continue the fight for animals takes dedication, compassion and an overall abundance of love for each and every one of them. I couldn't do this without a solid support network of friends, family and most of all my cherished darlings whom I share every day with - cats Lilly, Max, Elvy and rescue greyhound, Louie.
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If you're drawn to working with me, or even if you just want to chat, I'd love to hear from you. Always for the Animals,
Ruth xx

Sometimes we carry more than we realise.
Grief that isn’t ours. Worry that lingers. Energy that settles in the quiet cor...
19/06/2025

Sometimes we carry more than we realise.

Grief that isn’t ours. Worry that lingers. Energy that settles in the quiet corners of our bodies.

During a recent healing journey, I came face to face with the depth of what I’d been holding. From clients, from animals, from my own losses.

This is the part of my work I don’t often share. The invisible weight. The moments where I forget to tend to my own field as deeply as I tend to others.

But I’m returning now. Gently. With devotion. And with gratitude for the animal guides (including Lilly, Elvy and Matilda) who provided protection and reminded me to breathe and to soften.

If you’re on this path, if your animal is unwell or you’re grieving one who’s passed, I see you. This post is for you💧

✨ How are you tending to your energy lately?

To read the full story of this healing journey, and the animals who guided me through, head to my Substack. Link in bio. OR comment water below and I’ll DM you the direct link.

Is your pet feeling stressed or anxious in times of change? 😿 With the arrival of Miss Matilda this week, I’ve been refl...
22/05/2025

Is your pet feeling stressed or anxious in times of change? 😿 With the arrival of Miss Matilda this week, I’ve been reflecting on how nervous energy affects pets and humans alike, and the importance of creating calm spaces for everyone🧘‍♀️

I’m diving into this (and how it’s helping our pets adjust) in my latest Substack post. From flower essences to calming rituals, find out how we’re fostering peace for both humans and animals at home 🌸🕊️🐈

I’m happy to report that the cats are adapting well 👏🏼 With each day, the boys are spending more time out of the bedroom, which means greater access to the little one. There is still hissing when Matilda oversteps boundaries. This is her biggest lesson at the moment!

The next phase for Miss M will be detox, as she’s been exposed to processed food, vaccines, parasite meds and desexing. If you’re looking to make your home a low-tox haven for your pets, don’t miss my Low Tox Pets Handbook for easy tips on reducing their toxic load and implementing gentle detox protocols!

🌟 Link to Substack and the Handbook in my bio. Or comment which one you’re interested in and I’ll send you the direct link/s 🙌🏼

Change is in the air, and it’s a whirlwind! 🌪️ Our new kitten, Matilda, has arrived and she’s shaking things up in the m...
20/05/2025

Change is in the air, and it’s a whirlwind! 🌪️ Our new kitten, Matilda, has arrived and she’s shaking things up in the most adorable way. But with two older cats in the mix, it’s been a balancing act🐱🐱

How do you handle changes in your pet family? I’m sharing how we’re navigating this transition and creating calm in the chaos. From calming rituals to safe spaces, I’m showing how we’re making sure everyone feels loved and at ease.

Take a peek at my latest Substack post for all the details on our journey so far and the tips that are helping us adjust 🌸

👉🏼 ruthhatten.substack.com (DM me for the link or click the link in my bio.)

When we talk about creating a low tox life for our pets, it's easy to think first about the things we remove — like chem...
30/04/2025

When we talk about creating a low tox life for our pets, it's easy to think first about the things we remove — like chemicals in cleaning products or synthetic flea treatments.

But true low tox living isn’t just about cutting toxins out.
It’s about what we put in too.

And diet is one of the biggest, most important factors.

The food our animals eat every day either supports their health — or slowly contributes to toxic load, inflammation, and chronic disease. Highly processed foods, synthetic additives, preservatives, and poor-quality ingredients all create stress on the body. Over time, they add up.

💥 Real food is essential 💥
It supports the gut, the liver, the immune system — all the systems responsible for processing and eliminating toxins.
It builds resilience from the inside out.
It lays the foundation for true, lasting wellness.

That's why, when you enrol in Low Tox Pets by Monday 5 May 2025, you'll receive a very special bonus:
🎁 Your choice of my Real Food Diet for Dogs or Real Food Diet for Cats eBook — yours free (normally $49).

Inside, you'll learn the principles of species-appropriate feeding, how to nourish your animal naturally, and why real food is such an essential part of reducing toxic load — and supporting a longer, healthier life.

✨ Caring for our companion animals should never be about perfection or overwhelm.
It’s about making informed choices, one powerful step at a time — and real food is one of the most important steps you can take.

👉 Enrolments are open now — ruthhatten.com/low-tox-pets!
🗓 Early Bird Bonus available until Monday 5 May.

Your pet’s low tox journey starts here — and it starts with what’s in their bowl 🐾

Enrolments are now open for Low Tox Pets! 🐾If you’ve been wondering how to reduce your pet’s exposure to everyday toxins...
28/04/2025

Enrolments are now open for Low Tox Pets! 🐾
If you’ve been wondering how to reduce your pet’s exposure to everyday toxins—and how to do it gently, safely, and without the overwhelm—this course is for you.

Inside Low Tox Pets, you’ll learn:

✨ What toxic load is and why it matters
✨ Where toxins are hiding in your pet’s daily life (some will surprise you)
✨ How to reduce exposure from food, water, grooming products, medications, and more
✨ Detox strategies that are safe and supportive for animals
✨ How to create a healthier, low tox lifestyle for your pet—without needing to do it all at once

This course is for you if you want to feel confident in your choices, support your animal naturally, and give them the best chance at long-term health and wellness. Put your hand up if that’s you 🙆‍♀️

🌿 You’ll get access to:
✔️ 4 live lessons
✔️ Course manual + detox protocols
✔️ Lifetime access to all recordings
✔️ A clear plan to start reducing your pet’s toxic load right away

🎁 Plus, if you’ve already downloaded the Low Tox Starter Kit, this is the natural next step.

👉 Enrol now ruthhatten.com/low-tox-pets
🗓 The course starts 21 May!

Low Tox Pets is here to support you in creating a safer, more natural life for your animal—one choice at a time.

Creating a low tox life for your pet doesn’t have to feel overwhelming.Sometimes, it’s the simple swaps that make the bi...
27/04/2025

Creating a low tox life for your pet doesn’t have to feel overwhelming.

Sometimes, it’s the simple swaps that make the biggest difference.

Here are 3 easy ways 👇🏼 you can start reducing your pet’s toxic load today—gently, naturally, and without needing to overhaul everything at once.

These are just a few of the swaps I share inside the Low Tox Starter Kit for Pets—my free downloadable guide to help you get started.

✨ And soon, I’ll be taking you even deeper inside my course, Low Tox Pets—covering the where, what, and how of creating a safer, more conscious life for your animal companion.

🎁 Download the free Starter Kit at my website - link below.

💻 And stay tuned—course enrolments open tomorrow!

26/04/2025

On ANZAC Day, we remember men and women & also the who stood beside them.

were messengers, sentries, and companions—offering comfort in the darkest of trenches.
, like the legendary one led by Private John Simpson, carried the wounded through dangerous terrain with unwavering courage.
Even found their place aboard navy ships, keeping morale high and pests low.

These animals didn’t wear medals, but their loyalty, bravery, and companionship left pawprints on history.

Today, we honour all who served—two-legged and four.

Today was big and juicy! ⛹️‍♀️ Kicked it off with an interview with the lovely Dr Susan Recker for The Integrative Anima...
23/04/2025

Today was big and juicy! ⛹️‍♀️ Kicked it off with an interview with the lovely Dr Susan Recker for The Integrative Animal Health Collective podcast, which is an initiative of the College of Integrative Veterinary Therapies (). This is due to come out late May - keep a look out for that 👀

Then I spent the rest of the day doing energy healings for a human and two kitty cats - Queenie and Mou 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛

The lovely Elvy helped out with the healing for Mou. About halfway through he comes and plonks himself on the book that contains the instructions for the immune treatment protocol I was doing. I managed to gently nudge him off and then he hung about to assist, purring like a tractor for the rest of the session. What a sweetie 😍

What's with the green smoothie? 🥬 For the past couple of weeks I've been starting my day with a litre of antioxidant-rich green smoothie. As I mentioned in my post yesterday, I started a low tox lifestyle (about 15 years ago) before I started thinking about toxins in the context of animals. Smoothies have been a strong feature in my diet, but not always green 🫢 Green smoothies are rich with antioxidants that help to clear out toxic residues and reduce inflammation.

🐕 🐈 Greens form a useful part of a low tox lifestyle for our companion animals as well. For dogs, you can incorporate green smoothies into their diet. Otherwise, great sources of antioxidant greens, for both cats and dogs, are your powders like spirulina and barley grass, green vegies like spinach and kale, herbs like coriander, nettle and alfalfa, and sprouts 🌱

💁🏼‍♀️ If you'd like some more tips to help your pet live a low tox life for optimal health, check out my Low Tox Starter Kit for Pets. You'll find the link below 🙌🏼

I didn’t always think about toxins in the context of animals. When I first began shifting to a more low tox lifestyle, i...
22/04/2025

I didn’t always think about toxins in the context of animals. When I first began shifting to a more low tox lifestyle, it started with me — what I was putting on my skin, what I was eating, the products I used around the house. But as I went deeper, I couldn’t ignore what I was learning about how those same exposures were affecting our pets.

Because they don’t get a say in what goes in their bowl, what’s sprayed on their coat, or what they walk through on the floor.

The more I paid attention, the more I saw it:
❌ Flea meds with known neurotoxins
❌ Shampoos filled with fragrance and preservatives
❌ Kibble made with synthetic additives
❌ Tap water that may contain chlorine, fluoride, or heavy metals

And I realised — our pets are often carrying a heavier toxic burden than we are. They’re smaller, closer to the ground, and they lick everything. Their bodies simply aren’t built to process the same level of exposure.

That realisation led me to deepen my study of low tox living — and in 2023, I completed the The Low Tox Method training with Alexx Stuart (Low Tox Life) to become a certified Low Tox Coach. It gave me the tools to support other pet parents with clarity and confidence.

✨ From everything I’ve learned — personally and professionally — I created the Low Tox Starter Kit for Pets.

Inside, you’ll find 5 simple swaps to start reducing your pet’s toxic load — gently, naturally, and with purpose.

🎁 You can download it for free here: ruthhatten.com/low-tox-pets-starter-kit

15/04/2025

First of all I want to acknowledge this divine soul and her very special family as they navigate something each one of has or will experience at some point. The grief of loss. I appreciate them allowing me to share this part of their sacred journey.

Grief in and of itself is a powerful teacher and something that is guaranteed in life even if you logically know it’s coming or it is expected it’s impact or how you experience cannot not be predicted.

When it comes out of circumstances you could not foresee the shock can and often does over shadow the grief itself. This is a process that is individual to each one of us.

The loss of an animal is far too often IMO put in the not as important or impactful as the loss of a human. Again this is not something you can compare.

Loss is loss, grief is grief, love is love no matter the species.

I received the news that Calypso has passed very unexpectedly over the weekend after being with her very loving caregivers for only 5 precious weeks.

The impact we have on someone or that someone in this case this gorgeous horse isn’t determined by length of time but in the connection and receptivity as well as soul contracts of all involved.

The wisdom, the lessons, the exchanges, the love and the conversation that started long before they met her in form, deepened when they reunited and continues and will continue on now that she has transitioned.

In her session she met us in her favourite place, in her field with the early morning sun illuminating her
silhouette and the light shining through the dew sparkling on each bald of grass. Her brown eyes beaming out her love and presence.

She walked up to her girl and then her mum and nuzzled in, sniffing, making her sounds of contentment. She was grateful to connect this, grateful it would help.

She shared a gratitude that is impossible to put into words for the love she felt and the gifts she was gifted and was able to give in their time together.

She spoke of being able to achieve a soul contract that she’s been wanting to achieve in this incarnation that she knew would be completed in being with her now family.

Animals know of and when they will pass they don’t always know what of but they know when. They will show you via dreams, images, synchronicities, emotions eg. You may cry uncontrollably for a day or days prior to their passing even though cerebrally you are unaware why.

She has helped them as they have her end a karmic cycle that has been waiting for the right time and right circumstances for it to all to come into play.

The energy of this family and their ability to energetically and emotionally support the transition of her and other animals in her passing and other intricate stages of life. That has meant they expressed heart breaking loss. Yet the animals have been freed in someway shape or form. From finding a new home, to going missing, to passing over.

Not an easy (that’s an understatement!) journey or experience for their humans on each occasion such important work nonetheless. Hence Dear Calypsos gratitude with her smiling and affirming that process is now complete and is unlikely to occur for them again.

This doesn’t negate or soften the blow of this loss or shift the shock or the wonderings of what if. This is and are the stages of grief as well as the medicine of it although I know it can feel anything but.

Calypso and her teachings and her medicine were and are a gift. A gift that is to be shared and felt by each one of us if you wish to receive it.

Grateful to sit in the role that I do, to see, feel ,hear , know & receive her wisdom. She is not gone she has changed form.

If you’d like to learn more about this I discuss it on Ruth Hatten - Sahaja Animal Healing podcast https://open.spotify.com/episode/3E0C8rJ2N2IZs1Gmkdhv9v?si=0e4bad56c26d4fd9

May you be well,
Clare xo

*This photo was sent before her family heard the recording of her session but after I had recorded it. When her caregiver asked her daughter what photo she’d like to share it was this one 🌞 Another affirmation she’s still here as much as she ever was ❤️

What is your pet’s toxic load? 😛🧺This kitty might look like she’s just being cheeky in the laundry basket (which… she is...
15/04/2025

What is your pet’s toxic load? 😛🧺

This kitty might look like she’s just being cheeky in the laundry basket (which… she is),
but it’s also a pretty fitting visual when you think about what our pets are exposed to daily.

🐾 The food they eat
🧼 The products we use to clean
🧴 The shampoos on their skin
💊 Medications and flea/tick treatments
💧 Even the water in their bowl

All of it contributes to something called their toxic load—and over time, it can impact their skin, gut, hormones, immune system and more.

✨ The good news?
There are simple, powerful ways to reduce your pet’s toxic exposure—and I’ve bundled 5 of them into my free Low Tox Starter Kit for Pets.

👉 Download it now to start your pet’s low tox journey: ruthhatten.com/low-tox-pets-starter-kit 💚

Paws up if you’re obsessed with cat feet! 🐾😻 Those tiny toe beans? Absolute perfection. If your kitty’s got adorable paw...
08/04/2025

Paws up if you’re obsessed with cat feet! 🐾😻 Those tiny toe beans? Absolute perfection. If your kitty’s got adorable paws (and let’s be honest, they all do), snap a pic of those sweet little feet and pop it in your stories. Don’t forget to tag me so I can swoon over them too! 🥰🐾💕

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Hi, I'm Ruth Hatten, animal naturopath, healer and plant based coach. I specialise in the health and wellbeing of animals. My ultimate goal in life is to make a difference for all animals, giving them a healthier, happier and longer life.

One way that I help animals is by helping people like you help your furry companions achieve optimum wellness through nutritional therapy and massage therapy. The result is a happier and healthier cat or dog and a happier you.

If your furry companion is suffering from disease, I can assist them in the healing process by stimulating their natural inherent ability to heal. I do this using natural healing modalities, like nutritional therapy and massage therapy. My approach complements conventional veterinary treatment and provides natural alternatives that don't result in adverse side effects.

If your furry companion appears healthy, I can help you ensure that he or she stays that way, naturally, through helping you feed your fur baby a species appropriate diet.