Be Your Pet’s Hero 2025: The Reverence Edition
...where the animals lead us back into communion and our rightful place within the Web of Life.
Build a Foundation in Holistic Preventative Wellness that will serve you and your pets for years to come!
Our household pets have taken on vital roles in our lives these days. They provide emotional support and serve as therapists and service animals, helping us move through our lives with greater ease.
Our pets are more than companions, they are family members. For some of us, they are our only family members in this disconnected modern world.
You have landed in the right place if:
You have a strong heart connection with your dog or cat, stronger than with most of the humans in your life...
You are concerned, worried, and fearful about not knowing whether they are feeling ok, when they are in pain, or whether they need something you are not providing...
You know they are here to teach you and to help you heal, and you want to return the favor by providing them with the best life possible...
Who this program is for:
new pet parents, who need guidance and information about how to give their new family member a life of wellness
seasoned pet parents, feeding fresh whole foods or wanting to move in that direction, and desire to dive deeper into preventative wellness
pet professionals, groomers, trainers, vet techs, veterinarians, and nutritionists, who are looking to build a strong foundation in holistic wellness
There are no prerequisites, just an open heart, a curious mind, and a love of animals and nature.
The material will be presented in an embodied, experiential manner without the need for an extensive scientific or medical background.
The wisdom is reflected back to us from the natural world, all around us if we turn off the screens and open our eyes.
The world of pet care is topsy-turvy these days, like everything else in this time of rapid and radical transformation:
Medical treatment for our pets has become less accessible in terms of appointment availability, treatment options, and price.
Finding a veterinarian you can trust with the care of your beloved pet has sadly become more and more difficult with the corporatization of clinics.
Unfortunately, veterinarians have been trained to be salespeople and to give referrals to specialists instead of diagnosticians and clinicians who are willing to listen to the clients and their concerns about their beloved pets.
Finding a healthy, clean pet food can be just as difficult, with veterinarians telling you one thing, pet food stores another, and holistic pet nutritionists another.
Big Pharma is continuing to develop more and more medications, gene products, and vaccines that have not been adequately tested for safety or efficacy. How do we know which ones are safe or not?
Pet parents find themselves with fewer options and less control over their pet's health care. Guilt, gas-lighting, and other emotional manipulation tactics are used by clinic staff during the decision-making process.
On the other hand, the market has been flooded with "holistic consultants" and "pet nutritionists," many of whom do not have any medical background and may have only a couple of years of training and minimal practical experience.
There are more nutritional and herbal supplements to choose from than ever before. Some are great and high quality. Some are questionable. No matter what they say on the label, not a single one will cure all of your animal's problems.
When did pet care get so complicated and expensive?
How do you know who to believe and who to trust?
What if there was a way to keep your pet healthy and balanced using simple, readily available tools and ingredients?
Here is the secret:
lean into the wisdom of a map based upon the underlying energetic processes of the Universe:
The Wuxing, or Five Elements of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The Five Elements are transformative processes that create and maintain balance among all different aspects of the Universe, from the planets and stars all the way down to the cells of the body.
They are the ancient Taoist's version of quantum mechanics.
They give us a map of reality and the energetic relationships and connections within this vast web of life.
"As within, so without."
We will take a journey, as without, around the Wheel of the Year, through the seasons, as they correspond to the creation cycle of the Five Elements.
We will explore the body, as within, learning about the corresponding organ systems, body parts, emotions, and acupuncture channels and points.
This journey will empower you to be your pet's hero!
You will be empowered to choose appropriate foods, herbs, and supplements to help balance the various organ systems and body parts and your dogs' and cats' emotional and mental well-being.
You will have an enriched relationship with your pets because you will have a deeper understanding of their personality and individual preferences.
You will develop a deeper heart connection, creating more direct communication channels with your pets and all other living beings, expanding your world and community.
You will develop trust in your own intuition and inner wisdom to make the right choices for your individual animal.
You will learn to make your own medicine for you and your animals to attune to the current transformational energies, allowing you to surf the waves instead of getting pulled under.
We will explore the 5 Elements in a private community exclusively for animal lovers who know that our precious animal friends are here on a very special mission, a mission to help us, as humans, find our way back home to the natural world we have become more and more alienated from during the past 100 years.
FIVE MODULES:
From Birth to Death to Rebirth
This is an experiential, embodied exploration of the Five Elements.
We will spend 10 weeks with each element, exploring all of the correspondences, the energetics of the season, and how that is mirrored within the body.
We will explore different modalities (food, herbs, stones) in supporting and balancing the elements within the body and make our own vibrational elixirs for our animals and ourselves.
1. WOOD ELEMENT: SPRING
Liver/Gallbladder
Rebirth, growth
Youth
2. FIRE ELEMENT: SUMMER
Heart/Small Intestine
Passion, Heart opening, Living from a place of Joy
Young adulthood
3. EARTH ELEMENT: LATE SUMMER
Spleen/Stomach
Digestion, Grounding, Nourishing
Adulthood
4. METAL ELEMENT: AUTUMN
Lungs/Large Intestine
Turning within, Grief, Letting go
Senior years
5. WATER ELEMENT: WINTER
Kidney/Bladder
Life Essence, Jing, Ancestral medicine
Geriatric, end-of-life
BONUSES:
weekly group meditation sessions
special guest teachers
shamanic journeys to heal ourselves and learn in the ancient mystery school tradition directly from our animal and plant spirit guides
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how to make vibrational elixirs to attune ourselves and our animals to our rapidly evolving and changing world:
Every year, a different form of medicine is emphasized. This year we will be working with vibrational elixirs: medicine from the stone, plant, and flower realms. They provide gentle yet powerful nudges, bringing the individual into harmony, within and without.
They work in the body's energetic fields to elicit a gradual, gentle resonance between the individual, their various energetic systems, and Earth's rapidly evolving energy system.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS:
It is spread out over a year to experience the elements during their corresponding seasons. When we tune into the greater cosmic cycles between the Earth, Moon, and Sun, we align with their natural rhythms and flow, as well as the flow of Yin and Yang.
A year gives plenty of time to submerge yourself in the material, to live it, experience it, and embody it. This is a no-pressure class, a place to inhale the information, exhale, go back and watch videos, ask questions, and show up with your animals on ZOOM, in meditation, or on the community newsfeed available 24 hrs. to share and ask questions.
LIVE ZOOM classes, 1-2 hours long, will be held approximately every 2-3 weeks and always recorded, Tuesday evenings at 7 pm EST.
Meditation sessions are held weekly, on Tuesdays at 9 pm EST. They are not recorded due to the nature of the practices. They are based upon Tibetan Buddhist Calm-abiding meditation with occasional guided meditations and energy practices. No experience is necessary. Instructions are always provided.
Shamanic Journeys and rituals will be scheduled according to the Lunar and Solar calendars.
Question and Answer Sessions for each module with case discussions. Invitation to your own animals to join the circle to teach us!
Exercises, meditation practices, and medicine recipes may be given as optional "homework" to complete throughout the module.
A library of prior recordings from last year's program and PDFs are included.
There will be several breaks from LIVE classes and meditations: Winter Solstice to New Year's Eve and June 30 to July 16 (I will be in Ireland communing with the Fae).
The majority of information is applicable to felines, although they do have their own much-loved peculiarities. They are cats, after all - NOT to be confused with dogs!
As with everything in life, you will receive in accordance with how much time and energy you put into it.
We are connected to our pets, and the whole sentient world, through our heart centers. We give and receive compassion and love via the heart center, the largest electromagnetic field there is in nature. It is through the Heart that our animals communicate with us and gift us with their blessings. It is through the Heart that truly miraculous healings take place. When we open to receive, show up from a place of reverence and acknowledgment, the sentient world will respond in kind.
Why now?
At a time when veterinary care is becoming more expensive and difficult to obtain, wellness and prevention are even more important.
For centuries people have been going to the village herbalist and using their ancestors' remedies, passed down through the generations, to maintain their health and the health of the animals, particularly when they depended upon those animals for food.
Traditional Chinese Medicine is one of the oldest forms of medicine still in practice today. Combining TCM with the medicine ways of our ancestors, we can thrive, in harmony with the world around us.
We are reaching a critical point. We need to reclaim our roots, and the ancient ways so that we can heal, our animals can heal, and the Earth can heal.
A supportive community is the foundation required for that healing to take place.
PERSONAL INVITATION FROM DR. JOSIE:
"If you feel the calling, please join me, and let's listen once again to the animals, the plants, the trees, and the Earth. They want to help us re-member our place in the community of Gaia!" -Dr Josie
Your Instructor: Josie Beug, DVM, CVA
Dr. Josie has a unique combination of experience, knowledge, and wisdom, gathered upon her lifelong quest for spiritual and physical wellness for herself and her loved ones - human and animal.
She is a licensed veterinarian, with over 25 years of practical experience in Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine (TCVM).
When she began studying TCVM with her teacher Dr. Xie, at Chi University, she also began practicing the internal alchemy of Taoism and Tibetan Buddhism, to integrate the often-forgotten spiritual branch of these ancient healing arts.
She has personally used holistic healthcare as her primary mode of healthcare, studying herbalism in college and wild-crafting her own medicines for personal use over the past 30 years. She has experienced, learned, and practiced numerous energy medicine modalities, integrating them into her practice: Reiki, T-Touch, Bodytalk, Taoist stone medicine, among others.
After earning a Bachelor's degree in biology, neurobiology, and cognitive ethology, she worked in the trenches in animal shelters for 8 years. When she discovered veterinarians were using needles and herbs to heal animals, she decided to obtain her degree in veterinary medicine with the intention of practicing integrative veterinary medicine.
While in veterinary school, she introduced the student body to alternative methods of healing, including acupuncture, chiropractic, homeopathy, and herbal medicine, by inviting leading holistic veterinarians to lecture and teach. She refused the free bags of kibble from day one, making her own homemade raw cat food all the way through veterinary school.
She has explored numerous lineages of "the Old Ways," having been fortunate to cross paths with spiritual masters of Tibetan Buddhism, Taoism, North and South American shamanism, and most recently, her Norse ancestry. She follows the stars, reads Tarot, and collects lots and lots of stones!
"The existential crisis humanity is facing is rooted in the great myth that humanity is separate from all other life forms. To heal is to become whole, and to become whole is to re-connect and re-claim our place within the greater web of life. Our animals are helping to guide us back home."
Josie Beug, DVM, CVA
Testimonials:
"For those interested in the TCVM concepts and applying them for their pet’s wellness, this class is a must. Dr Josie’s ability to find the root cause and her steps on rebalancing the excesses or deficiency is quite remarkable. You literally can watch your animal improve as you apply these concepts. It’s not focusing on removing symptoms like allopathic medicine. It’s truly about improving health of your pets such that you see changes occurring over time that bring vitality back into your pets life. It not only is improving the quality of life, it restores their zest for living."
-student Be Your Pet's Hero 2024
Dr. Josie has packed the first round of "Be Your Pet's Hero" with so much helpful information. The live group classes really help support the learning, and Dr Josie is incredibly gracious with her time and access - always there to answer questions and provide guidance. As a novice, with no prior TCVM experience, I was initially concerned that it would be way over my head, but Dr Josie made it understandable and relevant for all levels. It has allowed me to continue to build my "holistic healing" tool kit for my dogs. Thank you, Dr. Josie!
- student of Be You Pet's Hero 2024
So happy to have found you Josie. You have extraordinary teaching skills that resonate with my passion of science and healing. And this group of ladies feels like a sisterhood to me...kindred spirits who are willing to share their experiences with all of us while we learn about balancing our bodies and our pet's bodies with the 5 elements.
-long-time student of many classes
Dr. Josie has created a space and an atmosphere of peace, love, acceptance and mutual support where we can come to learn, teach, share knowledge and experiences, as we momentarily put aside the ever-increasing chaos of the world at large. I trust you will all come to appreciate and value this great gift, as I, and others, already have. Welcome❤️
- member of Reverence
I learned so much from our Mushroom journey including what the mycelium debate is about, product recommendations (super helpful!), functional properties, and how to take them. But the most interesting and unexpected thing that I learned is how to truly connect with each Mushroom as a living thing. During the final meditation when we were going to meet our mushroom guide, I quite honestly didn’t think it would work for me. I was blown away. It was like an awakening to a new aspect of life! I also loved learning about the elements - super helpful in so many ways! Thanks Dr Josie!! The mushroom journey was fantastic!!
-student of mushroom class
I wanted to share something about Josie, having been in her courses as her VA in the past. When Josie talks about all her years of knowledge around a subject, she’s being modest. There are only a small handful of people I know who when they say they have wisdom to share around a certain subject, they MEAN it. One of those people is Dr. Josie (the plant realm, acupuncture, the five elements, Gaia, holistic veterinary knowledge).
The amount of information Josie delivers on the courses she teaches is mind blowing. So if you’ve ever wanted to know more about the world of mushrooms, I guarantee you’ll get your moneys worth here.
She is truly wise, truly generous, and truly connected to everything she teaches on.
-virtual assistant for Reverence
Dear Josie, Oh My💕💖💕
I was able to “catch up” and want to send to you so much thanks & much love for bringing forth the magnificent & exquisite energies that these beautiful animal energies shared with us;... their amazing words of wisdom and how they are so ready to help...we just need to communicate with them💞And, I know, that all of us here, on Reverence, are communicating with these mighty spirits.
- member of Reverence
