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yeat; Asia Voight! WsitsIndtilgence 'in N:eenah tomeet with clients face to face and sharemessages from their loving pets. Asia ' sa gifted animal communicator who hasclients all over the globe. She is able toget in touch with aniril.alsand translate their messages into human terms.Asia's story is available on her website atwww.asiavoight.coni..I first met Asia 5 III years ago when shecame to visit my shop. I have to admitI was a skeptic. I had been volunteeringwith Timber Wolf Biologists in the early90's as a zoology major in college anddoing animal behavior studies on captive1tumpeter Swans in the late 90's. All thehours I sat and observed animal behavior over v ~ r a 1 years, not once did oneof the animals speak. to me. (Or I didn'thear tiJ.em if they did.) It did not takelong after sitting doWn with Asia the firsttime t9f!ealize she was actually connecting WiWmy animals and could seewhat they could see. She not only could. ..: "

vidual behaviors perfeotly, but she oouladescnbe my home, 'current and 'p'revi- 'ous, in detail. Being a client and friendof Asia's now for almost five years, I haveseen the joy and emotion she can bringher clients through her gift in communi-. cating with their pets. Recently we sharedsome time on a dolphin expedition ofwhich Asia was a facilitator. During thistime we interacted with wild marine lifeon their terms.

Asia has done many interviews on heranimal communication skills and hasspoken about some of the interactionswith clients' pets. Up until now, no onehas discussed with her how communicating with wild animals is different. Whenasking Asia about her communicationwith the dolphins, she replied, "When Iarrive in Bimini (location of the DolphinExpeditions boat) I put out the intention and desire to communicate with thedolphins and invite them with an openheart and mind to share their wisdom.Then I sit back and wait for them to

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c!I.omestic ~ . t n a i l s 1:n"t1:lalY:Otloa,nnC)t pyour energy on the wild a.ri:ifii.aJ.s,states that we are in a society thatproactive intentions and our domeanimals are used to this forward enefrom humans and they respond wto it. Sea life such as sting rays, shadolphins etc. are aggravated by bepushed or pulled energe'tically.

This article is to share a very diffeperspective of an animal communtor as she works with wild marine liftheir habitat and on their terms.Dolphin Communications

, As the facilitator on a trip suchDolphin Expeditions offers, Asia hasbest connection with the wild animon the first day or last day. When aswhy, she said that the participants ontrip put too much energetic pressurethe animals by their thoughts and deto connect with them. At the beginnof the trip, the participants are recoing from the travels of their destina

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fi t tqe end of the trip, they let go .of~ c o n c e i v e d expectations from theand this allows a better energyfld'wbetween the dolphins and Asia. (4... has swum with the spottedaMp.hins of the Bahamas and the spinner

CiMphins ofHawaii:She had very differentexperiences with the two species. She saidVte ~ p o t t e d dolphins have the personalityto a poodle border collie cross in'ciJs - very playful, very intelligent and," sensitive. The spinner dolphins inHawaii present the personality similar. t , ,to a cat, somewhat aloof with a "what-el.er: attitude. The 'spinners are easier tofihd and she found they don't mind youswimming up on them, but they are notas ;playful in the water as the w:ild spotteddqlphins. The picture of Asia with the.spinner dolphins was taken when Asiaaatually asked the dolphins to slow downso the photographer could snap thepicture - and they did..The messages Asia would receive from1;he spinner dolphins were more practicaland consisted of directions among the pod .of dolphins and not directed at her. Sheshares an experience in which she wasswimming along side 10 spinner dolphinsand keeping herself as peaceful as possible when she heard the lead dolphin say'We are now turning to the right' and theentire pod turned right; then he said 'Weare now spiraling down' and then theydove down and were gone.. The dolphins are amazing animalsand when asked which she preferred,she said with out hesitation, am mostattracted to the spotted dolphins of theBahamas. I have never felt such giving,joy and love from another species; I can'tget enough of them. The sensation of it~ o e s not dwindle. '" .u r t J e s in Costa RicaLast November Asia was drawn to visitthe Olive Ridley turtles of Costa Rica.She and her friends stayed in a smallrural town called Playa Ostional wheretens of thousands 'of turtles come to lay:their eggs once a month during the darkmoon. The event is called Ambada,which means "the arrival. nThe timiilg is important for the turtlesbecause the dark moon and the high tideallow the animals to lay their eggs at a

point just abovethe water lineof the high tide.Basically theturtle swims upto the shore andwalks a few feetfrom the edge ofthe water line athigh tide, laysher eggs , coversthem and thenwalks back tothe water toswim back tothe ocean: Theentire process takes'about an hour. Asiaand friends arrived three days after theperfect timing of the tide. The older anddisabled animals were left to follow thereproductive call of nature. The old anddisabled turtles are slow at digging andsome have back fins missing from boatpropellers that maimed them. In thesecases ,'anhour process can take up to fouror more hours and the tide has recedingforces them to walk 50 feet to the water.Add to this hundreds of vultures in themorning hours waiting for either turtleeggs that didn't get buried or turtles thatare ready to give up the fight for life.Asia heard the vultures at one pointand she descnbes their voices as that ofcartoon characters as they spoke to theabba-

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injured turtles saying, "No need to putit off (death), you know we are here tohelp you." The turtles that were feelingtoo exhausted or hopeless to continueon would be surrounded by the vulturesand the birds began pecking at the turtlesuntil their final .deathLocal guides watch over the turtlesand Asia noticed two men gently lifting aturtle and carrying it to the water. When .she approached the guide and asked ifthey are allowed to do this, the guidesaid at this late time of day they will helpthe turtles so they can survive. That isall Asia needed to hear and she and herfriends were off to assist in the long walkto the water with the disabled turtles.In each case she mentions she >> 8

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>> sia Voight from pg. 11asked pennission to assist the turtles.Asia said sht; explained what they weredoing, and she could feel the hope andlife' 'force return to the animal.' As theygot closer to the water canying these150 pound sea turtles, the animal's flippers would flap and energy was restored.They helped 13 turtles to the safe, lifegiving waters of the ocean.SharksA few weeks ago when Asia was on aDolphin Expedition in the Bahamas, sheand those withherhad an encounter withsome s h a r ~ in the Gulf Stream. The firstshark was a 12-foot tiger shark. One ofthe participants was only 10 feet from theshark, and after a stare down, the sharkturned and swain on. As it swam awayfrom her, Asia was struck by its beautyand grace. Another 6-foot Canbbean reefshark swam up behind the captain whowas diving down deeper than the otherparticipants. The captain was not awareof the curious visitor behind him. Asiawas above looking down through 'hermask and said that the shark came up tothe captains back, sniffed and she .said\t looked like the shark shuddered andturned to quickly swim away. The sharkreally is not interested in humans.

I asked Asia . if she received any

messages from the sharks and she saidthe tiger shark did relay a communication. I t was filled with great sadness fortheir species. They know how importanttheir species' existence is to all life. Asiasaid this was one of the most painfulsensations she has ever felt in her life.The greed and ignorance of humansdepleting the oceans hurts them deeply- they want us to stop and begin supporting ocean life. The shark is fully aware ofthe i n t e r c o ~ e c t e d n e s s of all life. Theydo not want us to fear them and they donot want to hurt us.

When asked how Asia felt after thisexperience, she said she sees herselfsharing the message to stop the needlesskilling of the shark and to support thecause through education and financialsupport to organizations that are proactive in shark conservation. I t is time weget rid of the myths about the shark andrealize this is one of the most importantpredators on our planet.Communicationfrom a Sting Ray

I asked Asia if she had an example of amessage from one of the wild animals onher trips that stuck out in her mind. Sheshared a message from a sting ray to aparticipant we will refer to as Lisa. Stingrays, by the way, are very giving animalsand Asia mentions they want to share

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their gifts and wisdom wiiliM .tThey arI, ..not to be feared but respectem " ,Early last year during a sting ray inteaction in the Bahamas, Asia got a messagfor Lisa. The picture Asia kept receivinwas Lisa's stomach and the ' sting rakept saying 'no, not now!'. 'When Asiasked Lisa if this meant anything to heshe blushed with tears in her eyes, ansaid that she and her husband have beetrying unsuccessfully to get pre'gnant fothe last three years and she came on thitrip to make some decisions on what shshould do next. The sting ray's responswas, 'Let go of the desire for a baby anpursue dog training. The baby will comnaturally, but for now let go of that focuand work on dog training! Ironically, Lishad been contemplating dog training as career. She left the trip with a new focuand some peace of mind. A little over later, Lisa and her husband have beautiful baby boy.CondusionAnimals see us as energetic beings anwe hold images that they can r ~ a d anunderstand. According to Asia, diffeent species of animals commuhicate adifferent levels and varying depths osoul awareness. Once you sit down witAsia and experience the gift of animacommunication she has, you can nevelook at another animal the same ;Way. Aa person dedicated to the sciences ana student of animal behavior, I :cannodeny the information I have receivefrom Asia through my animals or thmessages others have received from botdomestic and wild animals through l\Sia

I t takes dedication, discipline anconstant practice to do what she does, buwe all have the potential. So the neftt'timyou are visiting a beach, relaxing in thsun with a good book and hear a vqice ithe distance talking to you - don't push off. Who knows, there may be a dolphinor sting ray or even a sturgeon trYirtg tgive you a message!!! All you have :to dis learn to be aware and listen. rt.:> .

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