Delphine Healing Arts LLC

In the late 1980s, Courtney DeWinter was introduced to Reiki in a truly magical way: in the warm, blue waters of the Caribbean Sea swimming with a pod of dolphins. Back then, a team of Colorado-based Reiki masters were leading week-long trips to a dolphin facility off the coast of the Yucatan peninsula in Mexico. The sun was warm. The water was an unearthly blue. And the friendly dolphins literally were healers. As the trip participants swam with the dolphins, each of them was picked by a dolphin who scanned them with their echo-location (dolphin sonar) – almost like an organic version of ultrasound sensing. Once they had scanned their chosen human, each dolphin aimed at the area on that person’s body that they sensed was injured or sore and echo-located (sent sound waves) toward the area. Within seconds, each person reported that whatever chronic pain they felt was completely gone. These magnificent experiences over the course of several years set Courtney on the path to a deep connection with dolphins, animals, the Earth, and Reiki. She earned Reiki Level 1 and Level 2 certifications in the late 1980s; was certified as a Reiki master practitioner in 2005; earned a Reiki master teacher certification in 2006 -- and then founded Delphine Healing Arts. (Of note, “Delphine” refers to the Latin name for the common dolphin: Delphinus Delphus.)