PROGRAM

guided therapeutic horse experience

Individual experience with horses, guided by an equine specialist
self inquiry or therapist referral (therapist attending optional)

The experience of simply being with horses can be very beneficial. Brushing them, feeling their energy, touching them, and forming a friendship with a horse can be a profound experience.

Connecting to a horse will usually also connect you to yourself. It will connect you to aspects of yourself you didn’t think were there, and it will happen in ways you won’t expect are possible. This can open up new possibilities for transformation.

What’s included in this experience:

• safely meet our horses under equine specialist guidance
• brush, feel, touch, and connect with the horse
• opportunity to perform simple tasks with the horse
• observe yourself while doing these tasks
• horse’s feedback to your inner state, to what’s going on inside
• if you wish or require, equine specialist’s interpretation of horse’s feedback
• simply being with the horse and forgetting everything else
• experience being fully present
• connect to nature, earth and Spirit
• connect to yourself

Our horses and equine specialist are very well attuned to one another and our equine specialist will be able to provide a safe and pleasant environment for your experience. It is a gentle process, and you don’t need any prior horse experience.

Horses have an innate ability to see you as who you really are.

They will recognise your inner state of being and generally will respond to it. Horses communicate with one another non-verbally, meaning they don’t use words or utter sounds.

As prey animals they communicate silently with each other and use body language and energy. They can sense the energy of other beings, including humans. They are also hyper vigilant, constantly ready to run and save their lives from attacking predators, so they’re always scanning their environment and pay attention to the slightest detail of information, be it visual or energetic.

This is why they will have you figured out often long before you will have done so yourself. However they don’t judge you, they don’t have any ideas about who or what you should be, they see through your social masks and personas.

Horses see you and accept you just as you are.

This can have huge therapeutic benefits. Often they express what they sense in ways that our experienced equine specialist can notice and interpret, and translate into human terms. This can be very valuable in a therapeutic setting. Other times it will be you who has an ‘aha moment’ all by yourself. Either can be profound experiences.

And even if none of this recognising and rational understanding should happen – simply being with a horse can deeply ground you, quieten your mind, focus/catapult you into the present, connect you to nature, earth and Spirit, and just be a very healing experience.