Compassion
Empathy
Trust
Respect
Confidence
~ Our passion is the love and respect for our horses ~
Your journey
Your horse
Your choice
Your voice
Effective partnership requires an open mind and an open heart. It means being mindful, creative, and honest. It takes mutual respect and a willingness to shift our perspective. It asks us to be aware of our natural state of being and to maintain that state of being while doing. The horse has accepted being our partner for centuries by carrying us in battle, plowing our fields, providing transportation, performing for our entertainment, and aiding our troubled minds and bodies back to a place of well-being. Too often we have used the horse without enough consideration of our effects on their lives.
Because we recognize horses as sentient beings and care deeply for their welfare, we created this center to empower like-minded people to follow their hearts and seek more compassionate ways to interact with each other and their equine friends. We have come together to honor the spirit of the horse — their freedom, grace, beauty, generosity, and love and maintain this unbroken spirit to the best of our abilities. We respectfully support your intuition, your ideas, and your decisions. After all, this is your journey, your horse, and your choice. We’re simply here to help inspire and guide you along the way.
Our Approach to Holistic Learning
Our approach to holistic learning builds on the belief that we must first look within and explore our beliefs, perceptions, and motivations so that we can understand our behaviors. With knowledge, experience, and an open mind and heart, we are better prepared to examine new ways of being in the world and living as our authentic selves. Whether we’re engaging one-on-one or in a larger group, we create a calm, respectful, diverse, and safe learning environment, free from judgment and expectations. In this setting, our students explore new ideas and experiences with confidence, joy, and FUN!
As the famous Chinese proverb says,
“Tell me and I’ll forget.
Show me and I may remember.
Involve me and I’ll understand.”
We believe in teaching not only the “how” and “when,” but also the “why” behind everything we do with our horses. We are all part of a broader network of interconnected relationships and life systems where understanding and cooperation benefit all.
Our Focus
Our classes put the focus on the welfare of the horse first. It’s why we present new and different ways of seeing our horses – who they are apart from us, their innate intelligence and adaptability, what they have to teach us, and their willingness to meet us heart to heart and soul to soul. We use that knowledge to make better choices that benefit both our horses and ourselves for pure joy and connection.
The program’s focus is to further develop the partnership between horse and human while honoring the bodies, minds, hearts, and spirits of both. Our holistic program incorporates: awareness and mindfulness practices, leadership skills, equine and rider biomechanics, equine behavior, equine and rider fitness, and classical principles. All elements that lead to a harmonious and fulfilling horse-human relationship.
Observations
Perceptions
Beliefs
Motivations
Intentions
For the benefit of sentient beings let us expand our awakening minds.
Your Journey
Expand Self awareness and Self leadership
If you’re ready to transform your relationship with horses or other beings, our soul-to-soul immersion will put you on the path to a enriching equine awakening. Enjoy an inspiring program that’s focused on becoming one with your horse and with yourself— body, mind, heart, and soul. Experience a journey integrating inner stillness and presence with personal body awareness and fitness. We’ll guide you step-by-step on a journey of awareness and connection using practical tools and exercises that you can continue putting into practice at home.
Join us for connection and immersion into JOY!!
Awareness
Mindfulness
Presence
Insight
Reverance
Thoughts to reflect on:
“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.”
One thing to remember is to talk to the animals. If you do, they will talk back to you. But if you don’t talk to the animals, they won’t talk back to you, then you won’t understand, and when you don’t understand you will fear, and when you fear you will destroy the animals, and if you destroy the animals, you will destroy yourself.
“Animals were once, for all of us, teachers. They instructed us in ways of being and perceiving that extended our imaginations, that were models for additional possibilities.”
“For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with the extension of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings: they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendour and travail of the earth.”
“I feel we need to honor the spirit of the horse – their freedom, grace, beauty, generosity, and love
and maintain this unbroken spirit at all costs.”