Welcome to our unique holistic retreats.

Creating soulful connections between horses and humans

The Inward Journey …….. The Outward Joy

If you’re ready to transform your relationship with horses, our Soul-to-Soul Retreats will put you on the path to a total equine awakening. Enjoy an inspiring retreat that’s focused on becoming one with your horse — body, mind, and soul. We’ll guide you step-by-step on a journey of awareness and connection using practical tools and exercises (mounted and unmounted) that you can continue putting into practice at home. Experience a practice integrating inner stillness and presence with personal body awareness and fitness, liberty work, groundwork, and riding.

The retreat format allows participants to explore and further develop their horsemanship capacity for sensing, feeling, intuition, and timing; all qualities for refining communication between horse and rider.  Time is allowed for personal exploration to follow an inner and physical path of discovery that leads the rider to a greater sense of awareness and mindfulness while working with  horses.

Discover the mutual joy that arises when we connect with our horses …

mind, body, heart, and soul

“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate for having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein do we err. 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.”

Henry Beston, The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Code

The Experience

Equestrians come together to explore new ideas and to share their own experiences and expertise on how they feel their journeys have provided an expanding insight into a closer relationship with their horses.  Meaningful discussions with fellow equestrians follow the individual topics.

Throughout your retreat experience, we’ll “practice what we preach” with exercises that prepare our bodies, minds, and souls to be the most present, mindful, strong, and compassionate humans we can be in the company of our horses (e.g. balance, staying present, building and shifting Qi (energy), meditation, joy, and love).

The retreat journey explores:

• Inner stillness and presence
• Energy exploration
• Connection and leadership
• Human and equine body awareness
• Liberty work and refined groundwork
• Equine and rider biomechanics 

The Retreat Program

The retreat format consists of sessions for mind, body, heart, and spirit, sessions with the horses, discussions;, quiet periods, and lots of time for questions and dialog.

Each day will begin with a short inward journey to find our energy through Qigong and meditation as we prepare ourselves to learn and understand howby the horse.

Daily discussion sessions will build a foundation of getting to know our horses as members of their own species and learn how the herd or family unit provides their safety and fulfills their wants and needs. Then as responsible caregivers to our domestic equines we will explore how we take on these roles for their well-being.

We will look at the ‘relationship’ that we are seeking with the horse and the elements of a relationship. Through fun exercises, research material and monitoring equipment we will discover how we can make changes within ourselves to achieve the connection and joyful outcome we seek for ourselves and our horses.

Through the sense of interbeing that we have developed, we will finally explore the art of Soulful Leadership. With the horse as a willing partner we can guide our horses through ground exercises that promote relaxation and effective body movement that will enhance the horse’s mobility and performance under saddle.