Equine facilitated psychotherapy focuses on the relationship between human and horse as the central healing energy. This way of working honors the role of the horse as teacher and guide to deeper awareness, non-verbal communication, presence and authenticity.
Horses are prey animals and as such they are very tuned in to their environment. This evolutionary trait gives them an uncanny ability to sense our unacknowledged thoughts and feelings, offering us reflections that can allow a deeper experience of self.
As non-verbal communicators, horses give an alternative to thought-based relationship. They invite us into deeper levels of communication and help bring into consciousness the many ways we interact with the world.
Unlike humans, horses experience their emotions as fluid messages, offering them information to create greater awareness and safety. They can invite us into deeper emotional agility and awareness.
This therapy is experiential. Learning through doing and increasing body awareness allows new insights to be integrated into our whole being.
Within this modality, most of the horse activities are done from the ground and do not involve traditional riding.
Horses can help humans:
Jody Raven offers Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy through the Anahata Horse Centre in Bancroft, Ontario and Horse Spirit Connections in Tottenham, Ontario.
Individual and group sessions are available.
To inquire further about Equine Facilitated Psychotherapy call Jody Raven at (613) 332-2615.
Equine Facilitated Workshops for 2012
Creating Life Balance August 4th & 5th
This workshop is for all people. No experience with horses is required.
2 day workshop with horses
Location: Anahata Horse Centre in Bancroft, Ontario
In today’s industrialized world we often find ourselves living a life that is out of balance, struggling to get through the day rather than living and enjoying the present.
Horses live in the moment. This capacity comes from their ability to fully embody emotions and treat them as welcome information. They travel through cycles of experience and release as one moment flows to the next. This is the true source of their freedom, balance, serenity and wisdom.
Cost is $390+ tax per person
$175 non-refundable deposit secures your space in this workshop
Reclaiming Ourselves Through the Way of the Horse Sept 29th & 30th
For women trauma survivors. No experience with horses is required.
2 day horse workshop for women trauma survivors
Location: Anahata Horse Centre in Bancroft, Ontario
Horses are natural teachers of embodiment, boundaries, relationships and fluid emotions. Like us they have had extensive histories of violence and trauma perpetuated largely by humans. Trauma steals our lives from us with stories untold and wounds unhealed. The horses can show us how to reclaim our physical bodies, know where we begin and others end and offer us a model for intimacy in relationship that can transform our lives. As prey animals horses are emotionally sensitive and keenly aware of their environment, these sensitivities make them ideal teachers for humans who often conceal emotional information and struggle with presence and authenticity.
Join us as we journey with the horses into our untapped self – finding body, voice and truth we can heal the impact and reclaim ourselves.
Cost is $390+ tax per person
$175 non-refundable deposit secures your space in this workshop
For All My Relations July 20th, 21st & 22nd
This workshop is for all people. No experience with horses is required.
3 day horse medicine workshop
Location: Anahata Horse Centre, Bancroft, Ontario
Over many generations we have lost our connection to earth, plants, and animals resulting in a growing imbalance that threatens our lives on this planet. How can we return to connection and alignment? For thousands of years horses have been partners to humans. Now, we are turning to them in an ancient way, recognizing that they can lead us back to ourselves and life. Horses are natural teachers of authenticity and emotional agility. They invite us back into our naturalness in alignment with all beings.
Cost is $490 + tax per person
$200 non-refundable deposit secures your space in this workshop
Horse workshops are offered through partnership with the Sacred Path Centre and the Anahata Horse Centre. To register contact Jody Raven or Melissa Gordon at (613) 332-2615 or email them at sacredpathcentre@sympatico.ca
You can also register for these workshops online at anahatahorsecentre.com
Contact: (613)332-2356 or 2315 or sacredpathcentre@sympatico.ca