Equine Assisted Learning In Elk Grove

The Wealthy Heart
Expanding Your Capacity For Fully Engaged Living & Loving

An Equine Inspired Event
on Friday, September 30, 2011

Everything about you is either expanding or contracting in every moment of your life. You probably already know this, but how often do you check in with your internal experience throughout each day?

Many of us feel cut-off from our essential selves much of the time. We wait until we're exercising or falling asleep before remembering check in with our physical self.

Learning how to honor your interior world, consistently throughout each day empowers you to feel more ease, more joy and more of all the good stuff you long for. This is the starting point for developing a Wealthy Heart.

Why? Because when we check in, we then have the choice to stay in those emotions or shift them. To attend to our physical needs or ignore them. We may like what we choose or not like it, but at least we are conscious of what we are choosing.

This is always the starting point for lasting change.

Horses offer humans an opportunity to learn a deeper way of being in the world. Horses embody power, grace and freedom. Their survival depends on their ability to sense incongruity in the environment and respond appropriately.

Horses naturally trust their instincts. They are effortlessly attuned to the emotions of those nearby.

Is this true of you?

During this event you will interact with horses, develop partnership with them, and become part of the herd. You will learn about yourself along the way.

In this workshop you will nurture your body with yoga.
Manage your mind with meditation.
Open your heart by connecting with horses.

• Reclaim your ability to live from your heart
• Deepen connection and cohesion in all your relationships
• Enhance your levels of emotional resilience and vitality
• Release the bodily tensions that inhibit your freedom
• Discover the beauty of emotions and how to use them skillfully
• Heighten your ability to recognize and honor your own needs and the needs of those around you and how to respond without depleting yourself

The morning is all about being with the horses. This is where the horses model emotional authenticity for us. Their survival depends on their ability to accurately read their immediate environment. This is instinctive and effortless for them. When they sense emotional incongruency they react to it.Quickly. Precisely. And honestly.

There is much to be learned by how the horses respond to you in each moment. Patterns of thought and behaviors are quickly uncovered. It is inspiring and empowering work.

The afternoon we'll learn yoga poses that release areas of bodily tension that inhibit your freedom. You'll learn how to quiet your mind and manage your breath in order to create energy or smooth it out. Whatever is needed in the moment.

"Working with Barbara, Paule the horses, and the other course participants in our full day workshop revealed my self-limiting pattern of sending vague signals when working with others. The lesson? Get grounded, then step forward and be clear. Great work Barbara!"
-Rich Brewer, IT Manager, Sacramento