Equine Faciliated Therapy and Learning

Back in the autumn of 2024 I did a guided meditation where one of the questions posed was:

“Where do you feel most yourself, most at peace, happiest...”

For me the answer to that question was instantaneous: in a field with horses.

I decided right then to explore finding a way to include this love that had grown within my personal life into my working life and so my training in Equine Facilitated Therapy and Learning began. By one of those wonderfully serendipitous occurrences, I was fortunate to find Horserenity just a short distance away at Kites Farm in Blandford. They were offering a course that felt just right for what I was looking for with dates coming up so I enrolled and my latest dream came to fruition.

Horserenity is a ground breaking centre offering alternative educational provision to young people and therapeutic work alongside our wonderful herd. There are also programs for teams and groups, including outreach to prisons and work with veterans. I now work there several days a week, supporting the young people who come to us because they are struggling in school, as well as offering private Equine Facilitated Therapy Sessions.

Autumn’s Wise Women’s Gathering at Horserenity

Autumn is a season of richness and transformation; nature offers us her abundance, vibrancy, and energy before she gently settles into winter. For many women, this stage of life mirrors the season itself: powerful, transformative, and full of potential.

Yet, transitions can sometimes feel overwhelming. When too much change arrives at once, especially when it feels beyond your control, it can drain your energy, strain your nervous system, and leave little time or space just for you. At Horserenity we invite you to step away from these pressures. You’ll find steadiness, strength and a growing trust in yourself, in a supportive, nurturing space alongside our horse guides.

We are offering three Sunday morning sessions in September designed to help you reconnect with yourself, your roots, and the land around you. No prior experience with horses is needed, and there is no riding, only presence, connection, and calm.

This course is for you if you are a woman who is:
-Navigating peri-menopause, menopause, or beyond.
-Feeling stretched thin by life’s demands.
-Rarely finds time for yourself.
-Longs to reconnect with nature and your own inner grounding.
-Wants to move through this stage of life with empowerment and vitality, not depletion.

Let the land replenish your energy; let the shared wisdom of women lift you up; let the presence of our horses guide you back to the essence of who you are.

Celebrating the Winter Solstice with Meditation and Sound in the Firelight - Friday 20th December

Last year, in a little village hall in Wiltshire, twelve of us gathered beside a roaring fire on the darkest night of the year to celebrate the turning of the seasonal wheel. There was warmth, community and meditation held to the backdrop of some wonderful music that transported us to another place. With Andy’s wonderful sounds, my spoken meditation and the presence of everyone who came, we created a magical space. For a short and precious time, we stepped out of the rush to rest and together we created an energy that felt so wonderful that none of us wanted to leave!

It was such an amazing evening that we were certain we wanted to hold it again where this year the meditation and music will be taking you on a trip to the sacred oak grove.

We very much hope you can join us. You can book here or read on to find out more information about the event and where our journey will take us.

The Autumn Equinox: A time to step up your self-care?

A second new year…
If, like me, you grew up within the English academic system it is likely that September will always have a little of that ‘start of the new school year’ flavour to it. September usually brings with it the first glimpses of autumn colour, the return of the morning dew and that first feeling of chill in the air and it can feel like an important shift in the cycle of the seasons. The autumn equinox will be with us on Sunday and it is one of only two days of the year (the spring equinox in March being the other one) where the hours of daylight and darkness are roughly equal. We might think of the equinox as marking a point in the calendar that reminds us there is still some time before the nights really start to draw in and hopefully (in the Northern hemisphere at least) some days of fine weather and bright, warming sunshine still to come. The life and vitality of the land, the trees, the wild animals around us still has some spark in it, a sort of last dance before the dormancy of winter begins. And as the farmers begin to bring in the harvest we can open our awareness to the abundance in the natural world around us.

Equine Faciliated Therapy and Learning

Autumn’s Wise Women’s Gathering at Horserenity

Celebrating the Winter Solstice with Meditation and Sound in the Firelight - Friday 20th December

The Autumn Equinox: A time to step up your self-care?

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