Retreats & Events

Mindfulness & Horses

What is mindful living? It's about paying attention and being awake in each moment. Horses know all about mindfulness. In the wild, their very survival depends on noticing changes in their environment, and they also use these skills in their interaction within the herd.

Horse Sense offers two retreats incorporating Mindfulness and Horses:

• Listening to Horses: Mindfulness for Horse People

• Equine Assisted Mindfulness: The Horse as Teacher (For Newcomers to Horses)

Descriptions of these two retreats are below.

Like horses, mindfulness for humans yields all sorts of advantages.  If we are awake in each moment, we notice things about ourselves that have changed, we notice the good in our lives.  We notice things that have changed that may not be beneficial.  In other words, living mindfully allows us to fine tune our daily living to live in a healthy and happy manner.

At Horse Sense, we combine horses and mindfulness to help you develop these important life skills.

Retreat Descriptions & 2012 Calendar

Listening to Horses: Mindfulness for Horse People

(formerly known as Mindful Horsemanship)

Want to deepen your skill with horses?
Try a little mindfulness.

Join us at the Horse Sense farm early winter 2011, broadening your understanding of horsemanship skills & deepening your presence to better connect with your own and all horses. We'll inquire into horses as an embodiment of the present moment, and as a way to align our mind-body-spirit. This awareness has an enormous impact on our practice as horse professionals, whether in the show ring, the therapeutic horsemanship field, the cutting arena, or in your backyard!

During this experience, we'll practice:

• Sitting & Walking Meditation
• Body Scanning & Yoga Practice
• Guided activities with horses
• A guided Labyrinth experience

Whether you are new to Mindfulness or have been engaged in a practice for years, allow yourself this opportunity to learn more from being (not doing) with horses.

2012 Dates to be released soon!

Equine Assisted Mindfulness The Horse as Teacher (for newcomers to horses)

Designed to heighten your awareness of all your senses and your connection with the natural world, this weekend retreat will offer an introduction to Mindfulness & Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR), including yoga, meditation, & labyrinth-walking. Local gourmet meals both days will tickle your tastebuds, while the farm, the horses & the beautiful mountains will speak to your sense of sight, sound & touch! Come spend time as a "human being" rather than a "human doing"!

2012 Dates to be released soon!