The Healing Power of
EASE: EQUINE ASSISTED SOMATIC EXPERIENCING
Equine Assisted Somatic Experiencing (EASE) is an experiential form of personal growth and development that works with the heart-centered presence of the horse to facilitate deep healing. For humans who might be stressed or anxious, horses can offer a calming presence. Our systems can reflexively mirror this ease.
At Equinimity, we have appropriately trained professionals working alongside well-chosen horses, partnering with families or small groups to facilitate learning. This unique experiential way of working offers us 'two-leggeds' a mirror to connect with a sense of ease, calm, safety, vulnerability and partnership that is innate to us all. Each experience with the horses offers us something, as we learn about ourselves, each other, and relating.
At Equinimity, we have appropriately trained professionals working alongside well-chosen horses, partnering with families or small groups to facilitate learning. This unique experiential way of working offers us 'two-leggeds' a mirror to connect with a sense of ease, calm, safety, vulnerability and partnership that is innate to us all. Each experience with the horses offers us something, as we learn about ourselves, each other, and relating.
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Horses are relationship-oriented herd animals. They—and we—are innately social creatures. As two-leggeds, though, we can forget how to live as a community. In striving for independence, it's easy to overlook that we actually need an 'other' to help us truly know ourselves and to be fully at home in the world.
- Jeanie Shepherd Natural Horsemanship Practitioner Equine Assisted Somatic Experiencing (EASE) Facilitator |
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Horses are powerful partners in healing trauma, leading to Experiential insights that can ALLOW us to embody more satisfying ways of interacting with the world.
Horses live as members of herds, small or large. It is this innate collaborative social structure and exquisite sensitivity to subtle changes in their environment that allows them to be perfect partners for learning a wide range of life, relational, and healing capacities.
Research shows that being around horses can be calming to our nervous systems, helping to decrease the symptoms of stress in our bodies, while contributing to a greater sense of overall well-being. The loop of awareness between horse and client provides a rich field of helpful information—leading to interpersonal and intra-personal skill-building opportunities.
Research shows that being around horses can be calming to our nervous systems, helping to decrease the symptoms of stress in our bodies, while contributing to a greater sense of overall well-being. The loop of awareness between horse and client provides a rich field of helpful information—leading to interpersonal and intra-personal skill-building opportunities.
If you’d like to schedule an experiential with the horses please contact us.
