Trainings
Join us to learn how to facilitate and coach powerful horse experiences for all types of clients. Our approach to Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) is based on partnership with horses, where we open and connect to receive their wisdom.
We offer in-person private trainings for organizations at their facilities and public trainings that anyone may attend at different locations. Occasionally we offer virtual webinars and trainings (a virtual version of our Mindfulness training, and not our Facilitator Certification or Heart Connection with Horses trainings).
- Teams: Team Building Leadership Development Mindful Leadership Business Training Coaching
- Personal growth for everyone, including first responders, active military, and veterans: Wellbeing Meditation Mindfulness Wellness Self-care
- Youth programs: Team building Leadership Development Life Skills
We offer in-person private trainings for organizations at their facilities and public trainings that anyone may attend at different locations. Occasionally we offer virtual webinars and trainings (a virtual version of our Mindfulness training, and not our Facilitator Certification or Heart Connection with Horses trainings).
Private TrainingsWe offer private trainings held at your location for 6 - 12 attendees, which is typically a significant savings on a per person basis. Once dates are set, we'll provide a fixed price to conduct the training(s). This is an incredible opportunity to train your entire team to facilitate EAL programs, with the opportunity to invite others outside your organization to share the cost. Some of our nonprofit clients are successful in securing grant or major donor funding to train their staff. Contact us to learn more.
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Trainings Descriptions
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Upcoming Public Training ScheduleClick on the buttons below or scroll down for information about the trainings, posted in this order:
20252026Sometimes our private training hosts are looking for additional people to join their trainings. Please contact us if you're interested in being notified about these training opportunities.
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Registration & PaymentsBe sure to review our Cancelation Policy before registering to understand the refund structure and timelines.
Register Early to secure your spot! We train in small groups to offer the best possible hand-on training experiences.
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EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification
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Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
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Heart Connection with Horses
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Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
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Heart Connection with Horses
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Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
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Information about our 4-day Facilitator Certification Training
EAL Accelerated Facilitation Certification Training
Become a certified EAL Facilitator! During our 4-day Facilitator Certification training, you'll experientially learn a coaching style of facilitation to conduct EAL programs for varying types of clients. We'll experience how horses, as co-facilitators, provide experiences unlike any other for people to learn and grow. You'll be guided step-by-step as you facilitate activities, and learn best practices to design and conduct effective EAL programs that provide lasting impact for clients. You'll build your competence and confidence in facilitation, and you'll explore how to build and market your program.
Each training typically has 6 - 12 participants, so this is a highly personal experience with the trainers and other participants.
Pre-Work: This is an accelerated training program with pre-work to complete prior to the training. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly, discuss key topics about EAL programs, and facilitate horse activities. The pre-work includes a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 40 days before the start of the training) along with these two books that we've integrated with our curriculum:
Register at least 2 weeks prior to the training start date to have enough time to complete the pre-work and our processing of your strengths information.
EAL Facilitator Certification: After attending the training and meeting all the requirements for certification (documented within the training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the open-book certification Self-Test. Your Self-Test results along with facilitation skills demonstrated during the training program will determine your certification status. This is a knowledge-based certification as an EAL Facilitator, which is a lifetime certification that doesn't require future investments, membership, or continuing education to maintain your certification status.
Each training typically has 6 - 12 participants, so this is a highly personal experience with the trainers and other participants.
Pre-Work: This is an accelerated training program with pre-work to complete prior to the training. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly, discuss key topics about EAL programs, and facilitate horse activities. The pre-work includes a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 40 days before the start of the training) along with these two books that we've integrated with our curriculum:
- Open to Outcome 2 Edition: A Practical Guide for Facilitating & Teaching Experiential Reflection
- Strengths Based Leadership: Great Leaders, Teams, and Why People Follow: This book provides instructions along with an access code to take the CliftonStrengths assessment online, the access code can only be used once so be sure to purchase a new book. Alternatively you can purchase and take the CliftonStrengths Top 5 on Gallup's website, without purchasing the book. This video explains the assessment. If you're interested, the CliftonStrengths 34 and other reports are optional and they can be purchased in the future without having to take the assessment again.
Register at least 2 weeks prior to the training start date to have enough time to complete the pre-work and our processing of your strengths information.
EAL Facilitator Certification: After attending the training and meeting all the requirements for certification (documented within the training curriculum), you have 6 months to complete the open-book certification Self-Test. Your Self-Test results along with facilitation skills demonstrated during the training program will determine your certification status. This is a knowledge-based certification as an EAL Facilitator, which is a lifetime certification that doesn't require future investments, membership, or continuing education to maintain your certification status.
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During the Facilitator Certification training, you will:
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Lunches:
Please watch for an email sent a few weeks before the training that will explain how lunches will be handled; which varies for each training. Electronic Communication: We communicate important training information through email. Our email may arrive in your spam/junk folder, so please check this folder regularly and add our email address to your address book or mark our email address as not spam/junk to receive our emails in your inbox.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs):
We encourage each training class to maintain their strong bonds and continue their collaboration after the training. You'll have access to our free online community (private Facebook group) to connect with others that have attended our trainings to collaborate about EAL tools, techniques, resources, facilitation opportunities, and in many other ways. Also, you may always contact us for support with your questions. |
Prior Facilitator Certification Training Attendee Feedback:
- “Empowering experience that resulted in personal and professional growth.”
- “This training takes the best of everything EAL and puts it into an accessible and well organized package that includes everything a successful facilitator needs.” "It's an EAL business in a box."
- "Absolutely priceless; everything I was taught and experienced was so impactful."
- "Transformative for myself and my business."
- “Efficient, effective, powerful way to become aware of using your strengths to create meaningful programs with horses.”
- “Without a doubt, the most useful and lasting training I have had in my career.”
- "Absolutely the best training I have ever attended from the leaders to the facility to the pace and arrangement of material presentation."
- "I'm leaving filled with love, gratitude, and inspiration."
- "Incredibly powerful and valuable."
- "Impactful! Transcended from excitement to inspiration to conviction."
- "Exceeded my expectations for content and support materials."
- "Life changing on all levels."
- "This training taught me how to facilitate but may have taught me even more about myself that will carry me to success in my business and my life."
- "I gained life changing tools to assist others."
- "Absolutely invaluable in preparing myself to share my passion."
- "This program exceeded my expectations in preparing me to facilitate and lead EAL experiences. The intentional progression of the learning opportunities was excellent."
- "It was more than a training program; it was a personal transformative experience."
- "I'm leaving this training feeling like we made the very best choice by choosing EAL Academy for our training."
- "This program delivered on what was promised."
- "It is rare to have four days really attain such in depth useful training that leaves a participant ready to implement new programs."
- "This is an incredible experience in expanding knowledge and personal growth, unmatched in my 45+ years of life."
- "It has given me the confidence and clarity to facilitating EAL."
- "This training is the complete package! It provides everything to be successful."
- "A purposeful business in a box that empowers individuals and teams to build their dreams."
- "The best EAL Facilitator training out there. Very well thought out and great support before and after the training."
- "This training touched my heart, uplifted my soul, and opened my mind to what's possible. I now feel equipped to launch and lead a successful EAL business."
Information about our 1-day Mindfulness Training
Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs
Learn to facilitate mindful meditations and other mindfulness activities with horses to support your clients with greater balance, better ways to manage stress, and supporting self-care. The heart-centered interactions in this program can be a foundation to increase their compassion, empathy, and gratitude.
Mindfulness is simply maintaining focus in the present moment while being aware of what you're sensing and feeling, without judgment. Horses are the best mindfulness teachers because they primarily live in the present moment, and typically in a coherent state. Explore coherence, the benefits of being in this state, and how horses support us in shifting into it (all based on coherence research). Best of all, experience for yourself this regulated coherence state and its effects.
These experiences with horses are active and very different than typical meditation and mindfulness experiences. Many that have struggled with meditating, find ease with meditating with horses. Clients enjoy how the horses choose how to interact with them and the deeper connections that unfold, and often attend again.
This is a beautiful personal wellness experience with horses, whether you choose to facilitate these experiences after this training. If you do, everything is provided to host programs right after the training, including step-by-step processes, activity descriptions, meditation scripts, forms, tools, templates and sample agendas.
This program can be taken independent of our certification training; prior certification is not required although our certification training supports facilitating all types of EAL programs. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete the pre-work prior to the training to enhance your experience. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindful activities. The pre-work includes a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 40 days before the start of the training) with important information that is backed by research about what happens when people are in the presence of horses.
Mindfulness is simply maintaining focus in the present moment while being aware of what you're sensing and feeling, without judgment. Horses are the best mindfulness teachers because they primarily live in the present moment, and typically in a coherent state. Explore coherence, the benefits of being in this state, and how horses support us in shifting into it (all based on coherence research). Best of all, experience for yourself this regulated coherence state and its effects.
These experiences with horses are active and very different than typical meditation and mindfulness experiences. Many that have struggled with meditating, find ease with meditating with horses. Clients enjoy how the horses choose how to interact with them and the deeper connections that unfold, and often attend again.
This is a beautiful personal wellness experience with horses, whether you choose to facilitate these experiences after this training. If you do, everything is provided to host programs right after the training, including step-by-step processes, activity descriptions, meditation scripts, forms, tools, templates and sample agendas.
This program can be taken independent of our certification training; prior certification is not required although our certification training supports facilitating all types of EAL programs. No experience with mindfulness or meditation is needed.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete the pre-work prior to the training to enhance your experience. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindful activities. The pre-work includes a pre-study document that we provide (included with the training curriculum sent approximately 40 days before the start of the training) with important information that is backed by research about what happens when people are in the presence of horses.
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During the Mindfulness training, you will:
Note: The scope of this training targets the facilitation aspects of mindfulness and meditation programs with horses. It's during our 4-day Facilitator Certification training where we provide tools for managing equine liability risk, marketing, pricing, selling EAL programs, and building an EAL business. Also, many of the activities from this training can be used for mindfulness EAL programs. |
Lunch:
Please watch for an email sent a few weeks before the training that will explain how lunch will be handled; which varies for each training. Electronic Communication: We communicate important training information through email. Our email may arrive in your spam/junk folder, so please check this folder regularly and add our email address to your address book or mark our email address as not spam/junk to receive our emails in your inbox.
Continuing Education Units (CEUs):
You'll have access to our free online community (private Facebook group) to connect with others that have attended our trainings to collaborate about EAL tools, techniques, resources, facilitation opportunities, and in many other ways. Also, you may always contact us for support with your questions. |
Prior Mindfulness Training Attendee Feedback:
- "Beautifully, mindfully, and spiritually done."
- "Wonderful experience from both participating and as a facilitator."
- "The whole world needs this!"
- “Amazing experience that allowed me to learn and grow personally while providing me with the tools and confidence to share this with others.”
- "Absolutely amazing and powerful experience that I can apply to all areas of my life."
- "It's valuable, powerful, insightful, and meaningful."
- "I experienced deep personal mindfulness as well as insights, ideas to create my own program."
- "This program is a beautiful thing and the world needs more."
- "Soul renewal."
- "Absolutely life changing."
- "The program was powerful, insightful, and touched my heart."
- "I cannot say enough about the collective experience today. The meditations left me feeling balanced, free, and open."
- "This day of training changed my outlook on the true sensitivity the horse offers - HRV/HeartMath proves it, I got to experience it!"
- "This program exponentially increased my mindfulness practice and moved me to a new level."
- "I found a way to connect my intuition to my business."
- "This training is very useful as a first experience as a meditator or to experience how the horses can power it up for experienced meditators."
- "One of the most moving experiences I have ever encountered."
- "It has been transformational and natural to implement."
- "I have new awareness of using mindfulness to make the world better for horses and humans."
Information about our 3-day Wellbeing Training
Heart Connection with Horses
This training builds upon the 1-day Mindfulness experience, to offer in-depth experiences targeting mindfulness, meditation, wellness, wellbeing, self-care, personal growth, etc. There are more than 30 techniques and horse interactions to support repeat clients and multi-day programs and retreats. These interactions go deeper into experiencing horses as spiritual beings and understanding the many ways they energetically support us. These interactions are divinely inspired to bring energetic grounding, alignment, and heart-centered expansion.
Journey into the hidden realm of horse culture that is unknown to most, where it's revealed that horses are Master ∞ Energy ∞ Movers. They move energy to balance and align themselves, their herd, the land, and us. Experience these energetic exchanges, and connect deeper in understanding their messages.
If you've seen Candice Webster's viral videos of her healing work with her herd in South Africa then you've had a glimpse of what you'll experience and learn to facilitate during this training.
The horse interactions include connection activities, energetic exchanges, breathwork, and meditations. All can be one on one experiences for individual clients or facilitated in a group setting, as experienced during the training. Most interactions involve simply being in the presence of horses where they decide how to interact with us. This is a powerful place of communion where the horses share their sacred gifts.
Experience the expansive presence of horses through:
Energetic Meditation Experiences ∞ Healing Frequencies ∞ More Coherence Techniques ∞ Energy Systems of Humans & Horses ∞ Qigong ∞ Mudras ∞ Sacred Geometry ∞ Crystals ∞ Journaling ∞ Breathwork ∞ Intention and Affirmations ∞ Manifesting ∞ Earth Energy Integration ∞ Deep Connection & Communion
You will experience these sacred gifts and learn to facilitate them to support others in their wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit. We provide step-by-step processes, activity descriptions, meditation recordings, scripts, forms, tools, templates, and sample agendas, to facilitate programs right after the training.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete the pre-work prior to the training to enhance your experience. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindful activities. The pre-work includes foundation information and research about energy systems and energetic exchanges between people and horses.
Certified EAL Mindfulness & Wellbeing Facilitator: Once you attend both the 1-Day Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs and 3-Day Heart Connection with Horses, you're eligible to complete the Self-Test for certification.
Journey into the hidden realm of horse culture that is unknown to most, where it's revealed that horses are Master ∞ Energy ∞ Movers. They move energy to balance and align themselves, their herd, the land, and us. Experience these energetic exchanges, and connect deeper in understanding their messages.
If you've seen Candice Webster's viral videos of her healing work with her herd in South Africa then you've had a glimpse of what you'll experience and learn to facilitate during this training.
The horse interactions include connection activities, energetic exchanges, breathwork, and meditations. All can be one on one experiences for individual clients or facilitated in a group setting, as experienced during the training. Most interactions involve simply being in the presence of horses where they decide how to interact with us. This is a powerful place of communion where the horses share their sacred gifts.
Experience the expansive presence of horses through:
- Energetic tools to ground, clear, balance, and align both people and horses (energy centers, chakras, meridians)
- Ways to engage harmoniously with horses, which honors their voice and choice
- Methods to strengthen and awaken inner wisdom and intuition, to support facilitating these experiences
- Techniques to give back to the horses to express gratitude for the beautiful gifts they give us
Energetic Meditation Experiences ∞ Healing Frequencies ∞ More Coherence Techniques ∞ Energy Systems of Humans & Horses ∞ Qigong ∞ Mudras ∞ Sacred Geometry ∞ Crystals ∞ Journaling ∞ Breathwork ∞ Intention and Affirmations ∞ Manifesting ∞ Earth Energy Integration ∞ Deep Connection & Communion
You will experience these sacred gifts and learn to facilitate them to support others in their wellbeing of mind, body, and spirit. We provide step-by-step processes, activity descriptions, meditation recordings, scripts, forms, tools, templates, and sample agendas, to facilitate programs right after the training.
Each training typically has 6 - 16 participants.
Pre-Work: We encourage you to complete the pre-work prior to the training to enhance your experience. We've intentionally designed the training so we can move quickly and spend much of our time together with the horses doing mindful activities. The pre-work includes foundation information and research about energy systems and energetic exchanges between people and horses.
Certified EAL Mindfulness & Wellbeing Facilitator: Once you attend both the 1-Day Facilitating Mindfulness EAL Programs and 3-Day Heart Connection with Horses, you're eligible to complete the Self-Test for certification.
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During this Expanded Wellbeing training, you will:
Note: The scope of this training targets the facilitation aspects of mindfulness and meditation programs with horses. It's during our 4-day Facilitator Certification training where we provide tools for managing equine liability risk, marketing, pricing, selling EAL programs, and building an EAL business. Also, many of the Facilitator Certification training activities can be used for mindfulness EAL programs. |
Lunches:
Please watch for an email sent a few weeks before the training that will explain how lunch will be handled; which varies for each training. Electronic Communication: We communicate important training information through email. Our email may arrive in your spam/junk folder, so please check this folder regularly and add our email address to your address book or mark our email address as not spam/junk to receive our emails in your inbox.
Post Training Collaboration: You'll have access to our free online community (private Facebook group) to connect with others that have attended our trainings to collaborate about EAL tools, techniques, resources, facilitation opportunities, and in many other ways. Also, you may always contact us for support with your questions. |
Prior Heart Connection Training Attendee Feedback:
- "The space held for us was beautiful."
- "I learned to continue following my inner guidance and act on it."
- "You gave us so many tools and materials to create a program that is our own."
- "This program was lovingly and generously created and shared. And, again, you've given me confidence!"
- "I feel whole and complete!"
- "Overall the personal healing and insight was phenomenal, then learning how to integrate this into our own program "in a box" is a gift to all human and horses it touches. Awesome!!!"
- "Opens your heart and mind to the gifts of spiritual mindfulness."
- "I am so grateful for this experience and how it offered me personal growth and healing while also validating my abilities to carry the work forward."
- "This course was life-changing...literally! ... When I tell you that the horses' impact stayed with me for weeks, that is an understatement. I will use the tools I learned for the rest of my life. EAL Academy does an outstanding job facilitating this experience."
Payment & Discount Information
Payment Methods:
Payment Plans:
1. We offer Afterpay through Square so you can buy now, pay later by selecting Afterpay as your payment method. Afterpay makes an instant approval/decline decision at the time of purchase. Use your existing Afterpay account or create one. The payment plan is between you and Afterpay, and not with EAL Academy. We're not able to issue refunds or adjust amounts for Afterpay transactions. Afterpay parameters change from time to time and here's the current information: Square's Afterpay information.
Pricing & Discounts Offered - Select from these Price Options when Registering:
- Online Payments: Click the REGISTER button above for all trainings. Select the training you want to attend and you'll see the available pricing, including discounts (described below). If your payment doesn't process successfully please contact us. Unfortunately, this happens from time to time and typically it's easily resolved by sending you an email invoice (see below), unless your card vendor has flagged the purchase as potential fraud. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience and we'll ensure this is resolved.
- Email Invoices: Square uses a separate system for email invoices and it doesn't have the same issue with credit/debit cards not working that happens periodically with their online purchases. We're happy to support you by sending an email invoice rather than paying online. The email invoice allows you to "Pay Online" through a link in the email. We need the following information to send you an email invoice: your name, email address, phone number, training location, which trainings you want to attend (Facilitator Certification, Mindfulness, and/or Heart Connection), and inform us if there's another discount that applies other than the Early-Bird discount (Group, Host Affiliate, and for Facilitator Certification - Previously Certified - see descriptions below under the pricing table).
- Venmo, PayPal, & Check: You may register using Venmo (@EALAcademy), PayPal (https://paypal.me/ealacademy), or by check (address here). Before paying with these methods, please contact us to confirm there are spots available for the training you want to attend and provide the following information: your name, email address, phone number, training location, and the training(s) you want to attend.
- Credit/Debit card payment over the phone: We can manually process your credit/debit card payment with this information: your name, your email address, phone number, the training(s) you want to attend, name on the card, card #, expiration date, CVV, and zip code. For compliance reasons, we will enter your card information directly into the Square payment system and it will not be stored by us.
Payment Plans:
1. We offer Afterpay through Square so you can buy now, pay later by selecting Afterpay as your payment method. Afterpay makes an instant approval/decline decision at the time of purchase. Use your existing Afterpay account or create one. The payment plan is between you and Afterpay, and not with EAL Academy. We're not able to issue refunds or adjust amounts for Afterpay transactions. Afterpay parameters change from time to time and here's the current information: Square's Afterpay information.
- Online Payments & Email Invoices: For amounts up to $2,000 you may spread your payments over 4 bi-weekly interest-free installments (4 payments over 6 weeks). Each payment is 25% of the total purchase amount. You make the first payment with your purchase and the following payments are due every 2 weeks. If your amount is over $2,000 then there's the option below or the difference would need to be paid external to the Square system. See above for the information we need to send an email invoice.
- Email Invoices: Qualified Afterpay customers will be offered an additional Afterpay repayment option during checkout to pay invoices up to $4,000 in monthly installments over 6 or 12 months with interest (minimum purchase of $400). See above for the information we need to send an email invoice.
Pricing & Discounts Offered - Select from these Price Options when Registering:
- All discounts expire after the last day to register, which is indicated above for each training and sometimes these dates may change. This includes open invoices at discounted prices that have not been paid by the last day to register.
- The Early-Bird discount is available when paid in full by the date specified above for each training or anytime it's still available through online registration.
- There's a Bundle discount** when you register for both Facilitator Certification (4-Days) and Mindfulness (1-Day) or Mindfulness (1-Day) and Heart Connection with Horses (3-Eays). You add each training to the cart separately. You do not need to attend both trainings at the same time/location.
- We offer a Group discount* when 2 or more attend together. Please inform us by email as to who is attending together when you register. The registrations can be purchased together in the same transaction or separately.
- We offer a Host Affiliate discount* for host staff, volunteers, partners, board members, and other host affiliation. Please confirm you qualify for this discount with us or the host. To register with this discount, contact us and we'll send you an email invoice which provides a link to pay online (described above under Payment Methods).
- Only for the Facilitator Certification training, we offer a Previously Certified discount* for those that have been certified by another EAL, EAP, EAC, or Equine-Assisted organization (including equine facilitated, equine guided, etc.). Prior certification does not need to be active or current; however, it must be a certification and not a certificate of attendance. Prior certification must be based on facilitating experiences with horses and integrating the horse-human connection. Submit your prior certification documentation by email when you register. Note: This is not an audit experience, rather all training attendees participate fully and have exactly the same training experience.
- Please contact us and we'll answer your questions about pricing. *There are eligibility requirements for each discount, which are explained above. If you register and don't meet the discount requirements for the discount rate you paid then you'll need to pay the difference for the correct registration rate.
Prior Attendees: For those that have previously attended a training and want to attend it again as a refresher, we may be able to offer a deeper discount if there are available spots 2-3 weeks before the training start date. Those that attend a second time find it extremely beneficial in gaining new insights and integrating course content. We hope you'll join us again, so please contact us to learn more.
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Explore why horses, as partners and co-facilitators, provide insight and benefits unlike any other learning or growth experience. EAL has progressed into the realm of human development, growth, mindfulness, and wellbeing. Join us to learn about the key aspects of facilitating these experiences that honors the sacred gifts of horses - their wisdom, connection, and enegetic exchanges, including coherence.
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