You’re ready to evolve your practice.
The Natural Lifemanship® Institute can guide you.
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An approach to Equine Assisted Services based on the science of relationships.
Choosing your path is simple.
1. Find your way
Take the quiz to tell us about yourself and where you want to grow.
2. Start your journey
See our recommendation and walk the path that is right for you.
3. Evolve your life and practice
Experience the transformative power of connected relationships in your personal and professional life.
A Path That Meets You Where You Are
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Membership
Stay connected with other practitioners and professionals, receive early access and discounts for new workshops and conferences, and gain access to a video library containing hundreds of hours of streaming videos—and a course library for ongoing, self-paced learning offering CE credits.
Training
In-person and virtual options designed to meet you where you are and help you grow both personally and professionally.
Certification
Integrate and embody the principles of deep connection and relationship with yourself, your clients, and your equine partners. Receive individual, team, and group support for your own EAS practice —your specific clients, horses, and facilities.
Approved Training Provider
Sue McKinney
Founder and program Director of Barnabas Horse Foundation,
NL Certification Student
Get to Know Natural Lifemanship®
Horses are powerful partners because…
Horses are capable of engaging in healthy, genuine connection, relationship, and partnership. This relationship can be profoundly deeper than words.
A HORSE IS NOT
- A tool for our healing, an object, a mirror, or a metaphor
- A flawless magical creature capable of divine intervention
- A therapist
- A human
A HORSE IS
- A herd animal who depends on interconnected and complex relationships
- A mammal who craves connection and authenticity
- A highly sensitive creature who relies on ongoing, subtle, and embodied communication
- A sentient being, an individual, with their own wants, needs, and histories— including their own wounds to heal
Looking for equine assisted personal growth or therapy options for yourself?
We have two exclusive paths designed to support you in your own healing journey.
Our personal growth workshops, trainings, and retreats provide opportunities for connecting deeper to yourself, building internal resilience, and moving forward towards health and wellness.
If you are seeking more individualized support closer to home, our practitioner listing will connect you with a professional who is certified by Natural Lifemanship® or in the process of certification.
Simply choose your path below, and begin your journey.
Our blog
Without the Halter: The Moment Behind Choosing Connection
“You’re going to start your relationship by tricking her?” Tim asked me that question more than 20 years ago, when I was preparing to work with my first untrained horse. I had grabbed a halter, hidden it behind my back, and started toward her. “What are you doing?” he...
Parents Are Not the Problem…and That’s Our Problem to Solve
Most parents can tell within seconds whether they are about to be understood or evaluated. It might be a slight tilt of the head or a pause that lasts a beat too long. I know that feeling well as a mother who has experienced it from across a table. When it happens, I...
It Wasn’t Magic. It was Sacred.
When We Call It Magic There are moments with horses that can take your breath away. A horse who quietly walks over and rests beside someone who has spent a lifetime believing they were too much. A herd that shifts when a client softens into their body. A horse who...
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