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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
Finding Our Feet in Ever Changing Winds: Why Learning Secure Attachment is Necessary for Therapists, Helpers & Healers
Within each day, sometimes moment to moment, the wind changes. Blowing first this way, then that. Rushing straight across our path, or swirling around us. Sometimes it is so quiet we don’t even notice the air around us, other days it threatens to topple us. Whenever I...
Social Learning in Horses
By Kathleen Choe and Bettina Shultz-Jobe Horses are always watching—not necessarily in a vigilant or guarded way—but in the way animals are designed to orient toward relationship, movement, and subtle shifts in their environment. They notice tone; they notice posture;...
Why We Brought Rhythmic Riding and EC-EMDR Together
Many people arrive at this work carrying stories that live not just in memory, but in muscle, breath, posture, and movement. These stories shaped how they learned to protect themselves. They also shaped how their nervous systems learned to survive. Healing those...
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