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...
She was standing on the mounting block. Her horse had walked right up beside her, just like they had practiced, again and again, over weeks of small invitations. This was the moment. She was one breath away from swinging her leg over and riding for the first time. And...
Objectification, Dissociation, and the Horse–Human Nervous System There is a particular kind of stillness that can look like healing. A horse standing quietly at the fence… A client moving through a session without breaking down… A smooth, predictable...
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...
Many of us enter helping relationships with a sincere desire to be supportive. We want things to improve. We want movement, relief, or clarity to arrive for the people and animals we care about. Over time, that desire can quietly shift into an impulse to manage...
By Kate Naylor and Bettina Shultz-Jobe Do you remember what drew you to the field of Equine Assisted Services when you first started down this path? Was it to help people? To help horses? Maybe Both? If you are like me, you wanted to take your work to the next level...
One of the questions I hear most often from students who have completed the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship is this: “How much direction do I give my clients? Do I teach them exactly what I learned in the Fundamentals, or do I let them discover the principles on...
What Does It Really Mean to Be Certified? When we launched the Natural Lifemanship (NL) Certification Program in 2016, we asked ourselves two important questions: What does it mean to be NL certified? And what exactly are we certifying? Many of us had been studying...
What Do You Actually Do With the Horses? One of the hardest things about working in the field of equine-assisted services is answering this simple question: “What exactly do you do?” What I do as a licensed mental health counselor can feel like a riddle sometimes....
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