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Integrating Horses into Healing

Author : Cheryl Meola

Publisher : Elsevier

Page : 412 pages

File Size : 24,78 MB

Release : 2023-03-28

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0443191964

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Written by experts and founders in the world of equine assisted services (EAS), Integrating Horses into Healing: A Comprehensive Guide to Equine Assisted Services is an all-inclusive, hands-on guide for any practitioner, researcher, or student interested in EAS. The book provides a wealth of knowledge, including perspectives from therapy and coaching practitioners, equine professionals, veterinarians, researchers, clients, board members, and founders of the EAS industry. These diverse perspectives offer a depth and insight that make this a go-to guide for EAS practitioners and researchers. The focus of the book is on the ethical incorporation of equines into different therapy modalities. The well-being of the equine as well as the practitioner team is addressed, as well as sustainability and health within a for-profit and non-profit structure. Offers ethical practices for integrating equine assisted services into therapies, coaching, and other services. Provides a foundational introduction to the benefits and practices of equine assisted services Discusses business and legal considerations for EAS ventures



Equine-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy

Author : Hallie Sheade

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 16,66 MB

Release : 2020-08-09

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 1351257544

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Equine-Assisted Counseling and Psychotherapy offers a comprehensive guide to the practice of working with equines in a psychotherapeutic setting. Chapters provide a research-informed approach to integrating the contributions of horses and other equines into mental health services. With a focus on equine welfare, the book uses a relational approach to explore a broad range of topics, including documentation and treatment planning, work with clients across the lifespan and with diverse needs, complexities related to horses in the therapeutic relationship, as well as ethical, legal, and best-practice considerations. Mental health and equine professionals will come away from the book with a strong understanding of both the theoretical and practical aspects of equine-assisted counseling.



Riding Home

Author : Tim Hayes

Publisher : Macmillan + ORM

Page : 267 pages

File Size : 46,30 MB

Release : 2015-03-03

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1250033527

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Riding Home:The Power of Horses to Heal, Horse Nation's must read book of 2016, is the first and only book to scientifically and experientially explain why horses have the extraordinary ability to emotionally transform the lives of thousands of men, women and children, whether they are horse lovers, or suffering from deep psychological wounds. It is a book for anyone who wants to experience the joy, wonder, self-awareness and peace of mind that comes from creating a horse/human relationship, and it puts forth and clarifies the principles of today's Natural Horsemanship (or what was once referred to as "Horse Whispering") Everyone knows someone who needs help: a husband, a wife, a partner, a child, a friend, a troubled teenager, a war veteran with PTSD, someone with autism, an addiction, anyone in emotional pain or who has lost their way. Riding Home provides riveting examples of how Equine Therapy has become one of today's most effective cutting-edge methods of healing. Horses help us discover hidden parts of ourselves, whether we're seven or seventy. They model relationships that demonstrate acceptance, kindness, honesty, tolerance, patience, justice, compassion, and forgiveness. Horses cause all of us to become better people, better parents, better partners, and better friends. A horse can be our greatest teacher, for horses have no egos, they never lie, they're never wrong and they manifest unparalleled compassion. It is this amazing power of horses to heal and teach us about ourselves that is accessible to anyone and found in the pages of Tim Hayes's Riding Home. The information and lists of therapeutic and non-therapeutic equine programs, which are contained in the book, are also available at the book's website.



Horses For Healing A Journey Through Equine-Assisted Therapy

Author : Brittany Forrester

Publisher : Vincenzo Nappi

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 38,41 MB

Release : 2023-10-17

Category :

ISBN :

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Step into a world where the power of connection and healing knows no bounds. "Horses For Healing: A Journey through Equine-Assisted Therapy" is a heartwarming and transformative exploration of the remarkable bond between humans and horses. In this captivating book, you'll embark on a journey that reveals the extraordinary therapeutic potential of our four-legged friends. Experience the profound stories of individuals whose lives have been forever changed by the grace and wisdom of these gentle giants. With immersive storytelling and vivid narrative, you'll witness the resilience of wounded souls finding solace, strength, and renewal through equine companionship. Discover how horses, with their intuitive understanding and unconditional love, become catalysts for growth and healing. Discover a world where compassion meets strength, vulnerability finds courage, and where, with the help of our equine companions, healing knows no bounds. Dive into the enchanting pages of "Horses For Healing" and let the remarkable stories within awaken your heart and spirit.



My Horses, My Healers

Author : Shelley R. Rosenberg

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 222 pages

File Size : 10,95 MB

Release : 2006-10

Category : Biography & Autobiography

ISBN : 1425966381

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My Horses, My Healers begins as a childhood drama of sexual abuse in the life of the author, and through the healing power of interacting with horses, Shelley Rosenberg transforms her experience into a protocol for self-healing through the willingness to be with the horse. For riders of all ages, for anyone who has experienced alienation from their own human kind in their days, for anyone who loves horses this book resonates with the good that can come from watching horses and humans interact and teach one another about the language of direct communication, feelings, and healing through truthful speaking of our emotions.



Equine Guided Education

Author : Ariana Mazzucchi

Publisher : CreateSpace

Page : 238 pages

File Size : 13,86 MB

Release : 2015-07-12

Category :

ISBN : 9781502377210

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This book is a comprehensive resource on equine interactive practices, nature based learning and somatic coaching. Equine Guided Education (EGE) is profound, magical, and dramatically effective. EGE incorporates horse activities into coaching and therapy models that are set in natural outdoor settings. Interacting with horses provides experiences that train new skills in intuition, sensory awareness, and somatic sensibility. These non-linear forms of intelligence (EQ) are needed in these times of change and uncertainty and apply to people from all walks of life. Ariana, a pioneer in the field of Equine Experiential Learning, founded Equine Guided Education in the 1980's and co-founded Strozzi Institute (now known as Strozzi Somatics). She has been training professionals in EGE longer than anyone else. This instructive and thorough book is full of the essential tools needed to be successful in the equine, experiential, nature based healing professions. It is required reading in Ariana's SkyHorseCEGE(tm) programs and many other self-development and coaching processes. The principles in this book are universal to Equine Assisted Learning, and Equine Facilitated Therapy. If you call the equine-human relationship by another name, simply transpose the term EGE. This book is also a valuable resource for coaches, educators, and healers who want to bring a more natural, intuitive approach to their practice.EGE is the essential component that has been missing since we took our education indoors whether it be pre-school or leadership development.Various chapters include detailed explanations of the role of the horse, the role of the facilitator, the process of creating a positive learning environment, dealing with fear, self development principles, the actual process of facilitating EGE, the importance of nature and providing a somatic, biological perspective.



Beyond Words: the Healing Power of Horses

Author : Alita H. Buzel, PhD

Publisher : AuthorHouse

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 34,74 MB

Release : 2016-05-06

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1524600296

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Excerpts from Beyond Words: The Healing Power of Horses The space between words is where we live with horses. In the silence we are truly heard. ******* So much of our sadness, our discontent, our addictions and compulsions are driven by the emptiness we experience when, without being aware of it, we detach from our emotional selves. We often mistake this emptiness as boredom, anxiety, hunger, and/or loneliness. Horses, in their honesty and compassion, help us to reconnect to ourselves, to our humanness. ******* What I have come to believe is that no matter what orientation you bring to psychotherapy, or what equine certification you achieve, the one variable that has been shown to be critically important is the trusting, respectful, and compassionate relationship that develops between therapist and client; whether the therapist has two or four legs is irrelevant! ********** The goal of Beyond Words: The Healing Power of Horses is to connect the advances made in the treatment and understanding of mental health issues with the knowledge we have accrued through the years about the nature of horses. The key is to integrate the two professional worlds of equine specialists and psychotherapists, so that each can appreciate, communicate, and work together to further enhance the practice of Equine Experiential Psychotherapy.



Equine-Assisted Mental Health for Healing Trauma

Author : Kay Sudekum Trotter

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 211 pages

File Size : 32,5 MB

Release : 2018-09-18

Category : Psychology

ISBN : 0429850727

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Clinicians have long recognized that trauma therapy provides a pathway to recovery, and Equine-Assisted Mental Health for Healing Trauma provides that pathway for those who work with horses and clients together. This book demonstrates a range of equine-assisted mental health approaches and step-by-step strategies for facilitating recovery from trauma for children, adults, and families. Chapters address topics such as chronic childhood trauma, accident-related trauma, complex trauma and dissociation, posttraumatic growth in combat veterans, somatic experiencing and attachment, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), reactive attachment disorder (RAD), relational trauma, and sexual trauma. Experts also provide case studies accompanied by transcript analyses to demonstrate the process of trauma healing. Clinicians will come away from the book with a wealth of theoretical and practical skills and an in-depth, trauma-informed understanding that they can use directly in their work with clients.



Soul Connection with Horses

Author : Suzanne E. Court

Publisher : John Hunt Publishing

Page : 295 pages

File Size : 49,15 MB

Release : 2024-07-26

Category : Nature

ISBN : 1803415827

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Working with horses as equal partners in the equine-assisted space while respecting their intuitive wisdom leads to life-changing psycho-spiritual understandings, learning and healing. Soul Connection with Horses: Healing the Mind and Awakening the Spirit through Equine Assisted Practice introduces concepts of awakening and spaciousness as understood in many spiritual traditions and demonstrates that horses effectively model awakening for humans. Through this approach horses help re-establish natural bonds and intuitive ways of knowing that have become obscured by conditioned thought and ineffective individual narratives. Horses show us that we can trust our intuition and learn how to live from the soul while making meaningful connection with ourselves, other people, animals and the natural environment. By considering how horses experience the world through their senses, how they process emotion and how they express their needs, we see that they live through the same social, psychological and spiritual paradigms as humans. Following equine assisted therapy and learning practices through to their logical conclusions, horses naturally lead us to questions of “who am I?” and “what is life?” They help us transcend non-functioning personal stories as we step out of ineffective ways of thinking and being and discover connection and wholeness. This book invites equestrians, equine assisted practitioners and seekers of spiritual connection, to walk in the hooves of the horse, to experience the horses' worldview and to access your own soulful wisdom.



Healing with Horses

Author : Dr Melissa Stotler

Publisher : Independently Published

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 33,43 MB

Release : 2024-08-06

Category : Health & Fitness

ISBN :

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Are you seeking a holistic path to wellness?** Curious about how horses can enhance your mental and emotional health? Wondering how equine therapy can address physical and psychological challenges? Looking for effective, natural methods to promote healing and balance? Unlock the profound potential of equine-assisted therapy with "Healing with Horses," your comprehensive guide to understanding and harnessing the therapeutic benefits of horses. This book is designed for anyone interested in exploring the transformative power of these magnificent animals, from those new to the concept to seasoned practitioners. Discover the remarkable benefits of equine therapy: Emotional Healing: ** Learn how horses can help in processing trauma, reducing anxiety, and improving emotional well-being. Physical Rehabilitation: Understand how horseback riding and care can aid in physical therapy and recovery from injuries. Mental Clarity and Focus: Explore techniques for using horses to enhance mental health, concentration, and cognitive function. Building Relationships: Delve into how interacting with horses fosters trust, communication, and emotional bonds. Highlights of what you'll find inside: Introduction to Equine Therapy: Comprehensive overview of the history, principles, and benefits of equine-assisted therapies. The Science Behind the Healing: Insightful explanations of how horses impact human physiology and psychology. Therapeutic Techniques: Detailed descriptions of various methods, including therapeutic riding, ground work, and equine-assisted learning. Case Studies and Success Stories: Real-life examples showcasing the effectiveness of equine therapy for diverse conditions. Getting Started: Practical advice on how to find and choose a reputable equine therapy program, what to expect, and how to prepare for your sessions. Exercises and Activities: Step-by-step guides to exercises and activities you can try, both in and out of the saddle, to enhance your therapeutic experience. Safety and Ethics: Essential information on maintaining safety, ethical considerations, and the well-being of both horses and participants. Transform your life with the healing power of horses. "Healing with Horses" offers a profound exploration into how these gentle giants can play a pivotal role in your journey to health and well-being. Whether you are a therapist, a horse enthusiast, or someone seeking alternative healing methods, this book is your gateway to a more balanced and fulfilling life. Embrace the transformative power of equine therapy today. Dive into "Healing with Horses" and discover how these extraordinary animals can guide you towards a path of physical, emotional, and mental renewal. Don't wait-start your journey to healing and wellness now!