The Grounded Teachings and Learning
This class series educates you in the art of equine healing. It covers all aspects, including observation and evaluation of the horse, equine communication in both the physical and spirit, hands-on healing skills, identifying and balancing energy centers, and and healing trauma in horses. Equine mental, emotional, and physical issues are all addressed and treated. This course will ground you in the application and profound effectivity of healing for horses.
1. Healing with Horses, Foundational
As equine healers, we connect deeply with the horse. To do so, the healer needs to understand the true nature of the horse. She needs to have a firm, grounded connection to the earth. In this first, essential training you’ll learn and experience:
- Meditations to ground your connection to the earth and to yourself.
- Exercises to increase your awareness of the energy, around and within you.
- Understand the power of the horse – their ability to adapt and survive.
- Join with the horse within their Herd Consciousness.
- Embody the equine values of awareness, respect, and leadership.
- How to approach a horse, to establish trust and a healing connection.
- Learn hands-on healing skills and apply them to horses.
- Healing Focus: Initiating and establishing a healing relationship with horses. Applying healing skills via touch to horses.
2. Healing with Horses, Advanced
To facilitate profound changes in the horse, the healer cannot work alone. The horse must be included in the conversation. In this class you’ll experience how horses communicate with the healer through movement, touch, and even a simple glance. In this second training, you’ll learn to:
- Track the Equine Energy Field and perceive their subtle communications.
- Initiate and establish a language of physical communication with the horse.
- Perceive changes in the horses’ energy and conformation, before and after equine healings.
- Discover distractions you may have to being fully present with the horse.
- Move beyond your fears or resistance.
- Open to intimate, healing relationships with the horses.
- Healing Focus: The muscular and skeletal systems of the horse; to improve their balance, weight distribution, alignment, movement, conformation, and comfort.
3. Equine Spiritual Communication, Awareness and Healing
Connection with the horse while in a state of deep awareness is essential. This practice reveals the hidden, invisible dimension of equine spiritual communication. Here, we meet the horse in their own world. We reside together, in a place where their silent voice can be heard and honored. This gesture alone, is profoundly healing for many horses.
- Experience how spirit communicates via: feelings, emotions, visions, dreams, signs, and symbols.
- Learn your primary pathways of perceiving spiritual communication.
- Receive information from spirit in relation to equine healing.
- Connect and communicate with the horse both physically and spiritually.
- Enter into a deeper dialogue with the horse; a language that extends beyond words.
- One-on-One Mentoring with Ginger for your Equine Healing Practicum, after class.
- Healing Focus: Equine emotional and mental health, and healing related issues. For example: depression, anger, anxiety, nervousness, mistrust, and hatred.
4. The Seven Sacred Centers of the Human and Horse
In this class you’ll develop awareness of the seven, sacred energy centers of humans and horses. You’ll learn how to balance these energy centers to support your self-healing and acquire skills to help the horses, as well.
- Explore the historical, common truths about the major energy centers.
- Experience and identify each of the seven, sacred energy centers of the human body.
- Discover relationships between your seven sacred centers and your personal health.
- Utilize meditative exercises to bring clarity to each of your sacred centers and facilitate deep, self-healing.
- Understand the role of the sacred center of the heart, in relation to healing.
- Sense and identify the locations of the seven sacred centers of the horse.
- Practice skills that clear, balance, and strengthen these energy centers in the horse.
- Incorporate your awareness of the physical and physiological aspects of the sacred healing centers into your equine healings.
- One-on-One Mentoring with Ginger for your Equine Healing Practicum, after class.
- Healing Focus: The seven sacred healing centers of the horse, their related organs, and physiological systems. Support for the equine body where needed to: improve digestion, facilitate detoxification, calm the nervous system, reduce inflammation, relax respiration, increase immunity, and more.
5. Healing the Heart, Spirit, and Soul of the Horse
This class is a culmination of your intimate healing journey with the horse. As a grounded, compassionate healer, you’ll uncover wounds held within the heart of the horse and illuminate the darkness with compassion, love and healing.
- Come together as a community to provide healing for horses.
- Access the spirit and heart of the horse.
- Uncover and transform historic trauma in horses.
- Create a vision of healing for the horse.
- Generate profound shifts in horses through compassionate presence.
- Healing Focus: The spirit and soul of the horse. Restoring the sacred fire within the heart; healing life-threatening fear, the effects of abuse and profound loss in the horse.
The EHP training course provides Equine Healing Practicum assignments for hands-on application of the material between some of the class sessions, and after classes 1,2,3, and 4. One-on-One Mentoring with Ginger is provided for your Equine Healing Practicums after classes 3 and 4.
Certification
The Equine Healing Practitioner Training Course is the first part of the Equine Healing Practitioner Certification Program. Upon successful completion, you are eligible to enroll in the EHP Advance Fieldwork phase. During Advanced Fieldwork, Ginger provides classroom and mentoring support, as you develop in-depth Equine Healing Case Studies in preparation for certification as a professional Equine Healing Practitioner.