Women Who Run with Horses:
The Teachings of Equus
Welcome to a journey of partnership and teaching with the wisdom and medicine of horses.
You are a woman who feels called and drawn to the medicine and essence of horses.
They speak deeply to the innate wisdom of your own being and you are drawn to what it might feel like to journey intimately with them.
You are not necessarily a horse woman, and perhaps you have had moments with horses over the years, and/or you have felt the call of them most recently.
You want to delve deeply into why horses and why is this being and archetype showing up for you right now in your own journey.
You are also feeling as if this medicine will be powerfully aligned and supported with how you serve your community.
You are not so much seeking to have a full-time equine-guided practice, but rather wanting to explore how it might look like to speak the language of horses to those you serve and weave their medicine into how you serve others and how the horses and their teaching will enhance and support what you are already holding for your people.
We travel through the space of Equus for our own evolution…
…landing in the depth and wisdom of their medicine and their journey for ourselves, to be intimate to what horses and their medicine have for our own personal journey and how that integrates into what we have to teach those that are in our own spaces.
This journey weaves into our own personal exploration with horses and what they have to offer us, plus integrating how the teachings of horses want to be woven into how we teach and support others.
With horses, we are confronted with the parts of us that feel uncomfortable and are also more potent.
As a space holder, we need to be able to reach within the range of who we are as human beings and show up fully and potently in that.
If we are afraid of an aspect of ourselves and our intensity we will be holding back on those we are being asked to guide with the fullness of our medicine.
In the journey we take in this container, it is also one for us to look deeply at how we are showing up for others, and how we are in relationship with the depths of who we are.
Have we really confronted the gifts in the shadow and are we integrated in them?
Have we fully aligned ourselves to the depth of our purpose and what we are asking to bring to those we serve?
Are we comfortable yet with the parts of ourselves that are our mastery?
How are we holding our boundaries? Do you have discomfort around setting and holding boundaries in your personal life and also in how you hold for others?
Do you find that it is easy for your energy to be depleted? Are you unsure of how to hold your own sensitivity as sacred?
Do you honor the full cycle of your being? Do you tend to your recovery and rest as equal to the space of working and activation?
What is your own practice? How do you tend to yourself? How do you nurture your own internal landscape? Are you consistent around the space you hold for you? Do you find it overwhelming to create ritual for yourself?
Do you feel the weight of the world? Are you someone who feels leadership and responsibility is a burden? Do you feel weighted down by all that you are holding, stretched thin and not sure how to soften how you carry?
Are you feeling depleted by how you are holding the space for others?
Are you diluting the potency of your sacred work and voice?
Are you wanting to feel more masterful in your intuition, how you hold and read space for others and what horses can teach you about listening deeply to your clients?
Are you wanting to deepen your capacity in how you hold space for others, in retreat, in programs and you feel the horses will tend to that muscle for you?
As humans, we have many places of dysfunction -
It is called being a human - varying degrees where we live in this place of being a human being.
We can't, I believe, look to other humans to correct a space of dysfunction that we hold.
Horses don’t live in the frequency or baggage of what we hold, so when we are looking to find a different way of holding things, that are absent of human baggage we can receive that from horses.
Horses don’t hold agendas, they don’t live in bias, and they don’t worry about having to coddle us in the spaces that we exist in. They also, as a herd, live in a space of community where they can show us how to coexist with others, how to self-regulate and how to be agile with our emotions.
Horses are also master space readers, being in tune with the energy we are holding in the unconscious, not only do they mirror that back to us, but being in their energy also provides us with the capacity to tune into that for those we hold space for.
When we come into the space of these teachings we are addressing the spaces in ourselves and how we show up that create leakages in our energy, that are encouraging stress and dysfunction and that are showing us a new pathway and way of being in an area that we feel stuck and stagnant in, or where we are not able to move past our baggage and woundings.
It is a deep excavation of our own space of inner mastery and being able to take the teachings the horses give us to deepen how we hold space for others, to clarify our own medicine and bring a greater potency to how we tend to and hold our sacred work.
Themes includes:
Sensitivity and the space of the Empath:
For many of us, we can feel the depth of being an empath and a highly sensitive individual and the wounding of that. How do we function and be in the world when we are highly sensitive, without compromising our energy and still show up powerfully? We have master teachers in our herd that mirror and embody this teaching to show us the way, so we can find peace and stability in existing as an empath in the world.
Co-Creation and Spirituality:
We all have the places where we resource our spirituality and what it looks like to be in communion with this presence. Horses have this beautiful blend where they help us be grounded in how we hold the spirit of this space while being open to the expansiveness where we exist and come into alignment with how we create and integrate ourselves with spirit and the co-creation with the vast energies around us.
Emotional Agility:
How do we stay agile in our emotions? To feel them, to know the messages behind emotions and to traverse the landscape of them in a healthy and balanced way. Horses mirror to us what it means to hold and learn emotional agility and the messages and resources behind our emotions. We learn in this space not to be a victim of our emotions, but masters of them.
Neuroscience and intelligence:
Learning how our brain operates and how horses support the space of our neurons and intelligence is an exciting aspect of this teaching. When we understand our physiology and how it manifests, we can be in a space of mastery around it. Self-mastery comes when we understand how we are made up and know how to lean into the intelligence of that space. We are excited to bring some incredible wisdom and teachers in this space of neuroscience that help us with the intelligence of knowing our own system and how horses support our range and ability to master this part of our makeup.
Honoring our cycles and rhythms:
How to be more deeply attuned to our cycles and rhythms and how to create in honor of the cycles of life
Boundaries:
Internal and external how are we in relationship with boundaries in our lives and how horses can offer us a clean approach without baggage to how we hold boundaries with ourselves, our relationships and our clients.
Self Leadership:
How do we lead ourselves? What is our personal practice and ritual that we create that allows us to be conscious of how we lead internally? This includes teachings from our horses around knowing our authentic self voice over the ego, and our relationship with our wounded woman. How to embody a more wise and sage aspect of our nature, knowing what rituals to create that feel supportive of our own energy.
Relationships and Community:
A herd of horses relies upon the medicine and presence of their herd mates, humans are also relational and social beings, we will delve into the mirror of how horses hold relationships and co-exist as a herd and how that teaches us and empowers us in what our relationship with community and relationship is.
Power and Potency:
We can be deeply afraid and intimidated by our own power and feel perhaps as if we have to dilute the potency of our work. Horses mirror back to us the impact of our own depth and range of our potency and where we are holding back.
Reading the Space and Deep Listening:
To read the space means that we are in tune not just with the words that are being communicated but with the energy behind them. We can read space in ourselves, in the bigger energy field around us and our clients, to inform us of what is being held at the core. When we read space we are attuning our intuition to what is happening in the energy field, and helps us access the information that is found there.
Abundance:
A space where many of us seek to land, to go beyond the place of scarcity and live in the depths of being open to and aware that we live in an abundant lifetime. Abundance is a state of being, and the horses can offer us a perspective of what it is to be aligned to abundance, in our being that will show up in all places we are seeking to create abundance in our lives.
Regulating our Nervous system:
There is much to be said about how we are in relationship with our nervous system, how we listen to it and how we hold it. A regulated nervous system gives us great capacity, horses naturally bring us into this state, when they are also held in a space where they can regulate for themselves. With the Teachings of Equus, we come into awareness of what it means to be regulated, and how to support our nervous system and recover it in times of stress.
Purpose and Devotion:
A deeper anchoring into the depth and width of our purpose in this lifetime, what the presence of horses and their medicine can bring forward to us around this journey of purpose.
Space Holding and Leading:
How we hold space for others and how it connects to our own energy matters, if we are leaking with our energy we cannot hold space effectively for our sacred work and for what is important in our lives. In this theme and journey, we look to the horses to give us a different perspective of what it means to hold space and to lead.
The Teachings of Equus is a unique journey that blends in-person retreats of teaching with an online space of deepening with modules, teachings and mentorship so we can delve deep into the archetype and teachings of the horse to master the space of being a human.
This is a layered journey for those who are curious about and feeling called to study in the realm of horses and their teaching and have the capacity to be present to and commit themselves to the expansiveness of this journey.
The uniqueness of this path is it is spaced out and created to support the women who feel called to journey here.
We are bringing together a blend of teachers and wisdom keepers that along with ourselves and our herd to support the journey and teaching of this container.
Who is this space for…
You are a woman who is seeking a deeper journey of self-discovery and development, you are aware that there are some spaces in your life that need tending and you are looking for a container that can meet you in the depth of where you are seeking to expand and evolve as a human being.
You feel drawn to the wisdom of horses and their medicine, curious about their teaching and aware that you feel it is this being that is showing up at this junction of your life to teach you and how you show up and hold not just for yourself and others.
You want to be held in a deep journey and container and have the capacity to invest the time, the space and the resources to this space. Being supported in a longer-term container is appealing to you and speaks to what you are looking for at this time.
You are curious about integrating the Teachings of Equus not just into your own personal journey but also in how you hold space for others in your work. What horses bring into our lives can then get extended to what we teach and hold for the humans in our world.
You want to be in a community learning space that is intimate and gives you the medicine of having a circle of other women who are journeying in spaces that are similar to yours.
You are aware that in order to continue on the path of your own purpose and experience you need to grow and develop in ways that you feel will be met in this space and Teachings of Equus.
You are able to journey to us for the in-person retreats and are able to travel and commit to the in-person portion of this container.
What is included in this container:
15 months of virtual support that includes:
A virtual teaching retreat and call every 3 weeks that is led by myself or one of our guest teachers.
Lifetime access to a library of written Modules that come along with teachings and videos with our herd to integrate and facilitate each theme.
A private community space to deepen the teachings and get support as needed.
Two 4-day in-person retreats that include your accommodation, meals and shuttle to and from the ranch (each retreat includes up to 6 nights of accommodation in a private cabin at our retreat facility)
Quarterly Sessions with Guliz Unlu of Equuarius to observe our system and where we need to deepen the space of this teaching and support ourselves in integration.
The in-person component is an important part of this container, as being in the space of our herd is part of the power of this space. You must be able to attend and commit to coming to the in-person retreats as part of entering into this container.
The online component helps us integrate the wisdom the horses give us and apply it to our everyday lives.The in-person paves the journey, it gives us the experience of receiving the frequency of the horses and their teaching in a powerful way and then the online container supports you in the integration of this wisdom as you are supported in deepening this teaching in a meaningful way.
When are the retreats:
We have spaced out the retreats over our retreat season to support each person having spaciousness and accessibility to join us for the in-person component.
See below for our in-person retreat dates for the 2024 season. You can choose which dates will align for you. If you are not able to make the 2024 both dates you have the capacity to come to 2025 dates.
2024 Dates:
April 18-21st
September 12th-September 16th
Investment in the full program:
Includes: 15 month virtual support, in person retreats, accomodation, meals and lifetime access to teaching material.
$11,995 CDN plus tax
Custom payment plans can be arranged to make it spacious for you. Once you apply to the program and we decide it is a fit, we can chat about and design what a custom payment plan could look like to feel supportive for you and your journey.
TESTIMONIAL FOR THE TEACHINGs OF EQUUS
I have had the pleasure of working with Hillary Schneider, receiving coaching and training from her with her herd of horses. Her herd of horses is phenomenal, shifting from soft gentle nurturing energies to clear teaching of boundaries. The herd truly is a group of horses as teachers, that have a presence and awareness that teaches both clear physical truths as well as opening you up to more mystical experiences. Hillary, who coaches with her herd, has a phenomenal gift of being able to identify what is happening in the present moment, bring you back over and over again to what is happening now, move your thoughts into relational awareness instead of trying to get things right from a more rigid framework, and allowing you to step into your own power as you receive wisdom from her herd and herself. Her presence is deeply grounded in the truth of the present moment, an awareness of capacity, an acceptance of what is, and a strong attention to appropriate boundaries. I highly recommend her sessions and retreats, which allow you to meet yourself at a whole new level, for both self leadership and, if you are interested, for leadership of others. On a personal level, I have found her capacity to see the learning edge for further growth to be both accurate and in the honesty of the natural discomfort of that edge, while holding space for you to see where you are blocked from further growth, with a very human, matter of fact compassion that also holds delightful humour. For my personal journey, I have found her to have very efficiently, and with a feeling of effortlessness, helped me, with her herd, to expand into my dreams, specify my next steps, and truly own my power and the unique way in which I share my wisdom with the world.
Maia Love, MD
