Horse Retreats and Experiences

I design and offer several horse retreats and experiences each year.
However, I realize that occasionally the dates and specific offering might not work for you.
Do you have an idea for an experience that you would enjoy or do you have a group of friends that would love to explore horse facilitated coaching together?

Contact me and let's design something tailored to your unique needs and interests.
Looking forward to working with you. Julie

RELEASE AND RECLAIM:
GUIDED BY HORSE TO THE LIFE YOU DESIRE

Do you have thoughts, ideas, or feelings that hold you back from doing or being what you really want?
Do you feel that parts of you have been lost or hidden?
Are there aspirations or dreams that you have suppressed because that voice inside of you tells you it’s not possible?

If any of the above questions resonate with you, join me for a couple of hours and experience the transformation power of horse.

If any of the above resonate with you, join me for a couple of hours and experience the transformation power of horse.

This 3-hour experiential retreat on a beautiful horse property will provide you with the opportunity to release those conditioned parts of yourself that keep you small while reclaiming the core parts of yourself that will help you manifest things in your life that align with your true and higher self.

You will accomplish this through greater body centered awareness, guided meditation, and interaction with horses in nature.

Working with a horse in this way, will provide validation and feedback for when something is ‘real’ and not coming from a place of social conditioning. Often, what we think we want can still be just another level of social conditioning.

Horses interact with the world through energy and vibration and can provide feedback to us when our vibrational energy is congruent. They are amazing barometers that give us feedback when we come from that place aligned with our higher self. Allow yourself to be guided by horse to reclaim those parts of yourself that have been hidden or lost.

Join me SATURDAY, June 15, 2024 (10 am-1 pm) at a barn in Castle Hayne, NC

**This is a non-riding activity. No horse experience is required. All work with horses is on the ground.

Investment: $127
Space is limited to 3 participants, REGISTER NOW!

Rediscover and Reclaim Your Authentic Power:
Horses, Herbs, and You
Residential Retreat for Women in the Beautiful Mountains of Southwest Virginia
Friday, September 27, 2024 @ 2 pm until Sunday, September 29, 2024 @ noon

**NOTE: No prior horse experience is necessary. All work with horses is on the ground.

Who should attend this weekend residential retreat for women, you might ask?

Consider the following...

Do you find that you are so exhausted from the never ending 'to do' list and always taking care of everyone else even at the expense of your own health and well-being?
Have you recently thought that you needed to spend more time taking care of your own health and your own needs?
Do you wonder how amazing it would be to spend dedicated time devoted to your own self-care and healing?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above AND are ready to transform your life through focusing on your own health and self-care, join me for an amazing retreat experience. Throughout the retreat, we will explore how horses and herbs, as catalysts for change, create energetic shifts in the body, mind, and spirit.

This amazing and powerful retreat could be just the push you need to address your own health care needs and start developing a sustainable self-care and healing routine that will allow you to manifest the healthy, vibrant life you desire.

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What Makes this Experience with Horses so Unique and Transformative?

This is an opportunity to help you start living your best life through wisdom and feedback of horses. Pause for a moment and ask yourself "What is it that I really want from this life that I am living?" Seems like a pretty simple question, right? Well, if you dive deeper and spend time reflecting on what you really, truly want in this life, it might be more difficult than you think to come up with the answer.

We spend so much of our lives focused on what we 'should' want/do and we learn early in life to speak, act, and respond in ways that gets approval from others. Often, we live with and listen to those messages for so long, that we end up living a life of 'shoulds' because of false or conditioned beliefs that silence our true, authentic voice.

Okay, so you are probably wondering how will this experience with horses can help you change all of this. As prey animals, horses are highly attuned to the environment and readily detect subtle shifts in energetic patterns around them. This amazingly deep sensory awareness of the horse allows them to detect and reflect back a human's emotional state. When we engage with the world around us from a false or conditioned place, the vibrational energy that we project is often incongruent with our internal feeling state. Horses can detect the vibrational pattern of your internal state or intention regardless what you project out to the world. They readily reflect or mirror our internal feeling state.

When we speak our truth and engage with the world around us from an authentic place based on internal sensory awareness cues from the body, horses will reflect this truth back to us. The horse acts as your barometer to highlight when you are coming from a place of authenticity and speaking your truth. Working with an intuitive horse and supportive coach, as co-facilitators of your Horse Facilitated Coaching Session, will allow you to explore limiting beliefs in your life that might be preventing you from manifesting all that you desire.

You will leave the retreat with new insights and discoveries about yourself that will provide the framework and action steps needed for you to begin your personal development journey. Spending time in the presence of horses will increase your body centered awareness and help you understand how to listen to the wisdom of your body to guide you to that beautiful space of authenticity.

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RETREAT LOCATION AND SCHEDULE

The retreat location is nestled in the mountains of Southwest Virginia on the banks of the New River and provides enough seclusion for you to feel as if you are a million miles away from the real world.

The schedule will be flexible enough to allow time for self-reflection, journaling, and relaxation while structured enough to gently encourage you to delve deep into your intuitive powers to heighten your sense of awareness and trust in the wisdom of your body.

During this retreat you will:

Learn to introduce and incorporate herbs and plant remedies into your every day diet and self-care routine.
Regain your sense of self through interactions and coaching with the horse.
Develop an awareness of the unconscious thoughts and beliefs that prevent you from achieving their heart's desire.

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What is included in your investment for this residential retreat?

All retreat materials and handouts, journal for capturing your thoughts throughout the experience.
All meals: Meals will be provided throughout the retreat along with healthy snacks, water, and herbal teas.
Herb Class and Herb Tasting (herb walk weather permitting)
Herbal Goodie bag filled with products for you to try at the retreat as well as at home
2 (1-hour) gentle, basic yoga sessions focusing on slow, mindful movement by the river in the presence of my equine coaching partner, G.
Friday night Yoga Nidra session (30 minutes) with foot reflexology during savasana
Multiple opportunities to engage with horse to develop presence, grounding, and breath
1 Horse Facilitated Coaching Session
Lodging: There are two private rooms (each with private bath) available for retreat attendees. (Note: If you are attending with someone and wish to share a room--one room is suitable to share with one queen bed and one twin bed (private bath). Contact Julie if you have any questions about lodging.

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The Fine Print:

Investment for the retreat is $795 per participant. A $250 non-refundable deposit will secure your space in this amazing retreat experience. Balance due on or before September 13, 2024. Registration closes on September 13, 2024.
I am opening this retreat to 2-3 amazing women (depending on lodging requirements) to ensure that everyone feels comfortable in the setting and receives the individual attention needed for their own healing throughout the weekend.
Please plan to arrive before 2 pm on Friday. The retreat will begin at 2pm. We will wrap up and debrief by noon on Sunday. Departures can be planned after noon on Sunday.
MEALS: All meal functions will be planned around dietary preferences and restrictions of the group. Meal functions will be group activities with everyone participating as they feel comfortable. Healthy snacks, herbal tea, and water will be available at all times throughout the retreat, but please bring any additional snacks or preferred items for yourself as needed. There will be refrigerator space available if you need to store any items during your stay.
Cell Phones and Internet: The retreat space is located in one of the few places that it is virtually impossible to get internet coverage (so no Wi-Fi is available on site) and some phone services have spotty or limited coverage in the area. I would invite you to take a cyberspace detox while you attend the retreat. Let the rest of the world do what it must, but you can take a break from it all and simply "Hang up and be fully present."
To remain respectful of other participants, I ask that you limit the use of cell phones to your private time and do not photograph or video any part of the retreat. Participants are encouraged to take photos at the conclusion of the retreat if they wish but because of the sacred nature of this experience, please respect each others privacy during the weekend.
While we do love all 4 legged creatures, we request that you do not bring dogs to the property during the retreat.
Allergy alert: The retreat center often houses our rescue dog and 3 cats. While they may or may not be on site during your visit, please be aware if you know that you have allergies to dogs and/or cats, off site lodging might be more suited to your needs.
Cancellation Policy: No refunds will be issued for cancellations unless your space can be filled from my wait list.
No prior horse experience is necessary as this is a non-riding experience. All work with horses is on the ground.

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IF YOU ARE READY TO JOIN ME FOR THIS AMAZING EXPERIENCE WITH HERBS AND HORSES
TO REDISCOVER AND RECLAIM YOURSELF...

If you would prefer to pay by cash or check, please contact Julie.

Shifting the Energy of Your Life:
Honoring Your Body and Your Life through Energy Center Exploration

2024 Dates TBD

Are you looking for more life balance?
Are you hoping to tap into more personal energy?
Do you want to release old or conditioned behaviors and patterns that are holding you back from living the life you truly desire?

During the month of October, we will explore the seven vital energy centers of the human body through mindful yoga practice, exploratory and experiential exercises focused on the energy centers, and experiences with a horse.

Exploration of the energy centers encourages self-awareness and deepening of your sense of self.

Carefully chosen herbs and plants will be incorporated intoea each day based on the vibrational frequency of each plant to assist in clearing, balancing, and energizing your energy centers. Every plant chosen and incorporated (herbal tea, aromatherapy, and food) carries a vibrational frequency that corresponds to ONE or more of your energy centers.

We will consciously connect with the vibrational quality of each plant in a way that allows the components of the herbs to gently interact with our body's energy systems.

Horses, as sentient beings, live in the present moment and are masters at helping us identify when the vital energy centers of the body are unbalanced, inactive, or overactive.

Spending time in nature in the presence of horses can help bring balance to all energy centers.

Spending time with Julie and her equine coaching partner, G, you will:

Explore the seven energy centers of the body
Discover which energy centers are suffering from deficiencies and excesses
Dive into practices and rituals that will bring balance to each of your energy centers
Engage with horse to increase your body-centered awareness to recognize when feelings and emotions come forward
Gift yourself with an experience that will bring you into an entirely different dimension of being

Examining deficiencies and excesses in the body’s energy centers, engaging in yoga practice focused on balancing the energy centers, and increasing your body-centered awareness by being in the presence of horses will allow you the opportunity to deeply understand the messages our body sends to you every minute of every day.

Most of us are so busy being distracted that we have managed to disassociate from our body sensations and feelings, numbing us to those vital messages that our bodies share regularly. Unfortunately, this also leaves us closed off from the valuable emotions that should help us make decisions in our life.

So, if you are looking to have more balance in your life or want to tune into the body’s wisdom concerning life decisions or living the life that you genuinely want to live, join me for this incredible opportunity to commune with horse to “tune into the body”, learn from its wisdom, and allow our own emotions to be our guide through life.