If you love horses, dream of horses or are simply drawn to the Spirit of the Horse, come and experience this special human-equine bond.  At Horse Spirit Connections, you will work directly with the horses and be given tools to incorporate the wisdom of the horse into your own life. 

Based on the teachings of founder, Linda Kohanov, and therapist, Kathleen Barry Ingram, M.A., the Epona Approach will facilitate the reconnection of your heart and soul inspiring healing and growth. Linda has received international recognition for her work and has written two books, The Tao of Equus and Riding Between the Worlds.

Linda named her work with the horses the ‘Epona Approach™’ after the Ancient Celtic Goddess Epona whose name derives from the Celtic word for ‘horse’.  All riders and warriors revered Epona as her patronage of journeys had a profoundly spiritual aspect. She was known for her ability to unlock the gateway to the Otherworld. 

In the same way, Horse Spirit Connections can help you unlock a gateway.  Through this powerful experience you can learn how horses can help you let go of old fears and encourage you to lead yourself into the next step of your growth.

With the horse and our programs you will experience:

Horse Wisdom

Are you searching for ways to come back into balance with your heart, mind and body? At Horse Spirit Connections, you will explore how horses can guide us on our spiritual path and teach us the art of emotional balance.

Horses are perfectly willing to accept us as we are as long as we are emotionally congruent: honest about our emotions, rather than masking them.  Even when we are ‘incongruent’, the horses don’t judge but they may retreat.  Emotions are the messengers of authenticity.  If you mask your real feelings, or override them with logic, you’re conflicted.  At that point the horse will usually walk away.  This is ‘horse wisdom’ – the ability to feel incongruence and/or a lack of authenticity, and not to engage with it. 

Oftentimes a person steps into the engagement and the horse turns, comes over and immediately puts his nose to a very particular part of that person – the exact part that is wounded physically or emotionally.  Horses pick up everything from a broken heart to an injured knee.  The horse moves in, to bring awareness and create an energetically compassionate, healing space into which the individual can then move.

Participants in our specially designed Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning (EFEL) activities deepen their awareness of personal issues, core feelings and areas of bodily tension that inhibit their ability to reach their true potential.  A tremendous boost in self-esteem and confidence comes from learning how to establish boundaries with a thousand pound horse through mental focus, creative visualization and clarity of intent.