Healing Beyond 4 Walls
Land-based Equine-Assisted Learning programs with horses, helping people move forward through trauma, grief, addictions recovery, and life’s challenges. Unforgettable learning. Skills for life.
Who We Work With:
❋ Adults in Recovery
Building confidence, responsibility, communication, healthy boundaries, and skills that support continued recovery and reintegration into everyday life.
❋ Youth, Youth at Risk
Creating opportunities to build confidence, emotional awareness, communication, decision-making, responsibility, and healthy relationships.
❋ People Experiencing Trauma or Grief
A quiet, experiential environment to slow down, reconnect, reflect, and begin exploring ways forward
❋ For Those Who Care for Others
Caregivers, first responders, social workers, and helping professionals often spend so much of their lives helping others move forward. They deserve a space to step outside, slow down, reconnect, and find support for their own journey forward.
What Participants are Saying:
“I’ve learned so much from my horse—about teamwork, communication, and myself. But most of all, I’ve learned that healing can include having fun, feeling connected, and enjoying being here. I wish I could come every day.”
Why Horses?
Cats, Dogs, horses... what's the difference? For one thing, horses are a prey animal, willing to work with us humans! Amazing. By their intuitive nature and innate sensitivity, horses can provide facilitators with a window into the participants personality. The horses react to the stimulus through body language, and participants must adjust their feelings and behaviors to work successfully with the horses.
Through carefully guided, ground-based activities, participants have opportunities to experience communication, boundaries, trust, responsibility, emotional regulation, problem-solving, and connection in real time.
Programs Designed to Help People Move Forward
Our Equine Assisted Learning programs and retreats provide opportunities to step outside the usual environment, connect with horses, build practical skills, and discover new ways of moving forward.
Programs are available for:
People in addictions recovery
Youth and youth at risk
People navigating trauma, grief, or difficult transitions
Families
Caregivers, first responders, and helping professionals
Programs can be adapted for individuals, groups, organizations, and community programs.
Our Horse’s Promise
Our horses guarantee… "When I teach you, I will never judge you! I will never lie to you!! I am a teller of truth as that is ONLY what I can do because of my brain! I will bring love and healing to your heart! I will offer you a way to smile, to laugh, and to have FUN!! This learning, I promise to you, doesn’t just stay in the arena. This learning you will transfer into your own life!”
Let’s Connect!
Whether you're looking for support for someone in recovery, a youth or adult facing challenges, or a retreat for those who spend their lives caring for others, we'd love to talk with you.
You don't have to know exactly what you need. Let's start with a conversation.
Reach out for a chat or a free zoom call and have your questions answered.
Joice Rueda
Cluny, AB
403-901-8528
joice@somethingnatural.ca
