Horses for Peace

Sophia's Grove
Horses for Peace

We also offer Equine-Assisted Integrative Stress Management programs providing customized strategies for personal stress management alongside programs designed to promote intra-personal and intra-faith relationships.
  Healthcare professionals familiar with Equine-Assisted Learning (EAL) recognize the unique advantages it offers to patients in all areas; physical, emotional, and spiritual. These attributes, combined with the innate, intuitive qualities of the horse, make H4P an ideal setting for interspiritual interaction, understanding, and enrichment.

Horses for Peace (H4P) Personalized Consultations:
Horses Support Our Ability to Heal

Horses are prey animals and have a very keen sense of their surroundings in order to survive. Their awareness of the energy around them is so heightened that they can feel danger before they even can see, hear or smell a predator. This life-force energy, the drive to survive, allows them to have a greater connection to intuition or a sixth sense. Horses are so energetically connected to their world that they feel the energy around them – whether it is danger, fear, sadness or joy – this makes them perfect assistants during the stress management process. We find that when people are working with horses, discussing emotions and talking through their life experiences, that it has a unique way of bringing up issues long buried. Horses have huge hearts, much larger than ours, and so have that much more love to share. They offer no judgement, no criticism, no pressure. They only want to bring you into the herd where there is protection in numbers. Horses allow us to relax and speak our truths.

Interspiritual Programs:
Interspiritual Equine-Assisted Learning (IEAL) programs provide benefits that are as diverse as the participants themselves. Our Horses for Peace (H4P) program also provides a safe, compassionate environment for the development of interspiritual understanding through equine therapy. It is especially committed to making a profound difference in the lives of those displaced or otherwise affected by war, and is based upon a philosophy of compassion and respect for people of all faith traditions. Through this program, we use horses temperamentally-suited to gentle human/horse interaction to provide a safe, nurturing environment in which people of different faith traditions can interact with them, either one-on-one, in small single-faith groups, or in small interspiritual groups. All interactions take place with a certified EAL horse professional and an ordained minister present.

Women’s Programs:
We also have programs for women, many at midlife, searching for what is next for them, a greater life purpose, and exploring new paths in life.

Childrens' Programs:
Bringing children together in safe space with safe horses, developing relationships, with horses and new friends, 
through grooming and simple equine massage techniques.


For more information, email us at horsesforpeace@sophiasgrove.com
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