Meditating with horses, equine facilitator training, life coach and women's retreats

Epona Workshops: Advanced Human Development

Epona Ridge Workshops 2010

Epona Ridge is an elegant and intimate retreat center in Asheville, North Carolina where horses inspire personal growth and inner balance, reconnecting us to the natural free feeling of living in authenticity.

January 14 - 17, 2010

Sacred Choices and Choosing Joy:

Finding the Life you Want to Live

($850) workshop includes handouts and materials, horse activities, lunches and snacks

"One of the most empowering and inspiring retreats ever!" Sacred Choices and Choosing Joy is a personal journey that helps us get clear direction in the design of the life that we want to live.

This four day gathering is uniquely structured to inspire creativity, innovation and joy. The experiential work provides a meditative peace and balance within moments, helping us to access our greatest inspirations for the year ahead. Sacred Choices and Choosing Joy is designed to bring more of the life we choose to live into our experience.

We will create a Living Mendala, bask in the healing sounds of crystal singing bowls, and learn through biofeedback from the horse as Shaman as our innate abilities to clear blocks and hear inner guidance is dramatically enhanced.

Prior experience with horses is not required. This workshop includes the Epona Approach™ developed by Linda Kohanov (Tao of Equus, Riding Between the Worlds) . We use ground work only. No previous horse/riding experience is necessary. Horse professionals, novices and those who have not been around a horse before can all benefit from this powerful work.

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April 9-11, 2010

Getting In Sync With Who You Are

($750) workshop includes handouts and materials, horse activities, lunches and snacks

This workshop is designed to enhance the skills of getting in sync with who you are and who you want to be.

Working with the Way of the Horse opens us to enhancing our personal interpreting skills in the subtle shifts of energy that surround us daily. It helps us gain a more clear awareness of our own internal guidance system. This skill is essential in navigating through life and successfully achieving mutually healthy relationships with others, but more importantly, it gives us the comfort of clear interpretation of our inner guidance, so we can be more in sync with who we want to be.

These experiential sessions support the process of learning more about your self and your alignment with personal joy and well-being. This is an introductory program, but from the horses perspective, they meet us where we are in this moment and take us to the next level of awareness. In that sense, we are always growing and there is always more to learn...

All workshops are done safely from the ground and no prior horse experience is required. Please join us for the wonderful retreat!

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Begins April 2010 (limited space available)

Personal Intensive

Facilitator Training: The 2010 Mentorship Program

Follow the deeper journey into an eight month long personal program of support for a life in balance. The Mentorship is designed with three separate week long advanced sessions, teleconferencing, personal coaching and home study. Limited to small groups for personalized coaching.

For more information please see: Epona Ridge Mentorship program

4-Day Reiki: A Way of Being

(May 20-23, 2010)

Reiki Certification

Being in the Moment

(a meditation with animals and nature)

($650 includes lunches, snacks, and materials.)

Reiki Certification

Come with us and enjoy the fun of learning this ancient art of healing. This workshop allows you to explore your connection to humans, nature and animals through the gentle healing practice of Reiki.

You will learn about Reiki healing energy, hand positions for Reiki self care, and Reiki treatment protocol for humans, animals, and nature.

This retreat embodies Reiki as a way of being with enhanced energetic awareness of self through The Way of the Horse.

Reiki I or Reiki II will be offered at either session.

"I’m honored to have received the gift of this healing tool, but I am even more grateful for the manner in which it was giving/taught and for the other women in the group who enhanced the experience" L. Sullivan

For more information see: Heart of Healing Reiki Workshop

Finding Inner Balance and Inner Peace

includes 'Sacred Dance with Horses' an Advanced Epona Ridge program

July 12-17, 2010

Introduction though Advanced Intensive

( $1100 Initiation through Advanced 6 day workshop, includes lunches, snacks, all horse activities, and materials.)

Advanced Reflective Experiences with Horses
Re-balancing with Crystal Singing Bowls and Sound Therapy
Energy and Boundary Awareness
Mindfulness Practices, Fully Being in the Moment
Intuitive Connection
Experience the Dance of Energy with Horses

The retreat provides a wonderfully reflective adventure as you open to your inner journey of balance and personal joy.

The healing ability of horses has been integral to opening to the natural balance within and supports personal growth and wellbeing on multiple levels.

We start with a focus on the lower energy centers, the first through fourth Chakras which help us with understanding and valuing emotions, our sense of security, honor in relationships, care of oneself and self confidence. We continue into the 5th, 6th and 7th energy centers working with our sense of choice and strength of intention, personal expression, sense of inner peace, and the use of personal power to create.

This retreat enhances the awareness of non-verbal communication between ourselves and others in the sacred dance of life as the horses guide us to clear resistance, find inspiration, and open new doors to creative talents and joy.

Incorporated into this retreat is a day of integration. It is personal time to journal, get body work or to just spend time gently in nature allowing the inner assimilation of this powerful program.

Prior experience with a horse is not required.

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Reaching for a Higher Vibration in Life
($750) workshop includes handouts and materials, horse activities, lunches and snacks

"When we open our minds and our hearts to the possibility that other creatures have as much to teach us as we have to teach them -- not as subjects for behavioral or medical experimentation, but as intelligent, soulful beings in their own right. True freedom comes from the courage to feel, the willingness to be vulnerable and the humility to appreciate the wisdom all living beings have to offer." Linda Kohanov (author of Tao of Equus, Riding Between the Worlds and Way of the Horse)

Reaching for a Higher Vibration in Life is a program based on Meditation with Horses. According to Abraham-Hicks, horses (among other 'beasts') naturally vibrate at a higher level than we do and they have the ability to lift our vibration and our sense of wellbeing. This workshop is designed to support our personal journey to feeling our way forward to a life that is fulfilled and joyous.

All workshops are done safely from the ground and no prior horse experience is required. While we love our horses, these workshops are not about the horse ... they are about us and reaching for our highest and best experience of life! Even if you are afraid of horses, they have so much to teach in some of the most tender ways...

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We will be adding workshops and changing as the year goes on so be sure to check back periodically.

See Applications Page for workshop registrations.

The Epona Workshops for Advanced Human Development are experientially based in The Epona ApproachTM and teachings of Linda Kohanov author of Tao of Equus a( woman's journey to healing and transformation), Riding Between the Worlds (expanding human potential) and her newest book Way of the Horse: Equine Archetypes for Self-Discovery Epona Ridge workshops are facilitated by Barbara Alexander, Epona Ridge Founder and Director, Reiki Master and Epona Approved Instructor, authorized to use The Epona ApproachTM in facilitating Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning (EFEL) programs. All of the following workshops fulfill the introductory requirements for more advanced work with Epona.

In the event of cancellation, every effort will be made to fill canceled space from the waiting list but due to the limited capacity, deposits are non-refundable if we are unable to do due so. A registration must be submitted in order to confirm space in the workshops. After registration and tuition are received, you will get a confirmation of space via email.

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Finding Inner Balance and the Journey to Joy

includes 'Sacred Dance with Horses' an Advanced Epona Ridge program

September 21 - 26, 2009

( $1100 Initiation through Advanced 6 day workshop, includes lunches, snacks, all horse activities, and materials.)

Advanced Reflective Experiences with Horses
Re-balancing with Crystal Singing Bowls and Sound Therapy
Energy and Boundary Awareness
Mindfulness Practices, Fully Being in the Moment
Intuitive Connection
Experience the Dance of Energy with Horses

The retreat provides a wonderfully reflective adventure as you open to your inner journey of balance and personal joy.

The healing ability of horses has been integral to opening to the natural balance within and supports personal growth and wellbeing on multiple levels.

We continue into the 5th, 6th and 7th energy centers working with our sense of choice and strength of intention,

personal expression, sense of inner peace, and the use of personal power to create.

This retreat enhances the awareness of non-verbal communication between ourselves and others in the sacred dance of life

as the horses guide us to clear resistance, find inspiration, and open new doors to creative talents and joy.

Incorporated into this retreat is a day of integration.

It is personal time to journal, get body work or to just spend time gently in nature allowing the inner assimilation of this powerful program.

Prior experience with a horse is not required.

Registration for Epona workshop

Click here for information on The Spa Package

Finding Inner Balance and the Journey to Joy

includes 'Sacred Dance with Horses' an Advanced Epona Ridge program

September 21 - 26, 2009

( $1100 Initiation through Advanced 6 day workshop, includes lunches, snacks, all horse activities, and materials.)

Advanced Reflective Experiences with Horses
Re-balancing with Crystal Singing Bowls and Sound Therapy
Energy and Boundary Awareness
Mindfulness Practices, Fully Being in the Moment
Intuitive Connection
Experience the Dance of Energy with Horses

The retreat provides a wonderfully reflective adventure as you open to your inner journey of balance and personal joy.

The healing ability of horses has been integral to opening to the natural balance within and supports personal growth and wellbeing on multiple levels.

We continue into the 5th, 6th and 7th energy centers working with our sense of choice and strength of intention,

personal expression, sense of inner peace, and the use of personal power to create.

This retreat enhances the awareness of non-verbal communication between ourselves and others in the sacred dance of life

as the horses guide us to clear resistance, find inspiration, and open new doors to creative talents and joy.

Incorporated into this retreat is a day of integration.

It is personal time to journal, get body work or to just spend time gently in nature allowing the inner assimilation of this powerful program.

Prior experience with a horse is not required.

Registration for Epona workshop

Click here for information on The Spa Package

Creating the Life You Love!

January 14 - 17, 2010

4-day ($850) workshop includes handouts and materials, horse activities, lunches and snacks

"When we open our minds and our hearts to the possibility that other creatures have as much to teach us as we have to teach them -- not as subjects for behavioral or medical experimentation, but as intelligent, soulful beings in their own right. True freedom comes from the courage to feel, the willingness to be vulnerable and the humility to appreciate the wisdom all living beings have to offer." Linda Kohanov (author of Tao of Equus, Riding Between the Worlds and Way of the Horse)

January 14 - 17, 2010

4-day ($850) workshop includes handouts and materials, horse activities, lunches and snacks

January 14 - 17, 2010

4-day ($850) workshop includes handouts and materials, horse activities, lunches and snacks