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ELizabeth Kadar offers The Way of the Horse programs at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health and WIndy Knoll Farm, in Stockbridge and Lee, Massachusetts, located in the breathtaking Berkshires.
Participants have the option of two and five day group sessions as well as one day private sessions. The five day program includes expressive arts such as creating spirit horse masks, poetry, clay formations and music, while journeying into our individual paths of enlightenment and for our intuitive gifts to blossom. All of the sessions include hands on work with the horses such as Body Language Leading and Reflective Round pen. As an example: During an experiential we call REFLECTIVE ROUND PEN, an interaction occurs with a horse and human.
The horses act as a mirror and the participants may experience thoughts, images or feelings that are not understood in the moment. The process of Expressive Arts, Guided Imagery and Yoga can stimulate and nurture the feelings and messages from the interaction. Elizabeth will assist you in decoding the natural behaviors the horse may reveal in response to your experience of certain emotions. The entire experience becomes expanded because your intuitive, creative and visionary power is strengthend and you have the opportunity to form a connection you feel with the horses and bring the new information into other life situations with humans.
This is what we mean by REFLECTIVE INTERACTION. The horses act as a mirror, and we refer to this type of work with the horses as Equine Experiential Learning (EEL).
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Equine Experiential Learning (EEL)  is the art and process of partnering people
with horses that function on a therapeutic level. It is used to create a
profound feeling of well-being, increases self-esteem and serves as a tool for
accessing the three levels of intuition: survival, creative, and visionary.
The Way of the Horse is a program developed by Linda Kohanov, one of the
equine’s world most insightful writers, teachers and trainers specializing in EEL and founder of Epona Equestrian Services. She has done extensive research
that unveils the horses mystical, historical and religious importance as they
have journeyed with humans, biblical figures, queens, kings, warriors, saints,
gods and goddesses. The special way she looks at horses has led her to develop a
unique technique that merges information from the fields of spirituality,
psychology and the arts and teaches us to focus on energetic and emotional
learning that happen in a reflective interaction between people and horses. Rather than exerting physical dominance over the horses to build self-esteem she
encourages us to see these regally honest animals as our teachers. |
Through experiential activities drawn from EEL,
Kripalu Yoga on and
off the mat
and other healing modalities,
in this program you will:
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Meet
with horses in a safe and beautiful setting.
(Small groups will do special
exercises involving the horses) |
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Ability to make decisions based on the present information and skills to strengthen your intuition |
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Learn to identify the messages behind the emotions and develop emotional
intelligence and emotional agility |
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Distinguish between conditioned False Self and the Authentic Self |
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Learn how to establish and maintain clear, consistent and healthy boundaries |
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Create a horse mask that will help you view the world through their eyes |
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Use
expressive arts like music, clay formations and writing poetry to access
your creative self |
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We will also gather together as a group in an experiential evening of drumming
by the fire as we engage in the sacred Native American ceremony of painted hand
impression on the horse as a symbol of affirming our heart-felt intentions. This
is done with the highest respect for the horse. |
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In this five-day program there will be daily guided yoga classes, including
extended yoga nidra (deep relaxation with visualization and imageries). We will
incorporate Kripalu Yoga "off the mat" activities such as journaling and
communication skills, the use of the breathe, relax, feel, watch and allow
technology and other powerful co-creation tools. |
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An EEL instructor is skilled in helping clients develop emotional agility by
facilitating the interaction between the horse and human. Emotional agility is
the ability to get the message behind the emotion, to adjust behavior,
relationship, or environment accordingly, and then let go and return to
homeostasis.
Horses teach that no emotion is good or bad.
Each is equally useful in providing
information to the individual and the herd. So-called negative emotions carry a
bigger charge because they often must be acted upon quickly to insure survival
or bring the individual back to a state of safety and well-being. |
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For program information at Kripalu Center
and reservations 1-800-741-7353, or log onto
www.Kripalu.org |
Elizabeth is an Equine Experiential Learning teacher. She has spent a life time
with horses loving them and caring for their spirits, as they have for her
spirit. Elizabeth's background in Yoga instruction and the Healing arts has
provided her with an opportunity to combine the work with horses and Kripalu
Yoga for self exploration while maintaining the integrity of the horses. Her
work creates a segway for our own self- exploration in a safe and compassionate
realm. As a therapist at Kripalu, she has successfully designed and
implemented ayurvedic facials in the Healing Arts Department at Kripalu Center,
and developed a curriculum to teach it to other therapists. She currently
offers healing arts sessions, teaches private yoga classes and assists ayurvedic
trainings in the Healing Arts Department. She combines 25 years of experience
and love for horses with her background in the healing arts to help people find
their authentic selves.
Elizabeth draws upon various gentle and effective disciplines of riding
developed by instructors that practice patience, consistency, and safety, while
maintaining the well-being of the horse mentally and physically. These revered
teachers have successfully and methodically implemented the use of body language
and positive reinforcement to connect with horses, eluding the "old school"
(punishment, force and dominance), way of working with horses. Sally Swifts
Centered Riding, Peggy Cummings Connected Riding, John Lyons, Pat Parelli.
Elizabeth partners with horses that function on a therapeutic level for humans.
Experientials are designed to safely and subtly increase peoples awareness of
hidden emotions and the messages behind them. Horses sense incongruent behavior
as a means of survival, therefore by applying their instinctual behavior with
out hidden agendas, people can be more truthful with themselves and the horses.
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