Friday, March 4, 2011

Equine-Assisted Learning


Okay, so I am writing this entry on Thursday, November 11th and on Tuesday of this week, I had a truly interesting adventure.  I was invited to go to a farm to meet two women who are trained EAGALA equine specialists.  EAGALA is the Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association. These ambitious women are working hard to turn their learning sessions into a 501 non-profit group, so that they can provide learning, healing and growth sessions to special populations.  They are working with Iraq veterans and are reaching out to bible youth groups, etc.  Anyway, when I got to the farm, I had a wonderful time because it's a very friendly place.  But they honored me by actually doing a session with me -- one which gets me to use horses to explore the "blocks" or "problems" in my life.  It was really a special magical healing moment, but also was just plain old fun.  It's not often that I get to meet truly spectacularly talented intelligent ambitious people who are working with horses to bring love and healing to the world.  I really dug it!  And it got me enthusiastic about my research!