NEUROSCIENCE and horses
Retreat October 3-6,2024 NEAR KAMLOOPS BC Online Program available virtually
EXPLORE the Neuroscience of the Horse Human Connection with Hillary Schneider and Maia Love MD
OnLINE PROGRAM
Learn how to use the language of neuroscience to speak to the powerful connection that exists between horses and humans. Discover how your clients can learn more about their nervous systems as you guide them in experiences with horses. Designed for equine facilitators and informed by evidence-based scientific literature, the Horses & Neuroscience Online Course provides a platform for you to deepen your knowledge and hone your facilitation skills.
13 Weeks of Weekly Meetings
Horses & Neuroscience Curriculum
Q & A with Maia Love and Hillary Schneider
Certificate of Completion
neuroscience teaching
herd wisdom
equine-guided coaching
Luxuriate in mind, body and soul in retreats with horses that combine both the mystical transcendence of the soul’s journey and the intelligence of your nervous system, in experiences with a powerful herd of horses.
Learn how the brain operates and supports you, and learn how horses act as an empowering bridge to lasting and impactful change in your neuron pathways, and in the unseen aspects of self that resonate in your subconscious and unconscious.
For years we have understood that a profound bond exists between horses and humans, with the horse both an intuitive companion in ridership as well as a guide to authentic emotions, and a guide into the unseen realms of existence.
When you enter the space with a herd of horses, you experience physical, emotional, mental and spiritual shifts. Through nervous system rebalancing, insight form the horses, and impressions on what is called the archetypal level of consciousness, you experience transcendence and clarity that allows you to move forward in life with more ease.
Join us to learn more, in an enchanting retreat in a remote mountain valley with songbirds, farm animals, and endless fields. Sleep deeply in private cabins, and gather in a relaxing lodge overlooking the valley. Immerse in the herd to gain insight, relax deeply and have profound moments of transcendence.
80 acreS 29 horses
private cabins
Catered food
Join us for a retreat where you learn about how horses help you to grow as a human being, connect with authenticity, and the neuroscience of how this happens.
During your retreat, you’ll have time to unwind, learn and explore the neuroscience and the mysticism while being fully supported with catered meals, warm cozy private cabins, and a large two story high lodge with a wood burning fireplace.
Relax on the 80 acres of land, practice guided meditations that teach you more about your personal neuroscience and the neuroscience of connection and engage in discussions after quiet reflective time with the herd.
EPONA RISE
RETREAT CENTRE
WHY HORSES
AND NEUROSCIENCE?
The understanding of your personal neuroscience can allow you to more deeply trust the process of transformation that occurs when in the presence of horses. You learn how to allow for powerful shifts in your personal neuroscience for greater calm, relational understanding and leadership skills. If you guide others, you learn a language of how to support greater nervous system balance.
Horses, through their exquisitely detailed perception of the present moment, impact our hearts and nervous systems and more, to shift our perception for greater insight. There is a science to this, as well asa mysticism.
If you are interested in leadership, you may know that horses have increasingly been shown by scientific research to advance leadership skills by improving the emotional intelligence traits of self awareness, social perceptiveness, independence, confidence, and adaptive intelligence. When you learn the neuroscience of how this works, you understand yourself and how to lead yourself, and others, with greater adaptive intelligence.
WHAT TO EXPECT
We will have the ranch all to ourselves. There are eighty acres of land to ramble over, hikes up mountain ridges, cozy cabins to contemplate and rest in, cozy log beds, a warm wood burning fireplace in the main lodge. The lodge has vaulted two story high ceilings for you to feel spacious and relaxed. A large dining table is reminiscent of Valhalla. Outdoor sports abound nearby. Epona Rise is truly a place to unfurl into a relaxed magnificence surrounded by nature that pulls you into a deeper peace. Quiet nights far away from a highway nestle you into the sounds of nature and usher you into a deep calm.
COZY + ELEVATED LODGE
about your hosts
MAIA LOVE
I spend a lot of time listening to the feeling that is the Horse Human Intuitive Connection - that subtlety sometimes called horse whispering but may be better described as horse listening. I first came across the pure magic of this potential as a young child, surrounded by ranches and horses. I later deepened my understanding of soul through coming to terms with the deaths of several loved ones, with the guidance of experts in death and personal growth in my second decade of life.
I love to hold space for transformation and insight, combining science and mysticism in a clarity to gain more comfort with what is seen and unseen.
My love of neuroscience grew from making a board game based on the brain in grade school, to a university degree on the biophysics of humans and animals, and then into advanced training in the brain and behaviour in medicine, psychiatry, yoga, meditation and mindfulness training.
When we prepare with a greater understanding of the neuroscience of connection, and then enter into the world where horses show us truths, we touch on a rare intelligence. In this weekend, I will guide you to understand the neuroscience of the Horse Human Connection in a very practical way, and help you learn how this develops leadership with self, and with others.
Hillary is a phenomenal woman who has manifested her dreams into reality. She studies horse language and behaviour, She also is in constant communion with her herd of 29 horses, with whom she has developed a unique and specific understanding of how to let the horses guide you to greater awareness, intelligence and capacity to lead.
When I met Hillary, I felt a shared understanding and then embarked on her training with full commitment. She is wise, powerful, gentle, direct, observant, and deeply human. She will be co-leading the retreat to lend her wisdom as keeper of the land and of her horse herd.
Hillary brings her powerful knowledge on how the horses communicate with you in very physical, as well as energetic, ways, to bring the neuroscience teachings into a lived understanding, from her wisdom as founder and director of the Horse Medicine Leadership Program.
HILLARY SCHNEIDER
retreat program
horses & neuroscience
Arrive, settle in, meet.
Dinner with Horse Stories
NIGHT ONE: EVENING
DAY ONE
Optional morning meditation
Coffee & Breakfast
Neuroscience Talk & Discussion
Time with the Herd
Lunch
Afternoon Discussion
Time with the Herd
Neuroscience Talk & Discussion
Dinner
Evening Free Time
DAY TWO PLUS
Optional morning meditation
Coffee & Breakfast
Neuroscience Talk & Discussion
Time with the Herd
Lunch
Afternoon Discussion
Time with the Herd
Neuroscience Talk & Discussion
Dinner
Evening Free Time
FINAL FULL DAY
Optional Evening Yoga Nidra
FINAL DAY: MORNING
Optional morning meditation
Coffee & Breakfast
Integration
Depart by 1 pm
NOTE: SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
ABOUT YOU
We work with deeply curious people committed to making the world abetter place. through meaningful connections with each other, animals and the land. As we travel together through the landscape of Horse Human Neuroscience in this retreat, we review:
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THE PHYSICS OF NEUROSCIENCE
THE HORSE HUMAN CONNECTION
EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE
THOUGHT & BELIEF NEUROSCIENCE
INTUITIVE AND ENERGETIC AWARENESS
INSIGHTS FROM THE HORSES
SUBCONSCIOUS ARCHETYPES & NEUROSCIENCE
DURING YOUR NEUROSCIENCE HORSE Retreat WITH US, YOU WILL RECEIVE:
A review of the neuroscience of the Horse Human Connection and how it applies to your daily life.
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Greater emotional intelligence through your experiences with the horses, and the science and wisdom of emotions, intuition and feeling intelligence.
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Guidance on how to use the four pillars of well being for greater balance and leadership skill.
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An invitation to experience a powerfully restful reset through your interactions with the horses, a guided inner journey and understanding how your heart attunes with the herd.
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The opportunity to delve into how understanding Horse Human Neuroscience improves your leadership skills.
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THE HORSE HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE 5 NIGHT RETREAT INCLUDES:
Teaching & Discussion Sessions
Guided Interactions with the Herd
Neuroscience Talks
Optional morning meditationsThe Horse Human Neuroscience Curriculum
INVESTMENT
$3500
for 5 nights, 4 days
(cost in CAD$ before tax)
OCTOBER 3 to 6, 2024
inquire for possible new summer 2024 dates
The Grief Retreat
Grief calls us in many ways.
We grieve the loss of a sense of our selves, seemingly lost to the requirements and pressures of day to day life.We grieve a loved one now lost, and how we felt when with them that now seems a void in our life to never be replaced.We grieve a career that once flourished that now struggles.
We grieve the moments when love was not enough, and we parted with a good friend, loved one or family member that now we barely if ever talk to.
We grieve the moments where we abandoned ourselves, when we are ready to take the steps to reclaiming a beautiful, safe and harmonious life that resonates with our values.
I believe we grieve because we have such a powerful capacity to love, that we know on some level - conscious, subconscious or unconscious - that we can transcend the grief.
We are just waiting to discover that knowing within.
This knowing fills us, more than anything from outside of us can.
Horses know this.
Horses have a way with grief that is deeply replenishing to the soul. Horses hold a pure space for us to be safely with our emotions - to feel comforted, to feel heard, to feel seen while also feeling a privacy that the realm of silence and non speaking can bring.
Join us on May 17th to 19th, to unfold your grief, and discover the treasure and resilience that lies hidden within.
Your Grief Retreat
Nourish in the quietude of the land, the resplendence of the nature, the solemn deep compassion of the horses. Discover also your own process of grief, moving at your own pace, and discerning how you wish to learn, through grief, how to more fully and deeply embrace life again. Hear about ancient and current cultural grief practices, from which to draw your own comfort. Learn about the neuroscience of grief, to understand the very physical waves of emotion that can pass through you as you grieve, and what is happening in your brain and nervous system as these waves of emotion occur. Explore some of the neuroscience of near death experiences, and contemplate what life and death mean, to you.
Hillary and I, will hold space for you. The herd, will hold space for you. The land, will hold space for you.
You will have time with the herd, time in discussion and time in solitude to reflect, as we weave through a structure that allows for your nervous system to be engaged and then integrate.
If you feel called, contact Hillary or I to learn more.
THE GRIEF RETREAT 4 NIGHT RETREAT INCLUDES:
Teaching & Discussions on Grief
Guided Interactions with the Herd
Neuroscience Talks
Optional morning meditations
Grief is a process that is highly individual yet also shared by all humans and archetypal in nature. Often, in a society confused by loss and unsure about the process of death, we can become lost in our process of grief and require guidance. When embraced, the process of grief offers the opening of doorways to profound and transcendent experiences that allow us to re-engage in the vitality of life and the beauty of the mystery of a fully lived experience. Horses are powerful guides in the process - join us to learn how.
Read more from Hillary Schneider here:
INVESTMENT
$3000
for 4 nights, 3 days
(cost in CAD$ before tax)
MY EXPERTISE
Maia Love
INTELLIGENT • STRATEGIC • PROFESSIONAL
I guide you to become brilliant. My coaching approach includes science-based strategies, neuroanatomy education, mind training and inner work with the subconscious. My experience in leadership training includes well being program development, lectures, retreat program development, multiple physician health and leadership conferences and more. I also have a peer-reviewed physician leadership program approved for scholarships by physician advocacy bodies.
Credentials • Internationally Certified Coach • Medical Doctor • Board Certified Psychiatrist • Extensive Yoga, Meditation and Breathwork Training • BSc Biology & Physics • BA Ecology & Dance • Neuroanatomy and Resilience Researcher • Horse Medicine Leadership Guide
HILLARY SCHNEIDER
CO-LEAD EXPERTISE
PURPOSE • AUTHENTICITY • LEADERSHIP
I believe deeply in the journey we take to reclaim and witness the strength of our own passions, gifts and purpose, and the growth we go through to be courageous enough to hold it, to create through it and step into the full potential of what it is meant to be for us and others.
Credentials • Equine Science Production and Breeding Diploma, Olds College • Coaching Training and Leadership Development, Coach Training Institute • Certified Facilitated Equine Experiential Learning Practitioner, FEEL, Horse Spirit Connections • Certified Equine Assisted Personal Development, Chris Irwin • Equine Guided Coaching, Wisdom Horse Coaching • Intuitive Development Certification, Hannelore • Coach and Equine Guided Facilitator • Retreat Owner and Entrepreneur
TESTIMONIALS
“Maia masterfully blends her knowledge of the human brain and our bodies with that of the horse’s. She reinforce the science behind human and horse interactions but still recognizes the spiritual aspects. She has gentle way of coaching which puts you at ease and her thought provoking questions get you thinking deeply about your core purpose and values. She truly partners with the horses and I felt very safe being with a herd of horses. I’m now more confident and authentic leader after working with her. I highly recommend Maia’s workshops with the horses.” - DBM, Professional, Retreat August 2023
“This retreat was truly a gift for my soul. The people, horses and land all gave something to me that was without expectation. This allowed me to immerse myself into each experience without feeling like I had to give anything back to anyone but myself. I left feeling connected, clear and grateful. Thank you for your creation.” - Sarah Thorne, Chiropractor and Medical Acupuncturist, Retreat March 2023
“Maia helped me transform my well being, to seeing light, loving unconditionally, and wellness like I’ve never experienced before. Her experience, techniques and process, as long as you’re committed to do the work, will revitalize, rejuvenate, and open your mind to a new world of opportunities. Maia’s work on expanding my intuition, my minds’s thought process and future planning has given me tools not only for me, but tools I can share for the well being of my friends, colleagues, family and loved ones.” - NK, CEO, Private Retreat November 2022