Brumby Equine-Assisted Therapy

11/06/2026

🐴Creative Expression in the Paddock with Ponies 🐴

We are excited to reintroduce our end-of-term school holiday workshop!

This workshop is designed to help children develop a basic understanding of their nervous system and explore ways to express their emotions. Sometimes putting feelings into words can be difficult. Through nature-based creative activities alongside our ponies, children are invited to explore emotions in a safe, playful, and supportive environment.

Together we will explore:
🌿 Breathing and grounding activities
🌿 Creative expression through art and nature
🌿 Movement and embodied awareness
🌿 Connection and co-regulation alongside ponies
🌿 Plenty of pony cuddles

Children will take home practical tools and strategies that can support moments of balance, self-awareness, and emotional wellbeing in everyday life.

📅 Sunday 12th July
🕙 10:00am – 12:00pm
📍 Brumby Equine-Assisted Therapy, Kanimbla
💰 $66 per child

Suitable for school-aged children. No horse experience required.

Places are limited. To book or enquire, please send us a message.
✉️ [email protected]

Learn more : www.brumbyeat.com.au 👉click Upcoming Event

To register : 👉 click Events and Workshop Registration:
https://www.brumbyeat.com.au/eventworkshopregistration

emotionalwellbeing

10/06/2026

What Do We Really Mean by Connection?

Connection is a word often used in equine-assisted therapy to describe the relationship between a person and a horse. It can refer to bonding, attachment, trust, co-regulation, or feeling calm and steady in the presence of a horse.

While these can all be aspects of connection, I wanna expand it.

Someone once shared an analogy with me about connection and disconnection that has stayed with me. Imagine a lamp plugged into a powerpoint. When the plug is removed, the lamp becomes disconnected from the power source. However, the power itself has not disappeared. The powerpoint is still there. The possibility for connection remains.

Applied to people, this suggests that connection is not necessarily something we either have or don’t have. We may become disconnected from ourselves, others, nature, meaning, or a sense of belonging, but the potential for connection remains. Sometimes life experiences can lead us to pull the plug.

What I appreciate about this analogy is that it does not view disconnection as failure or something that is wrong with us. Instead, it recognises that disconnection can be protective. Sometimes we disconnect because remaining connected feels too painful, overwhelming, or unsafe.

This is where connection can become something more than interaction, proximity, or even attachment to a horse or another person. As human beings, we long to be seen, understood, valued, accepted, and to experience a sense of belonging.

From this lens, connection becomes less about simply being close to someone and more about being in meaningful relationship with ourselves, others, and the world around us. It is about being able to show up as we are and be met where we are. It is about finding our place within something larger than ourselves.

When we work with horses, they don’t create connection. Instead, they offer a space where connection becomes possible again. A space where people can rediscover relationship with themselves, another living being, the natural world, and often a deeper sense of meaning and belonging. A safe space to plug in again.🌱🐴

05/06/2026

Awareness in Practice: Embodiment & Relational Presence

🌱What happens when we slow down enough to truly notice?

This one-day experiential workshop invites participants to explore awareness through nature, embodied experience, and connection alongside horses.

Through guided experiential activities, participants are supported to slow down and become more aware of what is happening within themselves, around them, and in relationship with others.

Together, we will explore:
🌱Present-moment awareness
🌱Nervous system regulation
🌱Embodied noticing
🌱Relational awareness
🌱Grounding and connection
🌱The relationship between mind, body, and environment

Working alongside horses offers a unique opportunity for awareness to become more immediate, embodied, and observable.

At the heart of this workshop is the understanding that awareness is the foundation for growth and change. Often, our ways of being, relating, protecting ourselves, avoiding discomfort, and meeting our needs happen automatically and outside of our awareness. Many of these patterns developed for good reasons and helped us navigate our world. However, when they become automatic, they can begin to limit our choices.

Awareness helps bring these patterns into consciousness.

We may notice we hold our breath when anxious, withdraw when overwhelmed, say “yes” when we want to say “no”, or find ourselves repeating familiar ways of relating to others. Through awareness, what was once automatic becomes visible.

As awareness grows, choice becomes possible.

Rather than reacting automatically, we begin to have greater capacity to respond with intention, curiosity, and flexibility. This workshop is an invitation to explore what happens when we slow down, notice, and become more present to ourselves, others, and the world around us.

📅 Saturday 12th September
📅 Sunday 13th September

📍 Kanimbla, Blue Mountains NSW

Open to anyone wanting to deepen their awareness and presence in a grounded and experiential way. No horse experience is needed.

For more information:
📧 [email protected]
📞 0413 781 727

🌐 Brumby Equine Assisted Therapy⁠

🌱 Nurturing Minds 🌱
Holistic Nature-Based Therapeutic Approaches in Mental Health & Wellbeing.
🙎🏻‍♀️Counselling
🐴Equine - Assisted
🌿Nature - Based

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📍 Blue Mountains, NSW 2790

04/06/2026

From the moment we enter this world, we are held. Before we have words, before we can care for ourselves, our survival depends on connection. We learn about safety, belonging, and relationship through being with others.

We are wired for connection, belonging, and social interaction. We have never existed on this planet as isolated individuals. We have always been part of something larger.

Our nervous system learns what is safe through being with someone who is steady, present, and attuned to us.

When that is there, the body settles. Connection feels okay. Relationships feel possible.

When it is not, the nervous system adapts. It learns to stay on guard, shut down, or rely only on itself. Over time, connection can begin to feel uncomfortable, or even unsafe.

Yet the need for connection never disappears. Instead, our experiences of closeness can become fractured, and the walls we build for protection can grow higher. Protection from disappointment, hurt, rejection, loss or something els.

This is where working alongside horses can create a lived experience of something different.

Horses respond to what is happening in the present moment. They are highly attuned to shifts within the nervous system and offer feedback without judgement, shame, pressure, or expectation. They do not require you to perform, prove yourself, or be someone different.

Instead, horses create opportunities for us to experiment, explore, and stay curious about our moment-to-moment experience. And when something softens, even slightly, the horse often responds to that too.

That moment is different.

It is not talked through or analysed.

It is experienced.

Through invitation and exploration a nervous system that has learned connection is unsafe can begin to experience a version of connection that does not overwhelm, demand, or push. That can be an experience of co-regulation.

And when the body experiences this repeatedly, in a way that feels steady and safe, a natural shift can begin.

Not because we have told ourselves a new story, but because the body has experienced something different enough to begin creating one.

🌐www.brumbyeat.com.au

02/06/2026

Our availability is regularly changing, and we currently have immediate capacity to welcome new enquiries.

Sessions are available at our Kanimbla property, where counselling can be supported by our co-therapists, our herd, alongside nature-based experiences. We also offer room-based counselling and nature-based counselling options.

We also have availability for room-based and walk-and-talk counselling at our second location, Waratah Holistic Health in Katoomba, every Wednesday, with most morning appointments currently available.

If this is something you have been curious to explore, or if you have noticed yourself, your child, or a loved one needing some extra support, please feel welcome to reach out.

📧 [email protected]
📞 0411 241 166
🌿 Brumby Equine Assisted Therapy & Waratah Holistic Health Counselling

✅ACA Registered Counsellor
✅EAT Certified
✅Insured
✅NDIS Registered Provider

NDIS participants, private clients, children, adolescents and adults welcome.