Dream Equine Wellness

08/10/2026

Sally Port View this Sunday! 🛶🐾🐾

We will be there with freebies and a raffle to support SPCA of NNY 🖤

Please SHARE to help make this event a big one for our local animals who don’t yet have homes 😌

08/09/2026

08/08/2026

Where the Horse and Life Meet

To truly ride a horse, in my understanding and experience, is to move in unison with another being whom you cannot control. This requires recognizing the horse as fully capable, autonomous, and ultimately uncontrollable, while remaining autonomous, balanced, in your own integrity while maintaining boundaries.

Perhaps this is where riding horses is like living life: in learning to move with another: without overpowering them, without wanting to exert control, and without surrendering either autonomy, balance, or integrity.

08/08/2026

Moving One’s Feet

Horses are much larger than we are. Not exactly a profound observation, until you stand among them and realize what that means. If I want to stay caught up with what is happening, I have to move my feet. I cannot stand in one place and expect the world around me to remain where I last noticed it. The horses move. The environment changes. Space opens and closes. Something that was in front of me is suddenly behind me. None of this requires interpretation. It is simply happening.

Of course, things are happening inside us at the same time. Thoughts come and go. Emotions arise. Attention shifts. And the more occupied I become with what is happening inside, the easier it is to miss what has changed outside.

We keep returning to this in our stabilization group. We started with observation: standing with the horses and trying to notice what is actually there without immediately turning it into a story. But observation does not mean standing still. Sometimes I have to change where I am standing to see something I could not see before. Sometimes I have to move closer. Sometimes farther away. Sometimes a few steps to the side completely change what is visible.

And I think internal movement works in a similar way.

What happens to what I see when my attention moves toward a thought? What becomes less visible when an emotion takes up more of my attention? And what happens when, instead of trying to get rid of that emotion, I notice it and allow my attention to move again?

That is the part I find most interesting: neither the world outside nor the world inside is standing still. And yet we can become remarkably fixed in where we are looking, perhaps without noticing that we are still standing in the same place.

And maybe that is why something as simple as moving our feet can change so much.

Sometimes we have to „move our own feet“ to see what was there all along.

Ilka Parent/Minds-n-Motion

08/08/2026

Can you believe we just celebrated 10 YEARS of The HERD Institute? Our Coming Home to The HERD Conference may be in the rearview, but the memories and lessons learned won't leave us anytime soon.

We'd love it if you could drop your favorite memory from Coming Home to The HERD in the comments!

08/07/2026

This workshop will change you - both personally and professionally.⁠
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Join us for the SEEN Through Story Workshop, a live, interactive online training where you’ll gain dynamic tools to help clients uncover deeper meaning, shift perspectives, and feel truly seen.⁠
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Whether you work in an office, telehealth, or in experiential spaces with horses, animals, or nature—this workshop will transform the way you guide sessions.⁠
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🧭 Who This Workshop is For:⁠
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✔️ Mental health professionals⁠
✔️ Coaches and facilitators⁠
✔️ Educators and school professionals⁠
✔️ Equine specialists⁠
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Open to both ARCH members and non-members! Learn more here: https://arenasforchange.com/story/

08/02/2026

Thanks to HETI - Horses in Education and Therapy International today marks the inaugural International EAS Day. We sometimes struggle to explain what EAS is and its various modalities when speaking to people outside the sector so we hope this graphic is useful as a summary. Let's celebrate the great work that you all do