Life Happens. Horses Help.

A Place to Rediscover You

Learning to live an Authentic Life

Programs Offered

Rediscovering You

Horse Assisted Mindfulness

Widow’s Walking Forward

At Liberty Connections Farm could be the place to Rediscover You.

Equine Assisted Learning

No riding programs

  • Example of an Equine Assisted Learning activity.

    Horse Activities

    Uniquely designed activities are learning experiences created to meet the goals of the participant. The experience can included a variety of activities from grooming the horse to leading through obstacles on the ground. All in a safe environment.

    No horse riding in any of the programs at At Liberty Connections Farm.

  • A woman standing on a wooden box holding a rope next to a grazing black horse in a grassy field with forest background.

    Awareness

    Before a decision to change the way we do things is determined. A person must become aware of how they proceed through life now.

    Horses are like looking in a mirror. Watch a person with a horse, and they will show you their own self.

    Learning about who you are makes you aware of what you’d like to keep and what you might want to change.

  • A man and a woman in a stable grooming a brown horse that is tied to a post. They are smiling and appear to be engaged in caring for the horse.

    Connection

    At Liberty is a term used in Horsemanship that basically means a connections without any ties attached to the horse.

    The horse chooses to follow what you ask of them by their own free will. Whether they just stand by your side or walk with you freely across a field. The horse has chosen you as the safe place.

    The connection is a shared consensus of sharing space and time. There is a special feeling when a horse has chosen to trust you.

  • Two horses standing in an indoor riding arena with sandy floor, touching noses under bright lights and wooden roof beams.

    Relationship

    The picture above is an example of horses grooming each other. Horses mutually groom each other like this to show affection, care, and attention to their herd mates.

    Horses demonstrate a whole range of relationship skills to humans. Everything from holding boundaries, leadership skills, saying “No”, showing trust to simply being together without any expectations.

    Participants have the opportunity to become aware of these skills through the Horse Activities.

  • Horse standing in a fenced area with autumn trees in the background.

    Renewed Energy

    Or reduced stress from spending time away from your daily life responsibilities. One of the best parts of At Liberty Connections Farm is the land on which it sits. The farm is 9 acres with fields, trees, and a pond to hang out next to and journal about your experience with the horses.

  • Brown horse grazing in a grassy field with a white fence and blue sky.

    Something New

    Stepping out of your comfort zone is never easy, but nothing will ever change if you don’t try something new.

    Your experience with us at At Liberty Connections Farm could be the key to the next best part of your life.

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Rainbow over a rural landscape with a dirt road, fenced fields, leafless trees, and horses grazing.

Why Horses? 

Horse don’t care where you come from or what you look like. They accept you as you show up to them.

From the book The Power of Horses To Heal: Riding Home by Tim Hayes. I think it is best described.

“I believe that what draws most humans to be with horses is a feeling. Just seeing or being with a horse has the ability to make people feel good. What is surprising is that creating a relationship with a horse can also make people feel good about themselves. I believe that is true whether one is wounded or healthy.”

The secret sauce of partnering with horses is how the energy you give to them is what they will give back to you. It is easily seen by this “mirroring effect”, what you are truly feeling and how a shift in your thinking will change the horses response to you.

“If you change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change.” Dwayne Dyer

Photo credit: Kim Tripp. The Horse Institute