What You Will Learn as an Apprentice: Equine Components

In the Epona Apprenticeship Program, students learn about:

  • Creating an effective herd capable of mirroring a variety of human issues
  • Assisting horses develop the necessary skills to support clients
  • The Epona approach to teaching riding lessons
  • Facilitating a variety of round pen activities
  • Using creative visualization and the body scan to help clients connect with themselves and their horses
  • Reading the horse’s feedback and interpreting equine messages for the client
  • Helping professional riders work through any emotional issues that impede their performance
  • Evaluating various riding, training, and therapeutic styles
  • Developing a personal style of facilitating that draws on the facilitator’s strengths and interests
  • Adapting various ground training and riding activities to teach human development skills, including assertiveness, anger management, emotional fitness and agility, leadership, conflict resolution, creativity and expanded multi-sensory awareness
  • Running a humane, creative, equine-facilitated educational center in which horses, clients and staff members are encouraged to share authentic feelings, ask for help, and develop their own strengths and talents in a nurturing, empowering, congruent environment

Find out more about the program:

For more information contact Carol Roush at carol@medicinehorseranch.comor 520-455-5058.

 

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