Heather McPherson

31/08/2025

Disconnecting this week…
Will plug back in next week🙏🪴☺️
Heather McPherson true colours healing

28/08/2025

25/08/2025

19/08/2025

19/08/2025

🌿 Take Your Healing & Growth to the Next Level — With Horses 🐎 Training Opportunity…

Are you ready to unlock deeper self-awareness, emotional clarity, and confidence?

✨ Equine Assisted Learning isn’t just about horses — it’s about YOU.

Through powerful, experiential sessions (theory & hands-on learning) with these intuitive animals, you'll uncover what’s holding you back and step into a new chapter of growth and healing.

Whether you're taking your personal journey to the next level or want to help others transform their lives, this training will give you the tools, insight, and inspiration to move forward with purpose.
🔹 No horse experience needed
🔹 Trauma-informed & heart-led facilitation
🔹 For coaches, counselors, healers, teachers

💫 Join us — and discover how horses can guide you to the next level of YOU.

📆Save the date for taster session, details in attachment. 📍Modewarre, VIC 👇 Register your interest with Free Rein Australia
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Just under 2 weeks before our Introduction / CEEL Taster Day, and we still have some spots! This day is packed with useful information and experiential activities.

Ask questions and learn how this could fit into your vision of how you would like to be working with horses - or even without horses.

The beauty of this work is that you can:
- work with friends and family (because you don't need to know the story)

- work face-to-face without horses

- work in nature or with other animals

- work online (via video call)

- adapt it to your current work (e.g. a past participant is a dental assistant and helps the dentist to calm and regulate their patients so that their visit is way less stressful for everyone)

This modality will give you the knowledge and skills necessary to contain your clients and help them gently and safely move through their challenges.

Its not too late to join us on August 31! Please contact us if you have questions or would like to attend!

18/08/2025

04/08/2025

A quiet corner, a converted closet, a man cave, a balcony. Wherever you decide to create your sacred space, it can really help you mentally.

30/07/2025

30/07/2025

“Whispers of the Brush” activity that was passed down from another equine therapist…

In this image, my client is first making a heart connection and breathing with her horse’s rhythm.

I offered this activity as a way to practice mindfulness, have a human-horse connection and to assist in nervous system regulation…

My client was feeling scattered, racing thoughts and anxious about not being able to dedicate the time and energy as much for this mare. It’s a busy period with work and my client has been enjoying riding time with one of her newer horses. She’s noted this mare getting anxious when the other horse leaves for a ride and is not pleasant riding when time isn’t being spent on her.

We worked through this mindful-connection building activity and to no surprise, both client and horse displayed stillness, peace & calm. My client reflected on being task driven…

“I am often caught up in the act of doing things with my horses rather than just being with them. A calm connected moment led to a feeling of peace for us both.” ~E. B. ~

LOVE THIS WORK 🙏❤️🐴🙏

30/07/2025

💭 Growth is messy, and hindsight is always clearer.

When you catch yourself spiraling into “I should’ve known better,” pause - and replace it with:
✨ “Now I do know better.”

Self-forgiveness isn’t weakness - it’s how you stop the cycle of self-sabotage and start healing forward.

30/07/2025

29/07/2025

She is not actually talking about how big the fish was that she caught!

This is a CEEL training practice session – learning to explore what happened when we have no cognitive memory.

Throughout our lives, our bodies learn that danger comes from behind, or from the left or diagonally from the right, or front on…. The danger could be any boundary violation - from being injured in sports, or in a car accident (even a near-miss), or an assault, or scratched by a cat, etc.

The body never forgets, even if we do – OR we were too young to remember.

The memories that our bodies hold, influence our behaviours and even beliefs. For example, if we sustained an injury on the left while playing football, our body has learned that danger comes from the left, and therefor will orient in that direction – leaving the right side ‘unattended’ and vulnerable to future injury.

We can explore our body’s memories by being slowly approached, and noticing how our body responds. As we tune into these responses, information and even images may be released along with an impulse to restore the boundary. Allowing the body to complete the impulse helps the body restore the boundary and feel safe again.

How do the horses help?

They maintain safety. They sense the person’s capacity to experience the memories arising and will literally interrupt the process well before they reach overwhelm.

Somatic coaching can unlock body memories of unresolved adverse experiences in ways that talking and reasoning cannot reach.

You can learn these techniques in the CEEL training. Come and have a 'taster' experience in our Introduction Program.