08/03/2025
We are so excited to bring these two events to our community! They will take place on August 8th and August 15th. Both are from 9am-11:30am. You must register by emailing me (on the flyer) to attend.
They are open to anyone 18 and older. Our Dusty Boots Barn team and horses, Holli, Larry, Parker and Jesse all look forward to having you join us! 🐴🙌🏼☀️
Please don’t hesitate to reach out with any questions.
I am also including another reflection below for those interested in why these experiences feel powerful and what makes us, Dusty Boots Barn, and our services different.
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You might have heard horses “heal you,” “horses are medicine,” or “horses are magic.” It’s a beautiful idea, but a false one. In fact, it’s disempowering because it does not allow you to take credit for your own healing or own your own magic. I have learned to take horses off the pedestal. They are beings like you and me in their own personalities, and we love them for it!
What is powerful though is horses are congruent. They are present and attuned, which on a body level, helps regulate our nervous systems. Our nervous systems are designed to co-regulate and match those around us. That’s why in person relationships and communities (and being around horses or nature!) are so powerful and healing. And why we need them! We are not meant to be separate.
When our nevevous system co-regulates to safety, this is where it can drop into healing. It is much easier to shift thought patterns, see a new way of thinking and have “transformational” insight, because our body now has access to it. It is a state to feel safe enough to surrender, to let go what doesn’t serve us. To let go of the emotions and limiting beliefs that have held us back from embodying who we are.
It also becomes safe for us to be seen. That’s why these experiences can bring up so much. They can show us ourselves and all that we’ve been running and hiding from. It helps cultivate self-awareness, assist us in exploring our inner world, and shift our body state, allowing us to develop authentic and secure relationships to ourselves and others.
Being in a space with regulated horses and humans can create a space for a lot of us to feel seen, esp. when we live a distracted world where most of us are chronically stressed and overwhelmed and the people in our lives are too. A lot of us don’t often get to experience this level of presence. Which is why these experience can feel like “medicine” and truly do change us.
This is also why we, Dusty Boots Barn, put such care in our team working together outside of sessions. We have high standards and go through much training to be able to cultivate our own abilities and nervous systems to create this. Without it, this wouldn’t be a safe place and community for anyone to heal and come home to themselves in. We have to be congruent, present and attuned too. This is not easy. And this is not something that can be faked! Unfortunately, not all “therapeutic and equine services” provide this depth of nervous system safety or community that allows our nervous system to move into a healing state. (We are working on changing this though!).
We as a team love this work and holding space to assist others in co-regulating their nervous system with us. This is a place where you can experience the empowered person you are by healing yourself. We are there to hold it and witness it. To see it, to see you; through our presence, attunement and congruency.
I feel honored to walk this path with this group.
So come join us and let yourself experience what it feels like to have a regulated nervous system and be surrounded by a community that encourages you to heal. I’m also biased, but the horses and animals here are pretty fun! And it’s beautiful on the land out here!
Can’t wait to see you there. 💚
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