Spiritual Retreats for Mind Body and Soul, Meditating with horses, equine facilitator training, Women's Retreats
A Sanctuary for Quieting the Mind and Opening the Heart ...
A Sanctuary to Quiet the Mind and Open the Heart
For An Inspired Life ...
I have a vision for a retreat center that inspires the spirit of all beings...
Where each person can learn how to tune into their own guidance, find their deeper purpose, and tap in to the dream for living a truly fulfilled life.
Barbara Alexander
Located in the heart of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Asheville, North Carolina, Barbara Alexander facilitates retreats that are specially designed for those who want to expand their inner light, find inspiration and feel rejuvenation for the Soul.
Our programs inspire creativity, personal awareness and life passion through experiential learning and the heart connection with nature and horses.
We offer couples and women's retreats, personal growth and advanced human development and multi month intensives that nurture the mind, body and Spirit.
Workshops and retreats include many different experiential sessions and are perfect for those that follow the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and the Law of Attraction and Allowing.
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Why Horses
'Just Be-ing with these sentient beings provides a sense of peace, like deep meditation, allowing you to quiet your mind. When you quiet your mind you stop thought; when you stop thought you stop resistance; when you stop resistance... you are in a state of allowing.... Then clarity and inner guidance can flow and you move towards a life in balance.' Barbara Alexander
It is All About Healthy Relationships!
Our Newest Workshop!
There is an art to the sacred dance of connection between humans that the horses are graciously teaching us.
It is the subtle realization of the non-verbal world combined with simultaneous awareness of others.
They help us to learn where the healthiest connection can occure in different situations, in addition to teaching us how to 'just be' with someone without needing to fix or change them.
You will learn skills and tools to expand awareness within personal relationships.
You will learn how to honor each other on your path, opening the doors for two balanced individuals to be together in one relationship that honors both beings...
It is an equine facilitated human skills course that can benefit everyone!
Through individual experiences with horses and each other, we will have fun learning about what is working as well as how we can be even better!
Equine Facilitator Training and Advanced Personal Growth Programs
We offer a longer term program for those that want to find a sustained experience of following their bliss. The second tier of the Mentorship program includes basic facilitator training in the art of EFEL (Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning), with extensive learning in walking the path of the healer. Click here for more information on these programs.
Coaching for a life-in-balance is a personalized program with phone sessions and the option of workshops and individualized encounters with horses. Click here for more information on coaching with Barbara Alexander.
The Ancient Form of Reiki ... Walking the path of Healer
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I wanted to thank you for the Reiki Workshop and for all your kindnesses. It has been yet another deepening journey to North Carolina for me. My trips to Epona Ridge are like holy pilgrimages... travel to a sacred site, wise teachers in many forms and an opening on yet another level of my heart....
Manci O, Virginia
I loved how you designed the flow of exercises, rituals, and experiences and I felt so supported by you and the horses to live in my heart. I know energetically I have been changed profoundly.
D. Clements Mamaroneck, NY
Wow I just finished the intensive week there at Epona Ridge with the Horses, cats and of course Barbara.......
Thank you, I wasn't sure before I started working with the horses that they could possibly react to me in ways that were significant only to me..........Much to my amazement they did over and over give me exactly what I needed...........It could be the same horse with different participants and each participant was given exactly what they needed, different behavior for each of us........
I am amazed and grateful to experience this for myself.... I will be there again that is for sure..........
Bob Damiani
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