Welcome to Soul Graze
At Soul Graze, we offer Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) that provides safe experiences with horses for personal development, social, emotional and relationship skills building, enhancing quality of life, and professional development and growth including leadership and team building. Soul Graze welcomes all clients who would like to increase their self-awareness and develop skills that promote emotional health. Sessions are tailored to each client, the horses and the moment. All sessions are ground based and no prior experience with horses is required.
OUR SERVICES
How We Can Help You
Personal Development
Our EAL sessions are designed to help individuals build self-awareness, emotional regulation, and relationship skills. By working with horses, clients can learn about themselves and develop skills that can be applied in their personal lives.
Professional Development
Our EAL sessions can also be tailored to help professionals develop leadership, team building, and communication skills. These sessions can be a unique and effective way to enhance professional development and growth.
Corporate Retreats
We offer customized corporate retreats that include EAL sessions, team building, and leadership development activities. Our retreats are designed to help teams work more effectively together and develop a deeper understanding of each other.
ABOUT SOUL GRAZE
Our Philosophy
At Soul Graze, our mission is to create safe supportive environments where individuals and teams of all ages can learn and grow through Equine Assisted Learning (EAL). We believe that horses have a unique ability to help people develop self-awareness, emotional regulation, and relationship skills. Our team of experienced facilitators are dedicated to providing high quality EAL sessions that are tailored to the needs of each client.
Why Horses?
Horses are intelligent, sensitive and strong beings and can evoke strong feelings in clients. Horses can assist in co-regulating our nervous system. Horses live in the moment and can model healthy living, expression of feelings and being non judgemental. Horses can offer feedback in a way that traditional learning environments cannot. The natural environment can contribute positively to our well being.
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Licensed Professionals
Our licensed professionals have been carefully selected and rigorously trained with the Equine Psychotherapy Institute, ensuring that you receive the best experience. When you choose to work with us, know that you are consistently choosing quality and excellence. Contact us to learn more.
Ethical practice
Safety of both clients and horses is at the core of our ethical strategy. We are constantly working to improve our offerings and expand upon our capabilities. Our customers deserve the highest level of service, and we work tirelessly to maintain standards. Get in touch to learn more.
Horse welfare
We have strict standards when it comes to horse welfare. This is especially true when it comes to care and protection of the physical and mental state of our horses.
Sessions are unridden.
Meet Our Team.
Meet our experienced team. Julia, our Equine Assisted Learning (EAL) Practitioner and herd of three horses.
The Horse Wisdom Program
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Hey there! Have you heard about the amazing Horse Wisdom Program? It's a fantastic social-emotional learning program that can be tailored to meet the needs of individuals, groups, or specialists. This program is designed to help you develop skills such as stress management, emotional regulation, empathy, social skills, and boundary setting. It's seriously awesome! Plus, it's available for people of all ages and backgrounds, including small school groups. Don't miss out on this incredible opportunity to grow and learn with the Horse Wisdom Program, exclusively facilitated by trained and certified EPI Practitioners.
Learning Areas
The calm State: Learning how to regulate your nervous system when you become activated.
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Awareness: Awareness of self including thoughts, feelings and sensations. Awareness of self and others including environment. Noticing body language and how to remain present and grounded.
Boundaries: Understanding and becoming aware of your boundaries. Your "yes" and your "no", what feels OK for you and what is not "OK" for you in the moment. Including spacial, touch and verbal. You are in charge of your boundaries.
Thoughts: Learning about your self talk, beliefs and where they come from. How you think and what thoughts you say to yourself (about self and others) impacts how you feel, hold your body and enter relationships.
Feelings: Feelings are information for you about what is happening for you in your situation. There are 4 main feelings - joy, anger, fear and sadness. All feelings are important and for ongoing health and wellness, feelings need to be noticed, tolerated and expressed respectfully.
Relationship: Learning about your self talk, beliefs and where they come from. How you think and what thoughts you say to yourself (about self and others) impacts how you feel, hold your body and enter relationships.
Facing Life's Challenges:
Life is sometimes good and sometimes difficult. How do we manage when life throws us a challenge and stressful event?
Disability Support Services Team Leader
"A highlight was the calmness and serenity of the horses and environment. Learning to regulate my business and to calm and learning to tone down the loudness yet still be approachable."
Executive Manager
"The session helped me become more aware of my body sensations (clenched jaw). The regulation exercise helped me to feel lighter and more out of head thinking"
Sound and Lighting Engineer
“I learnt some stress relief skills. I am not used to being around horses but I felt supported during the session and felt challenged to set some lifestyle goals."
CONTACT US
Get in Touch
If you have any questions or would like to schedule an EAL session, please fill out the form below or contact us at info@soulgraze.co.nz.