Equine Gestalt Coaching
What is Equine Gestalt Coaching?
The Equine Gestalt Coaching Method ® was developed by Melisa Pearce, a core founder since 1989, of the horse-human healing movement. The experiential nature of the method involves the horse as an active partner with the coach in the client’s exploratory process. The integrative approach of the equine’s interaction combined with positive coaching, somatic awareness, guidance and Gestalt methodology, assist the client in examining their life and choices made with a focus on designing a positive future.
Reasons to seek the help of an Equine Gestalt Coach include:
- Life Transitions
- Human Empowerment
- Sexual Abuse
- Grief
- Depression
- Empty Nest & Retirement Adjustment
- Reinvention of Self
- Corporate Team Building
- Leadership Discovery
- Family Counseling
- Childhood Trauma
- Couples & Marriage Improvement
- Victim Recovery
Meet Santana Hahn
Santana is a certified Equine Gestalt Coach, and the founder of Soul Horse and Harmony. She is also a certified Reiki Master, musician, singer, artist and lover of all animals, nature and humans. Santana values peace and harmony above all else. She values living a wholesome life surrounded by her horses and nature. While guiding her clients through their own journey to personal wholeness, she enjoys the borrowed benefits of her own personal growth through each and every interaction she has with both humans and horses. Her life-long career in the music industry has created an understanding of how beneficial music is in the healing process. Music is used as a resource that helps the client become connected, present and touches the heart and soul. It’s a great way to invite openness to transformation.
As your Equine Gestalt Coach, Santana is there to help you through the process as you and your horse coach work together. You do not need horse experience to benefit from this coaching method. There is no riding. All that is required is that you authentically want to experience a change in your life.
Horses and Gestalt:
Horses are deeply connected to our humanity, perhaps more so than any other being with which we share our planet. Ages ago, when we humans were still wild in our nature, horses formed a partnership with us that forever changed our destiny. Over the millennia, they have guided us out of the wilderness and into the light. They have carried our burdens, worked alongside us, toiled for us, fought beside us in war and sacrificed themselves to nourish our prosperity and our bodies. They have willingly borne our hope on their strong backs, moving us forward into the future we now share. We are intrinsically intertwined with the horse. Even though many of us no longer have day-to-day bond with an equine soul, we cannot deny John Tritwood Moore’s assessment that “Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoof print of a horse beside it.”
Through thousands of years of partnership, horses have come to understand us like no other being. The eyes of a horse can see to deep places within us, and their hearts can reach places we ourselves do not know how to find. With their touch, their mere presence, they can heal us, making whole that which was fragmented: restoring that which was lost. It is true, the horse may no longer till our fields or serve as transportation, but they still have a great deal to give. They now offer us what we need the most, healing, insight, and true connection to spirit.
