Gestalt Coaching

Benefits of Coaching:

Individuals experience overwhelming gratitude when difficult experiences are turned into powerful, life-changing catalysts that guide you towards positive change. Participants embody worthiness when strengths become your focus. Peace is experienced when the horse stands beside you without judgment and honors your feelings and your life. The horse provides a safe place to bury the past, face difficult challenges head-on, expose your weaknesses and shift your awareness creating new possibilities for your life.

It takes courage to work on yourself — to deal with “unfinished business” as we say in Gestalt.  When living our day to day lives, it is often outside of our awareness that a piece of our past is creating a reaction in our present lives.  Through experiential coaching sessions, Santana and her horses can help you get complete with your unfinished business.  Through coaching, a client is able to create an awareness of their triggers and work through them in a responsive frame of mind.  The client has the answers within themselves, and the coach is there to support and guide them in making peace with their past, being more fully present in their lives.  Once they understand how they got here, they leave the issue in the sand arena with the horse, and are able to move forward in living a more joyful and peaceful life.

Working with an Equine Gestalt Coach is a great choice when you’re facing a troubling situation or unclear direction. During your professional coaching session, you will experience personal awakenings and new insights that will alter how you feel and think for the rest of your life. Through coaching, a client is able to create an awareness of their triggers and work through them in a responsive frame of mind.  The client has the answers within themselves, and the coach is there to support and guide them in making peace with their past, being more fully present in their lives.  Once they understand how they got here, they leave the issue in the sand arena with the horse, and are able to move forward in living a more joyful and peaceful life.

Can you identify with any of these questions?

Are you creating the life you want?
Are you going through the motions of life without purpose?
Is fear holding you back from enjoying life or making a change?
Do stories of trauma, anger or resentment rewind and replay in your head?
Are you searching for meaning in your life?
Are you lacking joy in your life?
Are you feeling overwhelmed?
Are you struggling with forgiveness?
Has grief left you without meaning?
Do you need better communication in your relationships?
Would you like to find peace and harmony in your life?
Does your past haunt you and keep you from reaching your full potential?
Do you want to alleviate stress from your life?
When is the last time someone deeply listened to you?
Are you disconnected from your heart?
Are you looking for a way to explore new beginnings and make changes happen?

Why Horses?

Horses are great coaches; they perceive, interpret and respond to where we are in the moment.

• Horses always live in the present moment
• Horses open your heart to help you find your truth
• Horses help you experience deeper levels of presence, mindfulness and connection
• Horses help you discover joy and love in new ways in your life
• Horses explore energy shifts in your own body and quickly access the message behind these shifts
• They must be ready at all times to flee from danger. To help them survive, nature has made them experts at reading vibrational energy and changes in energy
• Horses are experts at “reading” humans. Is she “here”, present in her body? Or has she already moved on to the next thing on her to-do list?
• They are neither ruminating on the past nor worried about next week
• Horses are genuine – nonjudgmental and noncritical
• Horses are always authentic
• Horses help you create the life you desire

“Wherever man has left his footprints in the long ascent from barbarism to civilization, we find the hoof print of a horse beside it.” – John Tritwood Moore