000 What is Trauma-Informed Equine Facilitated Learning?

Taking Back The Reins with Dina Shale

Welcome to the Taking Back the Reins Podcast!

I’m Dina Shale, Founder & Director of The Way of the Horse, a non-profit equine facilitated learning company that helps people deal with trauma using horses as a reflective tool.

In this show, you'll learn how you can recover and thrive by working with horses. This podcast is for you if you love horses; if you have tried all other sorts of talk therapy but it just hasn't worked, and you want to try something completely out of the box. It is for you if you have had trauma like me, and know deep down that there is something else out there that will get you on your own Highway to Healing.

So what’s all that fuss about horses? And what is trauma-informed equine facilitated learning?

As prey animals, horses have a highly tuned body that helps them to sense danger. They are super-tuned into nature, into the weather, how things change around them, and how their fellow herd members are feeling. As humans, we are also able to recognise the sensations in our body, as we too have evolved from an animal. So learning with an animal helps us go back to those age-old tools that we've forgotten. Understanding the psychology of horses and how they've evolved helps us to understand trauma and how to process it.

Taking Back the Reins podcast is going to be packed with tools and insights to help keep you in tune with your instincts, and to raise your mind-body awareness. I’ll be teaching you how to be mindful of your surroundings, and how to become emotionally agile enough to manage the symptoms of anxiety and depression at its early stage. I can’t wait to share with you how horses have helped me and many hundreds of people that we’ve helped in our business.

So if you’re ready to take back the reins of your life, stay tuned and join me on this educational ride!

Resources:

• Highway to Healing https://highwaytohealing.co.uk/
• Join my FREE Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/equinefacilitatedlearning/
• Connect with me on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/dina_shale/
• Find me on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/TheWayOfTheHorse/
• The Way of the Horse http://www.thewayofthehorse.co.uk/
• Find me on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/%E2%AD%90dina-shale%E2%AD%90-8ab77775/