Find your path to self-discovery and healing through the transformative power of yoga and the deep connection with horses. The Equine Yoga Teacher Program is a ten-day immersive experience that combines these two disciplines to bring you a unique journey towards self-awareness and peace.

Become a certified Yoga with Horses Instructor. With the full course completed, you will be able to share your knowledge to others. Offering classes to those in search of connection and self-discovery through the language of horses.  

Why Choose the Equine Yoga Teacher Program?

Designed by experienced yoga teachers and professional horse trainers, this program offers an intensive exploration into the physical, emotional, and spiritual aspects of yoga and horsemanship. At the end of the program, you'll emerge not only transformed but also equipped to teach others and facilitate healing in your community.

What You’ll Come Away With

Our program is more than just a course - it's a journey into self-discovery and healing. You'll learn and practice asanas to enhance your riding skills, pranayama techniques to influence your and your horse’s energies, and meditation skills to bring clarity to your life.

The program is divided into three parts: "Know Thyself," "Know Thy Horse, Aligned Horsemanship," and "Aligned Horsemanship & Yogic Path." Each part focuses on different aspects of yoga and horsemanship, ensuring a comprehensive learning experience.

You'll explore yogic self-awareness techniques, learn how to understand and influence the energies of your horse, and develop a personal yoga and meditation practice. Additionally, you'll improve your liberty horsemanship skills, learn how to evaluate students and classes, and improve balance through bareback and bitless riding skills.

Prerequisites 

Who Can Join?

You don't need to be an experienced yogi or equestrian to join. All you need is a 200h YTT Certification or to be in the process of obtaining one within a year of the program. If you lack horse experience, a 3-week internship is required.

• If you don't have horse experience,  we require you book 3 weeks of Internship.

What We’ll Be Doing

You will learn asanas/poses to build core body strength to enhance your riding, stretches to lengthen tightened muscles and balancing poses for balanced riding.

Pranayama, breath control and awareness to influence yours and your horses energies, emotions and physical movement.

Meditating skills to bring focus and clarity into your daily life and time spent with horses.

Practicing yoga with horses will help you to be in touch with your True Authentic Self, the real you, the one your horse inspires you to be.

With the full course completed, you will be able to share your knowledge to others. Offering classes to riders or to those in search of connection and discovering themselves. 

Learn from the best in the field. Our lead trainer, Terry Lillian Newton, is a seasoned Yoga teacher and therapist with over 20 years of experience. Teamed with our co-teacher, Johanna Holst, a certified Yoga Teacher and a professional horse trainer and rider, they form a powerhouse of knowledge and experience that will guide you through this journey.

Lead Teacher & School Director

Terry Lillian Newton

500-RYT WITH YOGA ALLIANCE®, Liberty Horse Trainer, Metaphysical Healer (International Academy of Spiritual Sciences and Metaphysics®), Yoga Therapist (International Association of Yoga Therapists®), Jin Shin Jyutsu® physio-philosophy Practitioner. 11 Years Developing Equine Yoga as a holistic healing path for the human-horse bond.

Our lead trainer is Terry Lillian Newton. Terry is a natural born Yoga teacher and Yoga therapist. Having practiced yoga for over 20 years she is passionate about sharing her knowledge & experience with others. She furthermore incorporates alignment, pranayama, bandhas, mudras and meditation exercises in her sequences as well as discussions of chakras, vayus & koshas and in depth discussion on the subtle body energies, reflecting her expertise and training in all aspects of yoga theory and practice.

Terry obtained her 500h YTT certification through her teacher Corinne Aulakh, whose exceptional experience has guided Terry in her teachings. Corinne’s first Yoga Teacher Training certification was obtained from Let it Go Yoga in Santa Barbara with prominent teachers Sue Anne and Jim Parsons. Corinne went on to train at Andiappan College of Yoga and Research Centre in Chennai, India in Yoga Therapy and Instruction and has furthermore completed her 500 hours of training with Yogi Chetan Mahesh of Association of Yoga and Meditation in Rishikesh, India. As of 2015 she is an E-200 RYT with Yoga Alliance and holds a registration of 500-RYT.

Growing up with horses in Canada, she became an experienced rider and trainer, specializing in Spiritual Horsemanship and Liberty training. Through her experiences with horses and healing she became aware of the deep connection between horses and humans and how they can mutually heal and help one another. She began to incorporate horses into her yoga practice and went on to create Mindfulness Meditation with her herd of horses.

Co- Teacher & Trainer

Johanna Holst

500-RYT WITH YOGA ALLIANCE®

Johanna is a 500h certified Yoga Teacher, having done her studies both in Costa Rica and India. Originally from Sweden, she has spent the last several years spending most of her time in Costa Rica teaching yoga. 

A passionate horse lover and professional horse trainer and rider. Johanna lives her life to the fullest, enjoying each moment and what it brings. She loves yoga and lives it with her full open heart. She is an enthusiastic yoga teacher who loves to teach and guide students to become teachers themselves. She practices Ashtanga Yoga, Hatha, Vinyasa and Sivanandha yoga.

PART 1

Know Thyself

Mission Statement

Know thyself;  find your authentic place of liberty so you can connect with your horse at his place of physical, emotional, and spiritual reality.  Sharing sacred space at liberty with your horse is the key to freeing yourself of attachments ( letting go) .  It is only in this space of your true authentic self that you can begin to evolve and forge a bond with your horse.

Goal

Experience and gain mastery over the tools of yogic self awareness in order to identify, connect and influence and be influenced by the energies of your horse.

Objectives

1. Experience yoga practices of breathing, physical postures, mantra chanting, meditation techniques on the yoga mat and with the horse
2. Learn and demonstrate basic natural horsemanship skills and knowledge to ensure your horse is physically and emotionally healthy and happy
3. Identify and influence your own energies and that of your horse in order to forge and enhance the connection between you both
4. Experience how to just ‘be in the moment’
5. Let go of fears and ego 
6. Practice skills on the yoga mat and with the horse that you can take with you as you continue your journey of inner growth and wisdom

PART 2

Know Thy Horse

Mission Statement

Make the connection; forge and enhance your physical, emotional, and energetic bonds with your horse.  Increase your observational and listening skills in order to improve and grow in your equestrian pursuits and performance. Improve your physical conditioning and responses.

Goal

On the physical plane improve your riding skills through holistic yoga practices.  On the emotional and energetic planes enhance your sensitivity to identify and consciously influence  the directions and intensities of these energies through holistic yoga practices.  Increase your understanding of your horse’s physical, emotional, and energetic physiology and needs through holistic natural horsemanship  practices of therapeutically applied healing herbs, oils, clays and healing techniques.

Objectives

1. Practice a holistic yoga practice emphasizing the Five koshas in order to tone and balance the physical, emotional, and energetic bodies of the rider.
2. Identify and engage the vayus in targeted holistic yoga sessions on the yoga mat and with horses
3. Identify, understand, and engage the chakras in targeted yoga sessions on the yoga mat and with horses.
4. Sound theory in a japa practice.  Identify the sounds and groups of sounds ( mantra) that engage targeted koshas, vayus, and chakras.
5. Learn about the care of horses physical, energetic and emotional centers thru hands on, Essential Oils, Jin Shin Jyutsu, Bach Flowers, Linda Tellington TTouches
6. Principles & basics of barefoot trimming
7. Stretches for Rider & Horses
8. How to clear our  Auras, Meridians & Chakras
9. Preparation exercises for horses for Yoga classes & riding

PART 3

Aligned Horsemanship  & Yoga

Mission Statement

Holistic natural horsemanship is a unique approach to experience mutual respect and affection between rider and horse.  The guiding principles of yoga and natural horsemanship provide the experiential practices for both rider and horse to stretch their limits and reach their goals. 

Goals

Identify and develop your  equestrian goals following the path of the equestrian yogi and natural horsemanship practitioner.  Share this knowledge with others from a place of authenticity and personal integrity.

Objectives

1. Develop a personal yoga and meditation practice.
2. Develop Core Strengthening Yoga classes for riders.
3. Mounted Yoga Poses & Safety for Horse & Rider
4. Identify, design, develop and implement yoga and meditation practices for others.
5. Develop and improve skills of natural horsemanship
   
   1. Know thyself
   2. Make the connection
   3. Influence energies
   4. Natural and organic horse care
6. Develop individual and group equine yoga sessions.
7. How to evaluate students, guests, class
8. Improve Balance through bareback riding and bitless riding skills
9. Perform karma service
10. Develop Equine Yoga Classes according to the EYTP model.

Choose between booking a shared or private room in Kindred Spirits Lodge.

It’s spacious and comfortable, with quality mattresses and lots of care put into every detail. Every room has big windows to admire nature, and from the living room you can enjoy a panoramic view of jungle life, including the passage of howler monkeys.

At the Lodge you’ll also have your own little host of the house to make you feel at home, our orange tabby cat, Toby. 

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