Epona Ridge spiritual horse retreats, Reiki healing, equine facilitator training, womens retreats, Inner wisdom, Joy, personal growth

Retreats and Workshops

Finding Your Path to an Inspired Life

In the ancient and nurturing mountains of Asheville, NC, Barbara Alexander co-facilitates with her horses as teachers that inspire personal joy.

These experiential retreats combine uniquely designed sessions that open new pathways of communication between the head and heart. Many find that sustaining inner balance can be difficult, especially in uncertain times. Understanding how to best support yourself helps to create a life in balance while enhancing personal health and interpersonal relationships with others.

While we incorporate a variety of experiential modules, heart resonance with the horses provides an integral key to understanding our inner guidance and non-verbal/vibrational messages that we involuntarily send out and receive all the time.

There are many different experiential quests to enhance the part of us that listens for the inner voice and quiets the unnecessary chatter within the mind. You learn how to be authentically present 'in the moment ' as you attune to the simultaneous awareness of self and others, hearing your inner wisdom, being able to find peace in honoring your truth, and feeling the empowerment of living in alignment with your joy.

Because of their heightened awareness, horses are skilled at responding to each individual and their vibrational/non-verbal expression (personal energy, blood pressure, heart rate ... ), helping us to understand ourselves and the energy around us more clearly. The work with the various modules, including the Epona Approach™, is unique in design. Biofeedback from the horses supports the individual's sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems while providing a cellular memory of an interspecies connection and a peaceful sense of deep heart resonance.

Individuals, families and groups find heightened intuitive awareness, emotional agility, authentic connection to yourself and others, increased cognitive abilities and a sense of inner peace. Business teams who are focused on a more productive use of limited time and those seeking more healthy and empowering leadership skills can highly benefit from this advanced human training.

All sessions with the horses are done easily and safely from the ground so no prior experience is necessary.

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Why Horses

Why Horses...

These horses have an awe inspiring presence and an ability to touch the hearts of those who are open to the inner journey. They are the facilitators of the Spiritual (defined as relating to the soul or spirit) Horse Retreats. Being herd and prey animals, horses are adept at perceiving subtle shifts in energy, movement and emotion and they teach us how to tune into our vibrational awareness. For five years these special teachers have facilitated wellbeing with our guests and they have proved to be masters of empowerment for personal growth, creativity and inspiration.

Workshops and Women's Retreats

Workshops and Women's Retreats

Spend the days relaxing into the natural rhythms of nature as you quietly find that natural rhythm within yourself ...
There is magic to be heard in the song between the hoof beats and listening within composes the harmony to create the life you love ...

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Mentorship Program and Facilitator Training

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The Mentorship Program

Personal Growth Intensive: Aligning With Inner Wisdom

and Facilitator Training

This program is designed in two tracks. The first track is for those who want the experience of a longer term intensive for personal growth and the journey to listening within, while the other is for those looking to create a life/business incorporating Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning (EFEL), Equine Experiential Learning (EEL) and Equine Facilitated Advanced Human Development.

This extended program offers a multi session approach over eight months for Advanced Personal Growth and coaching support to create the life you love.

2009 (limited to a small group of students)

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Epona Ridge Mentorship program

The Ancient Form of Reiki ... Walking the path of Healer

Reiki: The Heart of Healing
for
Horses, Humans and all of Nature ...

The Reiki Heart of Healing is as much if not more, a personal gift and growth adventure into your own journey as a healer with the added benefit of Reiki training and certification for animals, humans, and nature. Those who have had Reiki training in a rushed or non comprehensive way and feel they want more of the deep healing gift Reiki has to offer are also welcome and encouraged to attend. You can never get too many attunements!

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"Your workshop changed my life. It was almost like hitting the reset button... I am reconnecting with all of these parts of myself that I had almost forgotten were there. I'm enthusiastically look forward to continuing to live the Way of the Horse and Reiki. Thank you for everything you do. Your home, your horses and you are such a gift. I am forever grateful!

Love and Light,

Jana"

A Focus on Business

Leadership Programs

Vibrational awareness, the silent barometer within an organization, can be one of the most valuable resources that empowers employees and inspires creativity to spur innovation during difficult times.

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Spa and Individual Packages

Wisdom of the Horse Spa Getaways
The Rejuvenation of the Soul and A Life in Balance

A new kind of getaway and spa retreat that ministers to the inner heart and supports the rekindling of your passion in life. Intimate and elegant facilities complete a inner and outer rejuvenation package that includes more than the incredible spa treatments. Through the horse encounters on foot you will find your the inner world where they will help guide you to reconnection and alignment with your own natural and personal balance.
Individual retreats range from a one day rejuvenation packages to a multi-day immersion into bliss.
Come and enjoy the magic!

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The Epona Ridge Center

The Healing Essence of Nature
The Epona Ridge Center

Listening to the sounds of nature and feeling the ancient grounding energy of these mountains, soothes the soul... Our workshops are carefully designed to support inner balance and inspiration for the mind and body as it gently nourishes the Spirit.
Epona Ridge is located in Asheville, North Carolina in the beautiful and breathtaking Blue Ridge Mountains.
Three hours from Atlanta, GA and two hours from Charlotte, NC or Knoxville, TN.

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Testimonials

My overarching feedback is that my personal experience was one of realization, insight, deep peace, and awe.

I relaxed into the flow of our time together primarily because you were so easy with the schedule and so totally present with each of us. You allowed each experience to take as long as it took. I sensed no impatience or desire on your part to speed things up.

You created a space of safety for each one of us to "do" and "feel" what was up for us.

i gave myself permission to be authentic in every moment. THIS WAS HUGE FOR ME! I only realized this when the intensive was over. It was so natural ...

Oh, there is one more thing that really can't be expressed in words, but i'll try. My appreciation for you and gratitude for the work you're doing is deep and wide.

J. Letsinger

Wow I just finished the intensive week there at Epona Ridge with the Horses, cats and of course Barbara.......Thank you, I wasn't sure before I started working with the horses that they could possibly react to me in ways that were significant only to me..........Much to my amazement they did over and over give me exactly what I needed...........It could be the same horse with different participants and each participant was given exactly what they needed, different behavior for each of us........I am amazed and grateful to experience this for myself....I felt safe and Loved and comfortable in every way. I was the only man there this time but I hope to see more in the future. I will be there again that is for sure..........Barbara was wonderful and gentle and loving and helpful. The horses, Zorro, Cierba, Magic and Bodie are wonderful to work with or play with might be more like it, even though I know I peeled away some more layers of this old onion there is more to go. I look forward to getting some more help in that process at Epona Ridge.

Bob Damiani

Your workshop changed my life. It was almost like hitting a reset button... I am reconnecting with all of these parts of myself that I had almost forgotten were there. I'm enthusiastically looking forward to continuing to live the Way of the Horse and Reiki. Thank you for all that you do. Your home, your horses and you are such a gift. I am forever grateful!"

Jana Kellam

"I am deeply grateful for you and your horses and the experience you are offering there at Epona Ridge.

My last session with you and Zorro was particularly profound. I am experiencing more present-moment awareness, inner peace, flow and something I call "self-referral" than ever before.
Each time I've worked with Cierba or Zorro they have taught me lessons about boundaries and heart connection AND something much deeper has transpired. I don't know how to describe it and I know it's not necessary to figure it out. What I do know is that it is affecting my life in a wonderful way. You and they are a blessing in my life!"
Fondly and gratefully,
Joy L. Weaverville, NC