Free Rein Australia

03/07/2025

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Welcome to CEEL Become a CEEL certified practitioner The Centre for Equine Experintial Learning is more than training – It’s about self-discovery, growth, learning, and connection, AS WELL AS becoming a competent, confident practitioner You are in the right place if you: have a reverence for hor...

02/07/2025

Finding refuge from the weather - cold and constant rain. This is Bambi's 3rd week and she has integrated with the herd. It has been amazing to see how she has strategically worked her way into the herd. Go Bambi! (Bambi is the second horse from the left).

30/06/2025

There are perhaps 3 categories of distressful emotional states, and they require a different approach to clearing these energies out of the body (NOT just managing them or regulating them).

SADNESS (includes other nuances such as regret, lethargy, etc.): This emotional energy is heavy and needs to be metabolised out of the body - through feeling and tracking its change and movements - without resistance, judgment, or interpretation.

ANGER (the right response to a boundary violation) needs movement. Name the boundary violation (e.g. betrayal) and feel how your body wants to execute a movement that feels good. Keep your focus on how the shifting energy feels empowering to the body.

ANXIETY (absence of feeling safe). When did your body learn it was not safe? What would it like to do to prevent what happened - if anything was possible and there were no adverse consequences? Let your body be creative, and execute a movement that helps the body feel strong and empowered.

When we feel different, we are different. The body sends a message to the brain that 'it's over.' When the energies are cleared, they don't come back. Nothing gets activated, and your body becomes peaceful.

Book a session with us and we can take you through these steps to restore your feeling of safety and resilience.

28/06/2025

Some people say they have never really experienced a feeling of safety - until they spent time with the horses. Safety is contagious. When our bodies communicate safety (relaxed breathing and calm regulated nervous system) others feel it.

28/06/2025

I have had a great privilege to observe herd dynamics of a sizeable herd (16-20) over more than 30 years. What I can say is that I really don't know much about horses - they always surprise me.

Here is a pic of the 'cool kids' - Finn, Mac and Bhakti (Peri - the one on the right has just photo-bombed)! They are 'cool' until something 'scary happens! LOL!

Just like in high school - we have the jocs - or the cool kids, and then the regulars - who get along with most everyone, and then the geeky ones. The horses are just the same!

28/06/2025

Yesterday morning, all the horses were standing at an opened gate that leads into the arena where where they have their breakfast. Just as I was watching them, Bambi made her way through the herd, past the 'cool kids' (Mac, Finn, Bhakti) and led the way into the arena! WTH????? I was so shocked, I didn't think to take a picture.

Then, this morning I saw her leading the herd in again! She has only been here 2 weeks, and is only 7yo. I suspected that she would become their new leader, but this is way quicker than I thought possible!

28/06/2025

We used offer 'Reiki-style healing where people would lay on a sturdy table and the horses would work on their energy field. They did not work with universal life-force energy, but a cosmic, more sentient and more profound energy.

One day they stopped. They said, "we can continue to work to clear energy blocks, but if the person is not actively working to heal the cause of the block, it will come back. We will continue to work with people, but they have to be actively engaged in their own healing."

So today we all work together. The client accesses a memory of an adverse experience or unprocessed emotion, I facilitate their somatic (body) response and awareness, and the horses stimulate and clear energies while maintaining a safe energetic container.

Change and healing is permanent, the power and responsibility for healing is where is should be, and the horses don't work so hard to recover.

25/06/2025

OMG my head is spinning, and I need to record and share what happened in a session today!

Horses really do respond in the moment to what clients are holding energetically. I know this, but I admit, I am always amazed when I see it happen!

Last week, my client worked on feelings of rejection. During that session Bambi, our newest addition was not accepted into the herd and stood alone and away from the herd – looking like rejection.

This week, the client recalled a time when he didn’t feel safe. He was at a party where he didn’t know people, and they were intimidating him. As we revisited that event from a place of safety, he put a different ending on that story – driven by his body’s impulse to create safety and acceptance. Bambi was smack in the middle of the herd standing peacefully –all huddled together in a corner for weather protection! (This was a first!)
Then we addressed the client’s core wound – according to him: his father’s brutal treatment of him that left him – to this day, feeling undeserving, unworthy. As he felt into the pain of his father’s harsh treatment, a strong feeling of injustice and anger emerged, and he was able to restore a boundary through movement and saying what had been bottled up for decades. Just as we were debriefing, Bambi and another horse, Opal took each other on in a full, aggressive kick-fest. Neither was backing down. (I broke up the fight – with a pool noodle) and chased the herd out of the arena (so they could have more space). Bambi left with them (rather than staying behind like she has done all week).

The client recognized that Bambi was him! Last week she showed rejection, then today acceptance and safety, finishing with standing up to a bully.

Decades of compressed energy patterns of unworthiness, rejection, anger, and feeling unsafe unraveled in the space of 2 sessions. Working with clients and horses this way often leaves me sitting in a feeling of WTF just happened – in a good way! LOL!

20/06/2025

Reminder - the Waterhole is on this Sunday. Everyone is most welcome.

Gather with other like-hearted people to spend time in the presence of the horses as teachers and healers. In these changing times, the b

18/06/2025

Being prey animals, horses need to know moment-to-moment if they are safe. When a client enters their space, they are the 'shift' in the horses' environment and their focus is on the client. It would therefore make sense that most of the horses' behaviour is in response to what they are focusing on - i.e. the client. Horses don't lie, (e.g. betray themselves), and respond to what feels safe, and energy that is calm.☺️

17/06/2025

Waterhole this Sunday 22/6. Please let us know if you are planning to attend! Hope to see you here!

Gather with other like-hearted people to spend time in the presence of the horses as teachers and healers. In these changing times, the b

17/06/2025

Meet Bambi - the newest member of our herd! I rarely choose my horses. Normally they choose me. This time is no different. Approximately 2 weeks ago I received an email, asking if I would be interested in taking on a new horse. I often get inquiries about taking on more horses, but I am happy with my herd size.

When I read the email I had oddly, no resistance. I knew what she looked like, and I knew her name was Bambi - even though the only description was her age and height.

I met her two days later. She snapped at me twice, and said, "What took you so long?"

When she arrived, she bonded with the mini ponies - over the fence. The big herd joined her and everyone kept an uneventful, peaceful distance. Eventually the herd disappeared up to the back paddocks and out of sight. Bambi stayed behind near the ponies.

Late that afternoon, Bambi left the ponies, and disappeared up to the back paddocks although there were no horses in sight. I have never known a horse to leave the safety of other herd members (even mini ponies) and wander alone - more than a kilometer - over new terrain, not knowing where she was going or what she would encounter. She is either very brave or she has been here before - or both!

Bambi is very friendly, and is comfortable with people. She will no doubt become a valuable addition to our herd.