The HERD Project welcomes teen girls and your families! We know that you love horses! We do too! Horses are sensitive, perceptive, nonjudgmental and generally quite welcoming. We like bringing girls and horses together for an experience in which you get to love on horses AND learn to communicate very clearly. Horses communicate through body language and tuning in to energy. The more aware that you can be about your communications, the better the relationship with them. Through working with horses, the HERD Project teaches teen girls how to lead happier lives by building self-esteem, confidence, positive attitudes, and a heart-centered way of relating to the world.
Did you know that horses do not care if your shirt matches your pants? Horses do not care if you have dirty hair or clean socks. Horses only care about your inner state. They are masters at reading energy! To other people, we might try to deny that we are sad or mad, or afraid, but you can’t fool a horse. They feel you and they wonder about you.
The horse and Dr. Jill work as a team to assist girls in becoming honest about their feelings, to honor them, and learn from them. We don’t judge you for your feelings; we honor them and we teach you ways to help yourself feel better. We do this by teaching a few simple tools using a biofeedback program called HeartMath which helps girls learn to experience positive emotional states. Our goal is to teach the body that feeling positive is natural, that feeling calm and confident is natural. Some teenagers may already have well-developed patterns of stress and anxiety. We want to teach different patterns and make positive feeling states more the norm for the body and for the mind. Then we hang out with horses and practice what we’ve learned! It’s SUPER fun. AND we can invite other family members to participate too.
Be sure to check out Dr. Jill’s Heart Coherence Videos for adults, teens and kids. These are short introductions to heart based practices for adults and teens. For kids see the “Coherence with Kids” videos where you get to meet animals and connect with heart.
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