Equine Guided Education and Coaching since 1989
Our founder, Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi, has been pioneering the profound application of horse wisdom to human health and healing since 1989. She has trained over 7000 people from around the world, many of whom continue to carry forward the magic healing time with horses across the globe. Her tried and true approach blends equine guided education, her definitive method of Holistic Somatics™ and time in nature practices to support people in re-connecting to what matters and standing up for who they are by nature.
As Ariana says, “Healing begins within and takes hold in nature WHEN we reconnect with our intuitive and sensate nature.“
Our equine guided education programs cultivate self empowerment and self-actualization, ranging from youth at risk to veterans to corporate leaders and animal communicators.
Time with horses quickens new insights and encourages an embodied presence (a ‘way of being’) a mastery level task that does not happen in ordinary self development programs.
The key ingredients our programs offer are the ‘tried and true’ (developed since 1989) principles of transformation blended with masterful facilitation to manifest realistic, long term, sustainable change.
Whether it is decoding generational trauma or letting go of the shackles of blood memory tragedies, even current life dilemmas you cannot control, or just the uncertainty and distress that comes with the times we live in, horses are miracle workers.
Equine Guided Education is a self development model that shifts the role of the horse from servant to healer/teacher. Anyone who has spent time with a horse knows that they seem to see into ‘your soul’. They offer frank, honest feedback.
Horse are authentic and ask for humble authenticity in return for harmonious connection.
“Our passion is to create a ripple effect that fosters balance, harmony, and sustainability for the well-being of Mother Earth. Are you ready to create ripples?” -Ariana Mazzucchi
At the heart of our Equine Guided Education Programs is our never ending vision to re-connect people to their interconnected nature, their intuitive wisdom and living in right balance with the Mother Earth.
We work with coaches, healers, entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life who want to create sustainable change in their lives, communities and world. Our programs encompass coach training skills including ontological linguistic skills for humans, energetic communication tools for animal communication, instinctive leadership dynamics for being human, and the added dynamic, mysterious elements of working with our and other beings biology and instinct and energetic awareness. (hash tag=complicated)
Our programs are relevant for people who want to:
Explore and expand intuition and sensory awareness
Open new pathways of exploration and learning through interactive, experiential experiences
Experience intuitive/imaginal studies and nature-based activities
Work with the biological and intuitive aspects that comprise an integrated person
Create new paradigms for healing humans and the earth in a mutually reciprocal way
Understand and develop knowledge of the inter-relationship between spirit, self, biology and instinct
Be part of a community of people who are committed to creating balance and sustainability
Our SkyHorse team is here to support you on a journey of re-awakening, remembering your interconnected nature, refreshing your intuitive-sensate abilities and finding a sense of harmony.
Time in nature can revive the spirit, release spent emotions, and guide you towards right action in balance with the greater good. It’s no longer enough to merely discuss ideologies. Now is a time to connect, learn, imagine and manifest.
At the heart of our programs is our never ending vision to re-connect people to their interconnected nature, their intuitive wisdom and living in right balance with the Mother Earth.
We work with coaches, healers, entrepreneurs and people from all walks of life who want to create sustainable change in their lives, communities and world.
What sets us apart from other equine guided programs?
While horses have an uncanny ability to know when to heal and when to guide, the role of the facilitator— the human interface—remains the most complicated matrix. Our founder, Ariana Strozzi Mazzucchi, co-created the first Somatic Coaching program alongside her Equine Guided Coaching programs. As she developed leaders and coaches in the somatic arts, leadership mastery, and equine guided coaching, she learned how important it is that the facilitator embodies what he/she is teaching and presenting. And the truth is it takes time to embody a discipline that is about embodiment
To reach a level of embodiment in what you are presenting, requires study, mentorship and practice. It cannot be learned in an online course alone. It takes courage, commitment, and a passion to change adversity into opportunity.
That is why our ‘train the trainer’ program requires grit, honesty, sincerity, and a commitment to change perspectives and habits that no longer work, and break old paradigms of what success means and respect yourself over dollar signs.
Ariana’s SkyHorse Equine Guided Education has been training mastery level embodied equine guided educators and coaches for over 35 years.
Our method is so successful, it has been incorporated into universities, leadership institutes, coaching programs, non-profits, and businesses around the world. Many of our students have changed their local communities and passed forward our successful method, still going strong after 35+ years.
SkyHorse ™EGE, our signature brand of Equine Guided Education, is the home base that other equine guided programs launch from or copy from.
Our programs encompass coach training skills including ontological linguistic skills for humans, energetic communication tools for animal communication, instinctive leadership dynamics for being human, and the added dynamic, mysterious elements of working with our and other beings biology and instinct and energetic awareness. (hash tag=complicated)
We were the first in this field to require that the horse is a ‘respected guide’, not a tool for human manifestation. Other training programs and associations have adapted our core of ethics, not just towards human participants, but for the horses as well.
In our programs the horse is honored for its magical and mysterious abilities. Some people use our methods, and speak our language but they have not done the deeper work required to really hold a sacred space for learning and deep change.
Since Ariana has been in the field since its beginning, and been a signifcant contributor to how the discourse has evolved, you are invited to request a discovery call with Ariana to see if our ‘train the trainer’ program in Equine Guided Education and Coaching is a fit.
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Leadership & Horses™
Leadership & Horses™, SkyHorse Academy's immersive 5-day course held at Casari Ranch in Santa Rosa, CA, offers a transformative journey of self-discovery and leadership development.
True leadership starts within. Are you actively shaping your life, or are you simply reacting to external forces? This course challenges you to confront this question head-on, guiding you towards aligning your actions with a vision for a brighter future. Horses, with their keen intuition and honest feedback, become powerful allies in this process, fostering the confidence and bravery needed to pursue your goals.
Through experiential learning with horses, Leadership & Horses™ dismantles traditional notions of leadership. Forget about dominance or intelligence as prerequisites. Here, you'll discover a more natural approach – a way of being that values diversity, individuality, and the power of interconnected relationships. By observing and interacting with horses, you'll gain valuable insights into your own leadership style, learning to lead with authenticity and inspire those around you.
CLICK HERE to learn more about Leadership & Horses™
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SkyHorse Equine Guided Education™ 'Train the Trainer' Program
This comprehensive program, developed by our founder, Ariana Mazzucchi, is transformative and life changing, personally and professionally. It’s the equivalent of a mastery course, which includes our unique Holistic Somatics™ method that has been developed and refined by Ariana since 1989.
Rooted in over three decades of experience, the SkyHorse EGE™ program is more than a training program or quick certification course – Our program mentors coaches, therapists, educators, healers, horse trainers, and visionaries with the necessary skills to facilitate personal and professional growth with integrity and self knowledge.
Our SkyHorse EGE™ Training Program has developed some of the best facilitators in modern times. We’re happy to provide you with a list upon request. We’ll be honest, our training program is not for the faint of heart. If you want a to be part of an authentic herd, if you want to really embody who you are and feel in integrity with leading people through transformative change, and if you are ready to do your own self development to get there, then we welcome you.
This includes visionaries and leaders looking for innovative gate opening approaches, a place to stretch and grow and who want to incorporate nature as teacher for wisdom making.
Inspirational Quotes from Ariana
“The next leadership frontier is of a spiritual nature. Now is the time to stand for dignity and respect for all creatures and Mother Earth. Our success is no longer defined by our accumulation of material goods, but by being in service to a worthy cause.”
“Healthy success is not about how much stress you can handle or how high you raise the bar for what success means. True success comes from an embodied sense of dignity and respect coming from inside of you and flowing outward, contributing to others along the way.”
“Taking a stand for who you are, without apology, is what changes the world. As a breast cancer survivor and innovator in the field of Somatic Coaching for over 35 years, I know this first hand. I help my clients claim their wildness and embody the stand they want to make in the world.