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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 people from around the world who are bringing the magic healing time with horses to people from all walks of life. Her tried and true approach blends equine guided education, Holistic Somatics™ and time in nature to support our clients in re-connecting to what matters and creating new paths in personal and professional relationships.
Healing begins within. It takes hold in nature, interwoven with our connectedness to things we sometimes dont even know or see. We cultivate embodied self responsibility and self-awareness practices to regain choice versus reaction. Time with horses quickens new insights and an embodied presence, a ‘way of being’ that matches who you want to be as you move forward in your life. Our programs provide the principles and masterful facilitation to manifest real, meaningful change—both within yourself and in your families and communities.
Our method has been incorporated into universities, leadership institutes, coaching programs, non-profits, and businesses around the world. SkyHorse ™EGE, our signature brand of Equine Guided Education, takes it to the next level because in our model the horse is a ‘respected guide’ to transformation. In our programs the horse guides you into the magical and mysterious world of your own intuition—your ancient knowing rooted deep within the sinews of your body—join our herd and reclaim your own inner compass to a deeper sense of meaning and fulfillment.
Equine Guided Education is a coaching 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 about how we are being in respectful relationship with them or not. When we are doing SkyHorse EGE™ work, we are not training horses, and we are not riding them. Our purpose for spending time together is to learn how the horse mirrors when we are being authentic with ourselves, when we are creating a mutually respectful relationship and when we are just in our heads or overreacting, and overall not embodied in who we really are.
Equine Guided Education is about developing an Embodied Presence. A ‘way of being’, that is aligned with who we are, what we care about and connected to the greater good, giving a sense of interconnectedness that we sometimes lose along the journey of life. Horses help us get re-centered, re-connected and re-membered.
Sometimes horses are our healers helping us to open into deeply authentic conversations about what is not working in our lives. Being in their presence helps people unlock stagnant clogs in their Somatic alignment of mind, body and spirit. Sometimes horses are our teachers guiding us to create new perspectives.
“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?”
Whether you just need some ‘healing time’ or you’re ready to bust through an old myth, our programs offer you authentic, grounded, practical conversations, practices and unexpected yet welcomed shifts in consciousness. The focus of our SkyHorse EGE™ programs is not on learning horsemanship or training horses. It is about connecting to what has heart and meaning, and creating new perspectives for living balanced, sustainable lives. No horse experience is required.
Our vision is 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 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 linguistic and energetic communication tools, leadership dynamics, and the added dynamic of working with our biology and instinct, including our intuitive and energetic awareness.
Our SkyHorse team is here to support you on a journey of re-awakening, re-membering your interconnected nature, and re-freshing your intuitive, sensate abilities. Being in harmony with nature revives the spirit, releases spent emotions, and guides us towards right action in balance with the greater good. It’s no longer enough to merely discuss our dilemmas or apply our traditional models of rationalization. Now is a time to take action.
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
Nature, Somatics & Spirit™
Start our Online course anytime! Relevant principles and practices for Equine Guided Education and Nature based learning models.
Embark on a gentle, self-guided journey to deepen your relationship to the natural world, animals and plants. Access increased intuitive insights and a centered presence through somatic practices and nature exploration. Accessible anytime, from anywhere. Enhance your somatic awareness skills for navigating healthier life choices versus overreacting and getting stuck in limited belief patterns. Benefits include a better relationship with yourself, with your animals and other people in your life.
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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.
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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.