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- Premium Spirited Life & Wellness Coaching (Individual & Group)
- Heart-Centered Hypnosis
- Shamanic Services
- Equine Consulting Services
Premium Spirited Life & Wellness Coaching for Horses and Their Owners
The coaching relationship is an ongoing partnership that helps you produce fulfilling results in your personal and professional life. Through the process of coaching, you will deepen your learning, improve your performance, and enhance the quality of your life.
Statistics show that people trying to improve their lives achieve significantly greater results when using a coach. An effective coach can guide you, motivate you, and educate you. Coaches provide accountability and discipline. Coaching accelerates your progress toward important goals by providing greater focus and awareness of your choices.
Shamanism, or the way of the Shaman, is a spiritual practice using journeys to non-ordinary reality to gain information for healing. Shamans spend their lives healing people, animals, communities, and the earth. Shamans try to live a balanced life, as in touch with Spirit as possible, and they try to help others find balance in life as well.
Black Horse Consulting takes Equestrian Coaching to another level by incorporating shamanic technique and including the horse’s well-being in the balanced coaching equation. I call it Spirited Life & Wellness Coaching, and I think you will find it very effective. With guidance from Spirit, I work with horses and their people, and together we create a balanced, customized wellness program to help you both become the best you can be, as a team or individually. I help you find the balance between body, mind, and spirit that is so important to your overall well-being.
If you find yourself at a point in your life where you just can’t seem to accomplish what you set out to do and you’re ready for help, you’ve come to the right place. My heart-centered, systematic approach will guide you to success. You can count on me to be there, every step of the way, as you define your goals, create simple action plans, and celebrate your achievements.
Premium clients normally retain my services by the month after an initial 90-day contract. The monthly retainer includes one weekly 30-minute telephone or in-person session by appointment (based on a 4-week month), unlimited email correspondence and support, any necessary research, and one 30-minute shamanic journey with related counseling. Other amenities may be included, depending on your needs. And of course, Premium Coaching clients retain and receive the benefit of my expertise in all of the areas listed on this page, so read on!
Spirited Group Coaching
Group Coaching sessions can be a fun way for you to incorporate spirited wellness coaching into your life tool kit at a reduced rate. Groups usually consist of 3 to 8 members with similar interests who call into a central teleconference phone line once a week for an hour. Most groups are 12 weeks in duration. The coach facilitates the conversation, but everyone participates as much or as little as they are comfortable. Members of the group are asked to keep what is said in the group confidential, so that a “safe haven” is maintained for all.
Groups are a great way to “get your feet wet” and find out if you and a particular coach will “click.” An added bonus to the group setting is that the coach isn’t the only one who gives input. Other participants can also be extremely knowledgeable concerning various subjects, and discussions can become quite lively — especially among horse people!
If you have three or more people that want to form a private group of friends or colleagues, discounted group rates may apply.
All groups include two 30-minute one-on-one coaching sessions for each participant in addition to the regular weekly group coaching. One or both of these individual sessions can be a divinatory shamanic journey at the client’s request.
Group coaching is usually scheduled as demand requires, so if you are interested, let me know, and I’ll add you to the group list. When we have enough people to start, I will announce dates and times and sign-up procedures in my newsletter.
Hypnosis for Body, Mind, and Spirit
Hypnosis is a very effective tool to make a lasting and immediate change for the better. Hypnosis can help you quit smoking, manage your weight, handle stress better — or help you rid yourself of performance anxiety, fear, or self-esteem issues. Hypnosis is easy, safe, and fun with a professional, certified hypnotist. My style of hypnosis is heart-centered, relaxing, and very good for your spirit.
Using the openness of the mind while we are in this altered state, we can help ourselves relax, release old patterns, learn new skills, improve our minds, our memories, our health, overcome fears and phobias, deal with chronic pain, chronic stress — anything that is is part of an old habit or way of thinking that we want to leave behind.
We can also connect with our own inner guidance and find new ways to be the best we can be, body, mind and spirit, and improve the quality of life in the here and now.
Hypnosis sessions are best scheduled for face-to-face office meetings (214 Highbridge, Fayetteville, NY), although, under some circumstances I will make an exception and work with you over the phone. In rare instances, I may work with you at your stable, especially with fear issues.
Twice a year, I offer a 6-week Self-Hypnosis course for riders: one in person at the Roseheart Center in Fayetteville, and the other by teleconference. Dates and registration procedures are announced in my newsletter, so be sure to sign up!
Shamanic Services
While I use shamanic techniques in my Wellness Coaching practice, I also offer some basic shamanic services separately.
Shamanic Counseling
The nature of this counseling requires that the client come to the shamanic practitioner once a week, and so cannot be done at a distance. Shamanic Counseling consists of 5 one-hour sessions, one session per week. The shamanic journey is undertaken by the client in order to realize one’s own personal spiritual power; and the discovery of one’s ability to obtain extraordinary, yet very practical, spiritual wisdom and answers to important personal questions. The shamanic counselor helps and guides in ordinary reality. This is usually a very powerful and empowering experience. My office at the Roseheart Center, 214 Highbridge St. in Fayetteville, NY is the perfect meeting place for either shamanic counseling or face-to-face coaching.
Shamanic Healing
Shamanic healing is often used in support of conventional healing techniques. Depending on the issue, it has also been used very successfully on its own to heal both people and animals. The shaman and client do not need to be in physical contact for the healing to take place. Normally, telephone contact prior to the healing journey is all that is necessary. I can perform shamanic healing on horses, humans, or other animals.
Soul Retrieval
I have been trained by Sandra Ingerman to perform soul retrieval. What is soul retrieval? Well, shamanic cultures have always believed that when we experience a trauma, part of our soul leaves to avoid the full brunt of the pain — which is a great self protection mechanism, but sometimes those parts don’t find their way back on their own. Events like abuse, accident, or even divorce can cause soul loss. Symptoms of soul loss include: disassociation, chronic depression, PTSD, immune deficiency problems, or feeling like “I’ve never been myself since ___.” Soul retrieval can reunite us with those missing parts, returning to us that lost essence and vitality, and the sense of wholeness that is every person’s birthright. I like to do soul retrieval in person, although on some rare occasions I can perform them from a distance. Sometimes animals can benefit from soul retrieval as well, especially if there are recurring behavior issues.
When you contact me for soul retrieval, I will first do a “diagnostic” journey to discuss with helping spirits whether you or your animal actually need a soul retrieval, or whether the issue should be resolved by other means. That being said, I believe that almost everyone in Western culture can benefit from at least one soul retrieval.
Equine Wellness Services
The health of your horse is founded on proper nutrition, and bagged feeds are hit-or-miss at best. I am an independent consultant. I have no vested interest in any products. No feed company supplies my paycheck. Therefore, I can be honest with you and help you get the best for your money.
I am also an Equine Specialist, and have extensive professional training and experience with horses.
Listed below are just some of the things I can help you with:
- evaluating your feeding program
- designing a custom feed program for optimum nutrition that won’t empty your wallet
- behavioral training advice from foals to finished horses
- first aid and chronic care
- pregnant mare care
- a good exercise program
- how to get the right bloodwork done
- how to talk to your vet
- referrals to qualified experts in the field if necessary
I specialize in helping horses with Cushings and/or Insulin Resistance!
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