WELCOME
YOU DON'T NEED TO OWN OR HAVE A HORSE TO PARTICIPATE.
IT's SIMple to GET started
STEP 1
Follow the Embodied Leadership Project on Instagram
Through @embodied.leadership.project you can spend time witnessing the horses we work with live. Jamila shares insights on Equine-Assisted Learning and the healing gifts that the horses are sharing with us. This is the best way to stay connected to the horses in real time and to learn. On the IG page, you can also hear about resources that are available and updates about upcoming offerings.
STEP 2
Learn Equine Assisted Learning for FREE through the ELP Email List
Staying Connected
I will send emails to offer free Equine-Assisted Learning lessons, prompts, and activities.
Guided Journeys Through Email
Seasonally I will offer free guided journeys that I facilitate through email. This process includes written, audio and video content and invites participants into meditation and daydreaming to develop their healing relationships with horses.
STEP 3
If you are local to Western, MA, attend an in-person offering.
The BIPOC Rest Group
This is a group held at Make-It Springfield in downtown Springfield, MA. It supports BIPOC people to learn about and practice rest. Inspired by the revolutionary rest work being done by Tricia Hersey and integrating the image and inspiration of horses as healers we soften into the imagination, journeying the dreamspace to receive healing, rest and renewal.
To learn about upcoming events follow us on Instagram at @bipoc.restgroup
Learn more about upcoming events at makeitpringfield.org
Join the Herd: Free Rest Workshops for staff and practitioners in organizations that provide women's healthcare.
We offer free Rest Workshops to your organization’s staff and practitioners
It is natural for those of us who provide care for others to experience overwhelm, exhaustion, stress, and secondhand trauma - the trauma that can develop from hearing about or witnessing the trauma of others.
Rest is one of the most important states that the body and mind need to heal, however rest is often challenging to access. Exploring rest through the therapeutic perspective of horses can create a shift for us where rest can feel accessible, inspiring and safe.
Our Rest Workshops are rooted in Tricia Hersey’s work “Rest is Resistance” and integrate distance Equine-Assisted Learning (learning from horses without being in their physical presence) with gentle sound healing and relaxation practices. Our workshop is in-person, we bring it to your location and we adapt it to your needs around time and space.
The following resources are specifically for women with sexual trauma in our bodies and/or bloodlines. Are you curious about the gentle and beautiful path of healing with horses?
THESE RESOURCES ARE FREE:
One free way to take part in this work is through the Podcast: Horse Magic
This is a podcast about turning toward and tending to sexual trauma in a way that doesn't make us feel sick with dread. Join me as I weave together the power of horses, nature, and the Internal Family Systems model to illustrate a path of healing that is beautiful and gentle.
This is the introductory lesson to my online Equine-Assisted Learning class for women who hold any degree of trauma in our bodies and/or our bloodlines. This class is called Grace of the Horse: An Initiation into the Wisdom of the Herd/Heard.
I use storytelling to bring you into the energy of the horses, give context to what we will be doing in the class, and illuminate just a fraction of potential for healing and transformation that this work offers
This free introductory lesson is hosted on YouTube and is available for anyone to watch. If you want to share this work with a friend who you think may be interested or in need of this type of medicine, please feel free to share the YouTube link with them.
THESE RESOURCES ARE Low-Cost:
This self-paced class empowers you with a self-coaching method that allows you to tend to sexual trauma - in a way that doesn’t feel icky or make you sick with dread. It teaches you the IFS framework and supports you to learn directly from horses through a trauma-informed meditation practice. It will guide you to experience yoga, which means union, with the luminous consciousness of the horse. You will then be able to call on this resource when you feel isolated, overwhelmed, stressed, or trapped in heavy feelings. Each module is designed to be accessible, trauma-informed and digestible.
All of this leads toward a loving and life-long relationship with horses as spiritual guides and teachers and a powerful IFS-based method for relating to your own inner world.
Click here to learn more and enroll!
Click here to take the first lesson for free
The course is $97 or three monthly payments of $33$97 or $3$333 a month for three months.
*We offer 75% off scholarships for BIPOC women who need financial support for this course. If you are interested in a scholarship please email: embodiedleadershipproject@gmail.com
This is an affordable, sliding scale membership community starting at $3 a month where you can RECEIVE the healing energy of horses from a distance through video as I invite you to witness videos of horses, participate in self-paced mini-courses, and learn more about equine-assisted learning. Immerse yourself in the frequency of the herd as we unwind tension layer by layer through togetherness, gentleness and compassion.
All women - Trans, Cis, and Gender Expansive Women - Are Welcome
The Curriculum
The Embodied Leadership Project’s Equine-Assisted Learning curriculum provides people the opportunity to experience the demonstrated therapeutic effect of relating to horses.
ELP’s programming is created in collaboration with the horses Jamila actively works with in person and is designed to be offered from a distance (not in the physical presence of the horses). It integrates the Internal Family Systems (IFS) model as well as trauma-informed yoga to support the process of meditative states, embodiment and psychological integration. Using stories about the horses, videos of the horses, imagery and guided meditations, Jamila invites you to connect and journey with these horses through their inner world: somatic experience, emotions, intellect, and imagination.