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Sunrise Trail
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The Bella Terra Equine Adventure
program provides a personally inspiring
experience of self-discovery facilitated by the teachings of a horse.
The experience will provide the opportunity to:
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Look
introspectively and enhance your personal awareness |
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Grow personally, emotionally, and spiritually |
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Explore misconceptions, limiting beliefs,
and cultural
expectations - understand how these impact your life |
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Evaluate your unique communication style and learn
how to improve relationships to get what you need |
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Explore your priorities, goals, and
passions to create a more meaningful and joyful life |
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Develop new perspectives and
tools that can aid in overcoming challenges; including but not
limited to: |
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Stress, life balance, purpose, and
happiness |
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Sobriety
and recovery |
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Illness, disease, and
disability |
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ADD and ADHD |
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Trauma and
victimization |
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Grief and loss |
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This is a holistic approach to personal growth and healing. Helping
individuals and families transition through challenges or find greater
life fulfillment. The horses offer their wonderful gift of mirroring our thoughts, feelings, and
behaviors - they are a tremendous and unique tool for developing a greater
understanding of ourselves. The
ultimate goal of this experience is to understand how to
live more authentically and in the present moment. To more
fully experience trust, honesty, integrity, and, most importantly, joy
in your life.
In addition to personal growth experiences, we also partner with therapists to provide counseling sessions
utilizing
horses to help individuals reveal and better understand the challenges they
are facing.
Testimonial:
"Most of the ladies expressed some pretty deep
feelings about how the horses responded to them. We always come away from this experience with a
sense that there really is more to our lives worth learning about,
and we seem to find something in ourselves that was lost long
ago."
Discover
yourself ...
with a horse
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Miraval Resort - Life
in Balance
Bella Terra was founded in 2000 by Todd
and Kim Shook after their own life changing encounter participating in the
Equine Experience led by Wyatt Webb at Miraval Resort and Spa in Tucson,
Arizona (www.miravalresort.com).
Miraval is repeatedly rated one of the top luxury resorts in the world and
is a tremendous place to ignite personal changes and find life balance. Wyatt
Webb started the Equine Experience at Miraval. He is one of the founders
and leaders in the field of equine experiential learning.
See a video of Wyatt Webb's Equine Experience at Miraval on
Oprah:
http://www2.oprah.com/presents/2007/spa/life/life_adventure_212.jhtml
Click on “Coming to terms with the past” and then click on
“Watch as Amy and Jennifer complete the Equine Experience."
Note: The video will start with a short commercial.
The Shooks’ interaction with the horses at
Miraval revealed how and why they approached life situations in the manner
they did. The experience was so moving that within six months of their
first experience with Wyatt Webb, the Shooks purchased their first miniature horses. In
2003, they attended Wyatt Webb's first
Equine Experience
Intensive at Miraval, became certified by
EAGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning Association –
www.eagala.org), and began the Equine Adventure program at Bella Terra. In 2005, Bella Terra became
a nonprofit organization with the
mission to empower individuals facing life challenges by providing
quality therapeutic, personal growth, and educational opportunities
utilizing experiential programming with horses.
It was the Shooks’ personal experience
with Wyatt Webb and Miraval that led them into this field to assist others in
finding ways to living their best possible life. The
Bella Terra Equine Adventure program provides the opportunity to
experience such a powerful program locally.
"It's not about the horse.
This has nothing to do with horses. It has to do with how people
conduct their lives."
"The horse will simply mirror you. If your communication is
confused, if you get frustrated or you're timid, or if you easily lose
your focus as the leader of the task, the horse instantly reflects what is
going on. Once you understand your own strengths and weaknesses, you
can then transfer these insights to your human relationships and maybe
improve the way you handle different areas of your life. "
"Each person has their own
answer, which cannot be found externally."
~ Wyatt Webb
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"What we know
scientifically is what we believe tends to come true."
~
Dr.
Candace Pert, on April 1, 2006, at the Western Michigan University Holistic Health Conference
in Kalamazoo, MI
"Together - Lets
break the 'Don't Talk Rule'."
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Dr. Claudia Black, on June 13, 2006, at the Community Healing Center's
Family Matters Program in Kalamazoo, MI
"The art of healing itself
is about creating space for other people
to feel
comfortable enough to heal themselves."
from the book
Re-member, A Handbook for Human Evolution
by Steve Rother &
The Group
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