Upcoming Events

By popular demand, Barbara Rector will conduct a workshop in Spring 2009. Please call us for details. Read below for information about the workshop she conducted in May 2008.

MHC Hosts Barbara Rector
"Taste of AIA" Workshop
May 2008

The Medicine Horse Center was honored to host Barbara Rector at our facility in beautiful Durango, CO for "A Taste of Adventures in Awareness" short course in May 2008.

This 3-day course is the basic introduction to the AIA principles, theory and practice. Emphasis is on the AIA Safety Agreement. Areas of study are: safety agreement, centering, mutual choosing inner-active, heart scanning process, Con Su Permiso, imaginary lead line, elementary equine physiology and psychology as metaphor for life skills and round ring congruent message sending. The cost is $600/pp and includes a light dinner on Day 1 and lunch on Day 2 and 3.

Barbara co-founded both TROT (Therapeutic Riding of Tucson, Inc.) and EFMHA (Equine Facilitated Mental Health Association) and has over 30 years in the sharing horses with people for their mutual benefit - mentally, physically, emotionally and spiritually. She has traveled the world training the trainers in her Adventures In Awareness process for exploring the heart of horse and human. This course is especially beneficial to individuals working in the Therapeutic Riding and Equine Experiential Learning fields and is suitable for anyone who desires to know themselves and others through the heart lens of a horse.