Offerings
the heart of our work is about guiding you to a place of stillness and peace.
Amidst the gentle presence of horses and the serenity of nature, you can once again tune into your own wisdom. This profound connection allows you to gain clarity and insight into your life’s path, helping you to identify your next right steps with confidence.
Our equine partners play a pivotal role in this transformation. Horses, with their innate sensitivity and non-judgmental presence, reflect back to us not just how we present ourselves to the world, but how we truly feel within. This honest reflection can be both enlightening and liberating, providing you with the clarity to see beyond the surface of everyday struggles.
TUNE INTO YOUR OWN WISDOM.
By reconnecting with your inner strength and wisdom, you become better equipped to handle the complexities of life with grace and resilience.
Transform YouR Life
If you're ready to transform your life, to find not just healing but also joy and purpose in your experiences, Soul Space Coaching awaits you. Let us help you reconnect with your heart, find your ground, and take the reins of your life with newfound clarity and joy.
Each session is tailored to meet you where you are in your journey. No matter what life-quake you are experiencing my coaching skills coupled with the intuitive nature of horses, create a unique healing environment. Here, you can safely explore your emotions and thoughts, which often leads to transformative insights and profound emotional release.
Clients leave our sessions feeling a renewed sense of peace and clarity. The tools and insights gained through our work together empower you to move forward in life with a greater sense of direction and stability.
It's about more than just coping—it's about thriving.
Why Horses?
Horses are non-judgemental, empathetic, present, sensitive beings.
Horses are intuitive and empathetic beings, offering a non-judgmental presence that allows us to feel seen and accepted- exactly as we are. Their grounded energy naturally fosters feelings of safety, peace, and inner strength, making them ideal co-facilitators for this transformative work.
If you have never been in the presence of a horse, you might not understand their powerful ability to bring us into a state of peace and heart coherence. Heart coherence is a state where our heart, mind, and emotions are in alignment, leading to improved emotional and physical well-being. When we are around horses, our cortisol levels drop, reducing stress and promoting this state of calm and harmony.
In the presence of a horse, our inner noise quiets down, allowing us to align with our hearts and access inner guidance. Horses naturally encourage us to be present, mindful, and connected to our true selves. This connection helps us to experience profound emotional healing and personal growth.
Choose Your Path
Each session is tailored to meet you where you are in your journey. No matter what “life-quake” you are experiencing my coaching skills coupled with the intuitive nature of horses, create a unique healing environment. Here, you can safely explore your emotions and thoughts, which often leads to transformative insights and profound emotional release.
As a certified EAS© (Equine Assisted Support) life coach, I offer a unique approach to personal growth and healing that combines the wisdom of horses with the principles of life coaching.
What is EAS©?
EAS© coaches integrate supportive guidance with experiential interactions with horses. This method is rooted in equine-assisted interventions, designed to help individuals explore and address various personal issues. Whether it’s your thoughts, beliefs, communication styles, relationships, or habits, EAS© offers a reflective mirror through the natural sensitivity and responsiveness of horses.
The Experience →
discover the healing power of horses
Equine-Assisted Life Coaching
It is absolutely something you will enjoy if you…
- Love animals and horses
- Respect that animals have certain rights and choices
- Share beliefs (or are open-minded) around a universal sense of spirituality
- Believe that animals can communicate with us in many ways
- Can benefit from emotional support
- Feel 100% committed to getting your horsePOWER back and keeping it!
It is not for you if you identify with one or many of the following:
- Have strong fears around animals
- Believe the purpose of animals is mainly for food
- Believe horses are only for riding sports
- Adhere strictly to a single religious denomination
- Consider yourself more of a scientific or fact-based person
- Want or require traditional psychotherapy or medical intervention
- If you’re ready to transform your life, to find not just healing but also joy and purpose in your experiences, Soul Space Coaching awaits you. Let us help you reconnect with your heart, find your ground, and take the reins of your life with newfound clarity and joy!
What Is EAS?... →
What Is EAS?... →
What you will Experience:
EAS© is client-focused, and we work in equal partnership. It is not a mental health treatment. EAS© was developed by Marianne Dispiso.
to Schedule a 20-minute discovery call to explore the program further.
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Created by Marianne Disipio and her herd, Equigrounding© is a unique, horse-assisted mindfulness practice that helps you transition into a more peaceful state—both physically and mentally. This practice allows for a deeper processing of emotions and thoughts, particularly those related to life’s challenges.
Grounding is a term that physicists use when referring to electricity and it is also a term that is used in the field of wellness. From a scientific perspective, it is defined as the process of connecting a conductor or an electrical device to the earth, effectively providing a safe and stable path for excess electricity to escape.
In the field of wellness, grounding refers to finding your inner calm so you can think more clearly, and process challenging emotions in a healthy way.
More on Equi-Grounding →
Harnessing the Power of Grounding for Improved Health & Wellbeing
Equi-Grounding
In today’s high-tech world, complete with monumental concrete and steel buildings (and more), it is not out of the realm of possibility that our bodies can accumulate unhelpful static electricity and environmental charges. This potential excess accumulation is believed to influence our physical and emotional well-being. It helps to consciously ground yourself in all sense of the word.
For us humans and our animals, “absorbing negative ions through the skin is believed to be helpful in equalizing energy levels, synchronizing hormonal cycles, and establishing proper physiological rhythms” (Earthing ™ website). All living things function at an ideal electrical charge. As we are all inhabitants of planet Earth, we depend on our natural habitat to help us balance our bodies.
As we continue to progress as a society, it is becoming harder and harder to access these important frequencies, especially for those of us who live in the city. Back in “the olden days”, when we did not have all this technology and these unnatural man-made materials. It was easier to benefit from being in close contact with the beneficial Earth’s frequencies. The advice to “ground” yourself is now becoming mainstream!
The Goals of Equi-Grounding →
- Attempting to physically absorb the electrical frequencies of the Earth through direct tactile (skin) contact with horses.
- Supporting the function of chakras and addressing general well-being.
- Contributing to self-regulation through conscious rhythmic breathing and encouraging intuition
WHO CAN BENEFIT FROM EQUIGROUNDING?©
Equigrounding© is a great practice for people who could benefit from releasing some stress and/or finding new insights and clarity around a challenging situation. Sometimes all you need is a little tune-up!
Private sessions are offered year-round for $89 for 60 minutes.
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The goals of Equi-Grounding
Reiki (ray-key) is a Japanese technique for stress reduction and relaxation that also promotes peace, healing and well-being. It is a gentle and non-intrusive therapy that can benefit horses and humans physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
How Does Reiki Work?
When in good health energy flows through the body much like an electric current. However, a number of factors can interfere with this flow in horses. Among them are physical injuries, trauma, illness, stress of traveling, moving barns or a combination of these stressors. Any blockage of energy can result in physical, psychological, or behavioural problems.
Equine Reiki restores positive energy flow into the animal’s body, clearing blocks and correcting imbalances.
By bringing the horse’s body back into balance it can heal itself on all levels.
The Benefits →
Energy sessions for horses
Equine Reiki
Horses are very sensitive energy and respond well to a reiki treatment. Healing benefits of this type of energy work may include:
- Promoting relaxation
- Reducing tension & nervousness
- Stimulating the horse’s own innate healing ability
- Strengthening immune system
- Aiding in improving sleep
- Helping ease separation anxiety
- Supporting animal compassion fatigue
- Offering support with end of life support transitions
* Reiki complements traditional medicine and is not meant as a substitute for any veterinary care.
** Reiki may help remove trauma on an energetic level, replacing the pain with love, to allow for healing to occur.
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The benefits of Equine reiki:
Autonomy, permission and consent are required for this work.
Reiki is “offered” to the horse without forcing the treatment and without holding any expectations of how the session will unfold. Horses are very sensitive to energetic frequencies and will immediately understand the nature of the healing being offered.
Often the horse will come forward and put his nose into my hands as soon as the treatment begins. He will then choose to take Reiki in the way he needs most, often moving to reposition his body to the area in most need of attention.
Session Overview→
we let the horses lead
Normally, a Reiki treatment will consist of a combination of hands-on and hands-off, depending on the comfort and preference of the horse. In rare cases, a horse may choose not to receive a treatment on a particular day; if that happens we can try again another time. You will see that your horse is open to the treatment by the signs of rest and relaxation: licking and chewing, frequent yawning and deep sighs, and/or falling asleep.
The average Reiki treatment lasts from 30 to 60 minutes, and ends when the horse decides to move away from the energy. Reiki is one of the few treatment modalities where horses have complete autonomy and only works with the horse’s consent. By asking for the horse’s permission to proceed with the treatment I know that the horse is open and ready to receive the healing for their highest good.
The healing does not come from physical contact. Some horses don’t want to be touched. This does not affect the effectiveness of the treatment. Reiki’s healing energy comes from a much deeper place, beyond our conscious awareness: the place of heart to heart connections.
Desiree's Path to Reiki →
Equine Reiki SESSION OVERVIEW:
When I first heard about reiki I had just began my human coaching practise and was curious to how this gentle healing modality could improve health and wellness. The more I learned about energy healing the more I felt compelled to train in this modality.
In the winter of 2020 I adopted a sweet Morgan mare who was living with chronic lameness and pain. While we tried massage, acupuncture, chiropractic, and osteopathic treatments to help Skye, everything seemed to either overwhelm her nervous system or increase her pain. I felt helpless watching her struggle for months until I remembered my human reiki training.
Being able to offer Skye a gentle non-invasive treatment was the start of our rehabilitative journey. With regular reiki treatments Skye was able to relax and re-establish a sense of peace. I watched her behaviour and mood shift as energy and healing began to flow through her body. Witnessing the difference reiki was making to Skye’s physical and emotional health, and simultaneously witnessing the other horses and donkeys in her paddock eager for their own treatments, my desire to learn about equine specific reiki was ignited.
Qualifcations & Trainings →
Desiree's path to reiki
I have spent over two decades working on myself physically, emotionally and spiritually to offer the best version of myself to the horses. While I have completed Equine Reiki Practitioner levels 1 & 2 with Reiki Master Teacher, Kathryn Hofstetter at Open Heart Horsemanship, I have also spent years learning to honour my own intuition and how to open my heart and listen deeply to the horses through countless hours of sitting and observing my mare’s herd.
Additionally, I have studied the Usui System of Natural Healing with Sr. Eileen Curtis at Queenswood School of Reiki and completed Kathleen Prasad’s Let Animals Lead Reiki Core Curriculum. I have also completed certifications and courses in:
- Equine Psychology- Honors Diploma
- Emotional Horsemanship
- Energy Healing for Horses
- Herbal Medicine for Horses
- Aromatherapy & Flower Essences for Horses
- Acupressure for Horses
- Equine Cranialsacral Therapy
- Language & Calming Signals in Horse
- Equine Guided Mindfulness
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Trainings & Qualifications
In today’s fast-paced world, young people face unprecedented challenges, from academic stress to digital overwhelm and social disconnect. The global pandemic has only amplified these issues, leaving many youth feeling isolated and anxious. “Harmony with Horses” offers a unique solution!
Picture spending the day outside in the Squamish Valley nestled in the shadow of the coastal mountain. With serene forest walks that calm the soul and art sessions with horses that ignite creativity, participants will experience a unique program. Additional mindfulness practices including yoga, meditation, and journaling with horses grazing nearby, nurture self-awareness and inner peace.
Our equine friends will join us throughout, providing unique interactions (without riding!) that cultivate compassion, empathy, and leadership skills. These experiences aren’t just activities—they’re pathways to personal growth and mental wellness.
This program isn’t just an escape from reality; it’s an opportunity for youth, aged 10-14, to pause, reconnect with themselves and nature while cultivating resilience for life’s challenges.
Children Need to Be in Nature! →
Youth Program bringing kids into nature
Harmony with Horses
new session dates coming march 2025!
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Research continues to demonstrate the profound benefits of reconnecting with nature and horses. From reducing stress and boosting mood to enhancing overall well-being, time spent in nature and with horses has a powerful impact on mental and emotional health. Harmony with Horses leverages this knowledge through equine guided activities designed to help youth discover and harness your inner strengths.
Join us at the Second Chance Cheekye Ranch for a journey of self-discovery and empowerment. Whether you seek to build confidence, improve mental wellness, or simply reconnect with nature, “Into the Woods” offers a holistic approach to well-being that will leave you feeling rejuvenated and inspired.
Take the first step towards a brighter, more resilient you. Embrace the power of nature and horses and join us to find Harmony with Horses.
What the Kids are Saying! →
children need to be in nature!
