Horses listen to what is not spoken, to what lies in the heart, and reflect it back to us.
They allow us to hear the longing of our soul
Meet our Kindred EFW Team
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Dayna Hammond
Dayna Hammond has been a horsewoman since the age of 4. After graduating University, she moved out to Alberta where she began her journey into her Equine Wellness Certification. Shortly after receiving her credentials, she began working with neglected horses, building a rehabilitation process and program that eventually became the foundation of our non-profit, PARF. She believes in the healing power of equine empathy, believing that those horses who have experienced their own traumas are also able to offer an even deeper layer of empathy and connection that can prove to be a very powerful tool in a person’s healing process
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Brittany Uchach
Brittany is a Psychosomatic Therapist and Fascial Maneuver Coach who believes that empowerment occurs when people understand that they have, and have always had, the ability to heal their own bodies. Her passion is working with clients who are experiencing chronic pain and who truly want to learn to go within and connect to their own bodies. Learning the tools and techniques to heal and restore movement and vitality within their own lives. She believes that fascial maneuvers are the missing piece that can allow people to truly understand how to create an environment that allows their bodies to heal through the releasing of emotional and physical pain & trauma. When partnered with the horses in a session environment, the level of healing one can experience brought on through fascial maneuvers is unlike anything felt before.
Why our Program?
Recent studies conducted by the Institute of Heart-Math provide a clue to explain the two-way healing that occurs when we're close to horses. They claim that horses have what is called a coherent heart rate, which is a pattern indicative of a system that can recover and adapt to stressful situations very efficiently .By simply being in the presence of horses, one can feel the positive effects of such a heart rate, including but not limited to, lower blood pressure, higher beta-endorphins (neurotransmitters acting as pain suppressors), decreased stress levels, decreased feelings of anger, hostility, tension and anxiety, better social working; and greater feelings of empowerment, confidence, patience and self-efficacy.
What makes our program different from others? With multiple skilled facilitators from varying backgrounds, we can tailor our sessions and experiences to the needs of the client(s). We offer both individual and group programs for people of all ages, backgrounds, and levels of comfort and experience with horses. Because we are still in the relatively early stages, everything is flexible, customizable, and open to feedback and collaboration.
Each session is customized depending on the needs of the individual/group and can vary in times from ranging from 1.5 hours up to 3 hours. Orientation and safety will be covered at the beginning of each session to ensure that everyone, including the horses, remain safe. The remainder of the sessions are unstructured, instead allowing for flow and organic transpiring between the participants and the horses.
