STANDING IN THE HEART FIELD | Furnace Brook Farm

Standing in the

Heart Field:

A Six Week Healing Program with Horses

Sundays starting October 18, 12pm--2pm weekly $899

$899-$1019 ($899 is early bird before Sept 15)

4–8 Participants (Minimum: 4, Maximum: 8)

This size allows for intimate connection and shared learning, ensuring that each voice is heard and each journey is honored.

This six-week program can be thoughtfully adapted for first responders, organizations, and other communities, with the language, pacing, and practices tailored to the needs of each group.

To reserve your spot: Click spencer@AmazingGraceEquineHealing.com OR emily@emilyhealing.com

Reconnecting with Self, Horses, and the Living World through Embodied Presence and Reciprocity

This program invites small groups to cultivate a respectful and reciprocal relationship with horses, land, body, and breath. Through trauma-responsive practices, movement, and conversation, and time with horses, participants explore the living field of presence, while allowing real-time experiences of fear, shame, tenderness, to emerge and be felt. In this sacred space, play and connection become pathways to safety, fostering a felt sense of security that empowers participants to engage more fully with their emotions and the world around them.

Guiding Principles

Safety Before Depth: We establish a foundation of safety to allow authentic exploration.
Consent in All Directions: Every interaction is rooted in mutual respect and agreement.
The Body as Guide: We listen the the wisdom of the body as the primary teacher.
The Horse as Mirror, Not Savior: Horses reflect our inner states, offering insight without judgment.
Empowerment Through Embodiment: Participants reclaim their power by feeling and integrating their experiences.
Reciprocity with the Living World: We honor the land and horses as co-participants in our healing and offer healing in return.
Authenticity Over Performance: Show up as you are — this is a space for genuine exploration, not achievement.

Signature Session Structure

Each Session Includes:

Grounding, Breathwork, Movement, Conversation
Horse Interaction (mirroring, movement, presence)
Group Reflection and Sharing
Closing Ritual

Closing Ritual: A moment of gratitude when participants express their appreciation for the horse and land, reinforcing the principle of reciprocity. We will often offer love and healing to the horses.

Six-Week Overview

Week 1: The Invitation

Opportunity: “I am here, present in my body. I reclaim my choice."
Experience: Introduction to the horses, land, and foundational principles. Participants practice grounding techniques and breath awareness.

Week 2: The Breath of the Horse

Opportunity: “I feel my breath, and the breath of the horse."
Experience: Breathwork with horses, learning to synchronize breath patterns. Participants explore the relationship between their breath and the horse’s movement.

Week 3: Embodied Boundaries

Opportunity: “I am safe in my body."
Experience: Working with horses to establish personal boundaries. Participants practice asserting their space verbally and non-verbally.

Week 4: The Mirror of Connection

Opportunity: “I see myself in the horse."
Experience: Reflection exercises with horses. Participants explore their emotions and stories through the horses’s presence.

Week 5: The Living Field

Opportunity: “I am part of the living world."
Experience: Connecting with the land and each other. Participants engage in community rituals and practices to deepen their connection to place and purpose.

Week 6: The Return Home

Opportunity: “I am home in my body."
Experience: Closure and integration. Participants share their journeys and receive support in carrying their experiences forward.

Details

Comfortable clothing and closed-toe shoes are required. This is a non-riding offering and no pervious experience with horses, movement or meditation is needed.

This program compliments clinical and therapeutic services, offering a unique, embodied approach to healing. It is designed to be a supplementary resource, not a replacement for mental health treatment.

Facilitators

Emily RiverStar Peterson

Trauma-Responsive Educator

Shamanic Healer

Creator of Human Horse Harmonics (3H)

Emily Peterson, known as RiverStar, brings over fifteen years of expertise in somatic trauma healing, nervous system regulation, and embodied spiritual practice to this program.

As a trauma-responsive educator, shamanic healer, yoga teacher, and breathwork facilitator, she has led TIMBo—Trauma Informed Mind Body—groups and professional trainings across multiple continents and has facilitated groups for Veterans with military sexual trauma and Active Service men and women.

Emily also created the original seed intervention and community facilitator training for the Mandela Yoga Project’s somatic movement-based public health intervention, later leading facilitator trainings in Boston, Kenya and Rwanda.

Having grown up in the company of horses, Emily spent many years away before returning two years ago to work with a herd of rescue horses. In this healing capacity, she discovered that they were healing her, just as they had done in her youth.

This experience initiated her into what she calls “Relationship as the Path.” The horses mirrored her long-held belief that healing transcends symptom management; it is about restoring relationships—within the body, between people, with animals, and with the living Earth.

This philosophy became the foundation of 3H—Horse, Human, Harmonics. For Emily, horses embody love, beauty, freedom, strength, and a profound connection to Spirit.

Emily also offers individual healing sessions with or without horses and resides in Boston with her partner, Marc, and their two beloved pups.

To read more about Emily and her work, visit Emily Peterson Healing.

Spencer Steere

Commonwealth of Massachusetts Licensed Riding Instructor

Certified Holy Fire Reiki Master & Animal Reiki Level 1 and 2

Author of By Your Side: An Unexpected Path to Healing Low Self Esteem Through Equine Grace

Spencer Steere has spent her life in the company of horses — riding casually as a child, then competitively as an adult with River Wind Farm, showing in the Amateur Owner Hunters and Jumpers.

In 2010, she won the Massachusetts Horsemen's Council Adult Medal Final with her longtime partner, Amazing Grace. She later turned in her amateur card to teach young students and beginner adult riders at the farm.

Volunteering at Furnace Brook Farm Therapeutic Equestrian Center, a therapeutic barn, deepened her belief that horses are natural healers — blending her personal spiritual practice with her professional life and leading her to found Amazing Grace Equine Healing.

Today she is a certified Holy Fire Reiki Master and Animal Reiki Level 1 and 2 practitioner, sharing her love of equine grace through private sessions and continued community service at Furnace Brook.

Spencer is also the author of By Your Side: An Unexpected Path of Healing Low Self-Esteem Through Equine Grace. She lives in Marshfield, Massachusetts, with her husband, Carl.

To learn more about Spencer and her work, visit Amazing Grace Equine Healing.