What is EquineFlow?

EquineFlow is a evidence based, horse approved approach for equine assisted coaching and training. Founded by Monique Ravesloot, EquineFlow originally started in 2009 as a program for horse guided human development and corporate training at WolfOak Farm in Piedmont, SC, in the US. In 2019 EquineFlow expanded to training and certifying EquineFlow Practitioners at 4 different levels of equine assisted coaching specialisations.  In 2020 a virtual service called Interflow was added to serve clients during COVID19 lockdowns. in 2023 a corporate division called Equinist was added to specifically serve executives in leadership create organizations that truly benefit the people and the world.
The EquineFlow Approach draws from multiple philosophies and interventions, with an emphasis on experiential, trans-consciousness, somatic, trauma informed, client centered, permission based, play based techniques, that are evidence based, neuroscience backed, and approved by free roaming horses.

Who is it for?

The EquineFlow Approach serves humanity and equinity. Each practitioner has a specific audience they connect with. Certified EquineFlow Practitioners work in their own practices with clients of all socioeconomic backgrounds, such as underprivileged youth in under served communities (and with their -often exhausted- caregivers);  teenagers in need of support;  cult survivors;  women who feel stuck;  children who need help processing trauma; with leaders in education and corporations. Each year we add more Certified EquineFlow Practitioners to the team, and are able to serve new demographics and locations.  We currently have 35 trained EquineFlow practitioners of 6 different nationalities.

Why is it needed?

We found that people face systemic difficulties at all levels of society and all walks of life, and yes, even the CEOs of multinationals.

Life can be difficult and in our complex work we need reliable connection to our inner wisdom and power. When we integrate the whole of who we are, we become excellent problem solvers, both on the individual and the collective plane. Humans who lack a reliable integration with the parts within that know, may be left with no other choice to react to circumstances, even when there would have been a more responsive way to move forward.  And when we react, we unintentionally may cause harm to others, causing them to react to others, and on an on it goes.

It’s a bit of a chicken versus egg story. Somewhere in that cycle we have to intervene. That’s where EquineFlow and InterFlow (this is our model without the horse assisted part) comes in. We help you retrieve connection to   your wise and powerful mind through a series of experiential interventions that follows your natural curiosity and flow of life. It helps you sit back and pause, instead of being triggered into reactivity.  It helps you find the answers within, instead of deferring to someone else’s ideology, belief-system or advice. It helps you to allow the solution to emerge when the time is right.

We believe the restoration of connection to inner wisdom and power inoculates us against indoctrination, and manipulation which our society is so rife with. We teach you how to somatically recognize trauma voices, both in yourself and in others, and distinguish it from advanced inner wisdom. This advanced inner wisdom is something everyone has, from troubled teenagers to burned out executives, but it can be difficult to access in times of adversity.

When clients find their way back to their own inner wisdom, it is such an honor to be there to watch the part show up again. When people connect with it, they repair the relationship with it. Then they can begin to work together to let solutions emerge naturally, strategically, adaptively. This allows them to apply the solutions to improving their own life, and life of society at large.

What is the intended outcome?

Sustainable,  wide spread well being for all and everything.  For if it doesn't contribute to long term, trans-generational, sustainable, all encompassing wellness for all involved, why direct energy toward it?

Why horses?

In the EquineFlow Approach horses play several roles. Their biggest role is allowing people to immerse in nature and go with the flow of natural life.  When that happens, clients begin to breathe a little easier, relax a little more and give themselves a break from the analyzing/processing/planning/ fixing/worrying/obsessing/fearing thought patterns that are prompted by everyday normal life. When people enter a state of flow, it becomes easier for them to take a position of observer to the world, and all that the world entails, without getting wrapped up in the storms they may face right now.

Each day is different with the horses; sometimes clients observe, sometimes they interact and sometimes all they do is immersing themselves in a herd of free roaming horses to feel what it is like to simply share space without an agenda. The uncanny experience with our horses is that typically what needs to happen, seems to happen naturally. If someone needs confrontation with energies that scares other people way, then often this is what the horses exhibit as well. If someone needs a reminder that they should keep better check of their boundaries for toxic people, then often a horse will disrespect personal space as well. If someone is holding back tears for far too long, then often a horse will seek them out and stand quietly next to them, until the tears find their way out of someone's mind.

Each session includes time for quiet reflection. Every session is different and goes with the flow of what needs to emerge in the client's life, to restore hope, joy and growth.