The Mane Connection, LLC

02/12/2025

𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨:
𝑬𝒎𝒑𝒐𝒘𝒆𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑺𝒖𝒑𝒑𝒐𝒓𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑼𝒑𝒍𝒊𝒇𝒕 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑴𝒐𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖
𝑨𝒑𝒑𝒓𝒆𝒄𝒊𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒚𝒐𝒖

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02/08/2025

I definitely love what I teach, but more importantly who I teach! 💞

If you don't enjoy spending time around children, education may not be the right path. Teaching is as much about relationships as it is about content. https://www.amazon.com/dp/0367622211

02/05/2025

𝓢𝓸𝔀 𝓶𝓸𝓻𝓮 𝓼𝓮𝓮𝓭𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓵𝓸𝓿𝓮 ♥︎

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Love seeing little moments like these. One of my main goals with every client is to help them make connection with their horse. Connection shows up in many different ways - my favorite is when the kids truly grasp what compassion is like.

We have many kids, adults, & families - on all different walks of life. I want everyone to be able to experience the connection, love, compassion, comfort, you can receive from these amazing animals.

Something as simple as your horse following you or waiting for you can give you such a perspective of what they feel.

Not everyone can have a horse, not everyone wants a horse, and not everyone has access to a horse, so today I challenge you to be an example of what love, compassion, comfort, can look like in everyday life. Connect with people!

You never know who needs it! 🤍✝️🐴

02/03/2025

𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐮𝐧𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐜𝐚𝐩𝐚𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐭𝐨 𝐝𝐨 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐛𝐥𝐲 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. - 𝐊𝐖

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ꜰᴇʙʀᴜᴀʀʏ 3ʀᴅ & ᴀ ʜɪɢʜ ᴏꜰ 61 ᴛᴏᴅᴀʏ! ʜᴀᴘᴘʏ ᴍᴏɴᴅᴀʏ! 🤩✝️⛅️🐴

01/24/2025

Ziggy wants to know when it’s going to be warm enough to not wear these layers! 😆🧣🤍

01/20/2025

When I headed to the barn this morning the weather app said, feels like -4. If you work outside, hope you’re staying warm! 🥶

Either way our horses are happy & cozy! ☺️

Spring can come anytime now! 😆🌷

01/16/2025

We have a Saturday horse camp coming up in March! 🍀🐴

📍Located at Diamond Lake Horse Farm in Mount Perry, OH!

📞 Call or Text Ally @ 740-644-9833 with any questions!

🔗 Want to sign up? Click the link to fill out the sign up form! https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeE28rKyPmEcffK8G4PP5GlLTbN9XDx2PEimj11om_90K6Q1w/viewform

01/16/2025

Grace & Diamond think we pull the chairs out specifically for them! 😆🐈🤍

01/15/2025

Slimmy loooves fresh bedding..✨🤍🐴

He always saves us some work by spreading it himself too! How nice of him! 😆

01/14/2025

Brrrr! 🥶 A little chilly here at Diamond Lake Horse Farm on this Tuesday morning! The horses are nice & cozy though!🐴🧤

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This year, one of my goals is to be more active on this page! ✔️

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Tator Tot is NOT loving the snow! 😬

12/04/2024

Researchers found equine-assisted intervention horses more touch-sensitive than riding school horses, suggesting the need to revise handling techniques.

09/24/2024

09/11/2024

Honor. Remember. Reflect.

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09/05/2024

Keep planting those seeds 🌱

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08/09/2024

Mental health programs and services incorporating horses are gaining more and more traction everyday. It is is a safe, dynamic and effective option for those in need.

Horses help encourage perseverance, respect for life, and maintenance of positive and empathetic attitudes towards ourselves and others.

With the appropriate care, people can flourish, grow and heal 🤍☁️🌿🍃✨️

08/08/2024

Understanding the Triangle of Self-Talk can be a powerful tool for personal growth. 🌟 The way you talk to yourself influences your view of yourself, which in turn shapes your behavior. Positive self-talk leads to a healthier self-image and positive actions. Let's break the cycle of negativity and foster a positive mindset! 💬💖

07/04/2024

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Why HORSES for Human Therapy and Personal Development?

Horses are prey animals. They survive by being excellent at reading the smallest non-verbal communication of each other and potential predators.

They read our body language on a subtle level. Think not just body language but electromagnetic fields, pulse, heart beat and secretions of hormones etc.

Horses are constantly checking whether they need to run away from danger or if cornered, fight the danger.

They do this by automatically always checking for any incongruences in people’s body language. If a predator is at rest rather than actively hunting, their flight response lessens. Often horses will not choose to cooperate if someone’s emotions and body language is incongruent. When someone is congruent with their true emotions, the horses begin to become interested. As horses are highly congruent in their behaviours they have no social constructs like we do, of ‘proper’ behavior to encourage them to mask their emotions and behaviors.

Horse’s respond to what your body is really saying, not what your voice or simple body language is suggesting. Instead, horses will seem to react to the human’s incongruence exactly in the moment.

BUT WHY IS THIS INFORMATION USEFUL FOR EQUINE ASSISTED SERVICES?

The brain of the horse has a much larger limbic system.

One of the limbic system’s function is to process and regulate emotion. By having a larger brain area, they are naturally better than we are in this and from them we can learn how to alter our neural networks to be able to be better at processing and regulating emotions.

The brain of the horse has a much smaller neocortical area.

One of the main functions of the neocortical brain is perception. We have a very large neocortical brain and see the world through a perception lens. Meaning that our experience of the world has many layers affected by past narratives and stories. We have evolved to have a larger front of our brain, which enables us to complete complicated tasks, and yet with this comes complexity of how we view the world. Horse’s instead operate from older parts of the brain, which respond to the here and now. Their lives revolve around the present, which in turn allows for greater congruency. We can learn how to do this better from them by creating stronger neural networks in the older parts of the brain, allowing for more balance between complex thinking and congruently living in the here and now.

Horses have more mirror neurons than other animals.

Mirror neurons at the simplest level, enable us to connect with others and is why we often yawn when others do. At the most complex level, they help us understand the mental states of others. Horses connect to others in a way that we perhaps cannot yet actually comprehend, as our brains do not have that level of mirror neuron capacity. However, we can begin to imagine, and strengthen our own neural networks to learn to resonate with others better, as well as have more empathy for others and ourselves.

Horses have a much larger electromagnetic field (heart) and gut system than us.

By having a larger heart and gut system than humans and most other animal assisted therapy animals, they have a larger and more powerful area to collecting intel from others. This helps them to connect the herd together and sense the intentions of a predator. When in the layer of connection with each other, horses can sense each others heartbeat, pulse and hormone secretion. They help to regulate each other by matching each others slower heartbeat when no danger is nearby. We can experiance this heartbeat synchronicity also in their presence, helping us to experience their regulation loop.

As horses are more in tune with their complex and sensitive systems than humans, they provide an instant biofeedback system from the networks. This is often referred to as the horses mirroring emotions and feelings.

Instant biofeedback refers to how horses immediately alter themselves to the environment. We are able to tap into their biofeedback and get immediate information on how congruent we are at that moment. Horse’s know when we are being incongruent with ourselves, so we can ask the horses whether we can use their feedback as a safe place to explore our emotions, our experience of the world, our trauma.