Healing with Animals - a five-day retreat
Sunday 26th to Friday 31st October 2025
A Retreat of Deep Connection with Horses, Animals & the More-Than-Human World
Join us for a transformative retreat where the wisdom of horses, the language of animals, and the natural world’s deep intelligence come together to guide you toward greater understanding and connection. This unique residential retreat offers a rare opportunity to explore the spaces where inner awareness and wild intelligence meet.
WHAT TO EXPECT:
Equine Facilitated Learning: Learn how to overcome the most common relationship barriers through embodied healing practices supported by a herd of horses, enabling you to experience a deeper, more loving relationship with yourself and all animals. Extend your connection to your higher self and fully develop your empathic abilities.
Interspecies Communication: Learn to communicate telepathically with the horses, wild animals, and the land around you. Experience the profound ways animals, trees, and plants speak to those who listen. Develop your capacity to quieten the mind and body through spending time quietly in nature. Increase your sensitivity through guided activities designed to expand your senses.
Nature Connection: Listen to the spirit of the land itself. Nestled in the forested hills of Gleniffer's Promised Land, this retreat offers time for meditation, mindful movement, sit spots, nature walks, and reflective moments around the fire under a starry sky.
This retreat will expand your awareness and deepen your bond with the living world.
INCLUDES:
Guided sessions with Jacqueline and Ben
Personal coaching in both modalities
Morning yoga/movement practice
Daily guided meditations
All meals
Accommodation (camping or glamping *)
Course materials*Additional costs apply for glamping in bell tents. Bell tents are priced per tent and can sleep between two and four people. Please visit our website for more details
WHO THE RETREAT IS FOR:
This retreat is ideal for those with prior experience in animal communication or equine-facilitated learning, and also for those with no experience at all. If you’re ready to deepen your connection with the wild world, this is for you. Ages 16+
The maximum number of people will be 14. This will make it a small private group, which will support and nurture your transformation process.
RETREAT COST:
Full price: $1,350; Early bird: $1,270 (ends 31st August)
'Two Together': $2,430 (10% discount each)
Secure your place with a $250 deposit, and spread your payments across the remaining months.
Payment plans available - 50/50; pay in four instalments; pay in three instalments. Please contact us for more details
Please note: The minimum number of people required to run the retreat is ten. We are asking people to pay a deposit of $250 by 21st August to secure your place. This will tell us if we have enough numbers to go ahead, with enough lead time so we can commit to booking all of the facilities. We are also happy for you to pay in full, or reserve your place using any of our other available pricing options.
Closing date is 22nd October.
MORE DETAILS:
PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK for more details on course content, dates & times, transport, meals, accommodation options and FAQs.
MEET YOUR GUIDES:
Jacqueline Buckingham is an animal communicator, trainer and mentor, and has been communicating with animals and plants since she was three years old. She studied with a variety of indigenous elders whose teachings deepened her connection with and understanding of the natural world. In 2012 she met and was mentored by animal communicator Anna Breytenbach and they began working together in 2013. Jacqueline leads trainings in Australia, the UK and online. She is also a reiki master teacher, an Esalen massage therapist and a transpersonal counsellor. Jacqueline is passionate about reconnecting people to their love for animals and the whole the natural world.
Ben Skerrett started his journey as a horse behaviour specialist, educator and clinician. Exploring a passion for personal development led Ben to the knowledge that working with horses was more about developing self-awareness and less about training them. As a result Ben started to use horses to facilitate healing and transformatin in people. He became a qualified Eponaquest Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) instructor, and a riding-focussed instructor (RFI). He also has a diploma in counselling.
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