Healing with Animals - a six-day retreat
Sunday 13th to Saturday 19th September 2026
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
Camping fees * (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 or no experience in animal communication or equine-facilitated learning. If you’re ready to deepen your connection with the wild, more-than-human world, this retreat is for you. Age 16+
RETREAT COST:
Full price: $1,645; Early bird: $1,515 (ends 30th June 2026)
'Two Together': $2,961 (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 three or four instalments. Please contact us for more details
Bookings will close on 9th September 2026
MORE DETAILS:
PLEASE FOLLOW THIS LINK for more details on course content, dates & times, transport, meals, accommodation options and FAQs. Please ensure you read the Event Terms & Conditions at checkout before finalising your booking.
MEET YOUR GUIDES:
Jacqueline Buckingham is an animal communicator, trainer and mentor who, like many people, started communicating with animals and plants as a young child. Over the years she has studied with a variety of indigenous elders whose teachings deepened her connection with and understanding of the natural world. In 2012 she met renowned animal communicator Anna Breytenbach; they began working together in 2013 and Anna mentored Jacqueline as a teacher of this work. Now Jacqueline leads trainings in Australia, the UK and online; she is also a reiki master teacher, an Esalen massage therapist and a transpersonal counsellor. Her main passion is reconnecting people to their love of 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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