About Mindful Mare Wellness
Mindful Mare Wellness is a holistic wellness company offering Equine Facilitated Wellness, Mindfulness Based Therapies and Womb Wisdom programs in Edmonton and Sherwood Park.
To Our Future Clients
MMW Programs are perfect for those who want:
To feel grounded and safe in your body
To find holistic ways to support emotional, spiritual and physical wellbeing
To discover your soul by meeting horses in genuine connection
To create an aligned meaningful relationship to your womb to optimize your vitality and innate wisdom
You may be a Future Client if you’re:
Seeking Spiritual Connection with Horses- your soul feels called to commune with these sentient intuitive beings
A Healer or Equine Facilitated Practitioner seeking your own healing and inner wisdom- we can only take clients as far as we’ve traveled on our own paths of healing and transformation!
Seeking Coaching and Personal Development that integrates horse medicine – you know horses can be healing and want to experience this for yourself!
A Woman wanting to Know and Connect to her Womb, through breath, touch and presence, and building deeper wisdom around womb tending practices
Living with Depression and Anxiety- you’re ready to commit to holistic wellness modalities to complement your existing treatments
THE MISSION
Empowering you to discover your gifts guided by mindfulness and the wisdom of the herd. This is Horse Medicine for Your Soul!
Finding Earth Mother
You and I and all of us are here now
Mother Earth lives around us and within us
We have silenced her voice, closed off to her
Whisperings.
It is time to listen again
We remember her presence
We claim our sacred bond to Earth Mother
We get back into our wildest selves again.
Our Founders
MD, FRCP(C) Psychiatry, Royal College Subspecialty in Geriatric Psychiatry
Welcome!
I’m Frank, the Co-Founder, Program Coordinator and a Mental Health Therapist/Equine Facilitated Wellness professional with Mindful Mare.
I’ve worked as a Geriatric Mental Health Social Worker since 2003. Besides providing psychosocial assessments and supportive counseling to my patients, I’ve been in the roles of foster parent and hockey coach for many years. Equine Facilitated Wellness merges my coaching expertise with my experience and love for horses.
My mission, besides keeping the herd and humans at the farm in optimal health, is to support our clients’ resiliency so I leave this world a better place than when I arrived! I encourage humor and ease, so people aren’t just focused on their struggles. Laughter and acceptance through tough times can make a huge difference. I look forward to meeting you in programs!
Frank
Meet Our Team
We have a team of mental health professionals and equine professionals trained in Equine Facilitated Wellness and Equine Assisted Learning to partner with you.
EFW Program Staff
All our staff are Equine Connection™-certified facilitators in Equine Assisted Learning (EAL). They have also completed Eponaquest© workshops offered by Roxy Wright of Heart’s Haven Ranch, are certified in First Aid for humans and equines, and have extensive experience owning and caring for horses. We recently hired a third mental health professional to the team. She is a registered psychiatric nurse with expertise in dialectical behavior therapy and in facilitating therapy groups.
Horses and healing happen in a beautiful synergy and we honour the horses in the Mindful Mare Wellness program! To learn more about Gypsy Cob horses in particular, please access our sister website, Spirit Farm Gypsy Cobs, for more information on the history and culture of the Gypsy Cob horse and our exciting Spirit Farm Gypsy Cobs breeding program in Sherwood Park, Alberta.