Serenity Stables
What We Do
What is EFL (Equine-Facilitated Learning)?
Equine-Facilitated Learning is a ground-based approach that uses guided interactions with horses to support learning, self-awareness, communication, and personal growth. Activities may include observing the herd, grooming, haltering, leading, and completing structured exercises alongside the horses. Because horses respond to body language, movement, consistency, and boundaries, participants receive immediate opportunities to notice how they show up and try new ways of responding. The lessons discovered at the ranch can be carried into relationships, recovery, work, school, and everyday life. No riding or prior horse experience is required.
Healing Through Horses: A Transformative Path to Recovery
At Serenity Stables Foundation, equine-facilitated learning creates space for people to slow down, connect, and discover new ways forward. Our guided experiences with horses support individuals navigating addiction recovery, trauma, and mental health challenges.
Through activities such as observing, grooming, and leading horses, participants explore how they communicate, respond to challenges, and build trust. Horses are attentive to body language and behavior, offering moments of feedback that can help participants reflect on their own patterns.
Each session offers opportunities to practice mindfulness, patience, healthy boundaries, and emotional regulation. Our team helps participants connect what they learn at the ranch to their relationships, recovery, and everyday lives. No prior experience with horses is needed.
PERSONALIZED RECOVERY & A LASTING LEGACY
We offer both group and individual equine-facilitated learning sessions designed to meet participants where they are in their journey. Serenity Stables Foundation also offers a unique 4-week program for individuals in recovery, sober living communities, select treatment agencies, youth, and families.
Over the course of four weeks, participants build connection, confidence, communication skills, emotional awareness, and healthy coping strategies through meaningful experiences alongside our horses. Each week builds upon the last, creating opportunities for personal growth, reflection, and connection in the peaceful environment of the ranch.
Upon completing the program, participants receive a certificate of completion and are invited to paint a fence board on the property. Each board becomes part of Serenity Stables and represents an individual story, journey, or message of hope. It is our way of reminding participants that no matter where life takes them, they will always have a place here.
This meaningful tradition is what inspired the name “A Fence of Recovery” – a growing collection of stories, strength, connection, and hope.
- Elizabeth, Colorado
What is EAC (Equine Assisted Coaching)
Equine Assisted Coaching is a modality that involves activities such as grooming, haltering, leading, observing a horse or horses while engaging with a coach. It promotes physical and emotional growth and can offer trans-formative results for persons suffering from anxiety and depression. Clients can take Wisdom from the Herd and apply this to their everyday life. Horses live in the present moment and allow us to do the same in their presence.
- Elizabeth, Colorado
Magic behind the Science
This is where science meets spirituality! What we are dealing with is Heart Energy. Horses help humans heal and there are physiological reasons for this. The heart gives off 60 times more electromagnetic energy than the brain. The heart has over 40,000 sensory neurons that learn, think, feel, and remember. The heart is giving more information to the brain, than the brain is to the heart. Since a horse’s heart is the size of a football, their energy field is much larger than ours and stronger. When the horse and human biofield converge the horse picks up the frequency’s coming from the human heart. Humans heart rate is anywhere between 60-80 beats per minute. Horses heart rate is anywhere between 40-60 beats per minute. When we get into their energy field it co-regulates ours, bringing our heart rate and blood pressure down.
- Elizabeth, Colorado