# Guides | Highlands Centre for Healing > A quiet library of guides — what a session or retreat is really like, what to expect, how to know if the herd is right for you, and honest cost and comparison reading. URL: https://equineassistedtherapy.net.au/guide/ Guides # A quiet library on healing with horses Honest reading on what a session or retreat with the herd is actually like — who each offering suits, what to expect, how the work reaches the body, and how to plan a stay on the land. ## Getting started with the herd ### Is a Session With the Herd Right for Me? Who our ground-based sessions with horses suit — and who they don't. For carers and women carrying grief, burnout or a life transition near Moss Vale NSW. Read → [Is a Session With the Herd Right for Me? →](/guide/is-a-session-with-the-herd-right-for-me/) ### What Equine Assisted Therapy With Us Actually Is (and Isn't) A plain-language look at our non-clinical, at-liberty equine assisted work near Moss Vale NSW — and how it differs from clinical equine therapy models. Read → [What Equine Assisted Therapy With Us Actually Is (and Isn't) →](/guide/what-equine-assisted-therapy-with-us-is/) ### What to Expect in a 1:1 Somatic Session With Horses Arrival, meeting the free-roaming herd, the 60-minute session with Soo, pacing, what to wear and aftercare — so you can arrive at Eureka Pines feeling ready. Read → [What to Expect in a 1:1 Somatic Session With Horses →](/guide/what-to-expect-1-1-somatic-session/) ### When Talk Therapy Hasn't Reached the Body Why burnout and body-held stress can resist talk, and how ground-based work with horses reaches the nervous system — in plain language, near Moss Vale NSW. Read → [When Talk Therapy Hasn't Reached the Body →](/guide/when-talk-therapy-hasnt-reached-the-body/) ## Reiki With The Herd View the hub → [/reiki-with-the-herd/ →](/reiki-with-the-herd/) ### How Horses Amplify Energy Work: Heart-Brain Coherence A grounded look at why the herd deepens energy work — co-regulation, heart-brain coherence and prey-animal sensitivity, explained honestly and in plain language. Read → [How Horses Amplify Energy Work: Heart-Brain Coherence →](/guide/how-horses-amplify-energy-work/) ### Is Reiki With the Herd Right for You? Who Reiki With The Herd suits — grief, overwhelm, depletion, an openness to energy work — and who it isn't for. No horse experience needed. Read → [Is Reiki With the Herd Right for You? →](/guide/is-reiki-with-the-herd-right-for-you/) ### Reiki With the Herd vs a 1:1 Somatic Session Side-by-side: the 60-minute $395 somatic session vs the 90-minute $595 Reiki With The Herd — what each suits and how they combine over a retreat. Read → [Reiki With the Herd vs a 1:1 Somatic Session →](/guide/reiki-with-the-herd-vs-somatic-session/) ### What Happens in a Reiki-With-the-Herd Session The flow of a 90-minute Reiki With The Herd session near Moss Vale NSW — lying or sitting in the herd's presence, what people feel, what to wear, aftercare. Read → [What Happens in a Reiki-With-the-Herd Session →](/guide/what-happens-reiki-with-the-herd-session/) ### What Is Reiki With Horses? A plain explanation of Reiki channelled in the presence of a free-roaming herd — what 'with the herd' adds, the Tanran lineage, and its honest scope. Read → [What Is Reiki With Horses? →](/guide/what-is-reiki-with-horses/) ## Equine Healing Retreats View the hub → [/equine-healing-retreats/ →](/equine-healing-retreats/) ### Day, Weekend or Extended: Choosing Your Retreat Length How to choose between a day, two-night weekend or 3–7 night extended equine healing retreat near Moss Vale NSW — depth, group size and when to add nights. Read → [Day, Weekend or Extended: Choosing Your Retreat Length →](/guide/choosing-your-retreat-length/) ### Group Retreat vs Private 1:1 Retreat Small-group (up to 4) vs a solo private equine healing retreat near Moss Vale NSW — privacy, pacing, cost and suitability, so you can choose well. Read → [Group Retreat vs Private 1:1 Retreat →](/guide/group-retreat-vs-private-retreat/) ### Planning Your Stay: What to Bring and How to Arrive Directions to Eureka Pines near Moss Vale, what to pack for cool-climate country, phone-signal and quiet expectations, and the booking and deposit process. Read → [Planning Your Stay: What to Bring and How to Arrive →](/guide/planning-your-stay-what-to-bring-how-to-arrive/) ### Retreats for Grief, Burnout and Life Transition A gentle, non-clinical retreat for women carrying grief, burnout or a major transition — land, herd and rest near Moss Vale NSW. Carer respite welcome. Read → [Retreats for Grief, Burnout and Life Transition →](/guide/retreats-for-grief-burnout-life-transition/) ### What a Healing Retreat Here Looks Like, Day by Day A sample rhythm for a healing retreat at Eureka Pines — herd time, sessions, forest walks, rest and integration — client-led, never a rigid itinerary. Read → [What a Healing Retreat Here Looks Like, Day by Day →](/guide/what-a-healing-retreat-looks-like-day-by-day/) ### What an Equine Healing Retreat Costs and Includes What shapes the cost of a tailored equine healing retreat near Moss Vale NSW — length, group size, sessions and accommodation — and how to get a quote. Read → [What an Equine Healing Retreat Costs and Includes →](/guide/what-an-equine-healing-retreat-costs/) Begin gently ## Have a specific question? If a guide raises a question we haven't covered, or if you'd like to talk through what's right for you, Soo is only a message away. Talk to Soo [/contact/ →](/contact/)