Listed below are the 2010 introductory workshops facilitated by Linda Kohanov. Click the links to read the workshop description, including sign-up information.
- September 30-October 2, 2010 — The Tao of Equus: Mindfulness Through the Way of the Horse
- October 28-31, 2010 — Pioneering Spirit: Leardership for the 21st Century
The Tao of Equus: Mindfulness Through the Way of the Horse
Facilitator: Linda Kohanov
Thursday, September 30 through Saturday, October 2, 2010
Cost: $1500
Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, includes lunch.
This Introductory workshop explores the practical art of mindfulness through interactions with horses, the master teachers of self awareness. What seems so difficult for a grasping, hoarding, controlling, competitive human being comes easily to these highly social, intensely aware, nomadic prey animals. To become more horse-like, by developing a mindful approach to everyday reality, is a powerful, efficient, and fun way to awaken the delight of touching life deeply in every moment, and a path to greater peace and self-acceptance.
Horses not only embody these attitudes and skills, they can offer humans an accurate, yet innately non-judgmental form of biofeedback for self-awareness. Workshop activities with horses will include reflective work, which exercises being and sensing, energetic and subtle body awareness. Active round pen work develops inner stillness and balance within movement. Participants will also receive guidance in simple, traditional mindfulness practices as well as an opportunity to enhance their sensitivity to the nonverbal nuances of awareness through meditative musical experiences.
For more information, contact booking@theeponacenter.com or 520-455-5908.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation up to 30 days prior to the event start date results in a credit of one-half the workshop tuition. There is no tuition credit for a cancellation 30 days or less before the event start date.
Pioneering Spirit: Leadership for the 21st Century
Facilitator: Linda Kohanov
Thursday, October 28, 2010 through Sunday, October 31, 2010
Cost: $2,000
Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. daily, includes lunch. Enrollment limited to four people.
It's now commonly recognized that only ten percent of human communication is verbal. And yet in our culture, we've virtually become mesmerized by words as our social educational systems teach us to disassociate from the body, the environment, and the subtle nuances of nonverbal communication. In his book, The Other 90%: How to Unlock Your Vast Potential for Leadership and Life, Robert K. Cooper predicts that the "dinosaurs of the future will be those who keep trying to live and work from their heads alone. Much of human brilliance is driven less by the brain in your head than by newly discovered intelligence centers — now called 'brain two and brain three' — in the gut and the heart. The highest reasoning and brightest ingenuity involve all three of those brains working together."
In this four-day intensive, you will learn skills for accessing that "other 90%" with the help of the Epona herd, exercising the non-verbal communication, assertiveness, emotional fitness, and relationship skills essential to leadership — as managers, innovators, entrepreneurs, educators, and parents and mentors of the next generation.
"If we're serious about finding solutions to the challenges of this complex technological, now global society we live in, we do in fact need to engage all three of those brains," says Linda Kohanov. "The true pioneers of the 21st century are those who figure out how to tap the vast resources of nonverbal intelligence. At Epona, we've found that horses provide the ultimate shortcut. It is ironic that for thousands of years these sensitive yet powerful beings carried our bodies around the world, allowing us to explore terrain we would have struggled to traverse on foot. Yet even as they've been released from their roles as beasts of burden, horses have not become obsolete. They stand, beckoning, at the edge of a new wilderness — the landscape of consciousness itself — waiting for us to accept the challenge of living life to its fullest potential."
This workshop is appropriate for people new to the Epona Approach as well as advanced students. For more information, contact booking@theeponacenter.com or 520-455-5908.
Cancellation Policy: Cancellation up to 30 days prior to the event start date results in a credit of one-half the workshop tuition. There is no tuition credit for a cancellation 30 days or less before the event start date.