Open to everyone! No horse experience necessary.
Bring a friend or come alone and meet some new friends!
Scheduled group retreats have come to an end for the 2022 season. Private retreats available all year. Stay tuned for 2023 group retreat days to be announced!
Want to book a private retreat day for your own small group?
Email anna@annamarieellison.com for available dates and to customize a day for your group of 4-6 people. 
Anna Marie with the horses in Costa Rica
Healed by a Horse® sessions are personalized for you by Anna Marie after a brief free phone consultation. Each activity is based on the area(s) of your life or spiritual journey you would like to work on. Through a series of body-centered awareness activities, participants will receive intuitive coaching from Anna Marie and the horses that will help guide you to a higher awareness of your true path.
Being in the presence of and interacting with horses under the guided coaching of Anna Marie creates a powerful opportunity for accelerated learning and personal growth that is sustainable and transferrable to your day-to-day life.
No prior horse experience is necessary! All Healed by a Horse® activities are done with all feet and hoofs on the ground. Therefore, participants will not mount or ride horses at any point. At times, there will be close contact with horses (including hands-on activities). Accommodations will be made in accordance with the experience and comfort level of each participant and horse.
Horses are highly sensitive beings that live authentically in the present moment, and will help you learn to do the same. They do this in two main ways: with their ability to sense and then mirror your energy and with their ability to magnify your emotions. They offer immediate non-verbal feedback so that you can uncover, discover or re-discover the intuitive wisdom held within you that is needed for healing, growing and evolving.
The safe space created within the energy field of a horse can lead you to living a more authentic life, with powerful new insights about yourself. Horses teach unconditional love (including self-love), healthy boundaries, what it takes to becoming a trustworthy leader and partner, and so many other lessons!
Healed by a Horse® coaching sessions help you find balance, alignment and purpose by becoming more in tune with your body, your senses and your emotions.
Anna Marie is now taking reservations for her exclusive Healed by a Horse ® coaching program. All sessions are co-facilitated by her personal herd of experienced teachers and healers at her ranch in Shabbona, Illinois.
If you would like to find out more or to book your very own Healed by a Horse ® session, please enter your information below. Anna Marie will contact you to discuss session options and set a date for your personalized equine experience.
Click the link below to set up a FREE brief phone consultation to see if it’s a good fit for you.
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Karen~I spent a weekend at Anna Marie’s place receiving a Healed by a Horse coaching session and learning Animal Reiki I & II with her horses. This by far was one of the best experiences I’ve ever had! Working on different activities with her horses helped me find my confidence! I continue to have the confidence I need to speak up for myself in such a productive way in my personal and professional life. I have been able to focus more and move forward on decisions that needed to be made. On the second day, I received a Reiki session from her horses. What an amazing experience!! Her horses knew which chakras I struggle with and helped release the bad energy I had to let go. I would highly recommend any of Anna Marie’s services!
Stacey~My Healed by a Horse weekend change my life in ways that exceeded my expectations. Anna Marie encouraged me to be really honest and vulnerable with the herd and in doing so I was rewarded with deep healing. Anna Marie holds space in a beautiful, non-judgmental way that allows you to go really deep into the experience and feel supported in the face of whatever is coming up. I arrived at Anna Marie‘s afraid of being around horses. I left two days later profoundly changed, and in awe of the beauty and love I experienced being around them.
Anna Marie is intuitively guided to create an experience that is perfect for what you need in the moment. She blends strength and compassion as she encourages you to go for it in a way that feels supportive and empowering. I continue to find things that have changed and healed as a result of my time with Anna Marie and her herd. It is an experience that I will cherish for the rest of my life!
My private Healed by a Horse session was a life expanding event. Anna Marie and her herd guided me through the process so I felt safe and could be vulnerable. The horses were amazing at reading my energy and conveying through their behavior that I had a lack of healthy boundaries. It was truly mind blowing seeing how much accurate information the horses shared. The horses then worked with me to strengthen my boundaries. The horses also did Reiki on me, which I didn’t even know was possible! I left feeling rejuvenated and grounded with a new outlook on my life.
Lora~Thank you for a life changing weekend! The most memorable moment for me has to be the complete love and healing power I felt from your whole tribe in the round pen healing session. When I replay it in my mind, I still feel the vibrating energy pulsing through my entire body. I continue to have flashbacks of connectedness I felt with each of you. My heart and soul are forever changed by the love and compassion I felt over that incredible weekend! I look forward to doing more healing work with you and your tribe in the future.
Merry~The Self-Care Sunday Retreat experience Anna Marie has created is right up there with releasing baby turtles into the Pacific and walking on fire with Tony Robbins. It has had a lasting effect of heart felt energy times 10! It’s a great start and I would like to take more individualized therapy with her and her horses. I’ve been telling everyone about her magical herd of horses. Plus, friends have seen a real difference in me!
Heidi~I highly recommend Healed By A Horse 
Best therapy out there (if you love horses as much as I do). This was definitely one of my best days ever Thank you Anna Marie Ellison for offering such a wonderful retreat!
Julie~I am still reeling from the incredible energy and healing I experienced. Amazing is an understatement! Thank you Anna Marie, Hercules, Al and Nikki for everything. I highly recommend it!!
