Hochoka Retreat Center

Faith is the belief that you will find a way.

Experience is finding many ways that don't work before you find one that does.

Skill is what you build while gaining experience.

Wisdom is the net result of the ability to apply skill.

As a recovering perfectionist, I struggle on a minute-to-minute level (no exaggeration, seriously) basis with remembering that none of the things we're chasing with horses are linear. Nor is the process of building experience. This journey is messy and wild and tangled and not for the faint of heart. It takes courage and humility and patience and a willingness to look deep inside yourself and did I mention courage?

Maybe I need to go through something you didn't in order to get to where we can be standing in the same spot. Maybe I had something working for me that you didn't that allowed me to speed up the clock and get there a little quicker.

This is the first thing I love about my chosen horsemanship path: it really doesn't have much use for methods and static processes and "if this, then that" ways of doing. It encourages you to think, feel and believe and respond to what's in front of you, then build on that.

That said, it also requires you to embrace uncertainty and not always knowing which road to follow...and sometimes it requires you to bushwhack because you don't even have a road. And that's not for everyone, and that's okay.

What's not okay is telling someone their way of getting to a destination isn't worthy because it's not the same way you got there. That belief is rooted in ego, and ego is what protects us when we're feeling vulnerable. The question then becomes, why does someone else doing something differently bring up vulnerability?

Which brings me to the second thing I love about my chosen horsemanship path: I have never, ever, ever gone awry when I've felt vulnerable about what I'm doing or how I'm doing it so long as I returned to what it means to have faith, gain experience, develop skill and accumulate wisdom. It's not for everyone, but it's always served me well.

www.healingwithhorses.com

www.healingwithhorses.com

www.healingwithhorses.com
Programs for true inner healing 🙏❤️😇🐴✌️

Much of our wounding occurs prior to the acquisition of language and is not able to be healed through the questioning and reorganization of patterns of thinking. In other words, we can’t think our way out of trauma, attachment, and relational wounding.

When our capacity to process unbearable terror, panic, shame, and rage is overwhelmed, undigested pieces of experience are held subcortically and in our cellular circuitry, unreachable by thinking which is a layer removed from the fires of the alchemical body.
Encouragement to “just get over it, that’s totally irrational, you can’t really believe that, you know that’s not true” and so forth is experienced by an inflamed nervous system as the activity of violence and aggression.

It’s like an autonomic form of gaslighting and reflects a deep misunderstanding of trauma and the workings of implicit memory, and only contributes to re-traumatization, in personal, cultural, and collective networks.

In addition to shattering and unendurable experience – which is painful and terrifying enough – there is a profound sense of aloneness that goes with this, the sense that no one can understand, that there is no companionship into the dark night. I am alone in this. This is devastating to the soul.

When that raging alive little boy or aching little girl cries out longing to be held, known, felt, and heard, they’re really not all that interested in our clear cognitive analysis, rational inquiry, thoughts on the matter, or even our powerful spiritual insights.

They’re yearning for something else… for you, your heart, your holding. To know that you will stay near, not abandon or shame them, that you will do your best to provide sanctuary and safe passage for them to return Home, to be allowed to come out of that crystallized, frozen state and live and play and breathe once again.

In this way they don’t even want or need to be healed, but to be held. And to feel safe.-
Matt Licata

www.healingwithhorses.com

Offering Holotropic Breshwork = 3 day program. Or less if you can’t give this much time to self care🙏♥️😇🐴✌️

For 2024 -
I looking to move the non-profit farm onto new land so I can fulfill a very important and necessary part of the dream.

The animals are my family and I HAVE to live with them.

Would you happen to know anyone that is renting an apt. on a horse property in the area or I am willing to relocate to a new state/area. It just ALL has to align & be like minded.
Not NORTH ! Too cold for me.

We appreciate any and all direction.

Thank you 🙏
🙏❤️😇🐴✌️

www.healingwithhorses.com

A builder stole $2500 from the farm last week. And owes $2000 in work paid for (Hochoka paid him for jobs - he could not complete bcuz electrical needed to be ran, sawmill lumber needed cutting).

He blatantly stole $2339. And owes $2000 for work he has been paid for & didn’t complete.

We DONT have this kinda cash sitting around. He did it thru a bank check - FYI !!!

He is being prosecuted. I pray God finds his heart possibly in the court room. I have 6 court dates with this man. He is heavily on a cocktail if about 8 illegal substances - per the copy of the failed drug test given to me by his probation officer. He was in court for this yesterday. Court will be a 6 month process. Restitution - if it ever comes from such a criminal - will take a year or more.

Our judicial system is so broken and full of stuff like this. Please pray for revival of systems of our world particularly the medical system which is a big part of keeping people addicted to drugs.

The money stolen was for my horses and other farm animals winter hay. We have about 6 days supply left. Donations can be tax exempt. Can be made thru our website
www.healingwithhorses.com

Or come see me real time at the farm.
Or send a check. Address on website.
Thank you for your consideration
🙏❤️😇🐴✌️🎄

Equines are great healers for minds, bodies and souls. They carry this wisdom and are willing to share this with those willing to embrace the healing journey side by side.
www.healingwithhorses.com

Need volunteers !
Call me to plan !
🙏❤️😇🐴✌️🎄

If you have never done any kind of breathwork; it IS the most amazing nervous system system reset; brain calming; self healing; cathartic for most anything you have going on physically, emotionally, mentally; and it DEFINITELY tapps the spiritual aspects of your life.
This is a day event. The true Holotropic Breathwork experience is 3-5 days.
I have condensed this to a day event because people are TOO BUSY to give time to themselves.

Please take time and read the flyer; and consider coming to learn of yourself and ways to tap into your inner healer.

Call me with any questions.

“Tonight I frustrated someone while driving. They followed me to the gas station and had a few choice words for me. I was really unsure what I did wrong. I began ask if he was ok and what was wrong and if there was anything I can do to make him less angry.

He stormed off and I wished him a good day. Typically this would not be my response, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve dedicated myself to “Seek to Understand”. There was something else wrong, nothing I did driving could make him this angry. 45 minutes later I came out to my truck in the school parking lot to this note. You never know what someone is going through. Seek to understand.”

Credit goes to the respective Author ~
Follow Us

The 2023 Bring Back the Love Retreat is here!

A retreat is an intense period of time for personal reflection and growth. Giving ourselves time to reflect and heal can be a powerful way to process the things that have happened; or that are happening; or that we wish to happen in our lives. By paying attention to messages we receive while in retreat we pave the way for greater healing and transformation, and the gifts of insight and clarity can be used in all aspects of our lives. We are naturally drawn and supported to move inward to explore and honor the gifts inherent in each of us.

Image not loading? (https://healingwithhorses.com/bring-back-the-love-2023)
Visit our website here for information on the 2023 Bring Back the Love Retreat (https://healingwithhorses.com/bring-back-the-love-2023)

View event details Click here for event details from Hochoka Retreat Center!

I have facilitated Holotropic Breathwork and self practiced for 30 years. It is a phenomenal cathartic brain & nervous system reset / re-wire for MANY and any issue = emotional, physical, mental & spiritual.

COME - my next one is September 30th
11 - 7pm.
Hickory NC

See flyer in the comments for more information
🙏❤️😇🐴✌️

www.HealingWithHorses.com

Horses who heal humans and reflect every needed place of healing/purging into miracles to become your life’s dream
Come to Hochoka
🙏❤️😇🐴✌️🦅

www.healingwithhorses.com

Kids, older folk, special needs people, leaders, horses, chickens, farm animals - yesterday’s shenanigans at the farm Hochoka

Next camp dates August 11 & 17.
Contact me if interested.
Or if you want to come another date
🙏❤️😇🐴✌️🦅

This man has rescued and adopted dogs who have lost the use of their back legs, and every day he strollers them to the dog park, where he reattaches their 'wheels', so they can play. Faith in humanity restored

At Hochoka - we offer programs which help children/youth/adults (at whatever age a person begins to want to develop their intellgence(s) )).

Programs related to the development of the following :

"According to Psychologists, there are four types of Intelligence:

1) Intelligence Quotient (IQ)
2) Emotional Quotient (EQ)
3) Social Quotient (SQ)
4) Adversity Quotient (AQ)

1. Intelligence Quotient (IQ): this is the measure of your level of comprehension. You need IQ to solve maths, memorize things, and recall lessons.

2. Emotional Quotient (EQ): this is the measure of your ability to maintain peace with others, keep to time, be responsible, be honest, respect boundaries, be humble, genuine and considerate.

3. Social Quotient (SQ): this is the measure of your ability to build a network of friends and maintain it over a long period of time.

People that have higher EQ and SQ tend to go further in life than those with a high IQ but low EQ and SQ. Most schools capitalize on improving IQ levels while EQ and SQ are played down.

A man of high IQ can end up being employed by a man of high EQ and SQ even though he has an average IQ.

Your EQ represents your Character, while your SQ represents your Charisma. Give in to habits that will improve these three Qs, especially your EQ and SQ.

Now there is a 4th one, a new paradigm:

4. The Adversity Quotient (AQ): The measure of your ability to go through a rough patch in life, and come out of it without losing your mind.

When faced with troubles, AQ determines who will give up, who will abandon their family, and who will consider su***de.

Parents please expose your children to other areas of life than just Academics. They should adore manual labour (never use work as a form of punishment), Sports and Arts.

Develop their IQ, as well as their EQ, SQ and AQ. They should become multifaceted human beings able to do things independently of their parents.

Finally, do not prepare the road for your children. Prepare your children for the road."

Author Unknown

www.healingwithhorses.com

Friday Sept 29, 2023
11am - 5pm & 7pm - 9pm
Healing with Horses $100 Kimberly 704-651-4800 www.healingwithhorses.com

Sat Sept 30
11am - 3pm
Holotropic Breathwork $75 Kimberly 704-651-4800

Sat Sept 30
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Prepare drum materials Price varies $133-$372 Angela 352-396-1157

Spirit Rising - Hochoka Retreat Center Spirit Drum Creation Worksho (spiritrisingflorida.com)
Sun Oct 1
10am - 3pm

Lace your frame drum. Pack a lunch.

Your Healing Retreat.
Unleash the rhythm of nature with a Spirit Drum - where animal medicine meets creativity. Secure your spot in our Spirit Drum Creation Workshop today and experience the art of crafting authentic Native American style frame drums with sustainably harvested hides.
Spirit Rising is thrilled to offer an opportunity to discover the modern take on the ancient art of Native

American-style frame drum making through a Spirit Drum Creation Workshop at Hochoka Retreat Center. Your deposit secures your spot in this unique and enriching experience, where you will learn modern techniques from expert craftspeople. Our sustainably harvested hides ensure a high-quality product that honors both the animal and its spiritual significance. Not only will you gain a beautiful instrument with exceptional sound quality, but also a new appreciation for its sacred medicine. Join us on this journey of self-discovery, cultural education, and musical enrichment today