The ranch offers a limited number of E.A.R.T.H. programs to a select number of participants from May to September 2010.
The land and the animals share a sacred commitment to their special mission which includes passing on their wisdom and clear channel to Source or as they say "The ALL".

We hold the intention that those participants who will be called to join in this mission will oath an impeccable vow to become the instruments of change so needed in the human mass-mind consciousness. We are all one in the pursuit of complete surrender to that consciousness and creative wisdom in all life.

In 2009 we had the pleasure of connecting with and healing people from all over the world, establishing deep and lasting relationships through truth, love, joy and the freedom to explore our child-like innocence and claim our heart’s desires.
A visit to Gateway is an invitation to share the home of Liz and Kevin Ryan and the “Herd”. A pristine land where life is as it once was and will be forever in spiritual truth. The land, the animals, and the energies that abide here are a clear reflection of the ALL (or God) – the one universal consciousness of love within all life.

Many psychics have told that horse spirits are lining up to be born here, and the herd is a magical family of wise spiritual teachers who communicate from a connection to higher wisdom.
Liz and the horses, cats and dogs have co-authored four award-winning books, clearly channeled from their connection to higher consciousness. They, and our team of gifted practitioners will guide workshop participants to discover how to connect to their higher selves and discover a level of manifestation beyond their wildest dreams, a connection that will uncover and realize their true hearts' desires.
The four books allow the participants to greater understand this higher calling as they embark on their own individual journey to discover their unique place in this symphony of love.

GUEST WORKSHOPS and EARTH PROGRAMS:

Please continue to the experience page for more information, dates and to Register. Practitioner Biographies can be found by visiting the practitioners page.

Don't miss the photo gallery at the bottom of this page and be sure to watch the Equinisity trailer for an inside look at our E.A.R.T.H. Programs.

E.A.R.T.H. Program Workshops:

Equinistic Healing Certification Course:

Horses are coming forward as teachers and healers in programs everywhere. Here at Gateway 2 Ranch we have pioneered the EARTH programs last summer and had interest from people all over the world who would like to incorporate these at liberty horse healing programs that are producing miraculous results.

If you google EQUINISITY, we have thousands of search results already and they are all us.This summer we will be offering the EQUINISTIC Healing Certification course. The pre-requisite will be a certificate in one or more of the energy healing programs(ie. Healing Touch, Reiki,etc.) and reading, at least, One With the Herd and The Truth According to Horses. The course will maintain the message of connection and oneness of the EARTH workshops as well as the inspiration that the horses have shared through the books and workshops. It will involve apprenticing at a regular EARTH workshop at the regular cost, ($4000) while learning from Liz about the horses, their messages, and communication at liberty, and Billa, about shamanic principles regarding connection and oneness to the earth and the horse liberty healing techniques. Participants will keep a journal of their cases, details, and results (and if you presently do healing with horses, start now) and be required to do another 20 hours practicum after the one week course and submit a detailed journal of case studies. The practicum can be completed here at another EARTH workshop (which will be charged at half price) or in another situation that has the same or acceptable criteria.
It is important to maintain a degree of structure without taking away the horses ability to interact at liberty. Here is a typical private therapy session which shows the levels of interaction between the land, the animals and the healers and participants. It is important to realize that through this process, everyone is healed:

Participant arrived for her private therapy session, wanting to conceive a long awaited child. Crystal bowed to her and went straight to the table waiting for her to get up. Prospera than joined at the opposite end while Miro and Arthur held space and certain others came to help. Those horses maintained their places each morning for the entire three days and then were waiting for her on the land, and with Prospera in front, the herd surrounded her by the solar plexus chakra (an area on the land) and Prospera picked up Her 'Expect Miracles' hat off her head and lifted it high in the air then returned it several times so everyone would notice. They then circled an area of bush we had not noticed and showed us a deer bed in the center where a deer had birthed. This is to say nothing for the trees, the Hawks, ravens, bluebirds (two perched on a giant rock with a lichen embryo in a uterus shaped area to draw it to our attention) and cranes, all fertility symbols, who all led us to amazing signs. An enormous 500 year old tree in the shape of a pregnant woman appeared 20 feet off the main trail we had used all summer and had never seen before.

If you get too many people controlling the situation then you will lose the flow and honesty of the messages from the animals and the earth. Sometimes our fear gets in the way. Miro was one of the young horses that were a bit problematic last summer (boys will be boys) and he was instrumental in this latest process. This is why we are going to coin the method and certify healers so they will understand the big picture and not take this to an automated usuary program of what else can we get equines to do for money - just like Linda Kohanov and Barbara Rector did with their programs to guarantee the inspiration and purity are not lost. It is so much bigger and involves the entire communication, with love and respect and relationship with the horses. Also just as humans, not every horse is a healer, and you can't drag horses who don't live in natural connection with the earth and expect them to do the job (sort of like dragging a prisoner out of solitary and treating them like a monk) so, there is a whole learning involving the connection, the liberty, and respect. It will of course work better with a herd that lives naturally and together. This course would be a natural for Epona and EAGALA graduates to add to their skills.

Please e-mail liz@lizmittenryan.com to enquire about dates and times.

E.A.R.T.H. Program Workshop Level 1: Various Dates May - August, 2010 - $4,000(CAD)

Journey to the fourth dimension where awareness of universal oneness begins. The course spans seven days of adventures designed to awaken the immortal spiritual self and lead it to a level where peace, joy, connection and clarity are crystallized, helping each participant step through the gateway to follow their individual journey to enlightenment. There will be Equine Assisted Therapy with our Practitioners in the paddock at the Barn/House each morning as well as ground and riding exercises with the horses. Afternoons will be spent discovering and connecting with the land, its chakras, vortices, and powerful crystals, the trees, rocks and other realms. There will be free time to journal, explore or follow the herd.

E.A.R.T.H. Program Workshop Level 2: Various Dates May - August, 2010 - $4,000(CAD)

Once you have taken and resonated with the 4th dimension where awareness of the universal oneness begins, journey further to the 5th dimension where our sensitivities align with The All or the connection to all things otherwise known as Universal Consciousness. Explore, follow the herd, and through guided and self-directed activities spend time discovering oneness and interconnection with all life. Level 2 Workshops Include: Exploration into stillness in silent meditation on the land, expanded journeying into the upper, middle and lower worlds, which will incorporate individual exploration with land and horse excercises while journaling visions, feelings and increased awareness. There will be time to follow and communicate with the herd and experience challenging and enlightening guided horse activities, along with our equine assisted therapy and healing on treatment tables and in the paddock area. We will also offer deeper exploration into your creative self through vision boards, art excercises and personal mandalas.

Missy Wryn with LIZ MITTEN RYAN and the HERD: September 4th to 11th 2010 - $4,000(CAD)

Missy has developed Training the Whole Horse® methods and techniques on the foundation of Do No Harm. Specializing in Iron Free (bitless-spurless) riding for both English and Western trail riders, Missy teaches safer communication and control while maintaining an affectionate relationship between you and your horse.

During the E.A.R.T.H. Workshop you will have the opportunity to work with Missy’s Starting Under Saddle program and journey into level I of the Iron Free Mastery program (riding Iron Free – no bits no spurs), both steps in her Certified Mastery program.

Starting Under Saddle Mastery Course:

• Level I teaches herd language, herd leadership, equine anatomy, and functions of the horse both physically and emotionally while preparing and conditioning the horse with groundwork and training techniques for introduction to the saddle.

• Included in Level I you will learn the Four Core Emotional Concerns Missy’s identified that humans and horses share.

• Missy’s Wholistic Joining which invokes a horse’s natural instinct to recognize you as their herd leader. Wholistic Joining is a herd language based alternative to round penning methods.

• Three Foundations every horse should learn to be safer around you while deepening communication and companionship.
  
  

• Level II is advanced techniques with beginning riding under saddle bitless.

• Included in Level II Missy teaches Five Fundamentals that Translate Under Saddle for a Safer Bitless Ride.

• Setting foundations for walk, trot, whoa and the horse’s emergency handbrake as the safe and loving place we go when we’re in trouble.

As the week progresses and horses allow we’ll move into level I and 2 of Iron Free Mastery where you and the horse will learn and refine cues such as backing up, turning, turning on the haunch, turning on the forehand, drop rein whoa and the safe and loving emergency handbrake.

This special workshop is All inclusive with the E.A.R.T.H. (Equine Assisted Re-connective Therapy and Healing) program workshop level 1 with shaman Billa DeVries, comfortable accommodation in our rustic wall tents and gourmet meals.

Guest Practitioner Workshops:

Linda Kohanov Workshop: August 18th - 19th, 2010 - $1,500(CAD)

Personal Development through "The Way of the Horse".

The Epona method will help accellerate your personal development by learning how to:

• Understand emotion as information

• Get the messages behind emotion

• Set personal space and boundaries

• Access Authentic Power

• Increase relationship building skills

• Increase relaxation

• Increase creative expression

• Increase body awareness

Marta Williams Workshop: May 31st - June 3rd, 2010 - $2,000(CAD)

Marta is offering a four day workshop which will cover beginning and advanced communication, medical intuition and communicating with nature.

Beginning - Intermediate Animal Communication:
In this hands-on workshop you will learn intuitive communication by doing it. We will work with the animals that come to the workshop and with your animals at home, using pictures and descriptions. You will experience undeniable proof - through doing simple verifiable exercises working with animals you don't know - that intuitive communication is real and that you can do it. You will also learn techniques for talking to your own animals and hearing what they have to say to you. Explore your animal's purpose and role in your life.

Advanced Animal Communication:

In this workshop you will learn advanced applications of intuitive communication including finding lost animals, assisting animals in crisis, talking with frightened or resistant animals, talking with many animals at one time, communicating with animals who have died, remote viewing ("seeing" from a distance), learning how animals mirror us, discovering an animal's past experiences and past lives, interviewing animals, and talking with wildlife. You will also learn techniques for increasing your speed, accuracy and confidence in any situation.

Medical Intuition and Energy Healing:

Interview an animal intuitively about his/her health and discover what life issues may be affecting the animal’s well being. You will be taught to scan the body and the charkas (energy centers in the body) to detect deficiencies and imbalances and then use energy to promote healing in these areas. Practice on animals and people in the workshop and work with photographs and descriptions of animals not present. Holistic health care resources for animals also provided.

Communicating with Nature:

In this workshop you will expand your communication with wildlife. You will also learn how to communicate with trees and plants and how to bring health, balance and harmony to the plants in your garden using intuitive communication. You will discover your ally in nature and learn to connect with the spirits of place and the features of the landscape.

Margrit Coates Workshop: July 13th-14th, 2010 - $1,500(CAD)

Learn how to match the energy frequency of horses, so that you can help with a variety of mental, emotional and physical conditions. Matching a horse's energy vibration also means that you can communicate intuitively, because healing and telepathic communication work on the same energy wavelength. Spiritual healing is creative and does not rely on rituals or symbols to access healing energy. Healing energy is around and within us, and during the workshop you will learn how to harness this in your own individual way, and relating to the unique energy signature of a horse.
Reaching the horse soul to soul through a healing vibration means is, consciousness raising and not only do you then understand the horse on a much deeper level, you also explore your own potential.

At the end of the two day workshop you will know who the healer within you is, having allowed your innate gifts to have surfaced. The workshop is suitable for those new to using healing energy as well as people with previous experience.

The workshop that Liz Mitten Ryan is hosting will be the first time that Margrit Coates has taught in Canada – she has visited the US on numerous occasions. Places are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

Britt Mills Workshop: May 19th - 20th, 2010 - $1,500(CAD)

Integrative First Aid Overview:
This course is designed to provide the horse owner with the knowledge and the tools to effectively deal with most of the common emergency conditions, as well as preventive techniques to help avoid those emergencies.

Day 1:

• Introduction, common conditions requiring first aid.

• Physical examination techniques.

• Basic techniques and principles of acupressure

• Specific emergency conditions:

Colic:

• Signs and symptoms
• Types of Colic
• Information you need when your horse has Colic
• Treatments for Colic
• Holistic and Conventional treatments

Wound management:

• How to assess if a wound needs suturing
• How to assess if you need to call your Vet
• How to manage an open wound
• Dos and Don'ts about topical wound ointments

Day 2:

• Eye emergencies: Holistic and traditional treatments

• Laminitis: Holistic and traditional treatments

• Hoof Abscesses: Holistic and traditional treatments

• Other lameness conditions: Eg. Joint problems, splints.

• Pain management: Holistic and traditional treatments

• Stocking your First Aid Kit

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