RETREATS AND WELLNESS WORKSHOPS

Equine Guided Experiential Learning (EGEL)

Full-day Wellness Experiences and Multi-day Retreats

SURPASS lifes hurdles

Couples Connect to re-engage

STOP to gain clarity and joy

Boots and PJ’s Retreats

Women surpassing cancer diagnosis

Women seeking to re-connect with nature

Peaceful Acres HorsesA HEALING SANCTUARY FOR PEOPLE AND HORSES

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Through the gentle guidance of the horses at Peaceful Acres Horses and the facilitation of the PAH Empowerment Team, you will have an opportunity to participate in a three-week mind, body and soul wellness experience. Your SURPASS encounter will lift you through your hurdles and guide you into living what is your true nature and joy-filled life!

Offering the setting of “The Ranch”, Peaceful Acres Horses’ facilitators will be honored to accompany you on this life lifting adventure with the horses. Avis Burnett, PhD offers “Healing with Horses” at a quantum level, learn and experience healing at a cellular level. Andie Keenan will offer awakening through color and EFT ( Emotional Freedom Technique), Andrea Fortuin will offer Yoga Nidra – Body sensing for integrative restoration, Anita Rose offers channels to forgiveness through intuitive connection and spiritual guidance and Nanci Beyerl, MSW introduces you to the heart space of the horses who will guide you to accept the wonderful you and embrace your abundant authentic self.

SURPASS WITH HORSES WORKSHOPS Three-day workshops are available the 2nd, 3rd & 4th Saturday of the month, March-November.

Weekday workshops available by appointment for groups and organizations, Monday-Friday 10:00-3:00.

Boots and PJs Summer Camp where women come to de-stress and break away from their busy schedules. Rejoice, energize, and enjoy nature in a serene, peaceful environment. Accom-modations are available in our bunkhouse yurt. All meals and activities are included. Offered May-October.

TO REGISTER visit peacefulacreshorses.com or contact Nanci@peacefulacreshorses.com and complete a short registration form. Office: 518-887-3178 AMEX, MC, VISA AND PAYPAL ACCEPTED

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SURPASS with HorsesAre you stuck? Are you in a place of “question”

rather than answer? Is the stress of life making

your mind race? Are you following your heart and

life’s purpose? Do you wish to “Surpass” your

hurdles and live your dreams? Are you ready to

be empowered? What would you do if you knew

you could not fail?

Renew�~�Rejoice�~�Expand

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Couples Connect

Has your couple-hood been put on the back burner?

Are you and your partner spending less time together?

When you are with your partner are either of you

disengaged from the relationship? Has technology

interrupted your face-to-face talk time? Are you

longing to rekindle your relationship, but feel

vulnerable to do so? Is your intimacy still important?

Does your partner know and sense that?

Have you and your partner identified your hurdles?

Are you and your partner laughing together?

Empowering couples to connect, rebuild relationships

and find passion

Depending on how you answered these eight questions, may determine if you would gain insight into what may be within reach for you and your partner to rekindle a joy-filled and passionate relationship.

To learn to Accept, Connect and Trust is a bit like being a producer to your own play. This is your life, there is no rewind button. You do have it within your ability, mindfulness and desire to live with joy, passion and connection.

Equine Guided Experiential Learning sessions for couples are not at all like entering a therapy office. The facilitation is not based in speaking; rather it is based in experiencing, creating and building. Couples Connect may be ideal as a integrative pathway to healing your relationship with the aid of a therapist, but that is not necessary.

Couples Connect was established at The Ranch, facilitated by Peaceful Acres Horses team of integrative healing profession-als to assist people to become more engaged and enlightened within their most desired intimate relationship.

Couples Connect requires the couple to commit to four sessions at The Ranch. Each session builds on the one previous, an experiential process that allows for creativity and expression to become enhanced, identification of pleasures and desires are the focus rather than “all that is wrong”. All sessions are centered on becoming mindful of the positive, the heart space that drives your compassion and passion for yourself and your partner.

You and your partner can feel bliss, it is not selfish to feel good, be connected and more emotionally, physically and spiritually satisfied. The more we are “in bliss” the more we can offer pleasure, satisfaction and hope to others.

The sessions will be similar to a play ~ Follow along to learn more and then you can choose if you would like to Connect by learning how to ACT Accept, Connect, Trust.

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ACT One ~ Enters Partner One, feeling that something is missing in the relationship that was once the most important relationship in their life. It is here that Partner One builds their “life set”, bringing focus and gratitude to their strengths, noting the temptations, hurdles, losses that they have experienced as an individual. Partner One’s “life set” becomes energized with the hope of transformation and integration of personal strengths that have the power to dissolve limiting beliefs and behaviors. The facilitating horse guides Partner One though their “life set”, encouraging them to remain focused, calm, authentic and hopeful of a bright and kind future with themselves and their partner.

ACT Two ~ Enters Partner Two, feeling that something is missing in the relationship that was once the most important relationship in their life. It is here that Partner Two builds their “life set”, bringing focus and gratitude to their strengths, noting the temptations, hurdles, losses that they have experienced as an individual. Partner Two’s “life set” becomes energized with the hope of transformation and integration of personal strengths that have the power to dissolve limiting beliefs and behaviors. The facilitating horse guides Partner Two through their “life set”, encouraging them to remain focused, calm, authentic and hopeful of a bright and kind future with themselves and their partner.

ACT Three ~ Enters Partner One and Partner Two, feeling like they are willing to give it a chance and learn how to Accept, Connect and Trust. The couple enters the indoor arena, it is there that together they build their “life set”, showing the hurdles in their lives, the transitions, the strengths and tools they have to rebuild. They set their sight on a place of joy and hope. The couple joins together with their facilitating horses in an encounter that encourages creativity, teamwork, acceptance and determination to heal their relationship.

ACT Four ~ The Couple reenters the arena, this time building a “life set” of hopes, dreams, goals and aspirations, for them-selves and as a couple. The “life set” begins to resemble the couple-hood and activities they once enjoyed, the passion that was once vibrant, the joy-filled activities that once connected them to laugh and play. They join together with their horses to journey through their “life set”, a journey of remembering how easy it is to be together and how important it is to ACT ~ Accept, Connect and Trust.

Become the ACTors in your own “Life Set”, at Peaceful Acres Horses you can connect to your partner again, not through words or traditional “talk therapy”, but through experiences that open your mind, heart, spirit and body to the passion, friend-ship and love you once had.

Peaceful Acres Horses offers a tranquil and accepting environ-ment set on 156 acres in Schenectady County. The facilitating horses embrace every couple without judgment or expectation. The ranch offers each couple the confidentiality they deserve to once again embrace and fall in love. Come as you are…just come. You too can Connect, Rebuild and Find Passion.

Please contact Peaceful Acres Horses before giving up on your relationship; Peaceful Acres Horses has a “couple’s connection” success rate that you too deserve. Office: 518-887-3178 Email: Nanci@peacefulacreshorses.com

Your ACT can be scheduled over a weekend or 4 weeks, it is up to you, let us know what best fits your schedule and heart. *Rules of ACT – No cell phones, emails, text messages, laptops or electronic games. It is time to unplug at PAH during sessions and while in the 4 week program on Sundays and after 7:00 at night. Tuition: $800

Couples Connect

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Enjoy a STOP Workshop with your workgroup, team, family or friends or treat yourself to a special STOP experience at Peaceful Acres Horses.

Register online at www.peacefulacreshorses.com Phone: 518-887-3178 Email: Nanci@peacefulacreshorses.com Subject: STOP

STOP ~ Individual Tuition: $135 per session, Couple $200 (one hour), group $120 per person (two hours). STOP creates behavioral pattern shifts in only a few sessions. Plan to invest in yourself, 3-4 sessions are ideal. STOP and SURPASS with Horses are an ideal blend of programs offered at PAH to assist people to find their joy and passion for life.

“STOP”AT THE RANCH

Yes, you can STOP.

STOP does not need to have a negative vibe!

S ~ Stillness; giving to ourselves the

honor, privilege, right to be STILL in

mind and body.

T ~ Transition; a bright line that we feel

in our hearts that is a point that once

passed, we have a better quality of life

and our hearts sing. What we authenti-

cally desire is on the other side of the

transition line.

O ~ Openness; a state of being that we

feel genuinely within our hearts and

consciously within our minds that

offers…peace.

P ~ Peace; which we all deserve, need,

long for and have the ability to reach…as

long as we honor ourselves with STOP!

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Become healthy and vibrant by registering for SURPASS with Horses

Constant, pervasive, never-ending stress found to proliferate in our culture is detrimental to our mental, emotional, psychological, physical and spiritual wellbeing. So what do we do about it?

1. Engage in nature-based activities daily2. Incorporate meditation, prayer, rest into our everyday lives3. Bring animals into our lives (animal assisted therapy is an

effective form of therapy)4. Eat a nutritionally balanced and cruelty free diet5. Join Peaceful Acres Horses for a Wellness Workshop or

Retreat and engage in all four of the essential remedies for wellness!

Exposure to nature and animal guided learning can enhance intelligence, reduce stress and anxiety, and allow the brain to relax, allowing you, as the individual to “self-actualize” (“every-thing that one is capable of becoming.” – Abraham Maslow). A brain stuck in stress is stuck in fight or flight and does not operate to its full potential. Visit peacefulacreshorses.com to register for SURPASS with Horses.

Single or Multi-day RetreatsYoga • Reiki • Vortex Healing • Matrix Energetics

Art Expression for Healing • Meditation

Drumming • Nature Walks • Positive Affirmations

Color your way to Balance • Relaxation Program

Fun with horses • Nature based setting

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Boots and PJs Retreats Attend a Peaceful Acres Horses Wellness Retreat to

activate your passion and awaken your dreams.

Your retreat will offer quiet reflection and meditation, self-care through positive affirmations, balancing the chakras, authentic communication and self-expression, nutritional guidance, and stress reduction. Our energy enhancement techniques, including EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) Reiki and yoga, will help you to feel inner peace and relaxation. Energy work facilitated at the ranch is a wellness treatment where an energy practitioner works on your energetic field, in harmony with your physical body. From Reiki to chakra balancing, an energy work session is a unique experience that can give you an improved outlook on life and accelerate healing physically, emotionally, psychologi-cally and spiritually.

Taking time for yourself and learning to care for yourself is critical for mind-body-spiritual wellness. Having the energy, emotional and physical health to pursue your dreams enables you to offer your gifts and talents to others, thus affecting posi-tive change within the world. By becoming a positive change agent in your own life, others will follow your lead and create positive change in their own lives. A PAH Wellness Retreat is designed for the mother in you, the executive in you, the wife in you, the daughter in you, the social entrepreneur in you.

Our nature-based group workshops are designed to engage the senses and open pathways to the healing power of self-care. You will feel empowered to create and dream. With the gentle guidance of the horses and healing coaches at the ranch, you

will feel safe to tap into the dream-child within, allowing your heart to sing and your creative energies to flow. You will redis-cover your natural, beautiful, inspiring and passionate self!

For three days you will unwind, relax, take your own sweet time, make choices that are all for you, take a slow walk, sit in a swing, read under a shade tree, enjoy a massage, eat delicious, nutritious vegetarian meals, groom a horse, breathe in fresh country air. What you will not do; answer the phone, email, check Facebook or Linked In messages, add to your to-do list, cook, clean or worry.

Join us in 2013 for 3 days of rejuvenation and revitalization Thursday-Saturday Wellness Retreats: Arrive Thursday, registra-tion and settle into your accommodation yurt or cabin from 3:00-4:30, Tour of the ranch at 5:00. Dinner and empower-ment experience: 6:00-9:00. Friday and Saturday workshops and relaxation sessions, Saturday farewell ceremony 5:00. Week-long Relaxation and Revitalization Retreats for your group are also available upon request. Call 518-887-3178 or email: nanci@peacefulacreshorses.com.

Boots and PJs Retreat: May 2-4; June 6-8; July 11-13 ; August 1-3; September 12-14; October 3-5

Surpassing Cancer Diagnosis Retreat: Ask about scholarship funding if you are surpassing cancerAugust 15-17; September 19-21; October 10-12

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Meet the Facilitators Wellness Workshops and Retreats are offered at

The Ranch, facilitated by Peaceful Acres Horses’ very

special and creative team of wellness facilitators.

Nanci Beyerl, earned her MSW from Adelphi University in 2007 and incorporated Peaceful Acres Horses, Inc. in that same year. In 2010, Peaceful Acres Horses was recognized as The Small Not For Profit of The Year by The Tech Valley Non-Profit Business Council. Peaceful Acres Horses, PAH, is best known for its equine rescue and rehabilitation of horses that are neglected, abandoned and or abused. PAH’s horses, surpass their own neglect, loss and trauma go on to help people to surpass grief, loss, trauma, addictions and obstacles that are holding them back from a life of joy and emotional stability.

Nanci had a vision in 2003, as she surpassed her own personal crisis, to help others by partnering her horses, who saved her life, with other women and children who needed to find hope, clarity, safety and the joy of living. In the fall of 2003 Nanci earned level one certification in Equine Assisted Learning and Psychotherapy. In 2004 Nanci entered graduate school and received her MSW from Adelphi University in 2007. In 2009 Nanci worked again with EAGALA and became level two certified as an EAGALA practitioner. Nanci has continued her education and training in equine facilitated therapy, experiential learning and life coaching.

PAH is now the only Health and Wellness Center in The Greater Capital Region ( and beyond), that offers a variety of holistic health programs that partner rescued horses and donkeys in the restoration and enlightenment of people. Equine Guided Experiential Learning at the ranch helps hundreds of people each year to find their creativity, joy, hope and ability to surpass

hurdles. The gentle mind body and spirit of the horses, assist people to let go of harmful – negative belief systems and behav-iors and learn to embrace the love, joy, hope and passion that is authentically within.

Avis A. Burnett, PhD, holds a doctorate in Transpersonal Psychology and brings over 20 years of experience to her work. Her passion is Transformational Counseling, using principles of quantum mechanics to bring cellular-level heal-ing to physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual issues. Avis has studied numerous counseling and healing techniques over the years and draws from all of them in her work. Most recently inspired by Matrix Energetics, she now incorporates this modality in her sessions. Avis has been offering Healing With Horses workshops at Peaceful Acres for several years, incorporating the wisdom and healing presence of horses into her Quatum Healing sessions.

Leiah Bowden is a lifelong mediator, intuitive artist, and animal communicator. From the multidimensional realm where our souls are unveiled, she creates audio/visual spiritual Energy Portraits as commissioned works of art and healing tools. Each Energy Portrait comes with guidance from the subject’s and Leiah’s higher Self, angelic being, and off-planet intelligence. She also teaches people to find the access point in their own beings to do this work themselves. Leiah helps people identify the sacred as an accessible, personal aspect of the self; people engaged in SURPASS with Horses at PAH will have the op-portunity to leave with an understanding of how to make the spaces in which they live and work sacred.

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Avis�Burnette,�PhD:�A�Place�of�One-ness�http://www.avisburnett.com

Leiah�Bowden:�Transformational�Arts�http://www.lightspeak.com

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Karen�Carey:�http://lifestylized.com/karen

Lisa�Morahan:�http://www.floydwarriors.com

Peaceful Acres Horses3740 Rynex Corners Rd.Pattersonville, NY 12137

518-887-3178

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Our programs are found to improve self-esteem, emotional regulation, communication, focus, recognition

of boundaries and enhanced quality of life.