Harmony with Horses

An Aligned Horsemanship Immersion

A 7-night immersion in Equine Yoga & Aligned Horsemanship,
on Costa Rica's Caribbean coast

Choose your own pace

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Harmony
with Horses

Learning Experience
Registered Yoga Alliance School & Teachers

This is not a retreat in the resting sense. It is an immersion — a week of learning, presence, and genuine connection with horses, woven together with yoga.

Over seven nights on our eco horse farm in the Caribbean jungle, you'll learn the language of horses while deepening your understanding of yourself. Two practices that belong together, yoga and Aligned Horsemanship, become one journey toward clarity, confidence, and a quieter, truer way of being with horses and with life.

Location: Cocles de Talamanca, Costa Rica's Caribbean Coast.

This is different from our Signature Retreat. Where the retreat is rest and renewal, the Immersion is learning and horsemanship. Meals not included.

Aligned Horsemanship includes: Liberty Training · Yoga · Natural Horsemanship · Dressage as Yoga for Horses · Bitless riding (with the knowledge of how to use bits when unavoidable) · Bareback · Riding with the Breath · Barefoot Horses, and more.

📆 2026 Dates ★⋆ Aug 29 – Sep 8 ★⋆ Oct 10–20

📆 2027 Dates ★⋆ Mar 13–20 ★⋆ Jul 3–10 ★⋆ Oct 2–9 ★⋆ Dec 4–11

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Program Information

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Program Information

✹☾ A Learning Immersion

Designed for personal growth and horsemanship development, a week to truly deepen your practice, not just sample it.
✹☾ Horse Ethics from the Core

Our horse ethics are not an after thought or a selling tagline. They are the whole point. Our horses live free, barefoot, bitless, at liberty. They are not here to perform, and they are not instruments for our growth. We simply learn to grow quiet and present enough to meet them where they are. What they offer, they offer freely. What we learn, we carry home.
✹☾ Inclusive

No prior experience with horses or yoga is needed, only an openness to learn. Yoga is for all ages, backgrounds, and bodies. If you are a human drawn to yoga and horses, you are welcome here. ♡
Yoga is for all ages, backgrounds, genders, etc. If you are a human with interest in yoga and horses we welcome you ♡
✹☾ Experiences

Soul-nourishing, skill-building days: morning yoga, equine yoga and horsemanship workshops, meditation in the presence of the herd, chakra work, liberty connection, and swimming with horses in the sea. Each experience builds physical, mental, and emotional strength, body awareness, and a deeper intuition for horses and for life.
✹☾ Eco Horse Farm

We’re located in a serene horse farm in the Caribbean jungle of Costa Rica, providing a tranquil environment away while respecting nature and restoring the land. Our horses live happily in their pastures, love connecting with yogis and playing in the arena.
✹☾ Made with Love

This place was created by yogis, for sharing yoga and another way of being with horses. It is not a resort. It is immersed in jungle, to live alongside it.

Discover Alignment
of Horse and Self

Aligned Horsemanship is becoming aligned with your horse, aligned with yourself, aligned with life, discovering the deep connection we all long to feel. Every human searches for connection: to others, and to Self.

Through the Four Pillars of Aligned Horsemanship, you'll begin to learn the language of the horse and how to meet them, through your body language, your intention, your breath, and the subtler levels of energy.

The immersion integrates liberty training, breath and body-language communication, subtle energy awareness, positive reinforcement, and holistic equine care and understanding.

Horses are deeply sensitive to energy. As we become attuned to it, we meet them on subtler levels, and that same attunement draws us into a deeper connection with all of life. Nothing is truly separate; we've only come to perceive it that way. When we set down the masks and return to our true nature, we begin to see everything as connected. This is Union. This is Yoga. This is Life.

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1. Choose your Pace

Gentle Pace
A balanced, spacious approach with time to explore and connect with nature. Daily morning yoga, one horse class per day, and a rest day to recharge. Relaxed, immersive, and budget-friendly, and open to all, including complete beginners.
Dedicated Pace
A deeper dive into Equine Yoga & Aligned Horsemanship, with morning yoga and up to two horse classes daily, including mounted work. This pace suits those with some riding confidence who want full engagement with the practice, the philosophy, and the transformative rhythm of this way of life.
2. Choose your Duration

This 7-night immersion is your foundation, one full week to learn, settle, and connect.
If you'd like to go further, you can extend your stay by up to 4 additional days, and we'll shape those extra days around whatever calls to you most: more horsemanship, more time in nature, more space to turn inward.
3. Accommodation

You'll stay with us in our jungle lodge, sharing the kitchen, the living space, and the easy rhythm of the days together. Living side by side is part of the immersion, where conversations, friendships, and connection grow naturally beyond the sessions.
Choose the room that suits you:
Private room
Your own quiet space to retreat into at the end of each day.
Shared room
A shared space with fellow participants, gentle on the budget and warm in company.
Three rooms, Agave, Galangal, and Biribá.

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Gentle Pace

5 Yoga classes
The Language of the Horse
Liberty Connection
Swimming with Horses in the Sea
Yoga with Horses (Groundwork)
Chakra Harmonizing & Healing with Horses

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Intensive Pace

5 Yoga classes
The Language of the Horse
Liberty Connection 1
Swimming with Horses in the Sea
Yoga with Horses (Groundwork)
Chakra Harmonizing & Healing with Horses
Liberty Connection 2
Breath Connection with Horses (Groundwork)
Breath Connection with Horses (Mounted, Bareback & Bitless)
Yoga with Horses (Mounted)
Beach Horse Trek

Is this for me?

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If any of the following resonates with you...

You long to reconnect with your true self in the quiet presence of horses.
You want to discover the synergy between yoga and horsemanship.
You're ready to rethink and gently challenge the traditional ways of working with horses.
You want to learn Aligned Horsemanship, to build a deeper, more respectful, more honest partnership with horses.

...then this immersion is for you. 🩵

Meet your kindred spirits and teachers

Terry L. Newton

HOST, YOGA SCHOOL DIRECTOR, HORSE WOMAN, EQUINE YOGA PIONEER, METAPHYSICAL HEALING, YOGA THERAPIST
Terry is a passionate equine yoga pioneer and teacher, blending her deep knowledge of horses with her expertise in yoga and metaphysical healing. From her childhood days volunteering at horse farms near Toronto to her extensive studies in horsemanship and equine therapy in Costa Rica, Terry has always been passionate about forging a profound bond with horses, one that respects and honors the horse’s nature. She has hosted and participated in numerous clinics on Parelli, barefoot trimming, and equine coaching, and she developed the Equine Yoga Teacher Program to integrate equine wisdom with yoga practices.
Her approach, Aligned Horsemanship, combines holistic horsemanship with yoga to enhance the spiritual connection between humans and horses. Terry's teachings focus on self-compassion, openness to change, and creating a nurturing space for self-discovery and healing.
Johanna Holst

PROGRAM CO-DIRECTOR, YOGA TEACHER, EQUINE YOGI, HORSEBACK ARCHER, DRESSAGE & POSITIVE REINFORCEMENT
Johanna Holst is a 500-hour certified yoga teacher and a dedicated horsewoman. With a rich background in dressage training and mounted archery honed in Sweden, Johanna brings a unique blend of equestrian skills and yoga expertise to her teaching. Her deep respect for nature, instilled by her biologist parents, led her to volunteer at horse farms worldwide, ultimately finding a home at Kindred Spirits. At Kindred Spirits, Johanna combines her love for yoga and horses, creating a nurturing space for students to explore the transformative power of both practices.
Yoga and horses have also lead to create her own style of mounted archery as form of empowerment that channels the ancient wisdom of the Tantric Goddesses.