Since opening in January 2023, Spirit Horse Ranch has conducted 2,250 HeartMath^® sessions, helping individuals regulate their emotions, build resilience, and recover from trauma. Ranch sessions integrate equine-assisted learning with HeartMath tech- niques, teaching participants to manage stress, improve focus, and enhance emotional well-being. Serving wildfire survivors, youth facing personal crises, first responders, and mental health practitioners, the program has provided a vital resource for healing on Maui.

By fostering heart-brain coherence through equine interactions, the Spirit Horse Ranch continues to support the Maui, Lanai and Molokai island communities with scientifically backed methods for emotional and psychological recovery.

Molokai Ho’Aka Mana

The Ho’Aka Mana Native Hawaiian Collaborative project is a monthly initiative on Molokai where we focus on supporting the Native Hawaiian community through equine-assisted learning and trauma-informed and heart coherence. This collaboration aims to provide culturally relevant services to enhance emotional well-being, resilience, and personal growth.

King Kekaulike High School

In 2024, the Spirit Horse Ranch team trained six emotionally challenged teens and six high school counselors using the Inner Balance™ app and sensor. When they returned two weeks later, all the students shared that HeartMath was an invaluable tool for reducing anxiety and depression. They found it helped them focus better in school, build peer connections, and improve their overall well-being. The counselors committed to continuing the program to support ongoing emotional regulation and resilience.

Making a Difference

By integrating resilience-building techniques with equine-assisted learning, participants develop tools to manage stress, improve focus, and strengthen emotional well-being. Whether supporting youth, first responders, or wildfire survivors, these sessions foster lasting positive change, helping individuals regain balance and confidence in their daily lives. Mental Health is the most important thing!

Events on Maui and Lanai

In 2024, Spirit Horse Ranch participated in ten community outreach events on the islands of Maui and Lanai by delivering over 400 HeartMath sessions and distributing 5,000 HeartMath Coherence Cards to support emotional regulation and resilience.