About Us

Equine Assisted Learning is life coaching with an equine twist provided by the

expertise of gentle horses and ponies and assisted by an EAL certified coach,

just two miles outside of Killam Alberta. Also leasing, boarding, & lesson

opportunities may be available to further enhance bonding and learning.

The principles that set EAL apart from other life coaching approaches are

primarily based in the natural two way sensitivity between horses and people.

Polyvagal theory offers a cutting edge trauma informed framework for Equine Assisted Learning. Delve into what your heart already knows you need - but can be hard to understand until the heart of a horse echoes it back to you! 

Neat fact that changes everything: scientific evidence that the magnetic field of a horse’s heart is large and strong enough to cause reciprocation from a human heart within 6 feet away. EAL and iHEEAL at Heart Echo Equines maximizes knowledge of both equine and human neuroscience and frameworks to achieve client goals.

Services such as internet/informed Heart Echo Equines Equine Assisted Learning  (iHEEAL) 

may be a good fit for you if you:

• Have issues with unresolved PTSD/trauma.
• Have tried other forms of therapy and you feel  you still haven't gotten the results you were after.
• Feel stuck in patterns of depression and anxiety.
• Have been told you have borderline personality disorder.
• Are comfortable with learning through online technology including tools such as email, apps, face time, and forums.

Goals include:

Restoring Connection

Renewing Hope

Revitalizing Resilience

If you are open to allowing horses to echo back to you revelations of your

authentic self and make way for deep healing, consider services through Heart

Echo Equines.

Naomi Dechaine, RN, BSc, BScN, MC is on a mission in life to bring hope, restoration, and resilience.  Primarily, people discover what they need is already within them!

Naomi uses her background as an equestrian, scientist, Registered Nurse and therapist with a Master's degree in Counseling to facilitate seekers in finding what they are looking for at the core of their being. 

Her science and nurse background have drawn Naomi to newer and now well researched frameworks of addressing a person's mental health. Primarily using principles of Polyvagal theory, Naomi works through emotional and trauma based issues from the 'bottom up' (focusing on the body as the driving force behind what goes on in the mind). If the mind and body are 'stuck' then freedom can be accessed from the 'top down' using the mind to help free the body. 

Her background as an equestrian combined with her use of the Polyvagal framework has led Naomi to obtaining her certification as an Equine Assisted Learning facilitator. EAL is a powerful, proven method for helping people learn what they need to about themselves and freeing their minds and bodies through one of the greatest teachers: the horse. 

Believe it or not, Naomi's Master's Thesis, published in 2017 was 170 pages delving into "Practical, Ethical and Spiritual Considerations for Online Counselling." Combining theory with practice the past few years by offering mental health therapy virtually as a professional, Naomi now feels ready to offer Equine Assisted Learning online in a way that has never been done before! This is how iHEEAL was born!