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Bring your retreat to the systemic layer.

A half day where each participant has their own systemic session with a horse, while the rest of the group witnesses, learns and holds the space. Together, we look beneath the immediate story and explore the hidden dynamics that may be shaping what is happening now.

Find your place. See what was never yours to carry.

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Joki with a participant and one of the horses in the Ibiza arena.

Why systemic work

Why bring systemic work into a retreat?

Retreats open people quickly. By the middle of the week, participants can usually feel that something keeps repeating — in a relationship, in their family, in the way they take up or give away their place.

Systemic work looks at that repetition differently. Not as a personal flaw, but as a position inside a system: a family, a partnership, a company, a lineage. Someone is often carrying something that started before them.

That is a different question than “what should I do next?” — and it is the question most retreat programmes do not have time to reach.

A quiet moment of inquiry between participant and facilitator at the fence.

The group

Your own session is only part of the experience.

While one person works with the horse, the rest of the group stays present under the carob tree and witnesses. They are not waiting for their turn.

By watching someone else, people often begin to recognise patterns in their own lives. The group learns how to look systemically: at belonging, place, unconscious loyalty, what we carry for others, and the patterns that keep repeating.

So every participant receives more than one session. They receive their own experience, the resonance of the others, and a framework they can keep using after the retreat.

The group under the carob tree, witnessing one participant's session in the arena.

The horses

No riding. No horse experience needed.

Horses are not oracles here. They do not read histories and they do not diagnose.

They respond to what is happening in the relationship now: hesitation, over-effort, held breath, or the moment someone stops performing. That gives us something concrete to look at rather than a story to interpret.

Systemic inquiry gives language to what appears. Kinesiology can help check and refine what emerges. Everyone remains on the ground and works at their own pace.

Signature offer

Half-Day Systemic Horse Experience

One morning, one group and one Ibiza arena. The experience is designed to sit inside the retreat programme you are already leading.

Group size: Up to 8 participants
Duration: Approximately half a day
Investment: Proposal based on group size and retreat format
Riding: No riding
Experience: No horse experience needed
Location: Ibiza

The group standing with a horse at the edge of the arena.

01
Arrival and orientation
We begin outside the arena with a short, plain introduction to how the morning works. No performance, no exercises to get right. Participants learn what to do with their attention while others work.
02
A personal session with a horse
Each participant has 15 to 30 minutes with a horse. Most of it is quiet. What happens is relational: how someone stands, waits, approaches, holds back, or takes up space becomes visible in the encounter.
03
Systemic inquiry
As something takes shape, I ask precise questions from a Family Constellations lens — about place, belonging, who is missing, what is being carried. Kinesiology is used to refine and check what emerges rather than to interpret it for anyone.
04
Witnessing
The rest of the group sits with the session. This is not spectating. People consistently report that what moved in them most came from watching someone else.

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For the retreat leader

It works with what is already present.

You do not need to brief me on every participant’s story beforehand. The work meets what is present in the moment and can complement themes that have already been moving through your retreat.

A systemic lens on your group

By day three of a retreat you already sense which themes are moving. This work makes some of those dynamics visible in a form participants can recognise, name and work with.

It builds on your programme

It does not compete with your teaching. Organisers regularly tell me the sessions confirmed and deepened what they had already opened in the days before.

You are welcome to participate alongside your group. If you would prefer to know the work from the inside before bringing participants, you can request a Facilitator Experience first.

Experience It First

From the arena

What retreat organisers noticed

“Everyone was very enthusiastic. So many insights, and so much confirmation of what we had already been working on with them in the days before.”

Retreat organiser, Belgian yoga retreat in Ibiza

“Everybody is still blown away. I knew you are good but I did not know you are THAT good.”

Catherine, Yoga & Riding retreat leader

After bringing her group, Catherine asked to book a private session for herself.

Case note

A Dutch retreat group spent the evening talking about the sessions. Some participants later returned to Ibiza for individual work, and the organisers reserved dates for their next retreat.

Gallery

Moments from the arena

Real photographs from half-day experiences and private sessions in Ibiza — the arena, the carob tree, the horses and the people who came to look at their place in the system.