Wedgetail Equine Therapy and Art Therapy in Yarra Junction, Victoria | Sport & recreation

Wedgetail Equine Therapy and Art Therapy

Locality: Yarra Junction, Victoria

Phone: +61 417 312 602

Address: 205 Parkinsons Rd 3139 Yarra Junction, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.wedgetailrides.com.au

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25.01.2022 Assistant professor gave a balloon to every student, who had to inflate it, write their name on it & throw it in hallway. Professors then mixed all balloons. St...udents were given 5 min's to find their own balloon. Despite a hectic search, no one found their balloon. At that point the professors told the students to take the first balloon that they found and hand it to the person whose name was written on it. Within 5 minutes everyone had their own balloon. The professors said to the students: These ballons are like happiness. We will never find it if everyone is looking for their own. But if we care about other people's happiness....we'll find ours too. See more

23.01.2022 Understanding Dyslexia and ADHD. Full video is here - https://tealswan.com//n/online-workshop-january-2019-r139/

22.01.2022 RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE. "When I was at one of my lowest (mental) points in life, I couldn’t get out of bed some days. I had no energy or motivation and was b...arely getting by. I had therapy once per week, and on this particular week I didn’t have much to ‘bring’ to the session. He asked how my week was and I really had nothing to say. What are you struggling with? he asked. I gestured around me and said I dunno man. Life. Not satisfied with my answer, he said No, what exactly are you worried about right now? What feels overwhelming? When you go home after this session, what issue will be staring at you? I knew the answer, but it was so ridiculous that I didn’t want to say it. I wanted to have something more substantial. Something more profound. But I didn’t. So I told him, "Honestly? The dishes. It's stupid, I know, but the more I look at them the more I CAN’T do them because I’ll have to scrub them before I put them in the dishwasher, because the dishwasher sucks, and I just can’t stand and scrub the dishes. I felt like an idiot even saying it. What kind of grown-ass woman is undone by a stack of dishes? There are people out there with *actual* problems, and I’m whining to my therapist about dishes? But, my therapist nodded in understanding and then said: RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE. I began to tell him that you’re not supposed to, but he stopped me. Why the hell aren’t you supposed to? If you don’t want to scrub the dishes and your dishwasher sucks, run it twice. Run it three times, who cares?! Rules do not exist, so stop giving yourself rules. It blew my mind in a way that I don’t think I can properly express. That day, I went home and tossed my smelly dishes haphazardly into the dishwasher and ran it three times. I felt like I had conquered a dragon. The next day, I took a shower lying down. A few days later, I folded my laundry and put it wherever the fuck they fit. There were no longer arbitrary rules I had to follow, and it gave me the freedom to make accomplishments again. Now that I’m in a healthier place, I rinse off my dishes and put them in the dishwasher properly. I shower standing up. I sort my laundry. But, at a time when living was a struggle instead of a blessing, I learned an incredibly important lesson: THERE ARE NO RULES. RUN THE DISHWASHER TWICE!!!" Author unknown #pandemic2020 #depressionawareness

22.01.2022 Friday Fun days with our most senior 4-legged team member. Everyone loves cuddles with Jane

20.01.2022 Women have a very deep relationship to nature in its positive form. Relationship to animals can also affect the cure, and many Women make a relationship to a pe...t, which at that time may mean more to them than anything else because its unconscious simplicity appeals to the wounds within them. Relationship to a human is a differentiated task, but relationship to an animal is simple, and in feeling for it, the lost tenderness may be discovered. Marie-Louise von Franz Art: Pablo Picasso

17.01.2022 When a child is having a meltdown- screaming is the last thing we should be doing. Instead be stability itself in that moment and make them feel safe

16.01.2022 Snakes you can find them in our shopping centres, our backyards, and our offices! So what do you do when you see a 'nope rope'? #straya

11.01.2022 We will never forget you. Please join us in remembering the noble horses, donkeys and mules who stood side by side with the brave soldiers during the First World War. #RemembranceSunday #EveryHorseRemembered

10.01.2022 Wedgetail weekly

08.01.2022 When you find a young boy who’s crawling around on the floor because he can’t walk and his mother has to carry him everywhere, and you can give him a wheelchai...r it makes everybody’s lives so much better." Each year, millions of bread tags end up in landfill but a concept out of South Africa has inspired an Adelaide charity called Aussie Bread Tags for Wheelchairs to collect and recycle them, with the money gained helping the disabled.

08.01.2022 Sandy should never be forgotten. The only horse to come home. Ten million fighting men died in World War One. But what is less remembered is that at least eight... million horses died too, a number that is absolutely inconceivable to me. According to the Australian War Memorial, during WWI Australia sent 136,000 horses overseas to be used by used by the Australian, British and Indian armed forces. Tragically, only ONE horse from the 136,000 made it back home to Australian soil. This heroic horse was Sandy, a Waler who belonged to Major General Sir William Bridges, who was killed in battle at Gallipoli. A gentle bay standing 16 hands high, he was the Major’s favourite charger and it was his dying wish to have his beloved horse returned home to Australia to enjoy a long and happy retirement. When the Major died, Sandy was put into the care of Captain Leslie Whitfield and was transported to Egypt then onto France in March 1916. It wasn’t until the following year that the Australian authorities were able to honour the Major’s dying wish and granted Sandy a safe passage to return home to Australia. The big bay lived out his days munching on green grass at Maribyrnong in Melbourne’s west, around the place named Remount Hill, where many thousands of horses bound for war, Sandy included, had earlier begun their long one-way journey. In 1923, Sandy had to be put down due to ill health. It’s tragic to think Sandy was the only horse to return home once the war was over. While some of the horses that survived were sold to the British Army and others were given to locals, many soldiers chose to go against the army’s orders and destroy their horses rather than leave them on foreign soil. I can’t begin to imagine how devastating and heart-wrenching this would have been for these soldiers, but here’s a poem from Major Oliver Hogue which sheds some light on the gut-wrenching situation: I don’t think I could stand the thought of my old fancy hack Just crawling round old Cairo with a ’Gyppo on his back Perhaps some English tourist out in Palestine may find My broken-hearted Waler with a wooden plough behind. No, I think I’d better shoot him and tell a little lie: He floundered in a wombat hole and then lay down to die. Maybe I’ll get court-martialled; but I’m damned if I’m inclined To go back to Australia and leave my horse behind.

07.01.2022 The worst horsemanship is the use of constant threats; looking for a fault to correct and then making a habit of correcting everything you don’t like, until yo...ur horse thinks everything he does is wrong. His confidence is destroyed. If we’re honest, a good number of humans were trained that way, too. Correction has been our go-to language with horses. Some of us think if we are loving while we micromanage corrections, it’s different for the horse. As if being constantly nagged by a passive-aggressive person is substantially better than being intimidated by an angry person. There is no chance of controlling a horse when we have so little control over our own selves. ~ Anna Blake #wadifarmlife #gowiththeflow #bekind

05.01.2022 Understanding Children's Behaviour. Full workshop video available on Premium here - https://tealswan.com//online-workshop-march-4-2018-part-1/

04.01.2022 Children are not computers - they need the analogue environment for their healthy sensorimotor development. That's why we are campaigning for a right to screen-...free kindergartens and primary schools and for the development of a media literacy policy for schools based on the child's developmental needs as part of the EU Digital Action Plan 2021-27! You can sign here: https://eliant.eu//petition-2018-for-the-right-to-screen/ After all, it is a global issue all countries can participate! With best wishes for a healthy and happy 2021! Michaela Glöc

02.01.2022 These calm powerful moments are empowering for our clients & provide me with so much heartfelt joy as I witness what unfolds We encourage our clients to lear...n the body language of our horses. For them to listen and hear the yes and no of our horses. Bella is probably one of my most vocal herd members. We ensure our clients know how sensitive a horses head can be and that they need to listen if the horse says no. Below is a beautiful quiet calm, sensory moment where co-regulation of the nervous system is being experienced. This experience of emotional safety is being felt by both horse and human. It’s beautiful bearing witness to the relationship that has developed and the calmness that unfolds during these sessions #chantillyparklearningamdwellnesscentre #equineexperientialtherapy #coregulationwithhorses #horseshelpingkids

01.01.2022 Learn about EFL at Wedgetail Rides, Art Therapy and Equine Therapy by watching this short video - learn what it is, how it works and how it can benefit you or your child. EFL stands for Equine Facilitated Learning. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QiMkCBGwy-s.... . . #Efl #horsesforhealing #wedgetailrides #jarrah #autism See more