A Sanctuary for Horses

We are becoming a sanctuary for rescued horses. With deep care, we attend to their individual needs — medical support, nourishment, and safe places of shelter.

At the same time, we support their return to a natural and self-determined life within the herd.
They live as freely as possible, with places of retreat, access to water, feeding areas, natural shelters, and mindful encounters with humans shaping their environment.

 

Their dignity, body language, and rhythm guide how we live and move together.

 

Healing through Encounter

In our seminars and community projects, encounter and personal growth are at the center.

We create spaces where humans, animals, and nature meet in deep connection — inspired by:

• Person-centered therapy (Carl Rogers)

• Focusing (Eugen Gendlin)

• Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)

• The Trust Technique (James French)

 

We accompany individuals and groups with the belief that every being holds its own capacity for healing and its own inner compass.

 

Workshops in self-awareness, expression, movement, dance, art, body language, and collective intelligence invite new perspectives and open pathways for action.

 

 

Meeting Yourself Among Horses

Here, the horses are companions. Each one brings its story, its presence, its quiet knowing.

Our approach is relational, listening-oriented, and grounded in trust.

 

In this shared field of awareness, healing is not made — it is allowed to happen.

Art, Body Language & Collective Intelligence

Artists become mediating voices between humans, animals, and nature. A bridge, an advocate, an invitation to see, feel, and act as interconnected beings. We create works that speak with nature, not about her. 

On site, new artistic formats emerge and travel into the world —

including our Artists’ Ambulance and Conflict Laboratory.

The River That Gained Rights

In 2017, the Whanganui River (Te Awa Tupua) in New Zealand was recognized as a legal person – with rights once reserved only for humans.

Inspired by this, we too wish to give voice and rights to nature and animals within our community.

We see them as beings in their own right – not as resources.

Their needs and wisdom are woven into our decisions.
Together, we take responsibility for the well-being of all living beings.

Animal Rights as a Shared Concern

In daily life with animals and the natural world, we experience equal and cooperative coexistence.
A natural sense of partnership grows — one we carry outward as we advocate for equality and justice for all beings.

A Quiet Revolution of Relationship

A sensitive  way of togetherness unfolds within our community — one that takes animals, plants, and rivers seriously as partners.

Encounter becomes therapy.
Art creates connection.
The horses accompany us as gentle guides.

Healing happens when we connect — and are no longer alone.

 

We bring together therapeutic, artistic, and ecological knowledge with lived community practice — shared through conferences, festivals, educational retreats, trainings, and pilot projects.

A Prototype for Co-creation

ANIMA Alliance is not a retreat. It is a living impulse for social transformation — a place to explore what it means to live in genuine relationship with nature and animals, grounded in responsibility and resonance. In an age of multiple crises, we turn toward regeneration and connection through tangible, everyday experience.

 

Questions that guide us

• What can an intact forest — like those described by Peter Wohlleben — teach us about coexistence?

• What might democracy look like when all living beings are included?

• What models of just and sustainable coexistence emerge from what we explore and live here?

 

ANIMA Alliance is…

• A sketch for a sensitive culture of togetherness

• a teaching and research initiative

• a school of love and relationship

• a laboratory for the common good