Women’s Programs

Discover the Healing Power of Horses

We are excited to announce the expansion of our offerings with two brand-new Women’s Programs!
These programs are tailored for women looking to rediscover their love for horses or those who want to embark on a new journey of self-care and personal growth. Our programs are thoughtfully designed to create a safe space where women can practice presence and cultivate inner listening. Work with our equine friends to learn to reduce anxiety, build self-confidence, and enhance overall happiness. By working closely with our horses and then turning focus inwards, we hope participants  leave more in tune with their body and spirit.

At The Fox Moon Farm Project, we are dedicated to providing transformative experiences focused on the healing powers of nature and animals. Our serene farm environment offers a safe haven designed to foster self-discovery, confidence, and community through the powerful connection with our horses and the healing energy of nature.

Are you tired of taking care of everyone else but yourself? Feeling stressed, overwhelmed, fatigued and depleted? Join us for an adventure in personal exploration. We’ll meet at the farm every other Sunday morning to spend an hour with our horses where each woman will be paired with either a horse or miniature donkey, to embark on a journey of self-care and personal growth. Work with our equine friends to learn to reduce anxiety, build self-confidence, and enhance overall happiness. In the final hour, we will return our horses and donkeys out to pasture, while we focus on mindfulness and rejuvenation. This hour will involve sound baths, breathwork, meditation, yoga, forest bathing, journaling and more.

At the start of the program, we will sit as a group and set intentions for our work together. Writing in our horse journals, we will identify our struggles, goals and aspirations for our time here at the farm.

  • Horsemanship Skills: We will learn the fundamentals of working with horses, including grooming, leading, safety, reading horse behavior, feeding, and basic commands. As you engage with your equine companion, you’ll uncover a growing bond that nurtures your confidence and self-esteem. During each session, you will spend quality time with your horse, including thoughtfully designed activities which promote connection and joy, allowing you to tap into your playful side and experience the healing power of animal companionship.
  • Group Reflection: Our horses serve as mirrors to our souls, helping us process hidden emotions and feelings in a supportive group setting where shared experiences and insights can emerge.

After your time with the horses, join Lora Bishop, founder of Soulshine Wellness and Retreats, for an hour of breathwork, soundbaths, meditation, journaling and more, in our tranquil Forest Wellness Space or at our lakeside retreat, Soul Moon Cove.

Lora is devoted to helping individuals reconnect with their inner power, regulate their nervous system, and create lasting personal change.

Through a unique integration of breathwork, energy healing, Reiki, somatic practices, hypnotherapy, Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy®, heart coherence techniques, and mindset coaching, Lora guides clients beyond surface-level healing into deep subconscious transformation.

Her work focuses on restoring balance within the autonomic nervous system, releasing emotional blocks stored in the body, and helping individuals rewrite the internal patterns that shape their lives. By combining science-backed nervous system regulation with powerful mind-body modalities, Lora creates experiences that are both deeply restorative and profoundly transformational.

Clients often describe her sessions as immersive journeys—where breath, sound, energy, and subconscious work converge to create breakthroughs in clarity, self-worth, emotional freedom, and personal empowerment.

At the heart of her work is a simple but powerful belief:

When the body is regulated, the mind is clear, and the heart is open—true transformation becomes possible.

Breath Work
Sound Baths
Reiki
Yoga
Meditation
Journaling and more

Are you ready to embark on this transformative journey? These heart-centered activities are designed to help regulate your nervous system, release emotional tension, and reconnect with your inner self. You’ll discover rest, renewal, clarity, and harmony in both your body and mind. By engaging with our horses and participating in mindful practices, you’ll cultivate resilience, inner peace, and deeper connections—both with yourself and the wonderful community of women around you.

Spaces are limited, so we encourage you to secure your spot by registering today. We look forward to welcoming you to The Fox Moon Farm Project, where healing, connection, and empowerment await!

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Session Details

Format: Each session lasts two hours, occurring every other Sunday for 12 sessions. (You may miss up to 2 sessions with no payments for scheduling conflicts).
Size: Groups limited to six women for a personal experience.
Cost: $105 per session, with a commitment to advance payment for 1 session in advance to hold your spot, equal to $105.00). Sliding scale available- contact us for more information.
Start Date: Sunday May 3rd 11-1pm
Questions? Contact Cindy cfrei@foxmoonfarm.org

Register below to secure your spot today!

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    Women’s Horseback Riding Lessons

     

    Join us for a weekly one-on-one session with our certified horseback riding instructor, where you’ll discover the essentials of horseback riding in a calm and nurturing environment. Before you saddle up, you’ll focus on developing foundational horsemanship skills to ensure you feel confident and prepared for your riding experience.

    In these initial sessions, you’ll also cultivate a meaningful partnership with your horse, gaining insights into their body language and emotions. Once this connection is established and your skills are honed, you’ll embark on your horseback riding adventure.

    Each session blends horsemanship with mindfulness, teaching you techniques such as “horse breathing,” emotional regulation, and anxiety reduction. Come ride with us and deepen your bond with these magnificent animals while enhancing your overall well-being!

    • Basic Horsemanship Skills: Understand horse behavior, anatomy, and care. Learn safety practices when approaching, handling, and grooming your horse. Develop the skills to successfully tack up in English or Western disciplines. Practice groundwork exercises through in-hand and liberty work to build a thriving partnership with your horse.
    • Riding Skills: Discover balance, posture, and traditional riding techniques. Master the art of communication with your equine partner through different bodily cues.
    • Mindfulness & Life Skills: Engage in practices that help you reduce anxiety, regulate emotions, increase self-confidence, and improve social communication.

    A Unique Opportunity for Growth

    Whether you’re a woman who has always wanted to learn how to ride, or someone looking to reconnect with an old passion, our program is perfect for you! Enjoy the calming rhythm of riding, which not only nurtures your mind but also promotes emotional, social, and cognitive development.

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    Session Details

    Horseback Riding Program

    Length: 8 Week program commitment to hold your spot.
    Cost: $85 per session (we request one month payment in advance).

    Each horseback riding session lasts one hour and is booked weekly. Financial Aid is available for those in need.
    We offer both Western and English riding options and lessons can be booked both during the business week and we still have weekend slots available.

    If you’re ready to embark on this exciting journey or want to learn more about our programs, fill out the form below and we will get back with you as soon as possible.

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      We're hiring! 🐴🌿

      We're growing our Healing with Horses team — and we're looking for two special people to join us.

      At Fox Moon Farm, we believe healing doesn't happen in a sterile office under fluorescent lights. It happens on 60 acres of Virginia farmland, alongside horses who never judge and always respond, in the quiet company of goats and gardens and open sky. If you've ever wondered what it would feel like to do deeply meaningful work in a place like that, we'd love to talk to you.

      We're hiring a Licensed clinical social worker or other licensed mental health provider. This role is for someone who wants to bring their clinical skill into a farm setting — designing individualized treatment plans, leading sessions that build life skills, emotional regulation, and self-confidence, and using the horses and the land themselves as therapeutic tools. You'll work alongside our Program Director, Equine Specialist, and Life Skills team to support children, adolescents, and adults with IDD, autism spectrum conditions, and complex trauma. Current certification required; equine experience is a plus but not required — we'll train you there.

      We're also hiring a Horseback Riding Instructor. This is a hands-on role for someone who genuinely loves horses and genuinely understands people — someone who can teach a beginner rider with autism just as naturally as they'd teach anyone else, adapting technique and pace to what each individual needs. A minimum of three years teaching experience and demonstrated work with special needs populations are required.

      Both roles ask for the same thing, really: patience, warmth, a calm presence in moments of big emotion, and a belief that every person who comes through our gate is capable of more than they've been told.

      If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you. Reach out directly to Cindy at cfrei@foxmoonfarm.org.

      Come as you are. Leave with more than you imagined. That's what we offer our clients — and it's what we hope this work offers you too.

      #FoxMoonFarmProject #NowHiring #HealingWithHorses #RecreationalTherapy #HorsebackRidingInstructor
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      Were hiring! 🐴🌿Were growing our Healing with Horses team — and were looking for two special people to join us.At Fox Moon Farm, we believe healing doesnt happen in a sterile office under fluorescent lights. It happens on 60 acres of Virginia farmland, alongside horses who never judge and always respond, in the quiet company of goats and gardens and open sky. If youve ever wondered what it would feel like to do deeply meaningful work in a place like that, wed love to talk to you.Were hiring a Licensed clinical social worker or other licensed mental health provider. This role is for someone who wants to bring their clinical skill into a farm setting — designing individualized treatment plans, leading sessions that build life skills, emotional regulation, and self-confidence, and using the horses and the land themselves as therapeutic tools. Youll work alongside our Program Director, Equine Specialist, and Life Skills team to support children, adolescents, and adults with IDD, autism spectrum conditions, and complex trauma. Current certification required; equine experience is a plus but not required — well train you there.Were also hiring a Horseback Riding Instructor. This is a hands-on role for someone who genuinely loves horses and genuinely understands people — someone who can teach a beginner rider with autism just as naturally as theyd teach anyone else, adapting technique and pace to what each individual needs. A minimum of three years teaching experience and demonstrated work with special needs populations are required.Both roles ask for the same thing, really: patience, warmth, a calm presence in moments of big emotion, and a belief that every person who comes through our gate is capable of more than theyve been told.If that sounds like you, we want to hear from you. Reach out directly to Cindy at cfrei@foxmoonfarm.org.Come as you are. Leave with more than you imagined. Thats what we offer our clients — and its what we hope this work offers you too.#FoxMoonFarmProject #NowHiring #HealingWithHorses  #RecreationalTherapy #HorsebackRidingInstructor

      One of the most important things we teach at Fox Moon Farm isn't a skill you can see from the outside — it's the ability to recognize what's happening inside.

      Many of our children, especially those on the spectrum, feel things intensely. The world moves fast, expects a lot, and rarely explains its own rules. That combination can be overwhelming. And often, kids haven't yet learned to notice a feeling building before it takes over — where anger sits in the chest, where anxiety shows up in the shoulders, what it feels like right before things get too big to manage.

      This is where the horses become extraordinary teachers.

      Horses are mirrors. They are prey animals, wired to read the smallest shifts in the humans around them — a tense jaw, a held breath, a racing heart — and they respond to it instantly. A child who is spiraling but doesn't know it yet will often see it reflected back first in the horse: pinned ears, a shift in weight, a step away. It's a gentle, honest kind of feedback no lecture could deliver. And once a child understands that connection, something shifts — they start paying attention to their own body, because they want the horse to feel safe with them.

      From there, we build skills: deep breathing, mindfulness, "horse breath" exercises done shoulder to shoulder with a horse who breathes right along with them. And the farm itself does quiet work too — something about being near horses calms the nervous system. So does the forest. So does water. So does open air and sunlight. We don't have to manufacture calm here. We just have to make space for it.

      Regulation isn't about never feeling big emotions. It's about learning to notice them, name them, and move through them without being swept away. That's a life skill that follows a child far beyond our fences.

      #FoxMoonFarmProject #EmotionalRegulation #HorsesAsMirrors
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      One of the most important things we teach at Fox Moon Farm isnt a skill you can see from the outside — its the ability to recognize whats happening inside.Many of our children, especially those on the spectrum, feel things intensely. The world moves fast, expects a lot, and rarely explains its own rules. That combination can be overwhelming. And often, kids havent yet learned to notice a feeling building before it takes over — where anger sits in the chest, where anxiety shows up in the shoulders, what it feels like right before things get too big to manage.This is where the horses become extraordinary teachers.Horses are mirrors. They are prey animals, wired to read the smallest shifts in the humans around them — a tense jaw, a held breath, a racing heart — and they respond to it instantly. A child who is spiraling but doesnt know it yet will often see it reflected back first in the horse: pinned ears, a shift in weight, a step away. Its a gentle, honest kind of feedback no lecture could deliver. And once a child understands that connection, something shifts — they start paying attention to their own body, because they want the horse to feel safe with them.From there, we build skills: deep breathing, mindfulness, horse breath exercises done shoulder to shoulder with a horse who breathes right along with them. And the farm itself does quiet work too — something about being near horses calms the nervous system. So does the forest. So does water. So does open air and sunlight. We dont have to manufacture calm here. We just have to make space for it.Regulation isnt about never feeling big emotions. Its about learning to notice them, name them, and move through them without being swept away. Thats a life skill that follows a child far beyond our fences.#FoxMoonFarmProject #EmotionalRegulation #HorsesAsMirrors

      There's a moment that happens over and over again at Fox Moon Farm, and we never get tired of watching it.

      A child stands at the pasture fence, sure they can't climb it. Or stares at a halter, sure their hands won't figure out the buckle. Or looks up at a horse — enormous, powerful, nothing like them — and is sure, absolutely sure, that this isn't for them.

      So many of our kids arrive carrying that certainty. They've spent years being told, in a hundred small ways, that they're different — that they don't move through the world the way other kids do, don't learn the way the classroom expects, don't look or sound or act like what's "typical." That adds up. It settles into a child's sense of self long before they have words for it.

      Here, we don't start with big lessons. We start with small, achievable tasks — climbing the pasture fence, hooking a halter, jumping off a rock, grooming a horse, learning to drive the tractor. Nothing flashy. Just one thing, right at the edge of what feels possible.

      And when they do it — when the halter clicks, when their feet land on the other side of that fence — we celebrate. Loudly. High-fives, real "good jobs," the kind of recognition that says we saw that, and it mattered.

      Confidence isn't built in a single triumphant moment. It's built task by task, the same way trust is built with a horse — slowly, and only through proof. Every small win here becomes evidence a child can carry with them: I did the thing I didn't think I could do. That evidence adds up to something society hasn't handed them: the belief that they are capable.

      That's the work. One fence, one halter, one hoof pick at a time.
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      Theres a moment that happens over and over again at Fox Moon Farm, and we never get tired of watching it.A child stands at the pasture fence, sure they cant climb it. Or stares at a halter, sure their hands wont figure out the buckle. Or looks up at a horse — enormous, powerful, nothing like them — and is sure, absolutely sure, that this isnt for them.So many of our kids arrive carrying that certainty. Theyve spent years being told, in a hundred small ways, that theyre different — that they dont move through the world the way other kids do, dont learn the way the classroom expects, dont look or sound or act like whats typical. That adds up. It settles into a childs sense of self long before they have words for it.Here, we dont start with big lessons. We start with small, achievable tasks — climbing the pasture fence, hooking a halter, jumping off a rock, grooming a horse, learning to drive the tractor. Nothing flashy. Just one thing, right at the edge of what feels possible.And when they do it — when the halter clicks, when their feet land on the other side of that fence — we celebrate. Loudly. High-fives, real good jobs, the kind of recognition that says we saw that, and it mattered.Confidence isnt built in a single triumphant moment. Its built task by task, the same way trust is built with a horse — slowly, and only through proof. Every small win here becomes evidence a child can carry with them: I did the thing I didnt think I could do. That evidence adds up to something society hasnt handed them: the belief that they are capable.Thats the work. One fence, one halter, one hoof pick at a time.
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