Mindfulness with Elaine, a Maltese educational entity specialised in offering mindfulness experiences for children, recently entered into an agreement with NGO RMJ Horse Rescue to launch a new initiative to enable its mindfulness sessions to take place in a natural environment and through horse riding. Mindfulness is a type of meditation that brings a person to the present moment through awareness of thoughts, feelings and bodily sensations, Mindfulness with Elaine founder Elaine Azzopardi, an educator by profession, said the agreement will enable her entity to run mindfulness sessions for children and adolescents in a stimulating environment, apart from offering such experiences in schools. She said: “Through an integrated mindful approach, children will not only be offered the opportunity to learn how to practise mindfulness in their daily lives, but also to learn more about horses, which in itself can be very therapeutic.” Many equestrian-based programmes internationally already use mindfulness training and the power of horses to help people become more in tune with their emotions. Recent studies carried out in European and beyond have shown that equine-guided therapies...
