Our Mission and Values

Promoting wellness through horses.

Our Mission

HMS Learning Through Equine, in partnership with the Roots to Wellness Collaboratory at the University of Regina and the Nanatawihowikamik Healing Lodge and Wellness Clinic provides culturally guided counselling and horse-based healing workshops for individuals and their families. These programs support cultural reclamation, family reunification, holistic wellness, and Indigenous advocacy through trauma-informed land and animal based practices.

HMS is an Indigenous owned and operated business that offers therapeutic and educational services rooted in the First Nations and Metis knowledge systems. Located on Treaty 4 and Treaty 2 territory, the organization supports status, non-status, Metis and First Nations individuals through healing practices that re-connect people to the land, animals and cultural identity.

Our Vision

What sets our program apart from others.

HMS (Heart-Mind-Spirit) Learning Through Equine is an Indigenous-owned and operated horse-guided and land-based wellness initiative located in southeast Saskatchewan. HMS creates opportunities for children, youth, adults, families, organizations, and communities to reconnect with themselves through experiential learning, reflection, and relationship with the horses. Guided by Indigenous values, Two-Eyed Seeing, and culturally responsive practices, HMS recognizes that wellness involves the mind, heart, spirit, and body.

Our sessions bring together horses, land, culture, and human connection in a way that supports self-awareness, confidence, healing, and personal growth. The horses act as both a teacher and a mirror, offering immediate and honest feedback on a person’s internal and spiritual responses. The land provides the wisdom, grounding, and space for reflection.

HMS works alongside schools, recovery programs, organizations, and communities to provide culturally grounded wellness experiences that complement existing supports. Our vision is to create meaningful pathways to connect, healing, and wellness while contributing to Indigenous-led research and innovation approaches to personal and community well-being.
At HMS, we strive to provide an opportunity for people to reconnect with themselves, their communities/families, the land, and their purpose. Guided by the horse as teacher/relative and the land as wisdom keeper, we strive to create experiences that foster awareness, belonging, resilience, and healing. Through balancing the Heart, Mind, and Spirit, we believe individuals can discover the strength, clarity, and connection that have always existed within themselves.