Upcoming Retreats at HapBE Valley
You’ve heard about working with horses—now it’s time to experience them for yourself. Retreats at HapBE Valley offer a chance to step away from the busy world, slow down, and discover something new about yourself and how you’ve been moving through life. The horses are active participants in this process, offering honest, immediate feedback that deepens self-awareness and insight. Many guests return home feeling clearer, more grounded, and more able to show up authentically in their relationships, work, and daily life.
Guided by skilled EFEL facilitators, each retreat blends equine experiences with the grounding energy of the land, creating an ideal setting for meaningful breakthroughs and a fresh way forward.
Whether you join a group retreat or create a private experience, all retreats begin with a discovery call and intake process designed to clarify intentions, align expectations, and ensure a meaningful experience. Getting here is easy—Asheville, NC has direct flights from 26 US cities and a impressive new terminal.
Self-Connection Through Equine Wisdom Retreats
This signature three-day immersive retreat offers a grounded, experiential approach to self-discovery and healing through connection with horses. It draws on principles from neuroscience, nervous system regulation, and equine experiential learning. You’ll learn about yourself through powerful, in-the-moment experiences, while creating space to reconnect with your authentic self.
This retreat is for you if you’re navigating a life transition, considering what’s next, or simply feeling called to slow down and gain clarity. It offers a supportive environment to reconnect with what matters most and move forward with greater intention.
You’ll leave with more than a weekend away. You’ll go home with a deeper sense of self-trust, practical tools for regulating your nervous system in daily life, renewed clarity on what matters most, and a new circle of trusted friends who understand your journey.
Farm-to-table, chef-prepared lunches are included. Space is limited to 8 participants to ensure a deeply personal experience.
Stay in Asheville hotel, Bed and Breakfast or Airbnb.
Upcoming Dates
- September 25-27, 2026 (Fri-Sun)
- April 30 – May 2, 2027 (Fri-Sun)
- October 1-3, 2027 (Fri-Sun)
Mother Hunger® Healing with Horses Retreat
This four-day, three-night retreat offers a gentle path back to yourself, guided by horses and grounded in Mother Hunger®—the attachment framework developed by therapist and bestselling author Kelly McDaniel. Mother Hunger® names the quiet ache many women carry from childhood: lost nurturance, lost protection, or lost guidance. Left unhealed, it can quietly shape people-pleasing, perfectionism, disordered eating, and anxious relationships well into adulthood.
This retreat is led by Emily Davis, LCSW. Emily is one of only 30 certified Mother Hunger® facilitators and pioneered bringing this work together with horses. She is joined by a second licensed therapist on staff, ensuring you’re held with extra care throughout your time here. Each day includes equine-guided sessions, supportive group time, and optional morning movement to help settle the nervous system before the day begins. We also feature a powerful sound healing ceremony with a local AVL artist.
You’ll leave with more than insight. You’ll go home with a felt sense of safety in your own body, tools to recognize and interrupt old patterns of self-abandonment, and the beginning of a new relationship with yourself—one rooted in nurturance, protection, and guidance instead of striving and self-criticism.
Lunch and dinner are prepared farm-to-table by an incredible private chef using local ingredients. Lodging is in a cozy Airbnb just minutes from HapBE Valley. Space is limited to 8 people total to keep the group intimate and allow for everyone to get the most out of their investment.
Upcoming Dates
- Oct 15-18, 2026 (Thur 1pm – Sun 3pm)
- More dates to be added for 2027
The THRESHOLD Retreat with Britt Johnson
This four-day retreat is led by Britt Johnson, an Evolutionary Astrologer who has hosted retreats for women since 2015 and built her practice on weaving astrology, somatic healing, mythology, and authentic conversation into a single container for transformation. Held during Aries season — the astrological new year — this retreat was created for the moments when the life you’ve been living can no longer hold the woman you’re becoming.
Together, you’ll explore evolutionary astrology, seven-year life cycle mapping through the Heroine’s Journey, guided ceremony, and hands-on somatic bodywork to help release tension the body has been holding — all held in the quiet company of horses and the safety of an intimate circle of women
This retreat is for you if you’re navigating a major life transition, questioning your next chapter, grieving what once was, or simply sensing that life is asking something different of you. You don’t need to have the answers. You just need to be honest about where you are and be ready to go deep.
You’ll leave with more than a weekend away. You’ll go home with a deeper relationship to your own intuition, your own timing, and your own audacity — and a small circle of women who witnessed you getting there.
Three nights of accommodations and chef-prepared meals are included. Space is intentionally limited to 9 women.
Upcoming Dates
- April 2-5, 2027 (Thurs-Sun)
Men's Equine Retreats
This three day men’s retreat offers a grounded, experiential space for men to step away from daily pressures and reconnect with what’s real. Set in a supportive, confidential group container, the experience invites honest self-reflection, meaningful connection with other men, and time on the land with horses as powerful, nonverbal teachers. Through equine-facilitated experiential learning, men explore patterns around presence, boundaries, leadership, and integrity—not by talking about them, but by experiencing them in real time.
Working alongside the herd encourages clarity, accountability, and embodied awareness. The retreat supports men in slowing down, listening inward, and showing up with greater authenticity—both for themselves and in relationship with others. Leave feeling more grounded, clear, and confident in who you are and how you move through the world. Farm-to-Table chef prepared lunches. Limited to 8 people.
Family Equine Workshops
Our Family Equine Workshop offers a unique, shared experience designed to support connection, communication, and understanding among family members through grounded, hands-on interaction with horses. In a calm, natural setting, horses create a non-threatening mirror for how we show up with one another—their responses reflect energy, presence, and intention in ways words alone often cannot.
In this workshop, families participate together in activities such as mindful observation, cooperative groundwork, and shared tasks with horses that naturally encourage emotional regulation, clearer communication, and mutual trust. Horses respond to subtle shifts in non-verbal cues, helping each person notice how their body language, calm presence, and focus influence the group dynamic.
This workshop is offered in a safe, supportive environment where every family member can engage at their own pace, explore new ways of relating, and leave with practical insights that extend into daily life.
Corporate Workshops
Our Corporate Equine Workshop offers teams a fresh, hands-on way to explore how people work together—by learning directly from the herd. Horses live in highly attuned social systems where communication, leadership, boundaries, and trust are essential for the group to function well. Through guided, ground-based experiences with the horses, teams observe how these same dynamics show up in the workplace.
Rather than talking about teamwork in a conference room, participants experience it in real time. Horses respond immediately to clarity, consistency, and alignment, offering honest, non-judgmental feedback that highlights patterns in communication, decision-making, and collaboration. Teams leave with a shared understanding of how presence, awareness, and small behavioral shifts can improve connection, effectiveness, and overall team cohesion—insights that translate directly back to the workplace.
We can customize with a farm-to-table lunch. Let’s co-create a powerful corporate event together.
YPO/EO Forum and Chapter Retreats
For YPO forums and chapter retreats, the most meaningful breakthroughs often come when individuals gain clearer insight into how they personally show up—under pressure, in leadership, and in relationship with others. At HapBE Valley, equine-facilitated experiential learning creates a rare opportunity to see these patterns in real time. Horses respond immediately to presence, intention, and internal state, offering honest, non-verbal feedback that helps participants recognize habitual ways of leading, listening, influencing, or holding back.
Through guided, ground-based experiences with the herd, members observe both their individual tendencies and how those behaviors impact the group as a whole. This kind of learning moves beyond discussion into direct experience, making insights tangible, memorable, and actionable. Set within a calm, natural environment, the retreat supports personal clarity, meaningful connection, and strong group cohesion—leaving forums and chapters with deeper trust, shared language, and lasting take-away value that extends well beyond the retreat itself.
Retreats can be customized to combine the best of Asheville’s sights, food and outdoor experiences.