Sweet Souls Care LLC, in collaboration with Maple Acres Farm, offers intimate “Behind the Gate” encounters with the animals on our farm, and sharing the scared space of the farm itself and some of its many facets. While it is always free to walk the farm and enjoy all that it offers, SweetSoulsCares offers exclusive access to the animals Behind the Gate. We create educational and healing experiences. Our programs on Maple Acres Farm are fun, soulful, and practical.
We host people looking for relaxation, fun and joy, information, and learning, but also welcome those having a hard time, who are sad or looking for connection, comfort, hope, cuddles, giggles, hugs, joy, healing and love.
Sweet Souls Care refers to how our menagerie of critters here on the farm feel about our visitors. These are the sweetest souls. They’re unfiltered. Raw. Authentic. Full of love with a magical, transformational ability to comfort and heal even the most difficult of human conditions. Animals have the unique ability to meet you on a soul level. From the moment you approach, they innately and instinctively know your mood: whether you’re fearful, sad, worried or anxious – and they immediately respond to any imbalance to counter it, always seeking to restore balance, calm and comfort.
Your Animal Loving Guide
When I was a kid, I imagined heaven looked rolling pastures dotted with horses and cows, next to a forest with a slow moving creek. So several years ago when I came to Gary’s beautiful farm with my horse Cash, I moved into my dream neighborhood. I adore that our community can freely walk this storybook landscape year round, and was thrilled when the township preserved this space in perpetuity from ever being developed into townhomes or a shopping mall.
I come from a background of equine facilitated learning and equine facilitated therapies, which is a fancy way of saying that I use critters to help people with their well-being. Please note that I am not a mental health professional; I simply am trained in equine behavior and understand animals’ actions & reactions.
Blending that practical knowledge, I have also built a robust spiritual practice as I worked to heal my own life and my own heart. Being undiagnosed autistic until recently, and living in an evangelical world as an intuitive medium, has not been an easy life path. But the experiences have allowed me to build a framework that helped me find peace in my core.
I am intuitive medium with a background in equine facilitated therapies, a mentor and coach. Utilizing guided imagery and meditation techniques, along with gentle somatic exercises blended with the simple movement of walking, healing spiritually can occur naturally and authentically.
It was my vision to offer Behind the Gate encounters on Gary’s farm to allow people the opportunity to experience the deep healing that occurs when we allow ourselves the time and space to can get quiet, and fill our hearts with love and joy that sometimes only sweet animals can touch, and focus on what truly matters in our heart.
Guided Walks, Experiences and Healing Services are Appointment Only
Monday
8 AM - 10 AM
4 PM to 8 PM
Tuesday
8 AM - 10 AM
4 PM to 8 PM
Wednesday
8 AM - 10 AM
4 PM to 8 PM
Thursday
8 AM - 10 AM
4 PM to 8 PM
Friday
8 AM - 10 AM
4 PM to 8 PM
Saturday
8 AM - 10 AM
4 PM to 8 PM
Sunday
8 AM - 10 AM
4 PM to 8 PM
SPIRITUAL GUIDENCE WITH
Unlock the Mystical World of Runes
Runes are a set of characters that have been used historically in various Germanic languages and cultures. The origins of runes are somewhat obscure, but they are believed to have emerged around the 1st century CE among Germanic tribes in northern Europe. The runic alphabet is known as the Futhark, named after the first six letters in the runic sequence (F, U, Þ, A, R, and K).
Divination with Runes
Over time, runes took on a mystical and magical significance. They became associated with divination, and runecasters or shamans would use them for guidance, predicting the future, and making decisions. Runic divination involved casting or drawing runes and interpreting their meanings based on their positions and associations.
“Behind the Gate” was developed as a way to give people greater access to these magical souls to facilitate fun, joy, learning, healing, release, relief and comfort.
Hug a mini donkey. Braid a pony mane. Frolic with a quarter horse. Get kissed by a cow. Disco dance with the sheep. It’s all good.
Being at Maple Acres Farm feels like walking through a giant fairytale. Join us for one of our many programs designed to get into your feels and awaken the magic within. Release the anger and sadness, feel the grief, and let it pass. Are you experiencing loneliness, depression, anxiety, stress, disconnection? Scared? We have a few elixirs for that.
Soulful Level: Take a guided movement mediation, heal your inner child or process your grief. You can do all that here in our storybook land (we call this animal curative mode).
Practical Living Level: Learn about the animals, their behaviors and handling, or basic farming and livestock management. Interested in small scale farming, raising pultry, pigs or cows? Homesteading? We have the information to help you get started.
Please note that all tours at this time are walking tours. Please wear weather appropriate footwear as we will encounter mud, puddles and lots of poop.
Animals Encounters
Animals have so much to teach, and nature is the perfect classroom to educate our children and ourselves. The Encounter Programs focus on education of the animals and their role on the farm in our world.
Animal Curatives
We offer healing sessions with the animals, opportunities for hope, peace, & comfort. -- and bunches of pure fun.
Please contact us for shorter or longer sessions, or for groups larger than 2 persons.
Donate to share the love
Our Healing Services Scholarship is funded by our monthly community members. Thank you for supporting our center and giving us the ability to offer free sessions to those in need, and discount services for first responders and front-line workers.
Want to apply for a free or discounted session?