Maxime Willems - Therapy & Training

15/11/2025

Feeling honoured ✨We’ve been featured in as one of the best equine wellness experiences in Australia. 🐴✨

A beautiful recognition of the work we do here with our horses, nature, and embodied practices. 🙏🏼

You can read the full article above 👆 in our Linktree.

If you’d love to experience this work firsthand, we have two beautiful options coming up:

1️⃣ Equine Wellness Stay Package

Combine a relaxing stay at with a personalised equine wellness experience.
Perfect for a nourishing mini-retreat, solo reset, or a grounding getaway.

2️⃣ Equine Wellness Sweet Retreat

Our full-day immersive retreat is now open for bookings. A powerful way to begin 2026 with clarity, connection, and support.

If this calls you, send me a message to reserve your spot 🌿🐴 Or visit our website www.mwtherapyandtraining.com.au ✨

15/11/2025

A poem born from our first Equine Wellness session at our Sweet Retreat in October 2025.

Written by a participant as a way of supporting herself to stay present and connected.

If this poem speaks to you… Imagine what a full day immersed with our horses, nature, gentle movement and embodied practices could open for you.

Our January Equine Wellness Sweet Retreat is now open for bookings.

A beautiful way to begin the new year with clarity, presence and support.

Send me a message if you’d like to join us.

10/11/2025

Bumble, our little Brumby is living his best life as an important part of our therapy, wellbeing and wellness programs 🐴.

He continues to touch so many lives, while being touched and inspired by the kind humans he meets, such as the beautiful who joined us for our Sweet Retreat, October 2025.

Grateful for every moment shared between horses and humans. 🌿✨

09/11/2025

Who and how do I need and want to be for myself?

Who and how do I need and want to be for my family?

Who and how do I need and want to be for my community?

Who and how do I need and want to be for the world?

07/11/2025

The Art Of Being With 🌱

Sometimes we include art in our Equine Assisted Therapy sessions, as a way of being and staying with what emerges.
As a way of deepening self-awareness and bringing more understanding to what is unfolding within us, in this moment.

It might be something we stay with through our five senses, something present in our environment that we can witness here and now.
Or it might be a feeling, an image, or a physical sensation that wants to be seen, felt, and expressed.

✨ The art simply becomes a mirror, helping us meet ourselves more fully.

05/11/2025

Can you visualise someone looking at you with kind eyes?

What happens for you when you imagine that gaze? How does it make you feel? What can you notice in your body?

16/10/2025

✨ Exciting news! ✨
This Saturday at 3:30pm, tune into to see a beautiful episode featuring and 🐴 🏝️

Catch it at 3:30pm on Channel 10 (or stream later!) 😊

We’re so grateful to share the magic of horses, nature, and connection with a wider audience, and can’t wait for you to watch this special story unfold. 🐴🌊💛

16/10/2025

🌿 Finding Calm with the Horses 🐴

I asked one of our long-term participants this week:
✨ “Do you remember what brought you here in the first place, and what keeps you coming back?” ✨

They paused and said something like:

“I just wanted to feel better. I wanted to feel more calm.
When I’m not here with the horses, I often feel angry, sad, irritated, tired.

But when I’m here, I feel like I have space. Physical space, but also space from people, from my family.
And when I feel that space, I feel more energetic.

Being with the horses, being able to talk to them or just feel them, makes me calm.
I know and trust you. I feel safe here. I can talk, but I don’t have to. We can just walk, sit, or be next to each other. Same with the horses.
There’s no pressure. There’s space. There are options.”

This is what Equine Assisted Therapy can offer: space, safety, calm, and connection. 🌾
Every session is a reminder that healing doesn’t have to be loud, fast, or forced. Sometimes, it’s found in quiet moments and in safe connection.

16/10/2025

Lately, we’ve had more enquiries about sibling sessions. Horses, as herd animals, offer a beautiful space to explore relationships, where siblings can learn to embrace differences, set healthy boundaries, and communicate in new ways.

14/10/2025

Our work at Maxime Willems – Therapy & Training is all about connection: with nature, with horses, and with one another.

Next year, our little man turns one 💛 and as we step into this new chapter, we’re exploring how to balance family life, work, my Gestalt Psychotherapy studies, and caring for our horses.

We’d love to find a community-based childcare solution (around 15 hours/week) and explore community-based or shared care options.

We’re open to ideas like:
🌿 Shared care with other parents (swapping mornings or afternoons)
🌿 Someone who’d love to spend a few hours a week with our little one at home, surrounded by horses and nature
🌿 Small, heart-centered groups or gentle play experiences for a couple of hours here and there.

We’re really passionate about creating community-focused solutions that support families and connections, not just for us, but for others who might be in a similar situation.

If this vision resonates with you or someone you know, we’d love to hear from you.

Feel free to share this post with others who might be interested.

Together we can keep growing a village that supports one another, humans, horses, and little ones alike.

13/10/2025

The next 10 week Yoga program with Maxime Willems - Therapy & Training starts tomorrow

Register online via the link below or contact Maxime directly.
Sessions start 6pm Monday nights in Wardell
(In the old preschool building behind St Patricks Church)


🍃Renew & Restore Yoga session. 🧘‍♀️

These classes weave together Traditional Hatha Yoga, Trauma-Informed Yoga, and Yoga Therapy, supporting your body, breath, and mind in a grounding yet empowering way.

We began these classes two years ago and have since grown into a warm, fun, and welcoming community. 💛

✨ $100 for 10 classes
✨ All welcome. No experience needed!

Come as you are, move at your own pace, and leave feeling grounded and restored.

Book online via the link, or pay cash at the door.

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Calm your mind, move your body, connect within. Trauma-informed yoga with Maxime, Mondays 6pm, Wardell. All levels welcome.

10/10/2025

✨ Holiday Reset with the Herd ✨
School holidays often bring new and returning faces to our herd. People who don’t always find the time during busy routines, but choose this season to pause, reset, and recharge.