Why us
Hemel en Aarde Farm offers a combination of excellent daily care, an extremely horse friendly environment, top class facilities with a wide range of wellness and exercise techniques
Our Equine Retreat
Hemel en Aarde Farm is a centre of excellence for horses, young and old, needing some special care and attention.
Hemel en Aarde Farm offers a combination of excellent daily care, an extremely horse-friendly environment, top-class facilities with a wide range of wellness and exercise techniques used, plus close relationships with other Equine Professionals, such as Equine Vets, Farriers, Dentists, etc.
We work closely with Claudia Blackstock, who provides horse and rider training using the principles of learning theory to enhance performance, safety, and welfare. With Ron Sparrow, we can offer backing, training, and behavioral packages for a wide range of horses.
We are also the home to EquiCanis Africa which provides a range of internationally accredited courses and studies relating to equine and canine wellness sciences. Hemel en Aarde Farm is becoming a center of excellence for young and old horses, that need special care and attention.
Care and Services
Our Guests enjoy grazing in well designed paddocks with natural protection from the elements, and auto-filling troughs with clean borehole water.
Daily Routine
The physical and emotional well-being of your horse is our biggest concern, and is approached with a high degree of care, professionalism and expertise.
Equine Wellness and Conditioning
Body Work, used together with conventional and complementary health care, plus appropriate training techniques will enable your Horse to perform at his or her optimum level.
Stable Facilities
Our stunning Stable Barn has been purpose built with your horse’s comfort, safety, health and relaxation in mind.
More about us
There are many reasons why occasionally a horse may benefit from a break. Maybe after a serious competitive season, or to recover from illness or injury, or perhaps because she is in foal or is a youngster needing some time to just kick heels and grow up a bit. Even a special home to relax for a well deserved retirement.Equine Care & Services
Our Equine Retreat has been built to give you somewhere you can be confident your horse gets everything they need and give you total peace of mind that every aspect of your horse’s care will be approached with meticulous attention to detail.
Unlike a typical livery yard or stables, we aim to provide an elite Equine Retreat on par with the standards the horse’s owner would want from a luxury Retreat.
It is essential that our equine guests have plenty of quality grazing, space to relax and personalised care dedicated to them. Hence we only accept a very small number of guests at any one time.
The Hemel en Aarde Farm has large, safe paddocks with plentiful and varied grazing, all with sweeping views giving an enormous sense of freedom. Plus our closeness to the sea reduces summer heat and moderates winter temperatures.
About Jo
Jo started to ride horses at 2 years of age, and over 40 years later knows she still has an awful lot to learn. After spending her first 18 years living and breathing horses, she then spent the next two decades building and running businesses in London. Since moving to South Africa in 2008, she has once again devoted herself full time to horses.
Jo is a Veterinary Physiotherapist as well as an internationally certified Equinology Equine Body
Worker (EEBW).
Veterinary Physical Rehabilitation (also often referred
to as Veterinary Physiotherapy) is the treatment of
dysfunction in the musculoskeletal and neuro-muscular
systems as well as the maintenance of optimal function
and the prevention of dysfunction. Veterinary
physiotherapists work alongside veterinary specialists
and surgeons and the goal of our profession is to
maintain, restore, and maximize optimal movement
and functional ability throughout the lifespan of an
animal. She also specializes in Myofascial Release.
Her work emphasises proper and safe techniques,
which are all anatomically referenced. Jo works on
horses of all ages and condition, from those on stable
rest to those regularly competing at the highest levels
and from all disciplines.
Jo is determined to ensure that all horses on the Farm
are cared for in line with the high standards she grew
up with in England. Jo’s own horses are treated as her
children and she considers all horses in her care to be
part of the family.
