In these group embodiment sessions with free-roaming horses, we work with the wisdom of the body.

Equine-Guided Empowerment® is a form of horse-assisted, body-based work on the ground with a small free-roaming herd. Guided by somatic practices and your own body’s pace, we are not asking the horses to perform or carry you. Instead, we are dropping into the herd’s rhythm and practicing exercises that point to the relational aspects of what we embody. We see patterns that live in the body, and gently practice moving beyond these learned limitations and stories. The horses are guides in showing us how to embody neutrality, groundedness, and authenticity in our outward expression of inner knowing.

We start in proximity to the horses, but not inside their pasture, so that we meet each other with the safety of the fence. We ground, check in, and move into some simple somatic exercises. The horses tell us when we are ready to enter their space. When we take the somatic practices to the herd, we get to observe how they respond, and you have an opportunity to notice what is coming up through your body—your breath, expression, energy, and boundaries—in each moment.

Throughout the session, we keep coming back to your body: noticing tension, expansion, retracting, and softening, and how that shifts with the somatic activities and in response to the horses. We can see certain patterns emerge through the body, we observe them without judgment, and stretch into other ways of responding. We don’t talk about your life, but rather notice and feel what is happening as you meet yourself and the herd.

All sharing and practice is voluntary. With the horses, there is no haltering, leading, or riding. They are free to meet us as they are, seeing us as we are.