Module 1:
Relational Foundations: Orienting to Self and the Horse

Learn how your history and nervous system shape the way you show up with horses and people. You’ll begin noticing inner patterns that influence timing, presence, and clarity, and how horses respond to your internal state.
For practitioners: Build the self-awareness needed to accurately track and support clients.
For individuals / self-discovery: Understand your own patterns so you can enter connection with more choice.

Module 2:
Trauma, Safety, and Consent in Horse–Human Work

Explore how trauma and stress influence behavior, boundaries, and communication in both humans and horses. Learn to recognize survival responses early and adjust before overwhelm occurs.
For practitioners: Ground your work in clear, trauma-informed principles.
For individuals / self-discovery: Learn to honor your own thresholds and sense of safety.

Module 3:
Nervous System Basics

Understand how activation, shutdown, and regulation work in both species and how these patterns show up in real-time moments with horses. As you learn to read these shifts, you’ll also recognize them in yourself with greater clarity.
For practitioners: Translate nervous system concepts into simple, observable cues.
For individuals / self-discovery: Make sense of reactions you may have felt for years without words.

Module 4:

Starting the Conversation: Attention, Orientation, and Choice

Learn the earliest steps of initiating connection with a horse through attention, orientation, and clear, pressure-free invitations. This module also helps you notice your own tendencies in relational contact; rushing, hesitating, overthinking, or waiting.
For practitioners: Observe clients’ relational patterns in the very first moments of contact.
For individuals / self-discovery: Explore how you begin relationships and what the horse reflects back.

Module 5:
Reading Focus and Subtle Shifts in Balance

Strengthen your ability to notice small shifts in posture, breathing, and attention in both horses and humans. These micro-signals reveal readiness, uncertainty, and engagement.
For practitioners: Catch and name subtle shifts to support deeper client awareness.
For individuals / self-discovery: Notice how your own focus and steadiness change in connection.

Module 6:
Supporting Nervous system Repair

Learn how to offer direction while respecting thresholds and signals, guiding without pushing or collapsing. This module clarifies where you naturally hold too tightly or disconnect too quickly.
For practitioners: Hold a steady frame without rescuing or overriding clients.
For individuals / self-discovery: Explore how you stay present without invalidating your own needs.

Module 7:
Clear Boundaries and Honest Communication

Develop the ability to set or hold limits clearly while remaining connected. Relation work with horses brings awareness to patterns around boundaries; hesitation, over-assertion, guilt, or avoidance.
For practitioners: Support clients in finding grounded versions of “yes” and “no.”
For individuals / self-discovery: Understand your own relationship with limits and protection.

Module 8:
Staying with Rupture and repair

Learn to remain steady when activation rises in you, the horse, or the person you’re supporting. You’ll practice pacing and titration so challenge builds capacity rather than overwhelm.
For practitioners: Guide clients through activation without flooding or bypassing.
For individuals / self-discovery: Build confidence in staying with difficult moments.

Module 9:
Sensation, Emotion, and Story: Making Sense of Inner Experience

Differentiate sensation, emotion, and narrative so you can respond more clearly to what’s happening inside you. Find clarity in body led communication and sensation awareness as well as parts work.
For practitioners: Bring somatic clarity into sessions in accessible ways.
For individuals / self-discovery: Untangle what you feel from what you fear or imagine.

Module 10:
Creating Space and Honoring Distance

We move our work into Developmental Gestures and Sensorimotor work to more deeply explore the relational dynamics involved in taking or giving space with horses and people. You’ll learn to recognize when distance supports safety, clarity, or regulation, and how your own patterns shape the way you create or respond to space.
For practitioners: Help clients understand distancing without shame or misinterpretation.
For individuals / self-discovery: Notice where you pull away, why, and what allows space to feel supportive rather than protective.

Module 11:

Moving Toward Connection

Here we deepen approach and curiosity in relationship. You’ll practice pacing contact, reading signs of readiness, tolerating pauses, and allowing the body to lead while words follow, so connection isn’t rushed or forced.
For practitioners: Support clients in exploring how they move toward others (and horses), staying curious instead of collaps­ing into performance or shutdown.
For individuals / self-discovery: Discover your own patterns around approaching connection; what invites you forward, what makes you hesitate, and what helps you stay present without pushing for a result.

Module 12:
Finding Balance Between Softening and Taking Hold

Settle quickly, then build contact and closeness that stay consented and easy to release. Use the horse’s feedback to fine-tune timing and recover steadiness fast.
For practitioners: Offer clients a concrete way to explore touch, contact, and letting go, while centering the horse’s agency and feedback.
For individuals / self-discovery: Notice how you soften, hold on, and release, both through the line and in your relationships, and what allows contact to feel safer and more mutual.

Module 13:
Integrating the Work: Relationship in motion

This module brings the whole cycle together; connection, separation, and return. We look at how relationships, human and equine, find rhythm again after intensity, and how trust deepens when every pause stays connected. Recovery becomes part of the movement itself, teaching both bodies how to let go without losing each other.

For practitioners: Guide clients through full relational arcs with clarity helping them experience approach, space, tension, and repair as a coherent, continuous conversation with the horse.
For individuals / self-discovery: Explore how you move through cycles of closeness, distance, and return, and discover how staying connected through pauses reshapes long-held relational patterns.

Module 14:

Practice, Ethics, and Next Steps

This final module brings everything together through guided assignments and real-time application. You’ll refine your rhythm of connection, repair, and rest while tracking your own regulation patterns and noticing what changes in you and your horse. Capstone assignments, ethics, and practical business tools are incorporated to support your integration and next steps.
For practitioners: Develop confident, grounded facilitation with clear awareness and ethical scope as you carry this work into professional practice.
For individuals / self-discovery: Deepen your understanding of your patterns and relational rhythms so you can bring this work into everyday life with clarity, steadiness, and self-trust.