• soma story work

    + more

    To support the body-mind story

    through the horse-human relationship

  • Guided by

    research

    knowledge

    intuition

  • Soma Story Work

    for horses

    and people

    Working between

    Training

    Team it Together

    and

    Trauma / Tension

    Supporting the horse's organic physiolgical and emotional need to:

    explore, play, move, find, flow, fidget, flight, fight, freeze, fold, fawn, activate, de-activate, rest, process, synchronise, bond, feel, sense, be deeply safe, to lead, to follow, to expand, to contract, to resonate, to integrate, to feel alive and free

    Helping the horse's story re-shape, re-form and re-late

    Working from the inside out and from bottom up (body up to mind) before task and training

    Facilitating relationship changes for your horse and you

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  • Other Services

    Professional services through qualifications and practical experiences

    • Individual sessions
    • Group workshops
    • Home visits
    • On-line

    ~ Well-being and enrichment activities (for people and for horses)

    ~ Attunement (education and practice -- with horses for people)

    ~ Nature immersion with horses

    ~ Somatic writing & editing

    ~ Hands-on creative activities

    ~ Polyvagal education and activities for the autonomic nervous system

    ~ Supporting body sensations, feelings, emotions and thinking

    ~ Using ethology as a basis to understand horses

    ~ EAL equine assisted learning activities

    ~ Trauma-informed support for people and horses

    ~ Somatic horse activities (learning through body responses: comfort and ease, curiosity and play, relationship rupture and repair, organic cycles and patterns)

    ~ Support for horses that have experienced sustained stress, tension or trauma

    ~ Equine Reiki for horses

    ~ Equine Reiki for you with horses in Nature

    Attunement: where the body and relationship dynamics inform our interactions with horses, self, other people and nature

    Somatic (of or relating to the body)

  • Drawing upon

    mammalian ethology

    attachment

    polyvagal theory

    somatic experiencing®

    neuroscience

    cultural geography

    neuro-biology of trauma

    story-based learning

    narrative enquiry

    socio-cultural research