One Day Immersion: Join us for a restorative experience at the Embody Life Ranch in California. Surrounded by mountain vistas, friendly horses, and nourishing nature, Teri and Sienna will guide you in an introductory somatic approach to repatterning pain, injuries and limitations of your body-mind. Sienna, Teri's 13-year-old gated quarter horse, will be our guide in learning to absorb the wisdom that horses innately hold. This intro sets the fundamentals for the full SEA training program, as well as providing an opportunity for individuals interested in exploring their personal self-knowing and self-healing without engaging in the whole certification. You will also have the opportunity to schedule private sessions with Teri, to help restore your body’s natural balance.

Trust.   While inhabiting the Wisdom of Horses, you'll learn basic somatic methods of empathic presence and heartful connection. Body-mind-spirit awareness can help you return to a natural state of being. Horses easily read us, and they reflect back to us the level of coherent balance in ourselves.

Two days of training​

Focus. Develop your capacity to read the cues and signals from your own body, and the body of Horse.  We will explore the realm of senses and perception, learning the motor-perceptual loop in both humans and horses to better understand how we perceive our life experience, from pain and fear to joy and pleasure. Experiential Anatomy will help you discover embodied applications that can restore the body to its optimal states of rest and dynamic equilibrium. and how to attune this experience with HORSE. You will become more comfortable with experiential anatomy to help connect with your physicality and that of HORSE.  This workshop is open to graduates of the INTRO LEVEL, EMBODIED AWAKENING, and serves as the intermediate level in obtaining a Somatic Equine Arts Body Balancing certification. Two days of training.

Depth. While resourcing the Wisdom of Horses, you'll learn basic somatic body balancing methods for yourself, others and horses. Discover how Somatic Movement processes can help dissolve pain and holding patterns from your body and mind. Elements of Continuum Movement and Experiential Anatomy have embodied applications that can restore the body to its optimal states of rest and dynamic equilibrium. Deepen into the direct experience of embodiment practics to help connect with your own physicality and that of HORSE, and to become more confident in reading the body's response. Gentle hands-on and mindful movement therapies learned will include tissue and fascia release, plus other health approaches. This workshop is open to graduates of the INTRO and LEVEL 1. Upon completion, along with homework assignments and approval from the Director, requirements will have been achieved in obtaining a Somatic Equine ArtsBody Balancing certification. ​Two days of training

PsychoPhysical Integration. Equine Assisted Somatics will help guide our inquiry. Sustaining homeo-dynamic balance requires that we have the capacity to respond to circumstance in with ease and awareness, and return to health when we experience micro-macro trauma. We will learn to develop and sustain an intrinsic, open 'bio-system' that can modulate our responsiveness. This requires continually making conscious decisions to play an active role in the direction of transformation through increased presence and relationship with self, other and the world around us. We'll explore inter-connecting body-mind processes, in relation to repatterning of nervous system reversals through our body's fluid system and different tissues in relation to our environment.

Courage to Stay the Course. Equine assisted training helps us notice what we practice in life, if what we practice still serves us, and to help us develop processes that align our values with our actions. As we resource the wisdom of our bodies, while inter-relating with the world of horses, we learn to reduce negative thinking, calm emotions, stay open to possibilities, cultivate a leadership presence, bring clarity to difficult situations, visualize positive futures, and grow the capacity to fulfill commitments. Some of the benefits of working with horses as coaching partners, leaders and learners in this One day training: