INTUITIVE TOUCH
Bodywork Education + Mentorship Program
Intuitive Touch is not a bodywork modality. It’s a practice through which you become the modality.
You are not the healer—you are the conduit for healing. Your body becomes the tool; the technique pours through your hands as a devotional offering to your horse. You are the channel and your role is sacred service.
Intuitive Touch is built upon two primary pillars:
consent + co-creation
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Without consent, the body cannot heal. Period.
A body that is forced and/or manipulated into receiving bodywork may experience superficial healing benefits, but those results will not hold if the body did not give consent to the work.
A body cannot be coerced into a state of healing. It must be a willing participant.
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There can be no co-creation without consent, which is why it is the foundation of this and all my work. Co-creation can occur when both you and your horse come together with a shared intention and desire. From this place of shared intention, you work together in dynamic and collaborative conversation, staying always in the present moment and feeling into the truth that is alive for you both.
Co-creation is a practice that requires deep trust, connection and authenticity on both sides. It is the most beautiful aspect of sacred partnership, in my humble opinion. And it is what you will learn to do in each bodywork session you offer to your horse.
Learn gentle yet profound bodywork techniques
These bodywork techniques are simple, gentle and deeply powerful. You don’t need any previous training or knowledge of equine anatomy in order to offer your horse a deeply restorative bodywork experience.
The techniques you learn are to ease your mind so you are free to drop into your most potent tool—your intuition.
Foundational anatomy + biomechanics
While the program doesn’t have a heavy focus on anatomy and biomechanics, it is still important to have a foundational understanding of your horse’s many structures and systems, physical and energetic. This will help guide you in your sessions and complement your intuitive insights through a deeper understanding of which body systems you may be feeling under your hands and you may support them more holistically as they integrate the bodywork.
Individualized 1:1 learning inside a group experiential education program
This is not a one-size-fits-all structured, linear bodywork program. While you will learn foundational techniques and anatomy to get you started, each of our live teaching sessions will be completely individualized and based on the needs of the horse and student in practice. This means you will learn how to apply Intuitive Touch in real time during live video bodywork sessions with your horse.
Sometimes you will be the student of focus and other times you will be a session observer, learning as you witness your peers in practice. No two sessions will unfold in the same way, which means you will learn an immense amount regardless of whether you are the practice student or the observer. In fact, there is a lot of integration that occurs when witnessing others offering bodywork to their horses.
This format of individualized learning through live sessions came directly from the horses. I have never heard of a bodywork program running in this way and, personally, I think this is the coolest part of how the container is set up!
NOTE: If you are looking for deeper learning in anatomy, biomechanics and a gentle, non-invasive yet deeply profound set of techniques and protocols, I wholeheartedly recommend you check out Equi-Bow, the bodywork technique I have been practicing and teaching for nearly a decade.
LOGISTICS
Your Intuitive Touch experience includes:
+ Eight weeks of bodywork education + mentorship
+ A total of 8-10 live calls including:
~ Opening foundations teaching call
~ Two live virtual practice sessions per student
~ Six to eight additional practice sessions to be witnessed and
observed by the collective for group education and mentorship
(number of calls determined by the number of students in the cohort — maximum four students per cohort)
~ Closing integration call
+ Resource library of modules to support your learning throughout the container
+ Community space to ask questions, submit practice videos for feedback and receive additional support between live practice sessions
Note: Because practice sessions are held live, you must have internet access wherever you will be practicing with your horse. This is only necessary for your two live calls. All other sessions can be joined from anywhere and you do not need to be with your horse while you are observing the other students in their practice sessions.
LOGISTICS
Your Intuitive Touch experience includes:
+ Eight weeks of bodywork education + mentorship
+ A total of 8-10 live calls including:
~ Opening foundations teaching call
~ Two live virtual practice sessions per student
~ Six to eight additional practice sessions to be witnessed and
observed by the collective for group education and mentorship
(number of calls determined by the number of students in the cohort — maximum four students per cohort)
~ Closing integration call
+ Resource library of modules to support your learning throughout the container
+ Community space to ask questions, submit practice videos for feedback and receive additional support between live practice sessions
Note: Because practice sessions are held live, you must have internet access wherever you will be practicing with your horse. This is only necessary for your two live calls. All other sessions can be joined from anywhere and you do not need to be with your horse while you are observing the other students in their practice sessions.
Bodywork through being
The first step in Intuitive Touch is connecting with yourself. This means getting to know your own internal landscape (aka your emotional, mental, physical and energetic states of being). Through this practice, you can become a clear channel and connect with your horse as a conduit for their healing. In this way you step out of your ego self and into a space of sacred service.
Develop your intuitive gifts
This isn’t about a set of protocols or trying to “figure out” what the horse’s body needs. It’s about becoming clear enough to allow your body to be a conduit of service through your hands, your senses and your intuitive gifts. This is how you become the modality and the modality becomes you.
Trust your horse as the guide
Your horse is the real curriculum in this program. You will learn how to attune to your horse’s physical and energetic bodies and follow their guidance on exactly how the session needs to unfold for their highest healing. The most important ‘technique’ you will learn is how to listen to what your horse’s body is asking for.
Trust yourself as the channel
You are not the healer, you are the channel for healing. And in order to be of highest service to your horse, you must learn to trust in your innate and intuitive gifts. I will teach you how to discern between your logical mind and intuitive knowings so you leave self-doubt at the barn door and drop into a space to true connection and service.