Heart + Hands: Practitioner Series — Presence + Practice for Equine Professionals
The Heart + Hands: Practitioner Series — Presence + Practice for Equine Professionals is four focused days made of two standalone two-day courses that focus on both our Presence and Practice. Take either course alone or bundle both.
Our Instruction Team
HeartMath coaching, Physical Therapist-led embodied physiology, anatomy-anchored contemplative practices, and craniosacral perspectives. Your education team will guide you through holistic techniques, mindful practices, and hands-on labs that build real inner clarity, enhance how you communicate with self, horses, and clients; and expand your ability to map anatomic structures in both self and horse.
Care-for-the-care-provider wellness days
Our work as equine bodyworkers and professionals asks us to use our bodies as instruments. The sensitivity required to do our work is what makes great work possible — but it also leaves practitioners vulnerable to accumulated stress, blurred boundaries of ‘their stuff and my stuff’, and, potentially, physical exhaustion.
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The two Wellness-focused days teach short, evidence-based practices that interrupt that stress accumulation and offer tools to turn resilience into routine. They also include opportunities for play and “Choose Your Joy” activities that are fun, filling, or fruitful.
A blend of movement, bodywork, breathwork, short meditations, quiet walks in nature, and reflective labs opens space for new clarity and possibility. Participants will learn tools that are practical for daily life — with horses, with clients, and for your own wellbeing.
Experiential applied anatomy
No matter how much or how little you’ve already studied equine anatomy, this course meets you where you are in your learning journey. If you’ve explored the Equine Deep Ventral Line or practiced landmark palpation with me, these Experiential Applied Anatomy days will take that knowledge deeper. You’ll strengthen the link between muscles and skeleton in your mental map, making both your technical understanding and intuitive feel more immediate and usable with client horses and their people.
We’ll start by exploring skeletal and muscle structures in our own bodies, which makes mapping on and in the horse far more intuitive. The hands-on and fun approach to learning employed in this course is more than just visual or auditory learning—it’s learning by doing, feeling, and playing your way into deeper understanding.
The Experiential Applied Anatomy learning sessions turn anatomy into a language you can see, feel, and explain. By locating structures on yourself before mapping them on the horse, you’ll sharpen palpation accuracy, speed your assessment process, and gain clearer confidence when communicating findings with clients or veterinarians. Each mapping day links touch to meaning—so that what you feel with your hands instantly connects to what you understand in your mind.
Course A (Days 1–2)
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Day 1 — Care for the Care-Provider Wellness (Skeletal primer): somatic resourcing (Qigong, Inner Smile), HeartMath Quick Coherence, grounding tools (5-4-3-2-1), intention and boundary practice. And to foreshadow Day 2, whole body skeletal explorations and hands-on mini-model labs that prime you for Day 2 palpation activities.
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Day 2 — Experiential Applied Anatomy (Skeletal mapping): model stations (mini skeletons, Breyers, Wikki Stix, coloring skeleton pages), then barn palpation to locate and label visible/palpable skeletal landmarks, plus up to two participant-chosen muscles — tactile practice and photo documentation. (8 Equine Anatomy CE hours)
Course B (Days 3–4)
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Day 3 — Care for the Care-Provider Wellness (Respiratory & Pelvic primer): somatic resourcing (Qigong, Inner Smile), HeartMath techniques, grounding tools (like 5-4-3-2-1), intention and boundary setting practices. Plus to foreshadow Day 4 work, felt diaphragm and rib work, psoas/pelvic-bowl awareness, breath + heart integration, and a playful “make-your-own diaphragm” clay activity (for either the Respiratory or Pelvic Diaphragm).
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Day 4 — Experiential Applied Anatomy (Diaphragm & Psoas Mapping): model → Breyer → coloring pages → live-horse mapping of respiratory and pelvic diaphragms and Psoas Major attachment zones. (8 Equine Anatomy CE hours)
What you will gain from the wellness-focused days
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Daily nervous-system tools you can use in 1–3 minutes (breath + HeartMath coherence + grounding + somatic wellness) so you arrive, conduct, and leave sessions regulated.
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Clear, repeatable intention- and boundary-setting routines that protect your energy, speed up decision-making, and enhance communication with both horses and humans.
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Embodied palpation practice and (optional) partner labs that let you feel key landmarks in your own body before you touch horses.
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Somatic experiencing and physical awareness tuning taught by Dr. Allie Baier, DPT, SEP — integrating human anatomy, nervous-system regulation, and intuitive guidance to bring clarity and felt connection into equine sessions.
Integrated takeaways from the applied anatomy & wellness days
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Both the Applied Anatomy and the Wellness-focused days are designed to strengthen your skills and sustain your stamina. Together, they build sharper anatomical literacy, embodied awareness, and the tools to protect your energy—helping both practitioner and horse thrive.
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You’ll leave with:
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Improved ability to see, feel, and identify anatomic structures—sharpening how you assess symmetry, tension, and restriction in every horse you touch.
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Heightened tactile precision and visual literacy for matching intention with structure—connecting what your hands feel to what your eyes and mind understand.
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Human-to-horse laminated landmark guides to keep as quick-reference anatomy primers (Days 2 & 4).
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Mind–body tools and cue cards—like Quick Coherence, Inner Smile, grounding, journaling prompts, and other techniques to support daily balance and clear presence.
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Photo documentation and a tactile keepsake (your mini clay diaphragm or mini-map) that anchor learning through visual and hands-on memory.
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“Find Your Joy” creations—like a gemstone bracelet or decorative holiday horseshoe—offered as lighthearted, mindful play during your mid-day renewal block.
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Optional private 1-hour sessions (Physical Therapy, Somatic Experiencing or Craniosacral care) available by pre-booking for deeper individual reset and integration.
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Ready to Enhance your Presence and your Practice?
Two powerful two-day courses for equine professionals who want to deepen both self care and anatomy skills. Join one — or stay for the full four-day experience. Two courses. Four days. One grounded way forward. Early-bird seats are open now.
If you are not currently practicing in an equine-related field, please contact us before registering.
Course Format
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Delivery: Live in person
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin
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Enrollment: Capped at 12 students (registration closes automatically when full)
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Dates: Course A: December 9 - 10
Course B: December 11 - 12​
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Time: 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM CT (with breaks)
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Optional morning Qigong or guided woods walk each day
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Long-table lunch + a 1-hour “Choose Your Joy” block (arts, crafts, guided nature walk, model practice, or pre-booked private session)
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Two barn mapping sessions on each of the anatomy days; model & tactile stations on the caregiver days
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Optional community dinners at the end of each Wellness day
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CE Credit: 8 hours Anatomy CE for each of Course A and Course B
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Tuition: Early Bird Pricing through Nov 16! $100 discount for individual courses; $200 discount for both
Course A or B: Early Bird: $395 (only 6 spots for each). Standard: $495.
Bundle Both Courses A & B: Early Bird: $675 (only 6 spots). Standard: $875.
Early Bird Coupon Codes:
Course A: Save100A
Course B: Save100B
Course A&B: Save200AB​
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Refund & Cancellation Policy
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50% refund > 14 days before start
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25% refund 7–14 days before start
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No refund < 7 days before start unless your spot is filled from the waitlist​​​