Conscious Rider ‘Present, Trust based – two way Riding System.’

Conscious Rider:

A Gentle Approach to Riding Horses.

‘Research indicates horses have an electromagnetic heart field up to five times stronger than humans, allowing them to sense human emotions and synchronize their heart rate with people.’

Katharine moved to Austin in 2000.  She provides a peaceful environment with the focus on riding solutions for all riders, from all riding genres.   

Her teaching style is not command based, it is predominantly experience based; allowing one’s body to learn in its own way, at it’s own pace.  Clients learn to catch their horse, groom calmly, using this time to get grounded, as your safety on the ride starts here. 

Sally Swifts’ Centered Riding Method is the basis for most riding sessions.

‘All our horses are meticulously trained, we finish them with the ‘When Horses Choose’ method by Mia Lykke Nielson’.

The parkland of approximately 1000 acres is for learning safe ways to get through riding challenges while enjoying adventures thus, accruing invaluable hours in the saddle.  We have short lessons in the arena after tacking up.

All the horses live freely within the herd. They have access to hay at all times, are barefoot and have regular chiropractic therapy. 

Katharine is also a portrait painter and professional animal psychic.

Austin Riding and Therapy Center.

An example of the horses Being with us as we go into ‘coherence’ and heal.

“Research indicates horses have an electromagnetic heart field up to five times stronger than humans, allowing them to sense human emotions and synchronize their heart rate with people. This “heart-to-heart” connection provides a calming, therapeutic effect, reducing human stress, anxiety, and blood pressure.”      www.YouTube.com/@myapparentLife

Equine Assisted Somatic Integration.

Testimonial:

“During my time at Conscious Rider in Austin, Texas, I had the privilege of working with Katharine, an extraordinary guide who opened the door to a whole new world for me — the world of equine therapy.
Katharine didn’t just teach me how to work with horses. She taught me how to work with myself.

Through her gentle wisdom and intuitive guidance, I embarked on a profound inner journey. It wasn’t about techniques or control — it was about coming home to myself.
Only when I found true peace within, when my heart was still and my soul was present, did the horses respond and connect.

This experience was not just transformative — it was sacred.
I am deeply grateful for Katharine, the horses, and the invisible magic that happens when you dare to meet yourself at the deepest level.
Thank you, Conscious Rider, for helping me ride not just with horses, but with life itself.” – Sofie P

Katharine began helping clients integrate Somatic Wholeness, from egoic fear with horses in 2000.  She developed the program, Equine Assisted Somatic Integration, E.A.S.I.

Transform:

By returning to wholeness, through pain, that is held in the body.

Evaporate the separate self, into conscious aliveness.

It is a simple, gentle way to Peace, via pain or contraction that is felt in parts of the body.  

• Katharine and the horses feel contractions (clairsentience) in their own bodies of people around them i.e. clients and navigate this pain or contraction reactive together by leaning into it eventually it simply dissolves.  

Left Brain Explanation:

• The nervous system has two gears
• Sympathetic  –  fight, flight, freeze and fawn. (past furture – egoic)
• Parasympathetic   –  rest, digest, repair, Here. (present moment – Presence)
• Somatic Integration, E.A.S.I. shifts us out of stress mode and into Now mode.

This is how Somatic Integration, E.A.S.I. does what many talk therapies can not. 

Regulation:

We learn to regulate by going into the stuck parts of our body.

Surrendering completely and gently, to what may feel unpleasant, clearing triggers that live in the fear based subconscious mind.

• Stronger Electromagnetic Field: A horse’s heart generates a significantly larger and more coherent electromagnetic field than a human’s, which can directly influence human heart rhythms.
• Biometric Synchronization: Studies show that when humans are calm, their heart rate and breathing can synchronize with the horse’s, a phenomenon known as coherence.
• Emotional Mirroring: Horses are highly intuitive, reading human body language and nervous system states to mirror emotions, making them effective in trauma processing.
• Physiological Benefits: Interaction with horses increases levels of beta-endorphins (pain suppressors) and lowers cortisol levels in humans.”  – (great Ai explanation)

Tools:

• Being OK with not OK
• deeply re-connecting with what we really are (Being)
• Recognizing suffering by understanding it’s cause is egoic (and past or future based)
• How to feel alive again by connecting with nature and your own nature
• Embodying the Higher Self 
• The Presence
• Returning to holding yourself and others in Compassion
• Surrendering to and as, Highest Self (feminine)
• Union with  Higher Power (masculine)
•  Trauma felt and dissolved
• Meditations (or Being our natural selves) that works for you
•  Uplifting and connecting with the wounded inner children
•  Upgrading unconscious conditioning:
  
•  … from childhood, inherited dna, our culture and even past life
•  Regulate by learning how to flip The Fear Cycle
  
•  Using Psych-K
•  Using E.F.T.
• Learning how horses dissolve their own fear
• Meditation, through connecting with the herd 
• Stillness by embodying fear and surrendering it through the body
• Integrating spiritual awakenings
• Recovering from addiction via the 12 steps
• Re-building ones confidence with horses and ground work
• Psychic and intuitive awareness
• Addiction to thinking and the mind to feeling the body and Presence instead
• Three triggers according to Buddah – craving (needy) – aversion (hatred) – ignorance (selfish)
• Diseases and ailments, their subconscious message to us
• Connection with the horse, As Presence (pre’Sense) 

Training and Retreats: