Conscious Rider ‘Friendly, Trust based, 2-way Riding System.’

Conscious Rider:

A Gentle Approach to Riding Horses

Katharine, a British American, based in Austin Texas, since 2000 provides a peaceful environment, with a focus on riding solutions for all riders, from all riding genres.   

A holistic approach to learning to ride somatically.  Her teaching style is not command based, it is experience based; allowing the body to learn in its way from an internal perspective. 

Each client learns to catch their horse gently and learns how to groom quietly by using this time to get grounded peacefully, as every safe ride starts from here. 

Clients learn how to feed the horses and how to use herbal remedies.  Considerately tacking up in powerful Presence helps with working-in-hand, groundwork and riding.

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

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

The covered arena is used for tacking up and short sessions.  The parkland of approximately 1000 acres and is for learning safe ways to get through riding challenges while accruing invaluable hours of experience in the saddle. 

Our 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

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. 

Regulates

We learn to regulate by going into the ‘no’ stuck parts of our body totally accepting no judgments being ‘OK with not OK’.

Connecting to ‘O.K. by feeling what is not O.K.’ clears old triggers that live in the fear based subconscious mind, thus upgrading neural pathways, permanently.

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: