Somatic
Experiencing
EquiPT™
Awareness leads to feeling. Feeling deepens connection. Connection changes everything.
Somatic Experiencing® helps you create space for what your body has been holding, opening the door to deeper awareness, connection, and change.
Build Awareness
of the Body
This is the process of learning to notice what’s happening inside your body: tension, breath, pressure, or subtle shifts that often go unnoticed.
Many of the patterns horse people struggle with live in a tight jaw, bracing hips, or places that feel disconnected or hard to influence. When you begin to notice them as they’re happening, something starts to shift.
Instead of trying to override your body, you begin to understand it, and from there, change becomes more natural, more intuitive, and far less forced.
Responding Instead
of Reacting
Your body is constantly responding to what it perceives, especially around your horse where timing, feel, and presence matter.
Sometimes that shows up as tightening, holding your breath, rushing, or losing access to what you know. Other times, it looks like hesitation, disconnection, or feeling “checked out” in the moment.
This work helps you stay connected to what’s happening in your body as it unfolds. Instead of being pulled into automatic reactions, you begin to find more access to respond with clarity, steadiness, and feel.
Allowing Incomplete Patterns to Resolve
Many of the patterns you feel in your body began in an earlier experience that never fully resolved.
Around horses, this can feel like tension that won’t let go, reactions that feel out of proportion, or a sense that your body is still bracing for something that’s no longer happening.
Together we nurture the conditions that invite those patterns to gently complete. As they do, the body no longer needs to hold onto them, freeing up energy, movement, and attention so you can be more present, responsive, and connected with your horse.
Somatic Experiencing® offers a way to understand your body on a deeper level: how it holds patterns, how it responds in the moment, and how those patterns shape your experience with your horse. Through guided awareness, you begin to notice what’s happening beneath the surface, work with your body’s natural responses, and allow old patterns to shift in a way that feels supported and lasting. The result is a body that feels more clear, more connected, and more available for the partnership you’re building.
Sessions are body-guided and deeply individualized.
You may be seated, standing, or lying down as Allie gently brings your awareness to specific sensations, patterns, or areas of tension. Through light touch, guided attention, and conversation, you begin to notice what your body has been holding and how it wants to shift.
Nothing is rushed or forced. Your body leads, and Allie meets it with presence, skill, and care. What often emerges is a sense of ease, clarity, and a deeper trust in yourself.
Inside a Somatic Experiencing Session
After your session, Allie reviews the footage frame by frame and creates a personalized report that highlights key insights. You’ll see exactly how your pelvis moves, how your balance shifts, how your aids travel through your body, and how your horse mirrors all of it. More importantly, you’ll receive simple, targeted recommendations to help you integrate new patterns the next time you’re in the saddle.
These reports turn the invisible into the understandable, giving you clarity, confidence, and a visual record of your progress over time.
For riders who learn best by seeing as well as feeling, these in-depth video reports offer a powerful window into your movement patterns and your horse’s response.
During your session, Allie places subtle reference points on both you and your horse to track posture, alignment, symmetry, and timing. As you ride, she records how your body organizes itself through transitions, turns, straight lines, and moments of tension or ease. This creates a clear visual map of the patterns that support your ride and the ones that quietly limit it.
The Reports
Step inside the shared portal where Allie studies your ride, shares thoughtful insights, and collaborates with you through visual feedback and progress tracking, all in one space designed to support your growth between sessions.
The OnForm Portal
"I can honestly say working with Allie has changed my life. The depth of this work is hard to put into words. I've had three sessions so far and I’ve been able to reconnect with parts of myself that felt out of reach for a long time, or too overwhelming to face. The clarity that comes afterward about my body, my choices, and how to move forward is unlike anything I've experienced in other modalities. I’m looking forward to continuing this work."
Bobbi Gamaché-Arnold
