Cindy Skelton-Hodge
- Natural Lifemanship certified Equine Professional
- Natural Lifemanship trainer and host
- Founder and President, Windows to My Soul, Somerset, California
- EAGALA Certified
- Parelli Level 3 graduate
- Six years co-facilitating EAP sessions focused in trauma
- Former Silicon Valley executive, now living her purpose-filled life
Cindy was forced to leave the fast paced Silicon Valley executive life early in her forties when the physical and emotional effects of her own childhood trauma started to catch up to her. She reignited her love of horses and through this process found that her trauma related symptoms were dissipating. Curiosity led to research on why the work with horses was effective in treating trauma, which in turn led her to start Windows to My Soul, a not for profit in Somerset, California providing Trauma Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy. Certified in two EAP models and a Natural Lifemanship trainer, Cindy and Windows to My Soul are proud hosts of the Natural Lifemanship Fundamentals, Intensives and Relationship Logic Immersions.
OUR NEXT TRAININGS
VIRTUAL NL for Spiritual Connection
NL for Spiritual Connection is now offered in a virtual format! Gather with us via Zoom in a small group to explore contemplative practices and themes. Experience and learn how to help yourself and others find a place of deeper connection, resting in our true nature of absolute belonging. We are super excited about this virtual format, which allows us to dive deep at a slower pace so that we may explore, grow, and integrate the content naturally over 12 biweekly sessions and in the context of our daily lives.
Building Your Resilience
Working in the mental health and helping professions can be psychologically and emotionally taxing. We all know, intellectually, that we need deep and restorative self-care in order to be at our best. Now, offering our support to clients is harder than ever. If there ever was a time when we needed to focus on filling our own wells, it is now. That’s why The Natural Lifemanship Institute, in collaboration with our students and partner sites, is offering the Building Your Resilience series: multiple online opportunities for profound self-care - through mindfulness, meditation, self-reflection, and more.
Please join us for what we hope will be deeply restorative online workshops in our connected community of helpers and healers.
The NEW! Business Building Master Class
The Business Building Master Class was created to help you build the business of your dreams, without the expensive lessons that many new business owners in this field learn along the way. Whether you seek a solid business foundation in the EAP/L field, are hoping to book your first client, or are looking to scale your EAP/L business, we meet you where you are and guide you to success. This course meets online for 13 virtual sessions of 90 minutes each and includes a whole lot of personalized support!
NEW: The Virtual Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship from Home! Helping people form connected, trusting relationships to overcome toxic stress and trauma has never been more critical than it is at this exact moment in history. At the Natural Lifemanship Institute, we have spent the last 10 years teaching our Fundamentals training to mental health professionals, life coaches, equine professionals, and others in the healing professions. And now, for the first time ever, we are offering this essential training online from the comfort of your home. We have specially designed this training to meet YOUR needs, with three options to choose from.
Connected Horsemanship Training
There are plenty of places to learn horsemanship skills - but none carry the deeply healing and consciously humane values of Natural Lifemanship. This is THE place to develop your horsemanship abilities based on NL principles - whether your partnership with horses is recreational, professional, or clinical. All levels of experience are welcome!
NL Conference 2020 - REPLAYS
Our 2020 virtual conference was amazing!! Recordings may be accessed through the end of February 2021. Click "Learn More" to visit the conference site and sign in to watch or purchase access.
NL Personal Intensive
It is said that you cannot take clients on journeys that you have not traveled. To serve our clients well, we must have personal experience navigating some of the profound aspects of human experience. How aware are you of your attachment style? Do you know how it impacts your relating, and in particular, how it impacts your work with clients? Participate in active learning as you explore your own approach to the world, and how intentional therapeutic experiences can move us all toward more secure attachment.
SPECIAL Relationship Logic Immersion Training and Campout – Wild Horse Sanctuary, Shingletown, CA
Join us for a very special, rustic, 4-day immersion training cabin camping at Northern California's beautiful Wild Horse Sanctuary! This one-of-a-kind experience gives you the opportunity to experience the process of building a connected relationship with a wild horse. Connect with nature, connect with yourself, connect with wild horses, connect with NL trainers, and connect with each other. This experience sells out fast and typically is offered once per year.
Rhythmic Riding Immersion
The purpose of mounted work in TF-EAP is to deepen the connection the client experiences with the horse while leveraging the physiological support that the movement of the horse provides. Mounted work provides a powerful opportunity for clients to deepen their sense of connection with themselves and with their horse while benefitting from "bottom-up regulation." The NL Intensive is required prior to attending this training.
Blended Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience more rewarding connections while empowering others to do the same. Build a business helping people with the help of horses. Help others overcome trauma and stress. The Fundamentals of NL is our basic training and the entry point for all advanced trainings as well as our certification process. Learn, Experience and Connect through Natural Lifemanship.
Natural Lifemanship Intensive
The NL Intensive is an advanced, hands-on training for people who have completed the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship. In a small group setting working with a partner you will spend 3 days building a connected relationship with your horse (on the ground, and possibly, eventually mounted) and helping your partner do the same. The NL Intensive is required for basic NL certification and is also a pre-requisite for the Relationship Logic and the Rhythmic Riding Immersions.
Relationship Logic Immersion
Experience the sensitivity of an untrained horse. Practice being deeply in touch with your own body energy as you build a relationship based on predictability and safety. Learn how to help a horse build the capacity for trust and intimacy with a human, and how to help humans who have experienced trauma. Relationship Logic Immersion counts towards Advanced Certification. The NL Intensive is a pre-requisite.
Equine Connected EMDR (EC-EMDR)
Natural Lifemanship EC-EMDR training is a three-day hands-on training workshop for EMDR trained clinicians and their EPs who practice Natural Lifemanship Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (TF-EAP).
VIRTUAL NL for Spiritual Connection
NL for Spiritual Connection is now offered in a virtual format! Gather with us via Zoom in a small group to explore contemplative practices and themes. Experience and learn how to help yourself and others find a place of deeper connection, resting in our true nature of absolute belonging. We are super excited about this virtual format, which allows us to dive deep at a slower pace so that we may explore, grow, and integrate the content naturally over 12 biweekly sessions and in the context of our daily lives.
Building Your Resilience
Working in the mental health and helping professions can be psychologically and emotionally taxing. We all know, intellectually, that we need deep and restorative self-care in order to be at our best. Now, offering our support to clients is harder than ever. If there ever was a time when we needed to focus on filling our own wells, it is now. That’s why The Natural Lifemanship Institute, in collaboration with our students and partner sites, is offering the Building Your Resilience series: multiple online opportunities for profound self-care - through mindfulness, meditation, self-reflection, and more.
Please join us for what we hope will be deeply restorative online workshops in our connected community of helpers and healers.
The NEW! Business Building Master Class
The Business Building Master Class was created to help you build the business of your dreams, without the expensive lessons that many new business owners in this field learn along the way. Whether you seek a solid business foundation in the EAP/L field, are hoping to book your first client, or are looking to scale your EAP/L business, we meet you where you are and guide you to success. This course meets online for 13 virtual sessions of 90 minutes each and includes a whole lot of personalized support!
NEW: The Virtual Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship from Home! Helping people form connected, trusting relationships to overcome toxic stress and trauma has never been more critical than it is at this exact moment in history. At the Natural Lifemanship Institute, we have spent the last 10 years teaching our Fundamentals training to mental health professionals, life coaches, equine professionals, and others in the healing professions. And now, for the first time ever, we are offering this essential training online from the comfort of your home. We have specially designed this training to meet YOUR needs, with three options to choose from.
Connected Horsemanship Training
There are plenty of places to learn horsemanship skills - but none carry the deeply healing and consciously humane values of Natural Lifemanship. This is THE place to develop your horsemanship abilities based on NL principles - whether your partnership with horses is recreational, professional, or clinical. All levels of experience are welcome!
NL Conference 2020 - REPLAYS
Our 2020 virtual conference was amazing!! Recordings may be accessed through the end of February 2021. Click "Learn More" to visit the conference site and sign in to watch or purchase access.
NL Personal Intensive
It is said that you cannot take clients on journeys that you have not traveled. To serve our clients well, we must have personal experience navigating some of the profound aspects of human experience. How aware are you of your attachment style? Do you know how it impacts your relating, and in particular, how it impacts your work with clients? Participate in active learning as you explore your own approach to the world, and how intentional therapeutic experiences can move us all toward more secure attachment.
SPECIAL Relationship Logic Immersion Training and Campout – Wild Horse Sanctuary, Shingletown, CA
Join us for a very special, rustic, 4-day immersion training cabin camping at Northern California's beautiful Wild Horse Sanctuary! This one-of-a-kind experience gives you the opportunity to experience the process of building a connected relationship with a wild horse. Connect with nature, connect with yourself, connect with wild horses, connect with NL trainers, and connect with each other. This experience sells out fast and typically is offered once per year.
Rhythmic Riding Immersion
The purpose of mounted work in TF-EAP is to deepen the connection the client experiences with the horse while leveraging the physiological support that the movement of the horse provides. Mounted work provides a powerful opportunity for clients to deepen their sense of connection with themselves and with their horse while benefitting from "bottom-up regulation." The NL Intensive is required prior to attending this training.
Blended Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship Training
Experience more rewarding connections while empowering others to do the same. Build a business helping people with the help of horses. Help others overcome trauma and stress. The Fundamentals of NL is our basic training and the entry point for all advanced trainings as well as our certification process. Learn, Experience and Connect through Natural Lifemanship.
Natural Lifemanship Intensive
The NL Intensive is an advanced, hands-on training for people who have completed the Fundamentals of Natural Lifemanship. In a small group setting working with a partner you will spend 3 days building a connected relationship with your horse (on the ground, and possibly, eventually mounted) and helping your partner do the same. The NL Intensive is required for basic NL certification and is also a pre-requisite for the Relationship Logic and the Rhythmic Riding Immersions.
Relationship Logic Immersion
Experience the sensitivity of an untrained horse. Practice being deeply in touch with your own body energy as you build a relationship based on predictability and safety. Learn how to help a horse build the capacity for trust and intimacy with a human, and how to help humans who have experienced trauma. Relationship Logic Immersion counts towards Advanced Certification. The NL Intensive is a pre-requisite.
Equine Connected EMDR (EC-EMDR)
Natural Lifemanship EC-EMDR training is a three-day hands-on training workshop for EMDR trained clinicians and their EPs who practice Natural Lifemanship Trauma-Focused Equine Assisted Psychotherapy (TF-EAP).
