Connected Horsemanship

Connected Horsemanship has evolved

If you’ve heard about this training before, here’s what’s new. We’ve expanded to four days and introduced a more intentional curriculum that weaves together the development of your horse, your relationship, and yourself.

This is still horse training at its core. With only six full participants, each person works with the same horse throughout the experience, making this our most intimate training and the one with the most focused horse time.

This is also the only training where participants may choose to audit or bring their own horse, creating additional flexibility for those wanting to deepen the experience in a way that best supports their goals.

Feel the power of horsemanship when relationships
are equitable, secure, and flourishing

No matter your level of horse experience, you can develop a stronger relationship with your horse based on deep connection and trust—and free from power, domination, and control—whether your partnership with horses is recreational, professional, or clinical.

Our 3-day Connected Horsemanship training is a personalized experience that’s designed to meet you where you are. Whether you’re a seasoned horse person, or are just getting started, we will discuss your individual goals, and help you develop a plan for achieving them.

Our trainers offer decades of experience with a variety of horses. They will assess and guide you and your horse to work on exactly what you need to continue to enhance your unique relationship (whether it is brand new or decades old!).

As your skills evolve, your relationship with your horse will deepen, and so will your experience at Connected Horsemanship. Since there is no pre-set agenda, each training unfolds in response to what your relationship needs that day. You could return again and again and always learn something new!

Why Natural Lifemanship? There are plenty of places to learn horsemanship skills, however, none carry the deeply healing and consciously humane values of Natural Lifemanship.

Details:

What: Connected Horsemanship
When: See upcoming training dates below
Time: 9am-5pm local time
Where: NL Headquarters, Brenham, TX
Who: Anyone willing to grow a connected partnership with their horse
Why: A training that is designed around your individual needs provides the greatest opportunity for significant growth. Because you want a better relationship with your horse, and that relationship is unique, individualized attention is the best path forward.

Cost:

Full Participant (bring your own horse or work with one of ours): $2,499*

Auditor (observe/ask questions; no working with horses): $499

Prerequisites: None

The Connected Horsemanship
training will teach you:

How to develop your horsemanship abilities through experiential learning
How to build relationships through ground and mounted work
How to build appropriate foundations that transfer as the relationship deepens through mounted work
How body awareness, body control, and posture can impact your relationship
How to become conscious of your own regulation and intention
How to recognize when your horse is giving consent through presence and deep connection

What to Expect:

We will host 6 participants with 6 horses in 6 separate spaces
We provide 3 seasoned trainers who utilize the Natural Lifemanship principles
Get focused and individualized support from wherever you are on your horsemanship journey
Sign up and immediately receive the Connected Horsemanship Course Bundle (valued at $2,499) – over 21 hours of videos!
You are welcome to bring your own horse* or borrow one from the host site
Auditing is available for $499 (does not include online learning bundle)

*If you bring your own horse you will need to bring Coggins, shot records, and food for your horse. Horses will live in their own round pen for the weekend where the owner will be responsible for feeding and watering their own horses, as well as cleaning the pen twice per day. The host facility assumes no liability for the safety of your livestock. You bring them at your own risk.

More time for practice, presence, and partnership

Who we are affects how we relate, and the more present and attuned we become, the stronger and clearer the partnership with our horse can be.

That’s exactly why we added a fourth day to this training. In the past, sessions were largely consultative with very little structured teaching. That spirit remains, but we’ve added a clearer framework

with dedicated time to learn, practice, and deepen the relationship with the same horse throughout the experience.

The added time allows participants to more fully explore how body language, movement, energy, and nervous system states shape communication and connection with their horse in real time.