Know Yourself, Know Your Horse
An 18-Week Journey in Embodied Awareness and Equine Connection
When you change your inner world, your relationships transform.
Know Yourself, Know Your Horse is a fully live, seasonal journey for horse owners who want to deepen their ability to attune—to themselves and to their horses. Grounded in Natural Lifemanship principles, this course weaves nervous system regulation, embodiment practices, relational work with horses, and practical human anatomy and physiology into one cohesive learning experience.
Here, anatomy isn’t taught as a separate subject. It is the foundation for embodied awareness, allowing the image to guide the sensation.
As we explore how the body is built and how it functions, you’ll learn to sense those structures and processes from the inside out. We move through all 11 organ systems in ways that are accessible and experiential, then linger more deeply with the skeletal–muscular, respiratory, cardiovascular, and nervous systems—because these systems shape how we move, breathe, regulate, and relate.
This is a course about attunement—made possible by knowing your body well enough to listen to it.
No pre-recorded modules. No passive watching. Just intentional, weekly live sessions that help you show up with clarity, presence, and connection—for yourself and for your horse.
Part 1: Winter (Know Yourself)
A gentle descent inward. As we explore the structures and systems of the body, you’ll learn to sense them from within—developing an embodied understanding of your physiology. Through somatic and sensory-based practices, you’ll begin inhabiting your body more fully, increasing nervous system literacy, and strengthening your capacity for self-awareness and regulation.
Part 2: Spring (Know Your Horse)
With greater internal clarity, you’ll begin to turn outward—bringing your embodied presence into relationship with your horse. The anatomical and physiological awareness you’ve developed becomes the basis for attunement as you move into consent-based practices, explore connection through grounded relational work, and learn to co-regulate in authentic partnership. Meetings will include discussion, teaching, and live demonstration with the horses at NL Headquarters.
Live, Weekly Sessions
Each week includes a live 1-hour Zoom call, led by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, Tanner Jobe, Kate Naylor and other members of the NL team, where you’ll:
- Learn anatomy and physiology in a way that helps you understand, interpret, and listen to your own body
- Be guided through embodied practices and relational tools
- Take what you learned during the winter months into your relationship with the horses through the guidance of live demonstrations with the horses at NL Headquarters
- Reflect, process, and grow in community
These sessions are the heart of the course—where you practice, reflect, and connect. Recordings are there as a backup, but the true transformation unfolds when you show up and participate.
Bonus Access for NL Members Only
If you’re an NL member, you’ll also receive full access to Coming Home to the Body with Mark Taylor, a powerful resource for embodied healing. Over 20 hours of rich, experiential content to help you slow down, move inward, and deepen your awareness of your body.
These recordings beautifully complement the learning and practices in Know Yourself, Know Your Horse, giving you tools you can bring to your relationship with your horse, yourself, and your work in the world.
This is anatomy you can feel.
Physiology that lands in your cells.
Learning that brings you home to yourself
—and to your horse.
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NL Membership and unlock the member rate on this course and many others!
$149 for NL members, $300 for non-members.
Details
What: Know Yourself, Know Your Horse
Where: Online, 18 live Zoom sessions (1 hour each)
When: January 12 – May 19, 2026
Who: Horse owners and practitioners committed to personal growth and relational work
Why: Because deeper connection with your horse begins in your own body. This training offers a live, guided experience in nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and relational presence so you can attune more fully to yourself and bring that attunement into your relationship with your horse. Join us!
This training is for you if:
- You want a deeper, more connected relationship with your horse.
- You know your inner world impacts your horse and you want to learn how.
- You’re drawn to relational, consent-based horsemanship.
- You want to develop embodied awareness and regulation.
- You’re ready to show up with presence for your horse and yourself.
Pricing
Members
$149
18 one-hour Zoom meetings led by Bettina Shultz-Jobe, Tanner Jobe, and NL team members
Teaching, participation, discussions, and live demonstrations with horses
Community forum for discussion between sessions
Access for lifetime of your membership
Bonus for Members Only: Full access to Coming Home to the Body with Mark Taylor, a powerful resource for embodied healing.
Non-Members
$300
Non-members may join this training for $300 and will enjoy access to the material for one year. But why pay more when you can join as an NL member, get this training at the member rate, get access to the members-only bonus, and enjoy access to the material for the lifetime of your membership?
Learn more about NL Membership and get the member rate on this course and many others!
Course Curriculum and Dates
Winter Ceremony:
Nurturing the Hearth Within (January 12)
January 12 at 7:30 pm CST
In this ceremony led by Kate Naylor, we will seek the hearth within us, the ever present light that calls us home to ourselves even in the darkest winters of our lives. As we tend to this fire that burns at the core of our being, we remember that in all darkness, there is life waiting to begin again. Let the warmth there permeate out into the winter that surrounds us this season. Together, we will turn inward and allow creativity in body, mind, and soul to fan the flames flickering within.
Know Yourself: 8 Weekly Sessions
We’ll meet for one hour at 4:00 p.m. Central on the following dates:
- January 20
- January 27
- February 3
- February 10
- February 17
- February 24
- March 3
- March 10 (No meeting)
- March 17
Spring Ceremony:
Welcoming the Dawn (March 24)
March 24 at 9:00 am CST
Spring is a time of new beginnings – the sun begins to shine with more strength, imparting energy to the Earth and all her inhabitants. It’s a time to birth something new, reach out into the light, and grasp what is possible. Join Kate Naylor for this morning ceremony – together we will celebrate the dawning of Spring’s energy and allow it to engage us, moving us forward into a new day, a new year, a new set of possibilities.
Know Your Horse: 8 Weekly Sessions
We’ll meet for one hour at 4:00 p.m. Central on the following dates. During these weeks we will guide you as you take you what you learned during the winter months into your relationship with the horses. We will then join together as a group to share and process your experience. These meetings will include discussion, teaching, and live demonstration with the horses at NL Headquarters.
- March 31
- April 7
- April 14
- April 21
- April 28
- May 5
- May 12
- May 19
- Practical anatomy and physiology that helps you understand and listen to your body
- Tools to regulate your nervous system
- A deeper sense of embodied awareness
- Insight into how your internal state affects your horse
- Grounded practices to support mutual connection and consent
- Concrete support regarding how to take what you have learned about your own body and regulation into your relationship with your horses
- A community of learners on the same journey
What Will I Learn?
Join us today!
What: Know Yourself, Know Your Horse
Where: Online, 18 live Zoom sessions (1 hour each)
When: January 12 – May 19, 2026
Who: Horse owners and practitioners committed to personal growth and relational work
Why: Because deeper connection with your horse begins in your own body. This training offers a live, guided experience in nervous system regulation, embodied awareness, and relational presence so you can attune more fully to yourself and bring that attunement into your relationship with your horse. Join us!
