- Relieve physical injury & trauma
- Increase capacity to contain high-energy states without losing stability
- Regulate the nervous system
Touch is how we connect, explore, and soothe. Touch brings us into an immediate sensual relationship with the world around us. Touching dissolves our separateness; if is the most intimate way that we bridge the space between two beings. How we touch - the quality of intention, receptivity, and listening that we offer - defines our availability to another. Touching is always a shared act. We are always being touched by what we are touching.
Often the way we touch our horses is about doing and fixing, rather than nurturing a shared experience of reciprocity, connection and settling. Practicing Conscious Touch is a powerful way of bringing greater feeling and harmony to the bodies of both horse and human, and regulation of the human-equine shared nervous system.
Paula is trained in Connective Tissue Technique (CTT), Tellington TTouch and Somatic Experiencing® Touch. For the past forty years, she has integrated touch modalities into her teaching and private practice. Paula has been profoundly influenced by her work with Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, Kathy Kain and Linda Tellington-Jones....
