Energetic Hygiene for horse & human bodies in relation

Learn about consensual relating, good boundaries, spatial relating, emotional self-regulation, relational autonomy, feedback loops, flow states, subtle energetics and more.

  • Asynchronous learning format. Work at your own pace.

  • Join in on group Zoom calls with participants from all around the world for rich discussions and a community of like-minded horse-people.

  • Submit videos of you trying course exercises to get feedback and new perspectives.

  • Includes concepts for better relating, exercises to try at home, lesson and training footage and other bonuses!

  • Curriculum tried and tested in real-life teaching contexts.

Course Curriculum

    1. A Message from Humminghorse

    2. Course Intro Talk 1 - Welcome to Cleaning Up the Contact Zone

    3. Course Intro Talk 2 - Energetic Hygiene Overview

    4. Course Intro Talk 3 - Enmeshment & Rule of 50/50

    1. Energetic Hygiene - Enmeshment & Differentiation

    2. Feedback Loops - Cycle of Completion & Rhythmic Flow

    3. What is Pressure?

    4. The 3 Energies

    5. Don't Pull on the Head

    6. Zone of Autonomy & Staying out of their Business

    1. Positions Overview

    1. Can I be in your Bubble?

    2. Don't Cross the Line

    3. Don't Cross the Line - Revisited

    4. The 6 Directives - How Does my Horse Respond to Pressure?

    5. Body Mapping - Turning the Clock

    6. Send & Receive - & Don't Alienate the Nose

    7. Boundary on the Move

    8. If They Don't Want to Move

    9. A Contact Zone Lesson Plan

    1. Contact Zone Clarification Presentation - July 31st, 2022

    2. Lotte & Leyndur - Part 1 - DCTL Video Review

    3. Lotte & Leynder - Part 2 - Boundary on the Move

About this course

  • $225.00
  • 23 lessons

Meet Your Instructor

Shannon Beahen

Head Instructor

Shannon taught for years in riding schools as a mainstream equestrian coach. She gained an education in elite riding as a working student under one of Canada’s top FEI dressage coaches and overseas in the UK, riding 5-star event horses. In her 20’s, she left the horse world to pursue a professional career as an advertising copywriter, then arts journalist and later a digital narratives author before switching to academic life. There, she pursued an inter-disciplinary doctorate focusing on the politics and philosophy of human-animal relations. In the final year of her prestigious fellowship, she became very ill with a mysterious auto-immune disease that temporarily interfered with her mobility. In that time, she was gifted many insights into the nervous system, the continuity between mind and body and the energetic layers of existence. She moved to the mountains to recover and deepen her meditation practice. In the process, she was initiated into deeper relationship with the mysteries of embodied and earthly being. From then on, she turned her thesis into a living dissertation—homesteading, terraforming, small herd tending—and thus the Humminghorse teachings took shape. With this course, Shannon’s accumulation of life experience has a chance to express itself. Words, ideas, images, symbols, humans, animals, bodies, energies, movement, meaning, matter, mystery. The multi-layered aspect of Humminghorse teachings, make this knowledge as applicable to one’s personal life journey, as they are to that between a human and a horse in relationship.