A Nervous System Affirming
Approach to Horsemanship

Helping horse guardians achieve more relaxed relationships through
embodied attunement, free movement and consensual communication.

Shannon Beahen specializes in teaching consent-based approaches
to horsemanship that allow both sides of the horse-human dyad to have say
in how the relationship unfolds. She helps clients achieve deeper connection
and more easeful interactions with their animals through groundwork,
liberty and natural dressage. Her teachings also extend to providing cooperative equine care,
creating species-appropriate habitats and mediating herd dynamics.

She is passionate about exploring and articulating the ethics
of embodied horse-human relationships. Her hope is that, through
teaching a deeper awareness of human-animal and human-environment
relations, equestrian education ceases to be a privileged pastime;
and instead may just provide some of the seeds to birth a new earth.

Shannon Beahen has been an Equestrian Canada certified
Competition Coach since the late 90s, studying topics related to
human-animal ethics, language and philosophy since 2008 (BA, MA, PhD Cand.).
She is Equusoma (horse-human trauma recovery) certified Level 1 & Level 2 (forthcoming).
She's been loving these velvet-nosed creatures since forever.