EquiSomatic Experience - A Wellness Retreat

The EquiSomatic Vision

With a groundbreaking combination of Network care and equine-assisted learning, we create life-changing transformations in nervous system regulation, somatic awareness, and mindful embodiment.

What We Do

We engage Network Chiropractic with the energetic presence of horses in heart-centering natural environments. We invigorate the senses and the central nervous system, creating calm awareness while disrupting embedded mental, physical, and spiritual patterns to awaken vitality, resilience, and dynamic authenticity.

Join us on an experiential wellness journey of a lifetime combining ancient awareness with established somatic healing techniques.

Humanity

We humans are complex creatures.

We possess bodies that monitor our internal processes, interact with and respond to our environment, protect our precious vulnerabilities, allow us to create, think, reproduce, discern, learn, and engage with whatever we choose. We are able to successfully generate and process unfathomable amounts of information in moments!

We also have an energetic field that is intimately connected to this body. It consists of a composite of various layers that correspond to the depths, capabilities, and possibilities, of our being.

This weekend event offers five customized Network sessions with Dr. Mary, blended with Kelly's five transformational mindfulness experiences with horses, gently and beautifully supporting each participant.

This format invites changes in your central nervous system and your soul. The horses, gifted sentient beings, guide and teach true presence, while allowing for safety and recognition of true self.

Mary engages your nervous system in an environment of growth and authenticity, employing the power of Network Chiropractic: a gentle, non-manipulative form of body/mind care. She will teach your nervous system to reframe the experiences of trauma or stress as potentially beneficial sources of rejuvenation!

Kelly will teach the power of presence and reconnection to your senses, bringing awareness to sensations within your body. Connecting to True Self is a very personal journey for each person, focusing on heart-centered awareness through presence, intention-setting and recognizing the powerful life force we all possess. Combining her knowledge and experience with horses, mindfulness and somatic experiencing brings participants a new sense of awareness, clarity and peace.

This Journey Called Life is a Path...

Some of the steps are solid and strong, some are uneven, muddy and slippery.

They can all lead to a more congruent, loving, resourceful, authentic, creative, peaceful and actualized YOU.

We invite you to come BLOOM with us!

• Learn the art of being present and fully engaged

• Develop neural strategies to help you respond to stress differently

• Access old limiting patterns and replace them with vibrant new approaches

• Create resilience and fluidity in your mind, body, emotions, and spirit

A few testimonials from our past participants:

"I attended an equisomatic retreat with Dr. Mary & Kelly in the Fall of 2022. The experience surpassed my expectations and proved to be one of the most transformative healing experiences of my life. Dr. Mary and Kelly's partnership offers a unique combination of skill sets, with each drawing out the best from a person's body, mind, and spirit in an open and inclusive way. Even more profound, was the silent but powerful influence of the horses. Horses are our mirrors; indeed, I found the horses to be just as active in guiding us in the retreat as Dr. Mary & Kelly. Dr. Mary's network care gave my body the resources to process my emotions with Kelly and my retreat peers. The horses mirrored my emotions back to me, and were also there to comfort me as I confronted emotions that were difficult. As a "horse person" I knew that the retreat would have an impact on me, but I wasn't prepared for how much it would facilitate my healing for years to come. I highly recommend this experience to everyone out there searching for a sense of groundedness, connection, and security. You won't regret it."

Angie S. LeRoy, PhD, Assistant Professor of Psychology & Neuroscience
Baylor University

“This weekend with Mary and Kelly was extraordinaire, combining deep knowledge of horse interaction with improving the nervous system so that each modality increased the effectiveness of the other. Thank you Kelly and Mary for a memorable weekend.” ——MH

“The retreat was an amazing weekend full of activities and information designed for physical and mental health and improvement. My personal favorite was the process of using the senses of hearing sight, touch and smell to develop a connection with the earth and energize the body and calm the mind.” -TD

Kelly Jones is a master of mindfulness, using the immense beauty of equine sensitivity to help us see ourselves, and to learn how to feel more.

Dr. Mary employs the power of Network Chiropractic to help us reorganize our nervous systems into a framework of ease and true healing.

Come join us for this life-changing event, in a never-before-offered collaboration between these two masters in their fields.

Practical matters

Meals are Included. Meals will be simple but hardy, and prepared with highest quality organic/grass-fed, etc, ingredients available. Please let us know when you register about any dietary restrictions. We will provide light snacks Friday evening for our amazing drumming event, along with Saturday breakfast, snacks, and lunch plus Sunday breakfast, snacks, and lunch. We will also have clean RO water available to refill your water bottles and other beverages including coffee and tea.

Wear comfortable outdoor weather appropriate clothing and close-toed shoes. No jeans please; leggings or jogging pants are more appropriate for your table sessions. Bring a glass or stainless water bottle, yoga mat, suntan lotion, a hat, and a journal. We will be asking to keep all cell phones in a central location. There will be hand-washing stations available and all events will be outside, but under cover.

We strongly recommend staying away from home. We recommend these accommodations:

Best Western Post Oak Inn, Burnet, Texas

Comfort Inn and Suites, Burnet, Texas

And there are several Airbnb’s nearby as well.

Want to know more? Keep reading!

Agenda

Please note that water and other beverages will be available throughout the weekend under our shady and breezy covered arena surrounded by beautiful oak trees.

No experience with horses, or Network, is required to attend! There will be no horseback riding.

Saturday

Light and Healthy Breakfast with Tea and Coffee

Mindful Movement and Meditation

Session One Meet the Herd, Find Quiet Space Within, Initial Entrainment (Network Table Session)

Session Two Connecting to Senses, Second Entrainment

Healthy and Fresh Lunch

Led Meditation

Session Three Rhythm and Relationship, Third Entrainment

Journaling, Resting, Mindfulness with Quiet Time

Closing and Discussion

Sunday

Light and Healthy Breakfast with Tea and Coffee

Mindful Movement

Session Four Intention and Energy, Fourth Entrainment

Session Five Detach and Breathe, Fifth Entrainment

Healthy and Fresh Lunch

Closing and Review

Head Home

Dr. Mary and Kelly explore the depth of opportunities to address the whole YOU as they reach into a broad range of supportive approaches. Kelly partners with equines as the Great Reflectors of human emotion. She teaches us to recognize when and what we feel and to understand when we don’t feel, and what to do about that.

Dr. Mary employs Network Chiropractic to invite change from every bit of you—from the inner workings of your central nervous system to the outer reaches of your energetic field. Growth, sensitivity, authentic emotions, creativity, energy - all are available to you.

Patterns of protection and defense, past traumas, loss of energy, posture changes that limit our breath, flexibility and expression; emotional numbness and loss of our fullness of love and depth - we are human, and this is what can happen throughout this journey of life.

Our bodies and souls are simultaneously made up of, and are wearing, one physically and energetically meshed garment. Everything is not only “connected”, it is all made up of the very same piece of dynamic, shimmering cloth! This cloth can become diminished and distorted, or vibrant and fluid!

Physical and emotional limitations can result from injury, disease and trauma, which create heavy stuck energy. We are taught to avoid and disassociate ourselves from these events of pain and illness. But energy is information! Let us help you celebrate those parts of yourself that you have not yet been able to access and integrate, and restore the fluidity and serendipity we all so richly deserve!

Sometimes occurrences are more than we can absorb or assimilate in the real time of that occurrence. We would rather not go there, our perspective tells us it is “not safe”.

This lingering unprocessed energy finds a home - usually within a pattern someplace in our physical, mental, emotional, and/or spiritual fields. We often have a vague sense that it is there, but we can’t quite “see” it, in order to identify its roots and presence. We tend to numb ourselves around these experiences. The deepest aspects of our central nervous systems become anchored in patterns of numbness and comfort or discomfort.

Are you ready for change?

Kelly and Dr. Mary are teachers. They teach your consciousness, and your nervous system and in doing so, reveal your old habits and patterns. They teach your mind and your brain; your conscious and unconscious. They teach safety! This awareness is an agent for change for your body, heart, and spirit. Dr. Mary and Kelly bring tools and experiences during the weekend that will help unlock the YOU that is in there and longs to be free!

Human beings are a beautiful weaving together of three centers of intelligence referred to as Intellectual, Emotional and Moving. From these systems we draw energy, insight and sense of self. These are separate but interrelated systems of intelligence and when they are all online we begin to see the world in a whole new way.

Revealing our intuition, the deeper spirituality within each of us, is possible and connecting through each of the centers creates an awakening of senses and realization of our true essence and strength.

Through your experiences during this event, you will gain access to new strategies for love, life, and wellness!

FAQs

Are payment plans available?

Yes, please call Dr. Mary to establish payment plan, no discounts available for payment plans

Are there ID or minimum age requirements to enter the event?

Will be determined on a case-by-case basis

What are my transportation/parking options for getting to and from the event?

Parking is on site and at no cost

What can I bring into the event?

Please bring appropriate clothing for being outdoors, a water bottle, close-toed shoes, suntan lotion, a journal and a camera if you'd like.

How can I contact the organizer with any questions?

You may contact Kelly at 512-689-7793 or Dr. Mary Traverse at 512-345-4300

What's the refund policy?

We do not offer refunds, but we do offer credit towards another retreat in case of inclement weather, or an act of God.