The Power of
Soft Touch
RECORDING
How soft touch helps your horse release physical and mental tension, so you become the person he genuinely loves being with
Learn how to create the feeling of safety your horse needs to soften, let go, and truly connect with you.
Workshop Recording with
Lucie Klaassen
Price workshop €69: Replay €49 only
90-minute workshop
In this workshop, I will guide you through how soft touch can help your horse release tension—both physically and mentally.
But before we even place a hand on our horse, there is something important to look at first:
your own nervous system.
We'll explore how to regulate yourself before you begin so you can arrive already grounded, calm, and safe. When you bring that feeling into the session, your horse can soften and let go.
This is not only about learning techniques. It's about learning how to be with your horse in a way that feels soft, safe, and deeply connecting.
Do you recognize this?
You want to help your horse relax, but the moment you place your hands on them, you feel tension instead.
Maybe your horse braces, moves away, or stands still without really softening. You want to help, but you’re not always sure how to touch, when to pause, or how to create the feeling of safety your horse needs in order to let go.
Because before touch can become healing…
it first has to feel safe.
We will explore that in this workshop
Soft touch begins long before the touch itself.
Together, we'll look at how your horse responds not only to your hands, but to your breathing, your pace, your energy, and the state of your nervous system. When you learn to regulate yourself, first, your touch changes. It becomes quieter, clearer, and easier for your horse to receive.
And that is where co-regulation becomes possible.
Your horse no longer has to stay guarded or hold on to tension.
You create space for softness, trust, and release.
Imagine…
Your horse softening under your hand.
Their breathing slowing down.
Their body letting go.
And imagine knowing that this doesn't come from doing more, but from bringing more awareness to how you show up.
You become more aware of your own body and nervous system, more confident in using touch in a gentle, connected way, and more able to help your horse release tension without force or pressure.
The Power of Soft Touch
Discover how to use soft touch, nervous system awareness, and co-regulation to help your horse release tension and feel safe with you.
For: Anyone who wants to help their horse release tension
Replay price: €49 (instead of €69)
Included for Open Gate members
First I’d like to say thank you Lucie !! What a fantastic work you have laid into this . It’s just so helpful to see things from scratch, in different ways the horses and people can react to the exercises. Just looove it !!!! You explain everything so well !!! I’m soooo happy that I finally learned how to breathe properly and to feel and love the feeling of my body and my presence and I think she loves it to ❤️
Through your online course, I have become even more aware of myself, where my head, heart and body are at. How I am holding myself, where my breath is, generally how I am feeling all of the time. My dear horse Harry absolutely loves it when I do the shaking! I like to close my eyes and really get into it, opening them when I am nearly done to find Harry staring right at me saying “THANK YOU for releasing that tension, I can be with you now”. I just love this. Our bond has strengthened so much and I thank you Lucie from the bottom of my heart for sharing your knowledge and learnings with us! xxxx Cath.
A Different Way of Learning
This workshop offers a gentle, practical approach to connection through touch, regulation, and awareness.
Because when horse and human both feel safe... everything becomes softer, easier, and more connected.
MORE SOFTNESS. MORE TRUST. MORE CONNECTION.
When your touch feels safe…
your horse feels it too.
If you want to discover how soft touch can help your horse release tension—and how you can become the person your horse genuinely loves being with—you’re very welcome to join this workshop.
Replay offer: €49
Hi, I'm Lucie.
Most of my adult life, my nervous sytem was dysregulated, wired to perceive danger. I was living in my head and my brain was on 'High Alert' most of the time. It brought me far in life, until I had a major breakdown and was hospitalized.
After I reconnected with my body wisdom and my true self again, I now live an authentic life, with everything it has to offer. I welcome the challenges in my life and have learned to go through the emotional states of the nervous system without getting overwhelmed.
That sense of freedom is what I wish for everyone...
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