HOW TO BOOK ON TO CAMPS
HOW TO BOOK ON TO CAMPS
Coming Together Camp
Kim & Tracey Coming Together Camp
A unique collaboration where practical biomechanics meets inner transformation — for both horse and rider.
Over these immersive days, Kim and Tracey bring their shared values and distinct gifts together to help you create softness, clarity, and true connection in the saddle and on the ground.
With Kim – The Rider’s Body & Mind
Kim will guide you to:
• Break the tension cycle by identifying and releasing habitual muscular patterns that interfere with clear communication.
• Ride with balance and ease, discovering how to move fluidly with your horse’s back without bracing in shoulders, arms, or seat.
• Improve posture and alignment by doing less, not more.
• Stay mentally and physically centred, enhancing breath, balance, and responsiveness.
• Experience mindful riding, where subtle shifts in thinking create profound calm and confidence in your horse.
Kim’s work supports riders in refining their aids so they become soft, effective, and harmonious.
With Tracey – The Inner Work & Sacred Connection
Tracey invites you beyond technique and into embodied presence.
• Shamanic offerings through meditation and healing to release blockages held in the mind, body, and soul. Aligning your and your horse charka’s.
• Group sessions held in the bell tent — a sacred space for sisterhood, reflection, and integration (individual sessions available).
• Learning how to bring “being” into “doing” — moving from head-led methods into heart-led presence.
• A deeper way of relating to your horse that arises from within, not from strategy alone.
• A unique twist on in-hand, groundwork, and ridden sessions — seeking those ethereal moments of harmony and understanding where nothing else exists.
Tracey’s work helps you soften into connection so that technique becomes embodied rather than performed.
Together
This camp is about integration.
Biomechanics meets soul work.
Alignment meets intuition.
Doing meets being.
You will leave with practical tools, embodied awareness, and a deeper relationship with your horse built on trust, softness, and mutual understanding.
Newbies
Newbies Camp – A Beginning of Something Deeper 🤍
This 3-day immersive camp is designed for those who are new to connection work, new to me, or feeling the call to begin a more conscious pathway with horses.
We’ll explore groundwork, an introduction to connected ridden work, and the art of becoming the being within the doing. Through energy work and mindfulness, you’ll begin developing true connection — with your horse and within yourself.
This is a gentle, supportive space to build foundations, deepen awareness, and step into a different way of relating.
Understanding Mind, Body & Soul (1)
Understanding Mind, Body & Soul – Camp 1 🤍
This 3-day clinic is an immersive exploration into helping your horse cultivate a healthy mind, body and soul — and understanding how we influence all three.
We’ll look at balance: how posture, energy, breath and awareness affect your horse, and how small shifts within you can create profound change within them.
Through connection work, engaging exercises, meditation, sound healing, breathwork, in-hand and ridden sessions, we explore the whole relationship — not just the riding.
This is about developing harmony, emotional regulation, physical wellbeing, and a partnership built on true understanding, that can only come from awareness, responsibility and deepening partnership. Learning how to support your horse in a way that is conscious, embodied and sustainable.
📍 Ditchling, East Sussex
🗓 25th–27th May
Limited spaces available.
For those ready to deepen their awareness and nurture the relationship from the inside out.
Jump for Joy Clinic
Jump for Joy Clinic 🤍
A shorter, more focused format of the 5 Day Camp — created to put the fun and confidence back into jumping for you and your horse.
This is for those already doing the groundwork and riding over poles — ready to refine, strengthen and find your stride together.
One of our days will be out at an SJ & XC venue, so loading must be solid and transport arranged. This clinic is about applying your foundations in a supportive, confidence-building environment.
We’ll work on connection within the gaits, balance before fences, rider awareness, and developing trust so that jumping feels joyful again — not pressured.
For those ready to build bravery, partnership and genuine enjoyment over fences.
Advancing Mind, Body & Soul (2)
Understanding Mind, Body & Soul – Camp 12🤍
This 3-day clinic is an immersive exploration into helping your horse cultivate a healthy mind, body and soul — and understanding how we influence all three.
We’ll begin to look at advancing balance: how posture, energy, breath and awareness affect your horse, and how small shifts within you can create profound change within them.
Through connection work, engaging exercises, meditation, sound healing, breathwork, in-hand and ridden sessions, we explore the whole relationship — not just the riding.
This is about developing harmony, emotional regulation, physical wellbeing, and a partnership built on true understanding, that can only come from awareness, responsibility and deepening partnership. Learning how to support your horse in a way that is conscious, embodied and sustainable.
📍 Ditchling, East Sussex
🗓 25th–27th May
Limited spaces available.
For those ready to deepen their awareness and nurture the relationship from the inside out.
Advanced Coming Together Camp
Kim & Tracey Coming Together Camp
A unique collaboration where practical biomechanics meets inner transformation — for both horse and rider.
Over these immersive days, Kim and Tracey bring their shared values and distinct gifts together to help you create softness, clarity, and true connection in the saddle and on the ground.
This advanced camp, is for those who have already started studying the alexander technique with Kim, and ready for the next immersion.
With Kim – The Rider’s Body & Mind
Kim will guide you to:
• Break the tension cycle by identifying and releasing habitual muscular patterns that interfere with clear communication.
• Ride with balance and ease, discovering how to move fluidly with your horse’s back without bracing in shoulders, arms, or seat.
• Improve posture and alignment by doing less, not more.
• Stay mentally and physically centred, enhancing breath, balance, and responsiveness.
• Experience mindful riding, where subtle shifts in thinking create profound calm and confidence in your horse.
Kim’s work supports riders in refining their aids so they become soft, effective, and harmonious.
With Tracey – The Inner Work & Sacred Connection
Tracey invites you beyond technique and into embodied presence.
• Shamanic offerings through meditation and healing to release blockages held in the mind, body, and soul. Aligning your and your horse charka’s.
• Group sessions held in the bell tent — a sacred space for sisterhood, reflection, and integration (individual sessions available).
• Learning how to bring “being” into “doing” — moving from head-led methods into heart-led presence.
• A deeper way of relating to your horse that arises from within, not from strategy alone.
• A unique twist on in-hand, groundwork, and ridden sessions — seeking those ethereal moments of harmony and understanding where nothing else exists.
Tracey’s work helps you soften into connection so that technique becomes embodied rather than performed.
Together
This camp is about integration.
Biomechanics meets soul work.
Alignment meets intuition.
Doing meets being.
You will leave with practical tools, embodied awareness, and a deeper relationship with your horse built on trust, softness, and mutual understanding.
Sista's Sacred Shadow Horse Retreat
Sista’s Sacred Shadow Horse Retreat is a four-day immersive journey for women ready to come home to themselves through the quiet wisdom of horses. Held in the beautiful countryside of Ditchling, this intimate glamping retreat blends nervous system grounding practices, gentle somatic work, voice exploration, and sacred ceremony — all within a supportive sisterhood container.
Guided by Cat and Tracey, you’ll explore shadow material safely and compassionately, supported by the calm presence of equines. Through EFT tapping, embodied movement, sound journeys, cacao ceremony, fire ritual, and creative offerings, you’ll reconnect to your voice, your body, and your inner knowing.
With individual healing sessions, practical integration tools, and sacred rituals for your horse, this retreat offers both depth and nourishment. Expect heartfelt connection, restorative practices, hearty plant-based meals, and space to reset, reflect, and realign.
Limited spaces are available to preserve the intimacy of the experience.
Alignment Camp with Tracey & Kim Bergin - Alexander Coach
Details to follow - save the date
Devon Retreat 2
Join Tracey and Cat from Balance and Align Equestrian Relationship Coach for an immersive and healing experience for you & your horse in the breathtaking Devon countryside.
Where you will ride across the beautiful sandy beaches and Exmoor hills, and rest & reset with mindful movement, meditation and mindset coaching. Be fully supported to look inwards and grow your relationship with yourself and your horse, and experience the transformational combination of horsemanship, mindset work & spirituality.
Stay in a elegant and cosy 18th century Devon farmhouse, with 400 acres of countryside to explore with your horse. Also enjoy a delicious home cooked breakfast every morning, and share a space with a group of fabulous like minded people.
The retreat is the perfect opportunity to grow, reconnect and have a magical experience and time with your horse.
Super Camp
'Super Camp' with Rachael Shawyer and Tracey Duncan
6th - 16th August 2022 - Limited places available.
New for 2022!!! We are still finalising plans for the content of this course but for anyone who's been on a jump for joy course you'll know this is going to be fun and progressive for you and your horse :-)
Designed for those who'd like a longer course. Plans include lots of horsemanship both on the ground and ridden, using tasks and obstacles to provide purpose. We plan to include liberty sessions, polework, jumping, bridleless and various tasks/obstacles from disciplines such as arena eventing, trek and working equitation to improve connection, feel, timing, balance and your horse's athletic ability. Add to that some sessions just for you too... morning yoga, mindfulness, balance and riding position exercises, and fun social evenings to create a fantastic, progressive horsey holiday.
This camp will include rest 'time off' for you and your horse during your stay. Days off are likely to be the 9th and the 13th of Aug but may change/move depending on what you and your horse need at the time. We will finish at around 1pm on the 16th Aug.
To book - follow this link here
https://www.rachaelshawyer.co.uk/courses-camps-and-lessons/super-camp/
Summer Camp 2
A week away with your best friend, focusing on relationships within all aspects on HMS, things we may look in during the week:
Horse biomechanics
Riders position
Pole work
A day on the xc course ( does not need to be ridden - exposure on the ground to this is very valuable so please do not be put off by this should you not want to ride cross country ).
Mindfulness, meditation and riders mindset.
The week will be looking at how we can improve our HMS, can we have softer, lighter horses, that are connected and confident and willing, a week that will immerse you in seeing and having a deeper connection with your horse.
We have to trailer to the xc day - so it’s important that your horse is a confident loader/traveller - people often share travel for the day there.
We will have a social evening depending on the weather and any Covid restrictions
- will either be a pub or a social at the yard with local fish n chips with games
£650 for the week, stables/pens (weather dependant) £50 for the week.
limited rider spots available - £200 non-refundable or transferable deposit secures place. 5 days in clinic with a well deserved day off mid clinic
You may camp on-site or stay at a local BnB
Please wait for your space to be confirmed before sending a deposit.
Devon Retreat 1
Join Tracey and Cat from Balance and Align Equestrian Relationship Coach for an immersive and healing experience for you & your horse in the breathtaking Devon countryside.
Where you will ride across the beautiful sandy beaches and Exmoor hills, and rest & reset with mindful movement, meditation and mindset coaching. Be fully supported to look inwards and grow your relationship with yourself and your horse, and experience the transformational combination of horsemanship, mindset work & spirituality.
Stay in a elegant and cosy 18th century Devon farmhouse, with 400 acres of countryside to explore with your horse. Also enjoy a delicious home cooked breakfast every morning, and share a space with a group of fabulous like minded people.
The retreat is the perfect opportunity to grow, reconnect and have a magical experience and time with your horse.
Jump for Joy
Largely requested to come to the south is the jump4joy camp - i shall be holding this solo without my wonderful buddy Rach, so numbers will be limited as its just me
This camp covers , confidence for horse and rider with jumps, outing to a cross country course / show jumping course, position, distances , pole work - bringing purpose to a good foundation
We have to trailer to the xc day - so its important that your horses a confident loader/traveler etc - people often share travel for the day there.
We will have a social evening depending on the weather and any Covid restrictions
- will either be pub or a social at the yard with local fish n chips with games

£650 for the week, stables/pens (weather dependant) £50 for the week.
limited rider spots available - £200 non refundable or transferable deposit secures place.
Summer Camp 1
A week away with your best friend, focusing on relationships within all aspects on HMS, things we may look in during the week:
Horse biomechanics
Riders position
Pole work
A day on the xc course ( does not need to be ridden - exposure on the ground to this is very valuable so please do not be put off by this should you not want to ride cross country ).
Mindfulness, meditation and riders mindset.
The week will be looking at how we can improve our HMS, can we have softer, lighter horses, that are connected and confident and willing, a week that will immerse you in seeing and having a deeper connection with your horse.
We have to trailer to the xc day - so it’s important that your horse is a confident loader/traveller - people often share travel for the day there.
We will have a social evening depending on the weather and any Covid restrictions
- will either be a pub or a social at the yard with local fish n chips with games
£650 for the week, stables/pens (weather dependant) £50 for the week.
limited rider spots available - £200 non-refundable or transferable deposit secures place. 5 days in clinic with a well deserved day off mid clinic
You may camp on-site or stay at a local BnB
Please wait for your space to be confirmed before sending a deposit.
The Equestrian Mindset Event - LIVE
The line up for this event is incredible.
A day of talks covering a number of hot topics within the equine world. Enjoy a lovely warm day learning, meeting like minded people
You can find out more and buy your tickets through the link below
Play Date
What’s a play day - a short day where you can get together with like minded friends , have a play with obstacles set out in arena , have a cuppa and biscuits ( horses will need to Re load up while you have a cuppa or be held by friends ( no stables available on play days ))
Please note NO TUITION on play days
Only 5 rider spots due to still needing to park on hard standing
Deposit secures space ( please only send once your spot is confirmed )
