A 4-Week Live Cohort with Ruby Dunlea

Steady Together

A clinic to show you how calm is contagious.

You settle. Your horse settles. Four weeks of learning to bring two nervous systems into one calm — with your own horse, from your own barn.

Save my spot — $397

Live online · Work with your own horse · Small group

Where it begins — on the ground, together.

Sound Familiar?

You hold your breath around your own horse.

  • The lead rope is tight. Your chest is tighter.
  • They won't stand at the mounting block.
  • They don't come to you in the field.
  • They spook at every little thing.
  • You love this horse — so why does it feel like work?

Here's the part no one tells you: none of that is disobedience. It's a horse that doesn't feel safe yet — standing next to a person who doesn't either.

A woman standing quietly beside her horse, both at ease in soft light.

The Idea

Your horse reads your body before you say a word.

Horses are masters of co-regulation — in a herd, calm spreads from body to body. When you learn to settle your own nervous system and offer your horse something steady to read, everything changes: the leading, the standing, the spooking, the greeting at the gate. Groundwork isn't drills. It's two heartbeats learning to slow down together.

Two nervous systems. One calm.

That's what Steady Together teaches — not tricks, not pressure, but a repeatable way to create the felt safety that real connection is built on.

Calm is contagious.

The Method · Four Moves

What we practice, week by week.

  1. 01

    Regulate yourself

    Your nervous system sets the tone. You'll learn simple, body-based ways to settle on command — before you ever pick up the lead rope.

  2. 02

    Read the horse in front of you

    Calm or activated? Curious or bracing? You'll learn to see the horse you actually have today — and respond instead of react.

  3. 03

    Co-regulate on the ground

    Groundwork as a shared settling. This is where safety gets built — and where you'll hear the exhale that tells you it's working.

  4. 04

    Carry it up

    Felt safety becomes calm leading, quiet mounting, fewer spooks, a horse that walks toward you in the field. Riding is groundwork from the saddle.

A herd at ease — calm spreading body to body.

After Four Weeks

What each of you walks away with.

Your Horse Gets

  • A handler it can trust its body to
  • Faster recovery after a spook — settle, not spiral
  • Rest instead of vigilance around people
  • A reason to offer connection: the field greeting, the quiet stand

You Get

  • The ability to settle your own state, on command
  • Confidence that replaces the knot in your chest
  • The skill of responding instead of reacting
  • A repeatable method — not luck, not hope

And together: the exhale you can hear. Two nervous systems that know how to find calm — as a pair.

How It Works

Live, small, and with your own horse.

4 weekly live sessions

Online with Ruby — teaching, demonstration, and real-time coaching on what's happening with your horse.

Your horse, your barn

Guided groundwork practice between sessions, with exactly what to do and what to watch for.

Small group

Limited spots so every pair gets seen. Bring your questions, your videos, your stuck places.

Recordings included

Miss a session or want to rewatch? Every call is recorded and yours to keep.

A clinic participant working a chestnut horse on a loose line in an arena.
From Ruby's "Respond to the Horse in Front of You" clinic

Join the Cohort

One month. One method. One calm.

$397

Full 4-week cohort · live coaching · recordings included

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Calm is contagious — so is this

Refer a friend. When they sign up, you get 25% off — that's $99 back. Horses regulate better in a herd; so do we.

A gentle hand resting on a horse's face.

Words from the Barn

"Working with Ruby has been transformational for both me and my horse. What Ruby has taught us is how to communicate, how to be well together, how to understand each other. Results under Ruby's guidance were game changers for me."
Monique F.
"This kind of work is hard to put into words — it's experiential, subtle, and incredibly powerful. Ruby's calm, grounded energy made all the difference. I left every session feeling supported and more connected — whether the day went smoothly or not."
Jeanette C.
"She has such a gentle and intuitive way of teaching that makes both horse and human feel at ease. Every session leaves me feeling more confident and connected."
Michelle C.
Ruby Dunlea doing liberty groundwork with a chestnut horse in a field.

Your Guide

Ruby Dunlea

Ruby is a horsemanship teacher based in the Hudson Valley, known for an approach grounded in respect, presence, intuition, and empathy. Her work bridges multiple training modalities with one through-line: the relationship comes first. She teaches everyday horse owners — not just professionals — how to build connection from the ground up, so horse and human can finally understand each other.

"Groundwork is riding from the ground, and riding is groundwork from the saddle."

Come settle with your horse.

Spots are limited so every horse-and-human pair gets real attention. If something in you exhaled reading this page — that's the signal.

Save my spot — $397

Two nervous systems, one calm.