The Sentient Seat
True mastery arises not from control, but from presence. With every breath and every step, horse and rider can move in harmony — body, mind, and soul aligned in connection.
Our Mission
What Authentic Awakening aims to achieve
We aim to guide your transformation into deeper awareness by working with the many layers of self.
Through this journey, you’ll uncover the empowerment needed to shift your world and open your heart to a level of connection with your horse you never thought possible.
With this awakening, horse and rider unite—not through force, but through understanding, presence, and love. Here you will discover your optimal ride—one that flows as a true partnership.
Course 1: The Sentient Rider
An Awakening towards Feel and Connection with your Animal
The Sentient Rider is more than just another equestrian course - it’s a practical pathway to a more profound connection with your animals. It’s an exploration of sentience: the ability to experience, to feel, and through this to be transformed.
By developing awareness of your own body and breath, you’ll learn to bond in true partnership with your animals - balanced, focused, and attuned both physically and emotionally.
Though designed with horse lovers in mind, this one-day practical course is deeply relevant to all animal lovers.
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Course 2: The Sentient Seat
Riding is not just technique — it is relationship.
Every horse is a sentient being: aware, feeling, and expressive.
When we shift from control to connection, from doing to listening, the ride becomes something sacred.
Through this journey, you’ll cultivate:
- Awareness of your own body, breath, and alignment.
- Sensitivity to your horse’s responses and emotions.
- Connection grounded in trust, respect, and love, creating space for a deepened seat.
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Course 3: Knowing - The Sentient Self
Open your heart to listen to your intuition.
This course focuses on rediscovering and expanding your intuition by harnessing the energy in and around you to develop your unique style and method of communicating with your animals.
Coming in 2026.
Trust that you are in the right place at the right time
Trust that your intuition and the right kind of chance have bought you here. There are no coincidences in life.
We invite you to join us on this journey with an open mind. Explore and learn how to understand and regulate your body, mind, and spirit, let go of it all simultaneously, and develop a personal relationship with your true, authentic self, body, mind and soul.
“Have blind faith. Trust and believe. Faith over fear. Follow your soul…it knows the way.”
Your Instructors
Course facilitators draw on professional knowledge and experience of the different dimensions of working with people and animal patients. These courses will heighten your understanding of the consequences of not living your authentic self. They aim to encourage the continuous unfoldment of self-discovery, enabling you to discover your own way of authentic being.
Milyn Brazier
Animal Intuitive
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As a qualified physiotherapist Milyn’s path led her to her first love – animals.
Under many years of tutelage by incredible mentors, her ability to analyse and treat both humans and horses (from beginner to professional level) gives Milyn a profound insight to the unique connection between rider and steed.
Milyn uses her experience, her intuition, her own fallibility and her deep desire to promote the connection between humans and animals to give others the permission they seek to truly understand, truly connect and truly heal – themselves and their animal family, so that they can fulfill they potential they’ve been gifted. Through awareness, anything is possible.
Ivo Visic
Mindfulness Coach + Physiotherapist
Ivo Visic is a physiotherapist in private practice with a special interest in wellness and chronic pain. He has worked in many contexts from home-based care, hospice work, hospital work and general musculoskeletal practice. As a physiotherapist he has always been interested in the interface between body and mind and complementary approaches that synergise with the western medical approach to improve wellness. He has lectured health care professionals through his Mindful Medicine course and runs 8 week Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction courses geared to Health Care Workers, as well as people wanting to discover the benefits of mindfulness in their daily lives. He has lectured and facilitated on various topics around wellness, coaching, stress management and trauma/anxiety management in musculoskeletal contexts in medical as well as corporate environments. He is currently finishing his Post-Grad in Mindfulness Based Interventions at Stellenbosch and is looking at doing his Masters in Mindfulness thereafter..