The Art of Connection and Understanding
Equine Symbiosis by Wera from Life Cycle Evolution is a tailored mental educational program for equine enthusiasts and competitive riders. It aims to teach and practice self-awareness, effective relaxation, energy recovery, and stress-management techniques. Through these soft skills, athletes, trainers, and every horse lovers achieve higher performance and harmonious relationships with themselves and their horses. Mental training equals satisfaction and consistent results for a couple, plus a high standard of equine welfare, and riders' well-being.
Services 2025-2026
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Training soft skills related to mental self-regulation and emotional balance is as important as working on technical aspects with an equine coach. Without a proper understanding of horses’ behavior and deeper self-awareness, combined with constant noise from the world, there is a lack of stability and focus, which lowers results and increases the risk of accidents.
Through the individual sessions, we aim to work together with equine coaches on improving the quality of education, reducing unnecessary stress. The goal is to improve physical and mental ability to work in line with the individual needs of every athlete and horse enthusiast, ensuring a high standard of equine welfare. -
For those who work better in groups, we developed a special set of practical, educational workshops in which we begin to understand interconnectedness of body and mind. The workshop can be planned with or without equine coach, as the experience can be applied later in the equine training sessions.
Our goal is to deepen the self-awareness and learn proper relaxation techniques to improve physical, mental and emotional ability to work with horses and ensure high standard of equine wellbeing in every parcours or stable life.Testimonial from participant: “Weronika's work with Apollo's herd has been valuable for me. She and Steffi helped me understand something simple, yet profound: you can communicate with horses—you can simply ask them. Through her guidance as a healer, I've experienced the interconnectedness of all living beings.”
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Besides the in-depth theory, we focus on self-awareness, relaxation, and Reiki energy work in practice. Through practicing together multiple relaxation techniques including traditional Japanese healing method Hayashi Reiki (direct line of original Mikao Usui energy medicine teaching), we tangibly improve a powerful skill that can expand yourselves and your horses comfort, technical skills, mental capacities, and emotional balance. Scientific Research executed by a holistic veterinarian, Claudia Ruga Barbieri on the “Impact of Distant Reiki on Owner Assessment of Health and
Wellbeing” proves how effective regular practice is, especially for the pain- or tension-relief and for overall wellbeing improvement. Relaxation and Reiki treatments can happen in physical presence or remotely, and work on humans, horses and other animals. See for yourself - schedule appointment. -
Using the soft skills training mixed with horse's condition (mental and physical), including heart rate monitoring with add-on state-of-the-art technology for energy recovery of our partners, we analyze how physical and mental energy is used and recovered.
Thanks to data, behavioral analysis, deepening awareness and soft skills coaching, we’re able to transform the information about the burned energy into the well-fit individual multilevel energy recovery plans. Such conditioning training planned thoughtfully is a proven way to avoid overtraining, reduce fatigue, injuries, mistakes, risk of burnouts, and significantly improve preparedness and quality of performance on both mental and physical levels.
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When you work with horses, there’s never a one size fits all solution. Our team consisting of well-being coach-ex jumping athlete, data analyst, and physical education trainer, works together with your equine team to collect different data, analyze it based on multiple factors, including energy-efficiency, and applies individualized mental training and stress-management techniques. Based on this careful evaluation, multidisciplinary interview and individual characteristics, we build a fully personalized stress-reduction coaching plans. These practical plans are user-friendly, fit your horses needs, and your technical coaching routine, so you can align efficiently and comfortably.
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Horses are extremely sensitive animals and have an ability to mirror human behaviors and emotions, especially those non-verbal signs and body language that we human often don’t recognize. Thanks to understanding horses behavior, we help individuals indicate potential weak spot, become more self-aware, regulate emotional states, improve trust and communication skills on many levels.
Testimonial of Mindful Equine Exercise - healing through the sense of touch: “Weronika created a safe space for letting go of emotional load. The horse’s grounding presence was incredibly supportive element in the process of healing. Now, I'm relaxed and relieved. Calmer. Thank you.” -
The Art of Being is a practical workshop on reconnecting to yourself. No matter if you want to relax, learn to be more centered, return to harmony with nature, expand your awareness, or heal emotional and mental states, these workshops and gatherings are designed to help you find and reconnect with yourself through nature, animals, and ancient traditional wisdom from Far East and Central European traditions. Join our events, learn TO BE (and not just do), and feel more aligned and connected.
Testimonial from participant: “Weronika's work with Apollo's herd has been valuable for me. She and Steffi helped me understand something simple, yet profound: you can communicate with horses—you can simply ask them. Through her guidance as a healer, I've experienced the interconnectedness of all living beings.”
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Bodywork and Reiki treatments aim to release such tensions and excessive stress, preventing them from becoming an illness or an injury. That is why it is a respected supplementary to veterinary care maintenance therapeutic approach, just like a proper nutrition or exercise plan adjusted to the individual needs and capabilities of each horse.
Through Bodywork and Reiki treatments, we introduce proper attention, massage techniques, and attitude which ensure your horse’s natural healing, deeper relaxation, and improved work standard daily.
Read below a case study.
Learn to understand and connect to yourself consciously.
Thanks to this act of mental and emotional self-care, you achieve not only comfort and tranquillity, but also consistent results and the ultimate alignment with your horses and beyond.
You can work with horses, train, compete, and live together in symbiosis.
Safely, effectively, and harmoniously.
It's about the right, complete education and mindset.
It's about self-awareness and consistent effort to mutually understand and support each other.
Besides physical and technical training, it's also about mental and emotional ability. The balance, which, as well as other skills, can and should be trained and practiced daily, to achieve better performance and harmony.
Just like a regular move.
Just like consumption or self-care.
It's like a partnership on a deeper level. Interconnectedness between your body, mind, and soul and your horse’s spirit. You work together. If out of alignment, then you struggle to understand each other. If aligned, then you can get everywhere you want.
With understanding, communication, mutual trust, dedication, and acceptance, you can do so much more. There are no shortcuts.
But there’s an educational path that leads to this state of alignment and excellence.
Learn these soft skills and excel in them individually, and with your horses.
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Workshops - Mental Coaching:
- “Mental Training for Horse Riders - basics” - for horse enthusiasts, junior and recreational riders, parents
- "Self-awareness, Relaxation & Stress-management methods" - for horse enthusiasts and riders of all levels
- “Higher Focus and Relaxation Techniques for Athletes and Horses” - for athletes, equine coaches, groomers
Workshop - Relaxation and Mental and Emotional Awareness Practice:
(Rescheduled for 2026 - new date will be published soon) 22.11.2025 - Workshop “Through Forest Walk and Horse Touch - Practice The Art of Being Present” - a Guided Silent Walk with meditative moments, followed by a relaxation around horses of wonderful Apolo’s Light Herd - click here for details.
All Autumn-Winter 2025/2026 workshops. Join us for this season’s Mindful Walks and Awareness Practices:
- 21.12 - Mindful Walk in Everberg - Gratitude for the year 2025 & Alignment 2026, Everberg
- 2026: “Practice The Art of Being - through walk and touch” - Meditative walk & Relaxation With Horses
- Hippotherapy work - ask for details
Discover how to perceive human-nature interconnectedness - go to Instagram.
Past workshops:
- 27.09.2025 - Workshop “Practice the Art of Being”, a practical self-awareness and deep relaxation learning in the symbiosis with nature and horses - see on Instagram how it went
- 18.10 - Guided Silent Walk in Tervuren Park with OSTA non-profit - see pictures here
- Individual Coaching Session “In Alignment” - go to a dedicated service page
Meet The Person behind The “Equine Symbiosis” Project:
Wera, your guide to more balanced, conscious, and successful equine work -competition, recreational, and well-being
Wera (Weronika Kontykiewicz-Biel) is a Well-being Coach, Holistic Healing Practitioner, and Reiki Usui Level III Professional. Based on her equine sports achievements from 2000 to 2010, she has been granted a lifetime Level II licence in jumping. Since then, she has continued to educate herself in human, equine, canine, and feline welfare practices, as well as a holistic approach to body, mind, and soul, through multiple training courses on Mindfulness, Emotional Healing, and Stress-Reduction techniques.
She has been connected to the equine world for more than 26 years and has participated in activities around horses during their complete life cycle. She was a horse caretaker for 22 years (1999-2021) and witnessed her horse's, Landro, life cycle from when he was 5 until 27 years old, with 2 more resident horses in training. From that moment, Weronika realized that to achieve a more effective training and peaceful lifestyle, besides physical preparation, real-life mindset changes are necessary in how the body, mind, and heart work, being interconnected with each other. And this statement is valid both for experienced riders and those who begin their journey with horses.
Currently, she focuses on designing mindful-healthy work environments and well-being routines for IT professionals, leading “Equine Symbiosis” - a welfare and mindfulness project for international riders in the equine industry, and facilitating human emotional healing journeys, especially through the means of nature, including equine natural healing abilities. Wera continues to deepen her mindfulness, relaxation, and stress-management knowledge and ways to educate in various multicultural environments.
Landro’s life and mutual understanding beyond words remain Wera’s daily inspiration to introduce more conscious mental and emotional practical skills in life, work, and training, through which more and more people in the equine world and beyond. Thanks to this change of habit and improved personal well-being, we all ensure better consideration between humans and animals, a reciprocal respect, and a high standard of animal welfare.
Read below about the project, how it all started over 20 years ago, and how the project evolved - there are also available testimonials.
The Story Behind The “Equine Symbiosis Educational Program” - How It All Started
After a few years of competing and showing potential on the national level in jumping, Wera, similarly to many other riders, did not have a holistic preparation plan provided by coaches and got to the point of “being stuck” on a certain level. After proceeding with health checks for both and later searching for answers from 3 different equine coaches on how to pass this development blockage, it became clear that the traditional equine approaches to training horse and rider were not going to work, and the level would not be advancing.
That was the moment when she researched integrated training methods in other sports disciplines like skiing, general athletics and tennis, and started applying them as an endurance and mental training based on measuring different physiological and mental factors based on a heart rate of both the horse and the rider. Together with a ski trainer, they designed and maintained a highly personalized conditioning plan that helped to advance and stabilize the performance for 3 consecutive seasons after the blockage appeared. Such positive development was an outstanding result, it assured the improvement of previously doubtful performance as a couple, and that Landro’s well-being always came first.
Monitoring the heart rate, mental ability, and emotional state was happening daily, and the routine was adjusted biweekly according to the physical results combined with the rider’s normal ability of “feeling of the horse”. This merge became a sweet spot for redefined equine training, which proved to bring not only consistency in performance, but also comfort for the animal, emphasizing the foundation of the whole equine adventure: the true love for horses, mutual understanding and respectful treatment.
After the method was individually proven, many riders – including an ex-Olympic Games competitor and some national level trainers in Poland – decided to try out this approach too. Experiences led to many interesting conclusions. As a multidisciplinary team, we were able to:
Define the importance of implementing individualized focus and stress-management techniques for riders to ensure horse's stress levels remain on the motivational level, rather than increasing to unhealthy fatigue,
Confirm that the individual multidisciplinary approach and the mix of conditioning training with traditional technical coaching sessions, visibly reduces mistakes, risk of injuries, improving equine performance and health,
Got a new data-driven comparison on how the horses actually feel the rider who was being engaged in different psychological or physical exercises vs how the rider feels the horses.
It is said that knowledge is power. Following this logic, such comprehensive skillset is a baseline for any experienced rider and passionate beginner for developing a healthy and intentional equine experiences. It's applicable on every level of education or professional sport disciplines, in recreational riding or simply if one wants to enjoy the herd’s company in the backyard. It's about becoming better but with deeper understanding, higher quality of life, harmonious with abilities and status quo, no matter the goal or reason behind.
From that moment, Weronika realized that for both horses and riders to achieve a more effective, peaceful, and satisfying environment, results and training style, besides physical and technical preparation, real-life mindset changes are necessary. With proper guidance and correctly applied thoughtful solutions, such changes in thinking and riding are simple to learn and can be truly life-changing.
Credentials & Testimonials
& Case Studies
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“Weronika's work with Apollo's herd has been valuable for me. She and Steffi helped me understand something simple, yet profound: you can communicate with horses—you can simply ask them. Through her guidance as a healer, I've experienced the interconnectedness of all living beings.” - Jennifer (OSTA), workshop participant
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“Thanks a lot for your help and guidance. The journaling is going well, feels alright to get things out of the chest. Our sessions make me shift perspective and I feel stronger physically, mentally, and happier, and I realize getting better is a process. (…) It's been a big sense of relief working with you and learning how to become healthier, more efficient and more relaxed at work and beyond.”
- Fran, EU Institutions -
"I've had several relaxation sessions and usually before each one of them I would feel mentally stressed and physically tense with literally no motivation. Treatments with aromatherapy and Reiki Usui energy healing, as well as short mindfulness coaching before the session have a strong positive effect on me that usually lasts for several days after. Total relaxation of the body - it relieves the soul, and it even has an overall tonic effect for my body, motivation and spirit."
- Dido. IT Entrepreneur -
"Weronika has a very special way of communicating, that is precious, mindful and emphatic. It just makes things better. I am so grateful that I’ve met Weronika. She is a wonderful and very wise person."
- Joanna, CEO and Digital Creator -
“Weronika is a structured individual, who has a special way of making people feel grounded and capable. She not only has talent for breaking the ice and connecting with people but truly “sees” the nature and animals as they are and help us “see” it. I am definitely open and positive to continuing our collaboration and am grateful for your contribution to the OSTA activities. I look forward expanding our collaboration.”
- Jennifer, Organization for the Spiritual Treatment of Animals (OSTA Belgium) -
“Weronika created a safe space for letting go of emotional load. The horse’s grounding presence was an incredibly supportive element in the process of healing. Now, I'm relaxed and relieved. Calmer. Thank you.”
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Local Hippotherapy Horses:
received a little bodywork enriched with Reiki treatment during their week off in December. The tensions were present mostly in their necks (splenius area) and partly on the back. They really enjoyed glutes massage too ☺️ even asked for it persistently.
Additionally, a gentle, warm Reiki touch worked immediately on the senior horse.
On the younger one, a longer session was necessary as the tensions were more dense. However, after a while the relaxation became obvious and the tensions reduced, leading to more patient and harmonious move and becoming overall calmer. -
The team is currently preparing 3 case studies, soon to be published:
“Your Horse Feels What You Feel - A Data Proof on The Importance of Self-Awareness While Riding, Competing or Being Surrounded with Horses”
“How Proper Relaxation and Focus Helps You Get Better Focus And Results While Horse Riding and Competing”
“Personalized Conditioning Plans - Why it’s a Good Idea to Start Incorporating in Your Technical Training The Endurance Scheme - Show Jumping”
“Equine Bodywork and Reiki Treatments” - https://www.lifecycleevolution.com/the-lifecycle-blog/bodywork-and-reiki-treatments-the-importance-of-prevention-and-holistic-maintenance-before-an-imbalance-becomes-an-illness-or-an-injury
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- Well-being, Mindful Living, Holistic Healing (Learning and Practicing) and Emotional Healing Methods - from 2012
- The Mindfulness Methods which I practice and teach includes: Thought Awareness, Body Scans, Mindful Working Styles, Grounding, Mindful Walking, Meditation - especially based on thankfulness and compassion)- Energy, Chakra System and their interconnectedness - course in 2017
- Knowledge of herbalism, naturopathy, astrology, oneirology, mind-body-soul connection, lifestyle counseling
- Holistic Healing according to Tibetan and Japanese traditional medicine including basics of Japanese massage and Shiatsu - attending individual teachings in Shizen Practice by Atsushi Kubo (from 2023 - continuation)
- Professional Training in Hayashi Reiki (direct line of Mr Mikao Usui teachings) Healing Theories and Practices Level 1-2-3 - certification in 2024
- Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Course - 2025
- Professional Training of Hayashi Reiki Healing Theories and Practices Level 4 (Master Level) - certification 2025
-Tibetan Medicine and Diet Course 2025-2026 at the Shang Shung Institute
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- Project, Time, Cost, and Resources Management - 2016
- Effective Communication in the Digital World 2021
- International relationships, multicultural and multinational communication styles
- Fluency in English, Italian, Polish. Communicative German, French, Bulgarian, and Dutch.
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- Horse caretaker for 22 years (1999-2021) and witnessing my horse's - Landro, life cycle from when he was 5 until 27, and 2 more residents horses that required more peaceful environment and training style (I attached also picture of Landro so you could meet my real-life inspiration)
- Jumping athlete back in Poland (2000-2010 jumping) with 3 horses (newspaper article from 2003 - click here, article 2002 - click here, competition 120cm 2006 - click here - more on request)
- Lifetime level II licence in jumping
- multiple 2nd and 3rd sport class in jumping confirmed by "Polish Equestrian Federation" and "Lesser Poland Equestrian Federation" for sport results in years (2000-2010) - official document attached file
- 3x Championship - Lesser Poland Region (Junior category)
- Holistic Healing in Veterinary - participation in workshop with Tomas Teskey - 2024
- Equine Bodywork Online Course - Massage and Tension release for Horses 2025
- Organizing different healing and mindfulness related initiatives and workshops with and around horses and farm animals in Belgium (2023-2025) and internationally (Italy - 2025)
-Conference “Multidisciplinary approach for para-equestrian” - conference with lectures on equine biomechanics and psychology of sport (Nov 2025, Polish Equestrian Federation - PZJ)
-The Healing Horse - hippotherapy and ergotherapy volunteering on weekly basis;
occasional stress-management exercises with elements of Equine Assisted Therapy, Reiki, tailored Sensory, and Mindfulness techniques (Belgium - 2025)
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