One‑Day Horse Camp Experience

This one‑day Groundwork Clinic with Heather Burke offers youth a unique opportunity to strengthen the foundation of their partnership with their horse—starting from the ground up. Groundwork is where communication, trust, and safety begin, and this clinic is designed to help youth develop clear boundaries, confident handling skills, and a deeper understanding of how horses think and respond.

This clinic is ideal for youth who want to:

• Improve safety and confidence when handling horses

• Build a clearer, calmer relationship with their horse

• Learn groundwork exercises that support success in any riding discipline

• Gain insight from an experienced clinician with a thoughtful, horse‑centered approach

Dr. Allie Baier, PT, DPT, SEP, is a deeply intuitive practitioner who helps people find their way back to ease: in partnership with their horses and in themselves. With more than a decade of experience in physical therapy, Allie has guided clients through everything from orthopedic injuries and chronic pain to nervous-system dysregulation and trauma recovery. A Doctor of Physical Therapy from UW–Milwaukee and a certified Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner, she blends medical knowledge with nervous-system awareness and embodied presence to create meaningful, lasting change.

Her approach is gentle yet precise, grounded in curiosity and collaboration. Using advanced hands-on techniques as a Certified Manual Therapist, guided awareness, and compassionate conversation, she helps clients uncover the patterns beneath pain, tension, and fear. Through this work, they begin to experience safety in their bodies again: the foundation for all movement, confidence, and connection.

Before founding EquiPT, Allie spent years immersed in the equestrian world as a rider, instructor, Pony Club Examiner, and clinician. Those experiences shaped her understanding that horses respond not only to our physical cues but to our internal state. Today, she helps riders bridge those worlds—science and sensitivity, body mechanics and body state—to find harmony that both horse and human can feel.

To Allie, every body tells a story. Her gift lies in listening: to muscle tone, breath, posture, and presence, and helping people rewrite that story with compassion and clarity. The result is not just improved movement, but a renewed sense of trust, freedom, and joy in the partnership between body, mind, and horse.