A Return Home to Yourself
For men and women navigating transition, burnout and identity shifts.
An equine-guided healing, nervous system recalibration and soul-level experience for your next chapter.
With Vanessa Petronelli
Intuitive Horse–Human Connection Guide
& Transformational Coach
You aren't here by accident.
If therapy, self-help or mindset work haven’t helped you feel truly clear, grounded or at home in yourself, this nature-based, equine-guided experience offers a different way of reconnecting. One that works through the body, the nervous system, your inner sense of knowing and the emotional layers that are ready to be felt and released.This work supports deeper capacity, clarity and self-trust so you can move forward feeling empowered, spiritually connected and fully aligned with who you are and what’s next.
A grounded, heart-led conversation to explore whether this feels like the right next step for you.
What Is the Equine Soul Journey?
This work is for the one who can feel it in their body. A subtle but unmistakable inner signal.
A sense that something is shifting, even if you can’t fully name it yet.You might be…• Standing at a real turning point, where an old role, identity or way of living no longer fits.• Someone who has learned how to lead, manage and hold things together for others and can feel that chapter has run its course.• In a season where the future isn’t fully clear yet, even though you’ve done a lot of inner work.• Longing to feel more present, grounded and truly yourself again.• Craving space to slow down, reconnect with nature and hear your inner guidance more clearly.Even if everything looks “fine” on the outside, there’s a quiet knowing inside that says..."There is more for me than the way I’ve been living."
This Isn't Coaching. It's Not Equine Therapy.It’s a soul-led, nervous system-aware experience of recalibration and return, where horses and nature serve as sacred partners, supporting you to reconnect with your body, your intuition and your inner authority.This work is about remembering who you are beneath roles, expectations and constant doing.
A Full-Body, Soul-Led Recalibration
Sessions take place on the ground with horses in a quiet natural setting, where you slow down, tune in and learn directly through the experience itself.In this space you are invited to:• Shed identities, roles and ways of being that no longer reflect who you are becoming
• Expand your capacity and inner stability
• Reconnect with clarity, purpose and self-trust
• Feel more regulated, alive and grounded in your body
• Strengthen your intuitive connection and spiritual alignment
• Step into your next chapter with confidence and clear directionWhether you're...• In a life or identity transition - personally or professionally
• Ready to release old ways of operating that no longer feel true
• Seeking deeper clarity around purpose, direction or leadership
• Longing to feel more present, spacious and connected to yourself
• Called to return home to your body, your intuition and God
• Drawn to horses and trust that something in this experience will support your next chapter.This work meets you at the threshold of who you are becoming.
A return to your truth, freedom and God-given power.
why should you work with horses?
Horses don’t respond to who you think you are.
They respond to how you actually show up.To your presence.
Your nervous system.
Your truth.Through their natural sensitivity and real-time feedback, horses reflect what’s happening beneath the surface, helping you:
MIRROR YOUR INNER WORLD
Horses bypass words and respond to how you actually show up. They don’t care what you say. They respond to who you are. When something shifts inside you, they reflect it immediately, without judgment. This honest feedback helps you notice emotional patterns and inner dynamics you may not have been aware of before.
REGULATE YOUR NERVOUS SYSTEM
In a fast, overstimulating world, horses bring you back to yourself. Their calm, grounded presence naturally helps your body slow down, breathe deeper and settle. Simply being with a regulated horse can ease anxiety, release tension and help you feel safe enough to relax, open and reconnect with yourself.
REWIRE SUBCONSCIOUS PATTERNS
This work goes beyond thinking and insight. Through direct interaction with horses, old habits, reactions and ways of coping naturally come to the surface. You don’t just talk about them, you experience them in real time, which makes it possible to respond differently and create lasting change.
RECONNECT WITH YOUR INNER TRUTH
In a world full of noise, horses help you hear yourself again. When you’re in nature with a horse, distractions fall away. You drop from your head into your body and heart. You remember who you are, what you need and what truly matters. That clarity becomes your compass, not just in the session, but in your life.
How do I know this is for me?
This work isn’t just for the experienced, the prepared or the ones with a plan. It’s for those who feel a pull, even if they can’t fully explain why.You don’t need:
Any horse experience
A five-year plan
To have everything figured out
To keep overthinking everything
To know exactly what you want before you arrive
To do it alone
You just need to trust the quiet voice that says...It’s time.Because staying in the same loops of overthinking and exhaustion is no longer aligned with who you’re becoming.This work meets you where you are and supports a return to the clarity, connection and peace you’ve been craving.
Real Results from Client Case Studies
This isn’t a “nice-to-have” experience for someday.
It’s a real turning point that brings clarity, direction and a deeper sense of alignment across your life.
Emotional Well-Being & Nervous System Healing
- 86% reported stronger emotional resilience and reduced overwhelm- 91% felt more confident managing their emotions- Emotional fluctuations dropped by over 60%
Body Awareness & Stress Reduction
- 89% improved body listening and emotional attunement- 90%+ experienced nervous system regulation through working with the horses- Reported a noticeable decrease in stress-related pain and trauma tension
Leadership, Career & Purpose Clarity
- 81% gained clear direction and confidence in career/business or leadership- Self-doubt dropped over 60%- Reported deeper self-trust in their decision-making
Navigating Transitions & Change
- 87% felt more grounded and peaceful during major life transitions- 70% reported a stronger trust in the unknown- Nearly all participants said they felt lighter, freer and more connected to their true path
“This is more than healing. It’s energetic recalibration and soul remembrance.”
These clients couldn’t ignore the deeper call.
They stepped into the unknown.
They said yes.
And everything began to shift from the inside out.
“Before working with Vanessa, I was carrying years of emotional weight I didn’t fully understand. The horses mirrored my inner world in ways I can’t explain, they helped me release what I’d held onto for too long. She guided me with deep care into parts of myself I had avoided for years. This work is unlike anything else. It’s something you have to experience to truly understand.”
- Tonya Ellis
“I wasn’t seeking this work, it found me. From the moment I met Vanessa and the horses, I felt something powerful. My soul knew I was saying yes to something sacred. Each session moved layers of grief, clarity, and presence. I’ve since set stronger boundaries, released misaligned relationships and reclaimed my voice. Vanessa’s deep presence and the horses’ intuitive wisdom helped me return to who I truly am. This isn’t just healing - it’s soul remembering.”
– Danielle Kreger
“Before working with Vanessa, I struggled to slow down and connect with what I was feeling. Through our retreat with the horses, I finally landed back in my body. The space she created felt sacred and safe. Since then, I’ve felt more grounded, less reactive and more able to express myself clearly. This work helped me release what I didn’t even know I was carrying.”
– Vanessa Lam
“When I connected with Vanessa, I had already done a lot of inner work. But there was still something missing inside of me and inside of my business. The moment I arrived and met the horses, something shifted within me. Through Vanessa’s guidance and their presence, I felt a deep part of myself wake up. Since then, my business has gained momentum and I feel more connected to myself than I ever have before. The missing link was this work .”
– Jennifer Whitaker
MEET VANESSA
Your guide for embodied transformation through horses and nature.
Hi, I’m Vanessa Petronelli.I’m an equine-guided facilitator and transformational guide with 17 years of international experience supporting people through major life transitions, identity shifts and periods of deep inner recalibration.My work is for those standing in the in-between. No longer who they were. Not yet fully who they’re becoming.Often these are people who have done the inner work, built meaningful lives and carried responsibility, and now feel something deeper asking to emerge.This work is not about fixing or improving you. It’s about creating the conditions for healing and reconnection. With your body. Your intuition. Your inner authority. From there, clarity and grounded direction arise naturally.I’ve worked with visionaries, creatives, business owners and leaders around the world, and my work has been featured across major media platforms and global stages. Not as a pursuit of visibility, but as a reflection of work rooted at the intersection of embodiment, consciousness and real-world leadership.Today, my work lives primarily in experiential, in-person sessions with horses and nature, where insight moves beyond analysis and becomes something you can feel, trust and live from. I also offer select virtual sessions rooted in the same nervous system awareness, intuition and embodied guidance.And I don’t do this work alone.I partner with Gabriel, my mustang and a small herd on private land just outside of Nashville, Tennessee. Working with the horses has been central to my own transformation, teaching me presence, truth and the power of coming back into the body.Together, we create space for people to slow down, shed identities that no longer fit and come back home to themselves.
I don’t offer a cookie-cutter program or generic advice.
I walk beside you through transition and uncertainty, into deeper steadiness and back home to yourself, so you can live, lead and love from that place.
YOU DIDN’T ARRIVE HERE BY ACCIDENT.
Something in you is ready to reconnect and this work is here to meet you.
ways to work with me
Whether you’re in the middle of a life transition, feeling a quiet nudge toward something more or sensing that something beneath the surface is ready to change, you’re not alone.There comes a point when the old ways stop working.
When pushing through is no longer the answer.
When your nervous system, your soul and your truth are asking for something different.This work meets you in that space between no longer and not yet.
You don’t need the next chapter written. You only need the willingness to meet yourself where you are.
Choose the path that resonates most with where you are today.
Tier one: Breakthrough Equine Session
A 2.5-hour private recalibration to shift what’s no longer serving you and come home to yourself.This session is an ideal starting point for those in transition or at a personal crossroads and for anyone who feels ready to reconnect with clarity, presence and inner steadiness.Through equine reflection, intuitive facilitation and body-based support, you are guided back to your own sense of grounding, self-trust, and direction.This is not therapy.
And it’s not simply time with horses.It’s a personalized nervous system recalibration, held in a sacred, one-on-one container where you are met as you are, not for who you’ve learned to be.You’ll leave feeling clearer, more anchored and more connected to your inner truth, with practical insights and tools to carry forward.And because real shifts continue to unfold after the session, you’ll also receive a 30-minute integration call. This space allows you to reflect, ask questions, and gently anchor what opened into your everyday life.What’s Included:• One 2-hour private equine-guided session
• One 30-minute integration support call via ZOOM
• Nature-based somatic and intuitive support
• Personalized insights and reflective guidance
• Grounding tools to support integrationInvestment:$500 USDCurrently booking into March 2026.
Tier two: The Equine Soul Journey Retreat
A private one or two-day retreat to recalibrate your nervous system, deepen your connection to self and realign with what’s next.
This experience is for those who feel the call to step away from the noise of daily life and into a space where clarity, presence and inner truth can emerge.Whether you’re at a personal or professional crossroads, navigating a season of change,or simply sensing that something new is ready to be born, this retreat offers the space your body and soul have been asking for.What makes this different:This is not a surface-level reset.
It is a deeply personalized immersion into your current season. Emotional, energetic, physical and spiritual.Through intuitive equine work, grounded facilitation and body-based support, you are guided back to what feels true beneath the noise.Clients often describe this as a return to themselves.What’s Included:• One or two full days of private equine-guided sessions
• Nourishing lunch each day + snacks
• 30-minute pre-retreat intention call (Zoom)
• 90-minute post-retreat integration session (Zoom)
• Personalized self-guided integration plan
InvestmentOne-Day Retreat: $1,500 USD
Two-Day Retreat: $2,200 USD
*Payment plans are available on a case-by-case basis.Currently booking for March through June 2026.
Tier Three: The Equine Soul Journey
A four-month private program for those ready to live from their true center.This journey is for those who feel a deeper shift underway.
Your old ways of being no longer fit.
What’s next is calling, even if it isn’t fully clear yet.This is not a quick experience.
It is a living relationship with yourself, your body, your truth and the life that is ready to emerge through you.Inside this five-month container, you are supported again and again through the layers of change, not to fix what’s broken, but to embody who you already are becoming.You are not meant to do this alone.
And you are not meant to return to the way you were living.This journey supports you to:• Release emotional and energetic weight that no longer belongs to you
• Regulate your nervous system so your life begins to feel steadier and more spacious
• Navigate transitions and identity shifts with clarity and grounded presence
• Strengthen your connection to God, your intuition and your inner authority
• Live and lead from alignment rather than effort
• Make decisions from self-trust instead of fear or overthinkingUnlike a single session or short immersion, this journey creates lasting change because you are met consistently, in real time, as your life reshapes from the inside out.What’s Included:• Nine 90-minute private equine-guided sessions
• Ongoing email check-in support
• Personalized intuitive facilitation and guidance
• Nervous system and somatic support
• Integration practices between sessions
• Access to my guided meditation library
• Complimentary admission to live eventsInvestmentTwo payment of $2,750 USD or $5,000 USD if paid in full
*Additional payment plans are available on a case-by-case basis.Limited openings beginning February and March 2026.
More Stories From Those Who’ve Walked This Path
They trusted the process.
They stayed present through the unknown.
They allowed real change to take root.
– Jeffrey Platts
– Kellie Pringle
– John Chao
“I traveled from Indiana to do the Equine Soul Journey two-day retreat with Vanessa and the herd. I came because I was carrying old habits and life stories that I didn’t want to keep repeating. I was ready for a reset and a chance to let go of the things that weren’t serving me and to step into something new.These two days turned out to be a true rebirth for me. The horses helped me see where I needed stronger boundaries and where I’d been holding onto patterns that were no longer mine to carry. Through the exercises, the guidance and the presence of the herd, I felt myself gaining a clearer outlook on who I am and where I’m going next.I learned so much, much more than I can put into words, and I’m leaving with a sense of peace and direction that I haven’t felt in a long time. I’m grateful for Vanessa, for her support and for the way the horses reflected back what I needed to see. This experience was absolutely worth the time and if you’re looking for a fresh start or a deeper connection to yourself, I would highly recommend it.”
— Amy Newport
“My time with Vanessa in her Equine Soul Journey program has been deeply transformative. I feel like I finally have permission to live and speak my truth. I have my own story to tell, and now I get to choose how to tell it.Through this work, I’ve gained more awareness of my nervous system and can better recognize when I’m in a survival state versus a regulated state. This awareness alone has been life-changing.The experience also gave me a way to hold and process a very raw spiritual awakening I’ve been moving through. Over the past year, I’ve questioned much of what I believed to be true for 45 years. At times, I felt late to the game. But this process reminded me that we are always exactly where we are meant to be, when we are meant to be there.
I’ve used this space with Vanessa to open up, examine the roots of my beliefs and conditioning and find clarity. Instead of being blindsided by old patterns, I now feel more grounded, present, and empowered.My Equine Soul Journey program with Vanessa was truly transformative. Working with the horses brought a sense of calm and clarity I didn’t expect. Vanessa’s guidance was warm and intuitive, helping me connect deeply with myself and the animals. I left feeling grounded and inspired, with a renewed sense of peace. I highly recommend this experience to anyone seeking emotional healing or a unique way to reconnect with themselves.” - Cori Nicholson
FAQS
Do I need any horse experience?
No. You don’t need to have ever touched a horse before. All sessions are done safely from the ground.
What if I’m going through a really hard time? Is that “too much” for this work?
Not at all. This work is intentionally nervous system-aware. Many clients come during times of grief, transition or burnout. The space we create together is designed for safety, co-regulation and deep emotional support. You don’t have to hold it all together here, you get to exhale and be met exactly where you are.
What kind of person is this really for?
This is for you if you’re high-functioning but quietly burning out. If you live in your head more than your body. If you’re sensitive, intuitive or craving a deeper relationship with yourself, your purpose and God. If you’ve done “the work” but still feel stuck or uncertain about your next steps…This is your next step.
What makes this different from therapy or traditional coaching?
This is somatic, intuitive, energetic and spiritual work - guided by both myself and the horses. It’s not about fixing yourself or endlessly talking through problems. It’s about dropping into your body, getting honest and allowing real change through presence, feeling, energy and connection.
Where do the sessions take place?
All sessions are held on a peaceful private horse property in Middle Tennessee, about 45 minutes from Nashville.
What if I don’t know which program is right for me?
That’s exactly what your complimentary Equine Exploration Call is for. We’ll connect, feel into where you are and what you need and see what’s the best fit. No pressure. No scripts. Just an honest, heart-to-heart conversation about your next steps.