Somatic Coaching helps you shift from talking about change to experiencing it directly in your body.
Through guided awareness and nervous-system–informed practices, you learn to recognize patterns, release tension, and build new responses to stress. Unbridled Connection offers healing and hope to the community. Kelly Jones is a certified equine professional with the Natural Lifemanship Institute. She is passionate about supporting people who are struggling with that feeling of being stuck, who want to break through unhealthy patterns of behavior that are affecting their relationships and quality of life. Through her innovative method of partnering with horses, whether in a team with a licensed mental health professional or as a facilitator of coaching and workshops, her clients gain awareness, and experience a lifelong transformational shift as they reconnect to themselves and others. This journey helps them gain clarity and confidence, so that relationships improve as they get from where they are, to where they want to be.
01/07/2026
Trauma? I don't have any trauma.
Car accident? NICU when you were born? Shamed in front of your 3rd grade class? Surgery with anesthesia? Job loss? Divorce?
Each of these examples impacted your nervous system. As a mammal our autonomic nervous system, via the sympathetic side, responds to events that are unpleasant. Sometimes we can get stuck in a fight/flight response which causes an inability to focus, worry, anger, hyper vigilance, and anxiety.
On the flip side, a prolonged parasympathetic, or freeze response, looks like robot-mode. Forgetting where you left your keys, can't remember the ride home, Netflix binging, social media scrolling, inability to connect with your family and friends, lack of creativity.
These responses to events are our brains way of keeping us safe. Guess what, we can say thank you brain, but I don't want to be stuck here anymore!
If you are ready for a change, let me know! I am an experienced somatic coach, offering virtual sessions. My clients report feeling better within a few sessions. I give tools to my clients to empower them to face the world and stay calmly aware and regain a sense of self. Let's do this!
01/03/2026
May your 2026 be filled with first steps.
12/27/2025
Thank you Gwen! My heart is full of gratitude for the amazing humans that are in my life!
12/25/2025
12/19/2025
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12/17/2025
Feeling stuck in old patterns, anxious, or disconnected from yourself? I help clients release past traumas and rediscover their vitality through Somatic Experiencing, mindfulness, and equine-assisted work. I’m taking on a limited number of new clients — virtually or in-person in Crawford. Let’s explore what’s possible together. 💫
12/14/2025
This is a powerful statement.
Indeed, it is hard taking that box off of the shelf and opening the lid, looking inside and facing the past unpleasant reasons for current behaviors impacting entire families. It is easier to keep pretending and using management strategies to manipulate to stay in control.
Tragic.
12/03/2025
One of the biggest truths in life is simple:
if it drains you, it’s not meant for you.
Things that are truly aligned with your spirit won’t leave you tired, anxious, confused, or empty.
Whether it’s love, friendships, work, or opportunities—what is meant for you will nourish your soul, not exhaust it.
Pay attention to your energy.
If someone constantly leaves you feeling depleted, stressed, or unvalued, that’s not love—that’s a warning.
If a job destroys your peace, that’s a sign.
If a situation takes more from you than it gives, it’s not aligned with your future.
Life is always communicating with you through how you feel.
Your peace is the signal.
Your inner calm is the compass.
Don’t force what isn’t flowing.
Don’t cling to what is hurting you.
Don’t keep what costs you your peace.
Your soul knows what belongs.
Protect it like the treasure it is. 🌿
12/02/2025
Somatic coaching virtually, or in-person, is connecting your mind, body and spirit, so that you are utilizing your entire operating system. Identifying unhealthy patterns and resetting can be life-changing. We were not designed to be led solely by our minds, but instead we were designed to live in this world wholly, recognizing that intuition is within. Learn how to access it and allow it to be a part of the way in which you move gently and powerfully with one another.
12/01/2025
How do you lead your team through conflict?
1. Avoid it and hope it goes away.
2. Tell your team members to work it out themselves.
3. Happily distract the participants.
4. Transfer quarrelling team members or worse, lay them off/fire them.
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5. Find common ground.
6. Create a space for resolution and safety.
7. Stay on point and allow for the discomfort of the conflict to evolve.
8. Help detangle the communication snarl.
9. Notice, find the truth, give credit and appropriately discipline.
10. Don't take sides.
Uncomfortable with conflict resolution? Has it always been something that you avoid as a leader? Has this kept your from advancing? Reach out, I can help!
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Kelly Jones discovered Ponderosita Ranch in 1999, located just north of Austin, Texas in Leander. The first time she walked on this land, she immediately connected with the trees, flowers and wildlife present. Although only 31 years old at the time, something inside of her soul was touched and so began the process of creating South Wind Equestrian Center and eventually Unbridled Connection.
With a 2 year old by her side, Kelly started the process of slowly releasing the trees from years of undergrowth. Giant oak and cedar elm trees took a deep breath, as the were freed from the vines and juniper that suffocated them. As the various parts of the ranch began to emerge, a natural symmetry was unveiled, with the pond that forms from the wet weather creek flourished with frogs and cranes. The grass started to grow again and the lightning bugs returned.
Then, without actually planning it, people started to ask Kelly to keep their horses and teach them horsemanship and horseback riding. In 2004 Kelly went down to the County office and filed a DBA forming South Wind Equestrian Center. Although she had a connection to horses her entire life, and worked at a stable as a young girl, she had only recently purchased a horse and started riding regularly again. Seeking the help of a well-respected horse trainer in Colorado, Kelly was able to start developing her own method of working with horses and people.
After 14 years of teaching and boarding horses it was obvious that there was more going on than simply teaching people how to correctly work with and ride horses. The obvious effect that the horses had on humans became apparent, and Kelly continued to pursue additional knowledge of horses by attending a Natural Lifemanship Fundamentals training in 2013. In that training she learned about the human brain, trauma, experential modalities of treatment for the symptoms of trauma and about authentic connection in relationship.
The opportunity to intern at a located horse therapy facility presented itself, and Kelly was able to experience first hand the healing that happens when horses are asked to partner with experienced and trained licensed professionals to work with clients who are overcoming traumatic events. It was remarkable to watch the transformation of children, adolescents and adults, from darkness and isolation, to light and relationships. The tremendous impact of this work deeply moved Kelly, and she went back to South Wind Equestrian with a dream to provide these services to the public at her ranch.
In 2015 four therapy teams started working with clients at the ranch, and the results were life-changing. Couples were restored, individuals saw hope again, families learned how to depend on one another and stay connected. Each of the licensed mental health professionals that Kelly was grateful to partner with over, taught her even more about the human brain, trauma and the restoring power of authentic connection.
Unbridled Connection is the culmination of this passion for Kelly. It is the specifically an entity that is focused on bringing real connection back to families and individuals. We offer equine assisted learning programs for individuals and families through one-on-one mindfulness and coaching work, equine experiences for couples, friends and family, and team building opportunities for teams. All of the work is done in a quiet private environment with happy healthy horses that give authentic feedback to help teach humans what it means to be present and learn about connection and safety in relationships.
