PAULA JOSA-JONES is a dance artist, author, equestrian, visual artist, movement educator and therapist. Her work includes inter-species work with horses, dancers and riders for live performance, film, and video. She is a Certified Laban Movement Analyst (CLMA) and a Registered Somatic Movement Educator and Therapist (RSMET) accredited by ISMETA, the International Somatic Movement Education and Therapy Association. She is also a Guild-Certified Tellington TTouch Practitioner 1, and a Somatic Experiencing ® trauma-informed practitioner (SEP). Her book, Our Horses, Ourselves: Discovering the Common Body, was published by Trafalgar Square Books. In 1998 Paula created an inter-species company with horses, dancers and riders. In 2001 she premiered RIDE, a groundbreaking work of equestrian dance theater. As the creator of The Embodied Equine Experience and Conscious Touch, Conscious Movement with Horses, she teaches an intuitive, improvisational approach to the human-horse bond through movement and touch.