About Rilana
I am Rilana Vorderwülbecke — artist, Expressive Arts Therapist, Heilpraktikerin für Psychotherapie, trauma-informed and IFS Coach, as well as SkyHorseEGE™ trainer.
After studying art, art history, and art business in Boston (USA) and London (UK), I worked as an artist and art dealer in my own business in Berlin. In 2008, I founded the Kunstraum, an art school for children that promotes creative development and free thinking.
Over time, my focus shifted to therapeutic work and coaching with individuals, teams, and families. Today, I support people in gaining new perspectives, releasing inner blockages, and facing challenges with awareness and strength.
This path led me to develop REAP (Resonance in Equine Arts Presencing), my own trauma-informed method of accompaniment that brings together equine-guided work, expressive arts, somatic presence, and a deep respect for the horse, not as a mirror, but as an independent being in genuine relationship with us. Through somatic presence, resonance with the horse, artistic expression, collective awareness, and a trauma-sensitive approach, REAP opens space for people to reconnect with themselves without needing any prior experience.
My services are available in German and English.
My Philosophy
“Wir sind jederzeit ein Gegenüber eines Menschen und entscheiden in jedem Moment der Begegnung, ob wir uns entwicklungsfördernd oder entwicklungshindernd verhalten.”
- Jacobi und Gindler
At the center of my work is the living, present encounter with oneself, with the horses, with art and with the world. I understand development as a creative process of resonance, in which we touch our innermost self through presence, relationship and expression and allow the inner space to become larger and visible.
In my method Resonance in Equine Arts Presencing (REAP) combines the wisdom of horses with the expressive power of the expressive arts in a trauma-sensitive coaching context. This combination creates spaces in which self-awareness, regulation and co-creation become possible. Spaces that are supported by trust, mindfulness and an attitude of not-knowing. The philosophies of Equine Guided Education (EGE) and Expressive Arts Education (EXA) form the basis of this work. Both embody a relationship building with trust in the beauty that unfolds in the phenomenological encounter with nature, art, horses and other people. The REAP method emphasizes the importance of people being able to actively shape their own growth and learning, embedded in an atmosphere of relationship and trust.
In the living presence of art, horses and nature, something begins to resonate within us. Their resonance leads us into the depths of self-knowledge and at the same time expands our awareness of the people with whom we share this world.
“I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.”
–Albert Einstein
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Since 2020 Life Coach/ Expressive Art and equine somatics, Berlin
Since 2021 Skyhorse Academy, CA, (USA), instructor
Since 2014 Intermedia workshops with Tchekpo Dan Agbetou, DansArt, Bielefeld/Germany
Since 2008 Kunstraum art school for children, Berlin
2003 - 2005 momentum Gallery, Berlin
1999 - 2001 Gallery Diehl Vorderwülbecke , Berlin
Team development in Germany, Spain, Thailand and the USA since 2014
1995 - 2002 Various group exhibitions of sculptures, USA/ Germany
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2025 - 2026 Timeless Wisdom Training, Thomas Hübl, D
2022 - 2023 Certificate of Advanced Studies, PhD Program, European Graduate School, CH
2024 IFS, Level 1, SOC, PT
2023 IFS and the Polyvagal Theory, Dr. Alexia Rothmann, Deb Dana, SOC, PT
2022 "The Non-Linear Movement"©, Michaela Behm, Teacher Training
2021 Pocket Project, trauma and leadership training, online
2019 - 2021 Integrative psychotherapy, Christoph Mahr Institute, Berlin, D
2021 EMDR, Christoph Mahr Institute, Berlin, D
2021 Imago therapy couples therapy, Hedy Schleifer, online
2020 Institute Christoph Mahr, Berlin, EMDR-Coaching Certificate, Berlin, D
2020 - 2021 Thomas Hübl, The principles of collective trauma healing, Berlin
2020 - 2021 Terry Real / Thomas Hübl, couples therapy, online
2019 - 2021 Christoph Mahr Institute, Berlin, alternative practitioner psychotherapy training, Berlin, Germany
2019 - 2020 Equine coach/trainer, Skyhorse Academy©, Bodega, USA, faculty member
2018 - 2019 Thai Yoga Massage Certificate, Sunshine House, GR
2016 - 2018 Embryology, Dr. Jaap van der Wal, Freiburg + Cologne, D
2016 Arteban art therapy for refugees, Berlin, D
2013 - 2014 MSH - Medical School Hamburg, D, Intermedial Art Therapy (MA-not completed)
2008 - 2010 Pikler Institute for Further Education, Berlin, D, Pikler teacher
1998 - 1999 University of Manchester/Sotheby & Institute of Art, London , UK
MA in Art Business
1994 - 1998 Boston University, Boston, USA
BA in Fine Arts, Sculpture; minor subject - Art History
1993 Boston University, Boston, USA, CELOP (Center for English Language and Orientation Program)
1991 - 1993 Königin-Luise-Stiftung (grammar school), Berlin, USA, A-levels
Would you like to discover more?
In a 30-minute meeting, which can take place online or over the phone, we can define a coaching goal for you together.