Horses are in relationship to everything around them all the time. In the wild, their lives depend on their ability to read their herd members and to read the many factors of the environment around them. This could be said of any wild creature. I’ve found this relational aspect to be functioning to a lesser degree in us humans. Many of us have tuned out our ability to connect to each other and to feel our surroundings due to a variety of things, including trauma. One of the gifts of working with horses is that they are still to some extent a wild animal. They live outside. They spend more time with each other than to humans. They watch the sun and stars circle around day after day. They get furry in the winter and sleek and shiny in the summer. When we truly communicate with a horse, it creates a deeper understanding with the more primal and connected parts of ourselves. It’s something I think everyone is looking for, whether they realize it or not.
My work with horses has influenced every part of my life. I spent my childhood showing up to riding lessons to a saddled horse, riding around in an arena, and then handing the horse back. It wasn’t until I got my own horse in my 30s that I realized there was a whole other world of connection that was possible. Just to navigate with a horse from one place to another requires a complex set of body language, focus, and intention. Horses are looking for all these things when they relate to horse or human. What I discovered is that getting all three of those to be communicating the same thing at the same time is so much easier said than done! What began for me at that time was the unwinding of everything that made me who I am and how I make my way through the world. For example, if my body language was telling the horse to do something but my intent was weak, nothing would happen. I might feel a lot of feelings at this point. Letting myself get angry at the horse wouldn’t be fair. I wasn’t being clear. Over time, I’ve come to see how wounding of many different kinds influences each of these three areas of body language, focus, and intention. A physical wound may hinder our clear body language. A spiritual wound may hinder our ability to show up in a powerful way, or a gentle way. A lack of energy may hinder our ability to hold the focus necessary to keep it all together.
The intention of the work I do with horses is to offer tools to troubleshoot the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of relationship and connection. The horses clearly and honestly show us how we are communicating and connecting. The point isn’t to blame or shame how we are, just to identify it and through a variety of modalities, start to arrange the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of us in a way that allows for a deeper sense of connection, communication, and well-being. Change can occur through awareness of patterns of behavior, body work, bioresonance therapy, or other consciousness work the client may want to incorporate.
I have studied the work of Dr. Mark Dunn, creator of Conscious Systems, in depth since 2012. Topics of study include restructuring energy & spirit, defending personal space, dealing with dysfunctional people and institutions, working with family lineage and collective societal patterns, energetic heart and pelvic repair, working with transgenerational consciousness. My views of the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of the body have their basis in his work.
I have a certification with Skyhorse Equine Guided Education Coaching Program. This is a 120-hour certification in Continuing Coach Education credits working with horses as co-facilitators in group and individual coaching sessions. I have done extensive studies in horsemanship of many kinds, including liberty work, integrative, and basic dressage. I did a two-month internship on at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota working with the program Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi, “Bringing the Family back to Life”, a culturally based mental health program utilizing equine therapy and cultural traditions for children and families. My biggest teachers are the horses themselves and it is always my intention that they get as much out of the work as we do.
The other side of what I do is to support the animals. I have studied bioresonance with Santa Fe expert, Laura Moore, the Masterson Method of equine body work, and did an introduction to craniosacral therapy with Etienne Piersman. I look at animals the same as I do humans, by assessing the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of them to see where they are having a problem. I can also help troubleshoot and offer tools to help people to connect better and more cleanly with their animals, of any kind.
My work with horses has influenced every part of my life. I spent my childhood showing up to riding lessons to a saddled horse, riding around in an arena, and then handing the horse back. It wasn’t until I got my own horse in my 30s that I realized there was a whole other world of connection that was possible. Just to navigate with a horse from one place to another requires a complex set of body language, focus, and intention. Horses are looking for all these things when they relate to horse or human. What I discovered is that getting all three of those to be communicating the same thing at the same time is so much easier said than done! What began for me at that time was the unwinding of everything that made me who I am and how I make my way through the world. For example, if my body language was telling the horse to do something but my intent was weak, nothing would happen. I might feel a lot of feelings at this point. Letting myself get angry at the horse wouldn’t be fair. I wasn’t being clear. Over time, I’ve come to see how wounding of many different kinds influences each of these three areas of body language, focus, and intention. A physical wound may hinder our clear body language. A spiritual wound may hinder our ability to show up in a powerful way, or a gentle way. A lack of energy may hinder our ability to hold the focus necessary to keep it all together.
The intention of the work I do with horses is to offer tools to troubleshoot the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of relationship and connection. The horses clearly and honestly show us how we are communicating and connecting. The point isn’t to blame or shame how we are, just to identify it and through a variety of modalities, start to arrange the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of us in a way that allows for a deeper sense of connection, communication, and well-being. Change can occur through awareness of patterns of behavior, body work, bioresonance therapy, or other consciousness work the client may want to incorporate.
I have studied the work of Dr. Mark Dunn, creator of Conscious Systems, in depth since 2012. Topics of study include restructuring energy & spirit, defending personal space, dealing with dysfunctional people and institutions, working with family lineage and collective societal patterns, energetic heart and pelvic repair, working with transgenerational consciousness. My views of the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of the body have their basis in his work.
I have a certification with Skyhorse Equine Guided Education Coaching Program. This is a 120-hour certification in Continuing Coach Education credits working with horses as co-facilitators in group and individual coaching sessions. I have done extensive studies in horsemanship of many kinds, including liberty work, integrative, and basic dressage. I did a two-month internship on at the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota working with the program Tiwahe Glu Kini Pi, “Bringing the Family back to Life”, a culturally based mental health program utilizing equine therapy and cultural traditions for children and families. My biggest teachers are the horses themselves and it is always my intention that they get as much out of the work as we do.
The other side of what I do is to support the animals. I have studied bioresonance with Santa Fe expert, Laura Moore, the Masterson Method of equine body work, and did an introduction to craniosacral therapy with Etienne Piersman. I look at animals the same as I do humans, by assessing the physical, energetic, and spiritual parts of them to see where they are having a problem. I can also help troubleshoot and offer tools to help people to connect better and more cleanly with their animals, of any kind.
