Only through our connectedness to others can we really know and enhance the self. And only through working on the self can we begin to enhance our connectedness to others. - Harriet Goldhor Lerner
Horses have been the driving force in my life since my first encounter with them.
Over the years I rode in multiple disciplines, each with different well accomplished professionals, learning and competing all that I could to forward my equine career. At a very young age, my teacher at the time began to notice that I had a specific talent. Horses would do things easily for me that they wouldn’t for anyone else. She began to let me work with their more difficult horses in order to cultivate that skill, and encouraged my parents to find me a project horse of my own that I could learn from. Years later, I was again in search for a horse that could challenge my natural talents.
At the age of 13, I found exactly what I asked for in a large palomino draft cross. Through a challenging series of events that followed, I found a path that I had been unaware of, and set off in a new direction of being with horses in harmony, instead of with dominance and control.
A large part of this path consisted of finding my medicine as a shaman and how I needed to bring this to the world. I am honored to have some outstanding medicine people in my life as my mentors and friends, walking with me on my journey. In addition to being a medicine woman and alchemist, I am also a writer, musician, and artist.
After presenting myself as a horse trainer for multiple years, I soon realized that it was time for a shift in awareness for both myself, and the equine community as a whole. This is done by accepting the horse as our guide and partner, and walking shoulder to shoulder, as equals, in all we do together.
All of the skills and knowledge I possess today came from the many teachers I have worked with. True equine knowledge can only be acquired from the horses themselves, and I continue to cultivate my natural ability of listening to what each horse has to tell me. I live my life as an equine advocate, dedicated to helping the horses through reconnecting them with their souls, as well as educating their human guardians about the equine spirit and how to be with them in connection and understanding.