We're at a time on the planet where we're being asked to reclaim our belonging to deep wilderness- both the kind that exists inside ourselves, and the kind that exists outside ourselves. The skin is a mirror line on which this work pivots.
In the old spiritual schools, the first thing a novice was asked to do was chop wood and carry water. At Mountain Horse School, we hope to empower you with some of these basic competencies of belonging to help you find your songline again, woven through the great song of the world.
As a certified Equine Guided Learning, Therapeutic Riding, and Daoist Stone Medicine Practitioner, horses have been the ones to carry me from the default world into the world of magic. They've opened the gates of nature and broken me open to the touch of the wider world, and led me from my small self into my larger self, from the boundaries of my human ego into the song of all there is.
My hope is that I can inspire you to remember your own belonging to the wider world, and for you to feel supported as an integral jewel in the shimmering tapestry of the web of life. Let's change the world together, through the spell of our own becoming.
"I am profoundly grateful for our session together and I have been dipping into it and savoring it for the last several days. [It] really brought me back into my heart and who I know myself to be... [and] moved me so deeply on a spiritual and emotional level.
You have such a wonderful way about you and your healings and of course I deeply love your profound connection with the animals which means so much to me. Thank you again so much."
-Nicole Foos
“You’re truly changing the world of horse and human relationships with the work you’re sharing. Ride for Joy taught me that when we lead from the embodied magic of fully present relationship, anything is possible…INCLUDING a safe, realistic, practical, and financially sustainable horse/human/Land based offering!
Ride for Joy helped guide my instinctual, organic process, never losing focus on magic, connection and presence. It build my confidence in making my dreams and visions concrete and real by giving me a format, formula, and concrete skills."
-Virginia Schmidt
(Or, simply tell me what's on your heart and mind, and we can take it from there)
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