WITHOUT THE WILD, WE ARE SHADOW PEOPLE
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.
Hi, I'm Kera
I've always believed there is an essential wildness in the heart of all things, that enables them to respond to evolutionary pressures. What is the goal of pressure? What question is life Making of us? The goal is more beauty, always. More thriving. More diversity. More reciprocity. More complexity in our human and more-than-human relationships.
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.
Testimonials:
"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
offerings:
Learn:
- How experiencing oneness with the more-than-human-world heals beyond measure
- What is perceptual gating, and why we need technologies of magic to rewild our senses
- How horses help us shapeshift into the kind of embodiment that is a gateway to oneness
- Why these experiences are needed by young people at this time
Experience:
- Resonant Gaze (one of my favourite technologies of magic)
- Place-Based Walking (how to come into tactile, resonant contact with the earth)
- A short Guided Journey where we call the hologram of the more beautiful world our hearts know is possible into reality using another potent technology of magic- the human imagination.
FLAGSHIP ONLINE CERTIFICATION
Ride for Joy is an 9 week online certification that helps horse people create the more beautiful worlds their hearts know is possible by bringing kids into meaningful, deeply restorative relationships with horses and nature, while becoming confident, present mentors with a calendar of sold-out programming.
Program Development:
- Integrating wild nature as the foundation for your personal practice + programming
- Brainstorming programming ideas to take your summer camp offerings to the next level
- Create programming that is professional, yet still leaves room for magic
Business Foundations:
- Navigating the practical aspects of starting a horse + nature based teaching practice: insurance, business registration, and creating boundaries for client relationships
- Working with the resources you DO have to allow growth to happen organically
Teaching + Training Practices:
- Learning the latest trauma-informed + nervous system healing practices to incorporate into your teaching
- Exploring a training problem/relationship with a horse that takes the mirror of your own evolution into account
- Navigating the ethics of riding and movement based practices
