Intensive, in-person equine-assisted work in Western New York. Coming summer 2027.
Where the work you've done finally becomes something you can feel.
Be seen and not judged for it. For anyone who's spent a whole life being competent and composed, that can undo you in the best way.
It's coming soon. But (I think) the best things aren’t rushed.
Developing this offering in a way that honors the horses and holds you matters more to me than getting it out fast.
This has been nine years (and in some ways more than three decades) in the making. And it is finally so close to being ready to share with you.
Why horses?
They're prey animals. Cool. Why does that matter? They're always attuned; they've had to be. Think of a wild horse and a mountain lion out west. That horse has to know: is the lion walking to the pond to drink, or pretending to walk to the pond so it can eat me? The movements look the same. What the horse reads is the intention underneath.
The intention, that energy, that doesn’t always match what’s being shown on the surface.
Sound familiar?
Seen but never judged.
That's the gift, really. To be seen past the performance, and not judged for it. For someone who's spent a whole life being competent and composed, that can kind of undo you in the best way (and I promise I don’t say that sadistically!). Some folks feel it before they ever even touch a horse. Just imagining it. The wisdom in the eye. The sense that this animal could hold what's there and not flinch.
A horse doesn't buy the surface story.
That's the exact thing we're so good at talking our way past. We intellectualize, we explain, and we kind of lose track of what's actually moving through us. We'll narrate our calm while the body's bracing. A horse just responds to what's real and by responding, it shows you what's real in you.
You probably say you're fine, but your system's saying something else. The horse then tells us - let's slow down and notice. And usually? We didn't even know there was anything to notice.
The same work as in the office, just made way more visible.
Where are the edges? What feels safe? Can we breathe here, or can we go a little deeper? It's a relationship, and the relationship is the information. What's it like to just be here — not performing, not on guard? A horse asks all of that without a single word. And that's exactly why it is so dang powerful.