"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything". - George Bernard Shaw

Change. One of the hardest things we seem to deal with as human sometimes. This last year has been full of change for me, while I was already headed down a new path, a serious injury in May forced me to travel down it even faster.

I’ve spent almost 15 years building a business that focused on working with horses. Multiple types of modalities and endless learning to try and help our equine companions. A lot of my clients probably already know this but some may not, my journey with equine therapy started out of necessity: trying to help my own horse. I have been focused on equine therapy for many years. But then, things started to slowly change. After a lot of encouragement from one of my mentors, Mary Debono, I ventured onto the path of starting to work with people. I love helping riders develop their body awareness, move with more ease and coordination, etc.. If you work with horses you know how sensitive they are. “Mirrors”, many people say. So how we are physically, mentally and emotionally plays a huge role in how we interact with and respond to our equine companions. Developing the work I do with people has become a priority.

Since then the work has snowballed and I find myself today having acquired multiple certifications in applied neurology and halfway through a four year Feldenkrais training. Sometimes life comes at us so fast we don’t always have time to sit back and appreciate just how much things have changed. When I broke my arm this past year, it laid me up completely for a while and limited my ability to work with horses for many months. Even as I write this, I’m not completely healed and able to fully go back to the work I was doing before with horses. Having that time off really made me sit back and think about where I wanted my work and business to go in the future. Did I even want to do equine bodywork anymore? It seemed to me that if the owner didn’t spend time learning the work, and also work on themselves physically and emotionally, then how much was really going to change for that horse? While I have always left owners with homework after our sessions, I wanted to do more.

So it has really solidified for me. In order to help horses, we truly have to start by helping the people who own and ride them. Going forward, while I will still be working with horses, my focus will be on working with owners who are working on their own bodies and brains, then we can work together to help their horses. I know we can’t do the one without the other anymore.

“You’re not working on your horse, you’re working on yourself.” - Ray Hunt