This past weekend, I took a 3-day workshop called ‘Mothering the Bones’, led by Angela Dechaine of Wellspring Craniosacral Therapy.  This course intrigued me when I read about ‘tending the female pelvis’ – an area that I had not learned much about in my Somatic Experiencing training – and we would be taught how to touch and hold women in their pelvic area in a supportive and healing manner.   In my previous bodywork trainings, I have never had the sense of safety and clarity

Faraona and I are on perhaps the biggest journey of our relationship.  After she came off 6 weeks of stall rest last fall when she...

Why is it a big deal that Diva is finally yawning?  Because yawning is a sign of relaxation, and this is another step in Diva’s trauma...

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I have seen it over and over again – someone goes into the roundpen with a horse and the horse totally ignores them. The person tries...

I was surprised by the number of views to my original Instagram Reel of soaking Holly’s sore foot. For some reason that resonated with...

After a year and a half of trauma-informed horsemanship with Diva, I finally feel that we are at a place where most of the stored trauma...

We live in a culture that values rationality and intellect over emotionality. Many of us grew up in families where expressing certain...

One of the tricky bits of being with a client is recognizing when the client is calm, or if they are actually in the freeze response. ...

Dancing with a horse is the final activity of the Eponaquest Instructor apprenticeship. My dancing was a complete failure, as I...

My first dressage coach used to say that, in order to train a horse, you needed to teach them the word first, then a sentence and finally...