Meet Michelle
My path has been a path of the heart & horses.
My life is a walk of the heart. I have lived and breathed horses for 36 years of my life. The path of the subtle, Divine, instinctual pulse that runs through all life has guided me through my heart and body since I was young. I am highly intuitive, instinctively and somatically aware of what I am feeling, and what my heart is conveying as well as the hearts of the humans and horses around me.
My life, is my message.
I have 20+ years of experience and am highly educated in my embodiment and knowledge in the realm of healing arts with certifications in Energetic Healing, Equine Inspired Learning, Somatic Life Coaching, as well as 11 years in apprenticeship with a healer, coach, and Feldenkrais master, my dear mentor Frankie O. in the realm of cortical field re-education, pattern recognition, heart coherence, and nervous system regulation.
He deeply instructed me around the recognition that to heal, we must feel. This is at the heart of any work I share.
I have sat in ceremony with indigenous tribes for many years due to a private connection, camped and traveled in the wilderness with my horse for weeks, dove deep into the somatic unwinding of my body with deep instruction and holding, went into silent retreats, and so on. I have simply done a lot of work on myself. I live what I share. I have studied with numerous horse women men, the most influential being the horse and the master horseman Buck Brannaman.
I have sat with my own shadows, primarily the grief that lay at my feet when my mentor left the planet and took the very teachings who so masterfully passed on to me, and learned to embody them in my own healing. It is my joy to sit in the hard to sit places with others and help them hold their own beings through the many passages we are often invited to walk through in this mystical and miraculous, and sometimes painful, life.
My connection with Divinity. With the power of Love. The truth that emanates through Presence, and the Spirit of the Horse as the the center of the work.
My life is a walk of the heart. I have lived and breathed horses for 36 years of my life. The path of the subtle, Divine, instinctual pulse that runs through all life has guided me through my heart and body since I was young. I am highly intuitive, instinctively and somatically aware of what I am feeling, and what my heart is conveying as well as the hearts of the humans and horses around me.
My life, is my message.
I have 20+ years of experience and am highly educated in my embodiment and knowledge in the realm of healing arts with certifications in Energetic Healing, Equine Inspired Learning, Somatic Life Coaching, as well as 11 years in apprenticeship with a healer, coach, and Feldenkrais master, my dear mentor Frankie O. in the realm of cortical field re-education, pattern recognition, heart coherence, and nervous system regulation.
He deeply instructed me around the recognition that to heal, we must feel. This is at the heart of any work I share.
I have sat in ceremony with indigenous tribes for many years due to a private connection, camped and traveled in the wilderness with my horse for weeks, dove deep into the somatic unwinding of my body with deep instruction and holding, went into silent retreats, and so on. I have simply done a lot of work on myself. I live what I share. I have studied with numerous horse women men, the most influential being the horse and the master horseman Buck Brannaman.
I have sat with my own shadows, primarily the grief that lay at my feet when my mentor left the planet and took the very teachings who so masterfully passed on to me, and learned to embody them in my own healing. It is my joy to sit in the hard to sit places with others and help them hold their own beings through the many passages we are often invited to walk through in this mystical and miraculous, and sometimes painful, life.
My connection with Divinity. With the power of Love. The truth that emanates through Presence, and the Spirit of the Horse as the the center of the work.
One of my greatest teachers. Sailor Boy.
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Listening to Horses
I have been listening to horses my whole life as well as the divine intelligence that guides them, and our own instinctual bodies. Intuitively and instinctual embodied, I have always felt DEEPLY. The world around me, the worlds of others, and the deep, embodied, presence of the horse. I bonded with horses out of necessity, for the depth of feeling and awareness I walked with was held naturally and innately in their presence. We spoke the same language. FEELING. Truth. Instinct. Heart. We met there, together.
I started working with misunderstood horses when I was only 12 years old getting paid $5 a week to work with all the horses at my first barn. I would lay in horse pastures, and study these horses. Who are they on their own. Who are they without their human. How do they communicate. What motivates them? What does their heart say? I would learn their world, and wait for them to invite me into it. My dance with them was natural because we were equal dance partners.
To me, working with horses, is a dance. It's a dance of feeling. It's a dance of receptivity and presence. It's a dance of connectivity lead by both of us. The herd leader, is the heart.
Horses are my family, my kin, and my guide. My passion with horses, is to help people enter their world. The field of awareness they inhabit. It is a place of self revealing, heart awakening, and most of all connection with the Wisdom of the Horse. We are not doing therapy 'with horses'. We are entering their world, a world we also know, in the depth of Presence and our own hearts. We are entering a field of awareness, together.
I do have training with many wise and natural horsewomen and horsemen, the primary influencer being Buck Brannaman. My main teacher however, is and always will be, the horse.
I hear them, and they hear me, because we both speak from the same dialect, the heart.
I started working with misunderstood horses when I was only 12 years old getting paid $5 a week to work with all the horses at my first barn. I would lay in horse pastures, and study these horses. Who are they on their own. Who are they without their human. How do they communicate. What motivates them? What does their heart say? I would learn their world, and wait for them to invite me into it. My dance with them was natural because we were equal dance partners.
To me, working with horses, is a dance. It's a dance of feeling. It's a dance of receptivity and presence. It's a dance of connectivity lead by both of us. The herd leader, is the heart.
Horses are my family, my kin, and my guide. My passion with horses, is to help people enter their world. The field of awareness they inhabit. It is a place of self revealing, heart awakening, and most of all connection with the Wisdom of the Horse. We are not doing therapy 'with horses'. We are entering their world, a world we also know, in the depth of Presence and our own hearts. We are entering a field of awareness, together.
I do have training with many wise and natural horsewomen and horsemen, the primary influencer being Buck Brannaman. My main teacher however, is and always will be, the horse.
I hear them, and they hear me, because we both speak from the same dialect, the heart.
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