Making Change One Book at A Time
Contributing Authors of Horse As Teacher
Stormy May
www.stormymay.com
Stormy May, founder of Stormy May Productions, promotes harmonious relationships between horses and their humans through her educational videos, workshops, and other related services. A former horse trainer, riding instructor, and competition judge, she is the producer of the highly acclaimed documentary DVD, The Path of the Horse.
Mary Beth Meyers
www.harmonicriding.com
Mary Beth Meyers is the mind inside Harmonic Riding & Equine Integral Movement™ (HREIM). Through her five decades of work with horses, supported by research in physiology, behavior, and quantum mechanics of healing, horse owners learn to change their horses' behaviors and biomechanics. Mary Beth's work helps horses and their owners become physically and energetically released from the past to be fully in the present in joy.
Wendy Golding
www.horsespiritconnections.com
Wendy Golding, founder of Horse Spirit Connections, promotes transformation through personal development and corporate leadership, with the horse as teacher. Passionate about horses, Wendy enjoys weaving together her continually expanding connection with horses and her shamanic spiritual path. An Epona Approach Instructor, she is the co-owner of a multi-million dollar service company in Toronto, Canada.
Kathy Pike
www.coachingwithhorses.com
Kathy Pike is the founder of the Mind Body Method (MBM), a published author, life coach of eight years, and an Epona Approved Instructor. Her current book, Hope From the Heart of Horses, is available spring 2009. Kathy travels national and internationally, coaching individuals to raise their consciousness and deepen relationships through working with horses.
Read more about Kathy on Founders Page
Melisa Pearce
www.touchedbyahorse.com
Inspired by her lifelong relationship with horses and a background in Psychotherapy, Melisa Pearce, CEO of Touched By a Horse, Inc., has been an innovator of Horse Human Experiential work for over 25 years. Her books, lectures, and events have earned her the Best Spiritual Retreat Award (5280 Magazine, Denver 2006) and The Top 50 Most Influential Horsewomen Award (Horse South Magazine 2008).
Karen Head
www.equinection.org
Karen Head, the founder and director of Equinection, has been loving and working with horses since she was five. As an Advanced Epona Approach Facilitator, she has worked with hundreds of people across the US and Canada, guiding them toward authentic living. She holds a master's degree in Creative Arts Education from Rutgers University.
Anna Twinney
www.reachouttohorses.com
An internationally respected natural horsemanship clinician, animal communicator, and Reiki Master, Anna has been featured on television, writes for national and international magazines, and is the creator of the "Reach Out to Natural Horsemanship" DVD series. Formerly the Monty Roberts Learning Center's head instructor, Anna teaches people how to create genuine, trust-based partnerships with their horses.
Lisa Dee
www.vistacaballo.com
Lisa Dee is the creator and guide of the Equist™ process. Her ranch, Vista Caballo, is an exclusive equine experiential center based in Dove Creek, Colorado, dedicated to self-awareness, the development of human potential, and personal growth. Her work with horse medicine for humans is deeply transformative and healing at a cellular level. She creates completely unique, custom-designed experiences resulting in profound healing, clarity, and growth.
Holli Lyons
www.lyonsgait.com
Holli Lyons lives in the foothills of the Coast Range in Northwestern Oregon, offering workshops, individual sessions, and intensives in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning and Coaching. After spending over 25 years in the high tech industry, she is now a full-time Advanced Epona Instructor and Centered Riding Instructor. “Melding body awareness, shamanic principles and love of nature to inspire & co-create personal excellence.”
Susan Williams
www.windhorseone.com
Recognized nationally and internationally as a digital camera expert, Susan's evocative fine art equine photography portrays the magical essence and intimate moments of horses. After attending the International Center for Photography in New York, she taught programs for Olympus America. Collectors across the country seek her award-winning images of horses to grace their homes and businesses.
Book Two: The Path to Relationship
Mary Beth Meyers
www.harmonicriding.com
Mary Beth Meyers is the mind inside Harmonic Riding & Equine Integral Movement™ (HREIM). Through her five decades of work with horses, supported by research in physiology, behavior, and quantum mechanics of healing, horse owners learn to change their horses' behaviors and biomechanics. Mary Beth's work helps horses and their owners become physically and energetically released from the past to be fully in the present in joy.
Vanessa Malvicini
www.icavalli.co.za
Vanessa Malvicini, founder of I Cavalli, works with horses predominantly around the Sacred Marriage between divine feminine and masculine. Vanessa is an Epona Facilitator who strives to reach self-sustainability and balanced-wholeness. She offers her work in South Africa, Namibia, Germany, and Italy. Intensives, workshops, and a facilitator program are held in English, Italian, and German.
Linda-Ann Bowling
www.unbridlinghumanpotential.com
Linda-Ann is the founder of Unbridling Human Potential. As an award-winning Master Coach, international speaker, and empathic healer, her passion is healing humans and horses as they dance in partnership and possibility. She graduated with merit from Barbara Rector’s Adventures In Awareness program. Linda-Ann is based outside of Vancouver, BC, Canada. Her writing was recently published in Waking Up the West Coast, Healers and Visionaries!
Birgit Weskamp
www.horseworldjourneys.com
Birgit Weskamp is a founding partner of Technology Vision Group, LLC. She taught modern languages at Edinburgh and Cambridge Universities, directed theater plays, and received a doctorate in interaction theory. When turning fifty, she started riding horses. She enjoys spending time with her horses Alakaset and Alshama, as well as painting mixed media landscapes.
Juli Lynch
www.epala.org
Juli Lynch, Ph.D, is President of Turning Pointe Consulting, which specializes in personal life coaching and professional/executive coaching. She is also co-director of EPALA (Equine Partnership for Authenticity, Learning and Awareness), an equine facilitated personal and professional development organization. Her equine programs combine her past work as a psychotherapist, her current work as a coach, and her lifelong involvement with horses as rider, competitor, and instructor.
Caroline Rider
www.riderhorsemanship.com
Caroline Rider is a nationally recognized and respected natural horsemanship clinician, speaker, and horse advocate. She is the founder and inspiration behind the much acclaimed Tao of Horsemanship™ Approach to being and doing with horses. Her facility, Rider Horsemanship, Inc. in Quantico, Maryland hosts an array of educational opportunities for both horses and human.
Debra A. Saum
www.debrasaum.com
Debra Saum is an internationally respected Animal Artist and Animal Intuitive. Her revolutionary, award-winning "Talking Art" ignites inter-species communication between the subjects in her portraits and those who delight in their vibrantly colorful canvases. Collectors of her work seek out her paintings for their uncanny ability to capture the living essence of each animal.
Helen Amanda Russell
www.horsepatter.com
Helen Amanda Russell is the founder of Shadowdancer, a business promoting human self-awareness facilitated by horses. Helen has spent her entire life interacting with horses through pleasure and work. Her innate abilities have been honed by many years of being a rider, competitor, and coach, and more recently becoming an advanced Epona instructor.
Rachel Dexheimer
www.equispire.com
Rachel Dexheimer is founder of EquiSpire Coaching and Consulting - Horses Inspiring People. She is a Certified Equine Guided Educator, speaker, Professional Coach, and Equine Business Consultant. She and her beloved horse friends guide individual and group explorations in the sacred space of Redtail Farm outside Seattle, Washington.
Sandra Wallin
www.chironsway.com
Sandra is the founder of Chiron's Way Counselling, Coaching, and Consulting. She divides her professional time between her private practice near Vancouver, B.C., working as a school counsellor, and teaching Equine Guided Development and PSYCH-K locally and internationally. She currently sits on a CanTRA committee, developing guidelines for the ethical practice of Equine Facilitated Wellness in Canada.
