"Build on strength, the rest will come"
Her Philosophy
On life:
Everything I’ve ever done contributes toward the balance and harmony I get closer to every day; toward the evolution of an understanding. My approach to teaching, touching, and training has been molded by all of these interests and the time and attention I have given them; even those that don’t seem to be "related" to horsemanship. I can look back on my life and clearly trace the cause and affect of each event, each person met, each blessing in disguise and decision made; good or bad; that have led me to the fountains of knowledge I am so privileged to drink from. For this reason, I do not believe in regretting mistakes or citing coincidence. I believe in and have faith in synchronicity; what some people call "meant to be". In my own life, I have experienced synchronicity in deeply personal ways: An unconscious understanding that riding kept me healthy led to a study of therapeutic riding even before I was diagnosed with a disease that therapeutic riding is proven to help. My study of therapeutic riding then heightened my understanding of Autism and other spectrum disorders, including Aspberger’s and Sensory Processing Dysfunction; preparing me for a challenging motherhood even before my son was discovered to be on the spectrum himself.
Events like these and my interpretation of them shaped my "life philosophy" to be: "Build on strengths, and the rest will come."
My approach, in turn, to my clients (horses, hounds, and humans) is to build upon their strengths, and get out of the way to allow the rest to follow, naturally.
On the Balance of Teaching, Touching, Training
I do not view these pursuits as separate. I appreciate how my skills and understanding of horse and human bodies puts a spin on how I teach riding- even to children. I use my touch to teach, and I use my ability to train aid in the effectiveness of my touch; actually teaching a body something it did not know so that it can fix a problem it didn’t know it had. When I train I use the bodywork to break down mental and physical blocks in minutes that would otherwise take hours/ days. Even in my own riding, I am working toward developing an inner eye that is as good as my eye for other horses and riders; thus using my ability as a teacher to strengthen my ability to learn. Because I do not separate my understanding of anatomy from my understanding of psychology, nor my instinct from any of it, these "separate" strengths of skill combine to aid each other in ways that make the She Touches Horses approach an unique and ever-evolving mastery. Whether training, teaching or touching; I approach each being, each task open to discovery- knowing that I may not always find answers, but always on opening.
This is what my strength is.
The rest does come, like a natural unfolding that is "meant to be".
