The Healing Power of Connection
“Being human is about being in the right kinds of relationships,” said John A. Powell, author and civil rights scholar. He was speaking about social justice and the central importance...
Nov 2021 10
Horses
Apr 2021 18
Natural Lifemanship at the Wild Horse Sanctuary, Part 2
Immersion, Day Two 1. After morning yoga by the woodstove, I arrive at the Sanctuary semi-rested, tea thermos in hand. A group has gathered by the big round pen that connects to the...
Apr 2021 15
Natural Lifemanship at the Wild Horse Sanctuary, Part 1
One September before the pandemic, I attended a training at the Wild Horse Sanctuary in Shingletown, California, way up north in the remote wilderness. It was an advanced immersion in...
Feb 2021 10
Natural Lifemanship With Nabokov, Part 2
In these sessions with Nabokov, we demonstrate two important aspects of relationship: cooperation and repair. In the first video, we work on cooperation and how that differs from...
Feb 2021 3
In Memory of Grappa
He was the greatest. No other horse has matched his record of seven national equitation championships. He set the standard of what an equitation horse could be. Over the years people...
May 2019 11
Natural Lifemanship with Nabokov
I use the Natural Lifemanship model to work with my horses in the round pen, to help them develop self-regulation and learn to connect with me. Although the work derives from natural...
Feb 2019 21
Turnabout Breeding Makes History
This past year was a beyond-wildest-dreams kind of season for our reining-horse breeding program: we became the first owner to achieve the three simultaneous honors of Leading Sire,...
Sep 2018 5
Turnabout Reiners Shine In Tulsa
As the dust settles from a week of fantastic good things, what I can say is this: the stars aligned for Turnabout Farm at this year's Tulsa Reining Classic. Horses we bred dominated the...
May 2018 14
Building Connected Relationships
Horse-assisted psychotherapies show tremendous promise in helping people with trauma, which is notoriously difficult to treat. Trauma lives not only in our conscious mind but deeper in...
