Blog
Personal essays, training advice, creative non-fiction, and poetry— a little bit of every genre as a space for sharing, musing, and feeling.
Fear
Our nervous system state is inextricably tied to both our emotions and our physical posture. No matter who I’m teaching or what they’ve come to learn, I find myself always coming back to the concept of the nervous system— the big, broad general umbrella of all the systems in our body that work to keep us alive. And how when we or our horses become dysregulated, we trade our ability to live in the moment to simply survive instead.
Looking Back
I want to take some space to describe my history as a horse lover from where I started the journey that got me here and is taking me where I’m going. I haven’t always ridden dressage, and the majority of my years of equine education were far from classical. I share this backstory not only to introduce myself and my background, but also to show the importance of learning and openness– we always have more to learn and it’s just as valuable to know what you don’t want to do as what you do. Horses still teach me every day how much more learning I have to do.