Horses are living medicine
Horses invite us into an expanded way of being where everything is witnessed and everything belongs. They immerse us in a living language of breath and touch and weight-shift, where emotion, illness, and conflict are energy wanting to move and be transformed.
The art of horsemanship was the original mystery school. Learning to ally with horses’ power and generosity enabled us to build a civilization that spanned the globe. Now, as that civilization shakes loose from its foundations, horses still run at the edges of our imagination, knocking on the gilded doors of our awareness.
Will we let them in?
Hi, I’m Kera
Horses have carried me into the world of magic: from the boundaries of my human ego into the song of all there is.
They’ve brought me to apprenticeships in Scotland, Texas, Ontario, and Quebec, and landed me engagements at the Festival of the Horse and Drum (Chicago, IL, 2013), the Healing with Horse Collective (Online, 2019/ 2001), and Hollyhock Retreat Centre (Cortes Island, BC, 2018/2019). They helped me build Mountain Horse from one leased horse and a dream to a six figure business with a calendar of sold out programming.
Now, I want to build a body of work that is more focused on the healing and transformative aspects of the relationship. Where the herd and I work in layers of frequency, holographic overlays, imagination, music, and myth. I don’t want to offer a service. I want to help students align to a worldview that supports LIFE- in both the purpose that longs to live through them, and the more beautiful world their hearts know is possible.
Seeking a Land Partner
To host an established Horse and Nature-Based teaching business in the West Kootenays
For April 15, 2026
Do you have unused or underutilized land that needs stewardship?
Want to contribute something beautiful to your community?
Want the pleasure and regenerative impacts of having horses on your land- without any of the labour or cost?
Let’s connect and explore possibilities
In-Person Programming
Coming to the West Kootenays, BC
Full or Half-Day Immersions
(Private or semi-private)
Three or six hour deep dives into the resonant field that exists between horses and humans. This could include inquiry-led groundwork, mounted work, or somatic and imaginal explorations of inner worlds. We might work with the herd as mirror line and the more-than-human-world as oracle for our own alchemical process. We might bring in the frequencies of stones and crystals as holographic overlays. We might work with the medicine of a bird that flies over us.
In these immersions, we ask: there is the transmutation point? What is calling to be released? What is asking to come alive? How do we best give ourselves to this wild world that has given us everything?
For ages 16 +
Workshops + Retreats
(6-10 participants)
Multidisciplinary collaborative workshop and day retreat programming co-facilitated with other incredible practitioners who bring their own zone of genius to the work.
For ages 16 +
Community Circles
(6-10 participants)
Bi-weekly circles are an affordable way for the local community to access regular programming. Each session begins with a medicine question- and ends with shared integration. In between, we practice observing, breathing, and staying with the process. We drop into groundedness and deep presence, where our interior worlds rise into our awareness and our imaginations come alive. We leave more resourced and present, responsive to the touch of life upon us.
For ages 16 +
Short Sessions
(Private or semi-private)
A 1.5 hour active exploration of the horse human connection. From body language and herd dynamics to leading and moving with the horse on the ground and in the saddle- this is a relationship-based practice where we move slowly so we can let the magic of resonance, attunement, breath and presence do their deep work.
For ages 7 +
Testimonials:
“I am profoundly grateful for our session together and I have been dipping into it and savoring it for the last several days. [It] really brought me back into my heart and who I know myself to be... [and] moved me so deeply on a spiritual and emotional level.”
You have such a wonderful way about you and your healings and of course I deeply love your profound connection with the animals which means so much to me. Thank you again so much."
- Nicole Foos— Recepient, ‘Heart of the World’ Session
“You’re truly changing the world of horse and human relationships with the work you’re sharing. Ride for Joy taught me that when we lead from the embodied magic of fully present relationship, anything is possible…INCLUDING a safe, realistic, practical, and financially sustainable horse/human/Land based offering!
Ride for Joy helped guide my instinctual, organic process, never losing focus on magic, connection and presence. It build my confidence in making my dreams and visions concrete and real by giving me a format, formula, and concrete skills."
- Virginia Schmidt (Graduate, Ride for Joy Online Certification Program)
“You leave behind a legacy of love, joy, freedom and creativity in all the children you taught. Rarely does my daughter go out into the world and come back with her heart more open. Mountain Horse School did that for her.”
-C Taylor (Parent of participant, Horse Dreamers Camps)
