Horses are living medicine
They invite us into an expanded, grounded way of being where everything is witnessed and everything belongs. They remind us of the ancient universal 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 an empire that spanned the globe.
Now, as that empire crumbles, horses still run at the edges of our imagination, knocking on the gilded doors of our awareness. Will we let them in?
Being with horses in a way that honors the long allegiance they made with our species tempers our human tendencies toward anger, ego and separation. They show a way forward that’s grounded in the wisdom of prey and feminine leadership. They help us remember what it means to be part of a collective- aware, awake and alive in connection with all parts of ourselves and the wild world around us.
Are we ready to receive the gifts they offer us?
Horses have carried me from the default world into the world of magic: from the boundaries of my human ego into the song of all there is.
They’ve delivered me all over the world, to apprenticeships in Scotland, Texas, Ontario, and Quebec. They’ve 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’ve helped me build my horse and nature-based teaching school from one leased horse and a dream to a thriving six figure business with a full calendar of sold out programming.
Now, I want to build a body of work that is more focused on the healing, alchemical and resonant aspects of the relationship. Where the herd and I work in layers of frequency, holographic overlays, imagination, music, and myth. Where our work together is multidisciplinary and emergent. I don’t want to offer a service. I want to help those who come to me re-imagine a worldview that supports LIFE- in both their truest alignment, the purpose that longs to live through them, and the more beautiful world their hearts know is possible.
Hi, I’m Kera
Call For Land Partnership
For April 15, 2026
Mountain Horse School is looking for a place to call home in the West Kootenays.
Do you have unused or underutilized land that needs stewardship?
Want to help help create a potent opportunity to connect horses, humans and land by being a land host?
Let’s gallop into the year of the horse- and help each other thrive.
Ideally, I’m looking for something between Slocan City and Nelson/ Castlegar. But if you have something that aligns but is outside those boundaries, please connect. Let’s see what’s possible.
Do you have:
Privacy + Peace?
3 + acres?
The Ability to Legally + Clearly Host a Business?
A Cabin for Rent or or Space for a Small Trailer?
I Want to Hear From You!
In-Person Programming
Coming to the Slocan Valley, BC
Full or Half-Day Immersions
(Private or semi-private)
Three or six hour deep dives into the resonant field of the work. 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 + Retreat Programming
(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)
Join us for our bi-weekly community circle: an affordable way for the local community to access regular connection. Each session begins with a medicine question- and ends with a shared integration. In between, we practice observing, breathing, and staying with the process. We drop into groundedness and deep presence. From that space, our interior worlds come back into our awareness. Our imaginations come alive. We leave in a way that is more resourced and present. We become more of ourselves, more available to the touch of life upon us.
For ages 16 +
Short Sessions
(Private or semi-private)
Join Kera and the herd for 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)
