We are now a NON PROFIT status for children/adults on and off the autistic spectrum.  



Conscious Rider:

K@SheTalksToAnimals.com  

EAGALA Equine Assisted Psychotherapy 

with Dr. Pat Koch PhD and Kate Turner Mays (owner)
 

Holistic Horsemanship, Instructional Trail Rides, Centered Riding

with Kate Turner Mays 
 

EAGALA Equine Assisted Learning

with Kate Turner Mays

Horse Boy Method (TM)

with Kate Turner Mays and our fabulous volunteers
 

English Hunter Jumper/Dressage/Western to an advanced level

with Ali Humann
 

click HERE CALENDAR to check your lesson times. 

 
    Ali and Wlly
 
   Enlightened Trick Training
     Willy being groomed by our ranch hand Jessie

   Kate relaxing after a long day :)

About Kate Turner Mays.
I started Conscious Rider ten years ago with one student for a hobby really and it has grown into a wonderful family oriented barn with students of all creeds.  I am still a professional artist and Conscious Rider now affords me the space to paint and write what stirs in my soul www.SacredPainting.com I let go of my commercial art business to paint in my home studio on the ranch and am grateful to share the rest of my time with you.

‘We teach what we most need to learn.’

I am constantly practicsing to master my thoughts, body and soul.  One way is to teach consciousness through horses, by teaching you.  Over the last 22 years since I started my quest to know Love/Divine Intelligence/God, purifying my body mind and spirit by weaning myself of one addiction after another.  I have studied and qualified myself in various healing modalities and horsemanship courses which have taught me how to live a stress free, peaceful and healthy life.  Horses are spiritual guides, being so empathic, they teach me about honesty and love.  We will learn how to ride well through Sally Swifts Centered Riding using visualization, confidence building techniques and from my years of doing various yoga techniques (I am a qualified Kundalini Yoga teacher) tranformitive breath work.

Autistic Spectrum

When Rupert (Rowans father) The Horseboy came to me a couple of years ago and suggested I try teaching children on the autistic spectrum I was apprehensive.  He sent two amazing boys my way and we progressed slowly.  I then qualified through Ruperts’ Horseboy Method (TM) and it all started to click.  Working with such deep and instinctive souls, all so different yet so fun to help, has been and remains a great source of joy to me.  We have become a non-profit to be able to help families who struggle with all the therapies they have to afford to offset costs and equipt ourselves and the horses.  We are up against the clock because the more we can do with the children at a younger age the better it will be for their lives ahead.  This year I aim to raise funds and train more guides.  We are guides because I find with my methods and the Horseboy Method (TM) it’s really about unschooling and going with what is of great interest to the particular student that day and incorporating it into the riding, then using the riding to explain fractions or lifes’ ups and downs.

  Muscle Testing before a session 



The horses and I help you become more conscious of your body, helping you change your unconscious fear into confident, leadership horse skills.  Horses guide us into a kinder relationship with ourselves.

  The amazing trainer and his wife Sue Allen Pogue taught us

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My teachers over the last two decades:
Sally Swifts’ Centered Riding, Carolyn Resnick’s herd language,  
Monty Roberts, Pat Perrelli, John Lyons, Stacey Westfall using an array of other Horsemanship Methods.
 
Conscious Rider Method:
Breath work from ancient yogic and other technology  
Grounding meditation with the horse
Mastering emotions
 Mastering energy riding horses without tack
 Positioning your bones (Sally Swift)
 Centering internally and spiritually
 Visualization Techniques
 Animal Communication
 
Muscle Testing-Kenisthetics
Feeding organic, sugar/molasses/pestiside FREE food  
Mastering awareness thus creating a Conscious Riding experience!
 
 
 
What you will learn:
Horsemanship and safety around horses
Centered Riding based on Alexander Technique 
Reading your own and horses energy
Trick Training to build your training skills 
Leading horses correctly
Tacking up and untacking the gentle way
Feeding organic and healthily as possible
Backing up
Stopping
Walking
Trotting  sitting and posting
- with and without lead reins -
Riding on the Trails through water up hills etc
 
Advanced:  
Anchoring Meditaion Techniques
Enlightened Trick Training
Muscle Testing
Correct diagonal
Jumping
Dressage
Caroline Resnick Herd Language Techiques
Energetic Work Kundalini 
Meditative Riding based on the work of Tich Nat Han
Jumping the Centered Riding way
Cantering
Beginners Dressage
Beginners acupressure
Horse whispering techniques  
Animal Communication Techniques
Volenteer work for children learning to communicate through horses

Empathic connection.

This horse rarely lets anyone touch his ears due to past abuse.  Yet

with grounding oneself and patience he is relaxed and trusting enough to allow it.  His trauma

teaches us that he, in many ways is like us, and if he can trust again,

perhaps we can too.

    Studying in UK

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion. -B. W. F. Hegel