A therapeutic and classical riding center for sensitive souls.

K@SheTalksToAnimals.com   

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We teach you to ride properly, if that’s what you want.  We help you to heal if that’s what you need.

 

Learning to ride with awareness and skill in a tranquil environment  

Holistic Horsemanship,  Equine Assisted Psychotherapy E.A.P., Equine Assisted Integration E.A.I. ,  HorseBoy Method (TM) and Centered Riding are methods we use to teach everyone who joins us here, learning to ride with grace and confidence in a beautiful environment with an English arena for jumping, shaded round pen and eight miles of nature trails right on our doorstep.

Conscious Rider down by the water – 8 miles of Trails

Conscious Rider is a For-Profit and Non-Profit riding center for children and adults  on and off the autistic spectrum who want to learn to ride and connect deeply with their partner the horse in a gentle environment.  We employ many different healing and therapeutic modalities to help children and adults living with autism, trauma and PTSD.

Mission Statement for Conscious Rider.

Direction:

Healing ourselves and others – knowing consciousness – through horse therapy.

Definition:

Consciousness – ing by serving and loving people and horses.

Purpose:

Consciousness through love of horses, nature and service.

“Daily I recover from P.T.S.D. – it’s the gift that has led me to horses, therapy, paths to more consciousness and serving you.”  Kate Turner Mays Director of Conscious Rider  

 

Conscious Rider:

K@SheTalksToAnimals.com  

Equine Assisted Psychotherapy E.A.P.

with Dr. Pat Koch PhD and Kate Turner Mays (Director/Owner)

 

Holistic Horsemanship, Instructional Trail Rides, Centered Riding

with safe, fun, empathic coaches Kate Turner Mays/Anneke

 

Equine Assisted Intergration  E.A.I.

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

 and Anneka and Ramsie

 

CANCELLATION POLICY:

7 DAYS NOTICE or session is on you.  

24 HOURS NOTICE for illness any less time and session is on you.

ONE MONTHS NOTICE IF LEAVING OR GOING ON BREAK, PAID. 

Equine Assisted Therapy - explained -

It may seem less like therapy and more like play, but
equine-assisted therapy really can help those with
physical and mental disabilities. While there is little
controlled research on the subject, physical
therapists progress notes, as well as reports from
physicians, teachers, and parents testify to its
benefits. These benefits include improved
respiration, circulation, balance, and body
metabolism along with greater muscle strength and
agility. The warmth and motion of the horse
mimicking that of the human body can also reduce
muscle spasticity in the legs, back, neck and arms.
Mounting, dismounting and grooming are also useful
in enhancing range of motion.

Psychosocial benefits reported are improvements in
self-esteem, self-image, and interpersonal skills.
Many patients also become more outgoing and
autistic children have been known to communicate
spontaneously for the first time with a horse!

The recreational nature of this program allows a
source of hope for people with disabilities. They can
leave the standard clinical setting and enjoy an
independence they never thought would be available
to them. While on a horse they are “normal”, able
to leave the bonds of their disabilities…they are free!

 

   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 and it has grown into a wonderful barn.  I am, also, a professional artist and Conscious Rider now affords me the space to paint and write what stirs in my soul http://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 ‘y’all’

‘We teach what we most need to learn.’  

Over the last 24 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 put living a stress free, peaceful, conscious and healthy life as my number one priority .  Horses are spiritual guides, being so empathic, they teach us about honesty and love.  

Here at Conscious Rider we learn how to ride well by putting our bones in the right place – Sally Swifts Centered Riding, by using visualization, confidence building techniques and transformative breathing techniques from my years of doing various yoga techniques (I am a qualified Kundalini Yoga teacher).  This goes for everyone on and off the autistic spectrum.

One’s mind once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.-Oliver Wendell Holmes

  Muscle Testing before a session 

If you wish to DONATE.   

DONATION VIA PAYPAL

Your precious money will be put to GREAT use and will MAKE A DIFFERENCE to children and adults on and off the autistic spectrum – We are excited to be raising funds for SCHOLARSHIPS and a much needed Teacher Trianing/THERAPEUTIC AREA/Club House/VOLUNTEER Living space in the form of a much needed trailer, yay!

  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

Intermediate 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

Volunteer work for children learning to communicate through horses

Empathic connection.

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

with grounding oneself using breath work, meditation and patience he is relaxed and trusting enough to allow it.  His trauma

teaches us that he, in many ways is like us,  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

  DONATION VIA PAYPAL

CANCELLATION POLICY:

7 DAYS NOTICE or session is on you.  

24 HOURS NOTICE for illness any less time and session is on you.

ONE MONTHS NOTICE IF LEAVING OR GOING ON BREAK, PAID.

The Kids Are Alright Fest

WoW!! we just had a most loving and moving experience at TKAAF with 100′s of hipsters, skating and gaming peeps and all these amazing kid and adult musicians – all in some way or other donated to our cause.  We are still receiving checks and as it is now we have the money to:

Buy two Christ Saddles from Germany (they have waved the postal fee)

These are the best therapy saddles out there for our needs I am soooo excited.  We will all use of them as they build core stregth, connect us to horses energetically and physically via their erganomic design and the piles of sheep skin help us stay on out in the trails.

We have so much tack we need and bits of this and that to make things safer and easier, daisy reins (stop Willy and Cherry eating grass now the Spring is here) nice girths for the horses so they don’t get pinched.  Bigger wheel barrow with tyres that don’t puncture etc

Once I buy what we need I will post all we spent on what so that everyone donating can see where their money goes to.

I am so very grateful…

Just to explain how it used to work here when we needed money for ongoing education and tack etc – I would raise money by selling my paintings and then put what would be my wages back into the business from the full paying Conscious Rider students for Classical riding and sessions for EAGALA and Horseboy Therapies.  It seemed allot easier that way but tax season is upon us and I needed to save for the taxes when I was lucky enough to meet with a business woman who advised me to stop putting my ‘wages’ money back into the biz and fund raise.  So thanks to Band Aid School of music and TKAAF – the funds we needed for the saddles and other essentials has been raised, I’m so touched and grateful.