FOUNDER AND EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Equine Energetics Expert and Leadership Coach

Lori Halliday is a deeply experienced horsewoman, coach and educator with over 25 years of daily hands-on teaching experience, blending practical horsemanship, behavioural understanding and somatic awareness into thoughtful, horse-first coaching.

Lori brings a rare combination of real-world horse experience, exceptional teaching skill and deeply embodied awareness work to her sessions. With more than 25 years spent actively coaching riders, handlers and horses in everyday situations, her work bridges practical horsemanship with behavioural science, congruency coaching, somatic practice and nervous system awareness.

Clients often seek Lori out when they want insightful, compassionate support that still creates clear movement and meaningful progress with real horsemanship skills that stay congruent with ones ethical identity.

Her sessions are especially valuable for horse and human pairs working through confidence issues, communication difficulties, stuck patterns, emotional overwhelm or a desire to build more connected, functional and enjoyable partnerships without sacrificing clarity, skill or effectiveness.

LEAD TRAINER

At this point in my career, my approach is slow, consensual, and loving. Emotional and physical integrity are deeply considered for all. I continue to do my own personal work internally and in the field so that I can consciously meet you, and your horse partners in a biomechanically, spiritually, relationally congruent, and informed way. I hope you will come to play with us, the rich and fruitful messages of this work wait for you.

My Story - I have been insurmountably blessed nearly my whole life to have access to horses. I never grew out of that “weird horse girl” phase and I'm sure happy I didn't! As a toddler, I was infatuated with the prehistoric wonders of dinosaurs! I would watch “The Land Before Time” as often as I was allowed. Upon moving to Santa Cruz as a wee two-year-old, on a long drive up a steep hill to what would turn into my forever home, I took in my first sight on a neighboring hilltop of the majesty that is equine and nothing has ever been the same! In the months following this preliminary exposure, I would pester my mother endlessly to allow me to take lessons. She would soon give in, and we would both dive head first into a life of endless commitment to caring for, loving, learning from, teaching with, and eternally playing, in partnership with horses.

As many children do, in my tween years I broke away from my mom and what had become a familial study of natural horsemanship and began to follow my own path. Along this journey have been lucky enough to study under and be influenced by some of the greatest riders and horsemen of our time, travel to Europe, compete at venues and in divisions I have only dreamed of, ride in the same rings, and even show against my own equestrian heroes, own, sell and love horses of a lifetime, and most importantly, rediscover my passion for the tenderness and relationship in natural horsemanship that I had lost over those years on my road to achievements in the sports world of showjumping.