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The Project:


The Goal:



Finding Your Niche













You scratch my back, I will scratch yours.



























Hooves and Heartbeats,





  1. wonderful post. I love the image of the arabian and mustang grooming session. That will stay with me. thank you!

    • Thank you! They are all so unique and I just find it fascinating to watch them work at sorting out their differences…. in all sorts of ways! I’m am glad you enjoyed that observation. 🙂

  2. Dear Elsa,

    I would like to suggest another reason to the ones you have mentioned here of how you perhaps found your niche doing what you are doing and I suppose it is not so much about your doing as your Being. Most people are predominantly left brain or right brain. The right brain intuitives seem to have more than their fair share of “feel” so useful in working with horses and the left brain logicals tend to rely quite heavily on “methods” and so are often drawn to those teachers who give a clear At to B to C approach to getting a result with horses Not always much fun for the horses unfortunately..

    You seem to have a rare balance of right and left brain qualities which enables you to work so successfully with a lot of “feel” around horses and yet you have a strong left brain capability to analyse afterwards what has happened or is happening and to put that so creatively into feely touchy words that we left brainers can really understand! I am sure such a well balanced, perhaps even 50/50, quality of Being is really quite rare but I just wanted to let you know that for us predominantly left brain logicals you are like a beacon of light in the right brain arena of horses. So thank you for finding your niche and congratulations on the success of the latest Kickstarter campaign. I cannot wait for “Taming Wild: Pura Vida”

    Gratefully yours

    • Thank you Gary! I really do enjoy the mix of the left and right brain work. I think of my self as a little more left brain actually, but I envy those right brain artists so much I have studied them working intensely and done my best to embrace that side of the thinking also! It is all in the balance… but my theory is, if we can be curious enough about what that balance is, we get better and better at developing it!

  3. Thank you for a beautiful post. I have long felt the same about my gratitude to my teachers.. ALL of them! Without the unique flavours they shared with me, i could never have gone on to bake my own cake! Each cake i bake is slightly difference to the last, as my time with horses changes my awareness and perspective…heres to a life of ever expanding reciepes!

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