From the earliest childhood memories I can recall loving horses. Postered walls, movies, TV, books. Anything and everything horse related I'd try and get my hands on. I grew up in rural Northern Nevada, where my back yard was just steps away from open BLM range land and the bands of wild horses were never far from being seen and often times in my back yard.

Growing up, outside of horses I had interest in a variety of sports and activities. I played flute in band for many years, taught my self a little bit of piano and guitar. I enjoy singing, writing, drawing and painting.

In school I mainly did track and field and cross country but would occasionally also play volleyball, basketball and outside of school it was baseball and soccer.

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This combination of creativity, activities, and the love for horses started the spark in me that wanted to make working with horses my passion and career. 

At a young age though, I didn't quite know what direction that would be.

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Looking back now there were signs, watching the mustangs, learning about and following mustang training and competitions.

However, even more apparent now, (though perhaps not then), was my sheer enthralling enjoyment and fascination when I would be able to watch Dressage. While I didn't fully know what I was watching when I first discovered Dressage, a small cinder was started and it would remain for years.

 

My horse journey was long and met with numerous obstacles. I had to teach myself and learn to dissect, research, and understand to the best of my ability whatever I read, heard, or saw. 

I rode when I could, from neighbors to 4-H, to the dude strings and trail facilities during summer trips. I got my first horse when I was 12 and learned a great deal about horsemanship and horse keeping with so much more to go. Whenever I would ride I would try to mimic what I saw as best I could. I read books, got into Monty Robert's training styles and still held a deep love and respect for the mustangs.

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For a brief moment I lived in Oklahoma just outside of Oklahoma city. I found a barn to be a working student at and also got to work with off track thoroughbreds. By this time I had already fallen also for thoroughbreds and their amazing athleticism for racing. At this barn I learned more about horsemanship as well as general riding and started learning jumping.

Learning to retrain OTTBs really set me on the training route and when I moved back to Nevada, and finished up high school I started doing some minor training for people around my town while also taking college course.

 

After I got my general Associate of Arts degree, I sent out my resume to various different facilities around the area to start working at.

I wanted to learn more about English riding, that little spark for Dressage growing steadily over the years but it would still be a little bit longer before I really identified and acknowledged that flame. Additionally to learning more about training and riding I was seriously interested in breeding and raising sport horses- something that would also come a little bit later.

Not too long after sending out my resume to places I received a call from Kristen with Sheridan Creek EC. After an interview and a short moment I was hired first as a general fill-in person for either stall cleaning, general grounds work, but eventually started guiding ranch rides and occasionally teaching beginner lessons. That was summer of 2015. After learning more and doing more I started taking on more lessons and in 2017 once again I had a horse- an off track Thoroughbred Mare that I named River that had just turned 3. My first project since the Oklahoma Thoroughbreds and my first horse since I was 15. Learning to work and rehab River, (she was pulled from the track due to a bowed tendon), turned those training embers into a full blown fire.

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I wanted to train.

So mid summer of 2018 I started Harmony Horsemanship

Training was my passion- but the part I nearly forgot about was training the human counter-part to horses. With grit, determination, and a genuine desire to pass the love of horse and riding and horsemanship on to all I could I grew to enjoy and even love teaching people to ride, to find that spark in them as well. 

2019 grew the fire for the Mustangs. I started with TIP challenge competition then I also did Extreme Mustang Makeovers as well as the TIP challenges. And then I became an approved TIP trainer. Mustang after mustang I developed, learned, grew, and learned more. Taming, starting and rehoming them. At this point I had River who was in and out of work for various reasons, Parelli a schoolmaster warmblood that was given to me, and a variety of Mustangs coming and going. I was doing general all around training and starting horses and taking some lessons of general English riding and a bit of Dressage. Though I was feeling like something was missing, something wasn't quite there but I hadn't quite put together what that was.

In 2021 a 2 year old, feisty but smart grey mustang locked my heart to her. I named her Legacy's Desert Storm- "Legacy", and intended on keeping her to start her and turn her into a sport horse for a few years before selling her. And then, I started training her Dressage and that's when the wild fire completed. 

Dressage struck that cord. Mustang struck the harmonizing cord. And so as she turned 3 while still teaching and training others I started Legacy first just in all around basic riding, western and English. Trails, jumping. But as she continued on with riding I began focusing more and more on Dressage with her and I. 

There is something about the art of the dance of Dressage between horse and rider. There is just something captivating and enthralling. By early fall of her 3 year old year, and less than 6 months with Dressage training we ventured to both of our first ever Dressage show, (At this point Legacy had been to our original TIP challenge, to open shows at other TIP challenges and a handful of other shows). We showed in Dressage at Intro and Training level and actually did really well. Intro we won our class and in training placed fourth which is really good for such a young and inexperienced horse as well as an inexperienced rider when it came to showing Dressage. I went to the show with a few others that boarded and/or trained with another trainer at the barn- Else who also showed at the same time. There with the guidance of more experienced Dressage riders, the marks and feedback from the judges and genuine desire to learn I now had a purpose and direction for myself and Legacy and any other horse of mine at least that I may have in the future. I buckled down and started getting more specifically dressage training and coaching while still developing my skills with teaching and training young horses and retraining "problem" horses. I have joined the local fox hunting club, Sierra Nevada Hounds, for fox hunts. Still go on trail rides and in general keep my knowledge as well rounded as I can with plans to continue and learn more.

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Additionally in 2021/2022 I started my breeding journey with River, finally getting an Iberian Warmblood, (Andalusian x Thoroughbred), filly in 2024 named Echo.

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With all this I look for knowledge where and when I can. Wanting to develop my skills to the best of my abilities.

I still train and teach and help people with whatever goals they have.