The BWR mission of expanding one's consciousness through The Way of The Horse is greatly supported by  products that increase energy and support DNA transformation.

Go to the link below for more information about these amazing products.

AMBAYA GOLD

Contact Us
970-677-2939
PO Box 910
Dove Creek, CO 81324
Ema


Co-Founder Charlie McGuire (1941 - 2008)
Founder of American Holistic Nurses Assoc., Epona Advanced Instructor, Counselor, Certified Holistic Nurse Practitioner, Co-founder Southwest Institute for Women, Co-founder Buffalo Woman Ranch. Charlie walked a path as Medicine Woman and Pipe Carrier for over 20 years. She studied with Native American, Celtic and Eastern medicine teachers. Her gift was facilitating empowering experiences to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual growth in walking one’s life journey. Her lifework was leadership, women’s self-healing, self-empowerment, way of council, transformative journeys/adventures, story telling and ceremony. Integrating horses as co-facilitators into her life’s work at the Buffalo Woman Ranch was one of her greatest blessings. Charlie was initiated into “Horse Medicine” by Rasa’s foal ‘Spirit of Epona’ and ‘Shoshoni’, a wild mustang. She believed deeply in this path of love and service.

Co-Founder Robbie Nelson
Occupational Therapist, Epona Approved Instructor, Energy Kinesiology Practitioner, Co-founder of the Buffalo Woman Ranch. She has studied homeopathy and herbs as well as Chinese and Tibetan energy medicine; her deep connection with the earth fuels her passion for plant medicine. Robbie is eclectic in her spirituality and integrates ceremony, celtic shamanism and plant medicine in her lifework. She honors “The Way of The Horse” as a grounded and heart centered path towards the evolution of human consciousness. It is her life’s joy to share the path of horse medicine along with teachings from her partner Charlie in life and through transition at the Buffalo Woman Ranch.

Cody Lyon

Ranch Manager/Program Facilitator

Cody is a singer songwriter, artist , Certified Ski Instructor for children ages 3-12 years of age. She is a 7th generation Coloradoan with many gifts of spirit from her deep connection with the earth , animals and people.

Rumi Hashimoto, MSN, RN, GNP, HTCP/I

Program Development/Staff facilitator 
Holistic Nurse, Artist, Nurse Educator, Certified Healing Touch Practitioner and Instructor, Healing Touch for Animal Practitioner, Certified in Integrative Imagery and as a PSYCH-K Practitioner. Rumi has over 30 years of professional experience as a nurse clinician, researcher, and a nurse educator. She currently holds a full-time faculty position at Golden West College, an Associate Degree Nursing Program in California. She incorporates holistic nursing philosophy and concepts into the fundamental nursing course and volunteers as a local net-worker for the AHNA (American Holistic Nurses Association). Her path to connect with her authenticity led her to study various forms of western and eastern energy healing. She was led to the Buffalo Woman Ranch through Healing Touch for Animals and Linda Kohanov’s book, “Riding Between the Worlds”. Her love for horses and for the work of Equine Facilitated Integrative Healing have expanded her healing practice and she is committed to integrate this new awareness into her life work as healer, teacher, artist. Her passion is to create a sacred and supportive environment for self-care and healing.

Marisa Morin
Medical Intuitive and Animal Communicator par excellence, Marisa has over 20 years equestrian experience.  Starting with a background in biochemistry and dolphin field research, she has taken her profound psychic talents to work in cutting edge equine experiential programs, spent time with wild mustangs in herd settings, and provides equine communication for some top racing and training stables. 

Marisa has assisted in Development of our EFIH Certification program and is a co-facilitator for Module III and Advanced training.

 

Crissi McDonald

 Horsemanship Instructor/trainer

Crissi McDonald, born and raised in Arizona, felt immediately drawn to horses when she was two years old and rode a shetland pony. She began riding lessons at eleven. By the time she was twenty, she was a certified Camp Horsemanship Instructor, giving lessons and managing a Girl Scout riding program in New Mexico during the summer months. She has also worked as a trail guide and horse wrangler for a ranch in southeastern Arizona. Though she initially learned to ride Western, in the mid-1990s, she expanded her skills to include riding and showing Hunt Seat and later, Dressage, which she continues to pursue. She has also been training in aikido for the past four years.

Crissi is an accomplished clinician, having traveled with her husband Mark Rashid for three years, and has been an instructor and horse trainer for over 20 years. She currently divides her time between giving private lessons in and around Colorado, as well as occasionally traveling and teaching with Mark.　 While guided by the same principles of building trust, communication and seeking softness, Crissi offers additional perspective on the work to help people and horses fully understand the skills they wish to improve. Above all, she strives to find ways to communicate how to go beyond technique to incorporate the principles of softness and connection into a tangible experience between horse and rider.

Crissi is now offering private horsemanship and riding lessons at your home or barn, and can be reached at: heartlinehorse@gmail.com.

 

 

 

 

Our Inspiration

Its pristine beauty and untouched sacredness filled us with a knowing that at long last we had found the place to dedicate to White Buffalo Calf Woman, the great spiritual teacher of the Lakota people.

On March 8th, 2002 we met Linda Kohanov and Kathleen Barry Ingram at their ‘Epona Approach’ workshop in Tucson. This was an extremely important day meeting them, and it was the day after Spirit was born!  Linda’s horse Rasa gave birth to premature twins, one lived and was named  ‘Spirit’. It felt like a momentous time in our lives after reading The Tao of Equus , knowing that we had found our life’s work.Linda and Kathleen have been our inspiration as they showed us ‘ The Way of The Horse’. We can truly honor them and say that our lives have been changed forever. 

A significant inspiration to both of us for over 20 years was and still is Hopi grandmother Caroline Tawangyama. She loved horses and she taught us the Medicine Path. We are grateful for her teachings; her continued guidance is ever present on the Buffalo Woman ranch and in our work with ‘The Way of The Horse’

"In serving each other, we become free."  ~ Knights of the Round Table