Charlie McGuire, MA, RN, HNP  Epona Advanced Instructor, Counselor, Certified Holistic Nurse Practitioner, founder American Holistic Nurses Assoc., Co-founder Southwest Institute for Women, Co-founder Buffalo Woman Ranch, formerly Corporate Vice President. Charlie has walked a path as Medicine Woman and Pipe Carrier for over 20 years.  She has studied with Native American, Celtic and Eastern medicine teachers. Her gift is facilitating empowering experiences to enhance physical, emotional and spiritual growth in walking one’s life journey. Her lifework has been 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 has been one of her greatest blessings. Charlie has been initiated into “Horse Medicine” by Rasa’s foal ‘Spirit of Epona’ and ‘Shoshoni’, a wild mustang. She believes deeply in this path of love and service.

E-mail: cmac@fone.net

 

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 expressive arts in her lifework. She honors “The Way of The Horse” as a grounded and heart centered path to assisting others in their growth, and it is her life’s joy to share this medicine path along with co-founder and life-partner Charlie and the Buffalo Woman Ranch herd.

 

BWR Horse Trainer:

We are pleased and excited to announce the ongoing development of a horse training program for our horses as well as others and their horses, with our longtime friend and trainer Crissi McDonald. She is currently an apprentice with Mark Rashid and a sensitive, grounded horse person.

Crissi McDonald was born and raised in Flagstaff, AZ. She first fell in love with horses when she was two, and started riding lessons when she was eleven. By the time she was twenty she was a certified Camp Horsemanship Instructor and giving lessons and managing a girl scout's riding program in New Mexico during the summers. Later, she rode as a trail guide for a dude ranch in southeastern Arizona and helped out at different ranches doing cattle work. Though she was initially taught how to ride western, she started riding Hunt Seat and later Dressage, which she continues to pursue.

After years of having studied various horse training methods, in 2001 she became interested in seeing more deeply into the relationship between horses and people. Her search led her to Colorado horseman and clinician, Mark Rashid.  

She recently began training in Aikido, in which she currently holds the rank of fifth kyu. She has her own horse training business, Heartline Horse Training, L.L.C. and has been giving lessons and training for over 15 years, with emphasis on communication and connection between horse and rider.