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About Alyssa Aubrey

Executive Director: Alyssa Aubrey, CEGE, is a certified equine-guided educator and co-founder of the Equine Guided Education Association. She is the Founder and Program Director of Medicine Horse Ranch, a center for Equine Guided Education located in Tomales, California.

Prior to establishing Medicine Horse Ranch, she worked as a court-appointed advocate for teens receiving social services. Aubrey is an expert horsewoman known nationally and internationally for her expertise in the partnering of horses for transformational human learning.

Alyssa created Horse Sense as a meaningful way to encourage positive change for humans. Her offer incorporates both EGE and personal development classes at Medicine Horse Ranch, where she lives. Her horse partners are important teachers and guides into a process leading people to greater self-awareness and personal growth.

She serves as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Novato Horsemen Inc, and is the NHI co-chairperson for Halleck Creek therapeutic riding program.

Alyssa’s clientele includes; Lotus Management Company, The Buckelew Foundation, The Novato Youth Center (pregnancy prevention program), NYC Girls Circle, The Braun School, Home Away from Homelessness, Alta Mira Recovery Center, Girl Scouts of America and the Circle of Sisters (after school violence prevention program)

She received her post graduate training from Writtle College (U.K.) in Horse Behavior and Psychology, Barn and Stable Management, Equine Feeding and Nutrition and Equitation.

Alyssa is a Certified Equine Guided Educator through Sky Horse Ranch in Valley Ford, CA. She also completed Level 1 EGALA (Equine Assisted Growth and Learning) training for mental health treatment and human development.

 

On a personal note...

The Pink Lady

My father drove to me to Friendly’s ice cream shop for a big dish of peanut butter chocolate delight. My dad was a quiet man, not prone to giving his children advice. I was shy and rather introverted at 15, much preferring the company of animals to humans.

My dad interrupted the usual small talk over ice cream that evening and said, “Honey girl, if you don’t start making a little more effort with people you’re going to end up just like the Pink Lady.”

The words landed on my body with a loud thud. The Pink Lady was the town eccentric. She lived on the outskirts of the city and shared her dilapidated home with a large assortment of dogs, cats, horses, goats’ birds and a pot-bellied pig named Myrtle. Folks called her the Pink Lady because the flaming red hair on top of her head looked just this side of fuchsia in direct sunlight. Kids teased her mercilessly as she shopped for her groceries in town. They drove by her house and threw trash in her yard. Read More...

Written by Alyssa Aubrey,
edited by Beth Woodward
From the ‘Storybook CD
for Equine Professionals’

 
 
 
   

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