ABOUT
Meet the herd
Hello there
I'm Francine
Ever since early childhood I have been passionate about horses. Just seeing a horse would bring such an awe-inspiring feeling over me. Their grace, their sense of freedom and the soft gentle expression coming from their eyes.
The first horse of our herd, Dreams Come True, came into my life in 2001 and she showed me how to just be...me.., how to trust my feelings and intuition and how to connect with horses through quietness.
This brought me on my path to study horse behaviour, natural horsemanship, liberty horsemanship, affirmative training and horse assisted coaching.
I feel very grateful for all that the horses have taught me over the past decades and I'm even more thankful for their ever forgiving nature and patience for me to take so long to see what they were trying to teach me.
My work is inspired by my Veterinarian Naturopath education; certified Coaching With Horses; certified Systemic Horse Assisted Coaching; and currently my Horse Human Trauma Recovery study at Equusoma.
THE HERD
Our beautiful herd currently consists of 5 horses and Jakob the donkey.
There is the family band of Gemma, her daughter Peaches and son Zorro, who lived with my first horse Dreams.
Then in 2019 Jakob the donkey joined and later that same year the herd was extended by
a beautiful rescue mare named Lua and the birth of her filly Jiya.
My first horse, Dreams Come True sadly passed away in 2021 at age 22 shifting the herd dynamics yet again.
The herd lives in a natural setting of 60 ha within the Natural Park of South Western Portugal near the Atlantic Ocean.
"Francine took the time to really find out why I wanted to connect with the horses.
She created a calm and open atmosphere, where I could talk about my previous experiences with horses.
She explained a lot about horses body language and how they use their senses,
and we did a wonderful meditation.
It was really the step by step connecting to horses that I loved;
it gave me and the horses the chance to be calm and relaxed."
-- Irene Janssen
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