About myself 

 

     I have always felt that horses were majestic creatures.  How they can breathe life into us. How a single look can be chastising.  How they can carry us every day while we struggle to even be aware of our energy and balance.  There is something about a horse that makes my heart sing.  Each horse carries its own special melody that resonates within each team of rider and horse.  Some days I feel as if I’m a stuffed monkey with clanging cymbals, Other days I feel like I have just ridden the melody of Bach - Cello Suite No. 1. 

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     “Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.

Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.” ~ Carl Jung 

This is one of my favorite quotes by Carl Jung.  It describes so perfectly how I see the path to becoming a good leader, friend, and partner to my horse.  It is so common that what holds us back is our own ability to muddle the deep truths within ourselves.  The horse always sees these truths.  The horse has an uncanny ability to drag out our secret feelings, our secret hopes and most guarded insecurities.  To reveal to us what is deep within, waiting to bloom.

It is my passion to see the inside of the horse.  To see what is inside, waiting to blossom.  It is not enough to only show the horse it’s inherent abilities, but also to help the rider, in any way that I can.

To be able to help them see their own potential and help support them blooming together.

Within each person there is a deep stillness.  A deep well of who they are.  This is what I want to stir up within each student, each horse.  This is what makes a ride beautiful.  Not the ribbons on the wall.  Not the glory of the audience. It's the quiet dance, in balance, in stillness and with the approval of the horse.  As a trainer and coach, these are my goals for you and your horse.  IF it leads to someone joyously winning a gold medal or simply feeling deep happiness on a trail then I have done my job.  

 

To ride your horse into soundness each and every ride, should be the first goal of any rider.  ~ Sarah Orloff

 

Sarah’s Education and Knowledge base.

 

      As a preteen she worked off lessons at a Hunter/Jumper barn.  She remembers doing tempi changes on one of the school masters and in that moment, without realizing it, she’d fallen in love with technical riding. 

 

     As an adult, Sarah desperately missed having horses and decided to go out and get herself a horse.  This was the start of a new path.  From that point forward Sarah has been dedicating her time and efforts to this passion.  

 

     She enrolled in schooling with Bridgecreek School of Massage where she attained both her Beginners and Advanced certifications in Equine Sports Massage Therapy.  These courses included a multitude of Massage Modalities, BioMechanics, Saddle Fitting, Hoof Care, Nutrition, and Tincture making.  A couple years later she had the privilege to attend Dr Deb Bennett’s Equine Anatomy Dissection and Biomechanics Course. This introduced her to some of the old great horsemen and their philosophies of horsemanship as well as how horses actually work from the inside out. It was a fascinating point in her education.   A few years later Sarah wanted to explore energy work/pathways.  In the years of bodywork she had come to find that so much trauma was helped/healed with energy work.  So she entered into a rigorous course through Tallgrass Animal Acupressure Institute where she earned her certificates in TCM and as and Equine Acupressure Practitioner. Through all of this time Sarah started to develop a unique way of stretching horses.  She labeled this technique TSR - Therapeutic Stretch and Release.  Through this work, she has been able to rehabilitate many horses, both physically and mentally.  

 

     Sarah and her family bought a property in Stayton, OR, and decided to board horses.  As her horse boarding facility (MoSa Ranch) grew, she started taking on rehabilitation cases for clients. At this point Sarah’s farrier had been teaching her how to trim her own horses and had been strongly suggesting that she pick up hoof care as a career.  So in her unyielding need for more knowledge, she decided to apprentice with Phil Smith of Sporthorse Shoeing, who at the time was the only L4 (certified lameness specialist) from E.L.P.O.  From then on out, Sarah built a trimming business alongside her bodywork business as the two went hand in hand.

     Woven through this timeline, Sarah had been a working student for Terraka Mishler, then went on to take lessons with Carolyn Eddy.   She continued on to school with Pippa Callanan and a year-long course in Straightness Training Academy was underway as well as becoming a certified PEMF BEMER blanket distributor.  Sarah is currently schooling under the wonderful and in-depth Carol Lynn Mc Ardle. 

 

     Some of Sarah’s mentors that she studies/follows are Philip Karl, Nuno Oliveira, Buck Brannaman, Sally Swift, Nancy S Loving DVM, Monty Roberts, Science of Motion Jean Luc Cornille Maitre, Clinton Anderson, Evidence-Based Horsemanship, Rolf Janzen, and Carlos Carneiro.

 

     Sarah is currently growing her training business and her own knowledge base for the betterment and improvement of anyone who desires a more sound and balanced horse. Sarah is also an avid trail rider and believes that all horses should enjoy and benefit from cross training.  She has worked with a wide range of riders, from endurance riders, upper-level dressage riders, pleasure riders, cutters, and hunter/jumpers. While her passion is Classical Dressage, her methods cross all disciplines and are foundational education for any and all riders/horses.