The Guides
Winnie
Winnie is the golden light of Fertile Sol Ranch.
When she came to me, she carried pain — her hooves were vulnerable, her body compensating. During my own pregnancy (on the heels of two pregnancies losses), we walked through her rehabilitation together, season by season, step by step. Healing and growing together, one hoofbeat at a time.
Through the years, Winnie revealed her medicine: quiet strength, steadfast boundaries, motherly presence. She embodies resilience without force, showing us how to hold hardship and healing in the same breath.
Winnie’s way allows for things to be as they are. She has taught us how to trust the slow rhythm of healing and becoming and she reminds us that great things are possible with love and patience.
Sol
Sol, true to his name, is warm, bright, curious.
He arrived on the heels of a clear intention — the very day after I confessed that it might take years to find the right companion for Winnie and this work. He appeared like a gift, embodying exactly what I had been hoping for: gentle, loyal, playful, family-hearted.
He is — curious, ready to connect, steady yet lighthearted and sovereign in his mind. He reminds us that joy and tenderness are as vital to healing as strength and endurance.
“The fertile ground of life is found in connection”
The Land
This land is made of red rock and clay, sage and juniper, and the wild presence of fox, deer, rabbit, and mountain lion. She is both fierce and loving — a teacher who welcomes wakefulness.
When I first came here, the idea of “owning” land felt out of alignment. Quickly I learned: there is no ownership, only stewardship. The land welcomed us as collaborators, protectors, and students.
She is a generous teacher.
Like the horses, this land invites us into rhythm — into cycles of birth, death, and renewal. Her medicine is density and grounding— an anchoring that allows for softness, reminding us that what feeds the earth feeds us, too.
Sarah’s Intention & Experience
As the keeper of Fertile Sol Ranch, I seek to steward people back to their innate wisdom, the kind of knowing the earth embodies, the kind of knowing horses effortlessly reflect.
Like the earth, we are ever-changing. We cycle through rhythms, seasons, phases — the ever constant growing pains of being human.
Whether inside the womb or the world, we are always ripening, developing, becoming, releasing and composting the old to make way for new life.
Horses have taught me how to engage in this remembering— how to put seemingly lost parts back together so an experience of wholeness without perfection can be felt and lived.
With four hooves firmly planted on the earth, horses live from a place of embodied connection to the natural world. Together, earth and horse embrace rhythm, cycles, change and transition—without story.
They have so much to teach us.
My own journeys of healing through pain, loss and uncertainty has been anchored by Winnie, my “heart horse” and Finn, my “heart-dog” (who now lives in spirit). Finn taught me how to trust my intuition, communicate beyond words and live from a four-legged heart-space, Winnie gave me the courage to translate this way of living and being into my life’s work.
My formal training supports this work but does not define it.
I am a Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapist (C-IAYT), a registered yoga teacher (RYT) with advanced trainings and a certified birth and postpartum doula (DONA). I have studied Western Herbalism, Thai Yoga Massage, Animal Acupressure, Holographic Sound Healing, Reiki, Animal Frequency Balancing and Equine Bodywork.
Aibado, as expressed by Mark Rashid, Crissi McDonald, and Gray Graves, continues to shape not only how I relate to horses, but also how I seek to move through life—with both softness and structure and always “for the love of the horse.”
My greatest teachers remain my husband, our two beautiful daughters, the animals I serve and the earth who has entrusted us with her stewardship.
It is my life’s practice to support the ongoing journey of bravely meeting unraveling as a prerequisite to birthing, becoming, rising, and claiming deep knowing.
This is how we gain the courage to release and relate again, and how we teach our children not to fear their human experience, but to claim it.