About Lesley

In 2007 I had to have Basil, my beautiful, wonderful, life-long dream of a horse put to sleep. This was two days after returning from my honeymoon. During the same period my working life was under significant change and and combined with having just got married, I was grappling with a full spectrum of thoughts, feelings and experiences, many of which I’d had no previous visibility of. It was a deeply overwhelming time and I spent many months thoroughly lost, confused and unsure how to deal with it. It triggered within me a need to reconsider what was important, how I wanted to live and what I wanted to be doing.  Having had a horse for many years, I had always had a longing to work outside and be more connected with living on a day to day basis rather than feeling stuck in an office but could not see how I could make it all work. 

Horses had been the framework to my life for a very long time and without Basil nothing made sense any more. I had envisaged him being part of my life for much longer – at least another ten years and I could not see a future for me in what I was doing work wise at the time. Having started learning the Tellington-TTouch to help with rehabilitation for Basil following a sacroilliac injury that had caused me to retire him from being ridden, I decided to continue with the training as practitioner with the intention of setting up my business. I left my job in 2009 to start on my new venture.  In hindsight it was one mighty leap however, after much change, learning, healing and self-development I can see that it was all necessary and part of my inner yearning to live my life truly in accordance with my heart.

It has been a tough journey to be brave and step away from what I thought people were expecting of me and what I should be, do or have particularly in their presence.  But my inner self was screaming at me.  I had spent so long ignoring it that I just didn’t understand the signals. As a consequence, I have certainly at times questioned the ‘truth’ of what I am hearing deep inside. However, I have also learned to listen to my inner self more and have gained a sense of confidence and peace that helps me to re-align when I need. I worry much less over whether I’m liked or not and have listened to those inner fears and taken some steps to learn about myself in the areas that trouble me. I also trust that because I work with the best of intentions,  I am able to listen to others more easily and ask better questions to gain understanding so hopefully help the relationship and make the communication process better for all of us.

I took my approach to competing in particular very seriously, perhaps too much in relation to the level I was competing at, however, it was the process that I loved. I immersed myself for years in lessons, BHS trainings, Riding Club and entry level affiliated dressage events so my offerings come with that background. However growth, learning and life have opened me up to more forward thinking, resourceful ways of being around horses. The Tellington TTouch provides a fabulous framework to handling and training and really is something I wish I’d had access to when I was much younger. However, as a practitioner now, I combine that with the coaching modality of Clean Language in order to support you and your learning as well as Equine Assisted Learning, which helps knit the whole thing together for you and your horse.

All of this results in a service that is aimed at supporting you and your horse through change, whether that is intentional or unexpected. It may be that you need to learn more skills, move yard or dig a little deeper into your horse’s health and wellbeing. You may just want to feel like you understand each other better. My programmes and sessions are designed to help reveal a few more pieces of the jigsaw.