My Approach
I am Shannon — certified Equine-Facilitated Coach, Wilderness Walk® Shadow Coach, and Holy Fire® Reiki Practitioner — and founder of Leading REIN.
Everything I offer is rooted in one question:
Are you leading your life — or is your life leading you?
My work is experiential, embodied, and grounded in the honest wisdom of horses — who mirror emotional states, relational patterns, and internal truths without judgment or agenda. In their presence, old coping strategies soften, awareness deepens, and insight arises from a place that lives beyond words.
My work is for anyone who has ever felt the quiet pull of something more — a knowing that there is a version of themselves beneath the roles, the achievements, and the expectations that has not yet been fully lived.
Our work together is slow, intentional, and paced with deep respect for your nervous system and your capacity.
I believe lasting change happens when you feel safe enough to be honest with yourself. My role is not to fix you or lead you — but to walk alongside you as you reconnect with your body, your boundaries, and your innate wisdom.
All of my coaching is grounded in the Leading REIN framework — Reclaim, Embody, Illuminate, Nurture — a four step journey back to yourself.
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Coaching modalities I practice
Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL)
Equine Facilitated Learning is an experiential, body-based approach to growth and awareness. Each session is guided by your intention, and the experiences that unfold are shaped in real time in response to what is present for you.
All work takes place on the ground, in a safe and contained round pen. My herd intuitively selects which horse or horses wish to engage with you during the session. Horses are deeply perceptive beings — they mirror us from the inside out, reflecting emotional states, relational patterns, and internal truths without judgment.
Through this process, horses invite us back into our bodies, reconnect us with our intuition, and create space to feel emotions that may have been suppressed or ignored. Their presence offers honest feedback and profound support, allowing insight and healing to arise naturally.
Wilderness Walk® Shadow Coaching
Wilderness Walk® Shadow Coaching invites you into a deeper exploration of the parts of yourself that have been hidden, suppressed, or misunderstood. Often referred to as our “darkness,” these aspects frequently hold untapped strength, creativity, and wisdom — parts of our light that have not yet been allowed to emerge.
Sessions take place in nature and are guided intuitively, allowing the work to unfold according to what is alive in the moment. Shadow work may include somatic practices, Internal Family Systems–informed exploration, psychodrama, and/or shamanic modalities. Each journey is unique, responsive, and paced with care for your nervous system and emotional safety.
This work offers an opportunity to meet yourself with honesty and compassion, bringing integration where fragmentation once lived.
Holy Fire® Reiki with Horses
Intuitive Energy Healing in Nature
When called upon, Holy Fire® Reiki may be incorporated to support energetic alignment and healing. Reiki energy works gently to clear blocks, balance the chakras, and facilitate restoration through the subtle, unspoken sharing of energy.
Experience a deeply transformative energy healing session held in the peaceful presence of horses and nature.
This offering blends Reiki energy healing with intuitive, shamanic practices including sage clearing, sound healing (singing bowls), and traditional rattling and drumming. Each session is guided by intuition and the energetic needs of the moment.
Sessions take place outdoors in a quiet pasture beneath the trees, where my herd of five horses is often present. Their participation is never forced—horses are highly sensitive and intuitive beings, and they naturally engage when they feel called to support the healing process. Their presence alone can create a powerful, grounded, and heart-opening environment.