Creating New Horizons in Life and Work

Visionary healer, speaker, writer, artist, land steward

Ariana is authentic, original and wild by nature. She is a visionary leader, successful entrepreneur, master somatic coach, zoologist, mother, artist, author, and international teacher of Embodied Leadership and founder of Equine Guided Coaching. She is a free spirit, rooted in the ancient wisdom of plants, animals and the natural world. With innovative vision, she weaves the biology of leadership, lessons from nature, and somatic intelligence into a unique process to achieve healthy success.

Ariana has worked with over seven thousand clients to claim their wildness, stand tall without apology and embrace their unique ‘way of being’. Her passion is to encourage people to heal themselves and the earth, in a beautiful reciprocal way, for our children, our grandchildren and our Mother Earth Family.

Ariana started her coaching career pioneering Leadership & Horses™ in 1989 and is a major influencer in the horse as healer/teacher profession, with her Equine Guided Education and Coaching model that can be found worldwide. She has hosted over a dozen international leadership conferences in Leadership & Mastery and Equine Guided Education and is the award winning author of four books and numerous published articles.

Her teachings have been incorporated into numerous leadership institutes and equine therapy programs around the world including Institute for Women’s Leadership, Institute for Generative Leadership, Institute of Noetic Sciences, and Meridian University.

One of Ariana’s early accomplishments is co-founding Strozzi Institute and the Strozzi Somatics. There, she trained leaders, coaches and healers in the art of mind, body, and spirit balance. After many years, Ariana branched off into her own Holistic Somatics™ driven by her desire and commitment to tap deeper into the ‘spirit’ component of the mind/body/spirit trio. 

Ariana grew up in two different worlds; the world of nature and the world of people. Her entrepreneurial instinct was sparked at a leadership conference when she saw the gap between the words people spoke and their non-verbal body language. She knew at that moment her destiny was to build a bridge between the natural world and the human world so each could heal the other. This epiphany led her to develop her unique approach that incorporates instinct, intuition and sense-ability into embodied leadership for a healthy planet.

Ariana loves to think outside the box, challenge outdated paradigms, and create new strategies to achieve amazing results. In addition to her leadership and dignity programs, she offers wellness coaching which incorporates her passion for living a healthy lifestyle in balance with Mother Earth. When not working with leaders and horses, she loves cooking, gardening, growing, and making herbal medicines, and spending time in nature.

Founder of Intuitive Horsemanship™

True unity with horses is achieved through trust, respect, and understanding. As the founder of Intuitive Horsemanship™, Ariana knows from experience that creating unity and harmony with horses begins with you. 

Ariana is not just a horse trainer, she is a zoologist, award winning author, and pioneer of Equine Guided Education and Coaching. As a true trailblazer, she has forged new paradigms for the horse human bond since 1989. She has mentored over 7000 people in transforming their lives, personally and professionally, through the sacred wisdom of horses. 

Founder of Equine Guided Education & Coaching

Get ready for a coaching experience like no other. To succeed in today's crazy world, requires a whole new level of flexible thinking, negotiable perspectives, attention to our somatic awareness, and other non-linear strategies for expanding our consciousness and finding new pathways for success.

Ariana has been developing leaders, coaches and teams for over three decades. Her ground breaking work in Leadership & Horses™ in the late 1980s evolved into an internationally known method in the equine therapy/coaching fields, now known as Equine Guided Coaching. Her founding work in Equine Guided Coaching can be found around the world through a variety of healing, inspiring and transformative programs and numerous leadership institutes.

A realtor for land healers/stewards

Ariana has always been passionate about land and nature as a source of inspiration and healing. She now brings her native wisdom and field experience to help people who want to become land stewards, protectors of plants and animals, and sanctuary providers.

Ariana is available by consultation through her coaching offers  to imagine, design, find and create sacred spaces for all of our relations. And as a licensed realtor with COMPASS ( DRE # 02033132), she has an extensive network through the US and can find her clients and friends a COMPASS realtor in their area/state who can support this kind of inspired real estate transaction. Get the best of both, Ariana's grounded experience and a successful realtor near you.

“Taking a stand for who you are, without apology, is what changes the world. As a breast cancer survivor and innovator in the field of Somatic Coaching for over 30 year, I know this first hand. I help my clients claim their wildness without apology and embody the stand they want to make in the world. By reconnecting my clients to their spirit’s call, they become the change makers we need to save the planet.”