Joseph Freeman

Joseph is a creative, gifted practitioner who applied his work with humans to horses and in doing so, came up with a sequence of sessions that can provide a profound return to balance and flexibility for horses. Joseph is a certified Hellerwork Structural Integration™ practitioner who worked in a clinical setting with people for many years. As a favor to friends, he worked on their animals. Over time, the remarkable results he got convinced him that his true calling is horses.

He created the Equine Natural Movement Series in 1995, began mentoring students in 1999 and training practitioners at his school in southwest Washington in 2001. He has taught the Equine Natural Movement Series at professional schools across the country.

Joseph has skilled hands, a calm and patient manner and a deep love of animals. His work is well thought out and thorough. Most importantly, horses enjoy working with him.

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Allan Mutschler

Allan is a graduate of the Guild for Structural Integration and has been studying and practicing alternative therapies since the early 1980s. Allan apprenticed for seven years in manual medicine and then realized he most loved working with horses and put all his attention to that. He is also knowledgeable in Touch for Health, reflexology, iridology, herbology, applied kinesiology, deep connective tissue release and massage.

Working independently, Allan created an Equine Structural Integration series of his own that was so remarkably similar to the Equine Natural Movement Series that we asked him to be on faculty and share his knowledge with our students. Joseph said meeting and working with Allan was like finding a long lost brother.

Subtlety and patience are qualities Allan embodies. He's incredibly skilled yet always modest. His tremendous love for horses is obvious. Everything he does with them comes from his heart.

Mary Ann Simonds, M.A.

Mary Ann is a behavioral ecologist and holistic health educator who has been charming horses for over 35 years. She has degrees in wildlife biology, range management and interdisciplinary consciousness studies that emphasize human-animal interactions and healing. She spent many years studying how wild horses live in balance with other horses and their environment.

Her research on wild horses demonstrated that horse social structure is based on friendship and respect rather than competition and dominance. Horses don't need humans to survive, rather they choose to be our friends and workmates. Many equine physical and emotional problems could be eliminated if people better understand the horse's needs which is the foundation for keeping horses healthy. Mary Ann is an exciting intelligent instructor with tremendous grasp of the horse's psyche. She is committed to helping people develop mutual understanding, respect and enjoyment so their journey with horses is thoroughly rewarding for all.

Molly Gordon

Molly is a certified business coach who is passionately dedicated to helping our students build thriving practices that are a heartfelt expression of their knowledge and love of horses. Molly has the kind of insight that enables her to ask powerful, provoking questions that help students find the clarity they need to create miraculous results. Students learn to do business in a way that feeds their souls while creating purposeful prosperity, and marketing their work with authenticity and flair.

Molly's unique style is informed by two decades as a business owner and artist and a lifetime commitment to service and creativity. A graduate of the Academy of Coach Training and the Newfield Graduate Coach Training Program, she spends a significant part of every year studying and getting better.

She is an internationally recognized Master Certified Coach, writer and workshop leader. She is creator of the AUTHENTIC PROMOTION program that reconciles conflicts between doing good business and good work. She knows how to leverage purpose, creativity and innovation for long term success.

Stuart Bell

Stuart is fascinated by human and equine bodies and perpetually adds to his skills. He is also on faculty for Hellerwork Structural Integration where he teaches anatomy, bodywork and movement. He is certified in Alexander Technique, the Feldenkrais Method, Laban-Bartenieff Movement Analysis and has a M.A. in biochemistry. He studied equine and human anatomy with Jon Zahourec and has hand built with clay the human and equine bodies.

Stuart has developed unique and intriguing ways for students to learn and understand anatomy. He works with both horses and riders and delights in helping them both feel and move better.

Faith Bushby

Faith began her bodywork career working with people. In 1995 she expanded it to include horses. She trained in Large Animal Massage at the Northwest School of Animal Massage, is a Licensed Massage Practitioner in Washington state, and owned a spa. Faith taught at the Brian Utting School of Massage in Seattle before working with us. She graduated from the Equine Natural Movement program in 2005 and immediately began assisting. Faith maintains a bi-coastal private practice in both Washington and Massachusetts.

Faith has a strong knowledge of the equine and human bodies. Always eager to know more, she builds on her skills with courses in deep tissue bodywork, injury treatment, Integrated Awareness and Cranio-Sacral Work. She has a deep and clear understanding of anatomy and how it integrates with the emotional, mental and other physical components that make us all living and breathing beings.

Jacqueline Freeman

Jacqueline is the Training Director for the school so her fingers are in each part of the program. She is a former faculty trainer for Hellerwork Structural Integration and many years ago owned a holistic health center on Martha's Vineyard, MA. She works on curriculum development, critiques student papers, guides the independent study portion of each class, and orchestrates the continuing development of each student all the way to graduation and into their practices.

With great insight she sees the strengths of each student and works to bring out the best in them so they feel the joy of fulfilling their highest potential with this work. She is effervescently optimistic, thoroughly practical and deeply committed to honesty, ethics and passion.