About Gretchen

I was born loving horses and always connected to them and been in awe of their beauty and strength. My grandmother used to sit me on our paint gelding when I was a two-year-old, and my first real memory of riding was at four.

My family had horses on my grandparents' farm in Pennsylvania. I grew up learning to care for my pony, played with him in the pasture, and rode through the large fields on the farm and across the creek to the hillsides. 

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My life's dream has always been to work with horses. Early on, working with horses meant being a horse trainer, barn manager, farrier, or veterinarian.  I really enjoyed riding, and training seemed a natural route to take. 

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While working for trainers, I also saw some horses needed more help than others. I have always been interested in massage, physical therapy, and rehabilitation for people, and I saw equine massage as an opening to learn how to apply massage therapy to horses.