FACULTY

			Sara working on Volante
			
Sara Stenson, CMT, EMT

            
Sara Stenson holds a Certificate of Massage Therapy . Sara grew up riding fence and
            herding cattle on an 8,000-acre cattle ranch in eastern Wyoming. She spent
            countless hours playing horse tag, riding double through streams and ponds
            and sneaking a ride on "Big Red" whenever opportunity presented
            itself. She now studies dressage and horsemanship with her two horses,
            Volante and Navalito.

            
Sara became an apprentice of Barefoot Shiatsu and studied with 
			Shizuko Yamamoto  in the 70s. She has practiced and taught this ancient healing
            art in Colorado, Wyoming and Washington since that time. In the mid 90s
            when she was asked for the umpteenth time if she would work on horses she
            decided to include them in her practice.

            Sara haltering Sage
            
Sara's equine massage practice is a unique combination of Shiatsu, Neuromuscular,
			Myofascial and Cranialsacral massage
            combined with T'ai Chi principles of natural movement. She believes that change
            should never be forced upon a body; rather the body must be allowed to
            find it's natural alignment and rhythm through relaxation. Sara teaches
            her students how to study those natural principles within their own body/mind
            so that they can then influence their clients to do the same.

            
Sara is a co-founder of Rocky Mountain T'ai Chi Ch'uan at Fort
              Collins. She has been a student, practitioner, and teacher of the
              Yang Style Short Form since that the late 70s. Sara taught T'ai
              Chi at the Dali Lama's 1997 Conference on Education. She created
              T'ai Chi for HSara comforting Navalitoorsemen clinics and released a video entitled "T'ai
              Chi An Ancient Art for Horsemen".
            Working with the rider and the horse she helps facilitate freedom
              of movement and a quiet listening communication for the partnership.
		    
        

        
    
  

  
 
     
     
     
    
      
 

      
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