Wind Horse Sanctuary

Wind Horse Sanctuary The horses are powerful guides to help bring you to the present moment, release stress and find one’s center. Workshops and private sessions offered.

Tara Coyote
Best-selling author of 5 books

Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver's Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses 🐴

Comanche the Wild Mustang & ocean conservation 📕

Equine Facilitated Learning/Coaching 🐴 Connect with the healing power of the horses to help balance your spiritual, mental and physical body through Equine Facilitated Learning (EFL) and

coaching in a gorgeous sanctuary. Specializing in grief, loss & difficult life transitions

Tara weaves together 25 years together of somatic experience with her love of horses. She was a horse-obsessed young girl being fortunate enough to spend summers with her cousins in New Hampshire who owned horses. Although she begged and pleaded with her parent she never got one of her own. Decades later while undergoing a particularly difficult life transition, she read 'The Tao of Equus' by Linda Kohanov which inspired her and helped her to remember her profound connection with horses. It is due to the healing experience she experienced with them which dramatically transformed and in a sense 'saved' her life. In the period of two years Tara went from living in the suburbs, being married with a successful Pilates studio and then decided to give it all up to follow her heart’s calling of helping people heal with horses. It was through this extreme leap of faith although pivotally challenging and terrifying that brought her back to life again. Now you can find her on the beautiful 10 acres of land which is Wind Horse Sanctuary with her three gorgeous horses feeling blessed to be practicing the work of Linda Kohanov. Tara is a Eponaquest™ equine facilitated learning and Power of the Herd ™ instructor developed through Linda Kohanov. Linda has created a innovative human-equine approach for developing emotional intelligence, leadership and relationship skills. Please visit the Eponaquest website for more information or check out Linda's books, 'The Tao of Equus', 'Riding Between the Worlds', 'The Way of the Horse' and 'The Power of the Herd'. Tara was the previous owner of Studio Equilibria, a Pilates, Gyrotonic and Yamuna Body Rolling studio in San Anselmo, CA from 2005-2013. Tara specializes in the human/horse bond for healing grief, loss, difficult life transitions and facilitating help for care-takers through offering grief rituals and private sessions. Horses have a powerful manner to guide us down the pathway of self-attunement and awareness. While in challenging situations, horses can help us find the true inner wisdom needed to bring balance into our lives. She has also trained in extensive shadow work, leading women's groups through embracing and learning to love their shadow.

Gratitude & Grief - new video & book feature 🌺 PLUS, BEST NEWS EVER! 🎉 - https://mailchi.mp/windhorsesanctuary/gratitude...
08/27/2025

Gratitude & Grief - new video & book feature 🌺 PLUS, BEST NEWS EVER! 🎉 - https://mailchi.mp/windhorsesanctuary/gratitudegrief Celebrating the life of my best friend for her 10 year death anniversary. 🎥 New mermaid book inspiration 🧜🏽‍♀️

🐴 Horse girl time. This is a very raw and real photo of what I look like in my everyday life tending the earth ‘aina, do...
08/16/2025

🐴 Horse girl time. This is a very raw and real photo of what I look like in my everyday life tending the earth ‘aina, doing ranch chores, being with the horses & caring for them, as they care for me. Truth be told, I’m usually covered with the ever present red dirt of Kaua’i, Hawaii with these lovely earthly chores!

If you follow me, you’ll see that I love my fantasy life, as is evident by the artistic videos & photo shoots on this page 💃 & my 🧜‍♀️ content on my Tara Coyote - The Kaua'i Mermaid page, but this is honestly how I look most of the time & my happy place, besides the ocean, of course. 🌊

The horses are constantly grounding me, by the simple care of being with them and for this, I am eternally grateful. I don’t talk about them much, but they are the silent & solid backdrop to my world. With the reality of feeding them 3x a day, scooping p**p & being present for them, it is impossible to not have my life be all about them! This makes me incredibly happy! 🐎

If you don’t know I teach Equine Facilitated Learning sessions here at Wind Horse Sanctuary This is the profound work of Linda Kohanov who wrote the ground breaking book ‘The Tao of Equus’ and created Eponaquest. I adore this work and the powerful realizations & deep healing it creates for individuals. It’s great, heart fulfilling work. ♥️

Blue, my beloved paint horse here, is recovering from a second bout with squamous cell carcinoma on his left eyelid. If you’ve read my book ‘Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver’s Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses’ you’ve heard about his first diagnosis with the eye cancer. He’s done really well with it actually, after first being diagnosed in 2020! I treat it with herbs and a whole nutritional routine and even made a video about it years ago. He’s recovering well from this second round. We both are cancer thrivers! 🙌🏽

I thought I would post a real photo from my everyday life, amidst the artistic ones to say hello.

Hi! How are you doing my friends? What is keeping your feet on the earth & bringing you joy these days in this wild and wacky world? I would sincerely love to know! 🌺

This is a fun story! A horse colleague who lives in Spain and whom I have not been in touch with for years watched this ...
07/26/2025

This is a fun story! A horse colleague who lives in Spain and whom I have not been in touch with for years watched this groundbreaking film, Rescued Hearts Film (which I’m incredibly honored to be in and is streaming this weekend!) and reached out to me. She sent me this photo of me with Blue from the film, which was a kick to see!

I love how the horse community is connected around the globe. This is a vibrant community of people who are tuned into the healing power of horses and the real magic that they bring. 🐴

This film is already changing lives—and till Sunday, July 27, you can experience the first hour of it for yourself!

I’m honored to be featured in Rescued Hearts, a powerful new documentary exploring the healing connection between humans and horses. 🐴

This was such an amazing opportunity to be present with the filmmakers & my beloved horses as I share my story of deep grief & overcoming great odds with stage 4 cancer with the help of my horses here in Kaua’i, Hawaii. 🐎

Part 1 (the first hour) is now available to watch online until July 27.

🎟️ Get your ticket: RescuedHeartsFilm.com

👉🏽 Link in comments 👈🏽

This is a rare opportunity to experience the first hour while the full film continues to screen exclusively at in-person events and film festivals. The full virtual release likely won’t happen until sometime in 2026, after the festival run is complete—so don’t miss this special limited-time offering.

It’s truly a special film that captures the magic & wonder of WHY HORSES are so HEALING to be around with horse experts & inspiring stories from around the globe!

👉 Watch here: RescuedHeartsFilm.com
💛 For private, at-home viewing only
🚫 Not licensed for group or public screenings

This film is already changing lives—and for 4 days only, you can experience the first hour of it for yourself! Can you f...
07/24/2025

This film is already changing lives—and for 4 days only, you can experience the first hour of it for yourself!

Can you find the rooster in this photo? 🐔 😂

I’m honored to be featured in Rescued Hearts Film, a powerful new documentary exploring the healing connection between humans and horses. 🐴

This was such an amazing opportunity to be present with the filmmakers & my beloved horses as I share my story of deep grief & overcoming great odds with stage 4 cancer with the help of my horses here in Kaua’i, Hawaii at Wind Horse Sanctuary 🐎

Part 1 (the first hour) is now available to watch online for just 4 days, from today, July 24 until July 27.

🎟️ Get your ticket: RescuedHeartsFilm.com

👉🏽 Direct link in comments 👈🏽

This is a rare opportunity to experience the first hour while the full film continues to screen exclusively at in-person events and film festivals. The full virtual release likely won’t happen until sometime in 2026, after the festival run is complete—so don’t miss this special limited-time offering.

It’s truly a special film that captures the magic & wonder of WHY HORSES are so HEALING to be around with horse experts & inspiring stories from around the globe!

👉 Watch here: RescuedHeartsFilm.com
💛 For private, at-home viewing only
🚫 Not licensed for group or public screenings

As usual when I go through my monthly shots (which are challenging, to be honest), I make the best of it by getting s**t...
07/24/2025

As usual when I go through my monthly shots (which are challenging, to be honest), I make the best of it by getting s**t done, while I'm lying on my bo**ie, sweating out the hormone blocking medicine on my sofa. I thought I would share that I just published a newsletter sharing about my special feature in Kauai Magazine and my latest podcast interview with my gorgeous stage 4 thriver friend Willow Star. I also wrote a new blog post on my website. If you want to check it out, look for the link in the comments.... LIVE LIFE FULLY FRIENDS! ♥️

Kaua'i Magazine 🧜🏽‍♀️ feature & new podcast release!- https://mailchi.mp/windhorsesanctuary/kauaimagazine 🎉 I've been fe...
07/23/2025

Kaua'i Magazine 🧜🏽‍♀️ feature & new podcast release!- https://mailchi.mp/windhorsesanctuary/kauaimagazine 🎉 I've been featured in Kaua'i Magazine for my mermaid/ocean conservation work! Inspiring new podcast interview with cancer thriver Willow Star!

This is my beloved Blue, paint and medicine horse extraordinaire who has had a journey with squamous cell carcinoma in h...
06/29/2025

This is my beloved Blue, paint and medicine horse extraordinaire who has had a journey with squamous cell carcinoma in his left eye for 5.5 years now. 👁️

If you read my book ‘Grace, Grit & Gratitude: A Cancer Thriver’s Journey from Hospice to Full Recovery with the Healing Power of Horses’ at the very end of the book, set in 2020 he was diagnosed with this malady that easily effects white horses with blue eyes that live in a sunny tropical environment like Hawaii. (This is not something I knew when I got this beloved being 10 years ago & when I brought him to Kaua’i) 🐴

I was pretty devastated when I found out about it, as cancer has affected many people & animals in my life, including myself, but I took the same approach I have taken with my own healing & treated him in a integrative manner. 🪷

Back when he was diagnosed, he received some treatments from a vet on island till the medicine couldn’t be found due to all the medicine shortages that went along with the pandemic.

I also reached out to McDowells Herbal and received GREAT ADVICE about how to treat him nutritionally & with their herbal medicine. I made a video about this which I have on my YouTube channel. (Link in comments)

After a few years, his tumors DISAPPEARED ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 It was a miracle & the vet was completely shocked as I was just treating him nutritionally & with herbs.

A few months ago, the eye tumor came back. This time I was not devastated & knew this was the tendency of cancer & a blue eyes horse living on the islands.

I’ll admit that maybe I was getting a little bit relaxed with his nutritional and herbal treatments. I’ve been still giving them to him, but it does require extra time and work and I haven’t been as diligent as I was before.

The other day the vet came and gave him a treatment to help freeze the tumor. He will be getting two more treatments of this, then chemo cream applied topically to it.

I’m not worried about it. This is just a part of our lives, kind of like I get hormone blocking cancer treatments once a month. I’ve learned to live with cancer and not fight it. Why fight something that our bodies have created for our own spiritual growth?

I thought I would share the most recent update about my beloved Blue! ♥️🐴♥️

I started a special project recently that has been helping others create a healthier lifestyle, lose weight and feel gre...
06/28/2025

I started a special project recently that has been helping others create a healthier lifestyle, lose weight and feel great. It’s been tremendously rewarding to see people do so well with it and improve mentally and physically. This new venture has also been surprisingly lucrative for me. It's been a fun adventure in the last many months sharing it with others and thought I would extend this unique opportunity to a larger audience to see if others would like to learn about it too!
�I am having an informative group Zoom call about it on Tuesday, July 1 at 9 am HI time, 12 pm pst and 3 pm est, if you would like to join and hear more about it or would like to listen to the recording afterwards.
�Please respond to this post in thr comments or shoot me a PM if you would like more info about this rewarding opportunity!

New podcast episode out! 🎉  If you are on a healing journey you will want to hear this!  Why Love Heals: A Candid Conver...
06/28/2025

New podcast episode out! 🎉 If you are on a healing journey you will want to hear this!

Why Love Heals: A Candid Conversation with Dr. Dean Shrock on Mind-Body Medicine, Cancer Recovery, and the Power of Connection

In this heartfelt and spontaneous episode of Mermaid Musings, Tara Coyote shares an unexpected yet powerful conversation with renowned mind-body medicine expert, Dr. Dean Shrock. Originally not intended for public release, this vibrant exchange became too meaningful not to share. The result? A deeply authentic, informal, and inspiring talk that feels more like a
soul-to-soul connection than a traditional interview.

Dr. Dean Shrock served as the Director of Mind-Body Medicine for a physician group overseeing 40 cancer centers. His groundbreaking wellness programs demonstrated improved survival rates for cancer patients, anchored in the healing power of love, purpose, and inner
peace. He is the bestselling author of “Doctor’s Orders: Go Fishing” “Why Love Heals” and “Living and Thriving.”

In this episode, Dr. Shrock and Tara explore:

✨ How love and connection influence healing and longevity

✨ The importance of purpose and emotional expression in cancer recovery

✨ Mind-body-spirit medicine and its growing role in integrative oncology

✨ Why living fully is one of the most powerful medicines we have.

Whether you’re navigating illness, supporting a loved one, or simply seeking deeper wellness, this conversation will leave you feeling uplifted and empowered! 🙌🏽

👉🏽 Direct link to podcast in the comments 👈🏽

Want to watch the full video interview? Check it out on my Tara Coyote YouTube channel. Link in comments

Listen now and be sure to subscribe to Mermaid Musings and join Tara’s email list to be the first to hear new episodes and soulful stories of resilience and transformation.

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Kapaa, HI
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