Petra Christensen - If you ask me who I am… I will tell you that I’m a SOLUTION FINDER and PUZZLE SOLVER. Yes, I admit it: I love puzzles and finding solutions!

That’s why I called my company Red Horse Solutions, where I provide Wholehearted, Positive Solutions for Humans and Horses.

My life story has given me amazing learning opportunities to grow, to become a better “me” and to find solutions when I thought I couldn’t go further. My never ending goal is to expand happiness and joy by helping other to also live their life WholeHeartedly.

I grew up in Germany as a horse crazy kid in a non-horsey family. Even at an early age I realized that traditional horsemanship was about dominating the horse instead of finding understanding and lightness in communication. I turned to alternative training methods and volunteered at a horse rescue for several years.

Eventually, I started a small boarding facility, shared my knowledge with others and continued to learn more about what makes horses and humans really tick.

While the business grew, my health failed. I was diagnosed with Interstitial Cystitis, an autoimmune dis-ease where the lining of the bladder dissolves. To make a VERY long story KINDA short: While sitting in my doctor’s waiting room, I found Louise Hay’s book “You can Heal your Life”.

My health issues and this book sent me on a quest to fix what needed to be fixed, to learn how to say NO, to find my wholistic balance and, in the end, happiness. My horses were my teachers. Relationships that didn’t serve me any longer dissolved, new ones were formed. There were lots of tough lessons I had to learn. I dug myself out of the hole and waded through the muck I had created in my life.

At the end of the tunnel, there was light! As Brene Brown says so perfectly: "I became healthier, more joyful, and more grateful than I had ever felt. I felt calmer and grounded, and significantly less anxious… I learned how to worry more about how I felt and less about 'what people might think'."

I fulfilled my dream of becoming a Parelli Natural Horsemanship Instructor. After 17 weeks of continued education I received encouraging reviews as assisting instructor at the Parelli Colorado Campus and was listed as one of the top two 2Star Instructors out of about 120 Parelli Professionals. As a Parelli student for almost two decades and a Parelli Instructor for over three years I gained a thorough understanding of Humanality, a system that is built on finding your personal strengths by understanding yourself, your horse – and other humans.  After 2012 I resigned as a Parelli Instructor. I just wanted to be “me”. I wanted to follow my own bliss. No strings attached.

Along my journey I met Dr. Patrick Handley, who is the co-creator of Humanality. As psychologist and personality assessment expert, Dr. Handley founded Insight Institute, an organization dedicated to helping people integrate their personality strengths into their work and personal relationships. In 2013, I became certified as INSIGHT INVENTORY® Instructor by Dr. Handley personally and eventually the Administrator and Producer of his Relationship Transformation Online Courses.

In the Fall of 2017 I attended Ingela Larsson Smith's True Connection Courses and the original Stars of Cavalia Frédéric Pignon and Magali Delgado's Mind, Body and Spirit of Horsemanship Workshop. I had patiently waited for years to study with these three Amazing Humans! It was a EveryDayLife and HorseManShip enhancing experience. I saw my principles of Genuine Connections confirmed and was able to add an even higher level of knowledge to my teachings. Learning, growing and prospering is a never-ending journey, a journey full of awe-inspiring revelations!

Petra Christensen