TRH Faculty are dedicated to supporting people in the creation and development of equine-centered businesses. Grounded in lived, embodied experience, we mentor you to build your vision from the ground up — walking alongside you as you bring form to what you feel called to create.

Drawing on expertise across platforms in education, therapy, communications, business development — we work through relational attunement, informed perspective, and a broad visionary lens. Our reflective business model is rooted in feminine principles, supporting growth that is sustainable, aligned, and deeply connected to values, land, and life.

TRH Faculty Members

Cassandra Ogier, CEO & Founder, The Reflective Horse®.

Cassandra is a founder, facilitator, and educator with two decades of experience in equine-guided empowerment and education. Her work spans therapeutic, educational, and leadership contexts, supporting individuals, groups, and organizations through embodied, nature-based learning.

Cassandra’s work is oriented toward the development of future-ready systems — relational, embodied and regenerative structures that support both human and organizational evolution. This orientation informs how she designs programs, mentors practitioners, and collaborates with organizations seeking sustainable, value-aligned growth.

She is the creator of Somatic Riding®, Equine Guided Empowerment®, and Somatic Reprogramming®, and the founder of The Reflective Horse® Mastery Program, an eight-month professional training for facilitators. She created The Embodied Horsewomanship Online Course, sharing TRH philosophy and practices with a wider audience. Cassandra is deeply committed to mentoring others in bringing equine-centered work into the world with integrity, relational awareness, and feminine-led vision.

Selected Program Creation —

• Equine Therapy & Somatic Riding® Program (2014) Southern California — onsite therapeutic programming for youth rehabilitation.

• SheHerdPower (Co-founder, 2016) Equine Guided Empowerment® programs for survivors of sexual trauma.

• The Reflective Horse® Mastery Program (2019–present) Professional facilitator training, rooted in embodied, relational, and regenerative practices.

• The Reflective Horse® at ’Awa’y Malibu (2022) A center for equine-guided programming and regenerative collaboration.

• Embodied Horsewomanship Online Course (2025) Developed in collaboration with NF+, expanding access to TRH philosophy and practices.

Laura Miller, TRH Practitioner & Director of Strategic Development.

Laura is a founder and operational leader who specializes in designing and stewarding future-ready systems and teams for values-led, early stage businesses. With over 15 years of experience, she has held founding roles, operating partnerships at leading venture firms, and VP positions across Series A-B SaaS companies. She currently supports businesses as they scale from early stages through her own fractional consulting practice.

Alongside her business work, Laura has developed deep expertise in equine-guided therapeutic facilitation. She completed The Reflective Horse® Mastery Program in 2020 and has been co-facilitating alongside Cassandra Ogier for four years, supporting the development of transformational programming and working directly with participants. She is a co-founder of the Gateway Immersion, a three-day transformational experience weaving somatic practices, breath-work, yin yoga, voice activation, and time with the herd for mirroring, exploration, integration, and deepening.

Laura brings a distinctive vision to how feminine-led principles, relational awareness, and systems thinking create sustainable growth — both in business and in personal transformation. She is deeply committed to mentoring others in bringing equine-centered work into the world with integrity, somatic awareness, and a trauma-informed, feminine-led vision.

Amanda Gentine, Educator, Curriculum Designer & Facilitator

Amanda is the founder of Homeward, an Equine-Guided Empowerment® practice in Portugal. She has navigated the full process of establishing both a farm and a mission-driven business outside her home country, bringing lived experience to the realities of place-based work, stewardship, and long-term relationship with land and horses.

Amanda facilitates Somatic Reprogramming® workshops and is the creator of Homeward Collective, a three-module experiential program that reimagines horse care and partnership through trust, attunement, and connection—rather than control or compliance.

An educator, curriculum designer, and facilitator, Amanda’s work sits at the intersection of human development and horse-centered partnership. Her approach to teaching and learning is relational, embodied, and deeply attentive, shaped by over two decades of experience across diverse educational and cultural contexts.

Amanda’s work invites a slow cultural shift toward partnering with horses through listening, mutuality, and respect for the horse as a sentient collaborator — one who actively participates in the learning relationship.

Teaching & Learning Experience —

• High school educator supporting at-risk youth (Milwaukee, WI | 2000–2005)

• Adult language educator within finance and journalism sectors (Paris, France | 2006–2009)

• Teacher coaching and school reform consultant (Abu Dhabi, UAE | 2009–2011)

• Director of Curriculum, Assessment, and Teacher Training; program alignment and design (Milwaukee, WI | 2013–2016)

• Founder of Homeward and Homeward Collective (Portugal | 2022–present)

Taren Maroun, Therapeutic Consultant & Trauma-Informed Program Advisor

Taren Maroun is a facilitator and trauma-informed consultant whose work supports the ethical development of sovereignty-centered experiential programs. She helps programs align depth, pacing, and structure so experiential intensity does not outpace support.

Grounded in years of hands-on facilitation, Taren brings a nervous-system–informed lens to program design, supporting integrity, readiness, and sustainable space-holding as programs grow, with close attention to sequencing and integration as experiences unfold.

She completed The Reflective Horse® Mastery Program in 2020 and has facilitated alongside Cassandra Ogier for the past four years, contributing to the evolution of TRH programming through facilitation, program refinement, and trauma-informed design. Her work supports facilitators and founders in understanding what may arise across bodies, nervous systems, and relational fields, and in shaping programs that can be held with clarity and integrity—so facilitators feel grounded and confident holding safe, contained space.

Her consulting emphasizes sovereignty, consent, and embodied timing, ensuring depth is paced in a way that supports both participants and facilitators. She is a co-founder of the Gateway Immersion— a three-day experiential program integrating somatic practices, embodied expression, and time with the herd, designed to support deep exploration, integration, and transformation— and is entering formal graduate training toward LMFT licensure, with extensive training in trauma-informed, somatic, embodied and relational facilitation.

Margaret Taylor, COS, The Reflective Horse® & Creative Operations Consultant

Margaret is the Chief of Staff to Cassandra Ogier supporting The Reflective Horse® and values-led women founders in bringing complex visions into grounded, sustainable form. Her work sits at the intersection of relational leadership, systems design, and embodied support.

Margaret brings over a decade of experience supporting community-centered initiatives through operational leadership, event production, and membership ecosystems. She has supported large-scale retreats, festivals, and gatherings, online programs and communities, and supports operations at Kiss the Ground.

Through her consulting practice, grounded elevation, Margaret works in a highly relational and nontraditional way — offering customized support shaped around each client’s unique needs, rhythms, and values. Her approach is deeply collaborative, intuitive, and pragmatic, providing grounded infrastructure so leaders may focus on the work they are here to bring into the world.