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Wounded Healers, Human Whisperers is an ongoing and ever growing body of documentary work about alternative healing and spiritual connection within a Medicine Horse community on Vancouver Island, BC.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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I'm Denisa, a graduate from Vancouver Island University where I spent seven years exploring digital media and visual arts with an emphasis on documentary photography.
-- Horses. Are. The love of my life. --
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My earliest memories revolve around horses, and for a long time as a child, I was convinced I, indeed, was a horse. I've always wanted to have horses, be near them, touch them, interact with them.
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I met Halliday Walsh and her Chiron herd in the summer 2015, and have since been going to visit as often as I can, either to work with the horses, or to blend in with the human community around them.​
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As a photographer, I also see these noble animals and their amazing human leader in terms of images and stories that I have to share with the world. There are very few photo stories about this subject matter anywhere, so, naturally, I am setting out on a mission to create some.
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My goal is to capture the moments that portray what holistic equine therapy means and entails. And I want these photographs to tell a story about it from the everyday-life perspective: What Chiron is, who the horses and humans are, and how they all work with those who need and are open to the universal healing energy.
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ABOUT THE MENTOR
Halliday Walsh is the ultimate Wounded Healer.
A certified shiatsu practitioner and the woman behind Chiron Medicine Horses, she is dedicated to share her gift, knowledge and experience with humans and animals to provide a creative and healing environment. I see her as a dear friend, my guide, teacher, mentor, and a role model.
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Halliday is the author of a large portion of the writing on this website and the main inspiration for the rest, written by me.
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Visit the Chiron website for more information about Halliday's practice.
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Photo: Halliday with Sorento Karma Koenig at the Summer Solstice celebration held in the Butterfly Equine Labyrinth, 2018
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