/ Who I Am and How I Work
I’m Caroline Gaya.
For seventeen years I worked in professional yards across Europe, including Grand Prix stables, with a lot of young horses along the way.
Young horses teach you quickly that welfare and performance pull in the same direction. A horse that's comfortable and understood learns faster, and goes better when it counts.
The riders I watched get the best from their horses had something in common. They listened before they corrected, noticed before they reacted, and asked more clearly instead of harder.
That's still how I work. These days it's the rider I work with.
Then I spent ten years working with my hands.
Yoga came first, then a decade of massage. In massage I didn't think at all. My hands read the body, where it was dense and where it gave, and worked at the pace and pressure it asked for. The release came from the body itself. My job was to follow it.
Later I taught yoga hands-on, adjusting each student as they practised. That taught me a different skill: to watch first, see how a body breathes and moves, and decide whether to step in at all. And if I did, whether to simply ground it or find the angle and grip that let it go deeper.
Feel through the hands has always been my gift.
Teaching means observing before you ask. Riding means feeling before you ask. I work with both.
Now I work with riders.
Riders who compete or train seriously, some of them trainers themselves. They know their horse and they know the work, and still something in their own body gets in the way: at a show, in one transition, on one rein, in the same place every time.
That's what we work on. Online, in English, Spanish or French.
Certifications:
• Level II Horse Trainer (International Passport)
• 400-hour Yoga Alliance Teacher
• Ayurvedic Yoga Massage Therapist
• MSFC Saddle Fitter