ABOUT HORSES SPIRITS HEALING
OUR STAFF
Amanda Tusler
Program Director/Lead Instructor
Bachelors of Science in Therapeutic Riding Instruction and Psychology. She is certified through PATH Int’l and is CPR, First Aid, and AED certified.
Nikki Hofmann
Instructor
Nikki is a born and raised Wyoming ranch girl who has spent a lifetime with horses. She has ridden on the ranch and trail, shown English and Western, roped a little, started colts, and currently trains and runs her own barrel horses. She comes to HSHI as a retired educator, having spent 30 years teaching and serving as an associate principal and principal.
Jess Allestad
Instructor
Jess discovered her love of horses at a young age and has been riding ever since. She participated in the Stillwater County 4-H horsemanship program, took riding lessons, and owned her first horse by age twelve. As a teenager, she taught riding lessons to neighborhood kids and spent time riding both her family’s horses and those of friends and neighbors. Jess has since worked multiple seasons as a wrangler and trail guide, further developing her horsemanship and love of sharing horses with others.
Jess learned about therapeutic riding at fourteen and knew immediately it was the path she wanted to follow, combining her passion for horses with meaningful, life-changing work. Outside the barn, she is also an artist and singer-songwriter who brings creativity, empathy, and heart to everything she does.
THE HERD
Taylor
Alec
Milkshake
Lulu
MasterCard
Tyra
Chance
Dexter
THE BOARD
David Powell
Board Member
Colonel, US Army-Retired. He served from Viet Nam to Iraq. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal (DSM), and three Legion of Merits (LM).