Meet Your Guides | Blue Horse Bali

founder & herd guardian

Joyce

Joyce brings over three decades of entrepreneurial leadership to Blue Horse, guided by a deep commitment to honoring the innate wisdom within every being.

She is the founder of Nurturing Knowledge Schools in America, a thriving early childhood education company built on one core belief: Children are inherently powerful. When given a safe, loving environment where their voices are truly heard, they flourish. More than 30 years later, those schools are still going strong. Joyce operationally exited nine years ago to explore her next chapter.

She moved across the world to Bali with her family and entered her own post-exit void.

Her identity was no longer tied up in her business. Nobody knew what she’d done or who she was.

She gave herself space. She followed threads of passion, and through the magic of Bali, she learnt to connect on a different level. She held firm to her value of continued expansion, and a whole new expression of life emerged.

A series of synchronistic events, led by the heart, resulted in Blue Horse being born. The plan was simply to provide a home of safety for a rescued horse. What unfolded is beyond anything she could have imagined. In her words: “This is my soul’s purpose.”

At Blue Horse, her belief remains the same. Horses, too, carry profound wisdom, if we learn to listen. Joyce believes transformation happens through gentle attunement, awareness, and presence. Her years of experience have shown that when we truly listen, whether to children, to horses, or to ourselves, we unlock a quiet power that calls us back to who we really are and why we are here.

Joyce lives with a rare sense of abundance, freedom, and expansion. People feel it. Her presence often initiates a quiet shift, a return to truth, to power, to what matters most.

THE HEART OF BLUE HORSE

ZENA

Meet Zena, the soul and silent leader of Blue Horse.
Joyce found Zena in 2020, abandoned, starving, and pregnant at a crumbling stable in Bali. The only survivor out of ten horses, Zena lost her foal and fell into deep physical and emotional collapse. Joyce stayed by her side, offering love and space without expectation. Over time, Zena chose to trust again.

That choice became the foundation of everything Blue Horse is.

Zena didn’t just survive, she became a guide. Her presence is maternal, magnetic, and unmistakably wise. She holds a field of safety that invites emotional release, heart-opening, and deep stillness. Humans sense it instantly. So do the other horses.

It was Zena who “told” us she was ready to work with people, that she was here to help them feel again. This that marked the beginning of Blue Horse as a place for transformation.

Today, Zena leads with wisdom. She is the Chief Energy Officer of Blue Horse and is the living embodiment of the power that emerges when we choose presence over pressure, trust over control, and love over fear.

Co-Visionary

Jennie

Jennie is a confidante, intuitive, and co-visionary of Blue Horse. For over two decades, she has been a trusted presence behind the scenes for founders, CEOs and family offices, guiding them back to their own personal wellbeing.

She has had a front row seat to what it takes to build businesses.

She has seen countless times the personal cost that often comes with it. Running on adrenaline, the nervous system is often in a state of alert, and when the body is finally given space to breathe, health issues arise.

Relationships can become transactional, and loneliness is common.

She’s seen how identity becomes the business, and when it is sold, isolation and a lack of purpose feel overwhelming.

At the core of her work is the safe, completely non-judgmental space she holds. From this place, truth can be spoken. She has a rare gift for cutting straight to the heart of things and revealing an insight that opens up a new reality in an instant.

After navigating her own transformation, including a period of illness and healing, Jennie stepped back from her own business to walk her own path inward. It was during this time that the horses came into her life, and it became clear they had the ability to amplify this work.

Now, through Blue Horse, Jennie brings all of it. Her decades of insight, her presence, and her own commitment to a path of truth clear the way for others to walk theirs.

THE HORSE THAT SPARKS JOY AND FREEDOM

ATHENA

After rescuing Zena, Joyce knew she couldn’t heal alone. She needed companions to help her remember the joy of belonging to a herd.

At the same time, Joyce noticed something: many equestrians in Bali were importing horses from abroad, while right here in Indonesia, so many beautiful horses were in need of homes.

She began to wonder, what if we raised young Indonesian horses with love, and connection? What if people could see the brilliance already here?

Joyce set off with her friend Alison to West Java, visiting over 20 farms and seeing lots of horses. And then she met Athena. She was only 18 months old, wide-eyed, and completely untrained. But the moment Joyce saw her, the connection was there.

She had always dreamt of starting a horse from the very beginning, learning her language, step by step. Athena made that dream real.

Joyce named her after the goddess she already was. Confident. Curious. Full of fire. From the moment she arrived, she lit up the field by leaping, running, playing with a kind of wild joy.

Now four, Athena is still the spark of our herd. She is sensitive, mischievous, full of energy and heart. She reminds us that healing doesn’t have to be quiet. Sometimes, it gallops.

Her love of affection mirrors to all of us the power of trusting connection.

The Horse who grounds the field

RYAN

Joyce had already chosen Athena and she was on the way to the airport when Allison, a friend and an experienced horsewoman from England, spoke a wish out loud:

“I just want to find a beautiful horse in someone’s backyard. One with great bloodlines. Totally unexpected.”

Moments later, the trainer got a text:
“There’s one more horse. Five minutes away. Do you want to see him?”

They turned the car around.

He stood quietly as they arrived. For the first time all weekend, Alison said nothing. No critiques, no commentary. Just silence. Then tears. They both felt it. An energy that was undeniable. This horse wasn’t just beautiful. He was profound.

Alison bought him on the spot. She named him Ryan.

What followed was not an easy journey. Ryan had trauma. He was aggressive, guarded, and full of complexity. For Alison, who had only known clean slates and young starts, it was a complete unlearning. She had to soften. Slow down. Let go of judgment. She began to study energy, healing, and presence. And in doing so, they transformed together.

Today, Ryan is a different horse. Still powerful. Still sensitive. But open. Connected. Steady. He carries a quiet wisdom that grounds the herd.

We call him our Chief Support Officer.
He is an integral part of everything Blue Horse is becoming.

THE HORSE WHO CHOOSES WITH HEART

TARZAN

When Zena, Athena, and Ryan settled at Blue Horse, Joyce thought her herd was complete. But one morning, her trainer Anna asked, “Have you ever thought about one more horse?” She mentioned Tarzan, a powerful Indonesian sport horse on the International circuit she had admired for years, a protector, a warrior with a heart of gold. Joyce had watched him care for a young rider in competition, carrying her safely through jumps, not because she made him, but because he chose to.

Just three minutes later, she got a message from Tarzan's owner. DJ, his young rider, was moving on, and the only person she’d trust with Tarzan was Joyce.

Tarzan came to Blue Horse as a teacher. He brings a different kind of medicine to the herd, a noble, quiet power. He humbles us. He’s athletic, intelligent, wildly intuitive, and impossibly clear in his boundaries. He does nothing he doesn’t want to do, and that, in itself, is a lesson.