Meet Your Guides | Blue Horse Bali

founder & herd guardian

Joyce

Joyce brings over two 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 25 years later, those schools still thrive, allowing Joyce to return to her first love: horses.

At Blue Horse, her belief remains the same. Horses, too, carry profound wisdom, if we learn to listen. Joyce believes transformation happens not through control or force, but through gentle attunement, awareness, and presence. Her years of experience have shown that when we truly listen whether to children, to horses, to ourselves, we unlock a quiet power that calls us back to who we really are.

Joyce holds a frequency of abundance, possibility, and deep remembrance. People feel it. Her presence often initiates a quiet shift, a return to truth, to power, to what matters most.

Blue Horse is infused with Joyce’s love. Her leadership isn’t loud, but it’s unmistakable and it's felt in the horses, the field, and every soul who enters.

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, not to fix, but to witness, 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. And it was her signal that marked the beginning of Blue Horse as a place for transformation and remembering.

Today, Zena leads with frequency. 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 & Lead Mentor

Jennie

Jennie is a transformational mentor, intuitive personal guide, and co-visionary of Blue Horse. For over 15 years, she has worked with high-performing leaders, coaches and entrepreneurs, not to push them harder, but to return them to the truth of who they are beneath the striving.

At the core of Jennie’s work is a radical remembering: that love, creativity, wellbeing, and power are not things to achieve, they are already within us. Her mentorship doesn’t follow a script. It follows the signal of the soul. Grounded in what is true for all humans, her approach is both deeply spiritual and profoundly practical.

After navigating her own transformation, including a period of illness and healing, Jennie stepped back from leading to walk her own path inward. It was during this time that the horses, and Zena in particular, began to speak to her in ways she couldn’t ignore.

Now, through Blue Horse, Jennie brings all of it. The decades of insight, the frequency of presence, the ability to hold a powerful, coherent field. She doesn’t guide from hierarchy, but from resonance. Her gift is helping people hear their wisdom beneath the noise, and live from it.

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.