Born and raised in Colorado, Taryn graduated from CSU with a degree in Equine Science and Agricultural Business. She pursued her passion for horses from a young age and has been actively involved in both training horses and teaching lessons for over 20 years. She became a PATH Certified Instructor in 2007, helping individuals with special needs accomplish their goals while learning how to ride. She has participated in multiple Extreme Mustang Makeover competitions and several of those mustangs became partners in her therapeutic riding and lesson program. She has also competed in the Equine Comeback Challenge and several local TIP challenges, conistently placing among the top performers. When training horses she strives to do right by the horse, using natural horsemanship training methods to gain trust and respect while working with the horse to create a partnership with the goal of developing quiet, versatile horses that most anyone can ride. Teaching and training, along with helping horses in need, are her true passions and she loves the rewarding nature of her vocation. While being actively involved in the horse training industry, the past several years she has also helped rehabilitate and train abused and neglected horses, many of which were troubled mustangs or feral horses with baggage. She has become renowned for not only working with feral horses, but also unhandled or minimally handled horses with a rough past, many of which become riding horses.