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About Adiva
Adiva started her horsemanship experience growing up in Alberta on her parents Arabian breeding facility. Being raised on a ranch, Adiva quickly became inseparable from the horses. Beginning at the age of 5 she showed in English and western disciplines. From an early age Adiva demonstrated a gentle and fearless way with horses that foreshadowed her true calling.
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By the mid 1990’s Adiva’s talent with horses impressed Pat Parelli enough to make her a working student at his Natural Horsemanship University in Colorado for six months. From there Adiva went on to manage a successful Thoroughbred training and breeding facility in Calgary.
In 2001, Adiva moved to the west coast with her horse Cowboy to be closer to family where she began a career in office administration. Soon Adiva’s love for horses led her back to her true calling - a career in Natural Horsemanship. After studying her level 3 Parelli Natural Horsemanship, Adiva began to develop her own style based on her many years of experience working with many types and breeds of horses. Her concepts were created by studying the teachings of master horsemen like Bill Dorrance, Tom Dorrance, Ray Hunt, John Lyons and Pat Parelli. Adiva continually strives for more knowledge and skill sets in dressage, reining and natural horsemanship.
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About Adiva the Horse Trainer and Clinician
Communicating to a horse like a horse.
Adiva Murphy has studied under some of the best Natural Horsemen of our time (Pat Parelli, Ray Hunt). Seamlessly blending both English and Western disciplines, Adiva has created her own signature training, adding her own methods learned from years of hard work and dedication. She is an excellent communicator and talented horsewoman and clinician, bringing clarity and structure to her students by taking the complicated concepts of Natural Horsemanship and breaking them down into clear, simple, straight forward steps that anyone can follow.
Adiva travels throughout the year, giving clinics, demos and lectures and has been a guest clinician at the Mane Event Horse Expo, in BC and Alberta. She has a long list of happy students and has trained hundreds of horses for satisfied customers of western and english disciplines.
Adiva Murphy Natural Horsemanship is based on the teachings of these famous horsemen:
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Pat Parelli – Natural Horse-man-ship
Bill Dorrance – Horsemanship through Feel
Tom Dorrance – Horse psychology
Ray Hunt – Colt starting & horse psychology
John Lyons – Colt starting and foundation training
Clinton Anderson – Downunder horsemanship
Dr Millar – Horse Psychology
Adiva has decades of personal experience with colt starting and correcting problem horses and continues to study from several trainers to improve her skills in all disciplines.
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About Adiva and Her Family
Adiva and John welcomed their son Kade Murphy Gotzke into their family July 31st 2007.
Every day with Kade has been a gift and in the months that have followed, he has learned to crawl, laugh, talk and love… we love him back.
The family pets Kitty and Cazador have finally adjusted to the newest member and realise that they are no longer the babies of the house. The family happily resides in Ladner BC.
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