About Us
“Dena is a blessing to have in our wellness community. She is welcoming, knowledgable, and thorough. I started classes with Dena because I know her passion for the care of the body, her life philosophy, and her own lifestyle which is a testament to what she wants to share with her clients in each yoga experience. I leave her classes feeling balanced and strong.”
Dena G. Garfield
Dena has spent over two decades helping people come home to themselves.
As the founder of Equine Union International LLC, she works at the intersection of nervous system regulation, ethical equine integration, somatic movement, and purposeful leadership — serving corporate organizations, healthcare systems, licensed clinicians, youth programs, and wellness practitioners ready to expand beyond traditional models of care. Her work is grounded in a rare combination of formal credentials and lived experience.
A lifelong equestrian since the age of 6, Dena holds a degree in Equine Science and Management, is a Certified Equine-Assisted Services Facilitator, a 200-hour Certified Yoga and Meditation Teacher trained in Costa Rica with specializations in Ayurveda and Children's Yoga, and a Certified Nutrition and Wellness professional with over 20 years of practice. She is a 2024 graduate of the Chautauqua Leadership Network — a distinction reserved for emerging leaders committed to regional and global impact.
She has worked alongside children, veterans, neurodivergent individuals, corporate leaders, and healthcare professionals — bringing equine-assisted services, yoga, mindfulness, and nervous system tools into spaces where healing was needed and conventional approaches had reached their limits.
What she has learned in twenty years of this work is simple: people heal, lead, and grow best when they feel genuinely connected — to themselves, to each other, and to the living world around them. And the horse is the most honest, most present, most powerful teacher she has encountered.
Dena's mission is to build a global network of physical and virtual hubs where horses are integrated ethically into healing, leadership, movement, and community — so that more people can access this work, and more horses are honored as the partners they truly are. She is currently expanding Equine Union International from New York into the greater Chicago area, while continuing to serve organizations and individuals nationwide.
When she is not in a boardroom, she is in the pasture — heels and all. The polish of grace and the grit of the farm are not opposites in her world. They are the whole point.