From WDAA and AQHA World Champion Rachel Ory, an insightful debut memoir: Horses Take Us Higher Horses are a large part of the lives of many. In them, we often find our own selves reflected. From lifelong horsewoman and multiple World Champion (WDAA & AQHA) rider and trainer Rachel Ory comes a fascinating debut memoir, Horses Take Us Higher, a story of self-awareness and its development, and of the inner evolution in which all equestrians will see parts of themselves. Through the telling of her personal journey – starting with a pony in her snowy backyard growing up in Michigan, to traversing the country training and producing reining horses, to eventually becoming Western Dressage World Champion and earning her USDF Silver Medal – Ory invites readers along on a retrospective journey through time. A deeper understanding of the training and relationship-building process is necessary during any transformative journey. Intertwined with Ory’s personal narrative are a series of foundational training pointers, giving physical form to her belief that there exists an opportunity to produce a horse in a balanced manner. Ory encourages readers to practice intentional awareness to achieve a deeper understanding of the connection between one’s personal and in the saddle transformation. In total, Ory has produced a story, enriched with technical expertise, that proves the meaning of life is to receive the lessons we, as individuals and as horsemen, must learn in order to evolve. Personal transformation is a cumulative journey that will always be “in progress”, as Ory’s story demonstrates through the stages of her own life. Only through the development of awareness and a desire to change and draw from a deeper well can you truly be taken higher.