Sonja Lairila, Conscious Movement Facilitator/ Yoga Instructor, Equine Assisted Interventions Facilitator and Educator, Social Work Professional, Community Development (Finland) 

Sonja is a long time collaborator and a member of our Board of Directors.

Sonja has traveled the world working with horses living in different management systems and observing the impacts of these for more than a decade. Currently, she is rewilding together with a small herd of horses at her farm in South-Eastern Finland and slowly building an even more biodiverse environment, exploring the effects of these changes, and smiling at the herd of domesticated horses growing more mature while rewilding.

Sonja is an advocate for critical thinking and equine welfare. At the moment she is finishing her thesis in social work, researching the intersection of ecosocial framework and equine assisted practices. Sonja has a background in yoga, conscious movement facilitation and embodiment practices which inform her work wirh horses as well. 

Sonja’s interdisciplinary approach aims to bring a wider understanding and better welfare/wellbeing to the world of equines (and humans).