ABOUT TWO MOONS RANCH
A Sanctuary Born of Horses, Land, and the Longing to Belong
Two Moons Ranch began as a whisper — a quiet urging to return to the land, to the body, and to the old ways of relating with horses. What started in 2018 as a simple act of rescue on ancestral family land soon unfolded into something much larger: a place where humans and horses come to heal, remember, and re-root themselves in what is real.
Two Moons lives across two geographies — the golden hills of Ojai and the green forests of the Hudson Valley — yet it functions as one shared organism, one spirit held under two moons.
Today, Two Moons West (Ojai) is open and active. Two Moons East (Hudson Valley) is in a season of rest and restoration, preparing to re-root and reopen in 2027.
Both sanctuaries are guided by the same truth:
healing is relational, land is alive, and the herd is a teacher.
ABOUT THE FOUNDER
Tisse / Matisse Williams - Writer, Herdmother, Equine Facilitator, Keeper of Thresholds
Matisse Williams is a writer, equine facilitator, and ceremonial guide whose work lives at the intersection of horses, land, motherhood, and the feminine psyche. She grew up on the very soil that would one day become Two Moons East, spending her early life in the quiet company of animals, forests, and rivers — a childhood shaped by the kind of listening that cannot be taught.
In 2018, she returned to her family’s land in the Hudson Valley and began rescuing horses one by one. Thirteen horses later, a sanctuary had formed — not through strategy, but through devotion. Through responding to what was needed. Through allowing the land and the herd to shape the path.
Her work has since expanded into retreats, horse constellations, mentorships, and somatic learning experiences, all rooted in relational horsemanship and reverence for the unseen worlds.
In 2025, Matisse and her family relocated to Ojai, where Two Moons West now lives as an active sanctuary and creative center. As a new mother, she stewards this work with a deepened understanding of life cycles, thresholds, and the necessity of slowing down.
She holds space for people the same way she holds space for horses — with steadiness, softness, and an unshakeable belief in the intelligence of the body and the wisdom of the earth. Her writing and teachings continue to explore themes of belonging, feminine leadership, ancestral healing, and the mirror offered by the natural world.
THE HEART OF TWO MOONS
Two Moons Ranch is a practice — a way of relating to horses, land, and self that is rooted in presence rather than control, curiosity rather than agenda, listening rather than force.
Everything we offer arises from this place:
Rescue and long-term sanctuary for horses
Somatic and relational horsemanship
Equine-guided constellations and ceremonial work
Retreats and creative residencies
Storytelling, writing, and myth-making
Feminine leadership and motherhood pathways
Land stewardship as a spiritual and ecological practice
At Two Moons, horses are not tools or metaphors — they are kin. They are sovereign beings with their own stories, agency, teachings, and thresholds. Humans come here not to shape the horse, but to be shaped by the encounter.
THE THREAD THAT RUNS THROUGH IT ALL
Devotion.
Listening.
Right relationship.
Care at the pace of the earth.
Spaces where the nervous system can soften, the breath can widen, and the deeper story of a life can begin to speak.
Under two moons — one rising over the Pacific, the other over the Hudson River — this sanctuary continues to grow, one breath, one horse, one season at a time.
INVITATION
If something in you recognizes this place — if the herd calls to you, if the land speaks your name, if you are entering a threshold of change, or if you simply long for a slower, truer way of being — you are welcome here.
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