Aloha and Welcome to Healing Horses Hawaii...Lio Lapa'au, LLC.
In the Hawaiian Language. Lio Lapa’au means: Healing Horse. The concept is that horses provide healing and health for humans as they are, in Fern's words, the most noble creatures on earth." Lio Lapa'au provides therapeutic riding services for clients both able bodied and challenged. In addition, Lio Lapa'au provides help for horses and dogs through its education and distribution of all natural Silver Lining Herbs.
Lio Lapa'au is a vision of Fern White that has come to fruition after many years of servicing the equine world of Hawaii and beyond. Fern, Hawaii’s Leading Lady Rider, has won championships in rodeo, showing, reining and multiple All Around High Point titles. She has trained many other riders who have gone on successfully to riding competitively or for recreation. Fern has trained horses for showing Western or English for herself and many others. She remains the only person from Hawaii to have taken her own horse from Hawaii to the AQHA World Championships in Oklahoma where in 2000 Fern won Top Ten title on Royal Merrimaid in the Open division of Barrel Racing.
Fern is a full time high school English teacher who is National Board Certified since 2003; she was honored as Hawaii’s 2005 Character Educator of the Year and Hawaii Speech League Coach/Communicator of the Year 2008. She served as the lead teacher for Kohala High School's successful electric vehicle program where students built alternative energy vehicles for competition that won back to back Best of Show awards. Currently, Fern is the coordinator for the high school's robotics program that has qualified to the VEX World Championships to be held in Dallas Texas! Check out her teaching world at http://teacherweb.com/HI/KohalaHigh/AFernWhite
Fern is dual certified riding instructor: American Riding Instructor Assn. (ARIA) and North American Riding for Handicapped Assn. (NARHA). She is available for riding instruction and clinics to develop or improve horsemanship. Fern can be found conducting clinics in her backyard or as far away as Amarillo, Texas. She enjoys helping youth and helping animals, especially helping our performance horses and canine friends to perform and feel better.
Fern is surrounded and supported by great craftsmen, Hawaiian Saddlemaker and Champion Paniolo, Alvin Kawamoto who assists with students. Alvin shoes their horses, repairs gear, mends fences and is never bored although he has retied after 34 years as an Elementary teacher. Both Fern and Alvin share the paniolo way of living caring for their horses, dogs, cattle, goats, and chickens!
Lio Lapa'au embraces concepts Fern has lived and loved all her life. It means horses healing people through therapeutic interaction. It alsomeans people healing horses through all natural health products, nutrition and nurturing.
