The Path That Brought Me Here
Hi, I’m Eloisa. My earliest memories are on my family’s farm in Brazil, a place held for generations. Surrounded by horses, dogs, cattle, and open land, I learned what real connection feels like long before I had language for it.
Watching how animals listened to one another and how life moved with the seasons became my first way of understanding the world.
I grew up between Brazil and the United States, moving between cultures, landscapes, and ways of being.
As an adult, I traveled widely for work and followed a path I believed would lead to success. Losing my mother at twenty three broke me open and changed everything. Grief opened a deeper longing for meaning and a more honest way of living, one that echoed what I had known on the land as a child.
Becoming a mother years later deepened that shift. It clarified what matters most to me now: presence, patience, kindness, and living with greater intention.
Today, I work as an Equine Assisted Learning facilitator and Family Constellation practitioner. My approach has been shaped by study, lived experience, and years of learning through relationship with animals and the places that hold us. I am drawn to work that honors not only the individual, but also the wider stories we carry and the quiet influences that move through families and time.
I continue to deepen my horsemanship and my own inner work, knowing this practice is not fixed. It evolves through listening, presence, and respect for what came before and what continues through us.
Nature has taught me that life moves in cycles. We soften, we contract, we open again. We lose, we grow, we shed, we begin. Much of this work is about learning your own inner landscape so you can move through these cycles with kindness, honesty, and trust in yourself. Not striving for perfection, but for authenticity and aliveness.
Today I live in Los Angeles with my son, our two dogs, and our cat. Motherhood has deepened my understanding of patience and what it means to offer a place of true steadiness for others.
Soulstead grew out of everything that shaped me, the land that raised me, the animals that taught me how to listen, and the practices that helped me return to myself. It’s a place where people can reconnect with what feels real, settle into their own rhythm, and remember the parts of themselves that have always been there.