I was taught to ride horses before I learned how to be with them.

I am Marzena, a nature-oriented human being, born in Gdańsk, Poland, in 1974.

I grew up about one kilometre from the Baltic Sea, and from childhood I felt deeply connected to my own nature. I have always valued friendship, loyalty, spontaneity and living in the moment. Even when I was very young, I could hear something I would later call my inner voice.

And there were horses.

Horses were always somewhere in my life, even though I was never allowed to have one. I went to the hippodrome whenever I could, sometimes against my parents' wishes. When I painted, I painted horses. I collected postcards with horses, cut pictures of horses out of newspapers and kept them in notebooks. I spent whatever little money I had on anything connected with them.

The horses were my life, even before I could have one.

I chose to study sport because it sounded like fun, and I eventually graduated with a double qualification in tourism and as a sports teacher. At that time I was already a mother, and after my marriage ended, I decided to start a new life in another country.

I moved to Germany, to Heidelberg, where I studied and worked, learned new languages, and raised my son. For around twelve years I worked as a fitness trainer, personal trainer and physiotherapy trainer, continually studying and developing my knowledge of the physical care of people.

From the outside, I had many things I could have considered enough. I earned good money, travelled with my son, had friends and built a life.

But something was missing.

I had the feeling that I was living only a small part of the potential I had brought into this world. I began asking myself: What is this potential? What is it that has not yet been expressed?

I didn't know the answer.

So I began asking other people how to distinguish the voice of the mind from the voice of the soul. During one workshop, I suddenly heard one word very strongly inside me:

Ibiza.

My mind knew Ibiza was not my plan. And somehow, that was exactly why I listened.

I followed the call. My son and I came to Ibiza with two mountain bikes. I wanted to connect with the roots of the island, with its land, with the earth beneath my feet. I wondered whether perhaps I would find here a place that felt like home in a deeper sense.

I have now been in Ibiza for fifteen years.

During these years, I have lived many different lives within one life. I have had adventures, encounters and experiences from so many different corners that I could make films or write books about them.

And through all of this, I kept returning to the same question:

What is my potential, really?

One of the biggest lessons I learned was how to say no — how to recognize what is mine and what is not, and to listen more carefully to myself.

And now, something feels different.

I believe that the Horse Presence project may be connected to that potential I have been searching for all these years.

I see the horse as a doorway — a doorway into something that can open much more deeply than simply our relationship with an animal.

At the moment, I am at the beginning of this journey, mostly carrying the idea myself and sharing it with friends, while bringing the project and this website into life.

But I don't believe I will be alone for long.

I feel very lucky to live in the place where I am now — in this beautiful, magical part of Ibiza. I feel that Ibiza has a powerful energy of its own, and that ideas born here from the heart can be given a special impulse to grow, evolve and perhaps become something much bigger than the person who first imagined them.

Maybe this is the potential I have been looking for.

Maybe this is the door that is opening now.

And maybe Horse Presence is the beginning of something that is not only about me, but something I am here to bring into the world.