Marion was born and raised in West Germany at her parents English riding school. In additon to learning from her mother who is a certified English riding instructor, Marion was given the opportunity to learn from many internationally renowned trainers. From Gunter Froehlich, who ran the most famous traveling horse theater in Germany, Marion learned how to drive horses, also Frisien horses. She has also studied under Linda Tellington Jones and many different dressage and jumping trainers including Lotar Schenzel who is well known in the world of gaited horses and endurance riding. When Western riding became popular, she tried her hand at that too, working up to German and European championships.

In November 1984, Marion and her family moved to Canada. In 1985 she began training horses, and won a Canadian National Champion title on a 4 year old stud that was deemed untrainable by a few other well known trainers. That is when her focus moved from showing horses to working with troubled horses.

Marion especially remembers and respects Mr. Freddy Knie who rode high level dressage tests without the use of saddle or bridle. He was an inspiration for Marion, and she also feels that riding a horse without the use of saddle and bridle is the ultimate test of great horsemanship.

Marion has given many demonstrations at horse shows and other functions in Germany and later in Canada. The demos where always bareback and without the use of a bridle. Demonstrtating to audiences of up to ten thousand people, Marion showed sidepassing in walk, trot and canter, flying lead changes up to every second step, canter pirouettes, and sliding stops.

Marion's focus now is to help people comunicate with their own horses and work through problems which are most often created by owners who need more understanding of the nature of the horse. Marion emphasizes that, "Growing up in Germany, I learned a lot about how to train a horses body, but more importantly, when I moved to North America, I learned how a horse thinks. It was like finding the missing and most important piece of the puzzle. My gratitude here goes to my teachers "Ray Hunt", "Buck Brannaman", "Lee Smith", "Peter Campbell", "Monte Roberts" and last, but definitely not least, "Pat Parelli". Marion earned her level 3 in the Parelli program in the spring of 2000. She was the seventh person in Canada to make it to that level.

In recent years, Marion has given clinics in conjunction with Equitana in Germany, and has presented Frisian Stallions to a group of Judges who came to Canada to inspect the North American Friesian horses to be inscribed into the German Frisian studbooks. Impressed by Marion's presentation of the stallions, the judges recommended her to the only recognised Frisien training facility in Texas to do the 50 day stallion training and testing for dressage and driving. To become an approved Frisian stallion, the horses have to pass the 50 day testing, similar to other Warmbllood stallions.