SAVE
this Date! October 29-21, 2010
VA’s 2010 Equine
Extravaganza
Come join
Rider Horsemanship at this year’s 1st
All Women Trainer Challenge! Caroline
has been selected as one of three women
to participate in VA’s 2010 East Coast
Trainer Challenge. Come and support
her as she will be demonstrating her approach
to gentling, and riding, a young horse
that has never been handled, let alone
ridden. Click here for details:
http://www.equineextravaganza.com/challenge.htm
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What’s
New?
Indoor and outdoor
arenas!
We have
just broken ground for both our indoor
and outdoor arenas! Please click the
link below to see photos. We are expecting
both to be up and running sometime this
Summer, hopefully in time for our July
and August clinics! We will keep you
posted: View
Photos
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2
NEW Styles of clinics! They
are filling fast!
1)
Women & Horses Wellness Retreats!
A
weekend workshop for women and men who
want to explore the mind, body and spirit
through energy, connection and healing
with horses. NO horse experience
needed! Rider Horsemanship’s horses
are used for all LEVEL I workshops.
This workshop is part of the Tao of
Horsemanship™, Inc.’s approach to Being
and working with horses. It is an introduction,
LEVEL I study, into Caroline’s very
successful approach to connecting and
being one with your horse.
The workshops
encompass the following modalities:
Caroline’s Tao of Horsemanship Round
Penning; Approach to connection and
communication with horses; Developing
awareness of the chakras or energy centers,
within yourself, in horses, and how
to utilize your chakras to communicate
better with horses; Creating clarity
& confidence through identifying congruent
and incongruent mind/body messages;
Developing consensual and co-creative
partnerships with horses and humans;
Developing a deeper understanding of
energy, connection while engaging in
ground exercises with horses, master
teachers of mindfulness and sensory
awareness; Becoming more aware of your
energy boundaries, how to strengthen
them, and use them appropriately when
communicating with horses and humans;
Learning how to promote more health
and well being for both horses and humans
through mind-body awarenesses and healing
techniques.
See
website for info & pricing >
2) Riding as One Horsemanship
clinics!
This
3 day clinic explores our Tao of Horsemanship™,
Inc.’s approach to riding and being
one with your horse.
A great clinic for those seeking more
mind-body connection, communication,
balanced and centered riding, partnership
and control with their horse. The
clinic focuses on the following: Creating
and maintaining connection – mental
and physical engagement at all times;
Creating a softer, more fluid horse
and rider; Developing pattern work that
helps to develop a calmer more disciplined,
willing and response horse; Mind-body
awareness and embodiment exercises that
help to strengthen your focus (intention),
core and balance (independent seat);
And the ultimate development of consensual
partnership between horse and human.
See
website for info & pricing >
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This
Month’s Topic of Interest:
“Chakras…what
are they and how do they
relate to horses?”
“Chakras are
the sacred centers within that carry
us on our journey toward greater awareness
and aliveness. As the architecture of
the soul, they provide an important
map for our wholeness and transformation,
both personally and globally. As an
ancient spiritual system, they show
the path to enlightenment and integration.
The word chakra is Sanskrit for wheel
or disk and signifies one of seven basic
energy centers in the body that correspond
to nerve ganglia branching out from
the spinal column, as well as states
of consciousness, developmental stages
of life, archetypal elements, body functions,
colors, sounds, and much, much more.
Together they form a profound formula
for wholeness and a template for transformation.”
– Anodea Judith, Ph.D.
Here are two of Anodea’s videos on chakra’s.
Both videos encapsulate the meaning
and purpose of each 7 chakras beautifully.
We used only the first 4 chakras in
the first clip (The Illuminated Chakras
by Anodea Judith ® Pt. 1) as part
of our Level I presentation each morning
before we headed out to work with the
horses. Our continuing studies, Level
II workshops, will include the remaining
3 chakras:
The Illuminated Chakras by Anodea Judith
® Pt. 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQuUVnZh3L0
The Illuminated Chakras by Anodea
Judith ® Pt.2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3ttWumNzKE&feature=related
So, how do the chakras relate to our
horses? Very much like our chakra systems
do, especially in relationship to healing
energies. The area that I want to delve
into, and explain, does not relate to
the healing powers of the chakra systems
in horses, but more of the energy fields
and vibrations associated with each
that connects us to the horse as well
as gives us bio feedback and communication
opportunities.
This “level” of energy I am going to
be talking about relates specifically
to how I work with horses. The last
newsletter I wrote, back in March, was
about “Emotional Agility.” I mentioned
in my article about how agile a “wild”
horse’s emotions are and I use the term
wild because once we domesticate a horse,
and become its herd and mentor, we transfer
and project so much of our own negative
energy, beliefs and influences upon
them. In the wild, they are untainted
and pure and able to respond to any
given situation, immediately and with
clarity and control. Once danger is
no longer present, they go back to grazing….and
being able to go back to grazing means
that they are able to “come down” from
the extreme adrenaline rush they were
on when in flight or fight mode. Having
emotional agility is the ability to
control one’s heightened sense of emotion
in any given situation. It is equivalent
to being a leader in war and having
to make split second decisions that
affect the over-all welfare of those
involved. These decisions are based
on facts pertaining to the situation,
and must be handled with clarity and
control of one’s emotions. If we spend
too much time “thinking” and rationalizing,
we could die. And, for the horse, this
is about life or death. If they wait
too long, caught in emotional stress
over the situation, they could easily
become exhausted or taken down by a
mountain lion.
This level of energy I speak about it
what I relate to when I refer to myself
as a “Horse Whisperer.” Generally, horse
whispering refers to being able to read
a horse’s subtle body language, understand
it, and then communicate back using
the same language. Well, I have to ask
you….what does that really mean? How
does one “read, understand and then
communicate” horse talk? For me, it
refers to both body language and energy….energy
fields and vibrations that I can “feel”
when around horses. If you read about
the chakra’s and watch the two video
links I’ve included above, those are
the energy fields I am referring too.
I am not only speaking about emotional
agility (the control and balancing of
one’s emotions), but levels of consciousness
that I tap into within myself and the
horse, specifically the 6th and 7th
chakras. Here is some information about
both:
Chakra Six:
Ajna
Light, Archetypal identity, oriented
to self-reflection
This chakra is known as the brow chakra
or third eye center. It is related to
the act of seeing, both physically and
intuitively. As such it opens our psychic
faculties and our understanding of archetypal
levels. When healthy it allows us to
see clearly, in effect, letting us “see
the big picture.”
Chakra Seven:
Sahasrara
Thought, Universal identity, oriented
to self-knowledge
This is the crown chakra that relates
to consciousness as pure awareness.
It is our connection to the greater
world beyond, to a timeless, spaceless
place of all-knowing. When developed,
this chakra brings us knowledge, wisdom,
understanding, spiritual connection,
and bliss.
If you would like to learn more about
chakras and how they help us to find
balance, peace, strength, compassion,
joy, confidence, connection with all
things, especially our equine partners,
then sign
up for one of our Women and Horses Wellness
Retreats!
