The Foundational Workshops
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The Still Point
“There is an art of listening, which is to listen completely without any motive. It is only the very silent, quiet mind that finds what is true.” —Krishnamurti
The “Still Point” is a place of deep silence, connection, and healing. It’s a point where our true being comes fully into presence.
Our horses trust us, communicate with us, and come into union with us most profoundly to the extent we come to them here.
This has noting to do with thinking. It has everything to do with authentic presence, purity, emptiness, stillness, and listening. It is the path to our innate wisdom. It is our awakened self in its authentic mode of knowing.
This is what our workshops are designed to achieve—for your and your horse.
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Research-Based: The "Heart Horse"
We’ve all heard the phrase “She was my ‘heart horse.’” Well, that’s literally true. Research has shown that a “heart-to-heart” physiological connection actually exists. When we come into the presence of a horse, our hearts begin beating in the same pattern.
Our workshops explore this “HRV entrainment,” then move to the bio-energetic union, the purely energetic one, and finally, we unlock our intuition. And at every stage, we practice what we learn in on ground exercises in real time with the horses. You’ll then have a chance to talk about the experience, and perhaps make decisions about how to be more “present” with the horse.
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Experiential
Horses know who to trust. If we come to them in a dissonant state, one very distant from what they, over millennia, have learned is safe—an authentic, coherent, clear presence—their instincts will not allow them to unite with us.
Our goal is to learn how to become clear and authentically present so that we can come to our horses as grounded, honest, coherent, and open as they are—in other words, come to them just as they come to us. The workshops give you the information and the tools, and you’ll then practice what you’ve learned with the horses.
Simply put, in order to “hear” our horses, we must be “here” in the way that makes that possible. That’s what these workshops will teach you.