Category Archives: horses, dogs & more

Aug3

Slow

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I gave myself  permission to take my time at the barn today.  I recommend it.  Maybe you brush your horse longer than necessary, more slowly, savoring the feel of the brush strokes, the gleam of the coat, the movement of your arm over the curves of the horse’s body.  Maybe you just stand together and breathe – looking at the summer green, the air moving the trees, hearing the birds, the cicada, the chewing of the horse in the next stall.  Do nothing.  Be nothing.  Get porous, just molecules dancing with other molecules.

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Aug2

Horse as Litmus

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Sometimes the horses elicit people’s darker side, the under-layers of their fears, their need for control, their rage, their sorrow.  When this happens, it is like being kicked by a horse, it feels sudden, inexplicable, without reason.  Horses always show us the need for balance, and the ways  we have fallen out of harmony.  You don’t have to ride to find this out.  Walk by a paddock, and they will show you your emotions like a funhouse mirror.  Stand with them and they will show you your heart, beat by beat.

Jul26

What is Horse Dancing?

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from the performance at Equine Advocates

 

I have been a dancer and a lover of horses most of my life.  Much of that time was in fact an out of body experience.  Years of dance training meant pushing the body, often with very little awareness of what my own body was telling me about pain and limitation.  My body was a first of all a vehicle for dancing – I expected it to work.   When I found myself hungering to dance with horses, not just ride them, but draw together my two great passions – horses and dance – I discovered to my surprise that it was the horses that brought me most deeply into my body.  By learning to communicate clearly with them through the shared language of movement and touch, I also learned how to live more fully and attentively in my own body. Horse Dancing bridges my experiences with horses and my lifelong practice as a mover.  It is about what horses can teach us about the wild and subtle language of the body.