What does true intimacy with your horse look like?
When you throw out all the stuff about being a good leader, pressure and release, training through various forms of manipulation (making your idea the horse’s idea) and you really truly
LISTEN TO YOUR HORSE…
When your only goal is that of a deep, vibrant, intimate relationship with your horse, donkey, mule… it’s profoundly amazing what transpires.
When you treat Equus this way, you unlock a vast field of intelligence, that maybe you’ve never seen horses display before, because it hasn’t been honored or welcomed – there’s been no space created for that intelligence to emerge.
It’s an opening to the core of your being, it’s an exploration and celebration of the best parts of being alive; it’s a spiritual journey.
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