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Personal Reflections on a Recent Mindful Experience – Finding Your Flow

By admin | September 24, 2019 by admin

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We recently attended a retreat at Meghan Vornholt Yoga and Equine Facilitated Wellness in Cochrane, AB. The retreat, Finding Your Flow, was a wonderful example of mindful reflection, yoga and interaction with horses in a wellness context. We wanted to share our personal experiences of being in the present moment, and what that meant for each of us that afternoon. Shreyasi: I learned much about flow from Meghan. Flow is to do with being in…

Feeling Emotions Around Your Horse

By admin | September 6, 2019 by admin

Feeling intense emotions when you are in your horse’s presence can sometimes be confusing. Intuitively, it is more comfortable to express joy or excitement around them. However, what about when you feel anxious or frustrated or sad? Are these emotions we should shield from them? Although horses are sentient beings and we don’t endorse having emotional outbursts near them for their physical and psychological safety, there are benefits in being honest and open about your…

Mindfulness Exercise: Awareness of Emotions

By admin | August 21, 2019August 9, 2019 by admin

Our last blog post included an reflection by Thich Nhat Hanh on using mindfulness to transform feelings. Here is an exercise excerpt from our upcoming book project Sharing The Now: Mindfulness Exercises To Enhance the Connection With Your Horse which offers guidance on intentionally paying attention to what you are feeling in the present moment, to be attempted on your own. We have divided the exercise to flow naturally in two phases, followed by a…

Who Is Your Teacher?

By admin | August 14, 2019 by admin

Reprint from Karen Jones Motivational Horsemanship HORSES AND LIFE LESSONS Horses teach us patience. Horses teach us to be flexible, both mentally and physically. Horses teach us perseverance. Horses teach us responsibility and dedication. Horses teach us coordination and balance. Horses teach us how to be a confident team player. What has your horse taught you? Motivational Horsemanship “Creating Balance between Horses and their Humans”

Self-compassion at the barn: a personal reflection

By admin | August 14, 2019August 14, 2019 by admin

There are so many ways that self compassion can be restorative at the barn and in other aspects of life. How many of you can relate to moments where things don’t go as planned, or when you say or do something that you wish you could reverse the split second after it happens? For those who tend to be “people pleasers”, or even when you are with the few close people whose opinion really matters,…

Brief Mindful Moment at The Barn: Music and Your Horse

By admin | August 2, 2019July 27, 2019 by admin

Play some music near your horse. Listen to the music, notice your physical and emotional response, and watch how your horse responds. We recommend classical or instrumental music at first, as well as avoiding loud jarring sounds (regardless of genre) as they tend to alarm a horse.

Brief Mindful Moment at the Barn: Aromatherapy and Your Horse

By admin | July 30, 2019July 27, 2019 by admin

This particular mindfulness exercise may not be what you think. While there are various ways to incorporate essential oils into the care and upkeep of your horses for physical and emotional well being, they are not the focus of this brief mindful moment. Rather, this moment is about resting in the special scent that makes your horse uniquely them. Horse lovers have all done this at one time or the other. This exercise is a…

Mindful Illustration of the Day

By admin | July 20, 2019July 18, 2019 by admin

Guest Author: Meghan Vornholt on the power of observation

By admin | July 8, 2019 by admin

We have the pleasure of sharing a guest author’s reflections on observing today. Meghan Vornholt has expertise in yoga, meditation and coaching, and is a certified equine wellness practitioner in Canada. You can learn more about her work at her website and on Facebook and Instagram. We are excited to meet her in September at a personal development workshop at her studio o in Cochrane, Alberta. We are so honoured that she took the time…

Mindfulness Exercise: Gratitude for Your Horse

By admin | June 12, 2019June 23, 2019 by admin

Take a few minutes on your own to try this exercise. If being grateful feels difficult, you can imagine caring for your horse or sending them light or warmth during the exercise. If it feels natural when doing this exercise on your own, then try this for a moment or two with your horse. This is a brief version of an exercise we include in our upcoming book project, Sharing The Now: Mindfulness Exercises To…

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