From shadows to stardust

When I put things into the bragging category, it’s usually me bragging on someone else. This time it’s about me. It’s time to take what we do here … what I do here… out of the shadows and into the light that The Red Mare shone so generously on my work last week.

If you haven’t read The Red Mare’s posts on Facebook and Substack, they are a horsey treat to devour that anchors us into a kind of old fashioned nice’ness – a beautiful energy that lifts the heart as Tania’s lovely words ripple out into the world.

Out in the world, all the way across the other side of the world in fact, there is a wonderful woman called Jenny Pearce. She had been reading the red mare’s stories for a while and she sent me a message and she offered me a session with her. I looked her up and I wasn’t entirely sure exactly what she did and I thought, ‘Well, she must be one of us,’ because when I get together with my dear friends Jane Pike and Kathy Price we all laugh about how we can’t easily describe what it is we actually do.

If you came on a Place of Peace course, I’d say that you’d go away feeling happier and steadier and more at ease with yourself and with your horses, but I can’t totally say how we get there. There’s a little bit of mystery and a little bit of alchemy. When one of my writers says, as she did yesterday, ‘You hit me right in the heart,’ I’m not fully certain of what I’m doing, except for being very present and listening very carefully and making my imagination work as hard as it can.

I have no false modesty. I gave that up years ago. (The red mare did not like it. She’d probably tell you it’s because it has the word ‘false’ in the title.) I’m pretty decent at what I do. I am, however, still in the reality of the low places, still walking in the foothills, as I practise and learn and grow. I do not dance inexplicably on the mountain peaks. One day I might, if I work hard and spread my wings. Not yet. But Jenny has some stardust in her, and I’ve been hesitating about how to write about it, because it really was like magic.

We chatted and laughed and then she asked me three questions – I think it was three – and I wasn’t sure I had an answer and then an answer came up right from my gut and everything changed.

That’s all I can say. There’s no better way to describe it. And I laughed and laughed and laughed some more and said, several times, ‘How did you do that?’ and then I went and rode the red mare and we were all ease and connection and the lingering doom stories I realised I’d been carrying around in the back of my mind had gone.

Something is totally different. From three questions and a smiling face and whatever that magic was, spreading itself across the thousands of miles between us.

It was such a lovely and generous thing to do. Jenny just gave it to me. She made me want to be a better helper for my horse people and for my writers. She made me want to rise.

I wish I could explain it all a little better, but I can’t, quite. I just want to say thank you.

I like to think that everyone has some magic in them. But as I actually experience it, I reckon we humans might be lucky to meet a handful of people in life who seem to have that magic available to them, near the surface, to share.

The red mare has it, and gives it. No other horse in our herd has ever invented the Place of Peace with their bare hooves, nor would they want to. She made it up and she offers it to everyone and the rest all learn it from her and follow her lead. I had a dog who had the magic, years ago, and she once helped a little girl who was scared of everything be brave, so that her mother looked at me with tears in her eyes and said, ‘She’s never done that before.’ And there are some lovely humans who have it. Perhaps I mean they are not afraid of their own magic, so they can carry it with them, lightly.

I think I saw some of that. And I’m glad and grateful. Thank you, Jenny. You did a beautiful thing. I’m still smiling.

Tania Kindersley, AKA The Red Mare. You can read her other lovely posts on Facebook here.

Feel with a capital F is the stardust.

Tania is so sweetly calling it stardust. Even though the kind of profound shift Tania is talking about happens routinely, I treasure each healing of mind body and spirit. However… can you see me smiling and rolling my eyes? What I do in any session or lesson is quite simple really. I use the same connection, the same inner communication, the same Feel that I teach you for your horse – and I use it with people too. And yes I’ve been doing this for a very long time now and I’m very good at it. Lucky you folks that I learned how to teach it a LOT faster than I learned it!

Feel is our ability to recognize, tap into, understand and flow with that two way inner communication with others, that everyone has. Tania has it in spades and uses it beautifully in that incredibly sensitive, gentle way that she has.

It’s her Feel – her natural connection to others that you have too in your own unique way, that enables her to connect so deeply and “hear” the red mare. It’s the same Feel that enables me in a healing or teaching session, to pick up where the “problem” lies and to flow with what the solution is, so that the source of the problem is just eliminated.

Horses are brilliant at teaching us this when we know how to allow them. Here we teach people how to use that same Feel to have a flowing “conversation” and understanding with their horse and to be able to flow with solutions to problems usually before they even happen. Before they even begin!

And we bring that experience to people in our online programs with their horses. I’ve never met anyone I couldn’t teach Feel.

Yeah it just feels like magic because the effects are so profound. It turns out that magic and stardust happens routinely around here… Ahhh out of the shadows indeed.