Steve’s healing was what other people call miracles.
Decades old injuries and the pain that went with them, gone in just weeks.
Steve’s experience is just one of many, many examples of mental, emotional and physical healing in our community. He’d been carrying the injuries from over 100 falls during his 4 star 3 day eventing career, some of them serious and still adversely effecting him over 20 years later. We’ll talk about why so many falls when he was a world class rider, further down the page.
Here’s a summary of this page cos’ there’s a LOT of stuff in here that horse riders could get excited about!
- We talk about how understanding our connection to others – our Feel for our horse is an example – becomes a mechanism for healing ourselves. (And for our horses too but this page is about us.
- We talk about the tension and fright that are locked into us after a fall or accident, can build up so slowly that we don’t notice it, with one minor fall adding to the next or we can find ourselves reluctant to get back on after a big fall and injury. Each fall creates a tension that disconnects our riding seat further, making the next fall more and more likely AND disconnecting us from our horse. The fright imprint very often turns out to be gift in disguise when the way we release it here very often brings a flood of understanding that brings our joy back.
- We talk about how you and your horse can escalate each other into more and more relaxation, more and more healing. Joyful stuff…
- We talk about the healing that happens when we’re in good posture, when our bodies are working as the lovely smooth giant spring, as we were designed. Fluid, flowing movement that is easy on the muscles and joints creates the opportunity for our body to heal things that are normally considered impossible. Good posture becomes effortless when we’ve released the stress and tension that took us out of our ease of movement in the first place. Riding the way we teach it here brings that good posture back. There’s a fabulous case study at the bottom of the page.
- We talk about the process of emotional stress causing physical tension and how that tension causes all kinds of health issues. Releasing that stress reverses the process and creates healing that still awes me thirty years later.
Let’s get your email registered for our free live seminars before we go onto the rest of this page. If you’re particularly interested in healing for the person, your emails will include a couple of seminars that will knock your socks off. Ahhh the gifts horses bring us! Then I’ll be able to let you know how to join us for an unforgettable experience of the connection to your animals and your loved ones – happiness, healing and horses.
First, HOW does that healing happen?
You’ll either smile every time you hear me say this or get sick of it… Emotional stress causes physical tension that adversely effects muscles, which causes a cascade of other adverse health effects. The stress adversely affects our posture (our ease of movement and our joint action that’s responsible for things like arthritis) and then through the complex interaction of spinal bones with organs and the energy meridians that the Chinese taught us about, the organs are eventually adversely affected as well.
That’s not even taking into consideration the way that emotional stress prompts the release of all kinds of brain chemicals and hormones that govern the way our and our horse’s minds bodies and spirits work in its attempt to heal the insults – yeah let’s call them insults – to our system.
So when you reverse that stress and Release the tension from it – healing happens, sometimes extraordinary healing that is usually considered impossible in the mainstream medical model. If you’ve been following some of the testimonial stories on the home page and the sidebar (underneath the articles on your mobile) you’ll see that there’s no point in false modesty – we are masters at Releasing stress, Re-Learning a new way of being and Re-programming brains and muscles for a much more relaxed normal and the healing that happens from that – really quickly.
FEEL for your horse and other animals as a mechanism for healing
Eliminating emotional stress involves understanding your unique talent of Feeling for others. Horses and other animals are masters at teaching this too. For example, using our Feel, the emotion of fear mostly becomes an easy to understand, mild feeling that I call the early warning signal that Something is Not Quite Right. Let’s stick with horses for a moment. You can still feel a bigger fear – usually a LOT less often – but you’ll use fear to help you and your horse to feel safe – so it’s a momentary feeling.
Staying with fear as an example, when we use our fear the way it was designed, there’s none of this bottling up of stress that leads to tension that leads to illness. Getting understanding of a current fear, will often release a flood of OLD fears and stress and tensions from the past and THAT folks is a monumental healing opportunity.
Getting good at Feel for our horse that we learn in order to help THEM, becomes an easy and almost automatic journey of healing for ourselves as well.
Ditto with frustration and anger and all the other crappy feeling emotions that will turn out to not be so crappy after all. And ditto again with pain and discomfort, pent up stuck energy, anguish, worrying yourself sleepless. I could talk about this stuff underwater, but we’ll leave it at that for the moment!
The fright imprint that causes residual tension in our bodies after a fall or an accident turns out to be a gift in disguise.
There’s a thing that happens when we have an accident or a fall – we tense our bodies up with fright at the point of impact. The residual tension is stuck in our bodies, causing our riding seat to be disconnected form our horse and adversely effecting our ability to flow with our horse.
These falls suck the joy out of your connection with your horse.
Multiple falls or really bad falls, build up layers of that tension that actually brace your body in the saddle. Then when something goes wrong, that bracing actually CAUSES the next fall – the bracing itself takes you out of a good riding seat and pings you out of the saddle. We talked earlier about Steve and his 100 falls off his Olympic horse – THAT is the reason Steve had so many falls even though he was a world class rider! That’s also the reason he didn’t have another fall after doing this work.
I call that tension a fright imprint. If you’ve fallen off or had a big accident, you’ve experienced what I mean – it’s that tension that you feel when you go to get on that horse again or drive that car again.
Here’s the thing though folks – the tension didn’t go away when you pushed your way through it – you just got used to it. And it’s been lurking in there, biting you on the butt every time something else went wrong that triggered a bit of a fright, where the tension caused the next fall to be more likely. The build up of layers of that tension is one of two causes of riders losing their nerve and there’s two lessons to fix it in Fast Track. Actually we fix BOTH causes of riders losing their nerve on Fast Track. 🙂
Do you get how BIG this is? To be able to flow with your horse again with complete confidence? After Steve had done repeated releasing of his lifetime of big falls and healing the injuries caused by them, he described what he felt like afterwards. His voice was filled with wonder as he said “I’ve got my childhood ease back.”
I’ve got story after story after story of folks who released one or even multiple fright imprints with a flood of understanding that transformed their lives with horses – way beyond mere falls – really joyful stuff.
If the fright is more like PTSD than residual tension, then you can do those two lessons in Fast Track, then come into our free monthly seminars and work with me live or you can add paid sessions if you have a super serious PTSD problem.
The healing that happens for the human just in the presence of a relaxed horse.
Another of the lovely ways of working with horses in the way that we do here, is the healing that can be triggered just by being in the presence of a relaxed horse.
A study from the HeartMath Institute measured the physical effect of a horse on a human. They proved what horse lovers have known for millenia. They discovered that within 55 metres of a horse, people’s heart rates evened out, their blood pressure dropped and their breathing slowed and there was an increase in the feel good hormones that also reduce pain – all the lovely effects of meditation.
The thing that I observed is, that the the healing effect is accelerated in the presence of a RELAXED horse. That means you can be in overwhelm and just being in the presence of your RELAXED horse can help bring you out of it. (I always think it’s a good idea to do nothing at all with them, except relax ourselves, in these circumstances.)
There’s a whole new level of relaxation that comes in a horse from releasing their tension when they feel heard. So what happens as you “listen” to your horse with your Feel, they find a deeper level of relaxation and because of that, they’re helping YOU to find it too. So you and your horse escalate each other into more and more relaxation, more and more confidence and more and more healing opportunities for both of you.
I’ve watched and felt horses DELIBERATELY influencing the healing of a person in trouble. They awe me…
Good posture is not boring!
Another trigger for healing things that are often considered impossible to heal is good posture. I’ve become the posture Queen – I am sooo… passionate about it. You’ll discover that good posture isn’t about standing up straight like I was taught at school – it’s about our bodies working kind of like the giant spring they were designed to be – with fluid, flowing movement that is easy on the muscles and joints.
When we remove the jarring on the joints by bringing someone into EFFORTLESSLY good posture with our unique Release Re-learn and Re-Program work, then the body can heal itself the way it was designed to – like Steve’s body healed from over 100 falls (holy shit REALLY? Over 100 falls!) Some of which he had been carrying the injuries of, 20 years later.
And now he doesn’t…
Also like Kristina healing her arthritis in the video below.
Kristina’s Healing of Crippling Arthritis
Kristina was my working student, living here with us for nearly a year. She worked her way through our Fast Track program as well as living all those ‘horsey’ principles of self awareness that cascade into the rest of our life. Her healing was phenomenal and supposedly impossible.
She arrived here crippled with arthritis that she’d had since childhood. You can watch her inspiring story in the video below.