Here I am just starting this blog after 30 years of learning, teaching, training and healing horses. I am a late bloomer. It is ok, we all bloom when we bloom and not all are destined to bloom early. Some have small blossoms with potent seeds, some have big showy blooms that attract lots of attention in full bloom.
Each week, each month, each year that passes with me and the horses I think; “wow, this is totally incredible. The horses are just changing so fast.” I cannot believe how much and how fast the horses leave behind their unhappy, uncooperative, unable performance and behavior and bloom into passion flowers when the right mix of attention to their needs, interesting interactions with humans, and steady quiet consistent leadership fertilizes their waiting hearts, minds and bodies.”
This is happening so much lately. I have been on a push to document what I do with horses that makes me a horse magnet, and makes them so calm and happy. I have been wanting to get pictures of them when we first meet, and again after they and their owners have learned to connect and trust. But I keep forgetting to take pictures or video the very first time that I see them, and now by the end of the first session they are already changing, so the pictures that I do get don’t truly show the “before”.
Today I went to see a couple of horses and their beginner owner. This is our third visit for one horse (Miguel) and second visit for another (Pete). Last week when I met Pete his topline was very contracted, droopy and stiff. He looked “skinny and stringy”. I spent an hour working on him, teaching his owner about the factors that contribute to his current condition and behavior, and teaching her how to do some Ttouch on him. She did the Ttouch work three times during the week. This week when I went back he had already changed and looked “softer and fluffier” . His muscles had already started to lose that stringy contracted look. Fabulous, but no before picture.
It is the results for both horses and humans that really matter. The horses input has changed the humans too. His owners are happier, softer, falling in love with their horses. We all bloom with the right nutrients.
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