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What Is Equine Therapy?
Great Question! Equine therapy, also known as equine-assisted therapy or horse therapy, involves interactions between individuals and horses to promote emotional, physical, and mental well-being. Here are some examples of equine therapy activities: It’s important to note that equine therapy is facilitated by trained professionals, including therapists, instructors, and equine specialists, who ensure the safety…
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Equine Assisted Experiences
MuMu and I have been involved in Equine Assisted Experiences for many years. We practice something we call Equine Assisted Inspiration. Because I’m an artist and Mu is a skilled practitioner of clear communication, we create sessions with people looking to discover new personal insight. Guided work at liberty (no ropes or equipment of any…
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What Are The Benefits of Therapeutic Riding?
Riding therapy, also known as horseback riding therapy or hippotherapy, can really help people with different challenges, both physically and emotionally. It’s pretty awesome! Here are some ways in which therapeutic riding can help people: It’s important to note that therapeutic riding is often conducted under the guidance of trained and certified instructors, therapists, and…
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MuMu is Baaaack!
This blog started out as a journal of my interaction with a young horse I got when we were both 19 years younger. It was the beginning of my horse journey. He was a yearling paint stuck out in a field in Kentucky with a bunch of mean mares. I was a forty-something horse crazy…
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Quantum Riding 10+
Besides blogging about horses and horsemanship I also am an artist. Right now I’m in the midst of a project entitled “Big Idea 10+” in which I drew a sketch that somehow builds off of the one just prior to it. Because I recently attended a clinic in which we focused on balance, energy, impulsion and other…
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Take The Time It Takes
A Graduation of Sorts Last week my greenish paint horse and I went on a trail ride with some friends in a beautiful landscape on a gorgeous summer day. My wonderful friend Lindy Huber included us in her blog post about it here. Her words about our slow journey inspired me to make this post. It wasn’t the first time…
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Decade of the Unicorn
It is the Decade of the Unicorn. I should know, because last year during the Year of the Unicorn I wasn’t finished considering these mythical beings, so I extended the deadline. ( For a quick tutorial on how to find unicorns in your area visit “Finding Unicorns“) You can do stuff like that when you’re a SEHI (Super Empowered Hopeful…
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Backyard Concert
One of the truly wonderful traits of horses is their ability to embrace the now-ness of any given moment. On this unusually clement afternoon in late January a young cellist sets up to practice for an equine audience. Iota McHippus, the mini in the yard with him has shown interest in music before so he…
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My Horse Doesn’t…
My horse doesn’t: care what others think of him. try to call attention to his work. give a thought to anything but acting in the moment. During the next six months to a year I shall endeavor to become more like him. Because he doesn’t make a whole lot of money, my horse, I imagine…
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The Wrong Horse is the Right Horse For Me
The longer I’m on my walk with Mu the more I come to realize just what a crazy idea this was. I bought an undernourished yearling paint blithely out of a field. Why? I knew just enough about horses at the time to understand it was somewhat unusual for an unhandled youngster to walk right…
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Fermilab test throws off more matter than antimatter — and this matters
May 29, 2010 Reposted from: Ron Grossman for the Chicago Tribune By the logic of science, things simply shouldn’t exist. The best scientific minds of several generations have reasoned that shortly after the Big Bang created the universe, matter and antimatter should have wiped each other out. So that explains the global chain reaction of…
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Horse Haiku #004 – Mud
Ah, rain gently falls. And falls and falls and falls and– Warm mud past my hocks.
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Horse Haiku #003 – Kentucky Derby
Prance…DING! Run–run–run– Hang on little man. WIN! What? I don’t eat roses.
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Being
Mumu is an expert when it comes to being in the now. When he is walking, he walks. When he’s eating – believe me – he EATS! Whatever he focuses on he gives it his full attention. He’s not a multi-tasker like me, who might be answering email, texting, baking bread, doing laundry and watching…
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Field Play
Iota McHippus and his big brother Muon enjoy an equine life perhaps among the more pleasurable for any equine anywhere any time in history. Indeed you can wonder how animal ethologists ever thought animals were incapable of play after joining us for a walk at DogTrot hill:
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Growing Pains
Iota McHippus is a pretty small miniature horse. Small though he may be, his ‘horseanality’ is humongous! He maintained a presence on Facebook (www.facebook.com/iotamchippus) where he made snarky updates throughout his busy day. He calls me The Lady and he usually doesn’t think highly of my decisions for his care. Take for example this past…
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No Foot – No Horse
In 2008 Mu was diagnosed with a disease of the hoof known as “white line” disease. It is a fungal infection that invades the area between the hard outer horn of the hoof and the inner blood-fed tissue via the structural connective layer known as the white line. It’s an anaerobic process that thrives in…
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Working On Whoa Part 1
Sometimes fortune joins us in our horseman’s journey by arranging for a head-banging, eye opening incident to add movement and vibrant color to what up to then may have been a black and white still photo of one’s own horse & human show. In the case with me and Mu, it took place this past…
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Carrot Sticks + Horseanalities
In August of 2009, Mu and I attended a natural horsemanship clinic that was conducted by a Certified Parelli Clinician, Jesse Peters. He was awesome and the other attendees were a true inspiration. Below are 2 paintings I made as result of this interchange. The first is a description of the proper use of the…
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Intentions: Discovering Your Core
This post highlights information gleaned from a clinic that was lead by Chris Irwin.
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Energy Fields
The energy fields experienced with horses seem to manifest from their core and bypass the normal senses zeroing in on the more subtle forces that connect us. With Mu I experience an ebb and flow that sometimes feels a lot like my own imagination (something I’m pretty familiar with) but sometimes pops out in a…
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How Not to Choose a Horse
In order to become a fully evolved human being, one must make choices that help achieve the maximum amount of personal growth while maintaining a reasonable level of aliveness. In other words, one’s growth is predicated on one’s survival in the choices made to achieve such new levels of achievement. This when one is a…
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