Consider Mindfulness Riding
For those in equine-facilitated programs, is true connection only found on the ground? This article challenges the idea that riding cannot be a path to awareness, healing, and growth. Discover the profound possibilities that await when we shift our goal from controlling the horse to becoming one with them, exploring how riding, when done with mindfulness, can be a transformative experience for both horse and human.
Article Summary
This article explores why riding should be considered an essential part of mindfulness and facilitated programs. It directly addresses the misconception that riding is only about control, reframing it as a journey to 'become one' with the horse. Learn why giving up control is the secret to finding it, and how learning to meet the horse where they are—rather than demanding they conform to us—unlocks a new level of awareness.
Discover how this mindful approach to riding can be a healing, spiritual, and deeply connecting experience that complements and enhances any on-the-ground work. The full text provides the path to this profound partnership.
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That can’t be found here on the ground?
First, we have to know what it is that we seek? What is the end game in all of this?
Some would say it is about awareness.
To help with healing.
To connect to nature.
And the list goes on.
But the one true answer that is part of all these answers are...
To become part of the whole.
To become part of the awareness that is life incarnate. This is where we find mental, emotional, spiritual healing and growth.
That is where we find all the answers that we are looking for.
And if you can synthesize that into your understanding, you will begin to understand how riding can be a part of this.
Because sometimes the answer to becoming part of the whole is to become part of one first. And that is something we can teach to someone on the back of the horse if... if we take the right path. Pathways, lessons we can teach in a way that we can’t teach otherwise.
Because you see the lesson of riding is not about directing something that is robotic with no emotions or feelings or possibilities to interact with.
The lesson of riding is how to become part of this being in front of us.
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