That search for a connection something that is required if you hope to turn riding into a mindfulness practice.

And if you are riding and what you are engaging in is anything else, you are missing on an incredible experience. An opportunity to grow and heal our spirit.
Missing out on what the horses can teach us. Missing out on a completely different type of relationship. And your horses will be struggling because of this.

Taking riding and turning it into a mindfulness riding practice.... is how we can grow, heal ourselves, help others heal, and reach new levels of awareness while we also end up with an incredible relationship with our horses and also how we can keep them happy and health all while making sure they can have a voice of their own so that we can continue to learn from them.

So, how do we turn riding into a mindfulness program?

It starts with that quiet we were talking about. A quiet you need to begin to find before you even approach the horse. We need to find the quiet so that we can learn to be more aware of another than ourselves.

And in this case it is the horses that we need to find a greater awareness of.

To expand our awareness of another only possible if we can find that quiet we were talking about.

A quiet in us and then reaching out with every sense, even those that you are not aware of, so that we can see, hear, touch, sense what else is here. So we can experience what else is here.

Awareness is the key both in learning to ride as if you are that centaur and if you want to find what meditation and mindfulness can bring to you.

We need to learn how to reach a state of awareness .We need to learn how to be more aware of another than ourselves. We need to learn how to reach a higher level of awareness.

Learning awareness is to learn of something other than you.
Easier to do when we have learned to at least to start with one.

And for many reasons, horses are uniquely suited to be the first. Both off and on the horse.

We can approach this in two ways. Something we do to experience something better with our horses. Or engaging with the horses to find a new way of being.
Either way, whether you go for one or the other, it doesn’t matter because, in the end, you will get both.

If you are doing this because you want to experience something better with your horse, you might be asking why would any of this be necessary?

And the simple answer is...
** Because your horse knows. **

It is something that he is looking for.
Because even if you don’t know yet, he does.

That this is something that completely changes the story of what happens next.