Horses are the most excellent teachers for humans regarding our healing and understanding of our energy field. In a natural setting, horses are fully grounded on Mother Earth. They are, for the most part, energetically open beings. They sense the energy of the environment and the intention within the animals and humans that are around them. The ability to read, engage, and move energy within themselves and others comes second nature to a horse. Many horses become masters at intentionally moving energy in their environment and during Coaching with Horses sessions. Other horses may have sensitivities to energy but may not reach such levels of mastery. Instead, they may continue to be reactive, unaware, or unproductive in their use of energy. In doing so, they remain at a lower-ranking within the herd than those horses who have developed emotional and energetical mastery.
In the world of Coaching with Horses or Equine Facilitated Learning, horses have stepped up to be our teachers, guides, space holders, and healers for human beings of all types. Through the last fifteen years of facilitating this unique and profound work, I have watched hundreds of horses closely during sessions. I am fascinated by their responses and movements around the client. Many of the horses show up in a way that I least expect, and when I travel, they show a side of their personality that often shocks their owners. The horses have full liberty to be the horse they were born to be, which is sometimes the opposite of what their owners see. In this work, horses can be authentically themselves releasing all of the conditioning and conforming that is typically expected from them when they are with humans. As I hold space and facilitate a person through their experience with a horse, I also can notice the subtleties of communication and energy exchange between the horse and a human. I am always amazed at the patterns I see and how the horses are participating in helping to shift energetic or emotional patterns held in the consciousness of the human.
- My students often ask me:
- What are the horses doing with the energy we are offering them?
- What can we learn about myself and my energy field during the process?
- Why are horses so willing to be the conduit of change for humans?
There are many ways that horses work with us and help us to see our energetic contribution (our current energy we are offering others). They also help humans to understand their energetic signature or one’s continual energetic offering to the world. Without an understanding of who we are at an emotional and energetical level and how to master agility within our energy field, we can become much like a horse who never matures enough to be trusted or given a job that requires grounding and presence. We won’t believe our self, and others also won’t trust us. Without knowing ourselves at an intimate level, we will lack the ability to allow our real soul’s calling to emerge and to feel we are living the life we were born to live.
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