From Your Horse’s Heart – the online lesson program developed BY nervous riders and nervous horses FOR nervous riders and nervous horses.

What I have created here, from my very personal experience and with the help of hundreds of nervous people and nervous horses, is an on line lesson program to show you how to get happiness for you AND your horse, how to keep it and how you can make it a day to day reality in everything that you do with your horse.

It’s a practical program with lots of techniques and a focus on safety, but with a deep emphasis on the relationship and a beautiful bond between horse and rider.

Click here to go to my new website and read all about it!  Wooohooo!

I just laughed at  myself – this post goes in more categories than any other most I’ve ever written!

Even launching  on Thanksgiving weekend, the international group only had two places left at the end of the day and they are now taken too.

So, we are completely sold out now!  If anyone is interested in going on the reserve list give me an email because we don’t actually start the course until the 3rd week in January.

And I am sooo… looking forward to working with this amazing bunch of women. (All women this time.)        :) jenny

Leave your comments below! jen

I thought you would be interested in knowing a bit about my combination horse/spiritual journey to see where I am coming from and what you might be able to expect for yourself from a spiritual horsemanship course with me.

Man I used to do things the hard way – such a struggle.

By  1998, I had started my training and worked as a “healer” and knew the power of emotional healing.  But I didn’t work on my own loved ones back in those days.

I was in the Parelli instructor program and staying a Parelli instructor depended on getting my Level 3.   (From what I gather now, that is Level 4 in the new levels program.)

I was really struggling with Bobby – yep, the same Bobby that is still helping me out all these years later!

I remember going to my Rhonda, my kinesiology teacher to work on the emotional aspects of getting good with him in an attempt to get my level 3.

I went to Rhonda to work on my fear of falling.

I went to Rhonda to work on my fear of exams.

I went to Rhonda to work on my fear of failure.  (By this time I had literally tens of thousands of dollars invested in being a Parelli instructor and we were all, as a family, financially committed to that outcome.

At one stage I remember Rhonda questioning the amount of time, effort and money that I was putting into the horse side of my life journey.   It is not so surprising that she should have questioned that, because logically, I had a lot more serious things to worry about.   (My husband’s complete incapacitation from a truck accident being one of them!)

When I look back in hind sight, I see how blessed I have been to have had the possibility of personal growth through the grace of The Horse and I see how much further I have come than if I had been struggling without their support.

As well as working on myself, I took Bobby to Rhonda too, to work on his tendency to break down every time I went to video my exams.

I had his genetic pre-dispositions worked on.  I had his muscles massaged, his emotions cleared, his hormones tweaked, his chakras balanced and his spine re-aligned.

He had acupuncture, iridology, Bowen therapy, homeopathic
medicine, herbal medicine, Bach flowers, kinesiology and whatever else he tested up for.  He was even genetically blueprinted to the tune of hundreds of dollars. (That’s a technique where we reduce the vulnerability to genetic pre-dispositions.)

I jumped out of a perfectly good aeroplane in an attempt to beat my fear of falling.  (There’s a whole other story there for another day…

And I made a complete and dangerous fool out of myself trying to learn to ride a unicycle to improve my balance.

That darned thing is still out in the shed!  Anyone else want it?

I must have gone to more clinics here and in America than any other person I know.  I went to America in 1996 for the very first summer of clinics at the new ranch in Pagosa Springs with Pat and Linda Parelli.   I traipsed all over Victoria chasing learning and went as far inter-state as I could reach.   One time I remember I drove for over two days taking Bobby interstate for yet another clinic week.

With all that learning, I had horsemanship techniques coming out the wazoo.  Still do…

And Bobby STILL wasn’t giving me what I wanted and he STILL broke down in ten different ways at the drop of a hat.

In fact, not only wasn’t he giving me what I wanted (except in his liberty work, which was magnificent) he was an utter pig of a horse who resisted me at every turn. (yeah you don’t have to grab the keyboard to scold me about my attitude – I get that now!)

In frustrated fury, I eventually threw him out into the paddock and told him he was lucky that I didn’t believe in putting horses into pet food or some dog would be eating him.

(I’m cringing here now, but it gets worse…)

I told him to keep out of my way because I didn’t even want to look at him.

I have thanked God many, many times for Bobby’s courage and conviction to make a stand for this “dumb” human.  And I am not talking about dumb as in stupid (but hey if that cap fitted back then…) but dumb as in can’t speak, can’t hear.

It was two years later of barely looking at him -  I couldn’t bear the look in his eyes – before I sat on his back again.  And that was the day of the very first entries in the notebooks that I ended up calling Bobby’s Diaries – that two years later became the book of the same name. Most of you know that story so I won’t go into it again.

Oh man, the forgivingness of him… I still cry with gratitude now even thinking of it.  Waiting all that time for me – maybe for me to grow enough to find my way back to him.

Breathe jen…

The combination of my continuing development as a “healer” and my work with Bobby writing Bobby’s Diaries, led me to a big dummy spit some years later.  And I mean a real dummy spit.  The only thing missing was the actual dummy hitting the ground as I stamped on it in temper.  I actually went through all the actions –
foot on ground – stamping.

I was sooo… over doing things the hard way.  Sooo… over struggling.  I no longer believed that we had to struggle to feel good.  Our old Prime Minister’s  “life wasn’t meant to be easy” quote was firmly relegated to the garbage bin where it belonged. (For you Aussie’s reading this, that was Malcolm Fraser.   Can you believe that?  He actually had a whole generation of people thinking life wasn’t meant to be easy!)

Life WAS meant to be easy…
It CAN be easy…

… And God or the universe or whatever name you want to give to that wonderful all knowing, all encompassing, bigger than us, “Being” out there – set up a bunch of circumstances in front of me that when I understood and worked at it – made it possible for me to end my struggle and brought me to the peace of mind and happiness and sheer aliveness that I experience as routine today.

Some of that I wrote about in Zen Connection with Horses.  The journey since that book has been even more accelerated.

Yes I am getting to the point of the story!

So here I have been blessed (and worked hard too) to have this unique combination of excellent horse skills and techniques and deep spirituality – by the grace of a horse – to bring me to a place where my WHOLE life is affected beautifully.

It’s that ability to find peace of mind and happiness easily, that I want to bring to you with this unique course. 

Although this 6 month course is based around horses – with the combination of practical down to earth horsemanship and deep spirituality – you can expect not only good horsemanship – and a feeling of confidence and capability at whatever level you are working at – but you can expect a complete flow through into other aspects of your life as well.

You can see why this course is not going to be for everyone.  Not everyone is up for peace of mind and happiness.  Crikey!  Just kidding!  That’s not the reason at all!

It’s because the spiritual nature of this intimate course is not everyone’s cup of tea.  Well, I did wake you up there, though, didn’t I, with that naughty crack?

Here’s the catch…

Because this is a spiritual course and a whole bunch of people are quite rightly NOT going to be interested in hearing me go on and on about it, I want to get a list of everyone who is potentially interested in doing this course if it pans out to be everything I think it will be.

So here is what I am asking you to do

I am making a list of everyone potentially interested in getting in at the start of all this, so that I only email interested people from now on.

And please, please, please keep leaving your comments in the comments section below or email me privately.

As before, anyone who is contributing to the development of these programs with suggestions in comments and emails, can have a free 15 minute Skype or phone  lesson with me.  It will give you a chance to feel how amazing and effective that connection is – even by distance.

The feedback from the free lessons that have already happened is fabulous!

Click here to keep getting emails about the spiritual horsemanship course.

If enough people actually get on this list, then I’ll go ahead and develop this program.

If there’s not enough interest, no worries, I’ll stick to the lesson program developed BY nervous people and nervous riders FOR nervous people and nervous riders.  That’s an earth changing event in its own right and is sooo… special.

It and The Six Keys to Happiness with Your Horse will be going ahead anyway!  (That’s getting excitedly close to the finish line!)

Keep on doin’ a little dance of joy!      jenny

He is an adult, complete beginner who doesn’t have a horse yet who would like to explore his attraction for horses and see where it goes from there.

This is a seriously nice guy so lets see if we can look after him!

I am well known I think, for being a very practical, down to earth spiritual person.  Somebody once said to me that I was the most ordinary weird person she had ever met.  I think it was a compliment.

In that desire to produce very practical results between people and their horses, I have held back on sharing my deeply spiritual nature.  I have hidden a part of myself.

Well I am ready to step out now…

The peace of mind and happiness that I found amidst what should have been very traumatic circumstances last year, is a VERY big deal and something that I would wish that everyone could have – that YOU could have. (Not the traumatic event – the peace of mind and happiness!)

But there is something even bigger going on now.

For some time now I have been flickering around on the edges of expanded consciousness – a few times actually falling into that beautiful whirlpool.
And guess what – da daaaa…   It’s the horses that have taken me there!  What a surprise, hey?

This incredibly alive place that I have found is just a deeper layer of the quiet mind and internal awareness that I have been teaching for years.  It’s just a deeper level of the place where I have been teaching people to go when they needed deeper insights about what was going on with their horse.

When Bobby first asked me to find hold that place of inner awareness while I was with him, whenever I was asking him to do anything, I said to him “Crikey, I don’t think I can do both things at the same time!”

Well it took practice, though not as much as I thought.  With Bobby’s help, later that same day I hit that marvellous place where I was laughing and crying at the same time with the wonder of it.

And since then, my hard task master horse (smiling) has been holding my nose to the grindstone and requesting and reminding me of that inner awareness all the time.  It’s the practice of that with him and then at other times, that has me flickering around the edges of expanded consciousness just about as often as I want to be.

Bobby said to me back at the beginning of this part of my journey – “when you’re in that place (of deep inner awareness) I don’t have to shout”.  Crikey – poor beggar has been shouting all these years…

Where this is going…

As I look back, most of the people who contact me for help with their horses have been receiving a much more consistently spiritual help amongst some practical advice about techniques.

And every one of them has left our call, having found peace of mind after what was usually turmoil or outright terrible fear.  Being part of that and experiencing it with them when they discover that joyous feeling, is one of the wonderful side benefits of what I do.

And that joyous feeling is the result of paying the right kind of attention to the fear, anxiety, nervousness or even dread that you can experience around your horse.

The gift lesson set The Six Keys to Happiness with Your Horse is meant to connect as many horses and riders under as many circumstances as possible.  People will use that connection and different way of being with horses, to do all kinds of things that would not suit me personally to do.

I know I will still approve of what they will do with it, however, because for all of them – people and horses alike – it will be a step forwards in the direction in which THEY want to go and everybody WANTS  to be happy … we all just go about getting that differently that’s all.

From Your Horse’s Heart – developed BY nervous people and nervous horses FOR nervous people and nervous horses – that’s a wonderful, wonderful program and I am so excited about it.

The world is seriously ready for this program.  Everywhere I look and listen, people are noticing their nervousness, their anxiety and their fear – I am even hearing this from some VERY unexpected people.  So a systematic approach from the ground up – an “in your own home” coaching program is going to come down like manna from heaven to many, many people.

Thanks heaps to those who have been helping me develop this program.  Woohooo!  You rock!

Yeah, yeah – I AM getting to the point!

Well, I think that some people – not remotely all mind you – just SOME people are looking for the combination of the practical horse stuff and the deeply spiritual journey now.

And I don’t think it’s coincidence that even though this has been going on for a long time, that I am only noticing the pattern now, when I am stepping up to be seen as the deeply spiritual person that I am.

So I am thinking of an intimate coaching program – no more than 10 people on each of the two broad time zones of the world – boutique clinic size – where we systematically work our way through people and horses’ nervousness and anxieties – from the ground up to the saddle work – with a 6 month practical coaching program – whilst at the same time taking a very spiritual approach.

We would use the intimacy and power of a very small group of people meeting regularly over the phone and over the net.

We would use the practicality of the horsemanship and all the great results that will come from that – but with a strong and open spiritual focus that will deliberately spill the happiness with your horses into the rest of your life.

Mega support for you with mega access to me for six whole months.

All the calls for the group would only be available to people from the group itself – not for public consumption or publication and would be recorded so that you could still get to listen to your call even if you had something going on and missed the actual time.

This program would be a fast track to the “mind like still water” that Mark Rashid talks about and yet cover all kinds of practical horse stuff at the time and all the techniques that go with that.

Resulting in seriously good horsemanship, fun, keeping ourselves safe, making good friends to nurture the joy which can be fragile at the beginning – and solving the problems of life, love and the universe.  (Just kidding about the last part!)  … Or am I?

Now, this is the important bit.  I need your help to know whether to go ahead or not…

• What do you think?
• Should I do this?  Or should I stick to the practical stuff in the nervous people / nervous horse program?  Which is sooo…  seriously beautiful in its own right…
• Would you be interested?

Your feedback is going to be critical.

I’m going to be putting “me” on the line here in a completely different way than normal and I don’t want to go there unless there is enough potential interest.

If you have a second or two… please leave a comment below and let me know what you think.  Email me personally if you prefer.  Be completely open please – pros and cons.  I really want to know.

I’ll do my best to respond to each and every comment.

Thanks…
And doin’ a little dance of joy and love to all…  jenny

Hey – was it worth the cliffhanger?

I looked around recently and realised that I had everything that I had asked for.   Go figure, that everything that I had wanted should have come out of such a traumatic event as losing our farm!

During that year, even though I experienced episodes of grief and sadness – in between AND for most of the time, I found the most peace of mind and happiness that I have ever known.

What a gift the horses have been in that whole process. I am not so sure that it would have happened like that without them…

Empowering others to find that peace of mind and happiness no matter what is going on in their lives has become a very important part of what I do.

That peace of mind and happiness has become a major focus of my work – especially with the people who ring me asking for help with their horses.  I so love it when they get their ahaa… moments, their fear disappears and they start experiencing the first stirrings of joyfulness.

Being a part of that process, means that I am constantly experiencing that joyfulness with them.  Feeling like that so often while I’m working – what a wonderful way to earn a living!

Anyway, that leads me to the huge insight that I have been getting over the last few days.

This is much bigger than The Six Keys to Happiness with Your Horse.  It’s much bigger than From Your Horse’s Heart – developed BY nervous people and horses FOR nervous people and horses.

It’s so big that it’s blowing me away and leaving me feeling a little vulnerable…

Kissing spine happens because the horse is arching their back the wrong way, sagging like a saggy mattress with the human sitting on the saggy bit.  And the angles of the sag have the bones of the back wearing in ways it was not designed to do.

My horse Bobby had it.  With Bobby I did that damage a long time ago – before the days of writing Bobby’s Diaries even.  It’s lovely to think that he actually wanted to come back and be ridden after that and that as he lifted his back properly (no more saggy mattress!) he could carry me comfortably and with strength.

There’s a bunch of things that can make a horse sag his back when we ride.
• Poor saddle fit.
• Being out of their comfort zone – a horse IN their comfort zone lifts his back and carries us with strength and power and soft rhythm.
• Our riding posture not being as good as it should be.

I have done the hard yards with all of these issues, making the “mistakes”, learning from them and teaching other people how to avoid them.

Click here for the rest of this story…

From Your Horse’s Heart – an internet based lesson program developed BY nervous riders and horses FOR nervous riders and nervous horses.

Wooohooo!  A very timely win for Michelle who can use her free Skype lesson to work on a small hiccup she is experiencing right now.

Hmmm… everything happens for a reason!