Books with Spirit – Joyfulness between horses and people

I enjoyed reading Linda Parelli’s article on Hill Therapy in the Fluidity program.  Since that is a particularly strong area of expertise for me, I much enjoyed seeing a focus on restoring horses to good muscular and skeletal health.  

You can add a powerful improvement for your horse to that Hill Therapy Program – by adding an emotional aspect to the work.   Why would you want to do that? What have emotions got to do with bad posture, poor musculature, short, choppy, uneven strides and even skeletal damage? 

I can go into great detail about how it happens that our horse’s emotions (ours too!) can result in physical problems, but I don’t think this article is the place for that kind of depth of explanation. Either accept that for the moment until I’ve proved it to you – or if like me, you just love that detail, then email me and I am happy to put together a more detailed explanation of how it happens. 

…Back to emotions causing physical problems… A horse who is heavy on the forehand, with short choppy strides and / or stiffness in their way of going, whether they have a visibly damaged back or not, is essentially a horse who is carrying some fear – either old fear or new.  

I have been showing people for quite a long time now that when we help our horse get rid of old fears and traumas, then their backs, posture and stride visibly improves – and it improves, often quite dramatically, within days. 

A horse who is without fear … is a horse who has soft, fluid, rhythmic strides… is a horse who has an elevated back …and is a horse who is in self carriage on a loose rein…  

Yes, you can read that again – that IS what I said, a horse who has no fear IS in the soft, fluid, rhythmic strides and elevated back of self carriage. 

I’ll say it again, because it is sooo… important.  The opposite is also true.  A horse who does not have soft, fluid, rhythmic strides and is not in self carriage, is a horse who is carrying fear – whether it is old fear or new.

We don’t have to worry about that fact, though, because with Zen Connection with Horses, we have a way to understand new fears and release old ones.

And with the emotional release, in that lovely new posture, the horses start to heal all kinds of physical problems. I routinely see horses with damaged backs, poor posture and painful muscles visibly improve all of that by just addressing the horse’s deep and often old fears.  

Horses are almost always in more fear and carrying the physical effects of more fear, than their people realize.  It’s often fear or anxiety from long before we met them. (Although I have to confess, that I was responsible for much of my horse Bobby’s tension and fears.) 

How to address those fears, and release them and get the physical recovery that comes from that release, is described step by step in the book and audio lesson set “Zen Connection with Horses”. 

Now add THAT to the Hill Therapy that Linda describes and I promise you that you will be blown away by the results. 

An additional benefit to “Zen Connection with Horses” is that it also takes you step by step how to consciously develop the intuition and connection with your horse that all great horsemen and women have.  We used to think that you were either born with those skills or not and that it wasn’t teachable. 

Well, I am very happy to tell you that that is not the case – it’s a VERY learnable skill and the combination of the book and audio lesson set of Zen Connection with Horses  has already helped heaps of ordinary people develop those world class skills.  

We have students who are complete beginners with horses, who have results and co-operation from their horse that advanced competition riders have envied.  We have scared, nervous riders and scared nervous horses who have found a peace and joyfulness together that is inspiring.  Have a browse through the archives on this website, they are filled with inspiring stories. 

Zen Connection with Horses is not a method.  It’s a way of being with horses that you are able to apply to every method of horsemanship. It is a profound and beautiful addition to you and your horse’s relationship whatever you are doing with them. 

I am prepared to put the information about how to add the emotional component to the Parelli Hill Therapy Program, out free over this website.  But I can’t put all the information that’s in Zen Connection with Horses into this article – it’s simply not practical and there is mega too much information.  To condense it is to risk you missing out by only having part of the story.  The book and CD are jam packed with profound and eye opening insights that will be completely new to you. 

So, when you have read Zen Connection with Horses, email me at jenny@bookswithspirit. com (take out the space when you email me) and I will cheerfully give you the link to the rest of the article “Improved Hill Therapy Program”.

If you haven’t got Zen Connection with Horses yet, you have nothing to lose with my personal “love this book or get your money back” guarantee.  Click here to go to the bookshop.

For those who don’t know me, I was one of the Parelli instructors in the first student instructor intake in Australia in 1997 and dropped out of the instructor program when my horse Bobby broke down for the umpteenth time.  (That is not so very surprising with what I know now!)

I have had many occasions to reflect on my gratitude to Pat and Linda Parelli (Linda personally sponsored me into the instructor program) for setting me onto this wonderful path all those years ago.  And many occasions to reflect on my gratitude to my horse Bobby, with his stubborn persistence that there was more for us to know and do.