Why Horses?

Now that we don't use horses to go to war anymore or as carriers, they can work on us. We can remove the armor and let these powerful yet sensitive beings lead us to greater physical, emotional, mental and spiritual balance, Linda Kohanov writes in her book "Way of the Horse".

Horses are uniquely suited to this work because of their responsiveness to human emotional cues.
As animals of prey, they are highly sensitive to changes in their environment and their human partners. They show us our subconscious patterns in behavior and help us become more conscious.

Horses are mirrors of our emotional responses, they are living biofeedback.

Horses use all emotions as information, no more, no less…….without any judgment.
When we suppress that are "socially unwanted", or what we call negative emotions, the emotions escalate and create more stress, high blood pressure, and we become incongruent between our words and our bodies sensations.
Horses respond to the feeling behind the mask that hides the true emotion. They mirror to us our incongruence. We recognise incongruence in another person easier than our own: you know when somebody uses words that don't fit their energy: "I am fine" and you can see steam coming out of their ears.. We are very good at hiding our incongruency for ourselves. Maybe we believe ourselves then, but horses don't. They respond to the emotion behind the words and mask. So they mirror us our incongruency and teach us that emotions are okay, if authentic, true.

When we want to use our emotions effectively, it is important to really feel the emotion, then get the message behind it, change something in response and "go back to grazing", like the horses do. Horses don't hold on to emotions.

Horses inspire authenticity, congruency, awareness and teach us balance, collection and, what Karla McLaren calls: emotional agility.

Horses help us to
become aware of what is unconscious and subconscious
find our balance
find our boundaries
find our Inner Authentic Wisdom
find our heart's desire
find ourselves, our authentic selves.

Horses teach us to accept both our light and our shadowsides
and show us that you and I are mirrors to each other,
helping each other
and that the horse, you and I
are One