Today I had the pleasure of co-facilitating an equine-assisted session for a group of Social Entrepreneurs 😍 Not one of them had any idea what they’d signed up for, but they came because they trusted the person who organised the session. As it happens, the person who organised the session told us last week that she is terrified of animals 😳 We assured her that she would only need to get as close as she felt comfortable, and could stay outside the fence if she neededto 🐴 Before long she had forgotten that she was afraid and participated fully - inside the arena 🤣 So today we saw courage, connection and leadership in action. We also saw know, like and trust because that’s what brought the group to the session. They named the horses Energy, Focus, Support, and Strategy - essential elements of a social enterprise in their view - and worked together to bring them to goal they had built. There was a lot of laughter and ‘aha’ moments and everyone left with plenty of food for thought 😊 Equine-assisted work is a powerful and gentle way to get to the heart of an issue without conflict or confrontation. All that’s required is the willingness to turn up with an open mind and the courage to move beyond your comfort zone 😊

There’s a full Blood Moon and a total lunar eclipse on March 3rd 😳 Humans’ “What does it MEAN???’ ‘Everything feels intense!’ ‘I need to change my life!’ ‘ Is this why I’m crying at a toaster advert?’ Meanwhile… in the field… The horses lift their heads because the light has changed. Shadows are different. Brightness shifts. Prey animals notice environmental changes and get a little more vigilant. And then? They stand closer together, breathe, settle and go back to grazing. There’s no panic. While we might be having a group chat about cosmic destiny and energy our horses respond by regulating themselves. So if the next few days feel a bit tense here’s your herd reminder:not to howl at the moon. Be where your feet are. Breathe. The sky can be dramatic but you don’t have to.😍 QUESTION Will you be howling at moon or grounding yourself in calm energy?

Hello everyone, My name is Dar and I am from Alaska. I love horses but haven't had any in years. I just would love to live vicariously through ya-all. I currently rent and am not allowed any animals. Can't wait to get to know you and your horses.

Thanks for everyone who commented on or messaged me about my WTAF? post 😍 I know what was causing it now 😊

Sometime in the late Middle Ages, humans did something extraordinary. We took the movement of the sun, the turning of the seasons, and the rhythm of our own bodies and we built a cage around it all. Minutes. Hours. Deadlines. Quarters. Financial years. Five-year plans. Then, without really noticing, we stepped inside that cage and locked the door. Now we rush. We schedule .We measure productivity. We panic about being ‘late.’ We talk about ‘spending’ time, ‘wasting’ time, ‘running out of time’ or ‘making time as if it’s a physical commodity stored in a vault somewhere. However, when we step into nature we can see something entirely different happening. The trees are not in a hurry. The tide is not anxious. Winter does not apologise for moving more slowly than summer. Nature moves in cycles, not schedules. Horses and other animals are part of that living system and move with those cycles too. They can certainly learn routines, but without human interventions, they simply respond to light, seasons, subtle shifts in energy, pressure and release, and what is happening now, internally and externally. An animal is never late, never early and never pressed for time. There’s a saying: ‘If you have ten minutes to do something with a horse, it will take an hour. If you have an hour, it will take ten minutes.’ That's because when we enter their space carrying the pressure of our clock-cage, they feel it immediately. The tightness. The urgency. The invisible incessant ticking. And often, things don’t go as you had planned! It's not because they are being deliberately difficult but because they have no concept of our self-made cage and the limitations it imposes. They are living inside the rhythm of life. There is something profoundly regulating about being fully present beside a horse, playing with a dog, petting a cat, or sitting in nature. Time stops chasing us and we stop chasing it. Maybe one of the best lessons animals and nature offer us is that we may need to use the clock, but we do not have to live inside it and let it rule our lives.