I have come to the conclusion that the difficulty with breaking down things into babysteps is when you have the GOAL in mind. It is very easy then to try to...
Hello Ulrika, that is a really wonderful example of baby steps working so well! I am so sorry if it was anything that I wrote which made you feel that you...
Hi Pam, I am glad to hear that I am not the only one who gets these flashes, although we could both well do without them! For Bruno, it turns out that those...
Hi Mel, I really appreciate your taking so much time and trouble to explain so clearly Sunny's progress, it makes everything so much clearer. So. It is...
Thanks, Adie, I guess I would rather know, if I didn't Benji may well have had a horrible death! Apparently heart problems are fairly common in what they...
Hi Barbara That sounds like a difficult decision for you, but yes, I believe things happen for some reason..maybe your Sid was letting you know as he wants you...
Hi Ulrika, That's great the waiting (good you worked that out :-D ) and keeping your focus on the step rather than the goal is working so well (as well as all...
Hey Pam feel free to grab me for a coffee! And I can assure you that you will LOVE having Jenny over there! I can't write much at the moment because I have...
Hey Bratty Pam, you know what? I am going to listen to you and be a bit kinder to myself! I think that you are very astute! And that post made me feel a...
We are so very lucky to have such wonderfully special companions, they change our lives, give us absolute love, and ask for so very little back. What a gift...
... Nope Barbara, NO one said anything, the feel of the list just changed for me. I wasn't going to write about it at all, It just kind of blurped up ;-) Hugs ...
Hi there, OOps i wrote a reply & sent it somewhere??? new to this so don't know where it went, LOL Anyway I enjoyed reading this comments, Sharlene ... a bit ...
I've just spent the last three days at a Trisha Wren connected riding clinic in Warragul, auditing. I have to tell you, I booked in for the first day only and...
Hey Laurel,re the Tao of Equus - there's a second book of Linda Kohanov's called Riding between the Worlds that was the original that started off my work with...
That sounds great - anything that increases the horse's comfort is good - I am going to find out if there is a Trisha Wren clinic that I can attend!...
Hi Jenny, My friend Sue sent me both Linda's books =-O , so I'm looking forward to getting into Riding between the Worlds next, Cynthia and Sue both said...
I thought you might all enjoy this post off TCTT about breathing and energy flows: I have started to really pair up the energy work I did with James with ...
Sounds very positive Jenny, posture will be a big recovery issue for me in the future when I am ready to ride again. I have also come into contact with an...
Thanks Jen, My journey with horses begun when I was a child, firstly with a very aged mare who was even past breaking into a trot and from there I progressed...
Groton clinic report: July 19-21, 2008 Hi everyone, I think Arlene, Sue and Margaret have done a wonderful job of describing the micro-riding that Alex had us...
Hi all, I thought you'd all enjoy these posts about the power of thought on our bodies and our connection to our horses, isn't it great how everyone in every...
Great posts, I've put the lesson parts of these posts in the files section, along with Mel's and Ulrika's excellent examples of baby steps. It sounds like they...
I would just add that Sharlene has done clinic work with the excellent Philip Nye (she and Mel rode in the same clinic together) and also lives not far from us...