Author: animal connection and beyond

  • 2024-02-24 A chat with Cecile

    2024-02-24 A chat with Cecile

    Cecile joined Esther & David and the herd of donkeys that reside with them over this last winter. She had some foot problems when she arrived from having her hooves trimmed much too short, which affected her body. As her hooves have started to grow out she has needed some physical help with her body…

  • 2024-02-19 Themed Chat – Mutual Vulnerability Creates Trust

    2024-02-19 Themed Chat – Mutual Vulnerability Creates Trust

    We started this chat out by having a brief chat about our understanding of Vulnerability, and then moved on to taking an overview of Ren Hurst’s 13 sanctuaries or priniciples. We did an exercise taking an example each of something we feel we want to change about our relationship with our animal, or a behaviour…

  • 2024-02-20 A chat with Risada about Power

    2024-02-20 A chat with Risada about Power

    The term Persistance came up today; what it is and how it relates to patience. Persistance is one of the four P’s of the Trust Technique (Peace, Patience, Persistance & Purpose) and we were doing an exercise around what each of those mean to us as practitioners. I had decided to video my understandings and…

  • 2024-02-19 Discussing the principle of being responsible for our own needs

    2024-02-19 Discussing the principle of being responsible for our own needs

    This session mostly talks to Why we want to touch, and that it is almost always because it is our need. We want something from the touch. If we get what we want then we always want more. Then, when we don’t get it we feel frustrated, sad, or any number of other feelings. Animals…

  • 2024-02-13 Create the space for awareness of all

    2024-02-13 Create the space for awareness of all

    This is a bit of a long ramble because I was moving horses into a different pasture as I went, but the main part of this is really about relaxing, and allowing your awareness to be within you, not try and find it. It is always there. You just need to know. Let your knowing…

  • 2024-02-08 Accepting Love without anticipating Conditions

    2024-02-08 Accepting Love without anticipating Conditions

    Often we focus our learning to become more aware into giving love without conditions, but sometimes we need to look at it the other way. How to accept love without anticipating conditions.. For some this is easier than others. For a lot of women, who were bought up with generations of teaching that ‘Love’ is…

  • 2024-02-07 Choose how to remember

    2024-02-07 Choose how to remember

    I was led by the herd to talk a little about how we can choose how we remember events in our lives, how we feel about them, and if what we feel about them doesn’t support us, then how we can choose to remember them differently. Doing this takes acceptance, patience and courage. It takes…

  • 2024-02-03 Send light rather than draw darkness

    2024-02-03 Send light rather than draw darkness

    This is a musing, in the company of the herd, exploring the difference between feeling comfortable with what we have drawn to ourselves, even though it is disconnected from everything, and sensing the lightness and balance of feeling connected. It is a foray into how we hold onto feelings such as fear because it feels…

  • 2024-02-02 Querida shares an experience

    2024-02-02 Querida shares an experience

    I sensed today that Querida was open to connecting with me on a deeper level. The herd and I are always connected, but like having friends on social media, now and again it is lovely just to have a one to one conversation. Querida and I don’t talk often. She is very self contained and…

  • 2024-01-24 We are all the same – another level

    2024-01-24 We are all the same – another level

    Following on from yesterdays musings and the sense that we are all the same, I awoke this morning to feeling that Timmy was ready for another session. Last night I had felt the pull of the Apophyllite crystal which surprised me. It is a crystal that, in very basic terms, creates a conscious connection between…