Presented by Susan Harden,
Founder of Live & Breathe Horses.
I am excited to present the first in a new series of workshops to take my offline work online where I can reach more people and the horses in their lives.
Decades of working with people have given me important insights into what holds them back from achieving all-around success in their horsemanship and how I can guide them to a more harmonious relationship with their horses.
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I am wholeheartedly grateful to all my students who give me the opportunity to keep learning and growing so that together we can get better and better at giving horses a voice so that we can create safe, peaceful spaces to be.
What's included in this workshop...
On purchase of the workshop, you will receive to your email 2 videos of the first of a series of workshops starting with my favourite tool, the breath. The workshops will complement each other but can also stand alone as effective practices and important building blocks in the foundation of your horsemanship.
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The workshop is interactive and we hope you will enjoy doing the breathing exercise with us. The more you put into the practice the more effective it will be when you go to use it with your horse, and in all other areas of your life.
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The recordings are yours to rewatch as often as you like and you can of course pass it on to friends which is great as it spreads the word. We would however like to ask you to encourage others to buy their own copy to support us financially in bringing you more and better content in the future, keeping in mind that we have kept the price to an absolute minimum to make it accessible to as many people as possible.
Here is what it will do for you...
How we breathe is how we are. Our breath, our body, our mind and our emotions are all inextricably related. Practicing conscious breathing is the easiest way to influence the other three so that we can...
Help still the mind so that we are not disturbing our horses with constant internal chatter
Notice our emotions, and breathe into a good feeling as we know that our horses only care how we make them feel
Improve our posture making our body language more clear to the horse and giving us grace, balance and rhythm
Being more present at the moment so we can notice in good time how our horse is feeling and respond appropriately.
Enhanced awareness of how our state of being affects our horses and how we can shift it when we choose to.
Have more ease and flow through our body and movements so we can become more as one with our horse on the ground and especially in the saddle.
WHAT IS COVERED...
In this workshop we will practice 2 different breathing exercises which you can use when working with your horse on the ground or in the saddle.
The first is the Aaahhh Breathe to release the jaw and give more ease and flow in our movement to bring us more into harmony with ourselves and our horses.
Secondly we will practice slow diaphragm breathing. I like to use the sounds of a soft mmmmm for this one but the sounds are not essential and I encourage you through all this work to listen to your own body, get creative, experiment and find what works for you.
I believe that all our learnings in our horsemanship are transferable as important life lessons. This is especially true about breathwork. People have said to me “Well of course I am breathing or I would be dead" which is true but in our modern world many of us have lost the natural breathing we were born with and coming back to that will be hugely beneficial not only in working with horses but in enhancing our overall health. In fact, it is an essential piece in the overall picture of good sleep, diet and exercise for optimum health.
There has been much renewed interest in recent years of the recovery of ancient art of breathing. Did you know, for example, that the Yoga was originally only about breathing?
I am a firm believer that it is the key to working with horses so they get as much out of it as we do.
THANK YOU
Thank you for taking the time to read, if you have any questions or suggestions we would be delighted to here from you.
