Having a sense of compassion should be a requirement for equestrians of all disciplines to help prevent common abuses that occur in the riding and training of horses.

Week 9 : Recovering a Sense of Compassion

This week finds us facing the internal blocks to creativity. It may be tempting to abandon ship at this point. DON’T! We will explore and acknowledge the emotional difficulties that beset us in the past as we made creative efforts. We will undertake healing the shame of past failures. We will gain in compassion as we re-parent the frightened artist child who years for creative accomplishment. We will learn tools to dismantle emotional blocks and support renewed risk.

Learning how to focus our attention to the horse while riding can be difficult as we try to tune out distractions in the arena and from our personal life.

Concentrate Your Way to Better Riding

All disciplines of riding can be improved through mental concentration. The ability to tune out distractions, tune out your personal thoughts, tune out that speeding ticket you got on the drive to the barn; and tune into your horse, what you’re feeling through the reins, what your body is doing in the saddle, the timing of the aids, your horse’s balance and gaits and… riding.

Developing strength of character as an equestrian does not mean giving up on your artistic or creative self but instead acknowledging the difficulties, facing them and moving forward.

Week 8 : Recovering A Sense of Strength

This week tackles another major creative block: time. You will explore the ways in which you have used your perception of time to preclude taking creative risks. You will identify immediate and practical changes you can make in your current life. You will excavate the early conditioning that may have encouraged you to settle for far less than you desire for your life.

Equestrians often deprive themselves of self abundance, self indulgence, self care for their creative nature.

Week 6 : Recovering A Sense of Abundance

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This week you tackle a major creative block: money. You are asked to really look at your own ideas around Life, Money, and creative abundance. The essays will explore the ways in which your attitudes limit abundance and luxury in your current life. You will be introduced to counting, a block-busting tool for clarity and right use of funds. This week may feel… Volatile.

Artist and architect, Durand Seay, incorporates symbols of balance, serenity and spirituality to transform space into form, while evoking a sense of natural movement and temporal abstraction. His Paintings are inspired by a fascination with structures found in nature; and at times, the work becomes surreal, exploring the subconscious mind through fantastic imagery. With his intuitive character, the art is guided by spontaneity and expresses a sensual and abstracted language.

Week 5 : Recovering a Sense of Possibility

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This week you are being asked to examine your pay-offs in remaining stuck. You will explore how you curtail your own possibilities by placing limits on the good you can receive. You will examine the cost of settling for appearing good instead of being authentic. You may find yourself thinking about radical changes, no longer ruling out your growth by making others the cause of your constriction.