The Art of Equus - Ireland was a colourful success. Amazing new friends who are passionate about growing their equine guided programs in colourful and creative ways that honour their clients and their horses alike - and heck - are just so much fun!
I'll post some pictures soon as I just got home from the UK 2 days ago and the jet lag is still lagging... but for now, here is the poem I shared at the end of our class... by John O'donahue of course! And so fitting with the upcoming Sacred Earth Summit that I'll post about next.
From Animal Being
Nearer to the earth's heart,
Deeper within its silence:
Animals know this world
In a way we never will.
We who are ever
Distanced and distracted
By the parade of bright
Windows thought opens:
Their seamless presence
Is not fractured thus.
Stranded between time
Gone and time emerging,
We manage seldom
To be where we are:
Whereas they are always
Looking out from
The here and now.
May we learn to return
And rest in the beauty
Of animal being,
Learn to lean low,
Leave our locked minds,
And with freed senses
Feel the earth
Breathing with us.
May we enter
Into lightness of spirit,
And slip frequently into
The feel of the wild.
Let the clear silence
Of our animal being
Cleanse our hearts
Of corrosive words
May we learn to walk
Upon the earth
With all their confidence
And clear-eyed stillness
So that our minds
Might be baptized
In the name of the wind
And the light and the rain.
~ John O'Donohue
from To Bless the Space Between Us: A Book of Blessings