What is Interactive Equine Tai Chi?

Interactive Equine Tai Chi is Tai Chi that is designed for two people to practice together near a horse or for one person to practice near a horse and build a special bond.

It can benefit children, teenagers and adults. It can help people who are suffering from stress, tension, anxiety, from mild forms of depression, from lack of self esteem, it can benefit children and people with learning needs, and it can benefit people and children with Autism. It can benefit children and teenagers who adore being in the presence of the horse and who would like to help them and develop a deeper bond with them.

I developed the interactive form of Tai Chi where you practice with another person, during a weekly class with one of my students, Zion, who has Autism. Like many people with Autism, Zion is affectionate and caring and he loves animals and they have a natural affinity with him. By practicing together near the horse, it had so many benefits, it helped him to relax, to focus and concentrate, to make eye contact. It also was a way of showing him how his practice could affect another, to notice as the horse would often visibly relax in our practice and then become unrelaxed, should the rhythm of our practice be suddenly interrupted.

Interactive Equine Tai Chi has many elements which contribute to its benefits, whether you practice with another person near a horse or just on your own near a horse.

It combines the positive effects of the therapeutic energy and presence of the horse with the benefits of Tai Chi.

The practice has a calming effect on the person and on the horse or pony.

It's a mutual practice, where the human's practice benefits the pony as well as him/herself, and in turn the human receives the magnified effects of the calm energy of the horse!

The energy moves through our thoughts and emotions as well as our body when we practice, bringing them to the surface, making it easier for us to feel them, and so our practice can help to balance them.

It helps to develop a bond between the human and the horse or pony and allow them to feel empathy for each other on many levels that develops a bond and is nurturing for them both.

It give the child/person the opportunity to interact with other beings in a way that he/she would normally not have and to benefit from the wonderful presence and energy of the horse.

What is Clearing and Balancing the Etheric Field?

Chi is the life force energy of all beings. Chi flows in our physical body and Chi also moves in the energy field that surrounds our body, our Etheric Field.

For millennia many of the major civilisations have worked with The Etheric Field to promote health and well-being.

Clearing and Balancing the Etheric Field is based on Taoist Methods that are thousands of years old. Its methods are gentle, they work with the energy of the body and the Etheric Field.

Our Etheric Field can be clouded by stagnant energy relating to issues that are generated by the person themselves and it can also absorb unwanted energetic influences from other beings outside his energy field.

When the Etheric Field is clouded, it’s more difficult for us to have a clear sense the protective layer of energy around us, and to distinguish us and our identity from all the other energies that surround us.

We learn to gently resolve stagnant and unwanted energies and allow us to feel calm and relaxed, and to have a clearer sense of self. We learn how to connect to the energetic flow in our Etheric Field that is balancing and restoring for us. We learn to connect in harmony to the Yin Yang energies that flow through us.