This short episode is about the online Equestrian Tai Chi Certification Programs for Riding Instructors and Therapeutic Riding Instructors.

If you’d like more information about the programs please visit https://www.equestriantaichi.com/

 

This episode is about ponies proactivley asking for and arranging Equestrian Tai Chi practice, well one pony in particular!

Equestrian Tai Chi is a shared practice for horses and ponies just as much as it is for us and if anything they seem to enjoy it even more than us, or least this give more outward obvious signs that they do!

Now is the time of the wood element in the northern hemisphere. It’s spring the trees are coming into leaf, things are coming into bloom and growth is abundant all around us.

In Taoism and other tradition too, the wood element is one of the five elements, wood fire earth metal and water. At different times of the year, each of the elements is predominant and that is a good time to work with the energy of that element, though all the element are always there in all seasons.

This episode is about the wood element and connecting with a tree to ask for help with something.

This episode is for riders who feel nervous sometimes and it’s to invite them to consider changing saying or thinking the words ‘I am a nervous rider’ to ‘sometimes I feel nervous when I ride’!

Taoists believe that we create identities or egos for ourselves that we can create thousands  and thousand of identities without even realising.

When we unwittingly create identities for ourselves, we can live from them and be controlled by them, without us really knowing and this can close down our lives in ways we might not have imagined.

This episode is an overview of the development of the Equestrian Tai Chi training system for riders. It’s about how the different trainings in the system developed, and how they’re now viewed as interrelated rather than isolated. We can almost use parts, or all of them, every day out riding, to keep ourselves and our horse calm, to feel our chi flow in harmony with our horse riding, to communicate with our horse through our energy riding, and to even have a spiritual connection with our horse riding.