Being in Melisa ’s program this past fourteen months has been amazing. The things that I have seen horses do with human clients has been inspiring. I want to expound on each of these further but I want to take a few moments and float back through the year and pick up some strong points.
Leaching. I took my horse to the October 2010 CORE, our week-end intensive training sessions and she proved herself to be a true healer.
With one of the clients who had years of pent up anxiety and trauma, Lakota stood beside her and with her nose, slowly scanned the woman’s body, up and down from her toes to the top of her head. Then Lakota stood there and opened her mouth and did these long deep yawns. In my own body I almost felt like gagging ~ it was almost painful to watch but then she is my best friend and I was feeling very protective of her. Melisa and the woman kept dialoging, she telling her story and Lakota kept yawing. She stopped one time, appeared to be listening to the story and then started yawning again over and over. Her head was down, her teeth exposed and she leaned into each yawn.
When the woman was done talking and Lakota was done yawing, Melisa asked the client how she was feeling now. “Well, I’m not really sure what just happened but I feel pounds lighter and much happier.”
“I am not surprised” Melisa said.
Horses do NOT hang onto useless energy, they release it immediately,
they do not ruminate about what happened yesterday,
and they certainly do not worry about what is going to happen tomorrow.
They are totally in the present moment ~ always!
WOW.
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