Center For Horses And Healing

03/09/2025

“If You Don’t Ride or Train, What’s the Point?”
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This question reflects how deeply conditioning runs in our culture—even in how we relate to horses.
We’ve been taught that horses must do something to be worth our time. That riding or training is the pinnacle of relationship.
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But what if the point isn’t performance at all?
What if it’s presence?
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Autonomous Horsemanship invites us to step off the pedestal of performance and into the quiet grace of simply being together.
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🐴 It’s not about achieving, it’s about witnessing.
🤍 It’s not about molding the horse—it’s about meeting them.
✨ It’s not about goals. It’s about connection.
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When nothing is asked, something sacred often arrives:
Trust.
Softness.
A shared breath.
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Riding is optional. Relationship is the gift.
The most profound moments often happen when we stop trying to get somewhere—and start honoring where we are, together.
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30/08/2025

The Infinite Self, which is another way of referring to your True Self, or Soul, exists in the realm of pure love.

This part of us is fluid in the language of love, just like the animals, and swims in a realm which transcends the logical mind, brain and language.

When we enter this realm, either on our own in meditation, or when with animals like horses, it truly feels like heaven, as if we’re enveloped in a soft, warm, honey-like glowing cocoon, which we are, because that is what pure Presence feels like.

This is also what unconditional love feels like, which is why we feel this much more with animals who just give so simply from their heart when we also treat them with kindness and love.

These moments often bring us to tears because they’re SO incredibly beautiful, and so, so very different to the normal, linear realm we inhabit most of the time: that of the thinking brain which works non-stop in most of us.

So, give your beautiful but very over-worked brain a much-needed rest, and allow your Infinite Self to step to the fore from time to time, as you enter the wordless realm of pure love.

Angela Dunning
The Horse’s Truth
www.thehorsestruth.co.uk

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23/08/2025

23/08/2025

18/08/2025

“Horsemanship is the art of mastering our own movements, thoughts, emotions and behavior. Not the horses.” ✍️

08/08/2025

Letting Go of the Lesson Plan

We’re taught to show up with a plan.
With goals.
With structure.
That a good session has progression, clarity, and results.

But what if the most profound moments with horses don’t come from lesson plans, but from letting go of them?

What if connection doesn’t need a curriculum?

The Comfort of Structure
Lesson plans give us a sense of safety.
We know what’s coming next. We know what “success” looks like.
We can measure improvement, chart milestones, feel productive.

But horses don’t live in linear time the way we do.
They don’t care if we’re hitting our marks.
They care if we’re present.

And when we’re focused on what should happen next, we risk missing what’s happening right now.

The Subtle Violence of Agenda
Even a soft, kind plan becomes a pressure when we’re attached to it.

“I just want to work on walking calmly today.”
But what if the horse wants to run? Or rest? Or doesn’t want to engage at all?

“I thought we’d work on yielding to pressure.”
But what if they’re trying to tell us they’ve had enough pressure already?

When we show up with expectations, we may unintentionally override the horse’s signals in service of a “good session.”

What Happens When We Drop the Script?
When we step into the pasture or paddock without a plan, we begin to see the horse more clearly.

We notice the flick of an ear, the shift in breath, the weight of silence.
We become students of the moment, not masters of a method.

The horse becomes not a project, but a presence.

And suddenly, we’re not guiding them toward something.
We’re walking beside them into whatever this moment holds.

The Wisdom in Wandering
Sometimes, the most meaningful sessions look like “nothing.”

☁️ Standing in the shade while the wind stirs the grass.
☁️ Sitting nearby as the horse grazes, choosing nearness without pressure.
☁️ Following their movement with no need to direct it.
☁️ Breathing together, without a word spoken.

These moments don’t “advance” training.
They deepen trust.
They soften defenses.
They say: You don’t have to be anything other than who you are with me.

Let the Relationship Lead
This isn’t to say guidance is wrong.
But what if the relationship is the plan?
What if we measure success in moments of consent, curiosity, and connection—not in behaviors achieved?

The horse might offer something incredible when they’re not being asked to perform.
And so might we.

Letting go of the lesson plan isn’t giving up on learning.
It’s remembering that the deepest lessons rarely come from the page.
They come from presence, trust, and the courage to follow instead of lead.

08/08/2025

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05/08/2025

“The Star Horse”
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They say in the old days, before time had bones and the stars had names, the Sky People gifted the earth with a guardian — a horse made of stardust and silence, called Wičháŋčala Šúŋka, the Celestial Horse.

But he did not walk among many. He waited, hidden between veils of the universe, for one soul who could hear the wind behind the wind.

That soul was Aiyana.

She was born on a night when the stars wept silver and the owls sang long songs. As a child, she would talk to the river and braid the breeze into her hair. The elders called her “Moon Listener,” but she never truly understood why — until the vision came.

One night, drawn by a light too ancient to name, she walked to the edge of the desert cliffs. There, the earth was still, the sky alive. From the dust rose the Star Horse — glowing, golden, every muscle etched in galaxies.

He did not speak with words.

But she understood.

He bowed his head, touching hers, and shared the memory of the stars — of ancestors who rode light across sky rivers, of harmony between spirit and earth.

And then he whispered into her heart:

"You are the bridge.
When the people forget,
your voice will remember."

From that night, Aiyana became a storyteller, a healer, a guardian of the sacred spark in all living things.

And on clear nights, when the stars pulse brighter than usual, the People say:
“She walks again. And the horse still watches.”

29/07/2025

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