Dissolving The Separation of Riding

Dissolving the separation of riding in vibrational terms, has been unfolding in our herd over the last few months. It occurred to me one day when I was with the horses how different it feels to be with a horse on the ground and then on their back riding. Two different worlds, yet the same beings. Perhaps this exploration was prompted through our subtle energetic dialogue, either way I began to question it. Some things are so entrenched in our consciousness they develop an insidious nature where they can hide from our sight. This blind spot was ready to be seen, and it has been a beautiful unfolding.

When I say it feels different to be on the ground and on top of a horse, I mean the connection between us. That the relationship when we are both standing on the earth in full sight of each other and aware of our reciprocal expressions has a certain openness. We can gaze into each others eyes, we can hopefully feel free to behave as we wish towards each other. There is a clear space where energies can meet and influence each other. Often if our interactions are loving and trusting. Ans so this grounded element of the relationship is relatively straightforward. There are two beings and they can meet up as they are led to. Yet that all changes when we climb on their back.

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Witnessing Love, June 2023

Witnessing love is such an inspiring choice we can make, and if Soul Herd has an identity, this would be it.

Together we are creating ideas which come about through conversation. These ideas are the result of inspiration and collaboration. We are a Herd, formed through our mutual earthen awakening.

Whenever I lose the path or the joy in what is being created, I attune myself back with the Herd. Breathing back into the merging between us. The joining, not the separation.

This feels to be an essential point in coming to terms with our existence: that which we align with, will align us. We are creators with powers that are surely well beyond what we believe. And perhaps our greatest power is to choose what we focus on. Choosing is also breathing in, absorbing and becoming. In this sense there is not a truth to discover because everything and anything we imagine then exists. First in pure vibration, and as we feed it, it will grow and eventually manifest in the material world. 

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The Portal of Pause with Sam MacLean & Susan Jackson

The Portal of Pause is a lovely relaxed and explorative podcast into how we can take the time to pause and reflect. In the podcast we discuss how the power in this pause is in entering a different flow, and even a different dimension of existence.

The Portal of Pause with Sam MacLean & Susan Jackson

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The story of the fly takes us into a discussion of our ability to engage with life experience itself. The question of being present in every part of the possible range of experiences. Sam brings our awareness into the pause we can choose to embrace or not, and Susan shares her experiences with making this pause.

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Entraining Past Judgment With Sabina Cox & Joanne Glover

Entraining Past Judgment is a soothing meditative group podcast we are exploring a suggestion from the horses that we might reconsider what we feel when we judge them as shut-down or dissociated from their life situation.

Entraining Past Judgment With Sabina Cox & Joanne Glover

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Starting with re-feeling the question of a shut-down horse. We take a minute to go within and then share what comes up and coming into an appreciation for flow and who we are. 

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Healing Perception with Denise M Michel & Dilara Pataudi

Healing Perception with Denise and Dilara is another interesting Let’s Talk Herd group podcast. Denise is an equine chiropractor and Dilara a Craniosacral Therapist. In exploring how we perceive healing as humans we discover some fascinating subjects.

Healing Perception with Denise M Michel & Dilara Pataudi

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Beginning the podcast with an idea from the horses, we go on to discuss healing as both an identity and a journey. Dilara shares her experience with her horses which leads us into why we (as humans) get closed off from the one minded being-ness of the herd.

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Taking Down the Fences, May 2023

Taking down the fences between us is happening in many joyous ways in these times. I decided last month to remove the membership paywall and make Soul Herd podcasts and articles accessible to all. Although the Soul Herd Membership was a beautiful reciprocation allowing me to keep the site running, it didn’t feel as good as it feels knowing that the content is now unlimited.

The shift that prompted me to make this decision was an inner willingness to let go and trust. Both to trust that I don’t need to know how we will be supported, and the belief that we will be. 

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Guardianship with Kim Hallin

Excerpt from Guardianship with Kim Hallin

In this delightful podcast we discuss many aspects of our guardianship of horses.

In the excerpt we are exploring how going forward with more awakened relationships and embracing adaptability might manifest itself practically in our world. 

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Message From The Horses, April 2023

The horses’ message is simple, they want a relationship with us, a dialogue. It doesn’t have to be about abandoning everything, just the possibility of listening to each other.

Message From the Horses

It is not so much about the activities we do or don’t do with them, or even their living circumstances. Although it is clear that horses appreciate a lifestyle closest to their adaptive needs. These incredible beings are here to develop relationships with us. It is a funny thing about consciousness that we are trying to fit this vast bubble of energy into tiny little boxes called words. And of course these same words resurface over and over, even though the energy behind them has grown and expanded and evolved in a million shimmering little ways. 

Message

I have a little idea that horses are really vast souls who come here just for this journey with us. To support our path, to engage with and embrace our ignorance and illuminate the collective human awakening. 

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Golden Surrender

Golden surrender is a state of being I have been blessed to come into, in the company of the horses. We didn’t create it, because it was already there.

Sometimes being human feels like a conflict between the power of my mind and the openness of my heart. I know that if I allow my mind to run unchecked, making up a story, it will have the power to influence my feelings. Is this the habit of western society, where there are hardwired patterns of thought that keep some people ensnared their whole lives? Patterns of thought like success is how much money you can make and how many others you can influence, or how many objects you can own.

Over time it becomes clearer that this route of the mind doesn’t really offer fulfilment. It seems to, because at each external success there is enough of a boost to take us to the next challenge. The joy is limited however, because there are so many conditions attached. And the conditions tend to multiply with experience! In other words we need more and more evidence in our lives that we are succeeding in order to feel happy.

golden surrender

Although I feel that I have understood the lack of authenticity in this pathway for a long time, understanding is not quite the same as fully living the authentic pathway. Yet this is where the horses are leading me.

Being with the horses isn’t about thinking or deriving joy from an identity. It is a multi sensory experience of living, and opening my heart to it is the way in. Every resistance that arises is met with a gentle, yet pervasive coherence. Just like water. Soaking, filling and teasing apart the superficial web of what is not true.

The truth is that we are already joy, and nothing else is necessary to experience it. Only an opening heart.

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