Every February, we get the sweet reminder to celebrate and remember love. With all of the commercialized hype that goes along with Valentine’s Day it is easy to lose sight of the true meaning and importance of love. It is something so basic and fundamental that we often take it for granted or forget about its immense power. Love is more than an emotion, it is an action that is at the foundation of many behaviors, including compassion, commitment, reflection, intuition, inclusiveness, forgiveness, kindness and care.
“Love is the only human emotion that consistently generates the most productive and intelligent actions” – Humberto Maturana, Chilean Biologist
Our equine partners have an amazing ability to help us connect with love on a variety of levels – not only in the depth of love we feel for them, but the ways in which leading with love energetically shifts our capacity to be […]
It’s a New Year! There’s a feeling of inspiration, motivation, and action in the air. A societally determined fresh start, a new beginning!
In this delightful, celebratory time, it can sometimes be easy to forget the loving spirit of the season. In the flurry, many of us may feel moments of dread or distress over all of the gift giving, socializing, eating, drinking and “being merry”. How can we stay connected to the joy, love, togetherness and giving energy that this season has to offer? We can start by receiving it. In this time of “giving” we often forget that the act of receiving is just as important. In fact, graciously and lovingly receiving is a gift, for both giver and receiver.
Change is inevitable. Nature flows beautifully with its change of seasons. A tree does not try to stop its leaves from falling, clinging to each one in hopes that it won’t fall to the ground, nor does the flower struggle against the opening of its petals to the sun as it blooms – it is the cycle of life. However, we humans often have a hard time adjusting to this truth and try to resist the natural process of change within and around us. 
In contrast, we humans frequently find ourselves overwhelmed, stressed, and exhausted. We tend to believe that we need to work harder and are trained early on to ignore our instinctual rhythms in the name of achievement and productivity. As a result, most of us end up chasing the wrong resource: hours in the day. Instead, we should focus on something entirely different: our energy.