Learning Renewal in the Year of the Fire Horse!

The 2026 Year of the Fire Horse represents a powerful, once-in-60-years cycle focused on intense renewal, rapid transformation, and bold, forward-moving energy. This year merges the Horse’s energy of freedom with Fire’s passion, which helps to drive change in projects, personal growth, and societal structures. The last year of the Fire Horse was in 1966!

According to the Chinese zodiac, we we have shifted from the reflective year of the Wood Snake [yin], a year of shedding and releasing into this year’s Fire Horse [yang] a year of intense renewal, transformation and moving forward. Fire acts as a purifier, burning away the old to make room for innovation and new beginnings. There is intense energy for change and renewal — breaking […]

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How to use the energy of renewal to benefit your daily life.

Sometimes it can be hard to find the energy to move forward, especially when life gets challenging. We can feel stuck, overwhelmed, hopeless or simply tired of it all. When we’re lacking the inspiration and motivation that we might find naturally during happier or more exciting times, it can be disheartening, even stressful, to know what to do and to find a way through. What if the answers might be simpler than you realize? What if there were an infinite, constant source of energy that you could tap into at any time, anywhere, no matter what? Well, good news, there is. The energy of RENEWAL.

Life is always shifting, changing, moving and flowing. Just look […]

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“Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.” – Bryant H. McGill

Let it go, let it be, let it flow. Easier said than done, they say. But is it?

The hardest part about letting go of anything isn’t usually the act of letting go itself. Hanging onto something that’s trying to get away is much more difficult and takes a lot more effort than simply letting go of it. It is the resistance to the act of letting go that makes it hard to do – the fear, the uncertainty, the aversion to change. Resistance takes a lot of effort – it is the action of going against something. While it can be worth the effort to fight for something that’s truly […]

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One of the things we love about working with Equines is that they consistently remind us humans to keep things simple!  They help us get out of our busy minds and into the present moment. 

In a recent round pen session, John* was struggling to make a connection with one of our more challenging horses.  John entered the round pen stating that he “was going to figure out how to connect!” This bold declaration was an indication that John was already coming into the situation stuck in his thoughts and attached to his expectations, complicating the relationship before it even had a chance to begin.

In response to this, the horse vehemently objected to John’s attempts to touch him. As he continued to try to solve “the problem”, John became more […]

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Horses are amazingly resilient and very forgiving.  Watch a herd for any period of time and you’ll see that just like any other social group they have their share of skirmishes and disagreements, yet they quickly let it go, re-connect as a herd, and move on with the business at hand.

In contrast, for us humans, letting go and moving forward can be extremely challenging.  Whether we have experienced a bruised ego or a serious physical or emotional violation, learning how to let go of resentment and anger is essential for our physical and emotional well-being.

Virtually everyone has experienced being hurt by the words or actions of another.  Maybe you were bullied at school, had a colleague sabotage a work project, or your spouse betrayed you.  When we have been […]

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