Meditation Exercise With Your Horse - Connecting

Find a time or place where you and your horse will not be disturbed. If you are in a public barn and cannot escape the busy hours, try during a time where there the barn is most quiet and if you are in a stall, place a "Please do not disturb" sign outside your door. A location inside or outside, where there is tranquility and peace, where your horse can feel relaxed, is ideal. Do not attempt while your horse is eating, hungry or distracted.

Stand with your legs shoulder width apart, and take three deep breaths. Hold the inhale for 8 seconds. And on each exhale, feel the stress and tension melt away from your body. Continue this for more than three breaths until you feel light, loose, and relaxed. Feel the spine tall as energy runs up through your body, any tightness and tension melts down and away out of your body. At each exhale, tell yourself, "Just for now, I let go of my thoughts, worries, tensions, or cares. Just for now, I am one with "Name your horse". Each time you exhale, feel yourself going deeper and deeper. You are relaxed. Each exhale takes you deeper into relaxation. Feel good about yourself and about your world.

Notice the change in your horse's disposition. His body. See him relax in with you. Now place your hands lightly with your left hand on his chest or shoulder, the other up on his back- anywhere you feel intuitively to go. Keep your hands light, free from tension.

Focus on your breathing now; inhaling purposefully to receive, and exhaling purposefully expressing gratitude, and love for your horse. Keep your focus on your breath to achieve physical awareness and relaxation. Notice any areas in your body that you may need to stretch to release, and then come back to stillness.

When you have acheived physical relaxation, we want to get mental relaxation. Start by focusing on the color red, until it is a circle spinning. Watch it spin. As it does, and if any thought comes in, dismiss it as if it is a secretary wanting your attention - you just say, "Oh, not now, thank you." Go back to focusing on the color red spinning. When you have that color, add the color orange and watch the two spinning very very fast. Continue to add slowly, yellow, then green, then blue, then indigo, and finally lavender. Notice all the colors spinning on top of each other in this order with lavender on top. They eventually spin so fast that you pull them into a tight pillar of white light. Feel the light connecting you through the top of your head to your horse.

Continue in rhythmic breathing, in for 8, and out for 8. On each inhale, feel the pillar of light from below and above you coming to your heart center, and on the exhale out through your heart center, through your hands and to your horse.

Keep this until you visualize and feel this successfully. Allow for the stillness to bring to you anything it wishes. No matter how illogical. Feel the connection with mother earth's energy (Shakti, Kundalini, or the Feminine Energy), with the Supreme Intelligence (Shiva, God, Universal Life Force, Masculine Energy). As you are rooted down to the earth, through Shakti, and connected to Shiva, fill your heart with love for your horse, and allow yourself to let go. Bathe the two of you in a shower of light. Allow for a doorway to open where there is beauty, peace, love, and stillness. Observe how you feel, observe how your horse feels; where are you? Did you go to forest, the sea, the mountains? Let go and allow. Be still and do not try to analyze or rationalize what is happening. Let go and just be.

Stay in this moment until you feel you are ready to leave. Bring yourself back into your body, moving slowly. Begin stroking your horse slowly (do not pat), begin to tone a note in soothing talk to your horse as your slowly open your eyes (if you have shut them). Stay with your horse, thanking him/her for the joyous moment you shared together. Honor your horse and yourself and the light that brought you two together in Chevalia.

Note: Depending on your sensitivity, you may feel that you need to work on the exercise alone at first, or you may dive deep into Chevalia instantly. Regardless of where you are, honor yourself that you have begun the path. As you continue this meditation with your horse, you will reap the benefits on immeasurable scales.

We would love to hear how this meditation has brought you into Chevalia, and if you care to share your experiences with us, please send an email with your experience to chevaliallc@gmail.com. Your experience may be posted on facebook or on our blog, according to your permission.

Joyous journey!

Namaste

Giselle

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