Hearts and Hooves Connection Coaching

16/09/2025

Horse hugs from Fluga. Pure presence and heart in horse form witnessing the coming together of three aspects of self, self acceptance with love. Such powerful explorations full of self permission and the release of that which no longer serves.
What might be arising in you to be released?

23/04/2025

"At 51 years old, Anna Halprin was slowly dying. Doctors had diagnosed her with severe, incurable bowel cancer. All she had to do was resign herself to the approaching end. Instead, Halprin took up dance and, as fantastic as it sounds, defeated the cancer. Since then, for more than 40 years, she has danced – not for the sake of art, but for the sake of health. At 92, Anna Halprin frequently performs and teaches others how to heal. There is no magic or anything supernatural in her story. 'The natural self-healing mechanism is built into every cell of the body.'
A wonderful way to trigger this mechanism, says Halprin, is to start dancing. Not just any way, but to connect the movements with your feelings and experiences.
That's what happened to Anna. After learning about the illness, she took some paints and on a large canvas drew her cancer as she imagined it. The result was a threatening abstract blot. Anna hung the painting on the wall, invited a dozen friends, and performed the Dance of Cancer in front of the painting. The idea was to use the language of dance to 'speak out' fears and doubts. It looked quite unusual, and sometimes even frightening: while dancing, Halprin spread her arms, made sharp movements, squatted, hissed, and moaned. There was something almost religious about it.
'One day, when I was a child, I saw my uncle praying and swaying as he prayed,' says Anna Halprin. 'Then I thought that God must be a dancer.'
Surprisingly, the dance of cancer helped. Anna Halprin is completely cured. 'My struggle with the disease was an incredible gift for me,' she admits. 'Before the cancer, I lived to dance. After that, I dance to live.' This is the art of dancing to live that Halprin has been teaching her students ever since. Her method is to establish a deep connection between the mind, the unconscious, and the physical body itself. For example, she asks students to take a piece of paper and draw their fears, worries – whatever comes to mind. And then, improvising, 'dance' that drawing. That is, to talk about the same experiences, but in the language of movement. 'I teach people to listen to their bodies,' explains Anna Halprin. 'They heal themselves, I just guide them to resources. But that still makes me very happy.'
Now, on the eve of her 93rd birthday, Anna Halprin holds three-hour classes twice a week in her studio and also leads author's workshops.
For 40 years, Anna Halprin has been healing people through dance – one might say she dances with God.
God, it seems, is quite a good dancer." From the book "I Wanted It and I Could" / Cynthia Cynthia. TAT TVAM ASI/

15/01/2025

How is it 2025?
Here we are at the start of another year and the same questions abound.....
How do you make this the year that you step fowards into getting to know yourself on a whole new level?

New year, New You?
Or same old same old. Patterns repeating, asking the questions of 'Umm what the **** am i doing with my life?'
'Umm what am i supposed to be 'doing' again?'
'How does this change?'
'Help?'
If any of these thoughts arise in your mind I would like to say 'Me too'!! ....And I also have spent time personally increasing my awareness of those thoughtforms when they do appear and in doing so I shine a light on the places that mightn't have received so much light up until then.
Yes, it can be painful, Yes it can seem like opening a door to the BIG, SCARY unknowingness of the places where the sun doesn't shine, and Yes, there is a way through to where the light bathes you in restful, expansive, self knowing and self compassion.
It's a hard road to walk alone.
I am more than grateful for all of the beings who have shown up for me, to accompany me on my walk to self awareness (i'm still walking by the way, i believe its a journey never to be completed and that's ok with me). Horses, humans, hounds, hollytrees and more have walked alongside me or held me, allowing me to lean into their knowingness.
I am here to offer accompaniment through my coaching facilitation.
I am here to listen deeply as maybe you've never truly experienced.
I am here with the accompaniment of the horses and gaia to receive your showing up, to assist you to find your way along the path.....
Please message me for a free 20 minute connection.
Paying life fowards, sharing the journey, discovering What Else is Possible......

16/09/2024

Hi, anyone who would like to join us for the first 'Blossoming Connections' zoom circle tonight please pm me or comment below and I. Ll send you the link. Xx

15/09/2024

Another lovely session facilitating meditation with the horses this week. I really love sharing these experiences...
Contact me to arrange your time to relax into magical presence with the horses...

14/08/2024

Who is ready??
*Who Can Benefit?**
Gestalt coaching with the horses is perfect for individuals of all ages seeking emotional healing, stress reduction, personal growth, or support during life transitions. Whether you’re dealing with anxiety, depression, trauma, or simply looking to deepen your self-awareness,
this unique therapy can be incredibly beneficial.
PM me...

30/07/2024

More magic with the horses today.... Patience is the pathway less walked, plus great lessons on letting go of expectations and dropping into the energetic spaciousness of receiving...... I am grateful, thank you horses..

08/07/2024

Such a gift sharing meditation time with the horses with people who are open to new experiences. The horses keep showing up to share their magic....
Let me know when you are ready!!!

13/06/2024

16/05/2024

"We can't change what we're not aware of".
Maybe an obvious statement, however for me this is an important consideration on the road to self awareness.
Why would we want to become more self aware?
For me again, my innerstanding is that self awareness brings conscious choice, and choice brings autonomy and a feeling of stepping into a satisfying feeling of knowing that i've done my best in a situation, fully showing up, authentically.
The opposite of this, for me, is an existence of disatisfaction, unconscious action where I might roll from unpleasant encounter to unfulfilling reaction and back to stagnation without any sense of knowing 'how' this has happened.
Improving self awareness is one benefit of coaching.
In the Uk so far in my vocation as an Equine Gestalt Coach I have observed and encountered many folk who don't know what coaching is, and who question why they might engage in it.
Does having a coach mean that you are 'failing' at life?
Does it mean that you have no real friends to listen to your 'struggles'?
Does it mean that you are 'less than'/'not coping'.

I would like to invite that what having a coach/sessions with a coach means is that -
a) You are stepping up in your life to become more self aware and Response able and appreciate support/witnessing/accompaniment.
b) You are curious about how you can become more fulfilled in your life.
c) You are aware that You and only You can create meaningful change in your life and that starts with looking at where you are behaving in ways that are reactionary - repeating old patterns.

I believe you do have the choice to take a step towards self awareness, to become aligned with who you truly are clear of old influences and the monkey mind. I offer a safe space for personal exploration and therapeutic resolution. I welcome your response and enquiries.