Hearts and Hooves Connection Coaching

15/10/2025

Approach with care, with gentle hand
A lesson learned, in this sacred land
The horse watches, senses intent
Will it step forward, or remain bent?

Reading body language, a subtle art
We learn to wait, and sense the heart
Their ears, their eyes, their gentle sigh
A language spoken, without a lie

They teach us patience, and gentle touch
To ask, not demand, and mean it too
Their boundaries, a reflection of our own
A mirror held, to our inner tone

With every step, a story's told
Of trust and respect, young and old
The horse's wisdom, a gift to learn
To approach with kindness, and discern

In this dance of connection, we find our way
To communicate, without a single say
The horse's language, a lesson true
A path to self-discovery, for me and you.


Words that say everything...

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......