Equestrian Tai Chi & Tao Riding

03/10/2025

Five Element Chi Gung With Horses & Nature is open for registration!

This Program is for people who care deeply about horses and who would like to learn a practice that is beneficial for horses as well as humans.

It is Open for Registration at the moment and registration closes on the 12th of October.

Maybe you've heard about the Five Elements, and know the different organs, seasons, and emotions they're related to and this is something that interests you?

The Five Elements are in everything that is formed and are inside all physical and non-physical dynamics.

The Five Elements are an important part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where the idea is to bring the elements into balance to help people.

If the Five Elements are in balance people benefit physically, emotionally and mentally.

Learning to work with the energy of the Five Elements with Chi Gung improves, health and vitality and emotional and mental wellbeing.

Five Element Chi Gung With Horses & Nature is a program where we learn to feel these elements in us and to balance them in ourselves in the presence of horses to help ourselves and our horses as well.

We also learn to connect with the elements in Nature; with trees, the Earth, and with water.

Five Element Chi Gung With Horses & Nature is for people who already have a qualification for working with horses and people and who have an in person client base who would benefit from and appreciate this practice.

Please click below if you are interested in learning more about this program.

25/09/2025

The Online Horse Fair 2025 is on this weekend, September 27–28, and it’s completely free to attend.

This Fair brings together 50+ world-class horse experts and 160+ presentations covering every aspect of horsemanship:
☆ Training that puts the relationship first
☆ Wellness, health, and care practices to keep horses thriving
☆ Mindset and confidence strategies for riders
☆ Classical riding, liberty, groundwork, biomechanics, and more

It’s an incredible chance to learn from horsemen and women who are making a difference in how we connect with our horses.

I have a presentation on both days.

22/09/2025

Equinox

19/09/2025

I created a Free Guide with Two Exercises and Five Posture Tips, to help with Confidence, Chi Flow and Connection, please click below if you would like it!

27/08/2025

When we have strong emotions, the pressures and tensions in our body cause energy to be blocked in our body with a memory of how we felt at the time.

Over time as the blockages get added to, they can cause imbalances in our body and prevent our chi from flowing freely in our body and they also prevent it from flowing in harmony with our horse when we ride.

These energetic blockages can be triggered if we're in a similar situation to the one we were in when the energy blockage was first formed, and they continue to affect us.

They affect our horse too, as he can sense the energy of them in the field we share with him.

We can learn to let go of these blockages so they don’t trigger us and cause us to feel more nervous than we should, and so they don’t affect our horse too in the field that we share.

We can learn ways to manage our emotions with our energy and our breath and we can learn to work with the energy of the field we share with our horse to help us feel calm and connected.

This is what we learn in Chi Connection in the Tao Riding Membership, if you’d like to be on the waitlist to hear about Chi Connection, please click below.

04/07/2025

Chi Connection is open for registration shortly. We're beginning with a small group on the 14th of July.

This is a program for riders who would like to develop confidence and connection between them and their horse.

Chi Connection is about us and our horse being able to form a connection that allows us to feel happy and comfortable together, to let go of the memories in our minds that dominate our thinking and to learn ways of being together and riding that keep us united and focussed on each other, finding an inner connection together and relaxing our horse.

Please click below if you'd like to be added to the waitlist to hear about the program.

For Riders who want to make a real difference to their horses lives through the connection they form with them.

21/06/2025

These are photos I took around the time of the Solstice in Ireland 3.42am. At the time of the solstice the swallows started flying around for the first time.

09/06/2025

A few weeks ago, Tracey Cole invited me onto her podcast Over the Oxer. I was delighted, as although we'd followed each other for years on social media, we'd never actually met!
When we did, we just hit it off straight away and had such a good time.
Tracey is a wonderful person, so welcoming and warm and funny too. She helps many people with a fear of horse riding with NLP and with Hypnotherapy.
If you would like to watch the beginning of the episode, this is the link [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbuIPdTVL0...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbuIPdTVL0...) on YouTube (7 Minutes).
If you would like to listen to the full episode, this is the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFbuIPdTVL0... on YouTube (audio only) 40 minutes.
I hope you enjoy it and find it useful in some way!

Sometimes you chat with people for the first time and you just click. That was how I felt when Jenny and I had this fabulous chat. Jenny Pim lives in Co Wexf...

27/05/2025

The Art of the Horseman Online Fair is on this coming weekend!

This is a chance to join a groundbreaking event that brings together the world’s top experts in horsemanship, all from the comfort of your own home.

With 50 experts and over 150 presentations covering everything from horse training and care to rider confidence and biomechanics, there’s something here for everyone.

You can book your free ticket now to watch for this weekend May 31 - June 1.

I have a presentation on both days.

I hope you get a chance to watch the Fair this weekend!

www.becauseofthehorse.net/a/23333/46c6FK25

16/05/2025

I'm delighted to say that Nicola Leonard from the Sensory Horse Equine Facilitated Learning Centre in Catsfield, East Sussex in the United Kingdom is certified as an Instructor in Interactive Equine Tai Chi - Balancing Life-Force Energy With Horses.

I am sure that people will really enjoy learning with Nicola and her beautiful ponies!

07/05/2025

Chi or Life-Force energy is the energy that animates us and connects us to all living beings.

Chi or life-force energy exists and moves in all the creatures of the world and it can holistically connect everything.

Balancing our life-force energy not only makes us feel more balanced and whole inside, it can also make our relationships with others smoother.

Horses are very sensitive to energy, more so even than we are.

Horses are herd animals and they love to connect, it's in their nature.

Balancing our life-force energy makes our energy very easy for the horse to be near and attractive to the horse, it draws the horse naturally to want to be with us.

We can learn chi practices that will balance ours and horses life-force energy together, that will help us both together.

Where we can bond and connect and each benefit the other.

'Balancing Life-Fore Energy in the Company of Horses' is a comprehensive program for people who help people with horses and would like to offer holistic chi practices that help the horse as well as the human.

https://www.equestriantaichi.com/f-interactive-equine-tai-chi/

25/04/2025

Interactive Equine Tai Chi is a Program for people who help people in the company of horses.

Interactive Equine Tai Chi has many elements that contribute to its benefits.

It combines the positive effects of the therapeutic energy and presence of the horse with the benefits of Tai Chi.

More than this, the practice has a balancing, calming effect on the adult or child and on the pony and allows their energies to mingle and merge.

It is a mutual practice. The adult or child's practice benefits the pony, and in turn the adult or child receives the magnified effects of the balanced, relaxed energy of the horse.

As well as this, as the horse responds and visibly relaxes to the practice, the adult or child can see the results of his/her actions. This may lead to a realization of how we all affect each other and how powerful we all are.

Interactive Equine Tai Chi is a practice that can be enjoyed by many people. I developed Interactive Equine Tai Chi with my student Zion who has Autism.

Registration is opening for the Interactive Equine Tai Chi Program soon.

Please click below if you'd like to be added to the waitlist to be sent the information about the program when registration opens.

https://www.equestriantaichi.com/f-interactive-equine-tai-chi/