Desert Vibes, Energy by Bekah

10/22/2025

Equine Connections, LLC Does a great job of being sure the horses all have appropriate jobs and often get refuels in various ways. When I do anything with clients, I team up with the horses they are my partner not the dumpster. We work as a team to hold space for whatever the client needs to let go of. They mirror & communicate things to me that I can than relay energetically, through words, or we can work through with various activities. We create a safe space where the client can be truly seen, heard & held in various ways. Its truly been amazing to see shifts and witness success and not at the expense of the horse.

Let’s be real — personally, horses might be the most emotionally healing creatures we’ve ever known , I know mine are 🩷🙏

But professionally?
They are not the therapist.

They are the co-facilitator.
The boundary bringer.
The soft exhale
The truth without spoken language.

But they are not here to absorb your client’s emotional load hour upon hour.
Not the emotional sponge.
Not the silent fixer.
Not the unpaid mental health professional.

🐴 We hold the container.
✋🏽 We regulate the space.
❤️ We ensure consent — for horses and humans.

This work is powerful — its feels like its almost magic.
It’s trauma-informed. Consent-led. Co-regulated. Boundaried. Ethical.
And deeply relational.

Let’s do it right.

10/22/2025

You cannot train the horse that won't let you train them.

You cannot teach the horse that won't let you teach them.

You cannot administer body work to the horse who won't let you treat them.

You cannot vet a horse that won't let vetting happen to them.

You cannot care for a horse who won't let you care for them.

This is obvious, what is less obvious about this, is that compliance has nothing to do with it.

The great Tina Turner once sang, "What's love got to do with it?". I say "What's obedience got to do with it?" I have often seen leveraged obedience mask deep resentment, and quiet discontent in horses handled skilfully enough to BEHAVE like a happy horse, but not skilfully enough to BE a happy horse.

Just because a horse is DOING it, or allowing it to happen, does not mean they are receptive, or allowing it into their body.

Body Work treatment forced upon a horse is dead in the water in helping them be sounder. Training leveraged onto a horse, no matter how elegant and light it may look, can hide the deep misgivings the horse has about what is being done to them and with what tools. You can shove a medicine down a non-compliant horses throat but that horse will not be easier to handle next time just because you did it.

Which is why I continue to push back against the rhetoric shift in the horse world this year. Influencers whom 12 months ago promoted patience, connection and ethics, suddenly in 2025 came out stridently against the "Horse First" world, but this time using the "Horse First" vocabulary against the community they once spotlighted. The word for that is betrayal.

Let us not forget, that at the root of all training needs to live a horse who trusts you, likes you, and likes what is being done with them enough, that they co-sign whatever task it is that you chose on their behalf.

Without it, it is not Horsemanship.

It's -Manship.

10/16/2025

My kid was sad i wasnt home for dinner last night...
there was some miscommunication.
Instead of feeling guilt, I picked up on the need for connection and I offered time and space to have breakfast together. So thats what we did.
Sometimes things just are and if we can spot the need theres usually a reasonable solution.

How do you create time to connect with those closest to you? In a constant world of go go go, how do you stay connected? Or do you struggle with burn out and feeling disconnected?

10/15/2025

A note about the sound bath meditation with horses...
Equine Connections, LLC
Soul Song Healing Vibrations

I am beyond grateful to have been able to not only bring this event to life but also watch it grow. I also have grown tremendously personally, professionally, in horsemanship, witnessing energy, and learning to write meaningful meditations. Theres been some amazing moments and some challenges. At the end of the season before summer break we had been amazingly consistent. However bringing this back has been a challenge. This is our second month looking at canceling due to lack of attendance. Before you feel any sort of way I get it nor do you have to feel sorry. And im not quite ready to give up on this because so many of you have shown interest and ironically its still connecting me to amazing humans.

With that being said. I can't keep giving energy to something thats continuously not working! My thoughts are to plan one for november if that falls through im skipping December and we may consider trying again in January however there are no gaurantees.

I share this to give you an opportunity to be able to help me keep this going. If it winds up sizzling out just know its only to be able to put energy into other amazing things! 💞

I love you all whether you attend events or just support me behind the scenes!

10/13/2025

Sound Bath Equine Connections, LLC come join us Friday october 17 at 7p! Cost $55

Reach out for more info!

10/12/2025

Faolan isnt sure about all this wet stuff...

How's everyone doing this morning? Are you under water or just enjoyng the rainy day?

10/12/2025

🌮 tacos for days...available in 16 colors!