| Horse Wisdom for the Holidays
Have you ever gotten that anxious feeling when planning to see your family for the holidays? Someone once said, "No matter how evolved you are all you have to do is go home for the holidays." So, are you excited to see family, but worried about how you'll keep your sanity when your father criticizes you or your mother 
intrusively, tells you how you should cook the ham, comments on your clothes, or asks when you are going to have children?
While the holidays bring opportunities to reconnect with loved ones and share family traditions, stressful family dynamics can wreak havoc and be anything but joyful! So, how do you keep from being pulled into the vortex of family drama and old feelings? Of course there is no easy answer, but the natural wisdom of horses can help us learn to center ourselves and tap into our wisdom rather than becoming caught in the storm of anger, hurt, or shame.
As prey animals, horses are acutely aware of their environment and quickly react to things that disrupt their sense of safety. When they are faced with unexpected, unfamiliar obstacles or scary movements such as a tarp flapping in the wind or tree branch breaking, horses run away. Then they stop, pause, and turn toward what intruded on their safety. In this calmer state, they become curious and will actually walk over to see what it was that was so scary -- "Oh wow, it was only a tarp, I don't want anything to do with it, but I can go back to grazing." Now, of course, this isn't the case with a predator. When something is that threatening, it is time to run away and stay away.
Similarly, when we are faced with an interaction that disrupts our sense of safety we need to listen to our internal signals and get distance in order to gain perspective. Definitely, if something is life threatening we need to run like hell. But often we humans do the same with emotional triggers and end up in a place of shame, blame, or disconnection. Rather than continuing to "run" in a place of reactivity, when we pause and calm down we are able to move into our highest adult level of functioning... Read the full article
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Greetings!
InBalance is evolving! This fall has brought some exciting changes and I am thrilled to announce that InBalance has a new name and logo - Stand
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InBalance. So, it looks a little different,but it's the same great company.Our new name and logo are reflective of how passionate I am about embodied empowerment and our commitment to helping people find their authentic voice in relation to others. The last few years have been an incredible journey and, more than ever, I am convinced that ... read more
Another evolution is that Amy has made a big life shift - as she always says: growth is adventure and the learning is in the doing! Standing in her power has led her to a new adventure in the Pacific Northwest. read about it here
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Open Barn
Sunday December 12, 2010
11 am - 2 pm; Demo at 12 pm
The Healing Equine Ranch
Agoura Hills
Stop by anytime between 11 am & 2 pm, have some refreshments, see how
Equine Assisted HealingTM works, and get your questions answered by experienced professionals.
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Directions sent upon registration
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CEs for Therapists
Using Embodied Mindfulness to Enhance
Clinical Practice
Saturday January 29, 2011 (Agoura Hills)
9am -4pm
Come and experience how embodied mindfulness can move ourselves, the client, and the work forward. Space is limited, $235.
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