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LEANNE'S LATEST TESTIMONY after another 6 days. --this time with Chris --her husband! He said "One day --I will meet you". He did on Leanne's third trip to us.
Feb. -2-2010
Rose,
There are so many challenges we face in life. Yet there are so many more that we hide from. Some of these we don’t even know we are hiding from until you undertake Rose’s horsemanship. It took me a while to find it and it was not until my third visit from Australia in 18 months that I really began to understand.[Human needs are complex. due to what we learn with our families, friends and surroundings in general. Our natural birth rights are distorted by other's expectations for you, and left has many detours with multi-faceted conflicts at all levels. We are here to help you untangle that web of confusion that has built up for many years in your life. Rose]
Getting a connection to the horse is one thing, communicating through body language another, and many of the natural horse programs start with these complex but basic elements. Rose’s live-in intensive delivers so much more than that.
[We ARE different and always will be. We recognize that 'invisible box' we are placed in immediately after birth. We should be given life --to find and live our own lives. Often, we are tormented, by what we are taught as normal behavior, and often --this has nothing to do with what is desired from within. Rose]
Focusing on the rider before the horse you explore your responses to the horse, your ability to communicate lightly and with clarity, your sense of respect for the horse heightens each time you realize how much softer you can be and get a corresponding quickness and softness of response from the horse.
[Focusing your life on what is expected from you, affects how we learn to communicate with other humans who have also been brought up to fulfill the needs of anothers expectations. Getting back to finding that common ground of similarities --meaning those deepest similarities goes very deep, and to find that spark of 'something so natural to the spirit' becomes enticing to your inner hearts needs --to find that something --that has been unattended. Rose]
When I went to Rose, I had been working on ‘soft hands’ for about 7 years. I thought I had soft hands. To realize I could get them about 300% softer in three weeks and achieve so much more amazing results from the horse was astounding.
[Over my lifetime, I have noticed that humans have almost forgotten --to 'feel'. Touch has become conflicted with the threat of either homo-sexuality or sexual abuse, and the fear of touch leaves so many bankrupt , human needs unfulfilled. Rose]
I have been a dancer for over 25 years and knew that body language was so important. From our dressage lessons we hear seat, legs. There is so much in the seat its true, but it comes not from strength and position but a breathing, relaxed softness and the ability to move with almost minute flexibility in your seat - yet this appears as stillness. You are moving with the horse, giving him freedom of movement and the ability to extend with relaxation. It is incredible and has made my riding a completely different experience.
[Learning the 'other side of the story' is helpful to understanding more than just riding horses, it affects all parts of your life. Rose]
As an interior designer, I know that the best approach to a problem is to look at it creatively - yet I forget to do this when I am riding, thinking - this is how the book or my trainer tells me to do it.
[This also applies to self realization --independance, and the ability to start thinking 'outside-the-box'. Rose]
Gaining a creative approach to what messages you are sending the horse [and others as well! Rose] and what they really mean and really learning to listen to what the horse [and others. Rose] is telling you is the essence of Rose’s message. And it works![We have been told how much our program is helpful with TEAM BUILDING and Corporate Planning, and handling employees, expecially --difficult ones! Rose]
The light-bulb moment came when I finally understood the strength within softness and what it means for the horse and the rider. I now know that that is ultimately my goal in riding. It is easy, yet it is sometimes hard to retrain our brains and bodies not to ‘abuse’ the horse our actions. But it IS worth it.
[To acquire 'soft Hands' means so much more to the horse, when riding, and to life, as the strength of meaning becomes more clear. Rose]
Learn about yourself, retrain your body and brain and ride with spirit and your horse will love you for it. I know mine did!
Love you Rose and Thank you for changing my world (and that of my horses) into a better place.
[Leanne's testimonies and continued email comments and questions always challange me to be a better coach and consultant, and THAT is why I can neve quit what I do. It is the best work possible --helping to change lives! Rose]
Leanne Stevenson
JOINNG UP Art+ Dance+ Equinewww.joiningup.com.au <-- please copy/paste
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--to 'Rose at the Barn'.
THANK YOU Leanne & Chris. ---We will always love you.
[Since a relocation, the phone number may not be the same]
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#23-2766548 Call 570-658-3861 email Rose at the Barn also: www.softtouchhorsemanship.com www.mindbodybrainspirit.org www.roseatthebarn.org Central Pa. --between State College and Harrisburg.
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