The Equestrian Tai Chi & United Energy Riding Podcast

This episode is for riders who feel nervous sometimes and it's to invite them to consider changing saying or thinking the words 'I am a nervous rider' to 'sometimes I feel nervous when I ride'!

Taoists believe that we can create identities or egos for ourselves without even realising!

When we unwittingly create identities for ourselves, we can live from them and be controlled by them, without us really knowing and this can close down our lives in ways we might not have imagined.

This episode is an overview of the development of the Equestrian Tai Chi Program for riders. It's about how the different trainings in the Program developed,and how we can almost use parts, or all of them, every day out riding, to keep ourselves and our horse calm, to feel our chi flow in harmony with our horse riding, to communicate with our horse through our energy riding, and to even have a spiritual connection with our horse riding.

This episode is about how we can regenerate and smooth our energy with our practice, in the same way a heating system fitted with a magnet can!

It's New Year's Day today and this is a time when we often look ahead to the year to come and our hopes and dreams.

This episode is about using the Tai Chi symbol to help us achieve something that we really want, but are blocked in some way from achieving.

You'll need a big sheet of paper and a pen and some time to get your thoughts down relating to the Yin Yang of the situation!

I hope you enjoy this exercise and find it useful!

This episode is about loosing a tooth, but gaining the joy of connecting with it. It's also about love flowing in at the dentist and how quickly the ego can kick in to take advantage!

According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, different emotions, both positive and negative relate to different organs. This episode is about the benefits of Equestrian Tai Chi in relation to balancing the emotions!

According to many of the ancient traditions of the world, including Taoism, all matter and all relationship dynamics, are composed of some energetic combination of the Five Elements, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood and Fire. Some traditions have only four elements, some have air and not metal.

This episode is about the importance of the Earth Element for all the other elements.

Along with weaning, loading is another thing that can have a big effect on the foal's life, though not to such an extent as weaning.

This Episode is about how I taught my foals to load and about their first journeys. Wu Wei means Non Action or it can mean Effortless Action!

Wu Wei is a Taoist Concept that can mean Doing without doing, or Effortless Action, sometimes Non Action. Weaning foals can be quite stressful for the mare and the foal if it is done too early and in a harsh and abrupt manner, this episode is about how I discovered a way of weaning foals that was easy for the mare and foal and the humans involved!

In taoism, and in other traditions too, the different energies of the 5 elements are regarded as being very important. And they express themselves in fire earth, metal, water and wood. According to taoist tradition all matter, all beings, and all relationships are comprised of some energetic combination of these five elements. The energy of the different elements are dominant at different times of the year.