We are their “guests” upon warm backs. The stain on the seat of our jeans and the sweet sweat smell add to the experience. A time saver on days when time at the barn is tight.
A bit slippery and a thrill ride when our partner is ” fresh.” A training aid to teach the rider better balance and a vaulter’s norm. All of these things are part of the experience of riding bareback.
One more additional and special benefit may not be so obvious — and yet as I have been lecturing as a clinician, I notice more and more people and trainers picking up on what I have shared about the realization that we are placing two special energy centers together for this union.
At the base of the seat bone — the base of your tailbone — there is a powerful stirring of your energy. Like a fan blade it whirls clockwise and emits a vibration that is “readable “ or sensed. It is often referred to as our Root Chakra Center.
Root? Makes sense for a name as it is the base of your spinal column and operates as a tap root for your energy centers.
The Root is associated as the area where a sense of base security is held — or lack of it manifests. As in Maslow’s hierarchy of Human Needs it begs to reflect if a person has enough to eat, shelter from weather, a place to sleep, physical safety, a sense of certainty. In other words, a personal awareness of self at its most simple or root level operating as an inventory of our survival list.
Horses also have operating Root Chakras which I will discuss in a later blog post, however in this discussion we are looking at what happens when we slip upon the back of our equine friend bareback. We place our Root energy upon their Heart Chakra Center. The immense sense of love, attachment, concern, compassion, caring — love.
Your growth challenge? Sit upon your horse bareback. Have someone hold the horse’s head if you need to in order to remain safe while doing so. Others of you ride that way all the time, but this time let go of your “riding agenda” and tune in to your horse and your self. Alternating your awareness to your “self” and then to receive from your horse.
What is your horse “reading” or sensing from you? What could he be tuning in to about you?
What do you want him to be aware of at your Root level? He will know the truth — not your image. He will sense what is accurate not what others see. He is a safe place for this revealing examination.
And then center and quiet yourself to feel and trust what healing for you is offered from your horse’s back to you.
Listening through your Energy fields can take time to practice and learn. We will continue this discussion and questions are welcome…!
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