SCRIPT: BodyMarc Week 1 So now we start our starting set of exercises. As you can see we start in the lying down position and we stay in this position all the time. So the first thing we do is breathing, breathing with your belly, it should move up and down. When your belly is moving just observe
When everyone is calm the communication can start. When you are scared of your horse and your horse is afraid of you communication is simply impossible. Everyone is following their habitual instincts and nothing new can emerge. Calmness is very easy and very difficult at the same time. You need to feel safe with your
You will need your horse to teach you about NA. During the following sessions remember that YOU ARE LEARNING something your horse KNOWS very well. Your horse will teach you NA ONLY if he wants to teach you this. We cannot force it to happen, and we cannot trick your horse to respond to your NA.
To have direct experience of NA, we strongly advise doing BodyMarc and Calming Technique. You also have to prepare your horse. You need to remove all physical and emotional pain your horse can have now. Please check if your horse moves willingly during the training. That means that your horse starts to trot in a calm
Movement created by NA is free from any tensions. The horse is moving in the most relaxed and calm way. In this movement, a horse can explore and expand his body awareness. It is a very great gift we can give our horses: We can give them an opportunity for a very calm movement that will
Here we would love to share with you the BodyMarc program for expanding body awareness. Your Body is a tool in the hands of your mind to connect to the Reality, and your Mind is an observing tool in the hands of your soul. When you observe the Reality in detail, and when you are
Body Awareness is one’s direct experience of one’s body. The more you can experience your body, the bigger your awareness can be. Expanding body awareness is the same as expanding awareness. You can expand your awareness by expanding your body awareness. Body awareness goes much beyond the simple feeling of the muscles and how they move the
The more Calmness we have, the more NA we can have. Calmness is creating space for NA. It is very important and very practical knowledge. When we want to open for more NA with our horse (when we want more energy from our horse), we will go deeper and deeper into our Calmness. It is exactly the
NA is a new concept in your Life. Understanding of NA will be blocked by your thinking and imaginations. When new information comes to us, our brain is trying to interpret it. Ego starts to “protect” us from the new things and it labels this information as “good” or “bad”. We always have to know if we agree