The Sorraia Center
Mar 26th, 2009 by Carolyn Resnick Method
Earlier on the blog, sometime in January, I introduced the idea of a school or educational center called the “Sorraia Center”. For those of you that are interested in the school and the ideas I have for it, I have written about it here and will continue to develop the direction of its studies and post these ideas on the blog occasionally for you to follow and support.
My vision for the Sorraia Center beyond the cultural studies of horses is to highlight how students and teachers can work together as a team in reaching the goals of the school’s programs. In our culture today, we have lost team working skills and the deep fulfillment and personal well-being that comes from serving community and which I want to bring back to humanity.
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I like your blog and wanted to say keep up the good work. Do you plan on posting more soon?
Thank you Rick. The article is quite interesting since I own an Iberic horse.
Dear Carolyn, after rereading your book again recently I have been thinking about similar things. Your school will be a wonderful classroom for every being involved. It makes me think of the book Gullivers Travels. When Gulliver arrives on the island with the Whinems and the Yahoos, the whinems being the horses who were a society on the island and who held Gulliver at first prisoner and then took him on as a student of their ways. the yahoos were the wild and untamed group of humans who lived on the same island but who were regarded as wild animals with no rules or society by the wise whinems. Any way you have probably read this, what I am heading at is that Gulliver took everything he learned from this horse society back to England with him and saw how humans could benefit from the lessons learned because they had lost their way. Beautiful how so many years ago, the author was inspired to write about horses and their wisdom and how humans could learn from them. He even suggested becoming friends with a herd of whinems and talking with them everyday, asking them their opinions.
We need your vision very much in these times.
I wish you all the best.
Valezka
I love your idea Carolyn. I resonate with your vision about two months ago I had a dream of a school or open classroom that looked out to a pasture where a herd was grazing. The classroom has definately changed since I was in school. The horses are certainly evolving as a divine messenger for the human race. What a beautiful roadmap they have laid out for us. It has been here for a long time, thanks to all of us who are allowing this information to emerge to this more harmonious way .
You’re sure doing some interesting stuff! The ad for an assistant brought up a small regret for the settled nature of my life at present. Having been relatively footloose and fancy free to the age of 35 that doesn’t happen very often at all. Through listening to your teleseminars and watching the Waterhole Ritual dvd it has become clear to me that I am a Dominant Horse personality type. I always question dominance and for some strange reason have alot of resistance around the Claiming Territory ritual even though it seems fun in thinking about it I found myself avoiding it. When I did use it I was effective and I could see the horse I’d used it on in “deep thought” afterward at which point I went and looked up how often to do it and found that you only use it once or as much as 3X over their lifetime. The horse I used it on is new to my herd and had been kept on his own and pretty much ignored. He was at least on pasture as opposed to being stalled and they did get him a steer for company every year but….he’s healing now with my herd. Before using that ritual he was reluctant to even come through the gate to eat his daily oats. The day after he came through on his own without reticence or needing to be haltered. But I digress. Being a dominant horse personality type who rebelled and resisted for the first part of my life before coming to a spiritual awakening of how I was living my life in reaction and perpetuating the war I wholly support this movement beyond dominance to true leadership. When I talk acknowledge my domininance tendencies and express my heartfelt desire to become a leader in the finest sense of the word I find myself in tears. I’ve let my tears guide me on the path of the soul for many years now. Count me in too. If you have any books(directly relevant or divinely inspired) either on horses or people that you could recommend I’m doing a research project on the topic of dominance. I’m currently reading “A Language Older than Words” by Derrick Jensen and “Dressage in the Fourth Dimension” by Sherry Ackerman.
Madeline,
The simple answer as to the definition of the Sorraia can be found here. http://www.sorraia.org/ The mustang herd in Sulphur Springs, Utah has been shown to have the same gene markers as the Sorraia herd on the Iberian peninsula. Fascinating stuff and amazing horses.
I am sure there is more to the name where it concerns the school.
Rick
Is this something that can be worked with on line as well as a place to come?
We certainly need these skills and with the uncertainy of the economic climate we will need to know how to work together. We have not needed to work in a group for many years. Actually I think that women have a more difficult time as we are the protectors of the young and can be very independent to say the least.
You can count me in.
Victoria Allen
What does te word Sorraia means? Is it a location or it has its own meaning.
Great project!