Waterhole Rituals question
Sep 1st, 2008 by Carolyn Resnick Method
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Today’s post is another in the series of questions regarding my Waterhole Rituals. Whilst the Rituals look simple enough on the surface, there are levels of understanding and behavior beneath the surface that must be fully grasped before you can experience their full benefit. Nicole from Canada wrote in and asked me a couple of questions and we’ll look at one of these today. I hope that you find it helpful to your understanding too.
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Hi Carolyn – regarding Canada, Liz lives in the interior of the western-most province, British Columbia. Alberta is a hop, skip and jump over the mountains from Liz, on the eastern edge of the Rockies. Haven’t seen any of your dates posted here, nor on Liz’s site…or have I been looking in the wrong spot? I wonder whether a friend, Angie from EquineWise, is reading this and is also interested.
Cheers!
Hi Nicole,
It’s not just you!!! I also have a horse that needs a better gas pedal. Until Carolyn worked with him, I had no idea horses even had or needed one. I’ve been focusing on that for several months now, and I still have difficulties making him leave me at a trot. He’ll come back to me quickly though, so I suppose I have half a gas pedal at this point. While I’m secretly rather pleased that my horse Doolie is so tickled at being with me he doesn’t want to leave, I suppose that’s the whole point of the exercise–getting your horse to leave and to come back on command. I guess we’ll just have to keep working on it!
Lia,
I am visiting Liz Mittan Ryan. I am not at all sure were that is. Does that help?
Carolyn
Carolyn,
In Canada, will you be visiting British Columbia or might we be able to see you in Alberta (too)?
Dear thea,
I am going to go to Canada but we have not confirmed a date yet. I had a trip planned but had to change it. I might run up there fairly soon and if I do, we will post it on the Blog.
Carolyn
Is Liz coming to Canada in September? I live near Liz (5 hours close) as well and would love to attend a clinic with Carolyn.
Dear Kris,
Thank you for sharing your person experience. It is all about about timing and reading your horse’s energy and visualizing what he is thinking and playing off your oppertunities. I have not finished writing my entry to the blog I told you about but it will be coming up soon. You had a great part in causing me to write it. It is titled “The Path of the Centaur Connection”. I think you are going to like it a lot!
Carolyn
I’m re-sending this because I was not sure it came through the first time. My apologies if this is a duplicate.
The first time I ever asked for “go trot” I did so because, in that moment, I felt the horse letting me know that he would, that he wanted to do this. We had practiced all the other rituals together over many, many months, especially First Ritual and Companion Walking. One day as we were walking together(out in the open, not an arena) I felt this surge of energy coming from Khemo and I just looked at him and “go trot” popped out of my mouth, without me even thinking about it. He trotted off beautifully, straight ahead. When he had gone about 40 feet, I asked for a halt. Khemo stopped out of that high energy trot as though a wall had popped up in front of him. I asked him to turn (he did) and then “come up” as I trotted backward a few steps. He just trotted on back to me. As I told Carolyn at the time, it felt to me like “go trot” just welled up out of the other rituals, almost on its own. I had been “worrying” about for quite some time, wondering how I would ever manage to do this last ritual…and in the end it just kind of did itself.
Best, Kris