Equus Coaching ~ Week 1

In the spirit of virtual experiencing, we made our first Equus Coaching video today to be used on a zoom call this weekend. The criteria was just to try and ā€œlet the horses be themselvesā€. Am excited to hear how the session goes and which parts of the horses doing they thing resonated with people the most.

Preschool Video ~ Week 1

With the closure of nearly everything during the Covid-19 pandemic the children of Claudiaā€™s ā€œThe Love Schoolā€ preschool have not been able to come for their weekly visit with the animals. To try and give the kids a small sense of their normal routine, we have made a video each week they have been away for them to see the furry creatures they miss and love. This video is week one of filming.

Henry and Henrietta

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Because of the recent outbreak of Newcastle disease found to affect some of Californiaā€™s poultry, these two ducks have spent the first few months of their lives living in quarantine in a dry area with no pond or water in which to swim. Today changed all that! Makes us happy to give them a swimming area of their own. Now we just have to keep the safe from predatorsā€¦.which is a whole different story!

Lisa and Little Miss on the Beach

When we went to Loon Point to bring the horses to the beach a few weekends ago, we happened to meet a lovely woman named Lisa.

Lisa was driving to visit her mother in Santa Barbara and suddenly felt the urge to stop en route to walk on the same beach she had brought her best friend of 35 years, a white horse named Little Miss, five years prior.

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Little Miss was 30 years old when she headed to the beach to play in the water on the very same strip of sand where Lisa found us. They had a magical day together all those years ago, and so we all agreed that it simply had to be Little Miss who whispered in Lisaā€™s ear getting to pull over so she could remember that special moment and watch other horses and humans playing the way they had done. What a beautiful gift she gave to her beloved human Mama!

A few weeks later Lisa reached out to me to express the magic of that day for her, and I just read the post that she wrote about her life and farewell to Little Miss on Memorial Day of 2017.

Many amazing paragraphs later, and after five minutes of wiping away my own tears after reading her beautiful and touching storyā€¦..I would like to share Lisa and Little Misses post here as well. So bring out the box of Kleenex and enjoy the journey as I just did!

http://stateoftheheartfitness.com/9BRISS9/a-life-well-lived-the-heartbreak-beauty-of-saying-goodbye-to-little-miss/