Equine Communion – deep healing space

Morning sun with the brisk coolness of an early winter’s morning here in the Alentejo . . .

It was a first day of tending responsibilities where a couple of the elder horses are receiving a daily support of medicine to ease the way of their physical mass. The herd is eight in number at this time, having grown over the recent months to include a couple from a nearby community who had gone through a change of care. How adaptive these beautiful and generous beings have been with the new two as they open and allow the different personalities to be included and the younger more reactive newcomers ease their tensions to begin to acclimatise with the home herd that has been estabilshed for more than twenty years. There were two attempts at running home, breaking free and heading towards their previous familiar territory only a short distance from this land – a reasonable action for any being to respond to the instinctive and magnetic pull into the sense of home, but home was no longer a space that could be held for them on that land and it became ever more important to reassure and allow the herd to offer it’s own integrative process.

We too, as two, are also being eased into an integrative process with the herd as they adjust to having us as their temporary carers, their people. And on this day we were gentle within ourselves as we walked across the bristly cork oak cladded land towards the general area where we hoped to find the herd.

From a short distance we two were also dropped to an even greater gentle presence within ourselves as we came to a stop upon seeing the whole herd gathered. One mighty cork oak was the central torroidal anchor or shelter for an utterly vital and deeply quiet life force; the immediacy of depth, presence and active peace was palpable. We were with-nessing something akin to a natural temple space where the frequencies of healing were passing through each of them, tree, horses, ponies and the wider living beings in the field as together they were a unified organism, a collective hum of being.

With our two legs brought to an immediate pause we opted not to continue but to linger, witness, allow the innate timing to show itself for when where and how to continue. It was the most easeful and natural thing to do – we were being shown the frequency of Nature as a healing force that governs its own vitality, creating a balanced whole in every iteration and expression. We knew that we could only approach the horses more directly if we could meet them from the space they were being and for this we entrusted ourselves to that greater invitation.This was a state of being without mind, where we were simply guided to be still, be quiet and empty and allow the herd as a field to meet us if we were were being welcomed.

One of the wider sensings we received was that the horses and the trees, the soil, and countless other beings unseen by our eyes, were in a deep frequency space that was ‘tending’ both the local and the wider, possibly global or universal field or currents of Love. There were no boundaries or edges to be observed and yet we were aware of differences between being in, and being with, that range or bandwidth, and not being with it.

How often does a gift such as this occur that we can be fully present with it because we are not running a ‘to do list’ that is managed by time requisites or the demands of ‘shouldings’ and ‘oughtings’?

Is it possible that there are many windows with Nature that come our way and that may invite us to enter the most natural form of healing and communion available to each of us?

What seemed so likely was that this was us entering into an equine and arboreal communion space, one in which animals and plants are always being with and for each other and that is a continual source of replenishment and topping up of well-being and from which a communal organism is tended and maintained. A source pool of generosity that we may each draw from and give sustenance to that we liken to a generous and generative pool of golden frequencies . . .

After some nameless period of time we each sensed that the field was open to welcome us to administer our medicines (although to be sure we wondered whether they were even necessary) and come closer to be with the two horses that were to receive them. No bridles were necessary in truth, just contact from that same space that we had been attuned to.

The impact on our own physical and sensory systems was long lasting and now becomes the guiding quality for being fully here and awake to the needs of those we are with.

Heather

We created a soundwand from this incredible herd temple space, which we share in the soundspace for you to receive the healing from the herd. You can find it here

Just a wee note regards the pictures: Even though the pictures are of the same horses, they were not taken at the time of the temple space experience. No cameras were with us at the time.