It's Not Too Late (with Bonus! YogaNeep!)
The Feed the Ponies Sale is still on--and many many many many thanks to all those who have boosted the signal so far. We are all most grateful.
And the Kickstarter project is in the works. We shot a video today but had issues with getting it uploaded. Will keep trying, and will reshoot with a different camera if necessary. But we are working on it, and there are ponies in it. Also, pre-caffeinated me, which is always amusing. (I'm about as lively post-caffeine, but I tend to make a bit more sense.)
On Friday we had yoga. The weather outside was frightful, the house inside delightful, so of course we were outside. Where the horses were. We staked out the grooming area under the breezeway, which meant that the horses were separated from us by the fence panels, like so:
That's Camilla looking remarkably soft (and damp), and modeling her rather awesome blanket. It's my favorite, and it's Her. Also, Pandora in the background, in her Giant Blueberry Blanket, meditating.
Because we weren't in the herd, we were able to do things a little bit differently. the five of us where concentrated into a much smaller space. People could close their eyes. Horses wondered why we were in there and not out in the lovely mud and wet. We had our blankets, didn't we?
The theme to start with was the Martian Salute--it's at ca. 1:31 here. It's actual real yoga and you are supposed to imagine you have four arms. Big step forward, let out a chant, fling the energy out, gather it back in. Lots of fun. Rather uninhibited.
Camilla Loved It. She watched in complete fascination.
Then something strange happened.
She went like this:
We'd been warned before we started that we might spook the horses. The horses didn't bat an eye--war horses, you know--but the War Mare went into an abrupt and striking Zen state. All the tension ran out of her, and she carries a lot of it. She turned into a puddle (but look at her neck; and note that she's drawing something from Tia, who is concentrating Very Very Hard).
So the rest of the session was about Camilla mostly. The others contributed. Happy Pooka was Happy. Capria and Khepera kibitzed.
Tia was curious. Also, would someone pass some of that loose hay down there? Plzkthx?
Pandora came and went. And showed off her wonderful profile.
But mostly it was about Camilla and Yoga J. They were going back and forth with the breathing and the energy and the chanting. And at the end, of course, Namaste (with Gabriella watching, in between exchanging sweet nothings with Pooka up in the stalls--these layers of who's doing what where or why are very much a part of Herd Yoga).
This is Camilla's thing as much as our work with S is Pooka's. She lives for it. It's transforming her. She's so much softer, quieter, less tight and angry. The world doesn't come at her as fast or as hard. It makes her happy.
And the Kickstarter project is in the works. We shot a video today but had issues with getting it uploaded. Will keep trying, and will reshoot with a different camera if necessary. But we are working on it, and there are ponies in it. Also, pre-caffeinated me, which is always amusing. (I'm about as lively post-caffeine, but I tend to make a bit more sense.)
On Friday we had yoga. The weather outside was frightful, the house inside delightful, so of course we were outside. Where the horses were. We staked out the grooming area under the breezeway, which meant that the horses were separated from us by the fence panels, like so:
That's Camilla looking remarkably soft (and damp), and modeling her rather awesome blanket. It's my favorite, and it's Her. Also, Pandora in the background, in her Giant Blueberry Blanket, meditating.
Because we weren't in the herd, we were able to do things a little bit differently. the five of us where concentrated into a much smaller space. People could close their eyes. Horses wondered why we were in there and not out in the lovely mud and wet. We had our blankets, didn't we?
The theme to start with was the Martian Salute--it's at ca. 1:31 here. It's actual real yoga and you are supposed to imagine you have four arms. Big step forward, let out a chant, fling the energy out, gather it back in. Lots of fun. Rather uninhibited.
Camilla Loved It. She watched in complete fascination.
Then something strange happened.
She went like this:
We'd been warned before we started that we might spook the horses. The horses didn't bat an eye--war horses, you know--but the War Mare went into an abrupt and striking Zen state. All the tension ran out of her, and she carries a lot of it. She turned into a puddle (but look at her neck; and note that she's drawing something from Tia, who is concentrating Very Very Hard).
So the rest of the session was about Camilla mostly. The others contributed. Happy Pooka was Happy. Capria and Khepera kibitzed.
Tia was curious. Also, would someone pass some of that loose hay down there? Plzkthx?
Pandora came and went. And showed off her wonderful profile.
But mostly it was about Camilla and Yoga J. They were going back and forth with the breathing and the energy and the chanting. And at the end, of course, Namaste (with Gabriella watching, in between exchanging sweet nothings with Pooka up in the stalls--these layers of who's doing what where or why are very much a part of Herd Yoga).
This is Camilla's thing as much as our work with S is Pooka's. She lives for it. It's transforming her. She's so much softer, quieter, less tight and angry. The world doesn't come at her as fast or as hard. It makes her happy.
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