tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88614218232488091982024-03-04T22:46:27.802-08:00Kia HeroldKia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.comBlogger1589125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-5580004436914134312023-08-07T12:27:00.008-07:002023-08-08T01:06:40.727-07:00Tristan Tucker: "The foundation should be the horse's belief in himself<p><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tristan Tucker </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-align: justify; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">entered the indoor arena at Ruskeasuo in Helsinki, you could feel the energy change. Tristan Tucker is not a very tall man, but he has a big energy, and with his Australian accent and charming demeanor, everyone seemed to sit very upright and attentive, listening to what this horseman had to say and share with us during the full day clinic. </span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-0bd14d86-7fff-a086-0e97-63216f7ac458"><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 2pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieplYehj2i82AvmxlT4vn-cPyWhyZ939Vttt5luycJ7Fi_okDhziRtSeT9fPM6bjWKe4GMNWwFET84dn8baB2TA1e5G5DGzaRkTLT-Qkky9VzcRSri2vNUObalRDYJJYCQb6CHQk8kvEB9cbZon8SemeKj_aVXGvZtKBbVEzFDi7zmydDK615wPK_qHa-T/s4032/IMG_5159.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieplYehj2i82AvmxlT4vn-cPyWhyZ939Vttt5luycJ7Fi_okDhziRtSeT9fPM6bjWKe4GMNWwFET84dn8baB2TA1e5G5DGzaRkTLT-Qkky9VzcRSri2vNUObalRDYJJYCQb6CHQk8kvEB9cbZon8SemeKj_aVXGvZtKBbVEzFDi7zmydDK615wPK_qHa-T/w300-h400/IMG_5159.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I for once had really looked forward to seeing Tucker in real life but I had no idea that all he would be sharing would be of such importance. I could not stop writing and during the whole clinic my brain was on fire because there was so much interesting information and so many new things that I had never even thought about when working with horses.
</span><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 2pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">In the beginning of the clinic Tucker asked us to think about some childhood memory of when we first met a horse and to imagine what it felt like. He then said that he always feels a sense of love for horses when he enters a room and that he always starts by following the horses and the riders and to talk slower and in a more monotone voice, so that the horses can get the sense of the space and energy.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 2pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><h1 style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding: 0pt 0pt 2pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Horses need to learn to self-regulate</span></h1><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The first horse that Tucker worked with was very agitated and he said that he has years of experience working with horses and that this horse had clearly suffered some kind of trauma and was constantly in survival mode (fight- and flight mode). He said that the horse felt lost in space and had no spacial awareness and did not know how to relate to his rider. The horse did not have any perception of where Tucker was in space either and how he was in relation to Tucker, so he was searching all the time. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“I want to teach the horses to have spacial awareness and that is why we focus on a reference point on the ground (this refers to a point on the ground that Tucker asked the horse to focus on over and over again). </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">I don’t want to control the horse or tell him where I want him to be, but rather give him the awareness of this space so that the horse can start to slowly self-regulate and move away from the traumatic state that he now is in where he is sure that he will be eaten by a lion and die. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When the horse starts to self-regulate, he starts to regulate his own energy, and the physical action that he takes is going to determine how he feels. The horse then becomes more aware of his own physiology and change of energy.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2f7h3QseF3gccFL8UuVCr90yzuHdY25vFRJ9jDhVpW9JfGi44OhpicjFmu4V7m3qxD3xBvOWC7UnLffgTu_q3IN9yqo5RGcqbEp2sJk6EG6kmnIxxL-jVIILIQk5CQWeWyBQAnD3c1X-F-95emG4M1CPcdgmdwlif4c60g1GWtZYtBAVZpyuI2frOeBu2/s4032/IMG_5150.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj2f7h3QseF3gccFL8UuVCr90yzuHdY25vFRJ9jDhVpW9JfGi44OhpicjFmu4V7m3qxD3xBvOWC7UnLffgTu_q3IN9yqo5RGcqbEp2sJk6EG6kmnIxxL-jVIILIQk5CQWeWyBQAnD3c1X-F-95emG4M1CPcdgmdwlif4c60g1GWtZYtBAVZpyuI2frOeBu2/w400-h300/IMG_5150.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker explains that when a horse is in a total state of fear or panic (the same applies to humans), the horse gets a disconnection from its physiology and the brain says get the hell out of here. There is no internal dialogue, just a sense of disconnection and the horse's physiology is doing a lot of things without him even knowing it. There is also no point in jumping on a horse in a state of panic, since the sense of fear will always override the rider's aids. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We want the horse to reconnect to his physiology and give a change in the direction of energy in his body. I give the horse sound advice and try to be the mentor and teach the horse how to take energy up and down so t</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">he horse learns to regulate the energy levels himself</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. Otherwise the horse will very quickly be a slave to the environment and a slave to the physical environment.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When you teach the horses to feel themselves the horse can learn to heal and be in control of his own emotions and can also be fine without you by his side. The truth is that we only work around 2-3 hours a day with our horses, but for the rest of the 22-23 hours per day, the horse is in his own pattern. The 1-3 hours that we spend with our horses can't compete with the other hours when the horse is not managing himself so the horse helps his own longevity when we teach the horse the right patterns for his own body. The horse should be ok even when you are not there and should be good at self management and doing most of it on his own.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“When I train horses I want to give the horse a feeling and sense of themselves. It is more important to</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> teach the horses to be in control of themselves and not to teach how we control the horses.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> At home I often keep the horses free and make sure to change the energy of the space. I am not shooting the energy towards the crowd, but focusing on the ground. When the horse starts to have a feeling of his energy he starts to learn how to self-regulate. I am not either sending the horses away saying respect my space because that is dictatorship. I want to create a sense of space for the horse and when he gets that he becomes more secure on how to conduct himself.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker tells how he was one of the first riders that started to familiarize his horses to the arena from the ground before he went on to ride in a competition. After a while many people started to do the same, and showed the horses the scary things that were in the dressage ring (such as the judge table, a scary flower or flag etc.) The people went and showed the scary thing and then walked away from it and that was never Tucker's point when walking the arena. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It is not about exposing him to objects or things but about teaching the horse about himself. The horse switches between his focus vision (focusing on the details) and peripheral vision (seeing the big picture, the horizon and gathering information about the surroundings). The peripheral vision is his survival vision and his focus vision is about the spot that we teach him to focus on, the awareness or the space.” </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Three different personalities</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker says that he always starts to follow the perspective of the person and that there are three different kinds of personalities working with horses: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The ‘Mummy’ personality </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- The kind of person that just wants his/her horse to feel ok and that really cares for the horse. He/she tends to tell the horse that everything is ok even when it is not. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The ‘Dictator’ personality </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- The Dictator gets angry quickly and doesn't want the horse to do the wrong thing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The ‘Mentor’ personality </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">- This is the personality that is most consistent and can explain in the best manner to the horse what is expected of him. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker says that when the horses have an owner with the ‘Mummy’ personality, the owner usually loves the horse and cares for him and likes telling the horse that everything is well and ok. The horse might however not feel well in his body and mind even if the owner says that everything is well, so the horse needs to rely on the owner since he has no self-management or self-regulating skills. A horse like this can easily have a conversation that is in the owners hug / lap? To one of the people that clearly were more mummy-like Tucker said that:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHAHHTOVmyN89U11UFDfW45YP2nHn9x_4EfVw5D_etPXj459O7_4c97fzZaoLHTeXyvuM-kFTZLzb2xN_ileNi9BMyiCqp7N-V2OTpYbYflKQNDSKD4retbvxtXQ3IjXV_X9Vb7y_6OOlhxCk9yDxD2rWIKlPglHxe75FErxJn_tRV4T87vlCvQ5qlj-X/s4032/IMG_5151.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="4032" data-original-width="3024" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjlHAHHTOVmyN89U11UFDfW45YP2nHn9x_4EfVw5D_etPXj459O7_4c97fzZaoLHTeXyvuM-kFTZLzb2xN_ileNi9BMyiCqp7N-V2OTpYbYflKQNDSKD4retbvxtXQ3IjXV_X9Vb7y_6OOlhxCk9yDxD2rWIKlPglHxe75FErxJn_tRV4T87vlCvQ5qlj-X/w300-h400/IMG_5151.HEIC" width="300" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“It is difficult to teach your horse these things, because you are learning the sensation yourself and you should not change how you are deep inside. You still need to come from a space of care, from a space of yourself. It is now about controlling yourself either, but it is about you becoming more aware.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“Tucker also went on to talk about his newest podcast with his Father in Law, Rob Gervis, the world's leading visual optometrist. In the podcast Gervis explains how our sensory system is being diminished because we are used to looking 90 percent of the time in the distance and 10 percent close. Now we spend 90 percent of our time looking close and 10 percent cent looking into the distance. When this happens we have complications and complaints about our own circulation of energy and creating awareness and this is not good when being with horses. It is important that we can also feel and get a sense of where we are and feel when we and the horse self-regulate. If we don't have a sense of where we are in the space the horses start to bring the energy on us and we start to control it and we get into a bad circle.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“When I meet a new horse, I always look where the horse gets his security from. Is it from himself or the person handling him? The two most dangerous things that I find are the horses that are relying on </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">the institutional and strict boundaries of their education</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> or </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">the comfortable security of the person</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">. I need to teach and give the horse the knowledge that he can rely on himself, not on me, and that he can control all situations when he knows how to control himself. Connection through care and love is a good thing but should not be the foundation of your horse's existence. The foundation should be the horse's belief in himself and in knowing what he will do most of the time. Horses have a map in their mind on how to behave in the wild but their life with humans is very different, so when the information runs out, the horse gears back into fight and flight mode.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The optimal order of movement in the horse</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker says that the optimal order of movement in the horse is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">relaxation, flexion, opening in the front and bringing energy from behind. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">What we however often create in horses is </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">tension, closing in the front and bringing energy from behind.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We never want him to go into tension and close in the front, bringing the energy from behind to something that is stuck. When the horse does this, he has a hard time processing because he has no connection to his own body and when he comes into a nervous situation he locks even more in the body. When the horse locks in the body, the contraction is going to create a sensation of fear. The proper carriage for a horse comes from the right order of movement where the horse feels that he is in charge of his own posture and is in a physical state of confidence.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Self-awareness is the only horsemanship you need</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">During the day Tucker did not have much time to connect and direct the riders themselves but he did pinpoint that the more aware we are of ourselves, the more aware we are of the competence and connection with the horse.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“If the horse gets stressed we don't restrain and control him. We set him free. If the energy in the space explodes, this spot that we are focusing on keeps you safe.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> You will also start to recognize the breathing patterns of the horse</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">, and when the horse starts to let go he starts to breathe below the midline and the internal breathing pattern is then brought into the physical action of work.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> Here Tucker referred to one of the horses and said that he is used to a debilitating breathing pattern above the diaphragm and that this breathing pattern only shows 50 percent of the horse's potential since </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">if the horse can’t breathe, he can't move. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“We do not want a contraction in the horse's belly. When the horse's belly starts to breathe out, you get a different physical reaction in the body and the belly is also directly connected to the leg aids.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqudSqCiOr3PjXf6vm9vq7L0NVJ7YFAsLdZnYVbVFTotaTM-Wu34_EPKL2I9tBlTBpRfs2PDd6DC_cp_V8GISFE6s9pEreJs5gILSfS_2dx__1DvmoK595EuAlrufbuGpWUo0BRhOomEaida8_EUYApotXfFUmT0Es77J2yNQaV5E-rw0gWuXWukB-8yle/s4032/IMG_5150.HEIC" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3024" data-original-width="4032" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjqudSqCiOr3PjXf6vm9vq7L0NVJ7YFAsLdZnYVbVFTotaTM-Wu34_EPKL2I9tBlTBpRfs2PDd6DC_cp_V8GISFE6s9pEreJs5gILSfS_2dx__1DvmoK595EuAlrufbuGpWUo0BRhOomEaida8_EUYApotXfFUmT0Es77J2yNQaV5E-rw0gWuXWukB-8yle/w400-h300/IMG_5150.HEIC" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The horses past events are written on his skin</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker touched the horses a lot during the clinic and told the riders that they need to start to feel the horse, and not just a place on the horse's body, but the whole body since the horse's past events are written on his skin. Through feeling the horse's body, the horse also learns to feel his own body. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“The exterior of a horse's body says nothing about the internal state of mind. A stallion can look great on the outside, but feel very small on the inside. We need to go from contraction to relaxation so that when we touch the contracted muscle we can feel it lengthen and relax and then we can let go of it. We can create tension release and the awareness for the horse to understand what the release feels like. Nowhere is not nowhere on a horse, but it is just a place you didn’t recognize yet.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker also said that he is not an academic person at all, but for him it is just a matter of feeling how the horses are and giving the horses a feeling of insight through touch. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">There is no healthy level of tension in a horse</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker was talking about tension in horses and how tension is an uncontrollable reflex reaction in defense of something. “For me there is no healthy level of tension. To create goo</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">d movement in a horse we need to have relaxation and have the awareness if a horse is in a contracted, tense pattern or relaxed and grounded state of mind. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Elements that make horses tense and afraid:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Movement </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Touch </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Sound </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Approach -him being still and the thing approaching him, or him approaching a thing.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Let go of your expectations</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker says that a lot of time he meets people that come and see him and tell him that the horse has this or that problem,</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> but he believes that the problems that the people have are only relative to the expectations that they are having. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“You might have a lot of things that you wanted to see in this clinic, but the expectations will become a disturbance on events like this. In order for you to let all things come to you, you need to let go of the expectations.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Every person comes with a story but the real truth comes from the horse. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">It is easy to play the expectation and give a solution to the story, but at times the horse is not where we expect it to be and when we release the story, expectations and preconceived ideas and focus on being present we allow the truth to come back from the horse.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“When people bring horses to see me, the focus is on the symptoms and then we miss the actual cause or the problem. And because we view it as something negative we are not open anymore to see what is actually happening. And when we don't see what is happening we can not help the horse. Our expectations are not connected and we have fake expectations that are w</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">rong. It is all about your feelings and the story of you and your horse. The expectation of what we want doesn't always match with our reality. The horses with most things to work on also teach you the most about yourself.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One of the last horses at the clinic was six year old Felix and Tucker said that when he makes contact with him, the horse blocks everything out. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“This horse has a dense isolation between the skin and the inside of his body that comes from him shielding and bracing himself. His physiology contracts and gets hard but I want him to start to feel how his body is and that he starts to create a connection to the parts of his body that are important. He has no connection in his back, so we need to create a connection between the different points in his body. There is a difference between sensitivity that is protecting you and intuitivity of your body. Some horses have no connection to some parts of the body so we need to teach them to reconnect. The same applies to riders since some riders' feet die in their boots once we stop sending connections from our brain to our toes.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker continued working with Felix and said that he is good at following but not good at knowing where he is. When he is following he can not be a good decision maker. He also said that the horse's natural circle of energy and connection internally in a relaxed state is quite pure which is quite rare and that he does not get so lost in his body and he feels when he is connected. He also said that the horse should have more stability when putting his legs down, so the breathing and stability does not stay too up. That can be helped by lifting the base of the body and letting him sink down so he starts to feel really grounded. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“He is holding himself in a set posture, a sturdy position. We want him to relax and feel the connection to his body so that he becomes grounded and not light in the feet. When he is nervous you bring the awareness to the lower part of the body (lifting his leg) and let the energy back down, all the time teaching the horse about the sensation in the body. When we create an awareness in the backend he starts to relax in the front end. We are trying to get him from an involuntary reaction to a tension and relief point where he is breathing into the rhythm of the step and the breathing is following the movement. Otherwise his breathing is ahead and faster than the body is moving and he is already in a contracted state of mind. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Some have an external protection in the body and others have an internal isolation in the body that makes the surface very hard.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The moment of uncertainty comes from not knowing what to do</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker said that the moment of uncertainty and fear in the rider comes from not knowing what to do. “</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">When you know what to do then you can let go of the protection of the self. When the horse spooks and goes backward you don't put the leg on and tighten the reins (the horse thinks that he is already totally terrified so then you kick me and tell me not to look at the spooky thing over there), but you do the opposite and open the leg and open his front leg to the direction that you want him to move. When the horse tucks his own body under, you need to be open. And with a horse like this you also need to rub him hard since he has an internal protection, so you need to get under his skin.”</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"><br /><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Make the weakness the biggest strength</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker recommends that we try to find the weaknesses in the horse and don't just try to improve his weaknesses but make the weaknesses the horse's biggest strength. “If a horse is for example afraid of noise, then you should make the horse the best horse at noise in the stable,” Tucker says. One of the last horses shown at the clinic was also very tense and Tucker said that this is a horse that sees everything as pressure. For this horse everything is predict and protect, and he has a flight response to everything with his body having a different reaction to the stimuli given. With a horse like this Tucker pointed that it is important to let him experience the different stimuli to a level that he can manage since we don’t want to get the horse to a frustration level but rather want to guide him into the connection of his own body. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">The horse Kyrö Hot Flow came to the clinic because the owner wanted some help with the horse's energy levels. The horse is sometimes a bit slow to the aids and Kyrö Hot Flow seemed to move between a relaxed state into a state of panic only to relax yet again. Tucker explained that when the horses have a low sense of connection and low energy levels, and they get a high injection of energy into their body they don't know what to do with the energy and they are not used to feeling it so much. </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“These kind of horses are used to being controlled so it is important to teach the horses about the energy going up and down from the ground and learning about posture and relaxation. Awareness is not about pressure. It is about sensitivity. The slower the horse the less I use whip, spurs etc. The ability for speed and to be quick comed from having stability in one leg, so the other leg can move. Horses that are slow have a poor balance that does not enable them to be quick so it is important to open up in the body and give space in the front end to get the hindlegs through. Laziness in a horse is also a sort of insecurity and we need to teach the horse to believe in his own physiology.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">Tucker tells us that it is important that we do not tell the horse what he is not, but rather tell him what he is and </span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">work on the things he is good at and reward him for it.</span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;"> We also need to keep the expectations and the difficult things low and if we want the horse to be confident, we have to let go. We can not go and drag a horse on the dance floor, he needs to want to come toward it himself. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">One of the last horses at the clinic, Frisco is a very beautiful horse but Tucker said that he looked like a painting and wanted the horse to feel more alive. He reminded Frisco that beautiful things also move, have expression and participation and opening of the body. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space-collapse: preserve;">“The same thing that created the numbness in this horse also creates the sensitivity. He is not used to thinking himself. He is rather quick to defend himself, but he needs to learn that he does not need to defend himself. He feels vulnerable when something suddenly comes up and he doesn't know how to handle it. He doesn't know how to manage himself. When he learns this key thing, it will change his physiology and he will be an open extrovert after that.”</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><br /></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">The rope halter is very clear. If you have a halter with many buckles you put pressure everywhere and does not give a precise direction. For me it is a clear tool in guiding the horse. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Just a fun extra note: Tucker tried to tell the rider to take the gloves off and it was hard to understand so he told her to take her 'hand shoes' off. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Everyone can look but seeing is something we need to learn</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">“The horse never gets softer than the first pressure you give.”</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Self-awareness is the only horsemanship you need.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">If he gets stressed we don't restrain and control him. We set him free. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">If the horse can’t breathe, he can't move. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">There is no healthy level of tension in a horse</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Connection through care and love is a good thing but should not be the foundation of your horse's existence.</span></p></li></ul><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-inline-start: 48px;"><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Some have an external protection in the body and others have an internal isolation in the body that makes the surface very hard.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">The horses past events are written on his skin.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">The moment of uncertainty and fear in the rider comes from not knowing what to do. When you know what to do then you can let go of the protection of the self. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 400; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">”Awareness is not about pressure. It is about sensitivity”.</span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">What we do today may seem very little, but for the horse there are a lot of things going on. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">When the horse relaxes we see where the horses balance naturally goes. </span></p></li><li aria-level="1" dir="ltr" style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; text-align: justify;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; text-wrap: wrap; vertical-align: baseline;">Transferring the energy from the front end teaching to the horse the point of stability how to redirect the energy in another direction. </span></p></li></ul></span>Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-31252066028096088562020-04-16T12:20:00.003-07:002020-04-16T12:30:48.087-07:00Some Thoughts on Movement, Anxiety and the Breath<div style="text-align: center;">
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<i>"Pause practice can transform each day of your life. It creates and open doorway to the sacredness of the place in which you find yourself. The vastness, stillness, and magic of the place will dawn upon you, if you let your mind relax and drop for just a few breaths the storyline you are working so hard to maintain. If you pause just long enough, you can reconnect with exactly where you are, with the immediacy of your experience." - </i><b>Pema Chodron</b><br />
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You might be surprised. The people that you think have it mostly together might be the ones that tell you that their life is anxiety ridden and that a good and restful nights sleep is nothing but a long lost memory.<br />
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What we see on the surface is definitely not always what is looks like on the inside. And sometimes the inside seems to be spilling out for everyone else to see.<br />
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I have always been super sensitive and as a young child I had some really serious obsessive compulsory disorder and my fear of death was sometimes mindblowingly scary. I would wake up in the middle of the night screaming and I was not able to calm the fear down in any way. When I was older I thought everyone lived with compulsive behavior and the fear of dying but through some friendly research I realised that this is definitely not the case.<br />
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<b>Finding the breath</b><br />
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I started my yoga practice more than 20 years ago in Australia, Sydney. I had always moved a lot and found in yoga something that really made me feel different and calm. The teacher always talked about breathing and the breath but I had no idea what it really meant. I think around 10 years later I had a yoga class in Finland and I suddenly got the sensation that ahhhhh..... this is probably what people are talking about. That you actually connect with the breath and it is almost like it moves your body and makes you warm from the inside out.<br />
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I slowly found my breathing and through that I discovered myself in a whole new manner. There are a lot of selfhelp breathing flyers and courses that tell you to just breathe deeply and that (as most other things we believe there are quick fixes) but I really do believe that at least for a very airy (vata) and firey (pitta) person like myself I needed to have the movement in order to connect with the breath firsthand. I needed to move, move and move for years so that I slowly discovered the inner stillness and peace and was able to sit with it for hours on end.<br />
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A few years ago my fear of death had vanished. I got an occasional reminder of it but I really did not understand what was happening. Then I discovered Kundalini yoga and found out that different Kriyas actually help in easing anxieties and the fear of death and I realised that through my practice and learning to breath better my own anxieties had somehow dissipated. I was also no longer as afraid of loneliness and being alone and even the smallest things in life felt more positive and full of joy.<br />
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So if you feel tired, anxious, ill at ease or out of breath especially during times like these where we feel a lot of insecurity, remember to move (movement can be anything, not only yoga), stay present and focused and connect with your breath. There is so much energy around us and we are only remotely aware of how shallow our breathing is and how easily we get tensed up in our daily lives. Even sleep can make us feel tired and depleted when we are not inside of our bodies and connected to our core being.<br />
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We can laugh at the thought that ´I would be dead if I would not breath´, but if you have even that smallest feeling of being ill at ease, I assure you that movement and breathing will help. Just give it a try and let me know if you need some help. I am more than happy to help you walk through it.<br />
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<i>The video is from our Mindfulness and Yoga Retreat for HorseBack Riders from Beautiful Kekkolan Kartano with my Dear Friend </i><a href="http://andas.fi/"><b><i>Eeva Jaakonsalo</i></b></a>.<i> We have a yin practice where Eva guides everyone through guided meditation after some lovely morning lessons with our horses. </i>Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-44551532696076413512020-01-06T09:39:00.002-08:002020-01-06T09:39:22.650-08:00Kari Ketonen: ”Itsetuntemus syntyy omien tunteiden käsittelemisestä”<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Karisma on opittavissa oleva taito, mutta se ei ole ulkokohtainen temppu. Todellinen karisma vaatii kykyä olla yhteydessä itsessään oleviin syvempiin kerroksiin”</em></div>
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Näyttelijä, käsikirjoittaja ja psykoterapeutti (YET) <a href="https://www.myspeaker.fi/puhuja/kari-ketonen/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bc68; text-decoration-line: none;">Kari Ketonen</a> <a href="https://www.myspeaker.fi/puhuminen/puhuja/" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bc68; text-decoration-line: none;">puhuu</a> itsetuntemuksesta, läsnäolon taidosta, karisman kehittämisestä, hengityksen merkityksestä ja siitä, miten keho varastoi tunteet, joiden kohtaamista vältämme. Hän myös kouluttaa johtajia tunteiden käsittelyyn ja kohtaamiseen itsessään ja muissa.</div>
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Ketonen ei kuitenkaan aina ole puhunut näistä asioista. Vuosituhannen vaihteessa hän koki olonsa ahdistuneeksi ja masentuneeksi suurimman osan ajasta. Hän ajatteli, että <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”kyllä minä ratkaisen tämän”</em>, mutta ymmärsi lopulta tarvitsevansa asiantuntija-apua. Keväällä 2001 hän hakeutui terapiaan. Parin vuoden päästä hän ryhtyi opiskelemaan terapeutiksi.</div>
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Ketoselle terapian teorian opiskelu antoi käsitteet ja kartan, jonka avulla hän pystyi ymmärtämään maaston, joka koostui hänen omista kokemuksistaan, hänen elämästään ja tunteistaan. Kokonaisuus alkoi jäsentymään ja elämään syntyi pikkuhiljaa järjestyksen ja logiikan tunnetta.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Puheissa yritän antaa mallin, jolla selittää ja ennustaa ihmisen toimintaa. Monesti vain nostamme tassut pystyyn koska maailma ja kokemuksemme siinä näyttää liian monimutkaiselta. Jos sinulla on hyvä ja toimiva malli omassa elämässä, se toimii suhteessa todellisuuteen luotettavasti”</em>, Kari toteaa.</div>
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Kari tutustui myös kehopsykoterapiaan ja ymmärsi, että hän tarvitsee juuri tätä avainta oman näyttelemisen kehittämiseen. Hän koki, että <a href="https://www.uniarts.fi/teatterikorkeakoulu" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="background-color: transparent; box-shadow: none; box-sizing: border-box; color: #72bc68; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">Teatterikorkeakoulu</a> ajoilta ei ollut tullut selkeää työkalupakkia, jonka avulla hän pystyisi kehittämään näyttelemistään haluamaansa suuntaan. Psykoterapian avulla Kari pystyi hahmottamaan miltä oikeasti tuntuu olla läsnä ja missä tilanteissa hänelle läsnäolo oli helpompaa tai vaikeampaa.</div>
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Oman kokemuksen kautta Karia alkoi kiinnostamaan myös psykoterapian teoreettinen puoli ja hän ymmärsi, että terapia on vallankumouksellista ja asia jota meidän kulttuurissa ei vielä sinä aikana liputettu. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Meidän yhteiskunta ja systeemi perustuu pitkälti siihen, että iso osa ihmisistä on hukassa ja johdettavissa,”</em> Kari hymähtää.</div>
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Oman terapian aikana Kari huomasi nopeasti, että hän oli nyt sellaisen äärellä, jonka avulla voi tehdä elämässä mitä vaan ja aloitti ylemmän erityistason psykoterapeutin opinnot.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Näyttelemisestä käydään mielestäni valitettavan vähän työn kovaan ytimeen pureutuvaa keskustelua. Näyttelijälle on kuitenkin mielestäni tärkeää osata purkaa omaa neuroosiaan ja kuvata parhaimmalla tavalla neuroottisia hahmoja näytellessä. Nämä kaksi edellä mainittua asiaa ovat yllättävän lähellä toisiaan. Sekä näyttelijän, että psykoterapeutin työssä on takana yritys ymmärtää ja kuvata jäsentyneesti ihmistä ja hänen oikkujaan. Jos en pysty päättelemään mikä ihmistä vaivaa, en myöskään pysty auttamaan häntä.” </em></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Hyvä johtaja osaa käsitellä omia tunteitaan</span></div>
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Kari Ketonen on elämänsä aikana puhunut monelle johtajalle ja kouluttanut johtamistaitoa lukuisissa yrityksissä. Ketonen uskoo siihen, että omien tunteiden käsitteleminen on ehdottoman tärkeää, jos haluaa kasvattaa luottamusta johtajana.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Jos johtaja ei pysty käsittelemään omia tunteitaan, ihmiset pelkäävät aina, että johtajan astuessa huoneeseen, hän kaataa omat tunteensa muiden niskaan. On nimittäin niin, että se mitä emme tunne ja tunnista, manifestoituu kuitenkin tavalla tai toisella meidän käytökseemme tiedostamatta. Esimerkiksi muut voivat kokea ihmisen aivan eri tavalla kuin ihminen itse. Meillä on paljon virheellisiä käsityksiä siitä mitä tai miten me ulospäin viestimme,”</em> kertoo Ketonen.</div>
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Tunteet, jotka torjumme, kuluttavat meidän energiaamme. Joudumme vastustamaan tunnetta samalla voimalla jolla se pyrkii tietoisuuteen. Tästä syntyy jännitystila, joka kuluttaa meiltä jatkuvasti energiaa ja kuormittaa meitä.</div>
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Läsnäolo omassa kehossa tarkoittaa kykyä ja uskallusta tuntea sitä mitä keho sillä hetkellä tuntee ja kykyä olla tietoisesti yhteydessä siihen kokemukseen. Ihmisinä rajoitamme läsnäolon kokemusta esimerkiksi rajoittamalla tiedostamatta hengitystä. Pyrimme kehollisesti jännittymään ja kovettumaan epämukavia kokemuksia vasten. Mitä jännittyneempiä olemme, sitä vähemmän pystymme tuntemaan. <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Tunteiden käsittely on tunteiden tuntemista. Ne tulee käsitellyksi, kun ne tulee koetuksi,”</em> toteaa Ketonen.</div>
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Esimerkiksi psykologisesti jännittävissä tilanteissa arjessa on tärkeää pysyä rentona. Rentoutuminen on vaikeaa koska meidän on mahdotonta tietoisesti rentouttaa sellaista mitä emme tiedä jännittävämme. Prosessissa on siis kyse siitä, että havaitsee tiedostamattomat jännitykset itsessään ja tulee niistä tietoiseksi.</div>
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Tiedostamattoman kontrollin ymmärtäminen on ensimmäinen askel. Kun tiedostamattoman kontrollin tiedostaa, siitä voi tietoisesti päästää irti. Sen jälkeen, kun tiedostamattomat lukot on tiedostettu, on jo mahdollista tehdä tietoista kontrollia esimerkiksi hengityksen avulla. Erilaisilla tekniikoilla, kuten hengitystekniikoilla opitaan havaitsemaan ja tiedostamaan omaa kehoa.</div>
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<em style="box-sizing: border-box;">”Helppoa tämä ei ole, niinkuin juuri mikään arvokas elämässä. Se vaatii vain hieman rohkeutta, sinnikkyyttä ja ehkä hitusen epätoivoa siitä, että olet ”kokeillut jo kaikkea”. Kokeile pysähtymistä itsesi äärelle. Opettele elämään edes muutama sekunti kerrallaan niin, että et ”johda itseäsi” vaan pelkästään kuuntelet,”</em> kannustaa Kari.</div>
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Kari Ketosen haastattelu on aikaisemmin julkaistu <a href="https://www.myspeaker.fi/uutiset/haastattelussa-kari-ketonen-itsetuntemus-syntyy-konkreettisesti-itsen-tuntemisesta/"><i>MySpeakerin sivuilla</i></a>. Karilla on sen verran mahtavia ajatuksia, joten halusin jakaa ne myös täällä blogini puolella. </div>
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I always dreamt of taking our Daughter Ella with me to Australia. I knew that we would go there someday and last spring I saw a picture on my friends Instagram feed from Bondi Icebergs. That same morning I made a few phone calls from my car on our way to the stables and soon did we not only have our plane tickets in our hands but also our living arranged for the whole month. </div>
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I can not ever express the gratitude to our friends who took care of us and let us live in their homes for one months. Thank you!</div>
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You can read about the first part of our <a href="https://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2019/04/aussina-part-1.html"><i>trip here</i></a>. The second part of the trip was purely magical. We got to spend some days at our friends house at beautiful<i> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueys_Beach,_New_South_Wales">Blueys Beach</a></i> and on our way back to Sydney we visited <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seal_Rocks,_New_South_Wales"><i>Seal Rocks</i></a> and the majestic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugarloaf_Point_Light"><i>Sugarloaf Point Light</i></a> also known as Seal Rocks Lighthouse. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Illalla meillä oli katkarapujuhlat Australialaisten snapsilaulujen kera (mm. Land Down Under, Horses jne.) ja jatkoimme vielä laulamista pitkälle aamuun asti.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lapset bongasivat myös puskasta talon edestä 'Diamond Pythonin'. Meidän ystävä Chris yritti napata käärmeen (hän on eläinlääkäri ja tekee töitä villieläinten kanssa, mutta ei ollut tarpeeksi nopea.). Parin päivän päästä käärme tuli jälleen moikaamaan meitä ja kun ystävämme remontoivat taloa keväällä, löytyi käärme katosta asumasta. </td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thorin uudet pihattokaverit Hulda ja IIro. Arvatkaa jännittikö laittaa nämä kaverit yhteen?<br />
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Aloitetaan siitä, että Thorille kuuluu todella hyvää. Olen itse ehtinyt stressata pari kertaa itseni hysteerisyyden partaalle viimeisen puolen vuoden aikana. Ensimmäisen kerran, kun tallille muutti uroskoira ja ajattelin, että Jack ei ikinä tulisi sen kanssa toimeen. Toisen kerran, kun Iiro ja Hulda muuttivat samaan pihattoon Thorin ja Mestarin kanssa.<br />
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Jack ja uroskoira tulivat heti todella hyvin toimeen ja kerran tallinomistaja oli todennut Thorille, että nyt jätät tuon Iiron rauhaan ja homma oli siinä. Olin tietenkin todella iloinen, että Thor ja Mestari saisivat lisää ystäviä, mutta olin han varma, että Thor yrittäisi syödä joko Iiron tai Mestarin tai molemmat elävältä. Olen ollut niin monta kertaa näkemässä Thorin todella agressiivisen käyttäytymisen, kun tamma on liittynyt joukkoon joten en vain mitenkään voinut uskoa, että Thor olisi a) muuttunut niin paljon b) ymmärtänyt, että ei kannata tai jaksa olla vihainen c) voi niin hyvin, että ei tarvitse puolustaa tammoja. Ihan oikeasti..... Voi, kun eläimet osaisivat puhua. </div>
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Toinen asia, jossa niin toivoisin, että eläimet osaisivat puhua on niiden terveys. Nyt olen kaksi vuotta iloisena ajatellut, että Thorin purentavika on ollut korjattu Jutin toimesta ja todennut, että ei kai sillä niin väliä kuka sitä sitten raspaa (kun vika kerran korjattu). Mutta ai että, miten väärässä ihminen voikaan olla..... Olen miettinyt ja pohtinut miten Thor on ollut jo pidemmän aikaa melko huono taas suusta. Olen käyttänyt Monty Robertsin riimua ratsastaessa ja tehnyt kaikkeni, jotta Thorilla olisi parempi olla. Nyt on kuitenkin kulunut vasta 4 kuukautta edellisestä raspauksesta ja Thor on jälleen ollut todella vahva, etupainoinen ja toispuoleinen ratsastaessa.<br />
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Eli ei kuin soitto Vermoom ja Jutin luokse äkkiseltään. Ystäväni Kata hoiti klinikka-ajan varauksen, kun istuin työpalaverissa ja saimme jo seuraavan viikon maanantaiaamuun Jutille ajan klo 10.00. Onneksemme saimme mukaan reissuun Thorin, Jackin ja allekirjoittaneen lisäksi myös ystäväni Katan, Julian, ihanan Nici (Titanic Déstran) -hevosen ja super suloisen Pixie-koiran.<br />
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<span style="text-align: start;">Koska kaikissa trailereissa oli vielä kesärenkaat vuokrasimme trailerin ja nappasimme sen mukaan matkan varrelta. Haimme sitten vielä Julian Espoosta ja lähdimme hakemaan hevosia tallilta. Nici on tottunut kulkemaan paljon trailerissa, joten olin niin iloinen kun saimme juuri Nicin mukaan reissuun. Kuten ehkä muistatte on meillä välillä ollut melko haastavia lastaustilanteita Thorin kanssa (melkein peukku irronnut), joten haluan pitää traileriin menemiset mahdollisimman helppoina ja turvallisina. </span></div>
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Nici meni ensimmäisenä traileriin ja Thor tapansa mukaan peruutti ulos joitain kertoja. Totesin sitten, että vaihdetaan Nici toiselle puolelle, jotta Thorin puolella on ovi, josta hän näkee ulos. Kun saimme Nicin uudestaan traileriin Thor meni kiltisti sisälle ja pääsimme matkaan. Kata ratsastaa Thoria melko usein, joten oli myös mahtavaa saada Katasta apua, kun Kata tuntee Thorin todella hyvin. Thorin kanssa apujen ajoitus on niin super tärkeää ja on todella pienestä kiinni, että Thor hermostuu ja traileriin menemisestä tulee joko todella haastavaa tai ajallisesti melko turhauttavaa. Nici on niin upea siinä, että hän ei välittänyt ollenkaan Thorin poukkoilusta ja pojat tulivat todella hyvin toimeen koko päivän ajan. </div>
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<span style="text-align: start;">Saavuimme Vermoon hyvissä ajoin ja saimme molemmat hevoset bokseihin (todella luksusta). Juti otti sitten Thorin raspaukseen ja kyllä suussa jälleen oli sanomista. Olin jotenkin ajatellut, että suurin ongelma tällä hetkellä on se, että Thor saa liian nopeasti piikkejä suuhun. Juti totesi kuitenkin, että ongelma ei nyt ole raspausväli tai piikit suussa (epätasaisuus). Piikit ovat kuulemma normaalia ja kuuluvat asiaan. Paljon tärkeämpää on miettiä suun toiminnallisuutta ja sitä, että purenta toimii oikein hevosella. Tällä hetkellä </span>Thorilla oli jälleen ylipurentaa, jossa etuhammaslinja kiertyy hieman alas. Poskihampaissa oli aaltoilua (ymmärsin sen niin, että pari ylähammasta olivat leveämmät kuin alaposkien hampaat, joka kuluttaa hampaat väärin ja siitä tulee vastapurijoiden kompensaatiokulumaa). Tämä kaikki aiheuttaa sen, että Thorilla lukkiutuu alaleuka eikä se pääse liikkumaan rentona ja oikeinpäin kuten sen kuuluu. Ja voitte kuvitella, että jos alaleuka on lukossa, niin sitten on varmaan aika moni muukin asia kehosta. Laura Muilu kertoi myös, että <b>piikit tulevat hevosen suuhun,</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"><b> kun hampaat puhkeavat (hampaat puhkeavat jatkuvasti hevosilla) ja hammas kuluu epätasaisesti. Piikit eivät siis kasva erikseen suuhun </b>(tämä on varmaan suurimmalla osalle teistä itsestäänselvyys, mutta olin itse jotenkin ajatellut, että piikit kasvavat jotenkin ulkopuolisina piikkeinä suuhun). </span></div>
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Tällä kertaa Juti korjasi Thorin etuhammaslinjaa ja purentapöytiä ja muotoiltiin kuolainsija sekä pyöristettiin kohtalaisen terävöityneet reunat. Hoidon jälkeen Thor pääsi boksiin rentoutumaan ja me pääsimme jatkamaan Nicin kanssa eläinlääkäri Laura Muilun hoitoon. </div>
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Pari kuukautta sitten toinen eläinlääkäri kävi tallilla raspaamassa Nicin suun ja huomasi pienen murtuman yhdessä hampaassa. Hän suositteli röntgenkuvan ottamista ja kuva lähetettiin Vermoon Lauran luokse. Vermossa huomattiin pientä muutosta hampaan juurissa, joten ajatus oli kuvata Nici vielä kerran Equivetillä ja poistaa hammas mikäli kuvissa näkyisi jotakin epänormaalia. </div>
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Jotta ymmärrätte mistä on kyse niin <b>85 prosenttia hevosten murtuneista hampaista sulkevat itse itsensä</b>. Koska <b>hevosen hampaat puhkeavat säännöllisesti </b>(<a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2014/06/hevosen-hampaita-voi-verrata-pyyhekumiin.html"><i>hevosen hampaat ovat kuin pyyhekumi</i></a>), ydin vetäytyy ja hammas ikään kuin muuraa itsensä umpeen. On kuitenkin tapauksia, joissa kuvissa näkyy juurissa muutoksia ja silloin hammas kannattaa poistaa. <b>Nuorella hevosella hampaan juuri voi olla jopa 12 cm pitkä</b>, joten hampaan poistaminen hevoselta ei ole ihan yhtä mutkiton operaatio kuin meillä ihmisillä. Hevosen hampaan poistoon menee yleensä 2-3 tuntia eikä hammas aina irtoa suun kautta vaan se voi olla, että hammas pitää poistaa joko posken läpi tai leikata yläkautta pois. Joskus hammas saattaa myös olla kuin sokeripala ja hammas hajoaa suuhun poiston yhteydessä. (lähde: Laura Muilu, Equivet)</div>
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Nicin tapauksessa röntgenkuvassa näkyi selkeitä muutoksia juurissa, joten Laura päätyi poistamaan Nicin hampaan. Luulin, että siinä menisi noin viisi minuuttia, joten oli todellinen yllätys kun sain kuulla, että voisimme hyvin välissä käydä syömässä koska hampaan irrottamiseen saattaisi mennä monta tuntia. Eli ei kuin hommiin. Laura levitti levittäjällä hammasvälejä. Levittäjä hajottaa ja katkaisee ligamentit, jotta hammas saataisiin pikku hiljaa liikkumaan. Kun hammas oli saatu nousemaan noin sentin ylöspäin, Laura kokeili mihin suuntaan hän helpoiten saisi hampaan irrotettua. Hän totesi, että hampaalla on aina yksi suunta johon on parasta vetää hammas, joten se kannatti tarkistaa kunnolla. Hän myös kertoi, että näissä hommissa "maltti on valttia" ja mitä huolellisemmin ja hitaammin hampaanpoisto tehdään, sitä parempi on yleensä lopputulos. <b>Hampaan poistaminen ei kuulemma ole voima, vaan tekniikkalaji</b>. Jos käyttää liikaa voimaa ja vetää hampaan liian nopeasti on suurempi riski, että hampaasta jää paloja suuhun ja hammas hajoaa. </div>
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Laura teki todella huolellista työtä ja pikkuhiljaa hammas saatiin irtoamaan Nicin suusta. Laura kaivoi sitten vielä viimeiset palat melko isokokoisesta kolosta. Koska hammas oli vaurioitunut oli se myös tulehtunut eikä juuria ollut melkein ollenkaan jäljellä. Kolossa oli kuitenkin vielä sedimenttiä ja Laura oli todella tarkka, että hän sai viimeisetkin palat sieltä pois ennen kuin huuhteli hampaan kunnolla, otti vielä toisen röntgenkuvan varmistaakseen, että kaikki oli poissa ja lisäsi koloon tilapäisen paikan. Paikka saa nyt olla siellä parin kuukauden ajan kunnes se vaihdetaan jälleen toiseen paikkaan. Nyt en tiedä jääkö siihen paikka pidemmäksi aikaa tai jääkö siihen vain kolo. En myöskään selvittänyt mitä tapahtuu viereisille hampaille ja miten yhden hampaan poistaminen vaikuttaa purentaan jne. Sen kuitenkin kuulin, että viereiset hampaat ovat melko terävät ja jotain Laura niistä neuvoi, mutta siinä vaiheessa alkoi jo oma keskittyminenkin loppumaan ja ajatus kotiinmatkasta tuntui houkuttelevalta. Selvitän tämän kuitenkin seuraavalla kerralla, kun näen Lauran tai Jutin. Laura jaksoi niin ihanasti selittää minulle lukuisista kysymyksistäni huolimatta ja hoiti Niciä todella ammattimaisella otteella.<br />
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Nici sai mukaan antibioottia ja tulehduskipulääkettä. Myös vahvempaa ihmisille tarkoitettua hermokipulääkettä annettiin mukaan mikäli hevonen olisi todella kipeä. Nici saapui kuitenkin tallille jo melko pirteänä ja meni heti syömään heiniä. Nicin hammas lähetettiin patologille. On kuulemma hyvin harvinaista, että hevosilla löytyisi kasvaimia suusta, mutta varmuuden vuoksi haluttiin kuitenkin varmistaa, että kyseessä ei ollut mikään muu kuin murtunut ja tulehtunut hammas.<br />
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Täytyy sanoa, että Nici on kyllä aivan huikean upea hevonen ja sellainen tsemppari. Nici on esiintynyt <i><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Em4gM25vgIU&feature=emb_title">Ellan musiikivideolla</a> </i>ja veljeni häissä. Hän on jo kuin perheenjäsen meille, joten toivotaan että hän tokenee pian hammasleikkauksesta.<br />
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Vaikka päivä oli omalla tavalla raskas, niin meillä oli super kiva päivä yhdessä klinikalla. Oli niin mukavaa mennä hieman isommalla porukalla ja tuntuu aina paljon turvallisemmalta kuljettaa hevosia yhdessä kuin yksin. Thor on ainakin niin rauhallinen heti kun on seuraa ja lastaaminen helpottuu myös silminnähden. Varasimme jo seuraavan yhteisajan toukokuulle. Jutin hammas- ja purentatarkistuksista kun en enää tästä eteenpäin tingi.<br />
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Lue muut hevosen suuhun liittyvät <a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2012/06/tarkista-hampaat.html#links"><i>kirjoitukset täältä</i></a>.</div>
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Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-82776289161241414962019-11-16T10:48:00.000-08:002019-11-16T10:54:20.927-08:00An evening with Bruce Dickinson<em>“After two hours of going around in circles, physical and metaphorical, the rules of the game changed: ‘Unless you go away, we will shoot you down.’ One day, I thought as we turned and headed towards Ivalo in Finland, I should write a book about this.” – from Bruce Dickinson, Autobiography, ‘What does this button do?’</em><br />
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We had the pleasure of spending ‘An Evening with 61-year old <b>Bruce Dickinson</b> in Oulu in Finland in November. If this gentleman is unknown to anyone, Bruce Dickinson is the lead singer of Iron Maiden, a commercial pilot, brewmaster, entrepreneur and creative business thinker. He is also actual with his Autobiography: Bruce Dickinson, ‘What does this button do?’<br />
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During the evening we got to meet Bruce and Dave from CSA (Dave travels with Bruce during his speaking engagements) before his performance on stage and we got to talk about his life, the fascination that he has for everything that concerns airplanes (he is <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/transport/10092692/Iron-Maidens-Bruce-Dickinson-is-close-to-getting-his-airline-off-the-ground.html">a qualified pilot who holds an Air Transport Pilots' Licence</a> and has more than <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/2956597/Iron-Maiden-frontman-Bruce-Dickinson-piloted-XL-rescue-planes.html">7,000 hours of flying experience</a>), the importance of trust in relationships and his views about leadership. When asked how he can keep his focus with so many hats to wear, he told us that he considers these two factors very important when it comes to leadership:
”Delegate to the right people”, and ”Keep on top of things without micromanaging.”
Bruce started his talk by entering the stage with an incredible amount of energy and his hair let loose from the previously tied knot in his famous hair. The crowd went crazy in the little music hall in the north of Finland and I have never seen people in this country as excited about anything before. Bruce’s three-hour performance held the crowd totally flabbergasted from beginning to end and when he thanked the audience, there was no end to the clapping and cheering and people stood up in a standing ovation to thank him for an extraordinary evening.<br />
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<strong>A very Brucey childhood and youth</strong><br />
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Bruce told the story of his childhood. How he grew up with his grandmother and grandfather and never really liked school. Already at a young age he asked why he should go to a public school (that is apparently a private school in the UK) and considered professions such as accounting, law, and medical professions the same as a sure death. He then went to public school but finally got expelled after urinating in the headmasters’ dinner (yes, he did eat the dinner). Before that he also bought horse maneuver from a farmer and had it transported to the front of the school steps. Bruce was no perfect student and he joked that would he be young today he would probably be medicated into a more submissive child. He also showed the picture of the letter that was written when he was expelled from school and the latter clearly stated that ‘his tongue has always been his undoing’. Which we all now know actually happened to be his biggest gift.<br />
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Bruce then went on to tell the story of how he played in different bands for years and how he finished his ‘Modern History’ -degree at the same time (laughing at the combination of Modern and history in the same sentence). He told stories that were so unique, fun and sometimes crazy that you really started wondering how one person could experience so many things during one lifetime. Bruce also told us about him meeting the Queen (no, not the rock band Queen) How she had no idea what a ‘Heavymetal Band’ was and how Bruce really didn’t know how to explain it to her. He also said that he has tremendous respect for her and that she is the best person in the word on oneliners.<br />
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During his talk Bruce also went into heavier topics such as the day when he found out about his throat cancer and how he usually deals with adverse situations in life. He said that you can either cry about it or decide to deal with it and do your best in the situation that you are in. He also found it a relief when the doctor told him that it was not his fault that he fell ill, but rather a stroke of bad luck. That cancer is not hitting your body because you have been a bad person or have some bad karma to catch up upon.
All in all ‘An Evening with Bruce’ was a fantastic experience and I felt so inspired leaving The Music Centre together with my colleagues after hearing Bruces’ story. Bruce told us that one of his main focus throughout life, is it through music, flying or public speaking, is to give people a story, a narrative. Even with the new Iron Maiden show the focus is on the story. That thing that makes people tick.<br />
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<em>“I have always had a great taste. Every year Paris Fashion week phones me up and tells me not to show up. I mean, what on earth makes anyone wear stuff like this? And I always had a leg envy for Steve Harris. In our tight pants he looked like an elegant gazelle with frog legs and I looked like a rugby player”-</em> from the talk ‘An Evening with Bruce Dickinson’
For more information about Bruce and for speaking engagements contact us at <a href="mailto:info@myspeaker.fi">info@myspeaker.fi</a><br />
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This article was written by <a href="https://www.myspeaker.fi/ota-yhteytta/">Kia Herold</a>, MySpeakers' Marketing and Communications director who thinks that there is nothing more inspiring than a good story.<br />
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This story was originally written for <a href="http://myspeaker.fi/">MySpeaker. </a>Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-74566518774275223522019-10-30T03:49:00.002-07:002019-10-30T03:49:27.603-07:00"Breath holding is the yin to the yang"<div style="text-align: center;">
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I watched the TEDxOdense talk, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R53GljF7IxU"><i>Breathholding is the new black </i></a>by <b>Stig Severinsen.</b> I absolutely loved his talk and I think anyone with even a remotely slightly stressful lifestyle should watch it.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"When you hold your breath you open the gateway to your heart. And I don't mean this as a metaphor. When you hold your breath, you activate a natural response in your body, called the mammalian dive response. I like to call it our inner dolphin that we all have. When the dolphin wakes up, you trigger the Vagus Nerve, the tenth cranial nerve that runs from your brain to your heart. So you actually do get a physical contact with your heart. It also runs into your lungs, your internal organs and your intestines. It is a part of the nervous system called the parasympathetic nervous system, also called the rest and digest system. When you hold your breath a little longer, the diaphragm (pallea) starts to move and you build up carbon dioxide. Now you might think you are getting a good abs workout, but you are also releasing and dissolving stress, trauma and fear from the solar plexus region.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Breathholding as shown today is the natural part of breathing. It is very overlooked which is a shame because it has so many benefits. When done correctly, breathholding is power and magic. It can help you heal, it can help you change broken patterns and it can help you make better decisions. It can even help you transform stress into relaxation. We hear so much about meditation, mindfulness and conscious breathing. I say that just as important is holding your breath. Holding your breath can help you quiet your busy mind. It can help you get a shortcut to inner freedom and peace."</span></span><br />
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We hear a lot of talk about the Vagus Nerve. My friend Emilia Vuorisalmi explains the Vagus Nerves function really nicely in her article <a href="https://docemilia.com/tunnistatko-hermoston-kolme-eri-tilaa/"><i>'Hermoston kolme tilaa'</i></a>. You can also watch<i> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gp67EQhNfj8">this video</a></i> from the Art of Living on the in order to understand more about this important nerve that links directly to the brain, the heart, lungs and other organs. </div>
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Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-85646554067185889242019-10-16T10:59:00.002-07:002019-10-17T13:02:34.481-07:00Sympathetic and Humorous Carl Hester Steals Everyones Hearts<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody>
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What an Amazing weekend we had together with Carl Hester, Swedish Lovisa Degreef Beselin and Ztables Ingrid Sundqvist a few weeks back. Lovisa is the founder of <a href="http://equestrianacademy.se/en/"><i>Equestrian Academy</i></a> and she organized her third event together with Carl Hester in Scandinavia. </div>
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After a few very popular clinics in Sweden, Lovisa decided to bring Carl to Finland to Ypäjän hevosopisto. Equestrian Stockholm has been sponsoring the events in Sweden so it was natural for them to be one of the main partners also at the event here in Finland. Since I work as the Finnish agent for Equestrian Stockholm I found out from my Swedish colleagues a while ago that Hester would hold a clinic in Finland. I was so excited because I have always looked up to Lovisas Equestrian Academy and I was so excited to get in touch with her. We really hit it off directly and we both felt that we have known each other always. During one of our talks Lovisa told me that she needed someone to moderate the day at Ypäjä. I did not think much about it and told her that I would love to do it. We also decided that they would stay in Helsinki for Friday night and we would all go out for dinner to Ravintola Teatteri in the evening.</div>
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The dinner on Friday evening was fantastic. As soon as I saw Carl he gave me a big hug and I felt totally at ease and very good in his company. There was no stiffness that I thought an Englishman might carry with him. I actually quickly found out that Carl is one of the most genuine, fun and of course handsome people that I have ever encountered. And his humour..... I don't think there was five minutes before he had us all laughing again. And the love he feels for his horses. Not only does he keep most of them outside all year round but he also wants to have them retired at home. Utopia and Valegro go out daily and since they have been together almost their whole lives they get to spend time out next to each other even if Utopia is a stallion. They go out only a few hours a day since they both get too fat and the girls that work for Carl get to ride them and learn from these amazing horses. </div>
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Carl and Charlotte both ride four days a week and the rest of the time goes into training others and traveling to competitions.<br />
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During the clinic I was so impressed by the way Carl gave room to all the animals and people. He was gently guiding them and when the young horses felt uncomfortable he brought other horses into the arena. He gave both the horses and riders time to adjust and when they started working he was really with them and very concentrated on the horses and riders. <i>"If only I would teach like this at home"</i>, Carl laughed, when I told him how impressed I was with his teaching. </div>
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Since I was moderating the event I did not really write much down but one thing that stayed with me was when Carl told Susanna Hyypiä who was riding beautiful 6 year old Ivemmo that she should let go of the rains. Since Susanna only lengthened the reins a little bit Carl told her to think about the movie Frozen and the song Let it go. After a while Susanna let go of the reins more and Ivemmo started to move really nicely and more supple than before. It was lovely to see that Carl could really help all the riders with their riding. I was also really impressed how important it was for Carl with the timing. With the more advanced horses he did not really give the riders any slack and the timing and riding every stride (as Margit Ticklén so well puts it, <i><a href="https://horsemail.fi/2019/10/05/hester-ypajalla-jokainen-siirtyminen-on-tarkea/">jokainen siirtyminen on tärkeä</a>) </i>was extremely important.</div>
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All in all it was amazing to follow such a legend work with both horses and riders. After meeting Carl I believe that one of the biggest reasons for his success is not only his talent but also his humble personality and positive attitude. He is a horseman in the true meaning and just being around him for approximately 24 hours made me feel happier and lighter. He is the kind of person that sprinkles a little bit of stardust around him wherever he goes. I am so grateful that I have had the opportunity to meet him and moderate his clinic. </div>
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I have just spent two days at the Nordic Business Forum here in Finland. As always the days were filled with interesting talks on various subjects and I truly enjoyed the success story of Spanx founder <b>Sara Blakely.</b> Not to mention Gospel singer, and Morgan and Stanleys Managing Director<b> Carla Harris</b>. What Amazing and Brave women. </div>
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My key learning from this year and what I have been struggling with in my own life came from Brené Browns words on courage and how we so easily armor up because we don't want to get our hearts hurt. Because you see......</div>
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This thing about the heart and the armor has been such a huge revelation for me in the past few months. As we go along this little path called life we tend to learn new things daily. What I had never ever before realized is that already from a young age I had been so insecure and uncertain that rather than just being afraid it was easier to shut down. It was easier to put on an armour that nobody can really penetrate. It is the kind of armor as my Dear friend Auli Nissinen says that always comes up whenever we start to get even a little closer to opening it up. That kind of armor that we are hardly ever aware of before we finally sit there at Nordic Business Forum and watch Brené Brown and realize: SH**..... That's the thing. </div>
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That is the thing that stands in front of it all. It stands in front of my vulnerability, it stands in front of my heart getting to know another heart and it definitely stands in front of myself letting my soul believe in its own true calling.</div>
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Because that is what it really boils down too. We can close ourselves down or we can stay open even if we feel scared. As Brown also said, it does not mean that we get totally naked. We can have strong boundaries and still have our hearts pure and unarmored. </div>
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It was not many years ago when my Dear friend Mikaela Vuorisalmi said that you should start to do yoga retreats with horses. She was about to cohost a retreat with horses and said that she feels that it is something that I should focus on. </div>
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Going back a few years I was sitting at <a href="https://tietoisestitaitavaratsastaja.com/about/"><i>Sport Psychologist <b>Anna Anderséns</b></i></a> office in Kirkkonummi. We had been cooperating for a while through my Equine blog. Anna was coaching me and I was writing about our coaching sessions and about clinics and trainings that Anna was giving to horseback riders. We had decided that these were not psychologist / client meetings but rather fun meetings where we were talking about future dreams and trying to make sense of what I want to become and how I can develop my career with horses further. </div>
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So I did. I organized a few events at <a href="https://kiaherold.blogspot.com/p/seminaarit.html"><i>Peuramaa Horse</i></a> that filled up as soon as they went out and then I started to work with Helsinki International Horse Show. For three years I organized an evening called Ladies Night there and it has been some of the most amazing and fun evenings that I have had the joy to experience. </div>
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In 2017 I joined Horsexplore's and Kavioliitto's trip to <a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2017/06/hungary-horsexplore-2017.html"><i>El Bronco ranch in Hungary</i></a>. There I met Mindfulness Guru <a href="http://andas.fi/about/"><b><i>Eeva Jaakonsalo</i></b></a> for the second time in my life and we did a short mindfulness and yoga session on one of our days there. After that it slowly started to unfold and we had our first <a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2018/03/usko-unelmiin.html"><i>Mindfulness and Yoga retreat for riders</i></a> in 2018 at Kekkolan Kartano in Mikkeli. In October 2018 I was working for Helsinki International Horse Show and met Portuguese Diogo from Monte Velho Equo-Resort through Horsexplore and their Finnish cooperator Riitta Kosonen. Horsexplore has already been combining yoga and riding for their Swedish customers for a while and they asked if I wanted to organize the first yoga and horseback riding trip to Portugal for Finnish customers together with them. </div>
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These pictures and videos are from the trip we had this May to Portugal. It was an amazing long weekend together and not only did we have the funniest group, but my childhood best friend Tiina Wright also joined me for this trip. So we got to ride together, spend time in the same room and even go for a long hack out one day with super Hack Master Cesare. </div>
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The yoga was held outside by the swimming pool and in the mornings we started our sessions next to some of the horses grazing out on the fields. The sun was slowly warming our faces and the voices of the birds and the cows and the horses was just magical. At some point I just said that I was not really needed in the moment. All we could do was sit still and listen. </div>
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So what I am really trying to say is that sometimes it is good to sit still and listen. To listen to what your heart beats for, what your soul yearns for and where your thoughts flow naturally. Maybe take some help from professional coachs, write down your thoughts and hopes for the future and just go in the direction of your dreams. Even if it would be one step at a time (such as studying journalism), or writing my blog, or cooperating with Anna Andersén, or teaching horse back riding, or doing a yoga teacher training or just sitting in meditation it is all toward the right direction. It all leads to where you are meant to be and the focus becomes clearer and clearer. It is not always an easy path and you are constantly changing and evolving but at least on your death bead nobody can tell you (at least not yourself) that you did not life to your fullest or that during this lifetime you did not live up to exactly where you wanted to be. </div>
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Here are some words borrowed from the book Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert:<br />
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<i><span style="font-family: inherit;">"You can resist the seductions of grandiosity, blame and shame. You can support other people in their creative efforts acknowledging the truth that there is plenty of room for everyone. You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failure. You can battle your demons through therapy, recovery, prayer or humility instead of battling your gifts in part by realising that your demons were never the ones doing the work anyhow. You can believe that you are neither a slave to inspiration nor its master. But something far more interesting. Its partner. And that the two of you are working together towards something intriguing and worthwhile. You can live a long life making and doing really cool things the entire time. You might earn a living with your pursuits or you might not but you can recognise that this is not really the point. And at the end of your days you can thank creativity for having blessed you with a charmed, interesting and passionate existence."</span></i></div>
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One of the days in Montevelho we headed out for a hack with fantastic Cesare, a girl from Brussels, Tiina and me. We had so much fun and Tiina and me felt like we would be young girls again riding around in the forests in Inkoo. </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Also read the story from our last trip to Montevelho<i> <a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2019/04/portugal-dream-come-true.html">here</a></i>. </span></div>
Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-41147005168999100662019-09-03T05:23:00.001-07:002019-09-08T09:14:42.564-07:00Back to Modelling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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We had so much fun with my brother when we were modeling for the British Embassy last week. I think we did the last modeling gig together around 20 years ago so it was a little bit of a special moment. It was also amazing to get the make up done by fantastic <a href="https://www.instagram.com/tintti_muah/"><b><i>Tiina-Maria Valanti</i></b></a>. She is an extraordinary make-up artist and if I ever get married I know whom I will book for the beauty part.<br />
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I also absolutely loved the pearl earrings by Mert Otsamo from his collection My Childhood Dreams for A. Tillander and the dress that I was wearing designed by him. Mert always has a story to what he creates and these pearls were damaged pearls that were growing up looking a little bit different than the normal pearls. He said that it attracted him because the originality and difference of those pearls is what makes them and also all of us humanbeings unique. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/events/2356704431036009/"><b>IV Lusitano Feira </b></a>järjestetään Ratsastuskeskus Ainossa sunnuntaina 1.9.2019. </span></span><br />
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Alva, Vera ja Sonja tulivat uimaan Danten, Thorin ja upean tamman kanssa kauniina kesäpäivänä. Sekä Vera ja Sonja tippuivat jossain vaiheessa hevosiltaan, mutta muuten nautinto oli käsinkosketeltavaa ja meillä kaikilla oli niin hauskaa. Mielestäni on ihanaa, kun nämä nuoret tytöt ottavat välillä Thorin kunnolla maastoon. Thor on aina niin tyytyväinen sen jälkeen. </div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14.6667px;">We have been eating Vitamin E for many years now and I believe that it is one of the factors why Thor keeps looking so amazing and the weight on the body. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14.6667px;">Fenugreek seeds (sarviapila) to keep the horses digestive track healthy, the shoes on the hooves all summer and to keep the weight on the horse.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="color: #212121; font-size: 14.6667px;"> </span><br />
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It was a fabulous hack back and forth (in whatever pace Visti who is 28 years old wanted to move) and even if the swimming was new for Mia and Visti it went really really well. I am so grateful that I get to do wonderful thing with horses and today I felt like this little girl riding out with my pony on the field again. Pure Magic!</div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Eeva Jaakonsalon kanssa olemme pitäneet <a href="https://kiaherold.blogspot.com/p/seminaarit.html"><i>mindfulness ja jooga retriittejä parin vuoden ajan yhdessä</i></a>. Viikonlopun aikana Eeva käy läpi Mindfulnessin perusasioita, joista olen kiteyttänyt osan tähän alle. Meillä on juuri loppunut upea viikonloppu mahtavan porukan seurassa <a href="http://www.kekkolankartano.fi/en/"><i>Kekkolan kartanon</i></a> fantastisessa miljöössä. Kiitos jälleen kerran kaikille osallistujille.</span></div><div class="p1"><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Mindfulness on työkalu, jonka kautta oppii hahmottamaan miten oma mieli toimii. Eeva avasi meille Mindfulnessin saloja stressin pelikentän kautta. </span></div>
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Stressin pelikentän voi jakaa neljään eri osaan. Pelikentät perustuvat ihmisten tunteidensäätelyjärjestelmiin ja kuvaavat aktiivisuustasoa (eli kuinka korkeilla tai matalilla kierroksilla toimimme) ja vallitsevaa tunnesävyä (toimimmeko negatiivisten tai positiivisten tunteiden ohjaamana). Kaikilla tunteilla on oma vasteensa kehossa. Tunteet vaikuttavat myös hormoneihin. Esimerkiksi tilanteessa, jossa koemme uhkaa, kehomme tuottaa stressihormoni kortisolia ja adrenaliinia.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"><b>1. PUNAINEN PELIALUE ELI UHKA</b></span><br />
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<li>pelko</li>
<li>paniikki </li>
<li>ahdistus</li>
<li>epätietoisuus</li>
<li>inho</li>
<li>stressitila kehossa ja mielessä</li>
<li>pyrkiä pois jostakin</li>
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Hormonit: kortisoli ja adrenalini<br />
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<span style="color: #38761d;"><b>2. VIHREÄ PELIALUE ELI INTO</b></span><br />
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<li>innostus</li>
<li>motivaatio</li>
<li>flow</li>
<li>energia</li>
<li>ilo</li>
<li>pyrkiä jotain kohti, tavoitehakuisuus</li>
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Hormonit: dopamiini (palkitsemishormooni)</div>
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<span style="color: blue;"><b>3. SININEN PELIALUE ELI TYYNEYS</b></span><br />
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<li>tyytyväisyys</li>
<li>rauha</li>
<li>tasapaino</li>
<li>onni</li>
<li>kiitollisuus</li>
<li>rakkaus</li>
<li>myötätunto </li>
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Hormonit: oksitosiini, endorfiini, serotoniini</div>
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<b>4. MUSTA PELIALUE ELI <span style="color: #8e7cc3;">DEMOTIVAATIO</span> </b><br />
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<li>kyynisyys</li>
<li>välinpitämättömyys</li>
<li>uupumus</li>
<li>depressio</li>
<li>burnout</li>
<li>matala aktiivisuustaso </li>
<li>negatiivisten tunteiden ajama </li>
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Hormonit: hormoonien epätasapaino</div>
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Eeva puhuu stressin kahdesta eri muodosta. Negatiivinen stressi on DISTRESS ja positiivinen EUSTRESS (flow-tila). Kaikki ihmiset kokevat sekä negatiivista ja positiivista stressiä elämässän, mutta raja näiden kahden välillä voi olla häilyvä. Tutkimusten mukaan ihminen pystyy vain olemaan tuottelias 90-120 minuuttia kerrallaan vaikka stressi olisikin pelkkää positiivista stressiä. Eevan mukaan tämä tarkoittaa sitä, että välillä on hyvä pitää taukoa ja auttaa itsensä aika ajoin siniselle pelialueelle. Jos ihminen elää liian kauan negatiivisessa stressitilassa, on vaarana, että hän luisuu demotivaatiotilaan ja saattaa uupua ja pahimmillaan palaa loppuun. Voi myös olla sellainen tunne, että vaikka lepäisi tai nukkuisi kuinka paljon tahansa ei missään vaiheessa oikein palaudu ja tunnu siltä, että on levännyt tarpeeksi.<br />
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Mindfulnessin ja joogan kautta opimme, että ulkoiset ja sisäiset tekijät ovat usein mitä ovat eikä niihin aina voi vaikuttaa. Kun opimme rauhoittamaan oman mielen emmekä vaikutu liikaa ulkoisista tekijöistä opimme myös hallitsemaan omia sisäisiä tekijöitä. Esimerkiksi, jos koemme vahvaa ahdistusta, voimme siirtää hetkeksi sivuun ahdistuksen verhot ja kaiken sen keskellä on kuitenkin oma minä, joka on tyyni ja osaa elää hetkessä.<i> "Vaikka emme aina voi vaikuttaa siihen mitä meidän elämässä tapahtuu voimme kuitenkin oppia suhtautumaan omiin reaktioihin"</i>, toteaa Eeva.<br />
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Loppuun Eeva muistuttaa vielä, että on todella tärkeää olla itseään kohtaan lempeä. Jos stressin päälle lisää vielä kovan itsekriittisyyden saattaa elämä tuntua todella haastavalta. Eli jos jotain otat mukaasi tämän päivän puheesta, on se tämä:<br />
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"Muista olla itseäsi kohtaan myötätuntoinen, hyväksyvä ja lempeä," kiteyttää Eeva.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Aivan mahtava viikonloppu. Mieli lepäsi ja tänä aamuna huomasin myös löytäneeni itsestäni aivan uusia lihaksia. Ilosta kiljahdellen kävelin rappusia alas 😂. Seuraavalle leirille ehdottomasti mukaan!"</i> - Kaisa Koskinen</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #201f1e;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><span style="color: #1d2129;">Isot kiitokset kaikille mahtavasta viikonlopusta! </span><span class="_5mfr" style="color: #1d2129; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" color="transparent" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ted/2/16/2764.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-block; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">❤️</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129;"> </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=377194266086296&member_id=543707602&ref=floc2" class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=543707602&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCEIy-z3m4Fmhv8qXc-UxoKqZfqkkYFXUnLI1F7KfQJeQ--BrdD-7g-Zsn_f2RGzlBKoC2BbBdlwnyh%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22gs%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A377194266086296%2C%22dti%22%3A377194266086296%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/kia.herold?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARCEIy-z3m4Fmhv8qXc-UxoKqZfqkkYFXUnLI1F7KfQJeQ--BrdD-7g-Zsn_f2RGzlBKoC2BbBdlwnyh&dti=377194266086296&hc_location=group" rel="dialog" role="button" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Kia</a><span style="color: #1d2129;"> ja </span><a ajaxify="/groups/member_bio/bio_dialog/?group_id=377194266086296&member_id=642031733&ref=floc2" class="profileLink" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=642031733&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdK-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBnP4hdaYKHlnGS3ODZs_EuvDUXqOyPatWEpl32n0O-QPc2eRqkQm2zfY5rN3p7ZjBAU1P_9qI5FvXO%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22gs%22%2C%22directed_target_id%22%3A377194266086296%2C%22dti%22%3A377194266086296%2C%22hc_location%22%3A%22group%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/eeva.jaakonsalo?fref=gs&__tn__=%2CdK-R-R&eid=ARBnP4hdaYKHlnGS3ODZs_EuvDUXqOyPatWEpl32n0O-QPc2eRqkQm2zfY5rN3p7ZjBAU1P_9qI5FvXO&dti=377194266086296&hc_location=group" rel="dialog" role="button" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; text-decoration-line: none;">Eeva</a><span style="color: #1d2129;">; ihan super! </span><span class="_5mfr" style="color: #1d2129; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" color="transparent" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t71/2/16/1f604.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-block; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">😄</span></span><span style="color: #1d2129;"> Jalat leijuu vieläkin maanpinnan yläpuolella; enkä oo jaksanu niin välittää vaikka hra 11kk on roikkunu itkuhuutaen kaulassa koko päivän, kävelystä ei tuu mitään ilman äänitehosteita ja maailman parhaan munakkaan sijaan myös täysin ammattitaidoton ”kokki” onnistui polttamaan aamupuuron kattilaan. </span><span class="_5mfr" style="color: #1d2129; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" color="transparent" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t40/2/16/1f61d.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-block; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">😝</span></span></i><span style="color: #1d2129;"><i> Pieni sisäinen heppatyttö hykertelee kuitenkin onnesta! </i>- Maija Heiniö</span></span><span face=", , , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span class="_5mfr" face=", , , ".sfnstext-regular" , sans-serif" style="color: #1d2129; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" color="transparent" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/ta0/2/16/1f40e.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 16px; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">🐎</span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Täydellinen viikonloppu. En muista, milloin olisi ollut näin ihanaa. Olen Kekkolassa Mindfulness-, jooga- ja ratsastusviikonlopulla, ja kaikki on vaan ihaninta pitkään aikaan. Sää on loistava: hellelukemissa mennään, joten aamun jooga pidettiin kartanon nurmikentällä perhosten seassa ja lintujen liverrystä kuunnellen. Ruoka on taivaallista: miten tavallinen kasviskeittokin on saatu samettisen vaahtoisaksi? Ratsastus: kerrankin ei ole liikaa, vain kolme tuntia viikonlopun aikana niin, ettei koko ajan ole aivan loppu vaan jäykistynyt keho ehtii myös palautua. Tunnelma: ei pingottamista miltään osin, ei edes ratsastustunneilla. </i></span><i style="font-family: inherit;">Tää on vaan aivan järjettömän rentouttavaa. Pystyn pitkästä aikaa hengittämään jälleen. </i><i style="font-family: inherit;">Eilen ratsastin Hassella, tänään menen Zorrolla ja huomenna sain pyynnöstäni Hannon</i><span style="font-family: inherit;"> - anonyymi</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span><span class="_5mfr" style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 1px;"><span class="_6qdm" color="transparent" style="background-image: url("https://static.xx.fbcdn.net/images/emoji.php/v9/t6c/1/16/2764.png"); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: contain; display: inline-block; height: 16px; text-shadow: none; vertical-align: text-bottom; width: 16px;">❤️ </span></span></div>
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Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-51290717549367165282019-04-21T09:14:00.002-07:002019-06-01T03:22:52.751-07:00G'day Welcome Home<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<i>I lived, studied and worked at Bondi Beach in Sydney 18 years ago. I lost my heart to Australia and have always had a longing to that continent. </i></div>
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<i>Last spring I was driving toward the stables when I saw a picture on my friends Instagram of Icebergs at Bondi Beach. There and then I made the decision to take my daughter with me to Australia. I talked to my best friend over there and got our living sorted and went back home and booked plane tickets pretty much straight away. </i></div>
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<i>Since Australia is so far away I knew that a few weeks is not enough to settle Down Under. So we decided to do a longer trip that would last almost a month. I really didn't have anything special in mind. All I wanted to do was show my Daughter Australia and sit at Bondi Beach and watch the sunset. </i></div>
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<i>During the planning of our trip my brother and his girlfriend decided to join us for most of the time so we were definitely heading to the other side of the world in great company. These posts are from our trip to Australia. I will mostly be talking through the pictures and the feeling that they portray. If you however want to know more or if there is anything that you wonder about, I am more than happy to help. Australia is definitely worth a visit for anyone with an open heart and an excitement for what life has to offer. </i></div>
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The best walk in the world. Bondi to Coogee. I absolutely love this scenery and the walk and then having a swim at Bronte. </div>
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Ella loves skating so she totally fell in love with surfing in Australia. She said it is the best thing since it combines two hobbies that she loves: swimming and skating.<br />
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One of the highlights of the trip was definitely the dinner we had at our friend James place. James was paralyzed in 2008. You can read more about James amazing <a href="http://www.puffinmagic.org.au/pg.php?pgid=1"><i>story here</i></a>.<br />
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After a few days in Sydney we headed to our friends place at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blueys_Beach,_New_South_Wales"><i>Blueys Beach</i></a>. On the way to the beach house our friend had organized a visit to the <a href="https://reptilepark.com.au/"><i>Australian Reptile Park</i></a>. The visit was very interesting because we had a tour guide and after seeing all the kangaroos and koalas we were able to visit behind the scenes and learn more about the worlds most dangerous snakes and spiders.<br />
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Ilmastonmuutos aiheena on todella lähellä sydäntäni. Sain mahdollisuuden tavata löytöretkeilijä Patrick Degermanin uudessa työssäni ja kirjoitin Patasta ja ilmastonmuutoksesta artikkelin. Halusin vielä jakaa sen kanssanne, sillä tämä tieto ja kuvamateriaali on aivan omaa laatuaan.<br />
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Ilmasto muuttuu koko ajan, mutta harva on nähnyt ilmaston muutoksen yhtä läheltä kuin löytöretkeilijä <strong>Pata Degerman</strong>. Viimeisen 25 vuoden aikana Degerman on käynyt Arktiksella 45 kertaa ja Etelämantereella 7 kertaa. Pata on käynyt alueilla, joissa kukaan ihminen ei ole aikaisemmin käynyt. Hän on viettänyt aikaa niin Amazonaksen kuin Borneon viidakoissa sekä lukuisilla autioilla saarilla. Hän on myös käynyt Madagaskarilla, sukeltanut Palaulla ja Tahitilla ja viettää osan kesästä mökkeillen perheensä kanssa Grönlannin itärannikolla.<br />
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Patan intohimoja on seikkaileminen kaukaisiin kohteisiin, mutta hän on viimeisten vuosien aikana huomannut miten radikaalisti ja nopeasti ilmasto muuttuu. Ilmasto muuttuu niin Amazonaksella kuin Etelämantereella, ja alueilla jossa kukaan ihminen ei aikaisemmin ole käynyt näkyy ihmisen kädenjälki. Esimerkiksi eteläisellä Tyynellämerellä sijaitsevalla Tongan saaristovaltiolla löytyi rannalla jätteitä Kiinasta ja Amerikasta. Käydessään viimeksi Huippuvuorilla, rannat olivat roskien peitossa.<br />
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<em>”Tiesitkö, että jäätiköt kutistuvat kolme metriä päivässä ja 116 lajia häviää keskimäärin päivässä? Joka minuutti kaadetaan viidakoissa metsää joka vastaa 27 jalkapallokenttää,"</em> Pata kertoo huolestuneena.<br />
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Pata kertoo myös miten esimerkiksi Grönlannin vuonoihin ei enää tule jäitä talvisin, joka vaikeuttaa Inuiittien hylkeenmetsästystä koska vuonoilla ei enää pääse liikkumaan koiravaljakolla saatikka moottorikelkoilla. <em>”Kelkat ruostuvat, koirat kuolevat ja ihmiset menettävät elämän merkityksen.”</em><br />
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Pata on nähnyt 34 jääkarhua ja kohdannut pari kasvotusten. Vuosien varrella hän on oppinut Grönlannin alkuperäiskansalta, Inuiiteilta miten karhuja luetaan. Hän sanoo, että jääkarhujen kanssa ei koskaan kannata olla liian itsevarma ja aina tulee olla valmiustilassa.<br />
Patan mukaan karhut eivät kuitenkaan useimmiten syö ihmistä heti alkuun vaan karhu voi kierrellä leirin ympäri jopa kolme päivää ennen kuin se tekee mitään strategisia liikkeitä. Mikäli karhu hyökkää heti ihmisen kimppuun on se jo haistanut ihmisen pidemmän aikaa kauempaa. Jääkarhujen häviämisestä maapallolta on puhuttu jo pidemmän aikaa, mutta jääkarhuilla on uskomaton tapa sopeutua muutoksiin. Tällä hetkellä on nähty karhujen siirtyvän merilevään ja merilintuihin muun ravinnon puuttuessa.<br />
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Pata on johtanut monia retkikuntia viidakkoihin ympäri maailmaa. Käydessään Madagaskarilla viimeksi hän järkyttyi siitä miten paljon sademetsää on kaadettu. Tutkijoiden mukaan lähitulevaisuudessa esimerkiksi pohjois-Madagaskarilla on arvioitu olevan jäljellä vain pieni läntti sademetsää. Madagaskarilla löytyy endeemisiä (<em><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eli%C3%B6" title="Eliö">eliölaji</a> tai -alalaji, joka esiintyy vain jollakin tietyllä, rajatulla ja suhteellisen suppealla maantieteellisellä alueella, jolla se on <a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolaatio" title="Isolaatio">isolaation</a> seurauksena kehittynyt ja jonka olosuhteisiin se on sopeutunut), </em> lajeja jotka ovat vaarassa kuolla sukupuuttoon juuri tästä syystä.<br />
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Tutustuessaan Palaun saaristoon, Pata sai kokea upean värikkään korallin. Pari vuotta myöhemmin Pata kävi samassa paikassa. Veden lämpötila oli noussut kahdella asteella ja koralli oli kuollut laajoilta alueilta. <em>”Koralli on elävänä värikästä ja todella kaunista. Jos nuorilta kysyy miltä koralli näyttää, monet luulevat, että koralli on valkoinen. Valkoinen koralli on kuitenkin kuollut koralli,”</em> Pata opettaa.<br />
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Palaamme jälleen hetkeksi Arktikselle ja Etelämanterelle. Patan mukaan Grönlannissa jää sulaa arvioitua nopeammin. Esimerkiksi Illulisat (yksi monesta jäätiköstä) syöttää mereen 20 miljoonaa tonnia jäätä päivässä, joka sulaa Atlanttiin. <em>"Tämä on yhtä paljon kuin koko Suomi käyttää vettä kuukaudessa*",</em> toteaa Pata. Pataa kiinnosti jään sulaminen, joten hän halusi lähteä tutkimaan miten vakava asia on kyseessä. Vuonna 2010 yksi retkikunta oli käynyt samassa paikassa ja vuonna 2017 Pata lähti retkikunnan kanssa Etelämantereelle kuvaamaan ja tutkimaan jään alla olevaa elämää. Kun tutkijat saapuivat Etelämantereelle he huomasivat nopeasti että oli normaalia lämpimämpi joka johti siihen, että jäätä suli lätäköiksi muun jään päälle <em>(ensimmäistä kertaa jään päällä pystyi uimaan)</em>.<br />
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Kun tutkijat sukelsivat jään alapuolelle he huomasivat, että seitsemän vuoden aikana eläimet merenpohjassa olivat lisääntyneet räjähdysmäisesti. Seitsemän vuotta aikaisemmin ei samassa paikassa oltu havaittu ollenkaan elämää. Nyt jään alta kirkkaasta vedestä <em>(näkyvyys oli 300-500 metriä)</em>, löytyi kokonainen ”viidakko”: kaloja, valkoisia matoja, jäniksen näköisiä olioita, merihämähäkkejä ja meritähtiä. Tämä oli tutkijoille todellinen järkytys koska he luulivat, että Etelämanner muuttuu 100 vuoden sykleissä. Tämä muutos tapahtui kuitenkin seitsemässä vuodessa.<br />
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Mikäli Etelämanner sulaa kokonaan kaikkien valtamerien pinnat nousevat arviolta 58 metriä. Jos taas Grönlannin mannerjäätikkö sulaa nousee pinta vielä seitsemän metriä.** Kun Pata on jutellut ilmastoa tutkivien YK:n tutkijoiden kanssa he eivät enää tänä päivänä samalla tavalla keskity jäätiköiden sulamiseen vaan ovat jo siirtyneet miettimään sitä miten suuria ihmismassoja kuljetetaan paikasta A paikkaan B. Tutkijoiden arvion mukaan Suomen kokoiseen maahan mahtuisi heidän arvion mukaan noin 46 miljoonaa ihmistä.<br />
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Pata haluaa tuoda esille ilmastonmuutoksen uhat koko suomen kansalle. Hän mainitsee, että Suomi ja Israel ovat maita, joista muut maat ottavat mallia. ”Mikäli Suomi voi luoda mallin joka toimii, voidaan muihin maihin adaptoida ”ilmastonmuutosmalli,” toivoo Pata. Tällä hetkellä Pata kirjoittaa mm. Mato Valtosen kanssa lastenkirjaa aiheesta ilmastonmuutos ja hän toivoo saavansa ilmastonmuutoksen osaksi suomen oppimisjärjestelmää. Hän uskoo siihen, että nuoret pystyvät vielä omien tekojensa kanssa muuttamaan maailmaa. Hän on osana muutosta tuomalla esille maailman upeimpien paikkojen muutoksen kauniin visuaalisuuden ja upean tarinankerronnan kautta.<br />
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Jos haluat kuulla Patan keynote -puheen, 'The Uncomfortable Truth of Climate Change' voit tilata sen <em><a href="https://www.myspeaker.fi/pata-degerman/" style="color: #72bc68;">täältä</a>. </em><br />
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Lähteet ja lisäinfoa ilmastonmuutoksesta*:<br />
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WWF : Deforestation, 27 fotball fields<br /><a class="" href="https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation-and-forest-degradation" style="font-family: -webkit-standard; text-size-adjust: auto;" title="https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation-and-forest-degradation">https://www.worldwildlife.org/threats/deforestation-and-forest-degradation</a><br />
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UNESCO: Greenland, Ilullisat glacier melting<br />
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Today I had the pleasure of being given a head massage by my friends horse Gallu. Apparently Gallu knows exactly where the trigger points are and he always finds the tightest spots that he massages open. Warmly recommended!<br />
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After my own massage Thor was visited by <b>Emma Henriksson</b> from <a href="http://procheval.com/"><i>Pro Cheval</i></a>. Emma gives massage, electro therapy and laser treatments. Thor has been very stiff for a while now (that I think has to do mostly with his shoeing), but he also has been a bit funny with his left side. Especially the ear and neck area. Emma massaged Thor and treated his back and also gave some laser for the neck. Thor relaxed well during the treatment and if he feels better next week we will take Emma soon again for another treatment. If Thor however still feels uneasy with his head I will take him to see an Equine Dentist specialized in the horses mouth in May. I want to make sure that he has no worse problems in the mouth and that there is no bad pain causing his reactions. I will keep you updated.<br />
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In case you want to read more about the Equine Mouth and Teeth, here are my articles on <a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2012/06/tarkista-hampaat.html#links"><i>this subject</i></a>. </div>
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I had the opportunity to <a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2014/01/finding-lusitanos-part-i.html"><i>visit Portugal</i></a> a few years ago when we were looking for a big white horse for my friend. After a few days spent driving around with our trainer Mari Manty Faria Carvalho, we found the most amazing horse<span style="font-family: inherit;"> E<span style="background-color: white;">ç</span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">a who moved to Finland shortly after our visit. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">During my first trip to Portugal I already fell in love with the country, the people and particularly their red wine and food. When I met one of the owners of <i><a href="https://www.facebook.com/montevelhoequoresort/">Monte Velho Equo-Resort</a> </i>at Helsinki International Horse Show and they asked me (together with Horsexplore and the Finnish organiser Riitta Kosonen) if I wanted to teach yoga to their Finnish clients, it was of course an immediate yes on my side. It was a dream come true for me, and we started to plan the first visit to Alentejo immediately. </span></div>
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We arrived in Portugal on a Thursday afternoon in January and had two drivers pick us up from the airport. The road to Alentejo was really beautiful and we crossed the longest bridge in Europe on our way to the resort. The bridge is 17 km long and is named after Portuguese explorer Vasco de Gama, who was also the first European to reach India by sea.
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As we arrived to Equoresort we had our lunch ready before heading off to our first riding lesson with the Portuguese Lusitano horse. As soon as we saw Monte Velho I think we all dropped our jaw and were totally in awe with the beauty of the place.</div>
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Many years ago, the owner of Monte Velho, which means "Old Home", Mr. Diogo Lima Mayer was a hard working architect when he suddenly suffered a heart attack. As a result of the heart attack the doctor told Mr. Diogo to get a hobby and to try out riding. So Mr. Diogo obeyed the doctors orders and started riding horses. </div>
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A few years later Mr. Diogo was visiting a farm in Alentejo that was totally run down and in ruins and decided there and then to make it his home, move the horses there and start breeding the Lusitano horse. Together with his beautiful wife and their five sons, they have slowly restorated and built an earthly paradise only one and a half hour away from Lissabon. </div>
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During the trip we had one dressage lesson on Thursday and two lessons on Friday and Saturday. On Sunday I held a yoga lesson to everyone before heading to fabulous wine estate <a href="https://www.ravasqueira.com/?lang=en"><i>Monte da Ravasqueira</i></a> on our way to the airport. </div>
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Since I was visiting Monte Velho for the first time Riitta from Horsexplore wanted to take me hacking on Saturday so that I could see the surrounding area. So instead of our afternoon lesson we had the possibility to head out with the leader of the pack, Cesar, Finnish Jaana and a Mother and daughter from England. </div>
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The horses that are used for trail rides are different horses from the ones that are used for the lessons. They live outside in a herd and are taken out for the rides whenever needed. Some of the horses have been previously used for lessons but have not been suitable for all level of riders and have therefore been assigned to a life of hacking (not too bad). All of the horses were very well-behaved and fantastic trail ride horses. We did however have the lead horses with Jaana and Cesar so we were asked to stay next to Cesars horse when we took off in a canter.</div>
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And canter we did. The horse that I had was Don Qichot and is the horse of Mr. Diogo. At the beginning he seemed very relaxed and at ease but when we headed off into a canter I have never felt a power like that. The energy was so huge and he had such a forward going pace that it took me a while to gather how to get into a good contact with him. When we however had worked out each other we had such a pleasant ride together and at the end we were cantering in front of everyone else at a beautiful, rhytmical and supple canter. Definitely my kind of horse. </div>
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Most horses at Monte Velho have been taught both piaff and passage and many of us got to experience what those gaits feel like from the saddle. I did however get the most help when our trainers Joao, Lorena and Diogo Jr. concentrated on my seat. The words that were mostly repeated to me during my lessons were shoulders back and open up your upper body.<br />
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As our fourth instructor, French Sandrine so well put it: <span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>”Whoaw with your shoulders, canter with the legs.” </i></span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i><br /></i></span></span><span style="background-color: white;">For my first lesson I was very lucky and got to ride a wonderful gelding called Ben. He became my horse for all other lessons except the last one on Sunday morning and I really really liked riding him. He was very supple, soft and gentle and we got along very well. I had the opportunity to concentrate on my seat and really work on getting the hips more forward, legs a little more back and a straighter upper body. I also worked on my core as instructed by Joao and was told "core, core, core" almost the whole lesson while riding for him. </span><br />
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On Saturday I also met with another nice gelding but he was really not my type of horse and we just had a fun lesson and I tried to concentrate on my seat once again. Especially in the canter because he had a very nice and rolling canter so I could just enjoy it and try to be as straight as possible. As you can see in the video ´Laukkaa Monte Velho´ I tend to turn my body to the left even if we are going in the right direction. So all in all my lessons were very good for me since I could clearly find that I need to work on my upper body and posture extensively right now. I did however enjoy the hack out so much and felt truly alive when we cantered around the fantastic fields.<br />
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We also went to see the mares and their foals in the fields one evening. Diogo Jr. came with us and talked about their breeding program and how much emphasis they are putting into breeding their own horses. They have high goals and are looking toward getting Equador MVL together with talented Joao Torrao to the Olympic Games. </div>
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During our visit out in the field Diogo was telling us what they are looking for in the mares that they use for breading. One of the things is a feminine head with a light connection between the neck and the head. They also pay a lot of attention to the back of the horse where all the power lies and according to Diogo the Spanish horses croup is more flat as the lusitano croup is more angular.</div>
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The food is fantastic in Portugal. During the whole trip we got to enjoy lovely homemade food and of course some fantastic Portuguese wine. On the last day we no longer had riding lessons so we did some yoga outside by the pool instead before heading of to see one of the biggest carriage collections in the world and to learn some more about Portuguese culture and their wine production. </div>
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We arrived to <a href="https://www.ravasqueira.com/about-ravasqueira/?lang=en"><i>Monte (huge farm) de Ravasqueira</i></a> (translated as the land of the black pig because the area is famous for its black pigs) in the early afternoon on Sunday and spent a wonderful afternoon there. The huge carriage collection in itself was a wonderful sight for sore eyes and strolling in the wineyard in the sun just made the whole trip that little bit more perfect. </div>
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I also learned this interesting facts about wine barrels and their pretty long life span: </div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">At the wineyard they are used for 3 years.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">1st year for the premium</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">2nd and 3rd year for the interlevel ranges.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Then the barrels will move forward.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">1st to Porto for portwine</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">2nd to Scotland for whiskey</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">3d to Belgium for craft beer</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">Then they are done and will be used for furniture such as chairs and tables.</span><br style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: white; color: #333333;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333;">50% of the Portuguese wine production is local and 50% is exported. </span></span><br />
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The next trip together with <a href="https://www.horsexplore.com/"><i>HorseXplore</i></a> combining yoga and horses to Portugal is organized in May and we still have one spot available. We are also organising another trip on the 28th of November to the 1st of December 2019. For more information don't hesitate contacting me on kiaherold@hotmail.com. </div>
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Also check out Riitta Kosonen's blog <a href="https://riittareissaa.blogspot.com/2019/01/talvi-ei-tunnu-kouluratsastuslomalla.html?fbclid=IwAR3717w0jVU2YtRTv3wXL23oDrHflJbPWgcLb1XSpiMakbRkC_3ct-YcFU8"><i>Talvi ei tunnu kouluratsastuslomalla Portugalissa</i></a>.</div>
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More on my travels can be found under travel stories in my blog. </div>
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Also read the story from our May 2019 trip to Montevelho <a href="http://kiaherold.blogspot.com/2019/09/be-careful-what-you-wish-for.html"><i>here</i></a>. </div>
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When we visited Australia in November our friends recommended <b>Sami Lukis </b>podcast <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/romantically-challenged/id1419335983?mt=2"><i>Romantically challenged</i></a>. I have been listening to audio books and podcasts for a while now and I absolutely love Lukis humorous and gentle way on touching on some very important subjects.<br />
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This morning I was walking the dog and I could not help but write down the conversation that Lukis was having with Therapist <b>Katie Eden Todd</b>. It really resonated with me so I wanted to share these wise words with you. In the podcast Todd talks about the difference of a <b>soulmate and cellmate </b>and how we sometimes no longer grow in relationships and get stuck stagnant. She says that it is not about love. That we often say that we love someone, but it is deeper than that: '<i>I need someone.'</i><br />
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<br />Todd thinks that everyone has an inner child inside (that is emotionally under 5 years of age) and the cellmate relationship is when a child is doing the choosing and making the automatic pilot decision, which are fear based and not a good idea. A soulmate is when we are actually genuinely compatible, and we have got some adult relationship skills and some emotional maturity. A lot of what happens in relationships is power struggles having the same old battles and the same old conversations but it is two children trying to see who can win.<br />
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Todd has learned over the years that the soulmates still have issues come up but it is the way they handle it. They have the excruciating conversations. And they work their way through it without attacking the other person. A soulmate owns their stuff. They own their shadows and they own where they mess up. Whereas a cellmate is going to say: <i>'no, that is not me, it is you.'</i> There is a lot of blame and a lot of attacking and reactivity and we are not discussing that. There is a lot of do not discuss topics in cellmate relationships where you know if you bring it up the partner is going to go off their tree. So you don't talk about it and these walls get built between us.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">In the podcast Lukis and Todd discuss that a healthy and</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: inherit;"> wonderful relationship is not only about how well you get along but how well you don't get along. <i>"How do you navigate the conflicts that come up where you are pulling in different directions. How do you respect each other and allow each other to grow and be the best person they can be, the biggest version of themselves. How do you support each other and stay true to yourself. There are real skills needed here. </i></span><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: inherit;">We don't learn emotional intelligence and that is what is missing so you have the same old arguments and attack. You might say you love someone but actually you need them. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-family: inherit;">You can loose respect very early on in a relationship which to Todd is deadly."</span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Lukis asks Todd what the signs of being in a toxic cell mate relationship are and they agree that other than fighting everyday you also feel disrespected. <i>"It is very hard work and you are shutting down more and more of yourself. You feel like you cant be too happy, too joyful, too excited, too whatever. We have very complex personalities and what we do in an unhappy relationship is that we start to close it down. You stop sharing things and stop having the intimacy. You are not even friends and you have these familiar battle grounds where u keep hitting those same brick walls. The child in both of us is trying to change the other one to suit what I want: 'I want you to be like this and think like this'. We don't know what is going on and we don't see it that clearly. I think when you can see it, you can make a better choice about what is right for me. We talk about cellmate and soulmate relationships but I think it starts with our relationship with ourselves. So I think if the child is running our lives inside we can be in a jail cell in ourselves where we are not giving ourselves the life that we want. We are sort of hoping that this magical partner is going to give to us open doors and give us permission to live our full lives. A lot of people don't know how to step up and create the life that they really want. How to be really honest with themselves, how to be proactive and be a good parent for themselves. <b>So, if we are a child basically, we are going to have a child cellmate partner. If we are a soulmate with ourselves, in other words we have learnt how to parent ourselves and to really honour the unique person that we are. Then you attract someone who is also honouring who you are."</b></i></span><br />
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You can listen to the podcast <b>Choosing a Soulmate instead of a Cellmate</b> <a href="https://itunes.apple.com/au/podcast/romantically-challenged/id1419335983?mt=2"><i>here</i></a>. </div>
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Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-48623194917630967212019-03-20T06:39:00.002-07:002019-03-20T08:12:35.813-07:00"I’m not as strong as he is, I’m not as forgiving as he is, I’m not as elegant as he is"<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<span data-offset-key="1oh07-0-0"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Yesterday I watched <a href="https://www.facebook.com/skavlantalkshow/"><i>Skavlan talk Show</i></a> with the 1975's Matty Healy and <i><a href="https://www.nme.com/news/music/1975s-matty-healy-therapy-horse-rehab-helped-kick-heroin-2383214">he discussed how equine therapy helped him</a> </i>kick his heroin addiction. </span></span><br />
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Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8861421823248809198.post-14213781384948129202019-03-17T13:29:00.000-07:002019-03-18T01:25:07.692-07:00Why the core matters for horseback ridersThe core matters for everything we do in life. It is essential for our wellbeing, not only physically, but a strong core also makes us feel stronger emotionally. When we think about the core we often think about our abdominals <span style="font-family: inherit;">and those good old sit ups that at least I used to do as a young girl in order to get a stronger core. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">The core is however your whole<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> midsection and it involves all your muscles in that area including the <span style="font-family: inherit;">front, back and sides. The </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><b style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">core</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"> includes the traverse abdominis (TVA), erector spinae, obliques and your lower lats and these muscles work as stabilizers for the entire body.* Or as Lara Heimann so well puts it: </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;"><i>"While most assume it's just the abdominals, the core is truly a channel and conduit of renewable energy. It is the area of our body which houses our life. The core is important for controlling, harnessing, and moving energy within the body."</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">When we consider the core an area including the front, back and sides I wanted to illustrate something through this video that I filmed after our yoga class today. As you can see on the video, a stronger core also helps us stabilize our back. The structure of the spine is very rigid and does not have a lot of movement. We do however find the largest amount of movement and a natural arch in the lumbar spine, referred to as the lower back, where the spine curves inward toward the abdomen (this inward curve of the spine is called lordosis). </span><span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: -0.32px;"><span style="color: #515151; font-family: "open sans" , "arial" , sans-serif;">** </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: inherit;">Therefore if we do not have a strong core we are more likely to get a hollow back and get a larger bend in the lumbar spine area when we ride our horses. If we get a hollow back we not only sit in the wrong position on the horse but we do not have a strong enough seat and are more likely to ride more than necessary with our hands and legs. We are also more likely to get a sore back that might turn into some bigger lower back issues if we are not connected to our core. So yet again a good reminder that everything connects to each other in our bodies and if we want to ride with a light and supple seat we should definitely pay attention to our core. And also remember that if the area of our body that houses our life is stuck and not working properly we also get stuck energy that effects the horse straight away. If our energy is stuck, it will directly affect the way our horse feels and moves. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="background-color: white;">At least I will try to get to know my core better from now on. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; letter-spacing: 0.7px;">Also listen to Lara Heimans podcast <i><a href="https://www.movementbylara.com/podcast/more-core/">More Core</a></i></span><br />
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Läksimme maneesiin Sofia Koistisen estetunnille. Sofia ratsasti ensin Viva suomenhevosen ja sen jälkeen lähdimme harjoittelemaan perusjuttuja. Oma itseluottamus estepuolella on ollut ihan nollissa, joten ollaan menty paljon puomeja, ristikoita ja pienempiä esteitä. Ollaan keskitytty suoruuteen, taivuttamiseen ja ollaan tehty paljon hauskoja harjoituksia ravissa. Sofia ratsasti myös Thorin kerran ja pidin kovasti Sofian tyylistä. Etenkin siitä, että Sofialla on todella rauhallinen ja rento käsi ja Thor hakeutui nätisti istunnan avulla oikeana muotoon. </div>
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Meillä on aina keskiviikkoisin Tiina Rikkosen koulutunti, joka on maailman ihanin ja Monika Korpikangas käy myös säännöllisesti katsomaan meidän perään. Monikalla on myös paljon kivoja harjoituksia ja viimeksi teimme avoa ja sulkua ja keskityimme hyvien kulmien ratsastamiseen. Tärkeintä on, että Thor ei kaadu kulmissa sisälle tai ikäänkuin sisäpohkeen päälle. Harjoittelimme myös siirtymisiä ja temponlisäyksiä ja oli mahtavaa huomata miten laadukas ravi ja laukka löytyi kun sain Thorin oikein hyvin läpi istunnan avulla. Olemme myös pysytelleet paljon uran sisäpuolella, joka tekee hyvää koska silloin saan myös rehellisesti ulkoavut läpi eikä Thor ota liikaa tukea seinästä.</div>
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Jack pysyy jo hyvin mukana tallilla ja on mukana maneesilla myös koulutuntien ajan. Välillä hän jahtaa Thoria, mutta suurimman osan ajasta Jack käyttäytyy jo erinomaisesti. Tänään mentiin vielä tunnin jälkeen ilman satulaa nauttimaan upeasta säästä maastoon. Thor ja Jack ovat parasta seuraa maailmassa. Olen niin kiitollinen heidän seurasta.</div>
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<i>Kuvat: Tuulikki Viilo</i></div>
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Ilokseni voin kertoa, että aloitan MySpeakerin viestintä- ja markkinointijohtajana ensi viikolla. Puhe ja kommunikaatio ovat aina olleet lähellä sydäntäni, joten tämä työ tuntuu juuri oikealta tässä elämänvaiheessa. Pääsen jälleen oppimaan ja kokemaan uusia asioita ja kehitän toivottavasti myös itseni markkinoinnin ja viestinnän ammattilaisena, puhujana ja esiintyjänä.<br />
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Tässä vielä Markkinointi & Mainonta -lehden nimitysartikkeli, <i><a href="https://www.marmai.fi/uutiset/kia-herold-puhujatoimisto-myspeakerin-markkinointi-ja-viestintajohtajaksi-kun-saamme-kehitettya-naita-taitoja-luulen-etta-olemme-ihan-voittamattomia-6759847">Kia Herold puhujatoimisto MySpeakerin markkinointi- ja viestintäjohtajaksi: "Kun saamme kehitettyä näitä taitoja, luulen, että olemme ihan voittamattomia"</a></i><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #323132;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>"Kun saamme kehitettyä näitä taitoja, luulen, että olemme ihan voittamattomia. Suomessa on paljon hienoja asioita ja osaamista, joita voimme viedä maailmalle. Emme kuitenkaan osaa aina esittää niitä sillä tavalla, että ne ovat tarpeeksi kiinnostavia, minkä taas meidän naapurimaamme osaa erittäin hyvin", kiteyttää Herold.</i></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #323132;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Pääsimme myös rakkaan veljeni <a href="https://www.seiska.fi/Uutiset/Selviytyjat-komistus-Kim-Herold-esitteli-kauniin-Kia-siskonsa-molemmat-menestyivat-malleina"><i>Kim Heroldin kanssa 7 päivää -lehteen</i></a>, kun kävimme Marko Björsin uuden korusarjan Cosmic -julkistamistilaisuudessa The Cock -ravintolassa. </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #323132; font-family: inherit;">Muistattehan seurata Kimin seikkailuja </span><a href="https://www.nelonen.fi/ohjelmat/selviytyjat-suomi" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;"><i>Selviytyjissä</i></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #323132; font-family: inherit;"> aina sunnuntaisin klo 20.00. </span>Kia Heroldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02602117279768117923noreply@blogger.com4