On today's episode, Josh and Victoria pull back the curtain on the magic of horses and do a deep dive on Mindfulness!  Turns out, horses are incredible teachers for mindfulness.  We have a fun story about how a pony named Mac develops mindfulness in his students by….. (Read on for more :-)

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"It’s a practice that can transform our relationships with our kids and each other.  It helps us be more resilient, more genuine, and more fulfilled.  It can make our kids healthier, less stressed and more engaged and us too!"

"It’s the concept upon which we’ve built our entire My Horse Club Community - where the horses show us how to master mindfulness to apply it to our life, for ourselves, for our kids, for our whole family."    

"Horses happen to be expert purveyors of mindfulness.  Everything we need to know about mindfulness, how to practice it, how to apply it, we can learn from horses.  They are incredible conduits for this wisdom.  And they make it more fun and more accessible for everyone, especially kids."

"Actually, Mac’s move is a learning opportunity for students.  It’s an experiential exercise in mindfulness, a practice in becoming attuned with the self and the environment, right here, right now.  His move is an alarm bell signaling the student to return to awareness.  His small size and cuteness make the whole thing not so much painful or scary as it is surprising, so the experience is just uncomfortable enough to be impactful."

"Well, horses have been helping us for thousands of years - the horse-human bond is ancient, so even though we may have forgotten to look, that wisdom is still there, waiting to be realized once again.  It’s something we refer to as the wisdom of the herd; a bit of a lost art nowadays, and in our current world, needed more than ever..."