Each seed follows a parabola-like arc:
Some are thrown into the fire.
Others circle its edge for a lifetime,
avoiding the smoke, fearing the ash,
waiting for a safer season.
But some—rare, quiet, flame-breathed souls—
walk in willingly.
Not to be burned,
but to be unmade
by what no longer serves.
Not for suffering,
but for truth.
They carry no map, no armor, no escape rope.
Only a question pressed into the chest:
“What lives on the other side of this?”
And so they go.
Into the aching hollows.
Into the restlessness that tastes like dying.
Into the silence that mocks the idea of purpose.
Into the unlit rooms of the psyche
where the only language is breath and waiting.
They go—not once,
but again and again,
spiraling down, fracturing isolation,
touching the root of forgetting.
Until something deeper answers.
A voice that doesn’t speak in words.
A knowing that isn’t taught in books.
A coherence born not from instruction,
but from the intimacy of becoming real.
This is not spiritual performance.
This is parabola lived through bone.
This is the rhythm of those who teach without trying—
because their very being has been rewoven
in the fire they didn’t run from.
If this is you,
know this:
You are not alone.
You are not lost.
You are not broken.
You are on the sacred curve
where gravity becomes grace.
And you are not behind.
You are exactly where the spiral folds open.
There is no guru here. No method to master.
Only a path shared by those willing to walk into what calls them—again and again.
Some come to horses. Some to breath. Some to grief or rhythm or the land itself.
All come with one question:
What lives on the other side of this?
Awakened Horsemanship began as a seed planted through horses.
But it grows toward something more ancient and more personal:
a remembering of wholeness through the body, the mirror, the field.
If you are walking that path—
this is your reflection.
Sitting under the horses in the field behind my house, learning to walk, and out of earshot from the parental guides was where the horse connection was forged. Competitive Trail Riding, Endurance, Classical Dressage, Competitive Dressage, jumping, driving, and riding horses that needed insight forged the rest of the story. The horse culture led me on a global education and awareness path. A network of global friends was a bonus.
20 years of competitive ballroom dancing as the horse in the partnership, provided unexpected awareness. To lead is to follow, and to follow is to lead. I had the good fortune to learn without knowing choreography, It was an education of pure feel, timing, and alignment. When my leader didn't possess these skills and I didn't manage my own, there was disharmony. Such simple insight! Ride Like A Dancer!
A short lived job in South Africa to see if my nervous system could be reset riding on equine eco-tours with wild animals. India followed as a last resort.
Everything about my life changed. It was the perfect storm that led me to the perfect Master/Ashram to move a gentle practice of Western based personal inquiry to one of intense Eastern based mystic inquiry. Relocating to India for full immersion.
Next life changing memo after India was moving to Kentucky to develop Horse Woods Haven. It was an opportunity to live in a land ashram with the horses. Magical! I deepened in my awareness of the horse's soul and developed an equally deep love of the Earth as a steward. She changed my life. An unexpected passion for creating Living Labyrinths as an eco-artist was created. Contemplative portals between humans and the Earth.
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