HARMONY HORSEWORKS
13639 Elsie Road
Conifer CO 80433
(303) 816-0766
www.harmonyhorseworks.com
barbara@harmonyhorseworks.com
Horse Sanctuary and Home of Wright-ESCT(tm) Equine Stress Control Therapy &
Center for Healing Riding Performance Anxieties with PEAT Energy Psychology
October 2007 Issue
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"When we encounter a can of worms in our midst, as likely as not we have brought it ourselves."
Lama Surya Das
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HOLISTIC HORSE MAGAZINE
Our favorite alternative equine publication is packed full of tips and more information is available at www.holistihorse.com. Check it out!
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SINGLOCITY is Denver's best single resource guide, published by one of our supporters, Beth Anderson. Check out the feature about Barbara Wright, "The Horse Listener," and how she came discovered ESCT working with her horse, Victoor, a spooky Arabian. Their web site is www.singlocity.com. To view the magazine online, go to www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/csrg/fall07/index.php.
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FILL DIRT WANTED! If you read this and live in Colorado on the US HWY 295 corridor and know of any excavators, builders or contractors who have to move dirt and find a place to put it, we desperately need fill dirt here at Harmony HorseWorks to mitigate the erosion that the wet summer and heavy winds have caused on our south pasture. The horses are walking on bedrock and our fenceposts are showing their concrete settings. Please pass this on to anybody in the industry who might be able to help and have them contact Barbara Wright at (303) 816-0766. Your help is greatly appreciated. |
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DEVELOPING TRUST IN TEMUJIN USING ESCT AND THE PULSER.
Our case history this month features Temujin, a young but willing Arabian gelding who has difficulty with giving up his status in a herd of two, the other partner being a human. We suspect his hesitant nature is due to lack of trust in humans, probably due to the way he was treated by his former owner. Temujin was delivered to us from the vet by a caring group of women who had watched him being mistread at the stable where he was boarded. His former owner had taken him to the vet to be put down. ORIENTATION: When he arrived, he was nervous and did not want to do groundwork. To try to calm him before working with him, I would lead him into our training corral and performed ESCT for about 15 minutes each time. After three sessions space a day apart, he was willing to do groundwork the same as any of our other horses. WORKING UNDER SADDLE: On day 4, we wanted to see how Temujin would react to being saddled up and ridden in his new environment. We chose our most supple saddle, a French Passier dressage saddle, that fit him perfectly. We also selected an easy French-link snaffle bit for him. We attached the pulser to his headstall on the noseband and held the hand unit while walking Temujin around the corral to let him relax into the ESCT rhythm. After pulsing him a minute and letting him rest a couple of minutes and doing this 5 or 6 times, he was very relaxed. We know he had been ridden before, so mounting him and getting forward motion was not a problem, but he was not responsive to leg and seat aids after a few minutes of simple walking around the perimeter of the corral. So we began pulsing him again, on for a minute, off for a few and asked a volunteer to lead the rider around on a lead room while pulsing him with a rider up. After 5 or 6 minutes of this, the tension had completely eased out of him and he was ready to walk/trot along the fenceline, in circles and in serpentines. FOLLOW-UPS: Since we began riding Temujin, he had a setback with "scratches," a painful infection of the hair follicles on his lower legs, so we laid him up while he healed. Now he is back under saddle and we use the ESCT hand method and the pulser on his headstall as we ask a little more of him since he is sound and good to ride. We are still taking it slowly with this beautiful Arabian gelding as we do not want to recreate any of the trauma he experienced before, being ridden hard and long and then left to tie up in his stall. He is warmed up and cooled down and not ridden hard for any reason. He is simply a very beautiful horse to be treasured and trained, not abused.
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ABOVE: Melanie Lorme, a young equestrienne from Petaluma, CA, travels to Conifer each summer and helps as a volunteer at Harmony HorseWorks. This year, she fell in love with Temujin and helped us rehabilitate him with groundwork and ESCT. |
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THE HARMONY ESCT PULSER
The Harmony ESCT Pulser is available with the ESCT Book on CD, ESCT PowerPoint Presentation on CD, instructions, battery and carrying case. Price for the package is $160. The new ESCT DVD and ESCT Pulser DVD are available for $45 each. The pulser is shown below and the pulsing lozenges attached to the halter are shown on the photo bottom right.
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Good-bye to Lokki, our youngest resident who was born here on April 22, 2205 out of a rescued mare who arrived pregnant. Lokki was euthanized on October 9, 2007. He was the light in our eyes and made us smile every day with his antics and happiness. PLEASE HELP US WITH OUR VETERINARY EXPENSES WITH LOKKI, OUR YOUNGEST HORSE, BY MAKING A DONATION IN HIS MEMORY.
LOKKI, our youngest resident and 2-1/2 (in photos above), had suffered a serious injury to his left hock and developed an infection from a puncture wound. He had been in the hospital at Aspen Creek Large Animal clinic in Conifer, CO for 3 weeks, receiving the best of care from Dr. Ashleigh Olds and her staff. His medical treatment cost is high and we are asking for donations to help defray these expenses, as well as the annual fall shots and exams that all 14 of our horses underwent recently. Our total fall vet bill is approaching $4,000. Donations can be sent here to Harmony HorseWorks, 13639 Elsie Road, Conifer CO 80433 or directly to Aspen Creek Large Animal Clinic, 23605 Oehlmann Park Road, Conifer CO 80433, marked "For Harmony HorseWorks" in the memo line of the check. Donations can also be made on-line via PayPal by going to www.harmonyhorseworks.com and clicking on the MAKE A DONATION button on the left side of our home page. Thank you for making a donation to help pay for our vet bill! This will allow us to continue purchasing hay for the winter months ahead with existing funds. All donations are appreciated, no matter how small.
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ESCT/PEAT FOLLOW-UP CASE HISTORY
Starring Norad and Annie Skaggs (See Photo Above)
This report comes from John Skaggs, Ph.D., a talented psychotherapist from Lexington KY, who updates us on the ongoing saga of Norad, the former racetrack Thoroughbred, and Annie, John's wife and Norad's rider. In an earlier newsletter, we featured John's testimonial about using ESCT at a show where Annie rode Norad and obtaining such positive results. John came to study with us and was certified as an ESCT therapist a few years ago. He is also a Certified PEAT Trainer and Processor, practicing a remarkable energy psychology developed by Zivorad Slavinski. We also use PEAT to help our volunteers and riders overcome their performance anxieties and offer it to anyone interested in overcoming horse-related fears. Here is John's update:
"Most people dream of a breakout moment, when all their training and hard work will come together in an outstanding performance, yet we often unconsciously sabotage our own performance. When a Thoroughbred horse is added to the mixture, as well as an experienced yet fearful rider, the chances of that breakout performance seems very small. This was the case with my wife Annie and her eleven year old gray Thoroughbred, Norad. Norad is the same horse featured in the Harmony Horsework's newsletter back in December, 2005. At that time I had done my first ESCT on him for just five minutes and watched him transformed from a fearful, high-headed, spooky horse, to a confident secure one snuggling into my chest. Norad went right into the dressage ring with Annie on him and won a first place with a wonderfully smooth and relaxed ride. Just before the ESCT he had scored 10 points worse and only got a fifth place in an easier class. This year Annie had added cross-country jumping competition so she was competing for the horse trials including dressage, stadium jumping, and cross-country jumping. Cross-country is much more challenging with the open spaces so that a hot horse like Norad can easily run away. Even though she is very experienced, fear has hung around like an uninvited guest in getting ready for the cross-country rides. Slow and easy has been the mantra for their collaboration.
Annie's trainer, Megan Moore, has always known the potential for Norad, and has been very encouraging in competing at higher levels. This May Annie signed up for the full eventing competition at two different levels. Saturday was the lower level jumps at 2' 7" out in the cross-country course with 14 different jumps and a time limit to complete the course. That day Annie rode the course very cautiously, walking at times, always holding Norad back so he did not bolt or run out on her. The whole course her mouth was dry and her heart pounding, going over one fearful jump after another. Although used to her caution, Norad was jittery picking up on her fear. Her time was many minutes over the time with the major success being that of completing the course.
Sunday dawned with competition at the next higher level and Annie shared with me the fears about the big wide "cabin" jump in the cross-country course. I had just described the new Deep PEAT4 process I was doing to reduced stress and anxiety, and increasing levels of performance. I suggested using this DP4 on the cabin jump, knowing that it would generalize and make the whole course easier for her, and for Norad too.She agreed and we did it in less than 15 minutes, leaving Annie in a very calm peaceful state, confident she could jump the cabin with ease.
Sunday's cross-country was awesome, with Annie and Norad flying through the course at top speed, going much faster than they had just the day before when they were on an easier course. They went over the "cabin" like it wasn't even there, racing off after each jump to get to the next. Norad ran like he was unleashed finally, with Annie trusting him to go where he needed to. They finished the course only 4 seconds over the time limit. The first thing Annie's trainer, Megan, said to her was "You galloped; I've never seen you gallop. You were so brave." She was incredulous at the change, telling Annie that it was the breakout ride that she had know that Annie and Norad were capable of.
This transformation, so evident in the difference in the two rides is the result of PEAT (Primal Energy Activation and Transformation) processes that operate at the deepest level of the unconscious and have lasting results because every unconscious sabotage is negated. The DP4 process is straightforward and easy to administer, but it is elegantly constructed to have enormous impact. Its primary limitation is the willingness of people to use it, knowing that one's life can really significantly change. The fact that the changes are enduring is evident in Annie and Norad's next competition this last weekend, when they won first place in the more difficult class. Megan has invited them to compete in an international event this October for Team CEO."
GREAT GOING JOHN, ANNIE AND NORAD. When the negative energy charges are released with ESCT and PEAT, the being changes. Shift happens!
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ABOVE: These are feedlot horses in Nevada that need rescuing and we hope you will visit the web site given below to check them out and make a donation so they can be saved from the trip to a slaughterhouse. Thank you for caring and sharing this message with anybody you know who might be able to help.
MORE NEVADA FEEDLOT HORSES NEED RESCUING FROM A TRIP TO THE SLAUGHTER PLANT. WE ARE FORWARDING THE MESSAGE BELOW FOR THE KIND PEOPLE INVOLVED IN RESCUING AND ADOPTING THESE HORSES OUT. WE HAVE NO FURTHER INFORMATION OTHER THAN WHAT IS SHOWN IN THE MESSAGE BELOW.
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Dear Friends, The following 7 horses are very lucky, so far… they missed being loaded on the slaughter bound truck last Thursday. We are working to get them off the feedlot before the next truck arrives. We have until 6pm Wednesday, 10/3/07 to raise their “bail.” Buckskin dapple mare ~15 yrs $ 590 Sorrel gelding w/4 socks 6-8yrs $ 770 Bay gelding w/star ~ 10yrs $ 685 Sorrel appendix filly ~2yrs $ 230 Chestnut mare ~15yrs $ 580 Sorrel gelding w/flaxen mane & tail ~15yrs $ 720 Sorrel QH gelding ~15yrs $ 565 Subtotal $4,140 Est. Transport/other fees $1,320 TOTAL $5,460 THANK YOU!!! Shirley P.S. We’ve saved over 300 slaughter-bound horses since April 2006, please help us save these horses too! Harmony HorseWorks is a Colorado 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation in good standing. We rescue, rehabilitate, retrain and adopt out those horses we can. The ones that stay with us are sanctuary horses and are used to train volunteers in groundwork, grooming and general horse husbandry. We are funded by public donations from charitable people like you. Sales from our ESCT books, CDs, slide presentations and clinics, as well as sales of all original art and prints by Barbara Wright, go entirely to help the rescue operations. Volunteers help us keep things clean! 
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