Dancing with Horses

Friday, Dancing with Horses workshop takes place. It's been many months in planning and interesting how it all works out in the end. Like so many other things, it takes some turns and a few speed bumps along the way, but here we are and Friday is just basically tomorrow.

JoAnna Mendl Shaw and I have been on the phone talking about how we plan to co-teach portions of the workshop. She has just returned from Parelli -land in Florida, teaching a course with their instructors and students. I'm anxious to share my horses with her and our workshop participants.

Because, as most of you have heard, our arena still isn't up yet, so we will be taking 4 horses to an indoor arena in Waterbury Center for the weekend. It will be the first time Morado, Thunder, Adelantado and Maya have had any kind of real handling since bad weather hit back in November. They are all seasoned horses, and after they get a chance to get their sillies out in the arena for a few minutes, I'm sure they'll settle right into it and enjoy the human interaction. They will be stalled more than they are used to and I'm curious as to whether they will enjoy the lazy life, or be climbing the walls after a day? It's good for them to learn to be adaptable.

It's going to be a busy and long weekend, and grateful to have friends helping out with the logistics. As long as I can get my trailer dug out from the winters worth of snow...I should make it! That's tomorrows project!

Hope to have enough energy after each workshop day to post about our experiences! Learn more about JoAnna at www.dancingwithhorses.org