Dressage Geometry With Jim Hicks

Dressage Geometry with Jim Hicks

Sacred is the Source

 

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Is there a door
For you to knock
Exploring paths
Limitless to walk

How many oceans
Do rivers blend
When exploring love
Is there a beginning
Is there an end

Am I the words that
Bring you joy
Am I the war that
Ended Troy

Allowing sight
For all to see
Shadow defines
The original tree

Sacred is the language for all to be 

Sacred is the source of
You

In
Me

Understanding How Children Learn

When introducing children to horses it is important to leave them feeling safe, confident and excited for more. However, understanding how children process information is often overlooked. Children are sensory learners, so their learning styles are determined by which of the senses they are most likely to favor.  To read complete article go to… http://eclectic-horseman.com/understanding-how-children-learn/

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Poetry In The Fields

Poetry In The Fields

By Donnette Hicks

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Developing Relationships

 

On any given day at Sage Creek the spectrum of horse breeds and students can be  vast. In this video Jim Hicks  is starting a mustang, Friesian stallion and working with Cami Ortloff who is doing a college internship with Sage Creek Equestrian.

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Mustang Feeling His First Saddle

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Jim Hicks works with helping a young mustang experience the saddle for the first time.

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Establishing Trust

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Jim Hicks starts a mustang colt.

Growing with Rebecca

I have decided to share how I have gleaned that Dressage is one of the hardest sports to become masterful in. Its a sport of refinement and I have learned that to develop refinement I have to develop as a human being. I have decided to share my journey of growth through this vehicle. I will start with this quote : “Equestrian art is the perfect understanding of harmony between horse and rider” -Nuno Oliveiria 13735099_10209838655942521_1133909387315028697_o

DON’T QUIT BEFORE THE MIRACLE

A testimonial by Gloria Keys

 

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This post is inspired by my most recent dressage principles lesson with one of my amazing horsemanship coaches, Donnette Jordan Hicks.

For the past five years I have been traveling to, and diligently working in horsemanship lessons mainly in dressage principles. I’m not going to sugarcoat it, its been lots of hard work, sacrifices, and dedication. I don’t mind hard work, but sticking to this journey has been the challenge. Through all that life has thrown at me in the last five years..several horse accidents, an abusive marriage, divorce, healing, moving, new relationship with kids I have had the thought of quitting, or taking a break for a few months or years. I didn’t allow myself to do so, and made a promise to myself that I made it this far in this journey I’m not going to quit now. I owed it to myself. So no matter how overwhelmed, tired, or physically sore I have been I kept moving forward on this journey. I knew that sometime it had to get easier. I even kicked it up a notch thinking maybe I could get to the easier part just a little bit faster.

My most recent lesson in dressage principles was a few days ago, and it gave me a reward. The MIRACLE. The combination of my balanced riders seat, the right impulsion energy from my horses hind end, steady hands, bent elbows with my feel and connection resonating from the back of my elbow, a coach that believes in me, and me believing in ME.

My horse was like “Ok, your balanced?” ” I can be balanced.” That simple. Melted into my hands, and into a beautiful carriage we have been yearning for. The feeling of this is why I am on this journey. The added bonus is my coach telling me ” You are melding into the horseman I always knew you could be”.

The Miracle happened. I didn’t quit. I would have sold myself out if I did.

Thank you for believing in ME, Donnette Jordan Hicks!

Balance in the Face of Chaos

 
Whatever it is, however absurd it may seem to others, if I want to restore the balance between my Possibilities, dreams and my daily ways of responding to the world outside me… I needed to make a shift in the energy that I am contributing to my future desires, possibilities and dreams. When I am out of balance, it’s primarily because I have energetically allowed my past habits to define my future.

 

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Even worse my habits have enrolled me blindly and try to convince me of the the consequences thereof, they are the result of the energy I have given them.

In the early stages of rebalancing and processing I concentrated on simply my awareness: You get what you think about, whether you want it or not!
I just laugh to myself how simple that is, yet most of us including me resists shifting my thoughts to recognizing our feeling body that’s full of the rich substance of life.
So I began the path of detachment and rather than focus on how impossible or difficult giving up daily thinking habits may seem. I found through meditation and personal self care, even dreams had a place to hang out.
I found that on a balanced scale, I could see and feel in my inner body relationship with my self, I allowed myself to soak up the energy I deserved.
I began to find my thoughts are mental energy; they’re the currency that I had attracted with limitation undesired physical world results.
Yet when I made friends with my thoughts they showed me where I could heal. By detaching their unwanted messages by moving into love. My body became full of love emotionally and physically. I shifted into learning how to balance in the face of chaos.
I stopped spending currency on thoughts I did not want, even though I felt compelled to continue my habitual behavior.
My bodies heart and soul guided the way to being aligned and in balanced with the possibility of experiencing future unmet dreams.
For me being the best I can be in the world of my horses was the factor that kept my journey into loving myself with balance fully alive. To be successful at going down the center line while being judged by powerhouse USEF judges, one does well if they can stay in emotional and physical balance in a world of certain CHAOS. I giggle as I write this as anyone who is brave enough to show in recognized shows, will relate!
The esteemed 19th-century writer Louisa May Alcott phrases this idea in an encouraging and inspiring manner:
” Far away in the sunshine are
my highest inspirations.
I may not reach them,
but I can look up and see the beauty,
believe in them and try to
follow where they lead. . . .”
Meditation brings personal self care by clearing unwanted “thinking” energy and replacing that void with the rejuvenation of self-love.

Written by Donnette Hicks

photograph by Chelsea Tracy

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