Kerry Borcherding, MA
Kerry is passionate and committed to bringing horses and humans into relationship through the medium of yoga. The word yoga means union. Through yoga, she helps guide individuals to experience the mind, body, and spirit connection. It is Kerry’s belief that practicing yoga on a horse adds another dimension, and that is unification with another. This is the beauty, the key, to practicing yoga on a horse. In Kerry’s experience, it allows people to be in relationship, not only with the Self, but also with another being. By engaging in a combination of yoga asana (postures), pranayama (breathing techniques), and meditation, Kerry has found that people become more deeply aware of their physical bodies, emotions, and breath, as well as a deeper connection to their horses. In addition to the Yoga with Horses workshops that Kerry facilitates around Colorado and Idaho, she is in private practice as an Equine Assisted Psychotherapist in Boulder, Colorado.
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Join Kerry at the 2011 Holistic Horse Affair as she demonstrates Yoga on Horses at 9am on Saturday, October 8, 2011 in the Demo area in the Main Hall of the Holistic Horse Affair:
Tap Into Your Fire Through Yoga with Horses
The word yoga means union—union of body, mind, and spirit. This is why we go to our mat. Practicing yoga on a horse adds another dimension, and that is unification with another. This is the beauty, the key, to practicing yoga on a horse. It allows us to be in relationship, not only with our Self, but also with another living being. Our need to make connections is an essential component of being human. Yoga on the horse enables us to experience how we participate in relationship, how we make and break contact and connection. Our equine partners act as a mirror, reflecting us back to ourselves. We can see quite clearly who we truly are and, in that, whom we truly want to become.
Horse person, yoga person, or neither—this practice offers us the opportunity to slow down, increase awareness, and reconnect with our Self, the horse, nature, and something greater. It’s a time devoted to communing with nature, centering and grounding, and physically expressing our innate goodness and greatness from the inside out. It’s a time to reunite polarities, find balance in all aspects of our life, relieve physical and emotional pain, and feel revitalized and nourished. We can then take what we learned on the horse out into our real world. Far beyond a mere physical exercise, practicing yoga with a horse goes straight to our heart and soul, opening the one while enhancing our appreciation of the other.
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