Equestrian Tai Chi & Tao Riding

07/12/2025

The Online Horse Fair 2025 is on this weekend, December 6-7, and it’s completely free to attend.

My video on Sunday is about 'Us and Our Horse Finding Safety Together'.

In this video I explain how horses are highly sensitive to human energy, thoughts, and emotions, and demonstrate how Equestrian Tai Chi creates a unified energy field between rider and horse and serves as a harmonizing force between us.

I discuss the difference between operating from ego versus essence, and explain that horses feel safest when humans are in their essence rather than their conditioned ego state. The practice helps both horse and rider move through energy blockages created by past experiences and return to their true nature. Through movements that balance yang and yin energies, practitioners create deeper partnerships with their horses based on authentic connection rather than control.

Please click below to get your Free Ticket!

28/11/2025

The Online Horse Fair 2025 is on this weekend, December 6-7, and it’s completely free to attend.
This Fair brings together 50+ world-class horse experts and 160+ presentations covering every aspect of horsemanship:
☆ Training that puts the relationship first
☆ Wellness, health, and care practices to keep horses thriving
☆ Mindset and confidence strategies for riders
☆ Classical riding, liberty, groundwork, biomechanics, and more
It’s an incredible chance to learn from horsemen and women who are making a difference in how we connect with our horses.
I have a presentation on both days.

21/11/2025

I decided to change the name of the riders program from Tao Riding to Energy Riding for Equestrians. This is to make it less esoteric and more descriptive of what we do, though Tao Riding is really still a part of it!

Energy Riding for Equestrians is for people who would like to reduce nervousness and deepen their connection with their horse through developing their energetic partnership.

In the program we learn; to Consciously Calm Chi, to Clear our Energy and our horse's energy, to Communicate and Connect through Energy Riding, to Ride as One United Energy, and to ride in harmony with the creative flows of the Universe.

Horses are more sensitive to energy than we are and more aware of it. If we develop our energy we can connect with our horse at deeper levels, that our horse is already able to sense. We can bridge the gap between our two worlds and our species, by learning to be with our horse in the energy that is natural for him to be in and to communicate and connect with our horse through this energy and to work with it to help us both.

14/11/2025

Bridging the Gap between between our worlds.

Two different species - one way we can connect.

We are very similar to our horses in many ways, we both have physical bodies that are quite similar, apart from the obvious differences.��We both have energy systems that are also very similar.��We both have spirits or souls, but we have been condensed down into two different species.��Our species have different needs and ways of being.

Years ago Taoists understood that there were two ways of being.��One way was the way of being of the Tao and the other way was the way of being of Mankind.

The way of being of Mankind, is that we are controlled by our thinking and the memories in our minds, we are not aware of energy naturally, or our Heart-Minds. ��

Whereas our horses are in the way of being of the Tao as they are from Nature. They have more access to their Heart-minds, they have a natural ability in sensing energy around them and in others. They are spontaneous and as prey animals, act according to how they feel about the circumstances around them

These two different ways of being can cause a lack of connection between us and our horse.

In Chi Connection and Energy Riding for Equestrians, we can bridge the gap between the two worlds, by being able to be with the horse in the energy that is natural for him and easy for him to be in, and to work with this energy in ourselves to help us both.

We can still be in our realm or world, but we can also move into the realm that is natural for horses to be in too.

31/10/2025

Chi Connection is a training for riders who’d like to let go of the memories of fears of their past, to be able to manage their emotions in the present, and to develop a deep and lasting bond with their horse through working with theirs and their horse’s energy.

In Chi Connection, we learn to let go of what is affecting us and our horse negatively and to enhance how we can connect positively.

When we feel safe and happy when we're with our horse, we can affect our horse and help him too.

The practices we learn in Chi Connection will help to build a deep and lasting connection with our horse, that is emotionally satisfying for both of us.

03/10/2025

Five Element Chi Gung With Horses & Nature is open for registration!

This Program is for people who care deeply about horses and who would like to learn a practice that is beneficial for horses as well as humans.

It is Open for Registration at the moment and registration closes on the 12th of October.

Maybe you've heard about the Five Elements, and know the different organs, seasons, and emotions they're related to and this is something that interests you?

The Five Elements are in everything that is formed and are inside all physical and non-physical dynamics.

The Five Elements are an important part of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where the idea is to bring the elements into balance to help people.

If the Five Elements are in balance people benefit physically, emotionally and mentally.

Learning to work with the energy of the Five Elements with Chi Gung improves, health and vitality and emotional and mental wellbeing.

Five Element Chi Gung With Horses & Nature is a program where we learn to feel these elements in us and to balance them in ourselves in the presence of horses to help ourselves and our horses as well.

We also learn to connect with the elements in Nature; with trees, the Earth, and with water.

Five Element Chi Gung With Horses & Nature is for people who already have a qualification for working with horses and people and who have an in person client base who would benefit from and appreciate this practice.

Please click below if you are interested in learning more about this program.

25/09/2025

The Online Horse Fair 2025 is on this weekend, September 27–28, and it’s completely free to attend.

This Fair brings together 50+ world-class horse experts and 160+ presentations covering every aspect of horsemanship:
☆ Training that puts the relationship first
☆ Wellness, health, and care practices to keep horses thriving
☆ Mindset and confidence strategies for riders
☆ Classical riding, liberty, groundwork, biomechanics, and more

It’s an incredible chance to learn from horsemen and women who are making a difference in how we connect with our horses.

I have a presentation on both days.

22/09/2025

Equinox

19/09/2025

I created a Free Guide with Two Exercises and Five Posture Tips, to help with Confidence, Chi Flow and Connection, please click below if you would like it!

27/08/2025

When we have strong emotions, the pressures and tensions in our body cause energy to be blocked in our body with a memory of how we felt at the time.

Over time as the blockages get added to, they can cause imbalances in our body and prevent our chi from flowing freely in our body and they also prevent it from flowing in harmony with our horse when we ride.

These energetic blockages can be triggered if we're in a similar situation to the one we were in when the energy blockage was first formed, and they continue to affect us.

They affect our horse too, as he can sense the energy of them in the field we share with him.

We can learn to let go of these blockages so they don’t trigger us and cause us to feel more nervous than we should, and so they don’t affect our horse too in the field that we share.

We can learn ways to manage our emotions with our energy and our breath and we can learn to work with the energy of the field we share with our horse to help us feel calm and connected.

This is what we learn in Chi Connection in the Tao Riding Membership, if you’d like to be on the waitlist to hear about Chi Connection, please click below.

04/07/2025

Chi Connection is open for registration shortly. We're beginning with a small group on the 14th of July.

This is a program for riders who would like to develop confidence and connection between them and their horse.

Chi Connection is about us and our horse being able to form a connection that allows us to feel happy and comfortable together, to let go of the memories in our minds that dominate our thinking and to learn ways of being together and riding that keep us united and focussed on each other, finding an inner connection together and relaxing our horse.

Please click below if you'd like to be added to the waitlist to hear about the program.

For Riders who want to make a real difference to their horses lives through the connection they form with them.

21/06/2025

These are photos I took around the time of the Solstice in Ireland 3.42am. At the time of the solstice the swallows started flying around for the first time.