It feels like becoming balanced when you didn’t realize you were unbalanced before, relaxed when you didn’t notice the tension until it was gone, being able to move without fighting myself to move. Speak the word softly to yourself, at the front of your mouth, savoring it as it moves back to the base of your tongue and down into your chest, belly and down to your toes. The reverberation settles those tiny gaps of discord out into the air to drift away. When I work with horses to release their tensions, worries, problems into the air, I subvocalize and project that energy into them as they can accept it, smoothing out the tiny gaps, knots, little jagged pieces of pain and discomfort.

Do I do deep, rolling massage and pressure point release? Yes, as the horse needs it.

Does the horse sometimes get uncomfortable? Yes, because they’ve been hiding that discomfort, restriction, discontinuity, and it can be painful to unhook it, it can make them feel unbalanced, until the energy levels out again. I work slowly enough that the energy I give to them has the chance to smooth out that uncomfortable, unbalanced feeling, and they can learn to accept what I’m asking them to do.

When I say “I help your horse find ‘Om’,” I’m helping find that grounded, yet fluid, comfortable and powerful feeling that allows them to feel like they can do anything you ask of them.