SNEAK PEAK on our stay at The Equestrian Mindfulness Retreat<3
Just 3 spots left available!
Photos of Starborough Manor, outside London.
THE RETREAT
I’M SO – SO – happy to present to you my latest project. In collaboration with Oldencraig International Dressage and Mindaway Retreats I’m presenting a very long time dreamed and planned project: THE EQUESTRIAN MINDFULNESS RETREAT, UK.
As you may have noticed by now there’s a fire in me caring about preserving the Art of Riding, spreading the understanding of our equine friends, sustaining the sport of Dressage and creating a healthy, happy lifestyle for both me and my horses. I’m now based in London, very happy to work dressage horses at the olympic dressage stable Oldencraig with Vicki Thompson Winfield – Olympic Dressage Rider who brought her education form Franz Rochowansky, Chief Rider of The Spanish Riding School in Vienna, to competition grounds.
This is where I’m starting The Equestrian Mindfulness Retreat, a place of equine vitality. During a weekend I will, in collaboration with recognised yoga and mindfulness teacher Vivianne Freeman guide you through how you can get to the next level with your equine spirit.
Please find more details and the next available date HERE. Please spread the word to every equine enthusiast you know, and I can’t wait to see you on a horse here very soon!
All rider levels welcome.
ONE THING
SUPER EXCITED to talk more about what HORSES, art and a mindful light lifestyle has in common very soon! Creating one thing in pursuit of magic today.
Check back very soon
MOONDAY
BREAKFAST with Alois Podhajsky and getting inspired for another full day of practise at Oldencraig!
STAY SENSITIVE
BEING A SENSITIVE human is not always easy – but it’s essential if you wish to be genuinely successful with animals. Here are some routines I use on a daily basis to clear my mind, protect and sharpen up my horsey senses:
1. Schedule time for yourself. Spending time alone creates the space needed to release emotions, energy and stress.
2. Do a short meditation every day. It quiets the mind so you can center, be present, think and act clearer.
3. Soothing sounds. Relax yourself using meditation music or nature sounds, on your way to the stable or during your meditation. Your ponies will appreciate the calm you bring!
4. Yoga. Yoga is a great practice for the human part of the equipage, because it combines breathing, centering and grounding. An efficient way to raise vibrational energy, increase awareness and control of your whole body – which is essential for a good rider! And it doesn’t matter what shape you’re in, yoga is for everyone.
5. Eat organic. The sentence “You become what you eat” has a point. I always shop organic food, and I also avoid gluten and lactose because it stagnates your metabolism and slows down your inside system.
Practice to cleanse your energy on a daily basis, this way or another. It will protect your animals from doing that job for you. So also your horse enjoys your time together and #HocusPocus you’ll make #MagicHappen.
Photo 1 from a quiet time outside the barn, last year in Wellington, Florida.
Photo 2 of my favourite whole and healthy organic Macro Bowl, at The brick Thai, London.
POSTCARD
SENDING A postcard from my New Years vacation in Megève! I took a week to ride the slopes of Mont Blanc, meditating in the snow, eating loads of healthy fooood and enjoying some vin chaud with the favorits. Happy times!
Now time to get back to work, and first stop for 2015 is Swedeen!
Also, thank you Savvy Horsewoman for the feature as top Equestrian Blog to check out in 2015!
NOW HERE
JUST HAD A day off in NYC. Love to fill them days with plenty of organic food, yoga and my friends <3
Now, I’m on my way again, with boots and breeches I’m in the air excited about my next things.
England I’ll see you soon!
Juices from Summers Brooklyn, Dream Elixir (!) by The Butchers Daughter, Hugs from Emma (amazing designer and owner of Lily.)
NYLO
WOKE UP at NYLO Hotel, and got to spend the day in Manhattan with one of my favourite lifestyle magazines today! Feeling very excited to speak about what I do and why.
Here some photos of our destinations: Gluten free and vegan superfood at Organic Avenue, equestrian tailored clothing at Ralph Lauren on Madison, and a sneak peak in my home! More to come.
Horse head bottle from Vagabond House / Conscious scarf from Light by Linore / Cold pressed Elixirs from OA / organic moisturiser from Juie Beauty / Ocean minerals from BiOcean
FROM ABOVE
AND I’m off again, in the air with boots and breeches. This time a quick stop by the ponies in Sweden!
ps. Love flying. Tend to see things so clear from here above.
ORGANIC WED
JUST GOT back to New York after spending the Swedish midsummer weekend in Philadelphia, to celebrate the wedding of my beautiful friends Emelie & Dean, founders of the organic Wyebrook Farm. I can hardly describe the beauty of this wedding in words, neither can I enough support the production of their organic, purely healthy food. Emelie & Dean cares for their animals and land with their whole heart and soul. They are totally aware of true quality, and having such a genuine mission. I usually don’t eat a lot of meat, as it’s very hard to find pure and clean meat in US. (What you eat has a great impact of your energy, which has a great impact of your horse! No hippie shit.) But on Wyebrook I’m more then happy to eat three burgers a day, and I can absolutely not get enough of their RAW grass fed cow milk !
Eat organic peeps, and if you ever go to Philadelphia – go experience Wyebrook Farm. PLEASE.
