WITNESSES/PILOT 001 · THE MODEL · IBIZA
Pilot 001 · The model · Our Home Can Tigres
Horse Presence exists to spread awareness of the value and influence of being in the presence of horses.
Here, we share the experiences and voices of the people who have taken part in this pilot and encountered the horses of Our Home Can Tigres.
Their stories are part of a larger enquiry. Each one offers a personal view of what can happen when a human being has the opportunity to be in the presence of a horse.
Art
This painting is about the incredible love and softness I experienced with your white horse [Daj Buzi] that day.
I have always been worried about the future when I was feeling unsafe in my life situation. I would ask and pray for guidance and during my work with the horses I remember I would put out my plans into the future and ask the spirit guides, in this case the horses, for guidance. The answer was: “we can’t guide you now when you ask us for the future, but we can love you, give you the safety of the present moment and show you, who you are.”
This stayed with me for quite some years, but when my husband passed away, I fell into a big hole of meaninglessness. I wanted to pick up on my plans again, but couldn’t.
After a while I had an encounter with one of your horses [Padre, the black horse], we went out for a walk all together. He, the horse, “told me”, he was my late husband for this walk. I could lean on him, he was willing to go by my side effortlessly and again, I felt safe and loved. It was a quiet walk with the old horse bumping my arm sometimes and walking firmly but slowly. Mostly I felt free of doubts and anticipations.
It was very helpful for me for the time to come to have experienced an hour with no worries, which I took into the future starting my new life slowly but surely.
Claudia Artecura
Words in [brackets] are ours.
Artecura Creative Care · www.artecura.es
On camera
Researchers and professionals — external perspectives from relevant disciplines — will be gathered here as they come.
Visitors
I experienced healing during a walk with the horse Shanti. To feel the soil and meet the sun of Ibiza side by side with this gentle creature filled my heart with serenity.
Thank you, Marzena and Shanti.
Martina Strand · Gothenburg, Sweden
Professionals and researchers
For me, being in nature and being with horses connects me again with that connection that we all have, and that is very natural to us. And that is with the earth and with spirit.
And they remind me, and especially horses, when I look into their eyes: there's a wisdom that also awakens inside of me. A wisdom that tells me that being present is what I need to be.
It's not about the doing. It's about being present, being myself. A horse is not trying to be a cow, and a pine tree doesn't try to be an oak.
So for me, being with horses, being around animals, being in nature is a way to truly, truly remember that I'm nature itself, too.
The Spoken Mirror · www.thespokenmirror.com
Healing sounds and prayers · Indigenous Soul Association · www.indigenoussoul.ch
That sacred union from within comes really only by going into relation with everything that is, and the horses is like a new chapter.
It's the most beautiful work you can go with your couple.
I feel there was happening some growth in this past six months after the experience. And yeah, it's definitely something where you should be open to connect to your true self, and that things can come up, and that the relationship can really grow. I think for that it's super.
And then I would add: it's about the simplicity of it. Always with animals there's a beautiful simplicity to it, where our mind maybe creates scenarios of what now could happen, but in the end it's really just coming into that space of feeling. So the feeling is the healing also, as many of us know.
Maybe it is adventurous for some, right? But to just know you gift it to yourself. So it's not about what you maybe read in books or what you know about psychology. It's more, again, like just the opening up for a new situation, for a new space, and just knowing that the animals are always loving and are always caring and are giving just through their presence. They already give so much healing.
So even if there's maybe not even much happening on the outside, on the inside it works, because it's just to be in the presence of animals.
Visitors, uncut
In their own words. The most recent first.
Translated from Spanish where needed. Personal accounts, not evidence.
Gratitude
We would like to express our sincere gratitude to everyone who took the time to participate in our research and share their valuable input.
We are especially grateful to those who kindly gave us permission to share their photos, videos, and personal insights from their experiences.
Your openness and willingness to contribute have been invaluable to our research.
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Room for Horses.
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