I sent in my Freestyle video on Thursday morning, and have not heard back. I am sure they have it and will hopefully hear back from them sometime this week or early next week, I am anxious to hear if I passed or not. But I am waiting patiently and enjoying the fact I am not having to stress about getting Level 3 done anymore, I have done all I need to and can take the "Level 3 monkey" off my back after almost 4 years. I feel like a free woman now!
Sundance and I have a 1 hour demo to do at Sundance Stables http://www.sundancestables.com/ in the Charlotte area on April 18 at 1:00 PM, with a friend, Lisa Rask, and her horse Duck. They are having a Parade of Barns for the Charlotte area, take a look at http://www.hindsfeetfarm.org/support.asp?id=9, we are expecting up to 100 people. I hopefully will have a microphone on me whilst up on Sundance, and will be talking about ourselves, the Parelli program,demonstrating the Parelli Seven games, demonstrating the Parelli Patterns and doing a bridle-less demo. I will feel like Pat Parelli
himself, doing what I want to do, being myself. We will also be taking questions while doing the demo, so I may be shot with some hard ones. I am getting Sundance prepared physically for the demo, he has been in hibernation over the winter and it is time to get him back into shape. We will probably be doing a lot of long line driving and some hill therapy to get that top line woken up, I will also be putting some weight on him. Summer is slowly creeping back up, it is time to start traveling and doing demos again... the horse world wakes up in the summer, it is just vibrant and exhilarating. I myself has lost some weight, coming out of that winter rut and out back into the spotlight, I am ready for the world.
I hope most of you can listen to the radio show I am being hosted on on April 15 at 5PM MST 7PM EST. You can comment in questions for me through the network during the interview and I will answer, sign up free at http://www.naturalhorsenetwork.com/. Add me as a friend!
My friend, Jim Lane (http://www.naturalleadership.com/) , and I are getting all the Parelli members in Charlotte together and coordinating a play day soon. If any of you people in the area are interested in attending this event please do not hesitate to email and ask for more information.
I have been talking lately a lot about my dancing, I will be recording a part of my session Tuesday and putting it up here so you all can see a little of my dance. I have found dance very helpful with horses, and horses very helpful with dance and also has helped me in dealing and learning about other peoples personalities and how they perceive things. I highly recommend taking dance classes to any equine lover, and I personally don't ever want to stop learning and progressing in it. Here is more info on my dance studio, http://www.dancesportcarolina.com/ , if you are in the area you can get a free private introduction lesson, just to get a taste of what you are getting into.
Not much of anything else is going on in my life, I think I about have it covered! If you want any more information on the events above please email me at mariahhelms@hotmail.com.
2 comments:
Interesting you mention dance--Pat's sister Joy teaches dance classes once a week during the courses at the Parelli Center. What I found very helpful was developing awareness and coordination of my "hind end" so to speak. Because the human being does so much with the upper half of the body, it's very important to develop and balance that coordination in the legs. After all, we want our horses to use their HQ, so we'd better be able to ;)
Wow such opportunities! :) Dance lessons definitely help me too! Moving my body with the horse, although I've never tried dancing with a partner!
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