You bring a different body to the mat every day and horses are not furry bicycles

One of the things I have learned about practising yoga is that you bring a different body to the mat every day. The trick is to accept the body you bring today and find your fit. Breathe.

With all the short day trips we have been doing lately, Luba has been loading like a pro. She loads for Charlotte, she loads for strangers, she loads for me and she even loaded herself one day for the return trip. I pointed her at the trailer and she walked on.

On Saturday, we moved Luba to her new home at Horses of the Sun in Vars.  Here is how she looked this morning:

spontaneous left canter enjoyment at HOTS

On Saturday morning, Charlotte loaded Luba on the trailer and we headed to Roadapple Ranch for the First Annual Haunted Horse Haul.

All 9 of us had a great 3 hours on the trail. On the way home, Ryan noticed that Luba had lost one of her hoof boots. So we let the others go ahead and turned around to go look for it. These were the same trails Luba and I last rode for the Stormont 75.  But Luba and I were bringing different bodies to the trail this day.

She happily left the group at at strong trot and we flew back to the "ravine" part of trail where we found the lost boot. Luba stood quietly while I put it back on and and we turned around again to catch up with everyone.  We were on fire (well, a controlled burn).  Big trot and lovely canters. When we joined back up with the main trail, we went left, cantering all the way to the trailhead parking lot on the Berwick Road. By then, I realized that the others must have turned right. We were having so much fun, we just kept on going, trotting and cantering our way back to Roadapple Ranch. Fun, fun fun.

When it was time to leave the farm, Luba had a different idea.  I was mad at Luba. I forgot that we bring a different body to the mat every day.  And that horses are not furry bicycles (as Gayle Ecker once said).

Thanks to Mike for pointing out being angry was not going to get Luba to load on the trailer.  Horses are bigger than we are. The trick is to accept the body (horse) you bring today and find your fit. Breathe.

So with calm, firm convincing, especially from Denise, we found our fit, loaded up and drove to our new home, ready to experience life with horses at Horses of the Sun.