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- On Taking Space – Creativity and the Alexander Technique
- Working on Your Self!
- Embracing the Hermit
- And Breathe
- I Let My Neck be Free! Notes from a Tree Trunk…
- Inhibition and a Cup of Tea
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- The Magic Stop
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- Procrastination
- 6 Words that Changed my Life
- The Power of No!
- Don’t Throw the Baby Out With the Bath Water!
- The Problem with Posture
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- Retirement and the Alexander Technique
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- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – W – Z
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease T-V
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – S
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – R
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease P-Q
- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – N-O
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- The Encyclopaedia of Ease – L
- The Encylopaedia of Ease I – K
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- I Like Myself!
- The Magic is Now!
- The Happiness of Grass
- No Room For Doubt!
- BALLS!
- Prayer to my Horse
- The Perfect Circle – A Lesson from Art History to Apply to Riding
- Disillusionment and Creativity
- Spaced Out!
- In Our Hands
- A Flicker of Light – Playing Horse and Rider
- Enjoy A Breather
- To Earth We Return
- Messages from Trees
- Is Your Head Screwed On Right?
- Once Upon a Time …
- You’ve Got It Already!
- How to get a sore neck!
- Enthusiasm
- Trust! A Door to Ease and Creativity…
- How to Be a Flop!
- Where’s Your Birdie?
- Please Your Self!
- Happy Hibernating
- Good Morning Here I Am …
- The Daily Ease
- Enough is Enough!
- The Opposite of Creativity is not Destruction, it’s Stagnation!
- Drinking Water with a Fork
- Stuff and Nonsense!
- Finding my Inner FUP IT!
- The Weird Wonderful World of Alexander Technique
- From Gratitude to Grrr-Attitude!
- Rampage of Appreciation – Training to be an Alexander Technique Teacher
- On Being Wiggly – part 2
- On Being Wiggly
- How do you make decisions?
- What is the Alexander Technique? 12 – 14 Year Olds Answer
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Horse
- ‘Planet Long Neck’ – A Visual Blog
- Why the Alexander Technique can be Likened to Farting!
- If You Want to Set a Goal Don’t Tell The Devil!
- Alexander’s Story (a truly terrible verse)
- Lean on Me
- Is it useful learning Alexander Technique at School and if so, why?
- Alexander Technique Drawings
- Hard Cheese!
- It’s all about the words …
- The Giraffe
- Why an Alexander Technique Colouring Book?
- The Daily Ease – A Walk in the Woods
- The Really Random Magic Show
- Ki – How I Discovered Alexander Technique
- Mind the Gap!
- Tongues!
- Humphrey!
- Alexander Technique Is Like Harry Potter World!
- ‘Doing Alexander Technique at School is Legendary!’
- 101 Life Lessons from my Dog
- 101 Life Lessons from My Dog – Part 2 (66 – 101)
- A Stitch In Time Saves Nine
- ‘It’s the Jeremy Kyle Show Miss!’
- Horse Ease – Geeks, Gals and Gee Gee’s
- The Naughty Step!
- STOPPING – The Most Magical Gift of All!
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Category Archives: Horse Ease
Allowing Hands
Allowing Hands by Kirsten Harris Continue reading
Posted in Anatom-ease, Horse Ease, Horses, Walking with your Horse
Tagged Alexaner Technique for Riders, Rein contact
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The Magic Stop
The Magic Stop by Kirsten Harris Continue reading
Posted in Body Magic, Breathe, Daily Ease, Habits, Horse Ease, Poise
Tagged alexander technique, Pausing, stopping
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The Problem with Posture
The word posture roots in the word post. A fixed place. A post in the ground! It also means to ‘take up an artificial mental position.’ Words are obviously useful to help us understand our living condition but can also get … Continue reading
Posted in Awareness - ease, Dis-Ease, Horse Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Posture
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The Encyclopaedia of Ease – W – Z
And lastly, W,X,Y,Z – and you may be asking why? I’m asking myself that too. Why have I spent two weeks writing an Encyclopaedia of Ease? I don’t really know, apart from the fact that I’ve enjoyed it and it’s … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease T-V
T Trees, Trees Trees Trees Trees – Tree planting is a no brainer way to ease ourselves out of the mess we have got the planet into. We need to plant millions of them! They are the guardians. I am … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – S
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – Finding ease in everyday words for the fun of it, and because is ease is easier… Strategease – Not needing to have one, instead going with the flow and trusting your intuition. Succesease – Finding … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – R
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – finding ease in everyday words. Ease that you probably didn’t know was there. And now r… Roll your Rrrrrr’s in speech and movement. R R – or ah, or argh! Variations of Alexander Technique ‘whispered … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease P-Q
The Encylopeadia of Ease – Messing about with words to find new ease meanings in everyday things, because ease is easier and who doesn’t want an easier life!? Today we are minding our P’s ‘n’ Q’s. There are all sorts … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – N-O
The Encyclopaedia of Ease – finding ease in existing words ‘psoas’ not to get bored! So now these two letters – N and O, very useful when used together for creating claritiease and boundarease. No is a small word, easy … Continue reading
The Encylopaedia of Ease I – K
I Idiocease – ‘Aha’ moments, when you realise you’ve been making things hard for yourself. Often accompanied by insights which cause the hand to be held to the forehead and the making of strange noises such as ‘Doh!’ Ignoramusease – … Continue reading
The Encyclopaedia of Ease E – H
Part 2 of the Encyclopaedia of Ease. My easy peasy lemon squeasy encyclopaedia for an easier life! Written for anyone who likes messing about with words, Alexander Technique, meditation, law of attraction, mindfulness, the power of the mind and all … Continue reading
Posted in Ache - ease, Anatom-ease, Awareness - ease, Cartoons, Daily Ease, Dis-Ease, Dog Ease, Horse Ease, Kid Ease, Love-Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Ease, Law of Attraction, Meditation, Mindfulness
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The Happiness of Grass
I have been thinking a lot about grass! As you do! Under a powerful microscope grass looks like it is smiling. Grass is amazing stuff. Grass is happy and it sure has tenacity. No matter how trampled and muddy, parched … Continue reading
Prayer to my Horse
PRAYER TO MY HORSE by Kirsten Harris My horse, I am honoured by your presence and stand in awe before your divine beauty May I be worthy of your trust May I have sensitive wisdom to understand your language, so … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Daily Ease, Horse Ease, Poems, Sketch Ease
Tagged Alexander Technique and horses, Alexander Technique poem
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The Perfect Circle – A Lesson from Art History to Apply to Riding
Four Winds Medicine Wheel. Print available at www.kirstenharrisart.co.uk In his book Lives of the Artists, Georgio Vasari (1511 – 1574) recounts a story about the artist Giotto (1267 – 1337). He tells how the Pope was commissioning art and sent messengers … Continue reading
In Our Hands
(I shared this originally as a facebook post on my art page Kirsten Harris Art. I wanted to write something to go with the drawing and to write from my heart about horses. I thought I should post as a … Continue reading
A Flicker of Light – Playing Horse and Rider
The Magic Stop, Drawing by Kirsten Harris We were a group of horse women here in Scotland, just starting to play a teaching ‘game’ I call ‘Horse and Rider,’ when one of the participants said, ‘Yes, I can feel … Continue reading
To Earth We Return
To Earth We Return by Kirsten Harris It takes a long time for a tree to grow, but only a short time to chop one down! A friend from India told me that in her culture when a tree … Continue reading
Posted in Audio Downloads, Body Magic, Breathe, Breathe Easy, Breathing, Cartoons, Daily Ease, Horse Ease, Horses
Tagged alexander technique, Horses, tree planting
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Where’s Your Birdie?
Where’s your Birdie? This is the question I am going into the New Year with! No, I haven’t suddenly landed in an episode of Wacky Races with Dastardly and Muttley trying to ‘catch the pigeon’ nor have I … Continue reading
The Unbearable Lightness of Being a Horse
Horses are light on their feet … light beings … graceful creatures. Here are two beautiful anonymous quotes about horses – ‘To Ride a Horse is to Ride the Sky’ and an American Indian Proverb ‘The horses are … Continue reading
101 Life Lessons from My Dog – Part 2 (66 – 101)
66. Dogs are keenly aware if something different is going to happen … Putting shoes on to go out is a very exciting life event! 67. Watching the behaviours of others is interesting and gives insight! Your dog is … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Daily Ease, Dog Ease, Habits, Horse Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Dogs, Horses, Life Lessons
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Horse Ease – Geeks, Gals and Gee Gee’s
I am in heaven … I am teaching Horse Ease – Lessons in the Alexander Technique to a group of gals who are passionate about horses and self knowledge. Last night in our class I confessed to being … Continue reading
Posted in Horse Ease, Horses, Poise, Semi Supine
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65 Life Lessons from My Dog
65 Life Lessons from My Dog by Kirsten Harris 1. Have a good stretch and yawn first thing in the morning. It feels great. 2. If there is a human being about lie on your back and get your … Continue reading
Posted in Cartoons, Children and Teenagers, Daily Ease, Dog Ease, Horse Ease, Kid Ease, Sketch Ease
Tagged alexander technique, Dogs, Habits, Horses, Life Lessons
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The Crooked Woman and Her Crooked Horse
“There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile; He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house” … Continue reading
Time for change
It’s time for Walter, my mini Shetland pony foal to be weaned. I am no expert, my first foal I could have done it suddenly – just take him away from his mum and deal with the screaming. Feel … Continue reading
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And some things are going to make you tense…
Somethings are just going to make you tense! Like contemplating how to wean my mini shetland foal so the vet can come with his emasculator to chop his nuts off! I am totally inexperienced at this, being the single ‘lady … Continue reading
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Rider Review of Walking with Your Horse CD
I have used Kirsten’s CD Walking With Your Horse for several years now, and, although I have not listened to it when riding, the approach that it teaches has proved very beneficial to both my riding and my general attitude. … Continue reading
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