The Equestrian Tai Chi Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jenny Pim
The Equestrian Tai Chi Podcast will share about our Energy/Chi and the Horse's, and the energetic connection that's possible between us. It will also share about Taoist Philosophy and how we can bring it into a living reality in our lives.
Please visit our website to find out about our Certification Programs for Instructors and Training for Riders!
This episode is about the energy of the Fire Element and how it can help us at this time of year, to have clarity and to connect to essence of ourselves and our horse.
According to the Chinese Zodiac, 2026 is the Year of the Fire Horse. Fire Horse energy is becoming predominant now as we move into the Chinese New Year on the 17th of February. Although the time of year relating to the Fire Element is in the summer, this year Fire Element Energy will be more abundant throughout the year. This podcast episode explores how balancing Fire Element Energy can help us and our horse.
Please click the link below if you would like to be added to the waitlist to hear information about The Fire Horse Energy Connection Course.
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/w-fire-horse-energy-connection-course/
This podcast episode explores the Winter Solstice discussing the transition from metal to water element energy. This time represents the strongest yin energy for both humans and horses, it is a period for rest, deep connection, and introspection rather than achievement-focused activities. The episode covers concepts of yin and yang energies, and a simple way of connecting with connecting with horses. I connect with Tommy and Nemo in the episode.
In this episode we explore the Five Element Chi Gung with Horses and Nature Certification Program. Discover how this unique program blends Chi Gung practices with the therapeutic presence of the horse and the natural world and the Five Elements. If you help people in the presence, whether you’re interested in mind-body wellness, or personal growth, or energy work with horses, this episode will give you insights into the benefits and structure of the certification, and how you can get involved.
Please click the link below if you would like to be sent information about the program.
Five Element Chi Gung with Horses & Nature Certification Program
This episode is about how we affect our horse through our energy field.
If we feel calm and relaxed, our horse can sense this, if we feel nervous about riding or about things that have happened us in the past, our horse can sense this in our energy field.
In Chi Connection in the Tao Riding Membership for riders, we learn to find and let go of blocked energy in our field that can affect us and our horse negatively. If you'd like to find our about Chi Connection and the Tao Riding Membership, please click the link below.
Links mentioned in the episode
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/chi-connection-podcast/
This episode is about how the energy of shared memories with strong emotions link us to our horse.
Whenever we have an experience with another being where we have strong emotions, it creates a connection between us. It can connect us, yet oddly disconnect us at the same time!
I hope you enjoy it and find it useful in some way.
So if we've had experiences with our horse where we've had strong emotions, they could be affecting us more than we might think!
Links mentioned in the episode
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/chi-connection-podcast/
This Episode is about when you have the thought that your horse might spook, what happens the thought, what happens your energy relating to this thought. I share about how the thought continues to affect us and our horse and our connection together.
The energy of memories of things that have happened us can remain in our field and affect us and our horse. I hope you enjoy it and find it useful in some way.
Links mentioned in the episode
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/chi-connection-podcast/
This Episode is to wish you a Happy Summer Solstice 2025 in the Northern Hemisphere and a Happy Winter Solstice in the Southern Hemisphere.
I share a little of what we're up to in Equestrian Tai Chi and Tao Riding, about Five Element Chi Gung Healing with Horses and Chi Connection in the Tao Riding Program.
This episode is about the the course Awakening Your Internal Energy and Uniting with the Energy of Your Horse.
Our horses are more sensitive to energy than we are. If we can learn to open and develop our energy, we can connect with them at a deeper level, one they already have the ability to connect on.
Please click below if you would like to learn more about the course Awaken Your Internal Energy and Unite with the Energy of Your Horse.
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/f-awaken-and-unite/
Wu Wei is a Taoist concept that encourages us to be natural and do things in an easy and effortless way. This makes it much easier for our horses to be with us.
Wu Wei (wei sounds like ‘way’ in English) is literally translated as ‘non action’ and can be interpreted to mean action without effort.
This episode is a little about the how the energy of karma controls us, and also about using the Tai Chi Symbol to help pinpoint areas that are not working for us with something that is special to us.
This episode is about Yin energy in objects in our houses and also about the energy of the water element in objects.
Water is one of the five elements or five phases of energy, if it is not allowed flow, it stops people who have water as their predominant element feeling as vibrant as they could. It also affects the energy in objects, and these in turn affect the places where we live.
Too much Yin energy in our homes, where things have been gathered and are not being used, brings down the vibration of our homes.
We can balance the energy in our homes by letting go of objects that we are not using and that might rather be somewhere else!
Links mentioned in the episode Stable Clearing for Equestrians!
This episode is how working with our energy opens our Heart-Mind and allows more connection with our horse.
Please click below if you would like a video about the 7 Steps of Tao Riding
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/7-steps-libsyn/
This episode is about a glass ceiling in our connection with our horses.
It relates to horses being closer to the Tao than we are and more sensitive to energy than we are.
Links mentioned in the episode The Seven Steps of Tao Riding https://www.equestriantaichi.com/7-steps-libsyn/
Tao Riding is an online training for riders who would like to develop an energetic connection with their horse.
This episode is about how our ego is formed from the time we come into existence, it is also about how we can make difficult connections with people and animals if we experience strong negative emotions with them.
Links mentioned in the episode The Seven Steps of Tao Riding https://www.equestriantaichi.com/7-steps-libsyn/
This episode is about a French Riding Master and a Tai Chi Master, both born in the late 1700's Francois Baucher and Yang Lu Chan.
This episode is about a way of keeping my horse connected to me.
Link mentioned in the episode.
The Tao Riding Program for riders who feel nervous, and who'd like to deepen their connection with their horse and keep themselves and their horse calm, through developing their energy.
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/tao-riding-libsyn/
Please click here if you'd like some information about the Tao Riding Program
This episode is about a new way of riding for riders who feel nervous, that is calming and connecting for them and their horse'.
It is for the horse as much as it is for us, horses love connecting with us as much as we do with them, but if we feel nervous this blocks connection.
We both affect each other with our energy, Tao Riding is a new way of riding that focuses on helping the horse to feel calm as well as the rider.
Please use this link for information about Tao Riding
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/tao-riding-libsyn/
Please click here if you'd like some information about the Tao Riding Program
This episode is about going back to times past at the time of year of the Earth Element, a short period between the end of the summer and the beginning of Autumn.
There is also an exercise for connecting with The Earth.
This episode is about the Fire Element which is predominant now in the Northern Hemisphere from the time of the Summer Solstice on the 21st of June.
I also mention the Tao Riding Membership Program.
The link below is to be on the waitlist to hear more about the Tao Riding Program.
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/tao-riding-waitlist/
This episode is about why horses love Equestrian Tai Chi.
It's a focus for them to really tune into energy and to follow it in their body as we practice and in our bodies too. Horses are really masters at reading energy. It's natural for them to connect through energy.
This episode is about taking a little time to address habits that are not helpful to us, that we wish we could be free of.
This Episode is about when we have to do something in a certain timeframe and we don't have enough time.
We look at three things to consider in relation to this and how we can use another type of time to help us, when we are under pressure for time!
This episode is about letting go of Hope and Fear and coming to whatever we were hoping and having fears about from the Tai Chi space.
This Episode is about making things that seem big for us smaller, and highlighting the small things that are stopping us from doing them, so they become bigger.
We use Yin and Yang and the Tai Chi symbol to help us.
This Episode is about creating new things or adding to existing things at the time of year when Yin energy is at its strongest.
In the deep dark quiet of winter, if we spend time thinking about things that we want, they can be nurtured in the quiet stillness that surrounds us and is in us around the time of the Winter Solstice.
Links mentioned in the episode.
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/info-stable-clearing/
This short episode is about the online Equestrian Tai Chi Certification Programs for Riding Instructors and Therapeutic Riding Instructors.
If you'd like more information about the programs please visit https://www.equestriantaichi.com/
This episode is about ponies proactivley asking for and arranging Equestrian Tai Chi practice, well one pony in particular!
Equestrian Tai Chi is a shared practice for horses and ponies just as much as it is for us and if anything they seem to enjoy it even more than us, or least this give more outward obvious signs that they do!
Now is the time of the wood element in the northern hemisphere. It’s spring the trees are coming into leaf, things are coming into bloom and growth is abundant all around us.
In Taoism and other tradition too, the wood element is one of the five elements, wood fire earth metal and water. At different times of the year, each of the elements is predominant and that is a good time to work with the energy of that element, though all the element are always there in all seasons.
This episode is about the wood element and connecting with a tree to ask for help with something.
This episode is for riders who feel nervous sometimes and it’s to invite them to consider changing saying or thinking the words ‘I am a nervous rider’ to ‘sometimes I feel nervous when I ride’!
Taoists believe that we can create identities or egos for ourselves without even realising!
When we unwittingly create identities for ourselves, we can live from them and be controlled by them, without us really knowing and this can close down our lives in ways we might not have imagined.
This episode is an overview of the development of the Equestrian Tai Chi Program for riders. It’s about how the different trainings in the Program developed,and how we can almost use parts, or all of them, every day out riding, to keep ourselves and our horse calm, to feel our chi flow in harmony with our horse riding, to communicate with our horse through our energy riding, and to even have a spiritual connection with our horse riding.
This episode is about how we can regenerate and smooth our energy with our practice, in the same way a heating system fitted with a magnet can!
It's New Year's Day today and this is a time when we often look ahead to the year to come and our hopes and dreams.
This episode is about using the Tai Chi symbol to help us achieve something that we really want, but are blocked in some way from achieving.
You'll need a big sheet of paper and a pen and some time to get your thoughts down relating to the Yin Yang of the situation!
I hope you enjoy this exercise and find it useful!
This episode is about loosing a tooth, but gaining the joy of connecting with it. It's also about love flowing in at the dentist and how quickly the ego can kick in to take advantage!
According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, different emotions, both positive and negative relate to different organs. This episode is about the benefits of Equestrian Tai Chi in relation to balancing the emotions!
According to many of the ancient traditions of the world, including Taoism, all matter and all relationship dynamics, are composed of some energetic combination of the Five Elements, Earth, Metal, Water, Wood and Fire. Some traditions have only four elements, some have air and not metal.
This episode is about the importance of the Earth Element for all the other elements.
Along with weaning, loading is another thing that can have a big effect on the foal's life, though not to such an extent as weaning.
This Episode is about how I taught my foals to load and about their first journeys. Wu Wei means Non Action or it can mean Effortless Action!
Wu Wei is a Taoist Concept that can mean Doing without doing, or Effortless Action, sometimes Non Action. Weaning foals can be quite stressful for the mare and the foal if it is done too early and in a harsh and abrupt manner, this episode is about how I discovered a way of weaning foals that was easy for the mare and foal and the humans involved!
In taoism, and in other traditions too, the different energies of the 5 elements are regarded as being very important. And they express themselves in fire earth, metal, water and wood. According to taoist tradition all matter, all beings, and all relationships are comprised of some energetic combination of these five elements. The energy of the different elements are dominant at different times of the year.
In the previous Podcast Episode I talked about how Equestrian Tai Chi practice helps the horse to have sovereignty of himself and rise above feelings or anxiety he or she might have, and in this Episode I talk about how the connection we develop with Equestrian Tai Chi practice helps our horse feel safe with us.
In this Episode how 'Equestrian Tai Chi can help the horse to have Sovereignty of Himself', I share about how Equestrian Tai Chi practice can help the horse to rise above feelings of anxiety, and to safer in this world.
To begin I share about how the background from which the horse experiences his world is created, and how this governs how he operates in his everyday life.
Then I share about how it's possible the horse may have a different experience of our practice than we do (not withstanding the obvious differences) and how he can be more affected than we are, and therefore benefit more obviously.
This Episode is about how we can engage or horses attention through connecting through our Chi or energy.
As well we can feel a shared connection with our horse to the world around us as the Chi moves in the higher layers of our energy.
This episode is an exploration of the emotion of fear in our horse in terms of Yin & Yang. We look at the effect of fear on our horse and practice a little exercise to help our horse if he is afraid and how our Chi energy can help.
Equestrian Tai Chi can be different things to different people, to able bodied people and to people who are not as able bodied. It can benefit people with learning difficulties and people who don't. It can benefit riders of different ages and levels of ability. Above all Equestrian Tai Chi supports our connection with the horse!
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/courses2021/
There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
This Episode is about how when we can't access our energy it feel's like we're in the dark, but when we can, it's like a new world opens up to us inside of ourselves that the horse can tune into as well.
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A Crisis Brings Clarity and shows what is true and what is false.
Taoists say that when what is false leaves, only the true remains and a crisis is an opportunity to see what it true and false in our lives. In our minds the things that are most dominant are false, but these submerge in a crisis and leave us with what is true.
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
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There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
This Episode is about the Winter Solstice and Newgrange!
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
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There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/courses2021/
There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
This Episode is about 3 aspects to the emotion of fear, I also share about the Corona Virus in Ireland today and the importance of having compassion for ourselves as well as others so we don't make ourselves afraid all the time!
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
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Horses are Masters at reading energy, it is easy for them to connect in this way, we ourselves are not so natural, but it is something we can learn in Chi Connected Riding.
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
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There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
This episode outlines my hopes and wishes for the coming year, if any of them resonate with you, I hope they come true for you.
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
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There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
We all have filters, they can be identities we create for ourselves or egos. These create a sense of separation between us and our horse.
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
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There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
https://www.equestriantaichi.com/courses2021/
There are courses for riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!
Please click here to see a list of current courses for Riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers in Equestrian Tai Chi!
This episode is about how I came to feel my Chi Flow Riding and about how clear my Taoist Training became to me in this process.
The first day I felt my Chi flow was a marker in time for me and I'm still in awe of the way it is so simple and yet so subtle.
How we can become taken over by thoughts about someone or something when we're riding and how to free ourselves from this, so we can connect with our horse and the flow of life again!
We can inhibit the smooth flow of Chi through our bodies when we're riding without realising it.
Equestrian Tai Chi Movements have a balancing quality that affect our horse's energy as well as ours
Please enter this link into your browser for a list of current courses in Equestrian Tai Chi!
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There are courses for Riders, Therapeutic Riding Instructors, Riding Instructors, Body Workers and Healers!