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Heart Of The Country: Equine Connections

by Simonette Vaja

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Meditation
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In this guided visualisation Simonette invites you to journey within your imagination, to take a country drive to the majestic World Heritage Blue Mountains in Australia, high up and overlooking huge majestic escarpments and deep valleys that meet the horizon. On your way you decide to stop and take a walk along the edge of paddocks with horses grazing. One of the horses catches your eye and you have a most surprising equine experience. Sim does host weekend mindfulness retreats with horses in the Blue Mountains and you can find out more on her website retreatscreative.com You find yourself grateful for all that you have in life and can bring this strong presence back with you ready for your everyday life.

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Transcript

You you you you you Welcome.

I'd like you to rest back comfortably now and as you close your eyes imagine yourself taking a beautiful drive along a country road and you've been driving for a little while now heading up towards the blue mountains and so as you're driving you're just enjoying noticing the scenery,

Different shops and houses making your way to the top of the blue mountains and as you're driving along you notice the cloud formations,

Gentle clouds just rolling by in the distance and this beautiful blue haze just caressing the mountain tops and so as you're driving,

Making your way now to the top of the blue mountains you have a sense that you'd like to turn towards the left and so you take that turn now,

You're heading gently down through a beautiful fern forest and the dense foliage is moist and you can see the sunlight just dappled through the ferns and you're soaking in all of that beauty,

Lush green ferns and finding yourself relaxing more and more deeply as you drive further along this pathway to the right you notice a clearing coming into an area now where there's paddocks,

Lush and green and the gentle mist and cloud seems to have cleared opening the way for this beautiful green rolling hills and you're feeling happy,

Taking this time out for yourself and you notice the houses,

Just a few here and there,

Horses grazing,

A gentle country drive now through all these beautiful paddocks,

Coming to an area where you can see the escarpments glowing in the sun a beautiful golden hue and again feeling this sense of well-being,

Feeling strong in your body and I'd like to invite you to consider that you might explore even further and that you find yourself just pulling up to a sign that says horse riding and you think that would be a nice thing to do and so I invite you to open the gate,

To come back into the car and to drive carefully along that pathway noticing all the horses,

Beautiful horses grazing and so as you park the car,

Letting yourself come out of the car now and just taking a walk I'd like to invite you to connect in and to watch the way the horses are just gently grazing,

Perhaps looking up when they see you and so as you walk along you have this sense of being drawn to a particular paddock where there's some lush trees and you notice some water sparkling in the sunlight and so you make your way over to that and you're quite surprised because as you make your way over to that dam,

There is the most beautiful horse that you've ever seen and it's looking at you,

Standing very still and you find yourself mirroring this horse's actions and so you find yourself also standing still,

Gazing into the beautiful presence of this horse and you remain in this beautiful connection,

Each moment the connection becoming deeper and deeper for you and your heart is opening and you're breathing easily and comfortably and it's as if you and the horse have become connected,

Feeling the peace that you can share just in this moment facing each other and there seems to be so much wisdom arising from this connection,

This magnificent horse and so allow yourself this time of being in that space connected,

Connected to your own nature,

At one and at peace and so then to your delight,

The horse starts to walk towards you and you stand there comfortably,

Allowing the horse to approach you and you can sense the aroma rising from its body,

Pleasant aroma and there's an excitement within you as the horse approaches,

Bowing its head for you to bow your head and for your foreheads to meet and as you connect with the beautiful soft warm skin,

You both breathe soft warm air and you can feel it on your face and again you find yourself becoming so deeply calm,

Connected to this beautiful creature and it's as if time has stopped this moment,

So nourishing,

Soothing,

Empowering and then you move away,

Just backing away,

Gently raising your head and patting the side of the horse's neck,

An exquisite,

Sensitive,

Beautiful touch and there's a sense of wonderful gratitude,

What an experience for you both and so now just being in that space together in your own way,

Allowing for yourself to have that time now connecting with this beautiful horse and so it seems as if you have had such a wonderful time and long time spent here in this paddock with this horse and that it's time now for you to make your way back,

Make your way back to your car and there's a deep knowing and a deep understanding as you say farewell to your horse and that you make your way back comfortably and easily driving back along that road,

Driving back up through the fern trees and gully driving the gentle winding road back up,

Making your way back home and allowing for yourself now to bring your attention back to your body,

Coming back aware of deep sense of peace in your body,

Taking a few moments to reflect on that experience bringing back any wisdom that you can use for your everyday life coming back fully now,

Rolling your shoulders and wriggling your fingers and opening your eyes,

That's good,

Back,

Back in the here and now

Meet your Teacher

Simonette VajaSydney NSW, Australia

4.8 (67)

Recent Reviews

Bella

July 24, 2025

Fell asleep straight away i love horse sm so this med the perfect for me I love to ride my horse at home

Hope

May 4, 2021

Listening to you is pure joy. I was mystically lost in the blue mountains and the notable horse. I grew up in the horse business ....... horses share a true part of my heart ๐Ÿ’“

grace

November 10, 2020

The experience was just so calming and you lost me by the middle. The gorgeous black stallion and palomino mare were made possible to meet in this meditation. Please make more of these horse ones. I just loved it!๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ˜โค๏ธ๐Ÿด๐Ÿ’•๐Ÿ˜Š๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜ด

Bine

April 14, 2019

Enjoyed this meditation! Horses are such wonderful gentle creatures. ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ™๐Ÿด

Kristine

February 2, 2019

Beautiful imagery! I enjoyed it very much! Thank you!

Mindy

December 15, 2018

Sim, This was really beautiful and so real with respect to the human encounter with horses. I have several of these amazing creatures, and you captured a beautiful encounter perfectly! They are my daily dose of peace and perspective.

Jan

December 15, 2018

Aw, Sim, you always take us on a sensory filled journey to places weโ€™ve been or would like to be. In my 30s a beautiful brown and white beauty named Sugar walked unharnessed alongside me through hilly fields. She sweetened my life then and her memory warms my heart now. Thank you for weaving those connections, Dear Heart๐Ÿ™๐Ÿป๐ŸŒŸโ™ฅ๏ธ๐ŸŒŸ๐Ÿ’š

Fran

December 14, 2018

Thank You! I am going out to the barn to visit with my two rescues that have 'saved' me! I will always think of this meditation when with them!

Regina

December 14, 2018

So peaceful and relaxing๐Ÿ’œ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿผ

Derral

December 14, 2018

Very nice and unique meditation.

Pamela

December 14, 2018

Beautiful! Thank you

Danielle

December 14, 2018

Thank you for this x such ancient knowing and wild grace...beautiful x

Sally

December 13, 2018

Thanks for the warm memories. Good, wonderful memories

Jennifer

December 13, 2018

Beautiful, very relaxing and inspiring!Thank you!!

Julie

December 13, 2018

Beautiful. Reminded me of Lanes Farm in Rockport, MA.

๐ŸฌAngie

December 13, 2018

Thank you! ๐Ÿ™wonderful ๐ŸŒˆNamaste

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