Our emotions arise from bodily states. They are, at their core, an interpretation of how we feel.

A fast heartbeat can be read as stress, or it can be read as excitement. The signal is the same; the meaning we give it is not. Yet we all differ in our ability to read these signals at all. Some of us are acutely sensitive to the smallest internal shifts, while others struggle to notice much activity at all.

Either way, making sense of our emotions is a challenge we all share.

This session is designed to explore internal states by reflecting them outward, and horses are remarkable companions for exactly that. They respond to our bodily states, picking them up without being told. That gives us something rare: a living presence that responds to our internal shifts.

Through that, we can begin to reinterpret what we feel, form new connections, and find different meanings in familiar sensations. The session is built around a horse, some toys and a simple set of activities, drawing attention to different body parts, muscles, and organs, while observing how the horse responds. Its reactions become a reflection of our inner state, and that feedback loop is something no classroom exercise can replicate.