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We're good, so it is Thursday, first day of spring, March 20th. I'm here with Freya; this is our third official film session. Yesterday, Dr. Alicia Mann worked with her, um, on body alignment utilizing Chon principles. And so today we're just going to see where Freya is. Spend about 20 minutes with her, and it it's a pretty nice afternoon, much better than two days ago. Let's see how body alignment did to help Freya and her confidence. Definitely curious.
Like big dog, first opportunity, guys had to notice where her whirl is just a little above eye level, so she's going to be a pretty good student with the location of that whirl. Single whirl; it's a big one. Again, I offer my hand, but I don't point it at her, towards her, in a neutral spot, releasing, looking, and chewing. All just thinking about it. Two small steps towards me, two small steps for a Mustang, one giant leap and Trust. Again, I want to kind of present my shoulder and my back to her more than my chest, because I become more touchable for her. I can also come in this way, side by side. She's breathing nice and deep, well regulated. Right point now that she can just explore my hand, sniff it, touch it with her lip. That was good; good. She's trusting me on her right side. Right, she positions me back on her left, and that's all right, as I can work with each side a little bit. We will focus on her preferred side, left side, in the beginning, but as we go, we want to be just as comfortable on each side and in front and in back. That was just a gentle touch from me, bridge of her nose. It's all new to her. For introduce the concept, rubbing my hand on her shoulder and neck. For, and we're already about halfway done with a 20-minute session. For, it's really nice dance. For her head's down, a little bit relaxed, looking and chewing, yawning. I'm a lot more concerned with how she's feeling and perceiving things than with touch. Ears are a little back, but that's not pinned. Thinking ears, e e for e. A lot of this initial work is side by side; it is what horses prefer, so her comfort zone is shrunk from about 10 feet to about 4 feet, so that's pretty good. We're definitely picking up off of each other's energy. E, walk away, give her a minute. For, even though I'm not physically touching her, she's feeling that energy. My hand's about a foot away from her front shoulder. For e, for, so may not be exciting to watch, but that much closer she's a little more relaxed. My one my says is Rome wasn't built in a day, but it burned overnight, so my goal is not to burn her, just build it Brick by Brick. Like she keeps looking over at me. We are already at 20 minutes, and see if I can find a little a little bit of a good spot to finish on. We touch almost for e, for, for e e, kind of at that Heering moment, Heering in, teetering out. She's accepting me within three feet, and she's just tolerating that step forward now. Mann and the hell has written a paper on when a horse touches their front right leg, front left leg, or other parts of their body. She's kind of um zeroed in on what that means. There we go. So she's touched me, couple of days ago. We stopped on that. Let's see if we can ask for two more. Maybe I don't want to get greedy, but now she's exploring my hand with her lip. She's looking and chewing. She's stepping more into the pen. One may I like that she's a little jittery, but she keeps coming in. She's actually really connected right now, so I don't feel bad about stretching this session. 20 minutes is a good session, but it's not chiseled in stone. Some sessions might go 10 minutes, have others go 30, or just go to the point where you know either either horse or human needs a break energetically. She's feeling that, but that physical touch is a lot more intense. How was about a 10 an hour touch with an index finger. She keeps coming in. Yeah, she's like almost there, and there's so much truth in what Anaton always talks about is the last six inches can feel like a mile. Did that tickle? Took a lot, had to shake that off. Give her time, some blinking, some licking and chewing, breathing deep. Today, all right. You right. Yeah, that's for that's a good place to stop. She's kind of tuned out and had enough. So thank you much for watching. For.