What Is “Windhorse”?
What Is “Windhorse”?
As soon as I read about the term “windhorse,” I knew it was the perfect name for my coaching practice. Here’s why:
Windhorse Speaks to Our Higher Potential
Windhorse speaks to the higher potential of our being, which midlife transformations often help us reach. A Tibetan Buddhist concept, windhorse refers to an existing energy or life force that can be harnessed anywhere and anytime. When we connect with it, life becomes less stressful and more easeful.
By Healing Ourselves, We Heal the World
Critically, it is also suggested that we seek this state not just for ourselves, but for the larger world. I took up coaching not just to better the lives of individuals, but also because I firmly believe that by healing ourselves and living life in accordance with our heart, we heal and transform our world.
Rediscovering Youthful Passions
As a child, I loved riding horses because I felt free and powerful while moving and connecting with such a magnificent animal. To this day, I still harbor my childhood dream of owning a horse. Midlife is nothing if not a time of rediscovering youthful passions that still excite the spirit, so what better way to celebrate the midlife journey than to name my coaching practice after my favorite animal: horses.
Horses Are Highly Intuitive
In fact, women have had a special connection to horses since time immemorial. Horses are exceptionally sensitive to energy and emotions, reflecting back our inner states. Similarly, since Deep Transformational Coaching taps into our inner wisdom, horses are an amazing symbol for this highly intuitive, inner work.
At Windhorse Transformational Coaching, I am committed to helping you during this intense phase of life because I know firsthand just how disorienting the midlife journey can be….
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Excerpts about Windhorse
Smile at Fear: Awakening the True Heart of Bravery
By Chögyam Trungpa, the 20th century Tibetan Buddhist Master
Riding Your State of Mind
“When you ride on a horse… you are in contact with an entirely different energy…. [Y]ou experience oneness, particularly if you are a good rider who is free from doubt. The same thing applies to riding your own state of mind, your own state of being…. Fundamentally being free from doubt can take place when you are properly mounted on the horse of mind.”
p.118
Horses Represent
Wild Dreams
“Horses represent the wild dreams that human beings would like to capture. The desire to capture any wild animal or to capture the wind, a cloud the sky—all those are represented by the image of the horse. If you would like to ride on mountains or dance with waterfalls, all of that is incorporated in the symbolism of the horse. The actual physique of the horse—his neck, ears, face, back, muscles, hooves, tail—is the ideal image of something romantic, something energetic, something wild, which we would like to capture. Here, the horse is used as an analogy for that energy and all of those dreams.”
p. 117
You Are an Integral
Part of the Whole
“[Y]ou are not invoking windhorse
in isolation, but as part of a larger society. In your own life, you may be the ruler. In the greater society, you are an integral part of the whole mandala.”
p.116
