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Peter Jeffs Holistic is a small holistic practice, based in Wiltshire, UK. Following a scientific education, Retraining in my early 50’s in Reiki, I completed my diploma in Systematic Kinesiology in 2016.
I was aware of the feral horses on the Quantocks AONB (Somerset). When an opportunity to hold a kinesiology session with a domestic horse arrived, I was delighted. That encounter opened my practice to working with horses from a holistic standpoint. Equine training with equine anatomist Gillian Higgins greatly added to my understanding of horses.
My research background gave me tools to develop an equine kinesiology, which I practice hands on, and at distance. I offer hands-on yard visits, distance sessions, and work with both the somatic and the emotional aspects of life being a horse. I hold three distance Reiki Circles each week, and my distance healing work is received all over the world. I work with humans and horses, along with other animals, but, horses remain my passion.
For me, there are several ways to think about responsibility in business.
In terms of my Peter Jeffs Holistic practice, the first and foremost consideration is what we mean by holistic. By this, I understand that we (and the horses) are more than just bones and anatomy and physiology. We are an ensemble of parts, and when one part is out of kilter, that will knock out other parts.
So where do we start? If our approach in healing is directly about nutrition or supplements, then we have already eliminated many aspects of the horse or person as “being”. We have inadvertently gone down one route, rather than asking where is this mis-alignment coming from, and then what can we do to rebalance the system?
A corollary of this, is that living systems also have huge self-healing capacities. And so, by invoking those capacities, we are offering the (person or) horse to step into the place of their own wellness. We thus aim to help the subject into their autonomy and self-activation of their own deep healing potential.
A second aspect of this work is that the work requires work. Which means, that rather than relying upon the physician or veterinarian to offer a jab, pill, or tonic as the catalyst of healing, we are also working with natural products, organic products, such as herbs, flower essences and essential oils, and of course, acupressure points. All these act to support the horse. By working with herbs, we are reconnecting the horse with the environment they would have known as a grazing herbivore in the holocene, wandering the steppe, and tasting many different plants and berries…
Here we act in a restorative way. By working with Essential Oils, and Bach Flower Essences, we are accepting that emotions are part of the experience, and that many times, physical symptoms are due to the expression of an emotional trauma. Facilitating healing through processing of emotions is thus more than a kindness. It is a path to restoration.
Finally, working with acupressure points is to ask the horse’s owner to work with their horse daily, with certain points, and so they are actually doing the healing work for their horse. In other words, rather than creating dependency on the practitioner, the horse and owner are stepping into a deeper relationship with each other, and the owner is responsible for helping their horse into a better feeling place.
This work asks me, finally, to look at the land. And here, we understand that so much of our land is degraded, and in anywise, horses did not evolve on a diet of 95% ryegrass. So this work brings me to a care and concern for the land on which the horses live. Once more, a holistic principle of all things being linked. And the deepening of my own work with land – for example – in the Permaculture Design Course I have just completed – is to take this from Horse Care and People Care, to Land Care. And when we care for our land, so the land cares for us. It brings us, if you were, full circle.
It is in the threefold expression of self-determination, of self-healing, and of land-healing that my business expresses its sense of responsibility.
