Survival Strategies I took up pottery as a grand evasion, a way to avoid my desk, with its mountains of paperwork, the emails, phone calls, grant proposals and an unbalanced checkbook. Throwing on a wheel: I've loved it instantly. Pressing my full body weight into the clay and gradually centering, I tackled that challenge of centering clay on a spinning wheel with a vengeance. Exerting far too much weight, I was extremely bad at first. But I could sense that this was somethin

I am writing a book about The Equus Projects. In it are essays about our work, much of which focuses on our human capacity for multi-sensory intelligence and how working with horses has made me realize that we only use a fraction of that capacity. This essay begins with my son Isaac uttering his first word, Flower. HANDS: There are more nerve endings from the hands to the brain than from any other part of our body. Our multi-sensory intelligence learns through Our hands are

In this new reality of COVID-19, we all have time to attend to plans and promises that were set aside because before this pandemic we were all too busy. In this new reality, Equus Projects dancer Rachel Keane found time to do some writing about her experience of dancing with horses. Rachel joined The Equus Projects company in early 2019. Her first performance was in April 2019. People frequently ask me what my experience working with The Equus Projects is like. Usually they