Reflections from May 29, 2023
Bursting at the seams after a paradigm-shifting experience learning how to work with Tuning Forks to help balance the equine biofield.
This woman, Lori Bridges (on the right), guided our Animal Frequency Balancing™ course through the Rocky Mountain School of Animal Acupressure & Massage this past weekend.
I was absolutely blown away by her deep honoring of the Horse as the Guide in this amazing process of bringing alignment to the field and the physical body with frequencies emitted from tuning forks. I felt like I stepped into the future, into a world where horses are asked instead of told, where their innate and deep wisdom is seeked and honored, and they are full participants in the therapeutic process that unfolds in the frequency field when working with tuning forks.
I came to class expecting protocols and procedures and what I left with was a deep connection to my own inner wisdom, a deeper understanding of the Horses’ wisdom and guidance, and a respect for a process of healing that reveals itself from the horse’s tissues rather than a process that is forced upon by our willfulness or doer-ship.
These are deep skills that are hard to articulate and aren’t found written in a book or a how-to manual. These are skills that are embodied and shared in the presence of someone masterful at the approach, as an attunement or initiation.
I have such enormous gratitude to have been introduced to this work in this way! Thank you, Lori, for sharing your wisdom and respect for these amazing animals we have the privilege of working with. You have influenced me deeply and I am so excited to see what unfolds next!
Deep bow of gratitude,
Jessie
TUNING FORKS FOR HORSE HEALING?
I didn't even know this was a thing until my soul-friend and talented Equine Bodyworker, Codi Hamblin (pictured in center in the top photo and on the right in the above tryptic; check out her work at Aligned Equine in Washington state -- she's incredible), asked if she could stay with me for a weekend in Colorado. When she described the training she was attending, I had this very strong, clear inner nudge, "Take the course with Codi!" So I signed up too. Note that you too can take the course if you are an equine bodyworker or horse owner looking to learn frequency balancing to support your four-legged beloveds.
It turned out to be a deeply empowering, nourishing experience that was 100% tailored to Codi and I, as we happened to be the only participants who could make it that weekend. Magically, Lori decided not to cancel the class and we, along with Tracy Vroom, director of RAMSAAM, who hosted the class at her beautiful farm in Loveland CO, got to spend four whole days deep-diving into Animal Frequency Balancing™ Level One.
Codi and I have a very deep soul-connection and these last four days felt like a divinely orchestrated experience. We took turns giving and receiving frequencies with the forks through various activities guided by Lori, and both of us had one breakthrough after another. I found myself really tuning into my intuition and getting validation for my sensory perceptions in completely new ways. I found myself softening into receiving and letting go of tensions I wasn't even aware of until they were literally on their way out. It turns out that these forks are a powerful healing tool -- far more powerful than I had expected (and let me tell you, as someone who works with frequencies all day every day, I had high expectations)!
I have formerly been a bit curious about using tuning forks as a therapeutic modality, but had a very limited understanding of how they worked. Basically the forks, which are classified by the frequency they transmit in Hertz (Hz) or pulses per second, speak the same language that I am used to "speaking" in my Physical Therapy practice using Frequency Specific Microcurrent (FSM). But with the forks, there is an added tactile element where you can learn to feel the changes in the bioenergetic field through the shift in oscillation of the forks in your hands. There is also the element of how the person delivering the session impacts the Field Effect and of course, the effect of the person (or horse) receiving the frequencies. Compared to FSM, the forks would be classified as "single channel" unless you're using two at once, then they, like FSM, are "dual channel." With FSM, we pair frequencies to target tissues or organs with the 2nd frequency (or channel) and conditions condition with the 1st frequency (channel); with Forks, we use the position of the forks around the biofield to target the organ or tissue. So there are similarities and differences, to be sure. And the forks have overtones and undertones, which is similar but different from the frequencies of FSM being in a ramped square waveform.
The most exciting part for me is the ability to feel where the distortion is in the field based off of how the fork vibrates in my hands.
That concept may be foreign to people who don't use their hands to elicit tissue and energetic changes all day every day, but to me, the feedback from the forks added a whole new element of depth in working with frequencies. I can literally feel where restrictions are held in the tissues of the body based off the way the fork vibrations change in my hands as I pass over the tissue (I don't even have to be touching the body). And if I linger there, striking the forks and interfacing with the distorted frequency field, the tissues release, the fork vibrations normalize, and in the case of this past weekend, the horse yawns or sighs or shows some form of deep release.
You don't even have to touch the body! This was a very tactile and visible demonstration of the power of frequencies to impact physical manifestation.
THE HORSES AS TEACHERS
I could hardly believe how the horses responded to the frequency work. They were so patient and also, at times, very direct with us as we learned. We saw hard, tense paraspinal muscle tissue soften in front of our eyes, and I was amazed to find that I could even perceive some of the release visually in the field above the tissues. We witnessed pelvises balance when we hadn't even physically touched the tissues. We watched as the Eore-like, introverted, woe-as-me personality of one horse completely transform throughout the weekend into bright, outgoing, and interested.
The thing with learning this modality from horses is that they are so sensitive, so perceptive, and so responsive to these tools. I would argue it's better to learn how to work with forks from horses than humans for this reason (then, when applying to humans, you have already honed these deep perceptive skills).
If I was in an overthinking mental state, the horse might walk away. Sometimes I was close but not quite on point, and the horse would move his body closer or farther from the fork so that I hit the target with the frequencies. If I was in the flow, eyes would soften and a tangible and sometimes even visible shift would occur.
I got to watch Codi treat a horse in such a dialed-in way that the two other horses in the paddock walked over to be close in the field and receive the benefits too. Horses are herd animals: they are deeply connected to one another's biofield because their survival depends on it (and likely for many other reasons). When one in the herd is receiving a healing, the others can benefit too.
I also witnessed how the herd dynamic can become protective: when I was offering too many inputs from my forks toward one mare, her two herd-mates casually but deliberately positioned themselves between where I was sending the frequencies and where she stood, effectively modulating the intensity for her. It was this subtle yet powerful, and I have to emphasize that if Lori had not been there, helping to interpret and guide, many of these subtleties would have been lost on us who were so new to this modality!
One horse insisted that we position the forks just so, and then he would inhale deeply, as though he was inhaling the frequencies through his nostrils into his brain. We thought it very peculiar, but he was persistent so we continued to work with him in this way. It appeared to reduce a head-shake movement he had been expressing. What blew us all away was that, a day later, two other members of the herd in different paddocks also positioned themselves to receive the frequencies in this unusual manner, also taking an enormous in-breath, just like the first horse. This was definitely not in the training manual!
We got to see how the forks helped calm a nervous dog during an afternoon thunderstorm (you can't make this stuff up!), and the cats could be found lounging across the array of forks that Lori had spread across the teaching table each morning before class started.
We watched an asymmetrical gait become balanced after just 20 minutes of treating the gallbladder meridian ... from 30 feet away. That horse let us know the session was complete when he moved his bowels and strided out, balanced and beautiful, to graze at the other end of the paddock. That's the amazing part of this work: it's so gentle yet very potent.
MORE THAN JUST PROTOCOLS OR A HOW-TO MANUAL
Though I'm trying, I'm finding it really challenging to encapsulate the experience in words, because so much of it was tactile, and because the experience was so individualized to how the horse (and how we, the practitioners) showed up in the moment.
I want to do my best to convey this experience correctly. It's not like "if your horse licks and chews, it means you are on the right tissue;" or "if the horse walks away it means you chose the wrong fork;" or "If it's a sprained tendon, use 528 Hz ..." This is what I meant when I said that these aren't techniques found in a how-to manual. Each interaction had a novel expression and called for a different strategy. For some people, that may sound bewildering or challenging. But I found throughout the entire training that we more and more deeply honed our intuitive abilities so that we could show up in the field in a way that would elicit healing. It was a lot about trust. It was a lot about connection. It was a lot about feel. I was grateful for my meditation and yogic training, because it all came in to help me learn how to listen deeply.
There aren't protocols or even steps to be memorized (well, knowing the anatomy and meridian system is helpful, to be sure!) -- it's about listening and responding in the present moment. And I believe that this is Lori Bridges, our instructor's, true gift: somehow she made this training into an experience that unlocked and leveled up our intuition while we learned new skills with the forks and also received insights and guidance from the herd. This kind of teaching is a transmission, an empowerment, a way-of-being rather than way-of-doing, and definitely not something you could find in a blog, book, or even in other workshops. I am so grateful to have been introduced to the fork work like this, in the presence of my best friend, under the guidance of a gifted healer and a truly wonderful herd.
PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION
It was a transformative experience for me personally as well. We practiced on each other in order to really understand and embody the power of the frequencies, and both Codi and I underwent big shifts as a result.
There was one point when I experienced a big up-welling and vivid simultaneous memories of many, many, many the horses from my past whom I had learned from. It was nearly overwhelming as I ranged through the memories: I grew up in a Saddle Seat lesson program, and connected deeply with probably somewhere around 30 Morgans, Arabs, and Saddlebreds over the 10 years of twice-weekly riding lessons, weekend horse shows, and camps -- they practically raised me from age 8 - 18. After that I worked at a beautiful Saddlebred facility, cleaning what felt like hundreds of stalls on weekends and helping with their beginners lesson program. I cared for my own herd of five horses throughout High School (thanks to my Mom's dream of living on a farm), where I could ride my big Saddlebred mare bareback through the cornfields and experience something so close to freedom. And then I ended up going to William Woods University's Equestrian Science program for my first year of college, where I encountered the donated Saddlebreds and National Show Horses in their Saddle Seat program and worked very, very closely with four of them during that first year. After that, I worked at an Outdoor Education Center as a Wrangler, teaching kids to ride, guiding 5-day overnight pack trips ... learning the personalities and quirks of a herd of 100 horses at Sanborn Western Camps that I got to round up from the expansive pastures each morning in the misty Colorado foothills. There, I made deep connections with five Wrangler Horses that have left a lasting impression on my heart. There have been many, many horses-as-teachers in my past, and memories of so many of them seemed to come into my field at once. Tears welled in my eyes and I experienced grief and gratitude all at once, appreciating their patience with me as I learned and grew as a youth; as I watched some not-so-optimal training methods but couldn't / didn't speak up; as I felt the literal transmutation of energies just standing in the stall next to my lesson horse after a hard day ... It was so much. A big release. And I believe it was elicited by the forks, the field, and the presence of our teachers (Lori and Tracy) standing in absolute integrity and honoring of these horses. I hadn't truly grieved the loss of so many of these teachers until that moment.
When you understand that all of matter consists of frequencies, vibration, and oscillation, it really opens doors to understanding of what is possible in terms of healing through conscious awareness and interactions with frequencies. Our thoughts are frequencies. What we put into our bodies -- food, water, medicine -- consists of frequencies densified into matter. What we expose ourselves to -- the good and the not-so good -- TV, internet, people, experiences, nature, beauty, art -- carries frequencies. And all of these aspects are modulating our biofield.
For me, it comes down to consciousness and choice. Slowing down, tuning in, and living -- truly living -- from a place of clarity.
I gained so much more than a new skill for how to work with horses from this workshop. I gained a deeper awareness of myself, my intuition, and my way of being.
May 29, 2023
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