by Melanie Farmer | Articles
The move to Vashon Island came after five years of searching for the right place to live with my horse, Cooper. Before settling on Vashon, I’d explored other equestrian communities within a 50 mile radius of Seattle and as a process, I’d picture myself...
by Melanie Farmer | Articles
Funny how dried balls of manure can look just like so many hundreds of rocks. These tricky and deceptive rock push themselves up out of the ground in Oakland’s pasture on a daily basis. There are hundreds if not thousands of these ancient things laying around...
by Melanie Farmer | Articles
Secretariat won the Triple Crown in 1973, within one month of the Watergate scandal that exposed Nixon’s political indiscretions. Secretariat’s racing career spanned Vietnam and the 1972 recession. Sea Biscuit became the symbol of the underdog during the...
by Melanie Farmer | Articles
The guiding principal of Ayurveda is disease prevention through harmonizing our body’s rhythm with nature. One way to create this balance is to align the body’s healing energies through marma massage. Marma is a Sanskrit word meaning hidden, or secret. By...
by Melanie Farmer | Articles, Uncategorized
The Vedic Horse The Aswini are luminal, twin Vedic deities giving spiritual strength. One twin fills the universe with light while the other twin with fluidity. The Aswini represent the dawn, the stage between night and first breaking of light. They guide our...
by Melanie Farmer | Articles, Uncategorized
In the foot hills of Fall City, Washington, along the old Snoqualmie railroad grade, there is a great network of trails. On any given day, mountain bikers, equestrians, hikers and joggers, trace their way along the grade. Arteries of trails branch off the grade into...
