Body Awareness - the path to the horse
‘I leaned back a little and asked myself, where it begins, that magic? The magic in Body
Awareness, in Spiritual Awareness, in the first encounter with a horse, with a new day, and
actually every moment.... that is how it all begins – with feeling.’
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
A weekend of community and celebration in Bellingen, Australia, March 2010
© Smail & Van Rossem 2011
The Programme
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weekend
We came from as far as 500 km to the north and 1000 km to the south, and joined up with
each other for a weekend celebration of community in the little country town of Bellingen, a
place of serenity and beauty.
Saturday dinner and everyone is feeling the buzz. A community of people heading in the
same direction brought togetther initially through a desire for authentic togetherness with
horses and now united in the pursuit of of what is indispensable for it: an authentic life.
Body awareness, the precursor to acquiring the body language that is so essential for
communication with horses. Warmest thanks to our Hempfliing accredited body awareness
trainer, Jo Ross.
What struck me was, firstly, the extent to which the descriptions of our intuitive recognition
of the horse in front of us corresponded with each other, and secondly, the extent to which
those descriptions tallied with those provided by Klaus.
Andrew-Glyn Smail, horse recognition facilitator
Watching videos produced by Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, amongst others, those dealing
with how to establish an immediate connection with horses. The first step is to be able to
recognise them. Without this nothing is possible,.
Learning the art of grounding yourself in the moment, the here and now, relaxed but
intensely alert to the buzz of a bee, the flight of a bird, the warmth of the earth, the fragrance
of a flower, the taste of your sweat, in short, to the rhythm of your being and to do so to the
exclusion of everything else.
The first step is always to recognise the horse, so what kind of horse I have in front of me.
Without this information I cannot do anything.
from Immediately Connecting with Horses 1 (YouTube video)
Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling
