Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Being Humans(s) for Horses, body awareness, books, free ebooks, Horses, Humans on Jul 2nd, 2020
Towards the end of 2010 and early in 2011 shortly before I crossed the world for the second time in search of something that was actually waiting to be discovered within me, Vicki and I organised two body awareness workshops in our home in Bellingen, Australia. The body awareness exercises were designed to enable humans […]
Posted in Being, body awareness, energy, equine facilitated development, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Linda Kohanov, Pip, spiritual awareness, Trust on Sep 29th, 2015
There she is standing tall and strong on the stone-strewn sand of the paddock but with a spring in her stance, much like an athlete poised on the balls of her feet, ready to surge forward whenever need or fancy might spur her to do so. Her liver-chestnut coat is sleek and shining dark along […]
Posted in Anaïs, body awareness, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Pip, riding, spiritual awareness, true connection on Oct 27th, 2014
Some time after I started the series, Towards Riding (see my post entitled Towards Riding 1: The Horse on this blog and raised the question of To Ride or Not to Ride (see my post entitled Towards Riding 2 – To Ride or Not to Ride?), Vicki drew my attention to the fact that some […]
Posted in body awareness, Education, Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Jason Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, liberty, Pip, Trust on Sep 15th, 2014
Here in the Netherlands we are currently blessed with a warm, sunny start to the autumn. As the trees begin to burn bronze at the edge and the first leaves parachute to the ground, the acorns and chestnuts are dropping while the season’s mushrooms and toadstools are springing up in their shade in time for […]
Posted in Being, body awareness, Corroboree Equus, EDEN, Education, Horses, Humans, Jasmijn Wauters, Jason Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, liberty, Michael Bevilacqua, Pip on Jul 28th, 2014
Last week Pip and I had our first lesson with Jason Alexander Wauters, the most successful student to emerge from Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s one-year schooling programme, the only full one-year course he has ever given to date (yes, the same one Vicki and I were originally scheduled to attend). Since then I have had a […]
We know so much about horses but have such little understanding of the horse. Understanding the horse’s nature allows us to pursue choice rather than control, connection instead of coercion, communication as opposed to conditioning. This is a reality that I now experience with my own horses. A path to the horse is open to all of us. Simply discover the power of being with horses. Is it not time to be fully human … for them, for ourselves?
I have learned to listen to horses speak through their movements, their expressions and ultimately their energy along with much that has been recorded about them. Listening to horses speak has changed my life and taught me a great deal. This book contains a little of what I have learned from horses while listening to them speak. And much of it is startlingly different from what we take for granted.
Urgently in need of a meaningful change of life, a man decides to cross the world together with his wife, a horse and a dog to spend a year training full-time with Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling , arguably the most popular horse trainer in the world based on social media statistics. He expects it to be life-changing. It is. These are his reflections.