Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in body balancing, Education, Equine Touch, health care, horse rescue, Horses, Humans, Magical Connection, refuge centre, Trust on May 23rd, 2019
Really? A guaranteed connection with my horse, is there such a thing? Isn’t this what every horse trainer worth the title is selling? You may not have the horse of your dreams but the dream of your horse connecting with you, is this not a dream that can come true? What if I was to […]
Posted in body balancing, Equine Touch, hoof care, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Jan 18th, 2014
There is something appealing about alliteration. It must be the repetitive sound as the words roll off the tongue. Then there is the way the mind is focused on their individual meaning. The sounds may be similar but do the words semantically belong together? At first glance these seem to. After all, they all seem […]
Posted in body balancing, Corroboree Equus, Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Pip, riding on Aug 16th, 2013
Here in the Netherlands we have been enjoying the most amazing summer with temperatures well into the twenties and even the lower thirties, making up for a long cold winter with snow on the ground way past when we would normally expect it. The silly season is upon us, which means that we have a […]
Posted in body balancing, Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Nevzorov, Pip, Uncategorized on May 14th, 2013
When the celebrations following the inauguration of the Netherlands’ first king in 120 years descended into the calm of the early hours of May, only two client horses remained munching on their straw bedding in our livery yard. Little did they suspect that they would not spend another night in those stables. The Ice Queen, […]
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.