Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Anaïs, dog, health care, hoof care, Horses, Humans, Pip, refuge centre on Aug 7th, 2015
Leaves swirl in the thicket as branches bend and rustle. The horses swing their heads towards the disturbance and freeze. They peer through the rays of the early morning sun, straining to catch a glimpse of what it is that is causing the commotion. Our eyes follow theirs. The leaves are still or so it […]
Posted in dog, Forest Garden Estate, Horses, Humans, Magical Connection, Michael Bevilacqua, true connection, Trust on Jan 9th, 2013
So you have decided to live intuitively. You try to tune into what is presumably your destiny by observing the signs in and around you. Now is the time to do so, for the world is counting down to a new year. First you get an urge to take up a long-standing invitation to visit […]
Posted in Animals, dog, Dubu, Emile Voest, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Noora Ehnqvist, The Smudge, vet on Dec 10th, 2011
Another possibly more appropriate title for this post could have been Humans Learning to Be More Human from Their Horses and Dogs, although this would have been so long as to throw the layout of this page out of kilter. Still, sacrificing accuracy for brevity and the integrity of the layout does not change the […]
Posted in dog, Dubu, Horses, Humans, Island, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Nov 30th, 2011
The past 10 days have given me cause for a great deal of reflection. Firstly there has been the death of Dubu, which has left a huge, gaping vacuum in our lives. Secondly, I have received an email from Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s senior body awareness coach (with whom we would have now been sharing a […]
Creatures come and go. Some you notice, some you don’t. Those that pass through your home you always notice. We have been blessed with a fine procession of the earth’s domestic creatures for 28 years. Some have been big and some have been small. Some have been feline and some canine. But none has come […]
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.