Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Eva Roemaat, Frédéric Pignon, Horses, Humans on Aug 14th, 2014
Twice in the past few years Vicki and I have been booked to travel to France to see Frédéric Pignon in action with horses. On both occasions we were scheduled to fence-sit during a liberty training clinic and we had to cancel each, the first time because Anaïs came down with colic and the second […]
Posted in body awareness, Carolyn Resnick, Chuck Mintzlaff, Corroboree Equus, Frédéric Pignon, Friendship Training, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Intuition, Jasmijn Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, Noora Ehnqvist, spiritual awareness, Travel on Sep 14th, 2013
As we move into the latter half of September, I am acutely conscious of a convergence of developments which are inviting me to contemplate what is required of the human, if the latter is to become someone whom a horse wishes to be with. Not only does this question penetrate to the core of my […]
Posted in Being, Dubu, Education, Frédéric Pignon, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Intuition, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Michael Bevilacqua, The Smudge, Trust on Jul 23rd, 2012
Take a year off and go and sort yourself out. This is the kind of advice that Vicki and a number of friends and acquaintances received from Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling while studying with him at his Akedah International school on the island of Lyø in Denmark. And this is precisely what we did. We took […]
Posted in Anaïs, Frédéric Pignon, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Magical Connection, Pip, true connection, Trust on Apr 30th, 2012
There are times when you may horse around with friends just for the fun of it and you may have a good time. Then there are times when you may embark on a course of interaction with another creature motivated by the noblest of intentions, yet with hindsight you may feel that you only ended […]
Posted in Frédéric Pignon, Horses, Humans, Imke Spilker, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Michael Bevilacqua, Pip, Tellington on Apr 4th, 2012
Since the last quarter of 2011 I have had the feeling that it would not be long before another horse would enter my life. Instinctively I knew that this would not occur if I went in search of one. I would not look for one. A horse would simply come into my life. Now this […]
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.