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 […]
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As I contemplate riding Pip and the preparations required for this, I feel a pressing need to take stock of our achievements – my mare’s but predominantly mine – and to reassess the direction in which I am travelling in order to clarify the “big picture” within which these preparations are occurring and to adjust […]
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In my last post I posed the question, To ride or not to ride?, and stated quite emphatically that this was not only the question, but the one all of us who are contemplating riding a horse should seriously ask ourselves before venturing onto the back of a creature whom we claim to love as […]
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Posted in Chuck Mintzlaff, Equine Touch, Friendship Training, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, riding, Stormy May on Apr 16th, 2014
My last post (Towards Riding 1 – The Horse) elicited two comments which have profoundly affected my thoughts in the past few weeks and in doing so have helped create the basis for this post. The first comment came from Peggy on the east coast of Australia and it is this: “if you have a […]
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Posted in Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Magical Connection, Michael Bevilacqua, Nevzorov, Pip, riding, true connection, Trust on Mar 19th, 2014
It was a bit of a toss-up, determining where to start on the question of riding. My instinct tells me that Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling is right: you start with the human and not the horse, for ultimately it is the human that needs to change and to rediscover what it is to be human if […]
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