Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Anaïs, followership, friendship, Horses, Humans, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Pip on Jul 21st, 2017
So when you walk into the field that your horse knows as home, do they come to you unasked? Perhaps they come to you when you call? And does your horse then walk freely with you to the gate? So if your horse chooses not to come to you, does this say something about your […]
Posted in Anaïs, energy, Farinelli, Gulliver, Horses, Humans, livery, Pip on Jun 3rd, 2017
For anyone intent on living intuitively, it is essential to be observant of and sensitive to what is happening within the range of one’s senses, understanding and, above all, gut feeling. Sometimes, if not frequently, it is difficult to make sense of the apparent jumble of utterances and occurrences of everyday life that inundate and […]
Posted in acceptance, Anaïs, Horses, Humans, Pip on Feb 12th, 2016
The shutters, they are rattling … the balcony … bugger, someone’s trying to break in. Banging … it’s the glass doors. They must be bloody serious. And now the bed. The whole bloody thing is shaking. No, don’t tell me. I slide a foot down to the tiles. Oh, bloody hell, the floor is shuddering […]
There have been odd times when I have found myself wondering what I was doing with a horse. In the past those moments usually occurred after I had done it, only to realise that the horse was wondering about the same thing. Over time the gap between when I did something and when I wondered […]
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 […]
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.