Liberty with a human may be a traumatic experience for a horse that has been denied the opportunity to live as one. This is the very first thing that Pip showed me. I had taken her into a large jumping arena, just the two of us, on our first day together. When I removed all […]
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Posted in Being, body awareness, energy, equine facilitated development, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Linda Kohanov, Pip, spiritual awareness, Trust on Sep 29th, 2015
There she is standing tall and strong on the stone-strewn sand of the paddock but with a spring in her stance, much like an athlete poised on the balls of her feet, ready to surge forward whenever need or fancy might spur her to do so. Her liver-chestnut coat is sleek and shining dark along […]
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Some time after I started the series, Towards Riding (see my post entitled Towards Riding 1: The Horse on this blog and raised the question of To Ride or Not to Ride (see my post entitled Towards Riding 2 – To Ride or Not to Ride?), Vicki drew my attention to the fact that some […]
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Posted in Anaïs, body awareness, Corroboree Equus, Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Kaimanawa, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Pip, spiritual awareness on Nov 17th, 2013
There are times when life takes you up in its active arms and hurries you along, depriving you of moments for reflection, as humans, horses or other creatures pass you by in ever-changing situations and new ones take their place until, in the midst of this wild whirl, this audio-visual kaleidoscope of jumbled colours, shapes […]
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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 […]
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