Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in EDEN, Horses, Humans, Jasmijn Wauters, Jason Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Jun 9th, 2014
Standing in front of the noble head, the arching neck, the muscled shoulders and graceful legs of the horse, a human is asked a single profound question each and every time: Who are you? Are you two spirits: the one whom I sense you are and the one whom you claim to be? Or are […]
Posted in EDEN, Horses, Humans, Jasmijn Wauters, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Apr 7th, 2013
On 20 July 2012 a young woman from Belgium walked out on Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s first full-time one-year course after having studied with the master who dances with horses for a little over seven and a half months. She left behind not only the master himself but also her eight remaining fellow students with whom […]
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.