Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
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 […]
Posted in body balancing, Equine Touch, hoof care, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Jan 18th, 2014
There is something appealing about alliteration. It must be the repetitive sound as the words roll off the tongue. Then there is the way the mind is focused on their individual meaning. The sounds may be similar but do the words semantically belong together? At first glance these seem to. After all, they all seem […]
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.