Last month Vicki and I attended the first two days of a three-day horse and human clinic given in the Netherlands by Noora Ehnqvist, a young Finnish horsewoman and former student of and assistant to Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, who has taken what she has learned from the master who dances with horses and others to […]
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For the past two to three weeks I have been corresponding with someone who has been involved in ongoing discussions on Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling’s official Facebook page. Although the precise nature of these discussions varies, the debate can essentially be reduced to the question of what is required of an individual to become the type […]
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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 […]
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In the past few months Vicki and I have embarked on yet another path to the horse, one that has led me to contemplate all the other paths that we have followed, and which have ultimately brought us full circle to the human whom we aspire to be. Before devoting a post to this, I […]
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Since my visit to Ian and his horses at the beginning of the year, I have found myself frequently reflecting on the changing relations between horses and humans, especially the type of humans involved. By all accounts there is a surge in the numbers of humans who are actively seeking a relationship with horses which […]
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