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 Chuck Mintzlaff, friendship, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Michael Bevilacqua, natural horsemanship, Uncategorized on Jun 24th, 2017
“You have a leadership problem with your horse. Your horse does not recognise you as a leader.” Your trainer may have said this to you on occasion or something similar to it. As a result, you may have shrunk into your shell and seized the first opportunity to slink off quietly to find a quiet […]
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 […]
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 […]
Posted in Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Leadership, Mark Rashid, Trust on Sep 19th, 2012
In 2010 Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling published a book called It is Not I Who Seek the Horse, the Horse Seeks Me, in which he rejects conventional and natural horsemanship, proposing instead a way which facilitates the free development of the horse. Ten years earlier Mark Rashid had already done the same in essence, when he […]
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.