Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in animal communication, Animals, dogs, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Magical Connection, Travel, true connection on Mar 24th, 2012
Vicki and I have just returned from a trip to Germany, where we visited new and old friends. The trip was relaxing and most enjoyable, while the company was superb, overall ‘gemütlich’ as the Germans might say. The occasion has prompted me to share with you a few snippets of experience and information which are […]
Posted in Animals, dog, Dubu, Emile Voest, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Noora Ehnqvist, The Smudge, vet on Dec 10th, 2011
Another possibly more appropriate title for this post could have been Humans Learning to Be More Human from Their Horses and Dogs, although this would have been so long as to throw the layout of this page out of kilter. Still, sacrificing accuracy for brevity and the integrity of the layout does not change the […]
Posted in Anaïs, animal communication, Animals, dog, Dubu, Horses, Humans, vet on Oct 17th, 2011
Yes, you read that correctly, talking WITH animals and not necessarily to animals, an activity I had the pleasure of practising again during a recent workshop given by the American author, Marta Williams. I am sure most of us talked with animals when we were kids, and we would tell our parents about the lively […]
Still playing catch-up. Wed., 4 May – Following payment of the shipping agent’s fee (very big ‘ouch’!) Anaïs is scheduled to leave Australia this evening. Laura, the barefoot trimmer, who has been helping us with Anaïs in Victoria, has let us know that, when she trimmed her hooves a few days ago, she ‘looked much […]
As we continue to play catch-up, what follows is another excerpt from my journal. There was a brief moment when I thought that I could parcel all of our experiences since arriving in the Netherlands into a single journal entry devoid of any reference to a specific day. Yet there are some occurrences which 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.