Becoming the kind of human a horse seeks to be with
Posted in Being, energy, Horses, Humans, Uncategorized on Jul 22nd, 2016
Have you ever experienced it? You and your horse are walking side-by-side. It may be on a forest path, a hill track, anywhere. Your horse’s breath is raspy and warm against your forearm in the cool of the morning, comforting almost. You relax into an even stride. The four-beat rhythm of the hooves scuffing the […]
Posted in energy, grounding, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling on Oct 28th, 2015
Who would not jump at the opportunity? A trip to Mallorca, all expenses paid, you would have to be seriously crazy to turn this offer down, right? So okay, there is a catch to it. You would have to accompany your sister-in-law to travel a little under 900 km from Andalusia to Valencia in a […]
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 energy, Equine Touch, Horses, Humans, Klaus Ferdinand Hempfling, Pip on Mar 18th, 2015
She’s back! The lady’s back in town and isn’t she just turning heads? Pretty, upright, light on her feet and a spring in her stride, whose head couldn’t she turn? The blind? They’d be deafened by her silence. The deaf? They’d be blinded by her beauty. Missed her, fellows? Just fall into line. Worried, girls? […]
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.